MisFit
Chapter 1

I stared at the brunette across the cafeteria. She sat between her best friend Sharpay Evans, and her friend Taylor Mckessie. She was wearing my favorite dress. The strapless yellow, orange, white, green, and black floral dress that stopped above her knee with floral sandals. Her hair was wavy and going down her back. Her makeup was natural because she didn't need much anyway to look gorgeous. I looked down at my sketch pad seeing a sketch I was working on of her. She was smiling and holding a flower.

"Bolton." Chad said. I closed my sketchbook and looked up.

"What?" I asked him. The basketball team behind started snickering and whispering to him. I looked over seeing the brunette and her two friends watching. Chad grabbed my tray of chili fries and tossed it onto my shirt. Jason was beside him and was about to pour milk on me until someone snatched it out of his hand.

"What the hell is wrong with you guys?" Someone snapped slamming the milk onto the table. It was her. I looked at her. She looked beautiful in her dress. I caught a whiff of her perfume and it smelled amazing. She was perfect.

"He's a nerd! He's a fucking loser." Chad said laughing. "Now doll face, move and let me show what a real man can do." he smirked. "Then I'll show you what I can do when we're alone." he looked at her and she crossed her arms.

He wanted to hookup with my goddess. My girl. My princess. Yes, she was my princess.

"Chad seriously, the closets thing your penis will ever get to feeling my vagina is Jason's asshole." she scoffed.

"Listen doll face." Chad said to her. "Stop protecting this loser and I'll show you what a real man is."

Gabriella hand went across his face then she crossed her arms glaring. That slap must've hurt because his cheek was red.

"You're nothing but a dickhead and for your information I don't wanna have sex with you." she snapped.

"Whatever, babe, you'll come running." he said then him and the basketball team walked away. She let out a breath and ran her fingers through her hair. She looked at me giving me a smile then walked away.

She was my princess. My princess.

Of course. I wasn't always like this. I wasn't obsessed with her. I just loved her.

I got up and walked out of the cafeteria then stopped once I was out of everyone's views.

"Here." I heard a voice. It sounded like angels. I looked up seeing my princess. She was holding clothes in her hands trying to hand them to me. "I got them from Coach Mckessie, he said you can keep them."

"Uh, thanks." I said nervously taking the clothes out of her hands trying to walk away from her. She followed me.

"Um, are you okay?" she asked me unsure.

"I-I'm fine." I said and ran away from her. I looked behind me seeing her watching me curiously. She was curious. She was always curious. I could tell by her eyes that she liked an adventure. I looked behind me again seeing Sharpay and Taylor with her. I continued running to the boy's bathroom. Until she couldn't see me anymore. Until I was out of her sight.

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The bell rang and I walked into the chemistry classroom. Gabriella was sitting with Sharpay and Taylor at a lab table. She looked over at me then said something to Sharpay whose eyes widened. I went to the back of the room and sat by myself. I opened my sketchbook and looked up feeling eyes on me thinking it was Chad. Instead it was Gabriella, I met eyes with her. She turned around blushing. I looked down seeing the picture of Gabriella smiling up at me. I began coloring in the rose that was in her hands. Her favorite color was peach. Because it wasn't pink but it wasn't orange. It was the perfect balance between the two colors. Gabriella liked balance. The bell rang signaling class was beginning. Mrs. Glennor walked into the classroom smiling. She was in her early 40's. She had light brown hair, dark green eyes, and tan skin. She was wearing a colorful tie dye dress with flips flops. Her hair was up in a high ponytail.

"Now today everyone needs a partner. We're going to mixing chemicals and creating reactions!" she said and everyone jumped up excited. She scanned the room then her eyes landed on me. "Mr. Bolton you need a partner." she said. I closed my sketch book and pushed it to the side of me. There was one group of three in the class, Gabriella's group. She looked at the three girls.

"One of you girls needs to move." Mrs. Glennor said to them. Gabriella began gathering her stuff until one of the smart girls spoke up.

"I'll move and Gabriella can be partners with Kylie." the girl said. She gathered her stuff and moved to sit next to me.

"Well thank you Ms. Jones." the teacher spoke. Gabriella moved and sat with Kylie in the lab table in front of me.

"Um, Hi I'm Gabriella." Gabriella said and the red head, Kylie, smiled big.

"I'm Kylie! Oh my goodness! You're amazing, Gabriella! I voted for you for the Spring Fling Queen!"

