"Love Is Blind"
Chapter Uno - Introduccion
Normally he'd be playing out side, shooting hoops with his friends, but he hadn't been. No, he was sitting out side on the stoop of his house, a rootbeer beside him. Brooding. His friends were elsewhere having given up on him playing again, he just didn't want to. It was a lost cause because Troy Bolton at age 16 was blind. Thanks to a stupid drunk driver, yes, a drunk driver when he and his stupid friends were drunk and stupid themselves coming home from a basketball after party. Troy frowned and leaned back against the stairs, this was his life...now. He hated it. He wouldn't even talk to his friends, and his parents felt pity for him and like he was a burden on society. He was sure of it. "Troy...this has gone on long enough...me and your mother are sick of it."
Troy looked up, "w-what do you mean?" His mother sighed, and looked up at Jack, "Jack, I-" "You are a freak Troy! you can't see and you can't do anything, you have nothing to live for, your worthless...so were sending you away!" His mother had tears in her eyes, "please don't do this to him!" Troy sighed, "I'll go pack.." Jack brought out his stuff, "don't bother, we did it already.." His dad brought his stuff to the car, ready to take him to the place, His mother looked at him, "Baby, I am so sorry, I love you, don't ever forget that...please..please don't hate me.."
Troy sighed, pulling his shoulder from his mother's hand, he couldn't see at all that was true; so why were his parents sending him away? Oh yeah, that five letter word called 'freak'!. "Mom forget it okay...I'll just go..." he blindly turned to the steps and felt for the handrail, the smooth surface gliding under his palm as he slowly took a step down and then another until he was on the grass of the front lawn. Jack sighed, walking from the car to Troy, and roughly grabbing his arm. He stumbled. "You're going to a blind school...they'll be able to help you there...but they can't make you see."
Troy sighed and nodded and carefully found the car handle on the car and opened it carefully and sat in the car as his dad drove him to the new school. about 20 minutes later, They pulled up into the big campus and saw alot of kids going in. Jack sighed, Troy looked down, "are all blind people here?' Jack sighed, "most of them, but some are regular kids, so watch out for them.." Troy sighed slipping out of the car and grabbing his things, "thanks.." he shut the door and mumbled, "for nothing." and as his dad drove away, Troy was about to take a step closer to the school until he was knocked down by a football player, "hey look guys, It's a new one.." Austin snorted, Troy looked up, but of course couldn't see nothing, then a sweet anglic voice came up, "Austin! leave him alone! he didn't do anything!" Gabriella yelled coming up to him and helped him up. Austin snorted, "Gabriella, don't take up for this freak!" Gabriella's blood boiled, "if anybody is a freak, it's you Austin, you don't even know him, so just back off!" Austin laughed and him and his friends walked off. Gabriella looked up at him, "are you ok?" she said helping him up.
He groaned, rubbing the back of his head because it had hit hte pavement, but other than he was good. "Yeah..I'm fine." the girl, apparently named Gabriella, cleared her throat, "I'm Gabriella..and i'm partially blind, it was a head injury when I was 5." Troy sighed, holding out his hand and waiting for her natural response of 'ew!' or 'eugh' or 'go away freak' but what he got instead was totally unexpected. Her small hand curved around his big one, "nice to meet you...uh.." Troy cleared his throat, "Troy." she smiled, "Troy, uhm don't let Austin bother you...he's just a partially blind ass."
Troy chuckled, "I kind of figured..." Gabriella smiled and they stood there awkwardly, Gabriella then asked, "Can I see your schedule?" Troy nodded and held the schedule out to her. Gabriella looked at it, and she bit her bottom lip, and smiled, "we have the same classes." she smiled excitedly, "would you like to...hang out..after..school?" she asked him.
Troy felt his smile falter and fall, "You wouldn't mind hanging out with a blind guy?" Gabriella shook her head with a smile, "as I've told you before...I'm partially blind...in my left eye, so I know kind of of what you go through...people think you can't do anything?" Troy nodded, "yeah..." the brunette beauty sighed and took Troy's hand in hers, "I can lead you to the boys dorms if you want..."
Troy placed a hand on his cheek where her lips were, he closed his eyes-still dark, like when they were opened, and inhaled. Plain soap. Just soap. He opened his eyes to the shapeless dark and felt around for the bed, it took 3 minutes to find it. "Damn...damn it..." he hated life. When he found his bed, he placed his bag on it and searched it for the zipper, was the bag always this stubborn? He growled when he couldn't find it and threw it at the door. Plopping himself down on the bed and burying his face in the pillow, "I ...hate...life."