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She had lost everything...her parents died in a car accident, along with her little brother Devon. Her boyfriend took her in...and made her life a living hell, beating her and abusing her...she ran away, with extra money she saved for so long...she found an apartment and was able to go to East High, and a Foster mom took her in...what happens when she meets a certain blue eyed boy East High?

Okay if u hate it...I don't care. Say all you want to me...but by the way....to those two people who hate my writing...THIS ONE IS WITH TROY BEING THE NICE GUY AND GABRIELLA ONLY MISSING HER PARENSTS!

Thanks to Rox who gave me some pointers...

Thanks guys for checking this one out. I got the idea from crying for about 3 hours, and I came up with a really depressing story. This is kinda the story of my life...I guess? I'm a depressed girl, which a lotta people don't understand. I guess, this is what I want to write when I'm in a depressed mood, I don't know. Thanks...but I didn't get some inspiration from a song. The story is called "Broken Wing" and that's what the song is called. Here are the lyrics:

She Loved Him like he was
The Last man on earth
Gave him everything she ever had
He'd break her spirit down
Then come lovin' up on her
Give a little, then take it back

She'd tell him 'bout her dreams
He'd just shoot 'em down
Lord he loved to make her cry
"You're crazy for believin',
You'll ever leave the ground"
he said "Only angels know how to fly"

CHORUS
And with a broken wing
She still sings
She keeps an eye on the sky
With a broken wing
She carries her dreams
Man you oughta see her fly

One Sunday mornin'
She didn't go to church
He wondered why she didn't leave
He went up to the bedroom
Found a note by the window
With the curtains blowin' in the breeze

CHORUS
And with a broken wing
She still sings
She keeps an eye on the sky
With a broken wing
She carries her dreams
Man you oughta see her fly

With a broken wing
She carries her dreams
Man you oughta see her fly
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Prologue

Gabriella looked at the graves. Her mom and dad, had recently died in a car accident, only a month ago. She'd had a lot of money that her dad saved in her bank account. Actually, around $5,000 dollars. Her family wasn't as rich, as you'd think. Rich enough though to support each other. Her mom was a lawyer, and her dad was a bank accountant. Now, Gabriella wasn't the type of rich girl you'd think. She was sweet type, and didn't go around spending money, just to spend it. She had cute clothes, but not ones that were high in fashion. She didn't need the money, but that was for her just in case that this kind of incident did happen she'd have the money to support herself. "Anyone have anything to say for Maria and David Montez?" the preacher said looking at the two graves as well. Gabriella stood up, "I would..." she said and the preacher nodded and she went over to where he was standing.

"These two people had touched many people, including me especially. I will miss them greatly...and they will be in all of our hearts..." Gabriella said, her eyes watering, with one...one single tear falling from her right eye. Gabriella smiled and sat down next to her boyfriend. He had been there for her, been together for 2 years. His name was Brandon. "It's okay babe..." he smiled at her. Really, Brandon just wanted her money. That was the real, true reason he'd spent time with her.

"Thanks..." she said crying into his chest. Brandon smoothed her hair.

"You can live with me..." Brandon suggested.

Gabriella looked up and smiled. After the funeral Brandon dropped her off at her house. They were going to give away the house, to someone who could afford it. Well, really, Gabriella could afford it. Her parents left a will, that let Gabriella have everything. The money, the house, the furniture...everything. Gabriella didn't want all of that though. Sure she kept the money in the bank, in her savings account. But she sold the furniture and the house. She kept her mom's jewelry, and everything that was special to her family, she kept herself. She looked at the house again, grabbed her suitcases and went out and took a picture of the house drove to Brandon's house and fell asleep in the guest bedroom.

A year later-

16 year old Gabriella woke up by Brandon yelling at her. "Get up you son of a bitch!" he said throwing a pillow at her as hard as he could. Gabriella groaned awake, her eye still swollen from when he smacked her across the face, and hit her in the eye.

Gabriella got up and took a shower and walked out, and saw Brandon madder as he could ever be. Ever since her parents died Brandon had been taking advantage of her money, and beating her to get it. He knew that she was a weak girl and took advantage of it.

"Y-yes Brandon?" she shook nervously, scared of the next action. Gabriella is still the sweet girl she was, but now...she was as weak as could be. Afraid to stand up for herself. She did try and run away, and Brandon practically shot her.

"What is this?" he said holding up her, journal. Her private journal.

"My j-jou-journal..." she shook, and backed away, remember all the bad things she wrote in there.

