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Fresh Start

Troy Bolton's life was pretty perfect. He lived with both his parents, his school grades were good, he had a great group of friends, he was captain of the school basketball team and he'd been in a strong relationship with his girlfriend, Jessica, for six months now.

But all that came crashing down when Jessica told him that she was pregnant. Troy was silent at first, he had no idea how to react to this, but then reality pulled him back, Jessica was scared, and to be truthful so was he, but he was the one who'd gotten her pregnant he wasn't just about to walk away; he wasn't that type of person.

So, after sitting down and talking the pair decided they'd keep the baby, it was their mistake and so they would deal with it. Troy would get a job he could do while still at school and Jessica would finish this year of school before leaving and having the baby in the summer.

The worst part of it all was telling their parents; Jack and Lucille Bolton didn't let the pair stay around long enough to hear them out, they gave Troy half and hour to pack and then told him he was no longer welcome at their house.

Jackie and Elliot Shears weren't quite as harsh; they were going on holiday for the week and so Troy and Jessica could stay there for now, by the time they were back, Troy, Jessica and all their belongings needed to be out of their house. They did though give the young pair some money, it was money intended for Jessica when she went to college, but seeing as that was unlikely to happen now, they gave it to the pair so they could find some where to live and pay the rent while they got themselves on their feet.

So, that is exactly what Troy and Jessica did; they found a small two bed roomed flat with reasonable rent and moved into it straight away.

Things didn't go smoothly after that, but the pair made it through, They still went to school, unless Jessica's morning sickness was bad, in which case Troy would go in, grab some work for them to do and then come straight back home again. Jessica started buying things they would need for the baby, using the money Troy was earning from his new job as a life guard at the local leisure centre, and most importantly they both went to every appointment Jessica needed to attend and their baby was doing absolutely fine.

That all changed though, when in the very early hours of June fourteenth, Jessica's waters broke and she went into labour. Troy took her straight to hospital and was by her side the entire time. Jasmine Marie Bolton was born early that morning, shortly after seven am, she was beautiful and she was theirs. But that all went down hill when Jessica lost consciousness; she was bleeding out. The doctors tried to stop the bleeding, but the more they tried, the more she bled.

Jessica was pronounced dead at seven thirty eight that morning, and at that moment, Troy was also pronounced a single father.

Everything after that was a whirl wind for Troy; he had a funeral to arrange, people to contact and at the same time he needed to come to terms with being a single Dad.

Jessica's funeral was a week and a half after she died, and although both sets of their parents attended, neither actually spoke to Troy, or even tried to hold their new granddaughter.

Troy visited both sets of grandparents later that week in an attempt to get them back in Jasmine's life at least; but neither set wanted to know.

Jack and Lucille were sorry that Jessica was gone and although they did both hold Jasmine this time, they were both too ashamed in what Troy had done to have him in their lives anymore, they'd brought him up better than that.

Jackie and Elliot both held Jasmine the same as Jack and Lucille, but they also told Troy there was no way that he and Jasmine could be in their lives. They were moving, out of Albuquerque, away from everything that reminded them of their late daughter, and most heart breaking for Troy was that Jasmine was the biggest reminder. The longer they stayed in Albuquerque the longer they would mourn their daughter, and they couldn't do that forever, they needed to move on.

The next couple of months in Troy's life revolved around three things: school, work and of course Jasmine.

He needed his job to keep the flat and his thirteen year old neighbour and her Mum were more than happy to baby sit, they had been in the same boat as Troy, they understood.

He needed to go to school, to get himself an education, to get himself a decent job, to give Jasmine the best life possible, the local crèche was where she went while he did this.

Looking after Jasmine was of course a given; he had no idea what he was doing, but he was learning, and although he didn't always get it right, more often than not, Jasmine was a happy little baby.

But during those couple of months Troy felt himself being more and more pushed out by his friends. They were of course upset over Jessica's death, but they got over it quick than him, they hadn't just lost the mother of their new born child.

They still involved Troy in things, of course they did, but many of them he just couldn't attend, this started to annoy them.

He always used to come to parties, to the mall, to the park, to the other's houses, but now he couldn't, now Jasmine was his priority, now Troy was a Dad.

Troy put up with their constant jokes and picking at him for a while, but one day he snapped, one day he just couldn't take it anymore.

