Adopted by Heathers: The Sequel

After Four Very Long Years...

"LAST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR SENIORS!" Red screeched, running through the hallway. "Guys, that was the best Senior Week I've ever seen at our school since I came here. Cat, your ideas for senior pranks on the teachers...top notch."

"I had to get revenge on that science teacher from freshman year somehow! Just waited four years to do it!" I said, laughing. I sighed and turned to look at my locker, which I had to clean out sometime today. "I can't believe we're graduating next week."

"Well, I'm excited to graduate." Cesca said. "It's gonna be bittersweet to say goodbye to the school. At least we got our yearbooks today!"

The seniors got their own little spread in the yearbook, which we could write a little goodbye paragraph and put up to 4 pictures. I chose a baby picture of me, a picture of 10 year old me, Elle and I on my adoption day, and a random selfie of me and all of my friends.

I pulled out my yearbook from my bag. Elle and I made a promise that I wouldn't open the yearbook until I got home, because she hasn't seen my school picture yet. Nobody in my family has.

"EW! EW EW EW!" Shirley said upon the sight of her school picture. "Why did I make that face?"

"Beats me, Cook." Axel said. I laughed and said, "Come on, you guys don't look that bad."

After my friends long arguing that took the better part of 20 minutes, I had my locker entirely cleaned out and I closed the door for the final time.

"I'm gonna miss this place." I said. "I really am."

"Dude, I think we all are. Well, everyone except some of the idiot boys who can't wait to get out of here and probably sit on their butts playing video games for a living." Red said. "But I'm becoming a teacher, you're becoming a pediatrician...we're actually doing something amazing with our futures."

I laughed. "The bell's about to ring. Let's go home and open our yearbooks."

There's a wall in front of my school that has all the seniors names on it, every single senior that has passed through these doors since the day the school was founded. I've been waiting to sign my name on the wall ever since I was a freshmen.

Exiting my school for the final time, I saw my chance.

"Catlynn Sunshine McLemore." I said as I scribbled my name on the wall in orange marker. I capped the marker and passed it to another senior behind me.

"Perfect." I said.

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"Mom! I'm home!" I said, with streamers in my hair from the last-day-of-school party all the seniors went to.

"Sunshine!" Elle said, turning off the TV. "Where's your yearbook?"

"You've been waiting for this moment since I gave you the order form." I said. I pulled the yearbook out of my backpack and flipped to the senior pages.

"Aww, you look so cute!" Elle said. A picture of me in my cap and gown back in November graced the page, and I was making a very awkward half-smile.

"Mom, this looks ridiculous." I said.

"What's your senior quote?" Elle asked, and I turned pink. My senior quote wasn't exactly...memorable. I was gonna do a Heathers line, but this felt much better and funnier to do.

"Why does everyone call you Sunshine?- everyone." Elle read aloud. She turned to me with an annoyed look on her face and I started laughing.

"Out of every inspirational quote you could find on the Internet, you choose this?" Elle said.

"You have to admit, it is funny." Red said. I slapped her.

And that was when I noticed Red's senior quote.

"I'm very gay for Catlynn McLemore." I read to myself, hoping Elle wouldn't hear. I grabbed a sticky note and threw it over Red's senior quote.

"Oooh, what's under the sticky note?" Elle asked. "Someone's got a crush on you!"

"Why would anyone openly admit their crush in the yearbook?" Red said. Elle shrugged and then turned to the pages where each senior had a spread.

"Hey, I found mine!" I said. I pointed to my spread and then Elle read the paragraph aloud.

"'I'm a senior in high school. Wow. These past few years seem to have gone by in the blink of an eye. It seems like yesterday I was at the courthouse and my mom was signing adoption papers. But now I'm here, and I'm about to get my diploma. Thanks to my friends, R.A., C.S., A.R., S.C., A.W.' Aww, you included Astrid!" Elle said.

"I wrote this before she died." I said. Elle rubbed my shoulder and kept reading.

"'Thanks to my family, who have always been there for me through thick and thin, I love you guys to the moon and back.'" Elle read. She shot me a sweet smile and read the final sentence.

"'I can't wait to graduate high school. And I hope that four years from now, I'll be a better person than I am today.' Sunshine...that was amazing!" Elle finished. "Where did you get that baby picture? Is that even you?"

"No, Mom, I got it off the Internet. Of course that's me!" I screamed. Elle laughed and said, "I'm so, so proud of you, Sunshine, and I can't wait for my graduation."

Graduation.

The horrors of middle and high school are over at last.

AN: Graduation may quite possibly be the last fluffy chapter for a while. Hope you enjoyed and catch ya later! Love you all!