Ok so i'm gonna keep this short; its based on the song Miss Invisible by Marie Digby.
- If you read my other stories I'll try to update one of them before Christmas but well see
I dont wanna give away the ending so i can't say the coupling or anything but if you read my stories you'll probably know who it is.
Enjoy :)
There I was sitting alone under the bleachers during lunchtime once again. This was pretty much how I spent most of my day actually… alone. I'm not popular but I'm not really unpopular, I'm more invisible I guess. Most people don't even notice me. I mean they could be walking right towards me in the hallway and just bump into me and keep walking like it never happened, no apology, nothing.
I try to act like it doesn't hurt and keep this fake smile on my face, but the thing is it may fool some people. But that's the thing about fake smiles, they aren't real and while I may look content on the outside, inside all I want to do is just cry. Just cry and sob until my eyes burn and my throat swells up and I can barely breathe because I'm sobbing so hard. That's actually what I do every night before I go to sleep but no one knows that because they don't know me.
My parents don't even know me, not because they don't want to but because they aren't around enough to know. They're jobs make them travel a lot so I guess I can't blame them for not being around but there's a part of me that wishes that one of them would quit their job and stay home, but yeah that won't happen… so I'm stuck being the lonely girl.
To be honest I'd rather be the lonely girl then the girl who's made fun of all the time, which is me as well but I've learned a few ways to avoid the torture. Like if I'm in class and one of my bullies are in the room I'll make myself look busy and hope that they don't notice me and they usually don't.
But the times they do the fake smile is plastered on my face the whole time, like I'm enjoying being made fun of, like I don't want to just run away crying. I hold it in because I don't want to be weak in front of them or any more vulnerable then I already am.
I've been vulnerable since the first day I came to East High. I'll never forget the looks on everyone's faces as I walked through the doors; it was as if I was an alien or something completely from a different planet.
I mean I thought I looked pretty normal, I was wearing this bright red summery dress with some flats and this patched up multi-colored jacket my grandmother made for me before she died. I loved it and thought it was the coolest thing since I was all for vintage looking things but apparently here you were supposed to blend in, not stand out. I learned that the hard way.
"Nice jacket loser" "where'd she move from the circus?" just a few of the remarks people made to me as I walked to my first class. There were worse but I've blocked them out since then. I tried to ignore everything from my first day actually and just moved along to the second day.
I decided on something a little more causal, a pair of jean shorts and a graphic t-shirt and gladiator sandals. It seemed like things would be better as nothing was said to me as I got through my first few classes, but boy was I wrong.
I made it to lunch and decided to try and sit with the popular crowd… Sharpay, Chad, Taylor, Jason, Zeke, Kelsi and the coolest of the cool, Troy Bolton. When I walked into the lunch room that day they were all there already as they always got to lunch early to get the best table in the lunch room. I figured since I was early enough that day that I'd try to sit with them, big mistake.
Before I could even sit down Taylor was already in front of my blocking the seat I was about to sit in.
"I'm sorry you can't sit here" She said to me
"Why not?" I asked her "is it taken or something?"
"No, you're just not allowed to sit here?"
"Why did someone say I couldn't?"
"Ugh stop being difficult and please just sit at one of the other tables" She said to me and had this look in her eyes like she had pity on me and just wanted me to listen but I wasn't about to back down
"No I want to sit here so move". I said to her trying to push her carefully out of the way of the seat but she wouldn't budge and just ended up having the rest of the populars see the scene unfold and decided to get involved. Or well one Sharpay.
"Look I don't know what your name, but I'm gonna say this once and don't make me say it again." She said with this venom in her voice that honestly scared me how evil she looked at me. "You can't sit here; these seats are for popular people only, not little loser new girls, with no fashion sense like you."
I just stood there in shock and I wanted to move but my legs were to shaken for me to be able to move them. Sharpay looked at me with an icy glare as I didn't move and then spoke again after a moment.
"Hello, are you slow or something GET. LOST." She said to me and that was all it took for me to turn and walk away, but not before I saw the look on Troy Bolton's face, a look of sorry like he felt bad for what Sharpay had said.
The popular tables were set up on a stage so you'd have to climb of stairs to get to them, it was easy to walk up stairs when your fine but after you get degraded by probably the most popular girl in school in front of the whole lunch room and you have tears filling your eyes it's a little hard to see the steps right in front of your face which would explain how I completely wiped out about halfway walking down them.
After that I just remember running out of the lunch room hearing everyone laughing at me over what had just happened and too embarrassed to try and sit with anyone else at their table. After that whole scene I doubted anyone would want to be seen with me the rest of my years of high school. All I knew was that I wanted to be anywhere but there.
I ran out to the hallway and found how to get outside to the football field. We were allowed to go outside during lunch but most people chose to stay inside. I didn't want to be seen by anyone that might be outside though so I hid under the bleachers, and that's where I've hid for the last two months since then.
I would have thought things would have gotten better by now but they haven't. The teasing continues and no one wants to know me. Honestly other then the teachers I don't know anyone that knows my name. If we have to do group projects in class I just ask the teachers if I can work alone to avoid the hurt of having to listen to someone complain about having to work with her.
