4 MONTHS LATER
"I now present to you, this year's graduating class of Maryville High!"
Loud cheers broke out throughout the crowd and the sea of senior students that stood on stage. I felt one of Kevin's arms wrap around me and turned to see him wrapping his other around Debby. The cheering continued as I looked out onto the crowd of people, noticing my own mother clapping amid them, her face covered with a huge smile and what looked like teary eyes from where I was standing.
I heard one student yell towards another, "We did it!"
And we did do it. We all somehow managed to make it through all those years of schooling, to be standing on a stage, being applauded. I couldn't understand how I managed to do it myself, but I knew it had to do with a lot of hard work. It had been hard to catc
