Everything Changes Now

XXIV

Hanna's P.O.V.

It's been a couple weeks since the "incident" and everything that happened. We missed a lot of school when I was in the hospital cause no one would leave. The school principle let us make everything up and said we could still graduate. Everyone was looking forward to this. Graduation is in a few days. Our parents are running around getting different things ready for a graduation party. Somehow applications were sent into all of our collages and, thankfully, we got accepted into them. No one knows who really did it. I thought my parents did, but they were working double time to pay for the bills. Jake barely knows how to work a computer so that's out of the picture.

"Hey, want to go to lunch?" Taylor says, pulling me from my thoughts. "We can even go to Papa Bears," She adds on. Looking at me with hopeful eyes waiting for me to say 'yes' knowing Papa Bears is my favorite.

"Sure, why not." I agreed, getting up to put shoes on. "Are the boys coming?" I wondered. Normally, they come with us.

"Nah. I thought we should just go, 'cause, well, you know, we haven't really hung out just us in a while. I though it would be a good idea." She explained. She's right, though. We haven't hung out, just us, since after I came home from the hospital.

Taylor drove us there. It wasn't as pact as I thought it would be. An older looking lady walked us to a both in the back of the restaurant. Soon we had our drinks and then ordered a pizza to share, like always. We talked about the things we would on a daily basis. It felt good to just be here with my sister and no one else. We talked about how when we were younger, we would have the guys have tea parties with us because we needed more people.

After our food came, our conversation died a little because I mean this is good pizza. The best pizza ever in my opinion. I set my half-eaten pizza down.

"I know you did it." I stated. She stopped half way between chewing and biting another piece off. I laughed a little.

"Did what?" she mumbled, trying not to let anything fall from her mouth. She finished chewing and set her pizza down, giving me a confused look.

"You sent in those application." I said.

"I don't know what you're talking about," She replied and took another bite of pizza. "Even if I did, how would I have gotten everyone's information." She said.

"Almost everything is on the internet now. Plus, you could create your own code with just your phone. Nate could have gotten his and Jake's information that you couldn't get, and then you submitted them." I continued. She just looked at me with nothing indicating that she actually did it. I just stared at her.

"Nate helped too!" She threw he arms up in the arm, acting like she surrendered. "I knew you and I both didn't so I asked Nate if he had and he said no. He contributed you know. He mailed all the things that were supposed to be." she explained.

"Tay, you didn't have to do that. Not for all of us," I told her.

"I knew deadlines were coming up, especially mine, and I decided to ask Nate what he thought, so I suggested him helping me submit applications. I needed a distraction anyways since..." she trailed off. She didn't have to finish for me to know what she was talking about. Since I was in a coma. That's still a touchy subject for her.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome," she smiled.

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I wake up to shouts and my covers being thrown off me.

"Get up! Get up! Get up!" Taylor says spinning around and scattering blankets on the floor.

"Tay, what are you doing?" I asked. She steps up into my bed walking around.

"Guess what?" she says stopping. I hesitate to answer, knowing she's up to something. I sit up on my elbows.

"What?" She suddenly flops on me making both of us lift off the bed a little. "Ow. What did you do that for?"

"We graduate today!" she simply says. I roll her off of me and onto the floor. All I hear is a 'thud' and laughing. I look over at my alarm clock. It says 7:55. I look over the side of my bed to see at a sprawled out Taylor laughing.

"Why did you wake me up so early? I could be sleeping right now." Taylor stops laughing after a couple of seconds to regain her focus.

"Because," she says sitting up. "I'm bored," she says.

"And hyper." I say laughing. There was a knock coming from down stairs and a second later Taylor is gone, saying,

"I'll get it."

It was Nate and Jake. We didn't have to be at the school till 5 so we had the whole afternoon to hang. We just went to the tree house and took snacks so we wouldn't go hungry. Around 3:30, I told Taylor we needed to get ready and Jake and Nate left. We went to the school and waited for the rest of our class to arrive.

As we slowly get through the high school, we spent four miserable years at, Taylor and I start crying, I wipe her tears off with my royal blue gown, Jake puts my cap on and moves the tassel to the side it's supposed to be on; as we start to make our way to everyone else we all see Tay stop and start looking around.

"Han, I'm not ready to leave this place yet," Tay says laughing lightly while shaking her head. We all agree with her and I start crying into Jake's arms, knowing this would be the last time we all would be together in this school, in this hallway, by Mr. Cruz's Pre-calc room.

A/N: Sorry this chapter and the next one is longer than others but this being the last two chapter, we had to make them count.

Hey, we're alive. Lol. Sorry we haven't really published any of the new chapters...we've had really bad writers block for the story. But, there's chapter 24 for you wonderful people reading our book.