That worked most of the time, except in Chemistry where we were forced to get a lab partner, chosen by the teacher of course. Because trust me no one would want to be my lab partner. There was an even amount of boys and girls in our class so our teacher thought it would be fun to pair us up boy/girl so all the girls drew a name out of a hat.
I was just hoping for someone nice, like Ryan Evans. He was nice and smart and wasn't all that popular himself. But as I drew the paper and read the name I felt sick, of all people I had to get Mr. Popular himself. Troy Bolton.
But I'll be honest Troy actually isn't all that bad. He's smart and actually not all as mean as I thought he'd be. He does the work in class with me but that's about it. Honestly I've developed a little of a crush on him but it's not like it matters, every other girl in the school has a crush on him too, and I bet he'd choose of them to be his girlfriend of me any day.
Troy is probably the only person who actually talks to me in school though, even if it's just for one class it's something. I just wish he'd actually talk to me out of class or even ask me what my name is, because as much as we talk in class I really don't think he even knows my name since I've never heard him call me by my name. He always just calls me his lab partner and it really hurts because until he does start calling me by my name I just I'll never feel like normal around him or like I even matter to him as anymore than someone to keep him from failing the class.
But right now I'm just leaving Chemistry class a little late after taken a moment after class to talk to the teacher. I didn't want to but she insisted so I stayed. I really just wanted to get to the bleachers and enjoy my moments away from the hell.
It hit me one day how much I really liked Troy and when I was at my old school whenever something upset me or there was something I wanted or was on my mind I'd write a song about it. It was a way for me to clear my head but ever since I moved I just couldn't get into the mindset of writing again, but lately it was like something clicked and the writing just started flowing.
I was actually in class looking at Troy that day when a song idea popped into my head and I just started writing the chorus to a new song and I couldn't wait to get to the bleachers so I could see if it worked.
So I took my normal seat under the bleachers and quickly ate my lunch as I looked at my notebook on my lap thinking it out in my head. I couldn't even finish my lunch before I decided I wanted to sing it right then and there. So I looked at the paper and just let my voice come out and sang
"Take a little look at the life of Miss Always Invisible
Look a little harder I really really want you to put yourself in her shoes
Take a little look at the face of Miss Always Invisible
Look a little closer and maybe then you will see why she waits for the day that you will ask her...her name"
By the time I finished all I knew was that I had tears falling down my cheeks and I have no idea how they got there. I went to wipe my cheeks when I heard a voice from down behind me.
"Wow I didn't know you could sing"
I froze in my spot and slowly looked back and his blue eyes were staring back at mine, it was Troy.
"Um how long have you been sitting there?" I asked him nervously wiping a tear out of my eyes
"Um since before you sat down" He said honestly taking his arm and rubbing the back of his head nervously looking like he hoped I wouldn't be upset that he was essentially spying on me. I just shook my head looking down completely embarrassed as my face was bright red. He must have seen my face and took my silence as that he'd messed up. "Look I'm sorry I shouldn't have spied on you…" He said stopping a moment and it hit me, he probably wanted to say my name but he didn't know it.
I wanted to be mad but I couldn't because I expected it, I knew that he wouldn't know my name but it still hurt anyways but I tried not to let it show.
"Gabriella…" I said softly to him
"What?" He said looking at my confused
"Gabriella, that's my name" I replied to him and he just looked even more confused
"I know your name, Gabriella" and as he said it now it was my turn to be confused
"Then why haven't you called me by it before" I asked confused
"I-I I guess that I'm an idiot" He said to me
"You're not an idiot"
"No I am, look I never called you by your name because I didn't want my friends to know that I actually cared about you"
"Excuse me" I said to him now even more confused
"look Gabriella, I care about you, more than my friends would like and I've been afraid of them finding out and making fun of me too, but I'm tired of hiding it." He said and stopped a moment before continuing "look you know I heard your song and I want you to know that despite what the rest of the school may think, to me your not invisible. You're a good person and you don't deserve any of the shit that anyone here has given you"
I just looked at him in shock. I didn't know what to say, all I could think was is he serious, what is going on right now. We sat there in silence a few moments as he was obviously waiting for me to say something
"Um so what happens now, are you gonna leave and go back to your friends now?"
He just looked at me a second before shrugging
"Why go back to them right now when I have a friend sitting right in front of me?"
I couldn't help but look away as a blush filled my cheeks.
"Friends, we're friends now?" I asked him skeptically
"yeah, I mean If you want to be" He said and I didn't even have to say anything as something comes over me and I just throw my arms around him nearly knocking him over from surprise. He just laughs now hugging me back. "I'll just take that as a yes"
He then pulls away and looks into my eyes. I don't know how it happened but we're gradually leaning closer to each other and all of a sudden his lips are on mine and we're kissing. If his eyes weren't closed he probably would have seen the shocked look on my face before I finally closed my eyes kissing back for a second before pulling away looking at him with my cheeks probably bright pink.
"Um so do you kiss all your friends like that?" I said to him. He just laughed to himself shaking his head
"no actually, just the special ones"
"So I'm special then?" I asked him
"Yes so special that for as long as I know you, that you will never feel invisible again" He said to me and that was all it took for our lips to be on each other's once again…
The End?
So should i continue? Maybe i'll think about it if enough people want me too..
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-Heather
