All Of Me

Chapter Eighteen

I sit in a car on the way to the university. Oh, yikes I'm so nervous, after almost 4 years I'm done with my studies. I'm proud of myself, I should be. Now everyone else can see that I certainly could do something, something good. Now the bullies and the teachers can go to hell. I laughed out loud for myself. Who would have imagined that Gabriella Johnson would take a bachelor degree in law. Today is my day, even if I had wanted Nicholas with me this day, I can't do nothing about it, it is what it is. But I'm fine, I'll probably call him tomorrow, or next week. I need to sort out a few things with him, I understand him now but I have a lot of questions I want to ask him. But not today. Today, it's my day. 

This aula has never been this full-ever, oh, my god how many people is her? This aula, looks like any other boring aula, but for some reason it looks more serious. It is full of parents, relatives, everything that is possible. But, lucky that we students sitting in the middle, today the eyes is on us. All have different colors on their clothes, it looks like a big rainbow, basically. In Sweden, when we graduate, we have nothing special to wear, except when we take the graduate from high school then the girls are in white dresses and guys in suits, I felt I wanted to do the same after this exam too. I wear my new white dress,  I really love it.

 This is probably the biggest aula that the university have, and it is among the largest I have seen. I sit there with everyone who have studied law is sitting, almost at the back, oh hell, that's a great spot, or not. I have not really become friends with anyone in my "class". I want to be private. I don't want to mix my private life with my studies, it's just so stupid. It's probably from experience I feel so. If it had not been for those years in elementary school, I had been able to be more "open" to strangers. I look around the aula and I look for my parents, but I don't see them because of all the people. Oh, it's so many here. 

After a while, it's my "class's"  turn to go up against the stage. Me and my white heels start walking towards the stage, oh, it's a long way to the stage, the thought that I should go with these shoes all day, I already feel the pain of the though. The principal for all legal students begins to talk about the program, what we have done and what we have the opportunity  to do after our studies, boring, I know. I fix my dress, it's a white dress with embroidered detailing on the bust, then it is a narrow satin ribbon under the bust which then turns into a bow. The dress falls just down to my thighs, it's beautiful and simple. I go on  the stage as all other 50 students are doing. They'll call us one by one.

- "Before we give the diploma to this student, we just want to tell you that we want to give this student our scholarship, to the student strong commitment to human rights, both at a national and international level. This student has shown hard work and showed what it takes to want to go far. So we say, Congratulations to Gabriella Johnson "says my principal. Oh, my God. I can't believe it's true. I'm getting a scholarship and at least 3000 people is looking at this moment. Oh, I promise that my mom is crying now, because I do, but I have to hold back the tears. I go up to my principal and try to play calm, but it is not what I am. My principal gives me a hug and whispered to me, "Gabriella, never doubt yourself. Because you can! Thank you! "He says and hands me my diploma first, then my scholarship. Everyone applauds and I start to blush, my god. If they could see me now, those who said I couldn't, those who said I was worthless if they could see me now. I got my revenge and then I go off the stage in tears.

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When the ceremony is over, everyone walks outside, the weather is great today. I try to look for my parents. I walk out of the University and where I see a big paper sign that says "CONGRATULATIONS GABRIELLA JOHNSON TO YOUR EXAM" and it's my father who holds the sign. First comes the awkward teenager in me up wanting to hide myself, but yes, they are proud of me, let it go for this time. I run up to them and hug them. My grandmother and grandfather are also there, two of my cousins​​, my brother too!