"Brandon's an ass?" he said reading the journal and threw the journal at her and then left the room. Gabriella picked it up, and then went to go back to getting ready. You'd think his parents would make him stop behaving this way, but really his parents bought him a house to get rid of him. She wanted to get die....literally. She didn't see who'd miss her. Brandon would get her money, and Gabriella could see her mom and dad again. Brandon came back in and then kissed her cheek. "I'm sorry babe..." he said wiping away her tears.

Gabriella looked at him, and nodded. She couldn't say she forgave him. It just meant she understood what she said.

The next day-

Gabriella realized that Brandon was at school. No, she didn't go to school. Brandon did though, his parents paid for him, but she didn't have the money. The only education she did get was doing Brandon's homework for him and reading books. Gabriella looked at the clock. It was 9:00 am, and he wasn't going to be back until 3. She packed her bags and walked out of the door. "Now why didn't I do this before?" Gabriella laughed softly.

She walked over to the bus station. She was going to move some where far away. She had left Brandon a note. Not saying wear she was going, but that she wanted to leave. She now lived in California, but decided to move to New Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mexico to be exact. That was wear her parents had met. They met in high school, at a school called "East High". Before she did, she went by her bank account and grabbed the money she had. She had all of her family's money that was left behind and gave Brandon about 1/3 of the money behind. She wasn't a harsh girl. She took all of the money out of the bank and ended up going to New Mexico on the bus.

A day later-

Gabriella got off the bus. It was a long ride, considering all the stops they had to take. She looked around and found a bench in a park. She took out a blanket and a pillow she had took with her and laid it out and fell asleep. Then was woken up an hour later by a lady. "Excuse me? Are you okay?" she said worried. She was an African American.

"Yes..." Gabriella said rubbing her eyes, then realizing her black eye.

"Well...if you don't have a home honey, you can come with me? I'm actually an Foster mother...you know, taking care of other children..." she said shyly then helping Gabriella.

"Oh, no, it's fine...I'll find a hotel or something..." she said then folding her blanket.

"No, please. We have plenty of room...please come." she said as she grabbed her luggage. Gabriella smiled.

"My names Linda by the way..." she smiled at her. And held out her hand.

"Gabriella..." she said getting up and getting her pillow.

"What a beautiful name..." she said and Linda drove her to the ally way. It was on the side of a fancy hotel, but the house was on the side of the ally.

"I hope you don't mind kids." she laughed walking in and opening the door.

"No, I loved my brother..." Gabriella laughed as she followed her in the house.

"Loved?" Linda said as she put the luggage next to the door and took off her shoes.

"Yes...my parents and brother died in a car accident a year ago...." Gabriella said, her eyes watering. Well, only her left eye. Her right eye was still swollen, and her face was still bruised, as with her arms and legs with scars. Her stomach had a huge scar from when Brandon did shoot her.

"Oh, I'm sorry honey...so how did you get here? Or..." she stopped, not wanting to make her feel uncomfortable and going into the kitchen to see the rest of the kids.

"Bus." she said, "Used to live in California." Gabriella said. Linda nodded and she introduced Gabriella.

"Gabriella, this is," she pointed out everyone, "This is Hayley, Ryan, Delilah, Michael, Devon, and...." she looked at the oldest who was Gabriella's age. "This is Sean." she said introducing everyone.

"Everyone else, this is Gabriella..." she said.

Gabriella smiled at all of them. This was her new home. A fresh, brand new start. "Nice meeting you, and Linda, thank you, for everything." she smiled.

"No need to thank me Gabriella. You will be sharing a room with Hayley." she explained, and showed her the room. There were two normal sized beds. It was a big room, and looked around and noticed there were 4 more rooms. "Hayley will give you the grand tour." she laughed, "She loves to give her friends tours, after all she is only 6." she said as Gabriella took her stuff into the room.

Hayley looked up at Gabriella. "Hi..." she said softly, "I'm Hayley..." she said.

Gabriella smiled and gave her a soft, sincere smile. The girl had light brown hair with brown eyes. She looked 8, but was 6 and she had a light tan. She was missing one tooth on the top. She was a sweet girl, her hair, at the moment were in little pig tails. "Gabriella..." she said kneeling down and held out her hand to shake.

Hayley looked like a shy girl, but she gave a small smile and held out a hand. Gabriella smiled sweetly and she showed her the house. "This is..." she opened the door, "The study room, of course, you will be going to school, but next year since this year is almost over." Hayley smiled. Gabriella smiled back. She loved the tooth she was missing. It gave her personality and it was cute. Then she went to the room that was diagonally from the study room. She opened the door, "This is Ryan, Devon, and Michael's room." she laughed at they saw.

