Story of My Life

Summary: After Gabriella's accident she is left near death. Troy finds her diary, which contains the story of her life. Mostly Gabby's POV. I suck at summaries. It's better than it sounds. R&R please.

Chapter 1: Accident

I can almost remember that day. It was, in more ways than one, the worst day of my life. I woke up in a happy mood. But that was because I didn't know what was gonna happen that day. My name is Gabriella Montez. I'm 18 years old. I have shoulder length brown hair and brown eyes.

My mom, Maria Lewis-Montez, called me downstairs for breakfast. When I got there, my older brother, Jonathan, and my little sister, Lilly were already at the table. My dad, Miguel Montez, had already left for work.

"Buenos Dias, mija." My mother greeted me.

"Buenos Dias mama." I replied. I was born in Albuquerque and I have lived here all my life but I am of Spanish descent so I thought I could at least learn the language.

"Gabi, I'm hungry so sit down and eat already." Jonathan said, impatiently.

"Good morning to you too, big brother." I said as I sat down. Then I said hi to my sister. Lil's five years old and Jonathan is nineteen. My mom was eighteen when Jonathan was born. So right now she and my dad are both thirty seven.

I ate and got ready for school. Ten minutes after I had finished brushing my hair I heard a horn. Back to my hair, it was actually all the way down my back before I cut it last summer. I don't really know why I cut it. Momentary madness. Anyway, back to the horn. I looked out my balcony window and saw my best friend, Troy Bolton, standing next to his truck. He was smiling and his beautiful blue eyes gleamed. Man, I've got a major case of lovesickness. Somebody call the doctor! Corny, huh?

You see, I've known Troy literally since we were babies. He's only a few months older than I am. He's really sweet and he cares about me. I care about him too but in a different way. I love him. He's my sunshine. Whoa major spaz moment there. I'm not so sure if he feels the same way. We did almost kiss once. Yeah, you're thinking omg they almost kissed. That must mean something right? But my friend Sharpay ruined that moment.

Shar is really pretty and really...blonde. She is sometimes too blonde for her own good. I have nothing against blondes. How could I? Troy is dirty-blonde. Anyway Shar is really into drama and she also sings. Actually we all do, we just don't acknowledge it. Back to reality. I ran down the stairs and after kissing my mom and Lil's goodbye I jumped into Troy's truck.

"Morning wildcat." I greeted him.

"Morning Brie." he replied. Only he called me that. Everyone has their own nickname for me. Like Chad calls me Gabster and Taylor calls me Gabby. Ryan calls me Ella, Martha calls me Gab, Shar calls me Gabs and Zeke calls me... I dunno and Jason double I dunno. We'll get to who all those people are later.

A few minutes later we arrived at school. East High is a big building and it's the most beautiful school ever. Another spaz moment. Troy and I are both juniors there along with all those people I just mentioned.

Taylor is African American and she has long black hair and brown eyes. She has an extremely high IQ and is one of the smartest girls in school. She is the leader of our Scholastic Decathlon team. She is also the only girl in our gang that actually has a boyfriend.

Chad, Taylor's boyfriend, is also African American with a huge brown afro. He's on the basketball team and he's one of the best players. He's also Troy's best friend. Did I mention that Troy's the captain of the basketball team? First sophomore ever accepted on the b-ball team. Anyway, Chad has the weirdest sense of humour and he's really slow sometimes.

Zeke Baylor is another African American. He is an amazing basketball player and an amazing; you're not going to believe this, cook. He loves to bake. And he's excellent at it. He also has a MAJOR crush on Sharpay.

Ryan loves to dance. He's an amazing dancer. He loves every kind of dance but his favourite move is the jazz-square. Some people think he's gay. I know he's not. He has a crush on Kelsi so he can't be. About that Kelsi situation I don't know how well he's doing. Because as far as I can tell Jason and Ryan like Kelsi but Kelsi likes Jason so I think Ryan should find somebody else.

Martha, like Ryan, loves to dance. She loves hip hop. Once she hears a beat there's no stopping her. She's a really bubbly person and fun to be around. Man this description of my friends is taking long. Only two more to go though. Then the real drama starts.

Jason is another basketball player and his into directing. He wants to be a director. Duh. He has a crush on Kelsi. Double duh. And, again duh, Kelsi likes him too.

Kelsi is a lot like me. We're both shy, love to read and play the piano. I think I'm a little more talkative than Kelsi though. She is an awesome musician and composer. She actually composed a school musical that Ryan, Sharpay, Troy and I were in. I did say we all sing didn't I?

Me? I'm the geek. I have an IQ of 125 which is supposedly good. I play the piano, read and sing. I only did the musical because of Troy. If he wasn't there I wouldn't have been able to do it.

Anyway, back to school. The day went by slowly and the classes were even slower than usual. That's how I knew something was gonna happen. The last class of the day was the longest by so far. Mrs. Darbus talks a load of crap sometimes.

"Dude, Mrs. Darbus has snapped her cap." I heard Troy tell Chad.

"Dude, you're actually listening?" Chad replied.

"She's going overboard." Taylor said, shaking her head.

"More like sunk and in teaching hell." I said. At that everyone who heard laughed.

"Ms. Montez," Mrs. Darbus said, "would you like to share what's so funny?"

"Nothing Mrs. D." I said.

"Oh please, there must be some reason that you and your friends disturbed my chapel of arts." She replied. I swear I don't know why she doesn't go back to the mother ship.

"Umm." I said just as the bell rang, "Saved by the bell." I whispered.

I packed up my things and was about to leave when I was cornered by Alyson and Stephanie Keats. They're twins but they have nothing in common. The only thing they do have in common is their looks. They both have strawberry blonde hair and greenish-blue eyes but Stephanie wears her hair straight while Alyson has her hair curly.

The difference between them is that Stephanie is sweet and Alyson is a snob. Steph actually dates my brother behind her sister's back. She doesn't like it but she loves Jonathan so she has no choice and trust me I know what it's like to love.

"Hi Steph, Ally." I said and Stephanie subtly waved at me.

"Shut it Montez." Alyson snapped, "I thought I told you to stop talking to Troy." God I hate her.

"Whatever Aly." I said and walked away. She walked after me screaming at me not to ignore her. At least she knows when she's being ignored.

"Don't whatever me, Gabby." Alyson said. I still ignored her. She screamed at me again and before I knew it she had pushed me into the road. A few minutes later I felt a sharp pain all through my body. I realized that a car or more likely a truck, had hit me. I fell to the ground.

"Brie! No!" I heard Troy scream. He had just come out of b-ball practice. I was supposed to be walking home because of that. I guess he got out early.

"Alyson Jennifer Keats what the hell did you do to my friend?!" Stephanie screamed.

"Ugh, why the hell do you care about that geek? I am so much more popular than she is. She could die for all I care." Aly stormed off. Even though I hate her I can't believe she said that. Troy was beside me now. I barely managed to say his name before everything went black.

Okay people tell me what you think. And I need ideas for what to put in the diary.

Thanks a lot.

:D Ashley