Chapter 5

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Today's the day we graduate.
I decide to pin point straighten my hair. I lay out my dress. I had it forever. I think its perfect for the after party.

      I choose my golden pumps, since I had enough black

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      I choose my golden pumps, since I had enough black. I wore a simple, fake golden ring that I had gotten at a garage sale, I just cleaned it to make it shiny.

    Last night, I asked Connor out. If he wasn't going to do it, I was. One of his friends actually talked me into doing it. We went out to someplace by Perfection accessories. I talked a lot because I was nervous. He didn't say much, because he was nervous. It was cute.
     I put my dress and accessories on. I put my ankle socks on and put on my wedges.  I change my mind. I go to my chest. I open a drMy chest is an old chest. It was my mom's. It only had 4 draws.
   "Knock knock", Nick peeks from the front door.
"Are you decent?"
I look out of the bathroom, "Yea, I'm just doing my hair."
I swing back the curtain. Technically, there's just a vanity set and the bathroom is just a bathroom. Like with a shower and a toilet. Jen and Nick found a place, and Vanesssa moved out, so I had my apartment back.
     "You ready for your big day?" He asks standing by me.
He smiles at me through the mirror.
"Yea, I'm just nervous."
"I was too, but I did it anyways."
I laugh a little.
   I finish the last strand and turn off my straighter quickly.
  "Ready?" He does a thumbs up to the door. "Do you want me to graduate or something?" I ask grabbing my keys.

  The graduation was great and long. We all went to Connor's after party that he didn't know about. I guess Zain passed out flyers for a graduation party at his house right by Grove.
    All of us went. Just Ashely hasn't shown yet. Even Tess and Emma came! It's crazy here. You got the paper lanterns,music blaring, the all-glass-house, floating stairs, everything!
     Zain might be a little drunk. He keeps running into walls. Connor is talking to some of his guy friends, Nick and Jennifer left not to long ago.
"Hey!" Hope pops right behind me.
I turn around with my arms crossed and a red plastic cup in my hand, "Hey."
  I take a sip. I never thought beer would taste so strong to me.
    "Cool party Huh?" She smiles.
  "Yea, surprisingly", I laugh kind of.
"Umm", Hope's jaw drops, she's looking at someone behind me.
I quickly turn around. It was Tess. Pissed off Tess.
    "You're dating MY boyfriend?!" She yells at me.
Emma is right by her. She doesn't like me, you can see it in her light brown eyes. I stand there surprised. Tess really has changed.
"I don't know who you're talking to, but Connor is Chris's boyfriend", Hope snaps. "Rawr", somebody says.
     I look around, there's another crowd. There's a circle of people, Tess, Emma, Hope, and I are in the middle.
"FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT IT OUT!" The crowd chants.  

