Late Night Drives~ G.D

12

Graduation Day

I was nervous because I was told to do the speech for our graduation. Honestly I didn't even work on it at all so I'm gonna have to come up with this while I'm up there. I was shaking heck I was shaking way worse then I was at a Lady Gaga meet and greet. All I kept telling myself was C'mon Heaven you got this, it's just a 10 minute speech you can do it just look at Grayson the whole time then the crowd .

"Now may Heaven Edwards please come up here and do that wonderful speech you were talking about?" Our principle asks. Everyone starts clapping for me as I go on stage.

"Ok uhm wow there's a lot more of y'all than I expected." I slightly laughed also earning some chuckles from the crowd.

"Hello my name is Heaven Edwards and I was chosen well asked to do the graduation speech for the class of 2017. Guys we made it! The dream of us finally graduating has finally came true and well we did it now I was told to do this speech way bay in like December and we'll I never actually worked on it so this coming straight out of my head. High school is rough patch, most of us leave out friends to be with other people, most of us meet new people, and some of us just stay the same. I changed a lot I can tell you that, if you think you changed in the past four years raise your hand?" I asked getting most of the students to raise their hand.

"Ok well basically we all changed, we also matured in the past 4 years, students were becoming adults and one day you will be the ones in the crowd watching your kid graduate. So lets give it up for the graduates of 2017 people. You guys we made it lets all cheer and see what the future hold for us!" I finished my speech getting claps and cheers from the people. I did it, I made it through this hell hole. I went down the stage and went back to my seat. The whole time I was holding Grayson's hand or his hand was on my thigh and we'll make jokes on the teachers we hated throughout high school. Soon everyone threw there caps up and everyone started cheering.

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My dad did me a surprise graduation party. It wasn't too big yet it wasn't too small, it was just family and a few of my friends. We had photo booth section and of course I was there for like an hour taking pics and some silly ones.

I was having a great time till I see Elise come in. My smile literally went to a shock face. Who invited her? I realized it was my dad since he doesn't know anything about me and the whole Spencer mess, in fact he never knew we dated. I was so close to my dad, we literally told each other everything but I guess we started keeping secrets to each other.

"Hey dad, did you invite Elise?" I simply asked. I didn't want to sound like a bitch.

"Huh, oh yes sweetie, you wouldn't want your best friend missing your graduation party now do you?" He smiled at me. Is hooked my head and smiled. I left him talking with his friends.  I went over to Elise. As I was walking towards her I saw that she didn't have a belly bump anymore. Wait she like a month or two till the baby would've been born. Oh God did she have a miscarriage or did she have the baby early?  I didn't know what to do so instantly went and hugged her. I know I was a bitch to her, but if you think about the reason our friendship ended was over a boy. A boy who cares about himself.

"I though you hated me?" Elise was shocked.  

"I thought so too." I smiled into the hug.        

 "I'm glad you came, come there's a lot to talk about." I smiled.

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"So Olivia was never biological mom, and that bitch lady was your real mom?" Elise questioned. I nodded my head and kept nodding till she finally got the point of what I just told her. I'm glad me and Elise are back on good terms now because when we're together shit goes down.

It was like around eight thirty and majority of the people left. By majority I mean the older most of the young folks stayed because I persuaded my dad if they could stay over at the house. He hesitated at first because Linda wouldn't agree but I said today is about us graduating not her. Right now we're playing Just Dance 2. Swear this game be our shit. Even though it came out like years ago we still get intense on this game.

While me and the girls were talking about boys Grayson had came up in the conversation. Talking about Grayson where is he, I was barely with him today. I went to the basement since most of the guys were there. I here the guys whisper things as I make my way down there. I know it's not right to be in other people's business but I couldn't resist it.

"Dude she's so hot, like she has the perfect body." I herd Cameron say.

"I'm with you dude she really is. Grayson what do you think?" Aaron asks.

"Yea she's hot I guess." He said unsure. Hearing him say that made me feel insecure about me. I mean what is there to like about me, what if all this is just a joke to him and he was dare to be with me. I don't blame him I mean look at me. I'm not the prettiest or skinniest girl there is. I guess this is why Spencer cheated on me. My eyes get watery but I quickly blink them away and burst in the basement.

"Hey fellas I'm just checking to see if y'all haven't destroyed my house yet." I say with a fake smile on my face. Some guys laugh at my lame joke. I see that everything is the way it was before and decide to leave till Jack calls my name. They ask if I could stay with them for a while. They're up to something because they're usually not this nice to me. I'm not saying that they hate me because I know they don't but what I'm trying to say is usually they tell me they're having a boy time but they never really ask me to hang unless I'm with the Dolans. Of course I say yes but I walk in feeling insecure about myself.

"So Heaven what uni are you going too, or are you just gonna help your dad with his business?" One of the guys ask me.

"I got accepted  to UCLA but I also got accepted to Appalachian State." I simply said. "But I'm going to Appalachian instead because I'm originally from North Carolina and I kinda miss my actual home." I really did miss North Carolina. I was never really into UCLA, I only got into it because that's when I made plans with Grayson when we were younger.

"Wait you never told me any of this, why didn't you tell you were leaving?" Grayson interrupted. Crap I kinda did forgot to tell him. "Were you planning to leave and not tell me anything!" Grayson sounded furious. I stayed silent.

"Look Grayson I was gonna tell actually I was gonna tell y'all tomorrow but no I just went ahead and said it also no I don't have to be all up on your ass everyday damn day, did you ever think if I want some time of my own? Did you even bother to ask if I miss home because I really do!" I snapped. After everything I said I quickly regretted it. I shouldn't have fussed him out. I just quickly left the guys and went back to the girls. Oh god why do I have to ruin everything!!!!!

What's up y'all!!!! I realized this book is like so depressing😂and I'm gonna try to keep it not so depressing. I'm also getting tired of Mother Nature like literally it was in the mid 80's then the next day it was like in the 40's or 20's then it decides to snow and now it's just cold and windy in March, and that's NC for ya😂 I'm also thinking to start a new book but I think it'll be an Ethan book. 

UPDATE: I thought I had posted this but now I wrote this like two weeks ago. oops...sorry, my bad.