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A Bullet Too Far
Prologue
To any other person Kelsi Nielson would seem an ordinary 16 year old. She had a group of friends, was active in school activities and generally done the normal things teenager do, but on the inside Kelsi was far from normal.
When Kelsi was 12 her dad and older sister were in a car accident and were both killed instantly. Kelsi's world fell apart when she lost her sister. Katie was her best friend she was 2 years older then Kelsi and they had done everything together, they were inseparable. When Kelsi found out about the accident she felt sick with guilt, she had made Katie go in the car so that there dad wouldn't get the wrong brand of chocolate sauce for their pancakes and now she was gone. It was all her fault she wanted to end everything right there, if here sister was gone then Kelsi didn't want to live without her. Everything Kelsi had ever known changed after that, her mother couldn't afford to pay for there house so they had to sell up and move. Brandi, Kelsi's mum, couldn't take living in LA anymore so she moved to Albuquerque as the houses were cheaper and her and Kelsi could start afresh. Brandi worked in an office so she was out all day and at night she hit the town drinking and sleeping with numerous men. Kelsi was left alone in a two bedroom apartment all by herself to drown in her own memories and guilt. She began to suffer with depression.
When Kelsi was 14 she found alcohol a way to relieve the pain she was feeling and she slowly became reliant on it.
Kelsi joined East high when she was 15. She loved the piano and played everyday as it reminded her of her sister and how much she loved the piano. So she instantly joined up for the school band and was chosen as the lead pianist for the school musicals, this is where she met Sharpay and Ryan Evans; they were twins and were obsessed with the theatre.Sharpay would boss Kelsi around but she didn't mind she reminded her so much of Katie the way she was over dramatic and how she was always over the top and thought she was the best. Kelsi instantly wanted to be part of the blonde's life and have the blonde like her. She was accepted by Sharpay and Ryan and followed them everywhere around the school, this is how she met the gang unlike any she had ever known before. At her other schools everybody stuck to there social groups so the jocks stuck with the jocks and the nerds with the nerds. East High was a completely different place everybody mingled. Having being accepted by Sharpay and Ryan meant that Kelsi became part of the group that everybody wanted to be part of. There was basketball captain Troy Bolton, fellow basketballers Chad Danforth, Jason Cross and Zeke Baylor, along with Ryan Evans made up the boys. As for the girls there was Martha Cox she was really clever and loved to dance. Then there was Taylor Mckessie who was the head of the scholastic decathlon team along with Gabriella Montez and then of course Sharpay Evans. Kelsi was the newest member of the gang and like the feeling of being accepted and people taking notice of her it was something she hadn't felt for a long time and a feeling she had missed.
A/N This is my first fanfiction so let me know what you think. This chapter is quite short just to give you a background on Kelsi the rest will be longer.