Hey Guys! It's Bluebell140 and Zanessastories1225788 here and we've decided to come together too hopefully, bring you some great stories.
This is our first one; we'll be sharing the writing by writing different parts of the chapter each, so it could get interesting!
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Anyway, without further ado, here's the first chapter, enjoy!
Welcome To My Life
I know I'm not the same as every one else, I understand that, I don't like being this way, I didn't exactly pick to be, but it's the way I am and I wouldn't change it.
They all think I choose to be this way, that I don't understand them or what's going on around me but I do, and it hurts so, so much. But I've learnt to deal with it, to control the tears, to simply let them shout at me and tease me because they don't know the real me and lets face it, they never will.
My name is Gabriella Montez, I'm seventeen years old and I have learning difficulties. Dyslexia means my spelling isn't right and when I try to read I can't because the letters all dance around the page. Dyspraxia means my everyday life isn't as simple as yours, I find doing everyday tasks hard because my co-ordination isn't great, and although I'm seventeen, I still can't tie my shoe laces.
This is my story and the reasons why my classmates think I'm some kind of freak!
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She banged her fist against her locker, as she once again tried to unsuccessfully open it. She sighed, knowing this would only give her fellow students another reason to laugh at her, only this wasn't even her fault, her combination padlock was stuck, how was that her fault?
Despite all of this, Gabriella knew that in a matter of minutes one of her classmates would notice her difficulties and then, the taunting would start.
"Look! The freak can't open her locker, what a loser."
"Having trouble there, freaky Gabi? Do you need your Mummy to come and help you? Like when she has to tie your shoe laces."
"You. Just. Need. To. Turn. It. To. The. Right. Numbers. Do. You. Understand?" She hated it when they did that, talk to her like she was dumb, like she didn't understand. They were the ones that didn't understand.
But still, she didn't respond. She didn't cry, or shout or try to defend herself; she just kept on trying to open her locker. But today, her locker was not playing ball.
They continued to shout, and taunt, tease and even poke her as they went about their morning routine, until the one person, one person they all seemed to respect, put a very sudden stop to it all.
"STOP! ALL OF YOU, JUST STOP! She's done nothing wrong, her locker is broken that's all. She needs your help, not your stupid remarks. JUST GO! ALL OF YOU JUST GO! THE SHOW'S OVER!"
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Every day he'd stand and watch them torment her, pick on her and everyday he'd walk away and do nothing about it, but today was different, today Troy Bolton was going to do something he'd been wanting to do for a very long time.
"You okay there Gabriella?" Cautiously he approached her, as the crowds quickly dispersed.
Gabriella stopped her current attempt to open her locker and leaned her forehead against it, trying her best to hold back the tears. "Just leave me alone please, I'm fine. You don't want to help me anyway, you just want to seem nice so you can do something horrible to me and then report back to your friends so they can start another rumour about me, sorry but that's not gonna happen."
"Gabriella please, I want to help you, I'm not like them, it was me who got rid of them all." Hesitantly Gabriella lifted her head from against her locker to find that the hallway was indeed now empty, apart from the odd student walking through or at their locker further down.
"Why would you do that Troy? Why do you even care? How do you even know my name? Shouldn't you be with that posse of yours?"
"I got rid of them because they shouldn't taunt you like that, it's not your fault your locker is stuck. I care because I understand, you won't believe that, but I do understand, and if you trust me enough I can prove it to you. I know your name because I listen in class, I listen when teachers talk to you and you shut them out, and my posse? I don't have to do anything I don't want to, I'm my own person and right now I want to be here with you, not being pestered by them, okay?" Gabriella nodded, knowing that if she spoke the tears gathered in her eyes would fall. "Good, so in that case, can I help you with your locker?" Gabriella nodded again and did as she was told when Troy asked her to turn her lock to the right combination and then, with a little bit of force on his part, Troy managed to get it open.
"Thank you," Gabriella managed to get out, as she took some books out of her bag and put some different ones back in. Taking a deep breath in an attempt to control her tears, she shut her locker and then turned back to face Troy.
"Hey now, please don't cry," Troy's sympathy and worry only caused Gabriella's tears to finally fall. "How about we get away from this craziness for a bit? Not out of school, just away from everyone else. We'll go speak to my Dad and he'll be able to tell Ms Darbus why weren't in homeroom, is that alright with you?"
Gabriella nodded. "I need to calm down; they can't see me like this Troy."
"And they won't," Troy replied, taking hold of Gabriella's hands and giving them a tight squeeze. "But you need to trust me and believe me when I say it's gonna be okay."
"I do, I do trust you Troy, just please get me out of here," Troy nodded in understanding and gently wrapped an arm round Gabriella's shoulders, before leading her off to the place where his Dad could always be found.
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Troy and Gabriella headed to the gym where Jack Bolton or Coach Bolton as he was during school hours was setting up for his first lesson which was basketball today with the 9th graders, Troy sometimes skipped out on an odd homeroom if his dad needed help setting up, today was not one of those days.
