Chapter one

Summery- You'd think being Troy Bolton's little sister would mean you're perfect, right? Not! Mara belle Bolton is nothing like her brother. She's bitchy, moody, abused, and hates Gabriella Montez. Let the fun begin.

A/n- Okay, I just wanted to let you know that the stuff in italics is her in the therapist office talking to Dr. Murry. It might pop up at the most random times, and it doesn't mean she's there at that exact point; it's just kind of like flashbacks and her conversations with the doctor. Just thought I'd let you know.

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Mara belle Bolton outstretched her legs as she made herself comfortable. She ran her hands through her long light brown hair as she leaned back on the couch pillow. She had been here many times before and was use to the fact that the couch was leather. Though she always forgot not to wear shorts when coming in. This place, after all, was kind of a second home. Although that is quite pathetic considering she was in a therapist office. Yup, she had had her therapist for about two years now after her parents decided she need to work out her 'issues'. At first she complained non stop about them basically claiming that she was a sico. But in the long run, she knew this was best and didn't hide the fact any longer. She had a therapist, and thank God she did.

"So, how's school been?" Asked her therapist Dr. Murry as he held is notepad in hand, occasionally writing something down. She was use to that also.

"Same. Go, get bored, kick a freshman's ass, come home, torment my family, and it's been a pretty successful day." She smirked to herself as Dr. Murry frowned.

"Why do always think of it in such a negative way?"

"Because it is." She shrugged. How many times were they going to have to have this conversation? "You should know me by now enough to know how I think."

"Well, how do you see yourself?"

She rolled her eyes. She'd heard that way too many times. "I'm bitchy, moody, ignorant, conceded, and I think I'm perfect. Does that sum it up?" The sad thing...she wasn't joking. He knew that.

"I know there's more to you than that Mara belle." He said in a warning tone. This only caused her to roll her eyes.

"That's another thing. I hate my name. Mara belle? Who the hell names their kid that? Well apparently mine. No, actually that would be my dumbass brother."

We all knew this was coming...Troy Bolton. East High's personal God. Mara belle never liked him much. He was too perfect, just like stupid Montez girl. How she despised her. You may think ' This has to be Sharpay Evan's right?' Nope, looks like there's more than one ice princess around this place.

"What happened between you and Troy this time?" Dr. Murry almost seemed aggravated. He should be in her parent's shoes.

"The damn mother fu-"

"Mara belle!"

"Geez, sorry. Do you always yell at your patients like this?" She inquired as she looked at the awestruck doctor. "What?"

"Did you just say sorry?"

Mara belle rolled her eyes at his reaction. "Shut the pie hole Doc. We were on the subject of the dumbass brother."

"Right, what did he do now?"

"He shut off my alarm. I swear if Sharpay hadn't been there I would have bitched slapped him all over the floor. But why humiliate him in front of his girlfriend, huh?"

"I though that Gabriella girl was his girlfriend?" He asked with confusion. She rolled her eyes. Wasn't he being paid to listen, geez.

"Hell no. If she was his girlfriend I'd throw myself under a bus. No, I'd throw him under a bus. Wait, better yet, I'd throw Montez under a bus." She smirked evilly as she rubbed her hands together, obviously picturing it.

"I think we need more time in therapy for you."

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Mara belle skillfully made her way up the branches of the tree outside her home. She had done this so many times she was a pro. Though she was only a sophomore in High School, she still had plenty of practice being the slightly wild one. She snuck out pretty much an occasion she could, just because she wanted to. Her parents never found out, though Troy had. She had threatened him to keep him from telling their parents. She knew on some level he was actually scared she would expose his porn collection to their parents.

Speaking of the amazing Troy Bolton...

"What the hell are you doing in my room?" Mara belle questioned harshly as she closed the window behind her.

"Why the hell are you wearing my hoodie?" He mimicked her, just to set her off.

She reached into one of the large pockets on the hoodie and pulled out a can of beer, smirking. She gave Troy a wink and set it on the table. "I stocked up."

Troy rolled his eyes, grabbing the beer can. "What the hell is wrong with you? Bringing beer in the house? Drinking beer? In my wildcat hoodie!"

She rolled her eyes. "Overreact much?"

"Take. Off. My. Hoodie."

"Oh come on? Didn't mommy dearest ever teach you to share?"

"Take it off Mara belle!" Once he had called her by her full name she knew it was time to give up.

"It's Belle." She persisted harshly as she slipped the hoodie off her slim body and shoved it at Troy. "And you're going to regret treating me like this someday."

"Doubtful." He spat as he walked out of the room, slamming the door behind him.

Mara belle stood there a moment, before letting a couple tears slide from her eyes to her cheeks, just to feel the burn. She moved her hair away from her face and looked in the mirror, to reveal a harsh bruise on her right cheek, thanks to her oh so loving boyfriend.

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Mara belle awoke to a harsh pain in her head and even bigger pain in her ass...none other than Chad Danforth. Her brother's best friend. Ugh, he was seriously annoying the hell out of her.

"Chad get the hell out!" Mara belle yelled at the big haired boy, though it came out softer because her voice was raspy.

"Wakey wakey lemon squeazy!" Chad called as he continued to bounce on his knees on the side of her bed, being careful not to hit her body. He had done it once before, he ended up with a tennis racket mark on his forehead. Ah, the memories.

"I swear to God Chad!"

