Losing Him

Graduation

Chapter Twenty-Three

Graduation

Exam week was thankfully coming to an end.

The fact that Leon stayed at Savannah's house the entire week, helped a lot in the perspective that they were each other's study partners and would often build each other's confidences.

Savannah walked out of every exam feeling confident in her performance except for one.

Her math exam, but it's always been a subject she was always unsure about.

She was finally glad to get it over and done with and never how to worry about y=mx+c ever again.

On the last day of both of their exams, Leon and Savannah went to the mall to collect their graduation gowns for the ceremony the following week.

After killing some time afterwards, watching a movie, hanging out at the arcade and having dinner at a local diner, Leon dropped Savannah home and bade her goodnight.

The past month has been nothing but a dream with Leon.

It was as if they were re-living their best moments of the past together.

Savannah couldn't help but feel the daunting aspect of saying goodbye creeping up on her.

The fact that graduation night was the last night Savannah and Leon would see each other for the final time in goodness knows how long, made it an extremely bitter-sweet night.

She kept this in mind and tried not to get emotional as she slipped into her graduation gown.

It was a beige satin gown with creases at the waistline.

Savannah liked it because it gave her an hour-glass figure, she wasn't used to looking like this.

She let out her thick, curly hair, for tonight, she preferred it untamed.

She smiled at herself in the mirror and her mane of afro-y curls.

She brushed her baby hairs and pinned the side of her hair with a pin decorated with daises.

Leon picked it out. He always knew what looked good on her, or rather what she looked good in.

She heard her mother call her down, for the first time, ever, she was the last person they were waiting on.

She walked down the stairs carefully in her laced high-heels.

She was greeted with ah's and ooh's on behalf of her mother, father and little brother Ben.

Mike was unable to come to the ceremony tonight, surprise, surprise.

Nonetheless her father and Ben looked as dapper as ever and her mother looked as elegant as she had ever been.

"You look beautiful," said her father with glistening eyes, "we're so proud of you, Savannah," chimed in her mother.

Savannah stood there smiling at her parents, trying not to make the night more emotional than it already is.

"Shall we?" said Ben swinging the front door open.

Their parents made their way to the front of the car as Ben and savannah hopped into the back.

"You look like a Hollywood movie star, sis," said Ben, who was wearing a black vest matched with black jeans.

"Awe, thanks Benjamin," said Savannah ruffling Ben's hair as he cringed.

They arrived at the waterfront pier in a reception hall where the graduation ceremony was being held.

Savannah and her family walked in and sat on their table after searching for it for a brief time.