Hey guys! I am so sorry that Crime Scene has been such a long wait. I'm not sure what to do with that story. Anyway, I know what this one is going to be about for sure! Hope you guys like it! I would like to tell you that it is based off of a true story that happened at my school. I don't know exactly what happened, but I heard a little bit about it and I'm just building some story around it. A lot of this story (to me) is based of the song Alone by HEART. You might want to listen to it before you read this to get a small glimpse as to what it might be about. HOPE YOU LIKE IT!

Gabriella Montez was your typical teenage girl. She grew up in the small town of Albuquerque, New Mexico. She lived with her parents and her four siblings: Danielle (age 7), Chloe (age 12), Hunter (age 15) and Madison (age 18). Gabriella was 17, only a year younger than her sister Madison. Though she was a soon-to-be junior in high school, she had never sat in the driver's seat of a car before. Okay, maybe that's a bit too much of an exaggeration, perhaps she had when she was younger and she just couldn't remember it. She was not the best in her academics, yet would most likely be found reading, or writing in her free time. She would often read and write of romance and adventure. Gabriella was, what some people would call, a free spirit. She did almost everything according to her own choice; her parents had watched her grow into a beautiful young woman. Gabriella loved the ocean; did I mention that she was a surfer? It was one thing that many people didn't know about her. She would often go out and catch a few waves if she felt bored or out of place. If it were not for those reasons, she would go to think about life and her writings and watch the sunset in the distance. Gabriella was also a musician, a singer and a painter. I must say that she was a very multi talented young girl. At the age of 5 she started playing the violin, at the age of 9; she took hold of the clarinet and at the age of 16, had just started learning lessons of the guitar. Gabriella could sing anything from opera to hard-core rock. I had heard her a few times threw that walls. As you can imagine, the house was always full of music and art.

Though she possessed all of these wonderful talents and gifts, she refused to let the world see them. She would ponder as to what people would think of her if she let them see those particular talents. She wanted to be known for them, but she was a completely self conscious girl, both about her talents and her appearance.

I hardly ever saw my little sister. She was always cooped up in her room writing. She never wanted to come out, only on the occasion that she had to go to school, which was practically everyday, either that or for meals and surfing. It was always funny to people that she was such a loner, coming from a family of hooligans and craziness. At school she was always alone and at home she was the same. Nothing ever changed…

….not until that fateful year.

"MOM, Mom! Did you get that shirt I asked for?"

"Yes, sweetheart, I got it. Now, don't you tear it or anything, you've got to look nice today, Chloe."

"I know, mom." Chloe said with a roll of her dark brown eyes.

"MOM, MOM!"

"Yes, Danielle, what is it." She asked as Danielle came running down the stairs frantically, hold something behind her back.

"I have a problem."

"What is it? Are you hurt? What's wrong?"

Danielle pulled two dresses from behind her back. A blue, frilly dress and a pinkish purple straight dress, "Which one should I wear for the party tonight?"

Mom sighed of relief and cupped her daughters face, giving her a kiss on the cheek, "Stop doing that and I think you should wear the pink one."

"But I wanna wear the blue one," She put on her best "puppy dog face."

"Alright, you can wear the blue."

"But, you said to wear the pink one."

Mom waved her hand as if to say, 'either or,' "You pick, D."

Danielle went running up the stairs with a huge grin on her face, knowing which one she was going to pick. Mom put a hand on her head; she was obviously on the verge of a headache.

"MOM?"

"YES!" She sighed.

"Hunter was texting my bf again!" I screamed from upstairs.

"Maddie, just don't let him take your phone!" Mom yelled back, lifting her head up in the direction that the sound was coming from.

"Mom, you know he's sneaky. HEY! GIVE ME MY PHONE!"

There was thumping upstairs, Mom already knew that I was practically beating my little brother. There was a slamming of a door and the house was quiet, "What time does the party start again, Mom?"

"6 o'clock honey."