He went to the school office, told them he couldn't take it anymore, and left.

He went straight to collect Jasmine from her crèche; he paid them any outstanding fees, and then left.

For the next few weeks Troy pulled as many shifts as possible at the leisure centre, he had a plan, and for this plan he needed to start earning a lot more money, he needed to start saving up.

His neighbours were more than happy to take care of Jasmine, and that's exactly what they did, until Troy had enough money to do what he needed to do.

He spoke to his boss and found out that what he wanted to do was possible and that he'd help Troy as much as possible.

So, as the summer before Troy's senior year approach and Jasmine was about to turn two, he made a life changing decision, him and Jasmine were moving away, starting a fresh.

TGTGTGTG

Troy was already awake when his alarm went off that morning. Today was his first day of senior year at a new school and today was Jasmine's first day at the local nursery.

The pair had moved as soon as the summer holidays started, and although Troy was kinda sad to say goodbye to his neighbours, he knew a fresh start was what he and Jasmine needed the most.

That was the reason why he'd be going to East high instead of West, and why when he went to work tonight, he'd been going to East Albuquerque leisure centre, instead of West.

This flat was bigger than their last, more like an apartment and Jasmine loved it, there was loads of room for her to run around and play.

Their landlord was lovely and had already offered Troy his daughter's baby sitting skills when Troy had asked if he knew of any decently charging ones in the area. The lived on the same floor as them, the top and Mike had said that Jenni could baby sit whenever, all Troy had to do was shout, literally!

Sighing, Troy kicked the covers off of his body, turned the alarm off before it went off, and them wandered into his en-suite to take a shower. How an apartment this big, with an en-suite was affordable to him, he had no idea, but he wasn't complaining.

After taking a quick shower, Troy threw on a t-shirt and some jeans before quickly making his hair look slightly presentable and them leaving his room to wake the most important person in his life.

Jasmine Marie Bolton was one of the happiest two year olds you could meet. She had her mother's chestnut coloured, wispy hair, but her fathers tanned skin complexion and his piercing blue eyes.

She knew her Mummy wasn't here anymore, she was with the angels, and this was all she was going to know until she was old enough to understand properly why her birthday had a double meaning to her father.

As he opened her bedroom door that morning Troy found his daughter already awake, sitting up in bed, mumbling away to her teddy Rosie. Troy had absolutely no idea how the bear had come to be named Rosie, but it had, and so that's the way it stayed.

Troy walked over, turned off Jasmine's night light, opened her curtains and made his way over to her bed.

"Daddy!" The small girl exclaimed, as Troy sat next to her on her bed.

"Hey sweetie, how are you and Rosie today?"

"Fine."

"That's good then, shall we get you dressed?"

Jasmine nodded and held her arms out to Troy, allowing him to pick her up and take her over to her wardrobe.

"What do you want to wear for you first day of nursery? How about your red dress?"

"Okay Daddy." Troy took the dress out of the wardrobe and after grabbing some white socks and such, Troy proceeded to get his daughter dressed.

TGTGTGTG

He'd always hated leaving her, right from when she was a new born baby, and now that she was older and understood more of what was happening she got even more upset.

Breakfast had been normal, Troy had sat a still slightly sleepy Jasmine in front of the telly while he made breakfast and then they sat on the couch together, eating their toast and watching the telly.

Even when Troy had gotten up and started clearing away and packing their bags Jasmine hadn't really realised anything was different.

It was only now, when Troy was carrying her towards a new building, that she realised something was different.

"No Daddy." Jasmine started to cry and buried her face in the crook of Troy's neck as she tightened her grip on him.

"I know Jazzy and I'm sorry, but Daddy needs to go to school so you need to come here, I bet you'll have a great time when we're inside."

"No Daddy." Jasmine repeated, as Troy pressed a button next to the main doors, and was met by a plump, middle aged lady.

"Ah new people, you must be Troy and Jasmine?" She asked.

"That's us, I'm sorry we're here early, but I knew she'd take longer to settle today, so I've given myself longer to be here with her before I head off to school, I hope that's okay?"

"That's fine honey, I'm Julie by the way, what school did you say you were going to attend today?"

"East High." Troy answered. He'd gotten the number for this nursery from Mike, who said he'd sent all of his children there and it was a great place to go.

