Following The Stars (UNDER MAJOR CONSTRUCTION!)

Chapter Thirty Six

1 year later

"To all those fellow graduates, I am truly happy that all of you have graduated this day. It's been a pleasure teaching all of you. I hope you succeed in life no matter what you do. Remember we are strong, we have our school pride, and that you only graduate once from high school. Now parents, friends, and relatives may I present to you to the class of 2015!" The principle announces.

It's completely crazy, there are hats flying above us, kids screaming. No one would of thought graduation was right here. I hear parents sobbing with joy, and the kids taking too many pictures. I hear loud whoops of joy to be finally done with high school.

I smile and walk around until I get attacked with hugs from my parents and friends.

"Miaaaa we graduated!" Gabby yells into my ear and I smile brightly.

"Congratulations sweetie, you've done it, you've graduated from high school!" My mom says while pulling me in to a big hug.

"Good job honey, have fun in college." Dad says while pulling me and mom in to a hug.

I feel a tap on my shoulder, so I quickly turn around.

"Hey Mia."

Cole.

"Hi Cole." I reply.

We haven't talked much after the bed incident, so this was awkward.

"Look about that party, I'm sorry I didn't know what I was doing." He says.

"It's okay, it's the past, I forgive you." I pull him in to a hug.

"Congratulations we graduated." He says softly in to my ear.

"I know." I chuckle and we separate from our hug.

"Good luck in college." Cole says.

"You too." And he walks away.

I feel a sudden sadness. No more friends from high school, everyone is being separated from each other. I'm attending The University of Texas. And Gabby is going to Oklahoma University, and Cole is going to Florida Tech.

Everyone is moving on.

My thoughts with myself end when someone jumps on my back.

Me and the stranger fall on to the ground, and I look up to see a familiar face.

Casper Lee.

"Oh my gosh! Casper!" I scream.

I turn to tackle him in to a big hug and he laughs at me.

"Hello m'lady." He smiles.

I giggle and turn to see that some of my friends from Colorado are right behind me, including the one and only Tomas Bane.

Oh no.

I see him talking to one of the cheerleaders graduating this year with me. It kind of hurts but then again why should I care? I turn back to Casper.

"So what are y'all doing here?" I ask.

"Aww look at that, m'lady has a Texas' accent. Y'all." He emphasizes on y'all.

"Yeah yeah yeah. No really why are you guys here?" Prodding for more information.

"Well we couldn't just leave you, and it was also Tomas's idea." He replies.

Tomas's idea?

What really?

No way.

Why would he?

"T-Tomas's idea?" I stutter.

"Yup."

"Why?" I ask.

"I don't really know, go ask the mate." Casper says while he shoves me towards Tomas and the cheerleader.

I bump in to Tomas and he kind of catches me.

"H-hi Tomas." I say.

"Hello." He replies dully.

The cheerleader takes one look at me and Tomas and turns away looking for some other guy.

Tomas places me back on my feet and takes a few steps backwards. It's kind of awkward how I'm looking at my feet and he's trying to look me in the eyes.

"Casper tells me you organized this." I mumble under my breath.

"Yeah I did." He replies.

"Tomas why?" Now I look up at him.

"Can we talk privately? I need to tell you something." He jerks his head to the parking lot, I nod and we start to walk to the parking lot.

Once we've reached a empty area Tomas starts to spill everything.

"Look Mia, I'm still in love with you, and I'm hurting so much that we don't talk anymore, and I know it's my fault that this all happened. I heard that you're going to the University of Texas, so I enrolled there for a scholarship in academics. I'm going to be there with you, because I can't live without you. I'm so sorry that all this happened, I'm sorry for not letting you explain, I'm sorry for ever letting you go." He looks up to me with guiltiness and sadness in his eyes.

"I'm sorry." He says once again.

I look at him and sigh. I've missed him a whole lot too, I do love him very much, but he's caused me sadness. I know he's fighting for us, of us to be together again, but I don't know if it could happen.

I look back up to him again.

"Tomas, are you sure you're ready? I don't want my heart to be broken again." I say looking right at him.

"Mia I'm ready for what the stars have in store for us. I'm fighting for us remember? You saying no, will be more heartbreaking for me than you. I'm fighting for you Mia, and I'm never going to stop."

And with that sentence I couldn't help it any more, I jumped at him and hugged him with all my might. Tears sprang from my eyes, my graduation hat fell to the cement of the parking lot. Tomas squeezes me hard and I can feel his heart thumping fast on my chest.

I slowly let go of him and wipe the tears of my face. I look at the boy that I love so much that is standing in front of me right now. I look at the boy that I fell in love with when I first arrived in Denver, Colorado. I look at the boy who broke my heart so many times but I still failed for me to forget him. Because I know the stars have aligned themselves for us. I know that the stars are leading us, for us to follow them to a future.

And because I now know that I have the boy I love so much in my arms and the stars that will lead me to the future, I'll be alright.

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