"You really shouldn't do that, you know. It's like breaking some kind of law or something." He continued obnoxiously before laying next to her. Upon seeing Chad land to her right she quickly turned around so she would face him. Or better so, so he couldn't see the bruise on her cheek and question her about it.

There weren't alot of things Mara belle loved in this world, and there definitely weren't many things she loved with her whole heart, but Chad was one of them. He was like the brother she always wanted because unlike Troy, he wasn't a perfect person. Troy wasn't perfect, she knew, but he sure as hell acted as if he were. Chad was real. The only people who had her respect were people who were real.

That was also why she hated Gabriella Montez so much. She was one of the fakest people she'd ever met. She was trying to hard and you couldn't know who the hell she was because she never showed her true colors. Sharpay on the other hand, told it like it was. She was anything but afraid to be herself and Mara belle respected her for that. She actually though that Sharpay was too good for Troy, but they loved each other. There was nothing she could do about that.

"Don't you have something better to do?"

"Other than annoy the crap out of you?" He pondered as she casually nodded. "Nope." Chad had always loved Mara belle, as a sister of course. She could be a little dramatic and bitchy sometimes, but he knew that she had a good heart and was a good person, even if she didn't always show it.

She gave a rare genuine smile. She almost never gave Troy had a genuine smile. Of course, she liked Chad more than Troy. "Oh Chadikins, how you kill me."

Chad gave a sneer before he began tickling her. She threw her head back in laughter, and pain. He had hit a bruise. "Chad, stop. CHAD!"

He stopped and gave her an odd look as he still lay on top of her. That's when Troy came in with a some what unreadable expression. "What the hell? Are you trying to rape my little sister?"

Mara belle rolled her eyes. Oh, so now he pretends to care? "No, you dumbass. God, what's wrong with you?"

Troy frowned as he watched his sister hold her head in pain as she sat up. "Hangover?"

"No. You stole my beer member."

"Well, how many times do I have to tell you Belle, you can't keep drinking."

"I didn't even drink last night okay. " Although I wish I had. She thought as she looked at Chad who was just watching the little argument unfold.

"It looks like you did from where I'm standing."

"Then move." She pushed him to the side as she made her way downstairs, praying they wouldn't follow. They didn't.

Once in the kitchen she took out a can of cold root beer from the fridge, holding it to her cheek as she sat down at the kitchen table. She held the can to her cheek as held her aching head from with the other. That's when Sharpay entered the room. She had been given a key a few months ago after her and Troy had been dating a year.

She studied Mara belle with a pained expression as she sat down next to her. She took hold of the root beer can and removed it gently so she could see the damage. "Again, huh?"

Sharpay was the only person that knew about this. She had only found out because they had gone to a party together and her boyfriend chose then to hit her. Ever since she had been trying to get her to dump his ass, but Mara belle knew it would be worse to break up with him. "Yup...again."

"Belle..." She started in warning, yet knowing tone.

"I know Shar, I know."

Just then the guys entered the kitchen and Sharpay quickly removed the can from my face once again, setting it on the table as I covered my cheek with my hair. "Hey guys." Sharpay greeted as Troy gave her a kiss.

"Hey baby." Troy replied casually he took a seat next to her. "Can I talk to you for a second?"

"Yeah, sure." Sharpay replied with a smile as they made their way upstairs.

"What was that about?" Chad questioned as he sat next to Mara belle.

She shrugged. "Beats me. Hey, could you hand me a couple asprin for my killer headache?"

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"So, what did you want to talk about?" Sharpay asked as she sat down on Troy's bed, kicking off her slip-flops. She had been in this house enough to be perfectly comfortable here. Troy and Sharpay had been best friends for three years before they started dating about a year and a half ago.

"I was thinking.."

"Troy, I though you were going to quit doing that?" She asked seriously as Troy sneered at her.

"You're hilarious. Anyways, I was thinking that we could go on a little road trip."

"What kind?"

"Well it's almost the end of the year so we should do something fun. You, me, Chad, and Ryan can rent a car and drive around for the rest of the summer. Since Gabriella and Taylor are a camp it would just be the four of us."

Sharpay held her hands up in protest at the thought. "Just me and three guys. No way, I'll get raped."

Troy let out a chuckled before putting an arm around her. "You do know that one is you brother and the other your boyfriend, right?"

"Well who knows what Chad is capable of." She joked as she leaned her head against his shoulder.

"Well...okay, how about Belle comes too?" He offered hesitantly.

"Sounds good to me, But you have to promise me something."

"Anything."

"You can't kill each other." You could tell by her tone she really wasn't joking.

"I'm not so sure I can make that promise without breaking it." Troy replied. He was also dead serious.

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I don't know what my fascination is with writing about Troy's little sister. I just like writing something new and different I guess. This story will have more Troypay moment but it will have a lot to do with Mara belle also. I know she seems a little bitchy sometimes, but you will learn that there's more to her. And the stuff about her hating Gabriella Montez, I just love that. Though you won't see much interaction with them. Taylor and Gabriella will barely be in the story for a while.

Every time I read a story on here it'll have an advertisement on the bottom of the page and it's like always something to do with Vanessa Hudgens. Like I give a shit? I don't give a damn about her new song snearkernight, which in my opinion is a sucky song because it really had no meaning. And it had 3 lined in the chorus, I mean come on! Actually it only has two because the first and last one are the same. They just repeat it over and over again. Sorry, I had a little Vanessa hater moment. And I am sorry to all V fans who just read this, but I can't help how I feel.

Anyways, please please review! Thanks!

-Peace!