Summary: Gabby doesn't trust people, because of what her dad did. Until she moves to New Mexico , and meets Troy Bolton , but can she even trust him, the only person she has loved since her brother died.
Author's note: Just so nobody is confused the very beginning of this story takes place 4 years before, but just the beginning of this chapter. Also Gabby's real mom died when she was two she got adopted by her mom's friend, but she tells everyone else that that's her mom.
Disclaimer: I don't own hsm.
Gabriella's p.o.v
There was screaming, yelling, and then my brother's cold dead body lying on the ground. I had been thirteen at the time. My brother was fifteen and my best and only friend, but not anymore, for he was dead.
Too many times to count my dad would beat or rape me , my brother was always there to comfort me , even when he got beat he never once complained , just let me cry on his shoulder. Tonight was different then the rest though, because he wasn't there. Tonight my dad got to drunk. He was yelling slapping me repeatedly, and kicking , and punching me. Usually when he raped me it only took five minutes, but tonight he was having fun. He had a knife in his hand, and cut my stomach. All I remember was my brother punching him, and then the knife went right through his body.
Then I ran. I ran away from my dad, and my brother's body, away from the home where my mother used to live before she died, and away from my old life. With no where to go I quickly found an empty park to stay the night in, and I cried myself to sleep. Car light blinded me, and I look up to see my mom's old best friend Maria. Two months later I was adopted by her, and we would start our new life in Florida, then Kentucky, then France. Then well you don't want me to keep going. We always moved, because of her job, and she was always away on businesses trips.
In a way we were both alike we both had nobody except each other, we are best friends. I was always lonely, because she was always away on business, but she knew how to fix that she bought me Cookie, my dog. The only thing I ever really let in since my brother. Never ever was I planning on letting my self fall in love look what , I mean looked at what the husband does I'm not planning on letting that happen to my children. I was convinced that I would never fall in love, but that was then , before I met Troy Bolton.
Author note: Hey Sorry it was really bad. I'll try and make the next chapter better. Also sorry about not having any dialogue in it I will put some in the next chapter. I know it was short but I'm going to make the next one longer. This was just to give you some information on Gabriella's life.