Mistakes to Repeat

Epilogue

"Finn Rider." Mr Fisher spoke into the microphone, watching the line of seniors for him.

The audience cheers, including me, as he walks across the stage to the principal. He hands Finn a roll of paper with a red ribbon tied around it. Finn takes it gratefully, shaking the principals hand before walking off the stage.

He turns back towards me for a second, send a wink my way that made my body run hot.

I'm so totally in love with that idiot.

R and T were not that far away from each other in the alphabet, so my name was soon to be called. I could already feel the nerves running through my veins at the thought.

Knowing me, I'd trip and fall off the stage.

Mr Fisher kept calling out names, now starting T and my heart was hammering in my chest.

I had finally made it all four years through high school. Today was the day I finally get my diploma and scream SUCK IT to the audience.

Well, maybe not the last part. My parents are here.

Though, the last day of school I told my math teacher he could eat my ass and that I will not miss him.

Finn had moved in with a nice Foster family just down the street from my house. They agreed to let him live with them until he went off to college and they had been more of a family to him than his own uncle. He also got accepted to NYU for a business degree.

I had also been accepted to NYU for a degree in arts. I actually got scholarship. Some lady there saw one of my pieces at an art show last year and absolutely loved it. We're going to get an apartment together close to campus.

Natalia and Harvey are still going strong. They both also got accepted into NYU so we'll thankfully stick together for the next four years of our lives.

"Zara Thomas." It was like my heart stopped beating for a moment.

I walk towards the principal, a wide smile on my face. I shake his hand and gratefully take my diploma from him. I could hear my mother and father screaming from the audience and when I look over, I see them both standing up with Noah sitting in my mother's arms.

I give them a slight wave as I walk off the stage. I scramble my way to the seats in the middle of the auditorium where I find my boyfriend sitting next to an empty seat.

"You looked so beautiful up there." He whispered in my ear, laying him arm around my shoulders.

I blush, laying my head on his chest.

Once the principal had announced all the names and all the seniors had taken their seats, he called the valedictorian up to make a speech and yatta yatta yatta. All that boring stuff.

"Congratulations class of 2019! You graduated!" Mr Fisher yells into the microphone once everything had been said and done.

All the seniors stand up from their seats and take off their caps, tossing them up in the air. Everyone in the auditorium cheered and clapped and whooped.

Finn grabs a hold of my waist and pulls my body against his, lowering his head to kiss me passionately. I place my hands on his face, caressing his soft skin.

"I love you, Zara." He whispered as he pulled away, our foreheads resting against each other's.

"I love you too." I told him honestly, shivering slightly when his minty breath hit my face.

"Marry me." He suddenly said, making me take my head back only slightly.

"What?"

He was smiling like a maniac. "Zara, I've loved you since the day I met you and I can't picture spending my life with anyone else but you."