4 months later - Everly
"Everly Pierson." I take a deep breath and stand up from the chair, walk to the podium and take my high school diploma from the principal's hands. "Congratulations dear," he says and I smile sincerely.
"Thank you," I greet each teacher and finally Joshua, he shakes my hand and a pleasant shiver runs through my body.
"Congratulations Miss Pierson, you deserve it," he gives a small smile. Joshua is happier since he proposed to me even though no one knows, and he was even happier when the letters from two universities arrived with the acceptance for my application to art school.
Joshua already has crazy plans about the wedding, he wants to get married as soon as we set foot in Seattle! I calmly explained to him that things can't be like that, my mother still doesn'