I ran back into my room, hoping to find something good to wear. Mom slumped down on the couch like a piece of jello.

"MOM!"

"What is it know, Chloe."

"Mom -" She stammered, apparently she didn't want to say it.

"Ask your father." Mom, point to the back door.

"No, but mom…"

"Ask you father," mom interrupted in a stern tone.

Chloe went up to whisper in her mother's ear, "It's happened."

That woke my mother up, "What's happened sweetie?"

"I started my period." Chloe replied shyly.

Mom's face was classic to watch, "Oh, honey I'm so happy. Um….go ask Gabi to help you and tell her to get her little brown butt down here."

Chloe giggled, she had never heard her mother you that term before. But, she still went upstairs and knocked on Gabriella's door. Tap tap tap.

Only a faint answer cam, "What?"

"Gabi…?" Chloe walked into the room that she hardly ever saw

Gabriella was in her blue-white bikini, she was going to go surfing. How could she go surfing that this time of year? The water was freezing!

"You're going surfing."

"Yes, Chloe, now what did you want?"

"Um….my period started and I'm not sure what to do."

"Go ask mom," Gabriella replied in a rather annoyed, voice.

"She told me to ask you."

"Go ask Madison."

"Come on, Gabi! Can't you at least give me a pad or something?"

Gabriella stared at her sister for a moment, she knew that she had been rude and snooty the past couple of days, but she couldn't help it. For some reason, she just couldn't. She grabbed a pad from the back of the top drawer of her nightstand and tossed it over to Chloe, "Here. Do you know how to put that on?"

"No," She opened the small package, "it looked painful."

"Oh, please, Chloe, they're actually not that uncomfortable and they are the easiest things to put on." Gabriella grabbed a pair of her thongs off the floor and stepped in front on Chloe. "You pull you underwear down, and stick it on."

Chloe started to take off her pants right in front of her older sister.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!"

"You said to take off my pants…."

"No, no, no! Do it in the bathroom you lunatic!" With that, Chloe giggled a little bit, allowing a smile to form on Gabriella face and she starting walking to the bathroom, "Oh, mom what you to get your little brown butt downstairs."

Gabriella walked downstairs in her bikini, not really wanting to talk to her mother, but ready to go into the water. She'd been wanting to for so long.

"See ya, mom." She said as she walked past her mother.

Mom turned around. "Where are you…" she noticed what she was wearing and immediately stood up, "You are not going surfing, honey."

"C'mon, mom!"

"No! It's New Years Eve and I will not have my daughter all salty for the party tonight. Plus, the water in insanely cold! You could catch pneumonia!"

"Mom, please. I've been wanting to go all day."

"No, I'm sorry."

Yes, mom please!"

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

"No."

"No." Mom pointed to Gabriella, "Don't you dare try to use that trick on me young lady. You've done it too many times."

"And all those times was for something important."

"What could possibly be important about freezing your butt off on New Years Eve?"

"You wouldn't understand."

"And, for that reason, you are NOT going in the water."

"Mom, please!"

"No, I will -"

"Daddy!"

Her dad had been in the backyard almost all day, "I'm will not get caught up in that argument!" Was the only answer that came from the yard.

"Dad, c'mon, not you too!"

"I'm not going to let you go into that water, same as your mother!"

"Daddy, you know how much I love it -"

"And I know how dangerous it can be to go out into that water at this time of year! NO!"

"But Dad…"

Mom was getting frustrated, "Gabriella Montez, go to your room!"

"Mom!"

"Go to your room!"

Gabriella took one look in her mother's eyes and saw the sternness in them. She hesitantly turned around and headed up the stairs. All that was heard throughout the house was the slam of a door. Little did her parents know that she hadn't actually gone into her room, she had only shut the door to make them think that she did.

"What happened to that sweet little girl we raised?" She heard her mother say.

"I don't know. She's been different lately.

Gabriella saw them both walk into the kitchen and with that, she stealthy walked down the stairs and carefully went out the front door.

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