"Oh. Thanks." Gabriella said awkwardly. Since Gabriella first walked into East High she always was Queen, even if it was something as stupid as a Winter Formal. She was Queen. At the beginning of the school between Summer and Fall was the Homecoming dance. She was Homecoming Queen with Greg Jefferson as King, the football team's kicker and captain. In the Fall, is the Halloween Party, this year she dressed up as Aphrodite, and got Queen of Halloween, with Chad Danforth as King. In Winter it's the Winter Formal and she and always gets Winter Queen with Ryan Evans as King. Then in Spring it's Spring Fling and she was the Spring Fling Queen with Blake Walters, the baseball team captain, as King last year, what's in their way now? In Summer it's Prom and she was Prom Queen even though she wasn't a senior, with A popular male senior. Everyone loved her. Not only was she beautiful but she was smart. She's the salutatorian of our class. She's also Class Vice President to her friend Taylor who was Class President. Her dad was the Mayor of Albuquerque and her mother was a fashion designer. She lived on the Elite side of Albuquerque, along with her two best friends.

I was nothing like that. I wasn't rich. I wasn't popular. I wasn't even decent looking. Why of all people was she protecting and standing up for me? Why did she help me? I didn't live on the Elite side of Albuquerque, I lived on the exact opposite. I live in the poor side. Where gangs members lived, where druggies lived. Yeah I lived in the neighborhood as them. I didn't have two parents who were looked up to by the people of Alburquerque. I didn't even have parents. I lived with my brother, his fiance', and their son. They couldn't afford to buy me everything I needed so I fought in fights and trained kids in the gym of my neighborhood for money. I knew how to protect myself. If I wanted to, I could knock Chad unconscious. The only thing that stopped me was wondering how Gabriella would think of me. Would she think I'm a monster. Would she be afraid of me?

The bell rang signaling class was over and I stood up dropping my sketch book on the floor. I rushed to get it but a hand grabbed it before I could. I looked up meeting eyes with her, Gabriella. She looked at the sketch book then looked at me.

"I'm guessing this is yours." she said holding it in her hands.

"Uh, yeah it is." I said nervously. She smiled at me and handed it to me. I took it out of her hands and she looked at me.

"Um, if you want I can be your lab partner." she said unsure.

"No thank you." I said quickly and began walking away from her. She sighed and I followed me. I bumped into someone and looked up meeting eyes with an angry Chad Danforth.

"Watch were the fuck you're going." Chad said and grabbed my shirt collar then pulled me off the ground and pinned up against the lockers. I dropped all of my stuff on the ground. "You're a fucking freak!"

His groupie behind him laughed then stopped laughed.

"Chad." Gabriella spoke behind him.

"What dollface." Chad said glaring at me as he held me up against the lockers.

"Put him down." she snapped.

"Gabi, stop standing up for this freak. He's nothing but a loser." Head Cheerleader. Katie Banks said smirking. "He's below you, he's scum under our feet."

Gabriella rolled her eyes and scoffed. She started trying to pry Chad's hands off my shirt. Chad threw me to the ground then turned and glared at Gabriella.

"Stop fucking standing up for him, if I have to I'll treat you just like him." he snarled.

"Do it and your ass can say goodbye to your basketball scholarship and your basketball career because no one will ever hire a man who abuses women for the hell of it." she says her voice full of venom. She turns around and flips her hair then walks down the opposite way of the hallway away from me her hips swaying. She was mad, I could tell. She usually smiled at me but this time she didn't, she just left. Sharpay runs past me to catch up to her and Taylor glares at Chad then follows Sharpay.

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After school I rode the bus to the other side of town and went to the gym. In the gym I was the opposite of who I was at school. At school I was no one but here I was a winner. Here I was like Gabriella at East High. Everyone loved me. I never lost a fight. Every person I trained was on a winning streak.

"Hey Troy." A girl said. Her name was Sadie. She was 22 years old, she worked at the gym. She was the secretary. She was my height, fit, she had white skin, dirty blonde hair, and grey-green eyes. She smiled at me and walked over to me. She was wearing shorts and a tank top. She bit her lip and hugged my arm. I pulled me arm out of her grasp and she followed me as I walked to the locker room to change and get ready for my training. "You have a fight Friday Night, and Saturday you have to train newbies and that night you're in a Fight Tournament, then Sunday you're off as always." she smiled following behind me.

"Okay." I hissed. She giggled and didn't take the hint because she followed me into the locker room.

