Chapter 18:Last day of school

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Emmerson busted in my room while I was sleeping, and woke me up by giving me a hundred kisses.
After I changed the both of us went downstairs to smoke, then left.
When we got to school, it was FULL.
Almost everyone came with their parents, even Allison came with her mother.
And let me say.. her mother was even uglier than that fugly bitch Allison. Don't get me wrong, I didn't have anything on her mother, but Allison clearly learned how cheating works from someone and somewhere...
Her father mustn't have been a good man, I suppose. Well, who even cares? We're talking about Allison. It's crazy how I empathized with every single person on earth, even if they are a horrible person.
If I were to hear how a serial killer abused someone then murdered them, I would first try to dig into their trauma, then what they actually did.
Emmerson's art teacher came and told them how grateful they were to teach a student who was willing to learn, and wished them succes. They moment melted my heart, like every interaction with Emmerson ever did.
That school year was the most special year of my life.
I have discovered who I really am, I have made real friends, a goal I dreamed of achieving for a very long time, I have built a relationship with the person who was my best friend, all because of school.
It all started with Emmerson and I glancing at each other in the highschool halls, with me trying so hard to study but eventually getting burnt out, with Cindy annoying the hell out of me, and with Emmerson joining me to homecoming.

Author's note:
School is so much more than an institution where you learn, you make connections there. And of course, school is lame, everyone knows that. But it shouldn't be lame, it should be fun to learn, not to repeat the same shit over and over again until you rot your brain out and then try to cheat the system.
School can be beautiful, even with the bullies that make fun of you for being queer, trans, oversized, a different race, a different ethnicity, having a different relegion, dressing differently, being poor, having a disability, mental illness, not fitting into beauty standards or not keeping up with beauty standards, etc...

If you cannot get help, just ignore the bullies and try to realize that they are just children who don't know any better, if their parents treated them that way, they would treat anyone who seems vulnerable like that. So don't show them how you feel.

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