AN: I'm adapting another story for HSM.
This one was never posted on – I don't know how old the HSM cast members are supposed to be…so for the sake of my story…they're 16…if anyone could fill me in on that…it would be very much appreciated.
For the first chapter…a little side note…I'd never been in a place where EVERYONE didn't have a Sweet 16. So, when I went to school in upstate New York it was a shocker. Anyway, I mention a candle ceremony. If you don't know what that is…it's a time in the party when you dedicate the 17 candles (one for good luck) on your cake to people who have had an influence in your life…and you play a special song and they come up and light the candle with you…except I just let them light it themselves cause I have an intense fear of fire…lol
Summary: Emily Bolton had it all back in California. She had the perfect life. She had a perfect boyfriend. She got everything she wanted. The one thing she didn't have was a father. Please Review!
Disclaimer: I don't own High School Musical. Disney Does. I really only own Emily Bolton.
So here it is…
New Home, New Life
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.Chapter 1.
Emily sat crying in her boyfriends arms at the funeral. She couldn't believe what had happened just a few days before. She wanted to go back in time and stop everything from taking place. That fateful day, July 9th.
((Flashback: July 9, 2006))Emily and her friends danced to the music at her Sweet 16.
"Em! Come take a picture!" Emily's mother called. Emily ran over to them and posed with a group of her family members. They snapped the picture.
That was the last picture Emily had with her mother. "Emily…I just got a call from my boss." Emily's mother said. Emily and her mother lived together in a suburb of California. She worked for the government and was constantly leaving when Emily needed her. Emily had never met her father and her parents were never married. He had left them soon after Emily was born to take care of his first child that was born about 2 months before Emily to another woman. She knew he had married the other woman but she didn't think they had any more children. They lived in New Mexico, but she had never seen him.
"Mom! You can't leave now!" Emily told her.
"I'm sorry…it's my job…I have to go." She replied.
"But Mom…This is my Sweet 16!"
"I know…And I'll be back…before your candle ceremony…I promise." (AN: If you don't know what a candle ceremony is…see Authors Note above )
"I don't want you to leave."
"I'm sorry Em." She gave her daughter a hug and walked out of the hall. Emily went back to her friends.
An hour and a half passed and she was starting her candle ceremony. Her mother still wasn't back yet.
"My first candle is for my mom. She has given me anything I ever wanted but yet has barely ever been there to watch me grow up." Emily started, throwing away her planned speech. "Her broken promises and lies are enough to last me a life time. So now I will light her candle after another one of her promises is left. The promise to be here for my Sweet 16" she said lighting the candle. She blew out the candle she used to light it and walked out of the hall leaving the one candle she lit burning. She sat on a chair outside the hall. Her boyfriend, Mark, came outside to find her. He looked over and saw her sitting in the chair in her glittery pink gown, her light brown hair done in an up-do and her once perfect make-up, now ruined by the tears streaming down from her sparkling green eyes. She saw him and wiped her eyes.
"Hey Em." He said walking up to her.
"Hi…" Emily said in a barely audible voice.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
"I don't know." She started. "I'm just tired of this…she's never there…you know…I never had my father… she's all I have…"
"You have to tell her that…You are a 16 year old girl. You need your mother there."
"I wish she knew that."
"Well…Everyone in that hall is waiting for you to come back and finish your candle ceremony. You have to go back." She looked up at him. He held her in his strong arms and they started to walk back inside.
"Excuse me." They heard from behind them.
"Yes?" Emily said turning around to see 2 police officers standing there.
"Are you Emily Bolton?" One of them asked.
"Yes." She responded with a confused tone. "Is there a problem?"
"We're afraid there's been an accident."
"What do you mean?"
"Your mother…Linda Reynolds…was killed in a car accident."
"No…You're lying."
"We're very sorry."
"Oh my god." Emily's knees suddenly gave out and she fell into Marks arms crying hysterically.
((End flashback))
Emily barely stopped crying for a week. She had stayed at her house packing all of her belongings and hadn't left before the funeral. Mark was the only one she spoke to.
A man dressed in a black suit walked up to Emily and Mark.
"Hello…" He said to her. She looked up at him, tears rolling down her cheeks.
"Hello…" She choked out.
"Emily?" He asked.
"Yes." She responded. He sighed
"Emily…I'm Jack…I'm your father." He told her. She stayed silent, staring at him.
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