Living Color

28. Graduation Night pt. 1*

It's been almost exactly six months since that night back at Amber's house. The police found our parents bodies in the aftermath and it was declared a mass suicide took place there. We were all left without parents. It was just us. We had no idea as to how to go about the rest of our lives knowing that we would be without them. We didn't even know where to start, let alone get out of bed.

While we were in the hospital the next day, we were all expecting our demise since we were all together in the hospital. But nothing of the sorts happened. As a matter fact, nothing happened for next few weeks. We all were surprisingly happy about it, but we didn't let our guards down so easy. Though as the time's passed, we've learned to ease ourself when we got back home.

After a few weeks, we knew we couldn't be separated so we all did what we thought was best and sold all of the houses and lived in Gary's house. With the money we got from the houses, we were gonna be able to survive for awhile on our own.

Living with Gary, Akira, Ebonne and Emanuel has been such an amazing time. We've made such amazing memories in such a short amount of time.

We've obviously had our visits from Jason, David and even Candy, which was a weird surprise.

We had our Graduation ceremony a few hours ago and we're all back here at the house. It should be fun...I only wish Amber and Sarah could of seen this. But it's no time to dwell on the past anymore. We have to live each day as if it were our last!

Brian yawns as he finishes up the last few paragraphs to his journal. He slams shut the book and hops up out of his chair and heads to his closet. He sees a red plaid shirt and blue jeans. "I'm gonna look so hot." Brian snickers to himself as he pulls out the clothes.

Ebonne groans as she tries to fix her hair, she throws her brush to the wall, "Fuck!"

Someone knocks on the door, "Eb, you good?"

"Yeah, it's just my fucking hair. It won't stay down." Eb says as she rolls her eyes. She sees the door crack open, Gary sticks only his hand in. Eb smiles brightly when she sees a bottle of gel in his hands. She rushes to the door and snatches it from his hand, Gary laughs as he closes the door.

Gary walks towards his room and passed Emanuel, who is walking out of his. They both glance at each other and give a small smile. Emanuel watches him enter his room, closing the door behind him.

Emanuel lets out a sigh as he heads downstairs to see Jason, David, Candy, Casey and Carl with some others from school already setting up the party.

"Yo!" Emanuel shouts as he throws a football to David, who easily catches it. Emanuel frowns as he sees David's wide grin etched on his face.

"I'll get your bitch ass one of these days." Emanuel yells as he slides down the railing of the staircase.

"Yeah, yeah whatever you say." David says as he mocks Emanuel.

Carl and Jason both laugh together, which surprises Carl.

"Hey, could I talk to you for a second?" Jason asks as he leans in to Carl. Carl gulps loudly as he looks to sister Casey. She nods her head, so Carl follows Jason to the kitchen.

"I just wanted to say how truly sorry I am for all of the torment I put you through for the past few years." Jason sincerely says to Carl, which shocks him.