    I roll my eyes, I 

"Kitty fight!" A girl yells.
    I pay more attention to what people say. "Christy watch ou-" Yells zain from the crowd somewhere.
  I don't know where Connor is, but this is getting ridiculous. I look back at Tess. Right when I do, she gives me a hard slap on my cheek. My head turns to the right as she slaps me. I can feel the hotness in my cheek.
  "That's what you get for stealing my boyfriend", she crosses her arms.
      She has a smirk on her face. Emma still standing still behind her. Hope isn't behind me anymore. She must've got pulled back into the crowd. I look back at Tess with a solid look on my face.
For payback, I punch her in the cheekbone, "Im sorry, but last time I checked, he was my boyfriend." The crowd cheered of happiness.
   "What's going on here?" Connor moves his way through the crowd.
"Oooh", the 'Oooooh' was so musical, you really could make a song out of it.
   The music was turned down, everybody silent after Connor came in.  Connor wore a nice tuxedo. Like really nice.
    "Um.." Emma tries to step in, she hit doesn't know what to say.
He doesn't even look at me, he looks at Tess. "Tell her that you're mine! We never even broke up babe!" She complains.
      I'm speechless. What the fuck? Hope pulls me back in a spot where I can't be seen.
"What are you doing?" I whisper.
She grabs my arms, "Shh! I'm saving you from Tess. If she comes after you, it's not on me."
     Hope stays by me.  The yelling went on and on.
"Tess! We broke up without breaking up! You distant yourself remember? Away from me!" I could hear Connor yell.
   "That's because-" she starts to yell back, but she doesn't finish.
"This is going to be an interesting night", Ashely comes from the crowd with a smile.
      "Shut up Ashely!" The crowd all yells.
I could see hardly through a crack of people. She has her hands on her pink fluffy  dress. "How dare you all talk to me like that!"
She stomps a heel.
"Speak for yourself Barbie", Hope says clearly.
    "Fine. It's over. I never want to see you again!" Tess turns the other way and walks. Connor walks my way.
  "Aww the fights over", the guy who was blocking my view says.
    He squats down to me, balancing on his toes. "Are you okay?" He puts his hands on under my jawbone and rubs my slapped cheek with his thumb.
I take his hand and rub it with my thumb. His hands feel softer than they look. I look at him and smile. Of course he smiles back. He stands up and he pulls me up by hand.
     "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make a scene", I look down.
"Nah, Tess is just being a bitch", he pulls me into a hug.
"You look beautiful tonight", he has a dimple, just one dimple on his left cheek.
   His pink soft lips are tempting to kiss. I blush. I don't want to go to fast with this relationship.
"Can we enjoy the rest of the party now?" I ask. The music starts to blare again.
     We head to the full dance floor. A lot of people were dancing. I notice Vanessa over by the spiked punch bowl. She looked, I don't know, she just looked, drunk.
      "I'll be right back",  I smile at Connor and try to run to Vanessa in wedges. "Vanessa!" I call to her. She  didn't turn to me. So I turn her Shoulder to me. I gasp.
   Her eyes are droopy, she smelled horrible, she looks weak. I slap her, "Have you been drinking again?"
She groans, "I'm sorry." She starts to cry.
      I hug her tightly. She cries into my dress.
"Gray a-and I didn't mean too. It was an accident, it just happened", she sobs.
"What just happened?"
She sobs even louder, "He hit you from his own guilt. He was sleeping with me."
I push her off, and wipe my dress, it wasn't ruined, luckily.
"Hey, you okay?" Connor walks over to me, and nods his head at Vanessa.
I smile, but I didn't show my teeth, "I'm great. Just great."
   Her two older brothers are hardly around anymore, her younger brother is with them. They just don't care for her. Her dad was a jerk, her mom died about a two years  ago. I don't know what happened to her though. She was a nice person.
    After a while, everybody started to go home. Vanessa was one of those people. It was midnight. Midnight already?
    Connor comes walking towards me, "Hey." He smiles with his dimple.
I smile back, "Hey."
He stands in front of me, my hands in his palms.
"It's midnight."
I nod, "Yea."
He looks at me with those dark blue beautiful eyes.
  He leans in and kisses me. Me. Not Tess. It was me. Chris. The girl who was a loser but ended up being not a loser after she found him. I kiss him back and my hands touch both sides of his neck. I smile between his lips and he does the same. He kissed me this time.
   "I can take you home if you want", our faces were still only maybe an inch apart.
I nod with my forehead touching his, "It's walking distance."
He pulls away blushing, "I know."
     Zain and hope were out and about. There was no telling what Zain was doing, but Hope, she's more of the mature one out of all three of them.
    "It's nice out here", I say with my heels in my right hand and Connor's hand in my left.
He nods, "Yes.. Yes it is."
I stop and look into Connors eyes. He looks back. His eyes glassy and sparkly. He smiles. I smile.
    We finally got back to our rooms. He walks me to mine.
I stop in front of the door and look down, "I'll guess I'll see you tomorrow then.."
He lifts up my chin and smiles, "Alright. Tomorrow then."
I blush and grin. He kisses my forehead walking away. I stood there for a moment. I couldn't wipe my smile off. It was like permanent.

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