Surprise graduation

Chapter 8

"Hi first congratulations to everyone here, each and every person here deserves today ok I might have hit a few of you whether it was in practice or you simply annoyed me or Lissa but despite that we have all been through so much together and learnt so many lessons. We have learnt from fighting and magic to loving someone and loosing someone, when I imagined today I never thought any of us would be missing but we all know there is a person who is not here who deserves to be more then any one, I miss you mase. But
There is a universal truth we all have to face, whether we want to or not, that is everything eventually ends. As much as I've looked forward to this day, I've always disliked endings. Last day of summer, the final chapter of a great book, parting ways with a close friend.
But endings are inevitable, because the leaves fall, you close the book. You say goodbye.
Today is one of those days for us. Today we say goodbye to everything that was familiar, everything that was comfortable. We're moving on. But just because we're leaving, and that hurts, there's some people who are so much a part of us, they'll be with us no matter what. They are our solid ground. Our North Star. And the small clear voices in our hearts that will be with us ... always. I couldn't help but think of Dimitri at that point and smile
There was a time when I was with Mason and I forgot he was there for a moment and started singing a song that was stuck in my head, but before I realised he was staring at me and said I had a great voice and should never stop singing but I told him to shut up and never speak of it again. But today I wrote a song," I went to get my guitar, everyone was still staring at me but I could see Lissa and Alberta at the side of stage crying " so here it is

Here we are now
Everything is about to change
We face tomorrow as we say goodbye to yesterday
A chapter ending but the stories only just begun
A page is turning for everyone

So I'm moving on
Letting go
Holding on to tomorrow
I've always got the memories while I'm finding out who I'm gonna be
We might be apart but I hope you always know
You'll be with me wherever I go
Wherever I go

So excited I can barely even catch my breath
WE have each other to lean on for the road ahead
This happy ending is the start of all our dreams
And I know your heart is with me

So I'm moving on
Letting go
Holding on to tomorrow
I've always got the memories while I'm finding out who I'm gonna be
We might be apart but I hope you always know
You'll be with me wherever I go

Its time to show the world we've got something to say
A song to sing out loud we'll never fade away
I know I'll miss you but we'll meet again someday
We'll never fade away

So I'm moving on
Letting go
Holding on to tomorrow
I've always got the memories while I'm finding out who I'm gonna be
We might be apart but I hope you always know
You'll be with me

So I'm moving on
Letting go
Holding on to tomorrow
I've always got the memories while I'm finding out who I'm gonna be
We might be apart but I hope you always know
You'll be with me wherever I go

Wherever I, wherever I go
(I don't own the song or the paragraph of the speech that starts 'there is a universal truth' and finishes at always. Sorry I just loved that speech)