Jessie Jones

Chapter 26: Life goes on

It had been four months, three weeks and five days. And he still hadn't come back. I had already lost hope. He is never coming back. I heard from his dad, that he is living with his grandparents in California and he had written all his exams online, I came out of the school building and took a look in the clouds that were dark. It looked like it was about to rain anytime soon. I quickly put my jacket on which happened to be Nate's. The one he gave me months ago when I was fighting with Jason. I still couldn't let it go. It seems like yesterday but it's now eight month. Jason has gotten admission in MSC and is now living in Merry land and guess what? He is sharing an apartment with Alice. Yeah Jason confessed his feelings to her and they started dating. I am here missing them terribly, we Skyped almost everyday and he always sent cute pictures of them.

"Congrats," I heard someone shouted just as a loud thunder went off. I turned around and saw Alicia running towards me. She jumped on me while Evan and Rivers followed behind her doing the same. We started jumping up and down and dancing crazily.

"We are officially graduates,"Rivers shouted just as rain started falling. We started dancing crazily in the rain like five year olds. We got tired of that and stood up in a straight line, Evan hanged his hands in Alicia and River's shoulders, Rivers hanged his on my mine. We stood there looking at the sky with smile on our lips and one another's hand on our shoulders as rain fall on our faces. Our clothes were already wet. Everything was perfect except for the missing hands on my shoulders and the empty space beside me. I think we were all thinking about him. We were complete except for him.

"He will come back," Rivers whispered in my ears. I ignored him, I didn't want to think about it, I know he will never come back.

"Group hug," Evan shouted and we all gathered around.

"We better get back inside, we will catch a cold," Evan said and we went back in.

We just finished writing our final exams. Our graduation and prom is in a week time. Rivers and Evan had gotten admission in Cambridge and are going to go all the way to study in London. They said they want a change of environment. Alicia is staying here and studying in Denva College. I got admitted into two universities and I am yet to make a choice of where to go, one here and one in California. We are all going our separate ways, I didn't even want to think of how I will miss them.

We made up with Alicia about five months ago and are now  best friends like we were before I travelled. She apologize sincerely about the way she treated me when I came back. She explained to me how she just wanted to fit in and be as popular as Nicole. She explained to me how everyone likes the famous five but didn't even notice she is among them. A junior even once asked her whether she is in the school. She explained to me the problems she had at home. She had no one, her dad abounded her mom when she was a baby. And her mom became an alcoholic. She said she wanted to enjoy her school life so that she could forget about her life at home, She said she didn't know how bad Nicole is. She cried as she apologized. I pitied her, I had no idea how hard it could be to grow up without a dad and with an alcoholic mom. I had no idea all the abuses she went through. She hid everything. She didn't want anyone to kag. I immediately forgave her as I don't hold grudges. We didn't went back to our former relationship though, she gave me time to forget what she did to me, we started hanging out little by little , and three weeks later we became best friends again.

As of Nicole I don't even know where the hell she is and I didn't care a bit. I didn't see her since the day Rivers and Evan dragged her out of Nate's house. The day she said those hurtful words, the day I heard the bitter truth, the day Nate left. She didn't write all her exams. I heard from some students that she is pregnant with a baby and she didn't even know the father of the baby. And that's why she left the state without writing her exams. She is now a high school drop out.