"I was maybe hoping that Sunday me and you could hang out?" she asked me. I glared at her and turned.

"Get the fuck out and leave me the hell alone Sadie!" I shouted. She shrugged smiling then skipped off.

"Okay, but the offer is still open." she shouted from outside the locker room. I rolled my eyes.

At first I didn't like fighting at the gym and it was just for money but now I love it. I like to go to gym and beat all of my stress and anger out on someone or something. I liked to imagine it was Chad, that he was hurting Gabriella. That's how I won fights, by imagining she was in the crowd. I knew she would never be on this side of town, her parents never let her wander far alone, so imagining she was at my fights was the closest thing I could get to seeing her there. I pulled out my phone and looked at my wallpaper, it was a picture of her at lunch. I took it of her at the beginning of the school year. She was sitting between Sharpay on her right and Kelsi Nielson to her left. Her hair was in a high ponytail and out of her face. She was wearing a Hawaiian Flower shirt with shorts and her cowgirl boots. She was smiling at Sharpay holding her phone in her left hand. Her eyes were sparkling and Sharpay was beside her laughing. I knew it was weird to take picture of her, but I couldn't help it. She was perfect. The moment was perfect. She looked beautiful and happy.

I sighed. I was in love with her and she didn't even know it.

Sometimes I would walk over to her house and sit on the sidewalk and stare at her balcony. I wondered what her room looked like. What she wore to sleep. I wanted to know everything about her.

She worked at the smoothie and frozen yogurt shop with the captain of the dance team, Naomi Cambelle. She worked on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 4:00 to the closing time which a was midnight. I never had the guts to go into the shop but I would walk over and watch her from the outside as she talked to Naomi and the lucky customers who got to talk to her.

"Troy." A girls voice said. I looked up seeing Bethany, my brother's fiance'. She had really light brown hair that looked almost golden or blonde. She had brown eyes and tan skin. She was like my mother.

"Hey Beth." I said and got up.

"Are you ready?" she asked me.

Everyday Bethany would come and pick me up from the gym. She didn't want me walking home at home or in the dark.

"Uh, yeah give me a second." I said. I gathered my stuff then followed her outside to her car. She unlocked the door then smiled at me.

"How was your day?" she asked me.

Bethany's family, The Hendersons, were considered an elite of Alburquerque. They were close friends with Gabriella's family. The second she got pregnant and dropped out of college her family cut her off and disowned her. She changed her last name to Bolton and disowned them. She didn't want her or her kid to be apart of their family. They left her with nothing but her car. It was their way of punishing her.

"Good." I said simply.

"Did you see Gabriella again today?" she asked me as she drove the short distance to the apartment. I felt my cheeks get hot and giggled.

"Aw you did!" she squealed. I stayed silent as she pulled into the parking lot and parked her car. She turned off her car and got out. "You really like this girl don't you?"

She asked as we walked up to the apartment we lived in.

"I don't know." I said quietly. She opened the door and we walked into the apartment she closed the door then looked at me.

"Have you ever talked to her?" she asked.

"I can't, she's popular and pretty and...I'm a loser." I said and Bethany sighed.

"Are you still talking about that Montez girl?" My brother Nate asked as he looked up his 3 year old son, my nephew, Jase, playing with blocks on the floor.

"Yes, Nate and she has a name." Bethany said.

"Troy, stop this thing you have for her. She's nothing but a bitch. I dated her sister in high school." Nate scoffed. "Total fucking bitch."

"Yeah well Isabella and Gabriella aren't the same. They're complete opposites, actually." Bethany said.

"Girls, like her pity men like us. She's going to try to transform you into her dog, trust me. Exactly what Isabella did."

"Stop comparing her to Isabella!" Bethany hissed and I looked at her shocked. She looked at me and smiled. "Do whatever makes you happy."

"Brother knows best." Nate mumbled. Bethany rolled her eyes and picked up Jase then walked into the kitchen.

"I'm going to do homework." I mumbled then walked down the short hallway into my room.

I couldn't help it I was so excited I had to post the first chapter! Well here's the next chapter and my thought on the number of stories I will write just totally changed. I really want to write a supernatural, werewolf, story. I just need a plot and storyline, which I don't have. I just have the inspiration and ambition. (which really sucks) If I were to do a supernatural it'll be short like about 10 chapters or maybe 12? Would you guys read it? I don't know. I'm so unsure...

Enough of me. Tell me what you think about the story and my new short story idea!

-A