"Troy, I don't need your help to…, who is this young lady?" Coach Bolton asked as Gabriella rounded the corner looking down at the floor shyly
"This is Gabriella Montez, we need to get out of homeroom because, well I'll explain when we get home can you get us out of the rest of homeroom were going to my hideout" Troy asked his father
"Okay, but only for this once" Jack said writing them both a hall pass
"Thank you dad, come on Gabriella" Troy said grasping her hand leading her out through the doors they entered in minutes ago
They headed up to the rooftop and instantly Gabriella gasped, it was beautiful, flowers, shrubs and trees covered almost the whole of the rooftop and the view of Albuquerque was beautiful, she was awestruck with the beauty emitting from this place she had never seen something so beautiful. She sat down on the bench placed at the top of the staircase and Troy took the seat next to her
"This is beautiful Troy" Gabriella said smiling at him
"The Garden club let me use it whenever I need to get away, as long as I water the plants under shelter and check to make sure they all get enough water then I am good, it's a place I come to wined down, just have time alone to think, but you can come up here too" Troy said looking at the red tint on her now bowed head.
"Thank you Troy... you said you understand, you don't have Dyspraxia, so how could you possibly understand?" Gabriella asked concerned now.
"My little sister Olivia, she is ten, she has Dyspraxia, she looks up to me a lot, and me, my mom and dad all of us help her with her everyday things, of course you know all that" Troy said looking at her
"But still how can you possibly know, I don't just live with Dyspraxia, I have Dyslexia too, Dyspraxia means I have trouble doing everyday things, my mom has to tie my shoelaces I am 17 and still I can't do that, I type slower than most people causing me to fall behind on work, I have trouble doing buttons but I can mostly do them now I have learnt the hard way, I also have very poor co-ordination skills, I cannot catch a ball easily or bat easily, which makes playing baseball really hard" Gabriella replied all in one breath
"I know all that, Olivia is like that except she is ten so she can't tie shoelaces either way, she doesn't use the computer, and she gets easily distracted, takes her longer to finish her homework, cause she daydreams alot, I do know about Dyspraxia I have known for quite a while now" Troy said trying to prove to Gabriella he did understand though he was missing one part of information.
"And do you know anything about Dyslexia?" Gabriella asked
"Uhmm... isn't that something with numbers I think I read about that" Troy mentioned.
"It's not just numbers, it is letters too, and with the fact I have Dyspraxia too, I have difficulty writing and spelling, if you look through my books I don't write on a perfect straight line, I make alot of corrections, I even start writing in pencil so I can erase the misspelt word" Gabriella said handing him her English book as he flipped through it seeing alot of scribbles through obviously misspelt words.
"How about this, you teach me about Dyslexia, everything I need to know, and I'll make sure no-body taunts you, also we will have to get your locker looked at, but right now the bell is going to ring soon so I am gonna have to get to 1st period, but how about I meet you, up here at 12:30 for the last half hour of lunch" Troy asked as Gabriella just nodded as he ran down the stairs obviously to catch up with his friends before 1st period.
Gabriella walked down the stairs one at a time clutching onto the handrail tightly, so she didn't trip and fall down the stairs.
Gabriella exited through the heavy metal door into the half crowded hallway heading towards her 1st Period which was English. She quietly entered the room being the first there, she took her seat near the back and got out her English book a pencil, eraser and pen, so when she knew once it was correct she could go over it, she wrote the date spelling Wednesday correctly the first time, she smiled proudly and set her things down as the warning bell rang and more students entered the classroom.
"Today we will be reading parts of Romeo and juli..." Mr Markson started but Gabriella stared aimlessly around and basically just daydreamed through the whole lesson.
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Her eyes darted around her surroundings cautiously, as she sat on the wall of the school's fountain and waited for Troy to come out of school.
They'd met up for lunch like they'd agreed and they'd had a really nice time, talking and getting to know each other better. Troy had also told Gabriella a bit more about Olivia and happened to bring up, that although she's very bright she's behind in her subjects because she tends to drift off and block out the teacher. It was because of this that Gabriella had admitted to him that she does the same and because of this, really has no idea what happened in her English class this morning. Troy had then offered to help Gabriella understand exactly what did happen in English this morning, seeing as he'd just had the same class, Gabriella had accepted his offer of help and that was why she was where she was now.
"Hey Gabriella, sorry I'm late," Gabriella was brought from her thoughts by Troy's voice and turned to find him standing in front of her.
"Oh, hey Troy."
"So you ready to go?" Troy asked, noticing how Gabriella's eyes were constantly darting back and forth and how she had her arms tightly wrapped round herself.
"Yeah I guess, I texted my Mum she said it's fine."
"Yeah mine said it's fine as well, but only if you're sure, 'I guess' doesn't seem to me like you're to confident."
"No, yeah I'm sure, it's just I've never really had many friends before, let alone been invited round their house, it's kinda all still sinking in."
"Well," Troy said while taking hold of Gabriella's hand and lacing their fingers together. "You can let it sink in even more on the car ride back to mine, come on." Gabriella smiled and let Troy pull her to his car and hold open the passenger side door for her as she got in.
She was expecting today to be the same as any other, with teasing and taunting all day, but it had been different and she was so happy about that because although she still wasn't to sure what to make of Troy's sudden kindness, she knew he meant well and he'd befriended her and that, meant more to her than anything else.
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There it is guys, our first chapter, hopefully you liked it and hopefully there aren't too many mistakes, if there are, we apologise.
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