"Oh yes I remember now, it's just up the road, it's a lovely school, you'll fit in well. Why don't we go inside and get Jasmine settled so you can head on your way?"

"Led the way."

Julie led them through to a large room, which had a variety of smaller rooms branching off of it. The room was big and colourful; exactly the kind of place Jasmine would love.

Troy placed Jasmine on the floor and bent down to her level as she took in her new surroundings.

"What do you think Jazzy? Will you and Rosie like it here while Daddy's at school?"

Jasmine slowly nodded her head, as she moved in between Troy's legs to lean against him while keeping a watchful eye on Julie.

"That's Julie; she's going to look after you while you're here, okay?"

Jasmine once again nodded slowly, as Julie bent down to be level with her and Troy.

"Hi Jasmine, how are you today?"

"Fine."

"Who's this then?" Julie asked, as she gestured towards the cuddly bear held tightly against Jasmine's chest.

"She Rosie."

"She's very fluffy; I've got a dolly named Rosie, would you and your Rosie like to meet her?"

Jasmine turned to Troy for reassurance. "It's okay sweetie, you can meet her." Troy said, as he ran his hand through Jasmine's shoulder length hair.

The small girl smiled, as she turned back round to look at Julie. "Yes pwease."

Troy knew from that moment on, as Jasmine went off to meet the dolly Rosie, that she'd fit in here just fine, now all he need to do was fit in at school.

TGTGTGTG

The brunette let a smile form on her lips, as she read the text from her friend.

Running late, can you meet the new kid in the office for me? C

Sighing she put the last of her books for the morning into her bag before replying to the text.

Why am I not surprised? You owe me. G

She shut her locker before turning and making her way down the corridor towards the school's office.

She walked in and leant against the reception desk, as she waited for the school receptionist to finish what she was doing.

"Oh Gabriella sweetie, I didn't see you there, what a surprise, what are you doing here?"

"Hey Mrs Bearn, I'm here because Chad is running late, again, so he sent me to meet the new kid, he owes me now though, I think I'll make him buy me lunch."

Mrs Bearn laughed. "That sounds like a fair deal to me; anyway you're here to meet the new student. Troy, sweetie could you come over here please?"

Gabriella watched, as a boy with short sandy blonde hair, tanned skin and piercing blue eyes got up and made his way over to them.

"Troy, this isn't Chad like your welcome pack says; this is who he's sent in his place. This is Gabriella, she had no idea she doing this until about ten minutes ago, so be nice to each other. No, I'm only kidding, Gabriella's quite new here herself so she's the perfect person to show you around until Chad can be bothered to show up, any questions?"

"No I think I'm good thanks Mrs Bearn."

"Okay well you know where I am if Gabriella abandons you as well, I very much doubt that though, Gabriella sweetheart, he's all yours."

Gabriella shook her head at Mrs Bearn, before nodding her head at the door in a gesture for Troy to follow.

"So, welcome to East High." Gabriella started off hesitantly; she wasn't too good at this type of thing.

"Thanks, so how long have you been coming here then?"

"About a year now, I was still the newest 'til you took that crown. Sorry you're stuck with me, they try and give you some one of the same sex, so you can hopefully stay together all day, become friends for life, that kinda rubbish, but Chad's probably the worst person to ask to do this, he's bad in the mornings."

"Its fine honestly, you seem to be friends with Chad, so I'm sure I'll meet him in the end."

"Yeah, he usually walks in just before the bell rings. Can I see your schedule, we've got ten minutes 'til homeroom, although I'm guessing because they put you with Chad you're probably in ours, so I haven't gotta walk you anywhere else."

Troy handed Gabriella his schedule and watched as her eyes scanned it. "Unfortunately for you, you have most of your classes with Chad, but you do have family living and cooking with me, so you aren't stuck with him forever." Gabriella said, as she handed back his schedule.

"Is Chad really that bad?"

"No, he's lovely, he's become one of my closest friends since I started here, well he didn't have much choice really, they gave me his girlfriend to show me around and she made him be friends with me, he gave in quickly though. Chad just isn't the brightest button in the box when it comes to certain things, and most of the time he only makes it worse for himself."

Troy laughed. "I think me and him will get on pretty well then."

Gabriella laughed as well; she wasn't sure what was happening. She was normally really shy around new people, especially guys, but for some unknown reason she just found Troy easy to talk to, and unbeknown to her, he felt the same way.

