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III.

Your amazing you know that right? Calum's words echo through my mind as I walk to school. I kick at the tiny stones scattered across the asphalt as Memories of yesterday float around in my head. No the people in it are pathetic. I don't think I've ever heard someone put it like that before.

I still can't believe that I'm graduating Friday. It still doesn't seem real that I'm going to actually get to get out of here. After all these years it still seems impossible that there's a whole other world out there.

"Indi!" Someone calls from behind me and I turn to see smith jogging after me, dressed in his usual khakis and loafers.

"Smith" I say acknowledging him as I continue to walk up the road to school. He grabs my arm and turns me around to face him.

"Are you okay? What did she do?" He asks looking at me straight in the eyes, referring to my mother. Smith has been around long enough to know that source of most of my problems.

"She keeps wanting us to be more than friends" I roll my eyes and a flash of emotion crosses his face that I can't decipher.

"Oh, that again" he says softly his eyes avoiding mine.

We walk the rest of the way in silence as we finally arrive at the dreadful place that I have been stuck at for four awful years.

"Sooooo graduation is Friday" I say nudging smith in the arm with my elbow, in attempt to lighten up the mood. And it seems to work.

"Yeah I can't believe it! But I'm going to miss you at ucla" He says playfully pouting as we walk into our first class and take our usual seats in the front. I smile and shake my head.

"All right class lets begin" Mr. dunam says and the rest of class goes by as slow as possible.

....

When I get back home my mother is not there as usual. I decide to text Calum and ask him if its ok to call him. I found myself partly wishing that I could meet him in person, the other half of me warning me not to trust some random dude off the internet. yet this so called dude knows more about me than most people who've known me for years.

A sudden vibration of my phone on the table where I was sitting pulls me from my thoughts.

"Hey" he says and a smile instantly starts to tug at my lips.

"Hey" I breathe out.

"How was your day?" He asks.

"The usual" I sigh

.....

Over the next couple of days Calum called me everyday, I told him things that I'm not even sure smith nows. It still just amazes me that a stranger could know you better than you do yourself. A complete and utter stranger. I almost think I'm dreaming when I remind myself that I'm graduating today. The first thing I do is call Calum and he answers on the first ring.

"Happy graduation day indie" he says and I laugh at his use of my nickname.

"Thank you, I still can't believe it."

"I told you it would be over fast."

"I want to go to new york for the summer and just get familiar with the city."

"You should, we could meet up and see the campus" he says and I try to picture the idea of me meeting Calum in person. Is he attractive? He sounds attractive. Oh god I really need help if I'm judging someone's looks based off of their voice.

"Definitely" I say as I look at the clock and realizing that I need to get ready. "Hey cal do you wanna FaceTime? you know like when I get back"

"Yea sure, thats a big step in our text slash phone call relationship though" he says and I laugh.