I hide under my blankets, cold and scared, when I hear the sound of breaking glass and screaming, as outside there is screaming neighbours and dog's holwing, I start to cry when my bedroom door slams open.

I feel the blankets being pulled off me, as my mum screaming at my dad. My mum is pulling me off my bed & down the stairs, as my dad pushes me out of the way to attack my mum. I land on the hard floor, as I watch it all happen right infront of my eyes, my dad eventually hits me a few times & leaves.

As my mum slams the door in pain.

Who am I you may ask? I am Gabriella Montez, I'm 16 & I've been abused ever since I was 5.

My dad only comes back for what he wants, as he gets drunk & blames us for everything like, he just lost his job, all his money on gambling it all away all those nights up at the pub, as he leave me & my mum alone, starving & un-loved.

This has happened everyday of my life for 11 years, but now me & my mum are driving to Albuquerque, to hopefully start over, but since that night he hasn't returned, as I found out he died in a car crash a few days ago. At least all this loneliness & everything can stop & to never mention it again.

As I wake up to see the flashing lights of Aluquerque, my eyes half asleep try to seethe sights of it, as we pull into a driveway, dark & quirt, mum stops the engine.

"Gabby, here we are, finally to start over!"

I smile & nod as I open the car door & run to the front door, to open it, I walk inside. This looks familiar.

I over think it, as it finally comes to me, I know, it looks exactly like my new house, mum drops her bags & puts he hand on my shouler.

"I'm sorry Gabriella, this was the only house we could really afford right now I know its not the best looking house ever-" She stops talking to look at me crying.

"no, mum it's not your faiult it's fine it just looks like our old house, it just brings back a lot of bad memeories…"

"Oh, Gabby come here!"

I feel her pulling me close, as later that night, I kept tossing & turning as I kept having flashbacks of that night when my dad walked out on us.

As comes the next day, I hear a beeping sound I wake up to see my alarm beeping at me saying to get up, as it was my first day at East high, I rubbed the sleep from my eyes & stretched as I got up & looked in the mirror.

I looked horrible as usual as that is what my dad used to say, that I'm useless & not very pretty which let me down, at one stage I was depressed but I handled it very maturely but seeking help.

I went into the bathroom, turning on the radio, as I turned the taps of the shower on, as I was singing my favorite song, when I felt the temperature of the water it was warm I jumped in as I was dancing & singing my heart out, a few mintues passed I turned off the taps & grabbed a towel from the towel rack & wrapped it around my skinny body.

I got dressed and started brushing my hair, and applying my make-up when I hear my mum yelling out my name.

"Gabriella!! Come on your going to be late!!" She yelled from the bottom of the stairs.

I quickly grabbed some things I needed and ran downstairs, as we got in the car, my hair still half wet.

"Gabriella did you get everything?" Mum asked as she was pulling out the driveway, I was searching through my bag, making sure I had everything off my list of school stuff in there, as I nod at my mum.

We finally reach East High, I was shaking nervously as mum pulls up in the car park everyone staring, as I say goodbye & get out, as I go to grab my bag from the back seat I see people whispering about me. And yes I'm guessing there saying I'm such a freak any 'coz I am new!

I swung my bag over my shoulder as I started to walk, I hear my mums engine start up again as she drives off to her new work I stop to look at east high, from my point of view it looked BIG and SCARY!

I swallowed hard & kept walking along the footpath that led to the big doors of east high, I walked through to see groups of different people, Jocks, Nerds, And many others as I thought to myself I wonder which one i will make it in, then one group really spotted my eyes.

It looked like to me the sporty kind of group, as I see these big blue of eyes look at me and smile, I feel my cheeks burn bright red as I smile sweetly back and keep walking the busy halls when a girl bumps into me, she was blonde and was quiet skinny as she also wore designer clothes including flip-flops.

I look at her up and down and shake my head I think to myself, another Barbie doll! Mani hate thos kinda girls they think there all that, as she struts past like she thinks she owns the place I turn around again to see her all over the guy that just smiled at me, I look down and keep walking.

Later that day in the cafeteria, I walk into the big cafeteria to see that guy again and that blonde haired girl on the top of the cafeteria to see them watching over everyone look hawks, I thought, ugh! He's just like her, Barbie and Ken dolls, stuck up snobs!

'ken and barbie in their perfect little world. Perfect friends, perfect families, perfect homes.... And here i am Gabriella who has been far from perfect her whole life. Useless.....

I make my way to an empty table, as I see the cafeteria is like a zoo, there is people everywhere yelling, and loud talking went through my ears, as I started eating, to be more specific my table was kinda yuck! It was next to the dumpster. Which smelt like my dads socks before he turned like he did ew.

Later that day didn't get any better, I got a few things thrown at me and got teased by those to 'perfect people' ugh! They only care about themselves!