They were playing video games. "HI!" Michael said. "I'm Mike!" he said excitingly.

"Hey Mike...Gabriella." she laughed.

Hayley then closed the door and laughed. "Mike's 10, and Ryan's 12. And little D over here is 5." she explained then went to the door next to their's on the right. "This is Sean and Delilah's room." she said. She didn't open it yet...why not?

"They both are brother and sister and there parents gave them up because they didn't want them. Sean's your age, 16, and Delilah's 4." she explained.

"Did they give them up separately?" Gabriella, suddenly confused on the topic. Hayley shook her head, swallowed then explained.

"No, actually, they loved Sean. But then, there parents got in a fight and divorced, but when they did get divorced his mom realized she was pregnant and put them up for adoption after Delilah was 2 years old and Linda took them in." Hayley said looking at the floor. Hayley was the shy type. But still outgoing once she knew them.

"Oh...I see..." Gabriella nodded, and she thought she had it bad. Hayley opened the room and Sean was listening to his music. Sean smiled at her. "Hey..." he said.

Hayley smiled and tapped on Gabriella's leg and she knelt down. "And, usually he doesn't talk, but he's usually really sweet." she giggled as she whispered it into her ear. Gabriella nodded. "Hi..." she said.

"Go on and sit down..." he said as Delilah got on his lap.

"Hi..." she said shyly.

"Hey there..." she smiled at the little girl and sat down at the stylish chair.

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"Hi...my nwame is Delilah..." Delilah said, and then the rest of the gang came in.

"Yo!" Ryan said leaning against Sean's bed post.

"Yeah...Yo! NO...Yola!" Michael laughed as he sat down next to Sean.

Then Gabriella got up and sat next to Sean as well, so that Mike could sit where she was sitting.

"Hey Ry, hey Mike." Hayley laughed, "Where's little D?" Hayley asked but then saw a little head poking through and hugging a little teddy bear.

Gabriella stared at the little boy, with dark brown hair with chocolate eyes to match. Gabriella's eyes began to water, and Sean looked at her worried.

"Gabriella....?" Sean said worried. (Do not worry guys. Sean and Gabriella aren't getting together. Not soon, that is unless you want to. Sean has a girlfriend...so don't worry about the drama...ha! That was what I was planning on having.)

Gabriella looked up and Sean wrapped his arm around her. Hayley tilted her head. "No, I'm fine..." Gabriella said as she wiped her eyes.

"What happened?" Sean whispered.

"I can't believe it...." Mike whispered, "She got Sean talking..." he whispered to Hayley, and Hayley nodded in agreement.

"My brother...he died in a car accident...along with my parents..." Gabriella whispered and everyones' eyes widened as they felt very sorry for her.

"Yeah..." Gabriella said then getting up. She hated the attention and never liked it. She thought she never enjoyed it, even when she was rich. Though she still had all the money, she wanted it for college, and some clothes here and there.

"I'm sorry..." Sean hugged her tightly, and then Gabriella's eyebrows wrinkled. Then stopped hugging Sean back and Sean backed up.

"Sorry..." Sean chuckled and then got up and laughed a little.

"I'm Wittle D!" Devon said hopping up on Gabriella's lap.

"Yo, what up in the Hiz Little D?" Gabriella laughed hugging him.

"Nottin'..." he laughed, "But I don't wanna be like that. I want to be a gentewman!" Devon explained getting up then lying down on top of Michael on the chair.

Gabriella laughed, and then the door opened. "Well I can that the 6 of you are getting along, wait, 6? It's 7 now..." Linda laughed at her mistake and then brought in dinner on a tray, "Dinner is served..." Linda laughed.

"Wait, we can eat in here?" Gabriella said surprised and everyone stared at her.

"Sorry...my er...nevermind." Gabriella said remembering all the times that Brandon yelled at her for those kind of small things. Gabriella grabbed a plate of chicken and rice.

Gabriella looked at it, then took a bite and it melted in her mouth. "Mmm...it's...delicious." Gabriella said as she ate another bite and chewed it slowly.

"What? You've never had anything like this?" Ryan said as he took a mouthful and chewed it.

"No..." Gabriella shook her head and dug in.

"Well...thanks Linda." Gabriella smiled and ate some more until she was full.

That night-

Gabriella changed into her pajamas and laid down in her bed. "Night Gabi..." Hayley said.

"Night Hayl..." she smiled, when the rest of the gang and said night.

Everyone left and Sean stayed, "Night...Gabi. It's nice having someone my age around here now..." he chuckled and left.

Okay, that was kinda long...lol, I wanted to do more, but I'll update tomorrow!

xxxKendahl