TGTGTGTG

Troy's first day at East High had gotten better and he'd got on really well with Gabriella and Chad's other friends.

There were the twins, Sharpay and Ryan, their partners, Kelsi and Zeke and finally Chad and his girlfriend Taylor.

They all welcomed Troy to their group straight away, and after making it through the day to lunch, where Gabriella did make Chad buy her lunch, Troy was pretty certain that moving was definitely one of the best things he'd done since Jasmine was born, he just hoped she'd had just as much of a first good day as he had.

At exactly three thirty he pulled his slightly battered old truck into Butterfly nursery's car park and hopped out, eager to see his little girl after a day of separation.

He pressed the button by the door and was buzzed in; he walked through to the main play room to find Jasmine sat quietly in the corner playing with both the Rosie's.

"She's been like that all day." Julie broke Troy's trance.

"Yeah she can play by herself all day if you let her, she's always been quiet, I'm not sure where she gets it from, her Mum had too much of a mouth on her, for it to come from her."

"She must get it from you then, her Mum died when?"

"The day she was born, two years ago. She delivered Jasmine alright, but something happened and she started bleeding out, all I know is from day one I'm all that little girl has had to depend on.

"And from what I can tell, you've done a pretty amazing job, she's an amazing little girl Troy, never forget that."

"I won't, she wouldn't let me."

"I bet, now what you standing here for, go and get her, take her home, and we'll see you around the same time tomorrow, she won't settle in straight away you know?"

"Yeah, same time." Troy answered, as he made his way across the room to greet his daughter, it was then he noticed everyone else was outside, Jasmine had opted to sat inside and play alone, he wasn't surprised.

"Hey Jazzy, what you up too?"

"Daddy!" The small girl immediately stopped what she was doing and ran straight into her father's arms.

Troy cuddled her close to his chest. "You ready to go home cutie?"

"Home." Jasmine agreed, as Troy put her down to collect her things before they said good bye and headed home.

TGTGTGTG

Troy walked into his flat that evening to find Jenni pacing the living room area, trying to shush a crying Jasmine in her arms.

"Jenni, what's happening?" Troy asked, as he dropped his keys, phone and wallet on the kitchen counter.

"I'm not sure, she literally just woke up crying, she has been asking for you all night though."

"Really, that's new, what's up Jazzy?" Troy asked, his daughter, as he took her out of Jenni's arms.

"Daddy, no go." Jasmine mumbled against his neck.

"I'm not going anywhere honey, I promise. You on the other hand need to head off Jenni." Troy said, as he made his way over to his wallet to hand Jenni some money for her baby sitting.

"Yeah I guess you're right, thanks Troy, bye Jasmine."

Jasmine half waved to Jenni as she made her way out of the door and Troy walked them over there to lock it.

"Okay cutie, how about you cuddle on the couch with Daddy while he does his homework and then you can come to bed with me, deal?"

"Deal." Jasmine agreed, as Troy grabbed his school bag before situating them both on the couch.

TGTGTGTG

An hour later the pair lay cuddled up in Troy's bed, as he gently tried to soothe Jasmine back to sleep.

She'd almost fallen asleep on the couch a couple of times, but there was always something that woke her straight back up again.

Now however, in the comfort of her Daddy's arms and in his bed did she finally seem to be giving in to sleep.

Today had been a whirl wind for them both, and although it would take that bit longer for Jasmine to settle in at nursery, Troy was pretty sure he was settled at East High.

The one thing that kept bothering him though was the reaction Gabriella had to a statement in their family living class, 'love me no matter what, do they heck?' That was all she'd said to the idea that families loved us no matter what, but Troy sensed that her answer wasn't just an opinion, her answer seemed more of a fact, more like something she was experiencing.

But, as Jasmine's soft snores started to fill the room, he realised now wasn't the time to be worrying about that, the time for that was tomorrow, in their family living class, where he was sure something would big would take place.

TGTGTGTG

There it is guys, the first chapter of Life Changing, hope you liked it.

I can't promise you they'll all be this long, I'm just in a mood where writing is the best way of escape, so enjoy it while it lasts!

I wanna thank pumpkinking5 for reading over my idea for the story and giving me the courage to write it, thank you!

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