Hey guys! So this is my second attempt at making a Runther story. The first one had way too much DeCe in the first chapter and it wasn't really that good so I'm redoing it with more Runther and a different summary. I hope you guys like it!

Rocky's POV

Oh summer. Relaxing on the beach, spending time with friends and spazzing out because it's the last summer vacation before you leave everything and everyone behind for college. Life couldn't be any sweeter than this… okay, I lied, it totally could. I guess change is good though, I mean a lot of things had been different from the beginning of freshman year.

For starters… my old rivals were now one of my best friends along with CeCe and Deuce. Tinka and Gunther had probably gone through the most change. They still had their accents, yes, but their three hundred pounds of glitter and sequin phase was over (I'm not even kidding) and had been for three years now. Tinka and my brother were dating, as were Deuce and CeCe. So, that left me with none other than Gunther Hessenheffer.

To say I had no feeling whatsoever towards him would be the truth…okay… that would actually be the biggest lie ever told in the history of mankind but the chance for me to make my move and tell him about it is getting slimmer with each day that passed by. I mean, after this summer, we're all going away to different colleges (even CeCe! Shocking right? I think her mom fainted at that) and I imagine it would be really hard to get with someone seven hundred miles away from you.

Wait… what? I do not like him! My brain is just messing with me.

"It's summer," Gunther said, coming over to me. Our lockers were right next to each other and it was kind of awesome. As in, I'm next to one of my bros! Yeah, that's right…

"Gunther," I said as I leaned against my locker door. Of course, me being the smooth stud I am, I missed my locker door by a mile and fell straight on my back. You'd think that after four years of having a locker right next to him that I would have be used to him sneaking up on me like that, but sadly I wasn't.

"Rocky, are you okay?" he asked while helping me up.

"Me? I'm good," I replied, waving my hand off.

How smooth of you Rocky, how unbelievably smooth.

"School's out for summer!" a loud female voice sang.

"School's out forever!" another one followed, this time an accented female one. I turned around and laughed at two of my two best friends who were walking towards my locker, chanting about high school being over.

"School's out for summer!" they repeated. "School's out forever!"

"Summertime!" CeCe shouted into my ear. That was loud.

"Don't remind me, it's kind of depressing," I said, looking at my empty locker.

"Turn that frown upside down," Tinka teased. "We still have graduation tonight."

It was weird to think that this time instead of Ty being in a blue robe (I, Rocky Blue is graduating wearing a blue robe! Bad pun intended) and a graduation cap, it would be me. This time, it would be my turn to give a graduation speech. This time, I would be the one that got cheered for when I accepted my diploma. This time I would throw the cap soaring high in the air.

It all seemed so foreign though, I mean… I knew this day would come. I just never expected myself to dread it. Leaving high school, leaving all of my friends behind would be the hardest thing I did but that's what was happening right now, and it was happening way too fast.

"Hello there, fellow graduates," Deuce said, coming up to us with a grin. He and Cece shared a quick kiss before he slung his arm over her shoulder. You know, when I was a freshman and Deuce and I dated and had that nasty break up that I swore to myself I would always hate him, but now almost four years later, here he is, dating my best friend and I was very happy for them both. Of course, we had become friends again about a week after I told that to myself but that was then and this is now.

"Hello," I said with a smile.

"Hello there Ms. Valedictorian," he replied.

"So, I'm thinking after graduation we do a group sleep over?" Cece suggested.

"Yeah, that would actually be awesome because I have a surprise for all of you," Deuce replied happily. I wonder what it is…

"Okay, sure! Shall we invite my brother?" I asked while looking at Tinka.

She laughed and said, "Do you really need to ask? I'll call him."

"You know, it was really weird seeing my locker completely empty like that," Gunther said out of the blue.

I nodded in agreement. "Yeah… it is. Can anyone believe that we're actually leaving this place behind?" It really was unbelievable.

"I can't believe that I'm actually going to miss this crappy old place," CeCe said as she looked down the empty hallway.

"Hey, we aren't officially graduates yet so technically we still go here," Tinka said, closing her phone. I haven't even noticed that she called my brother.

"Anyway, you still coming over to get ready?" she asked.

CeCe and I nodded. "Yep."

As we walked out towards the school doors, an array of memories flashed into my mind. So many things had happened in this high school that I would never forget. Like one of the great memories of having my first kiss, or the not-so-good memories like getting my first C. This whole thing was bittersweet. Sweet because of the fact that we all worked hard for this, and bitter because everything would be different now.

You know that how when you're little and all you want to do is grow up? Well… when it actually starts happening… you want nothing more than to have more time to grow up. In other words, you want to be a kid again. It's scary, growing up. You have so many things that are important when you're younger and then when you get older it's not really a big deal anymore.

Looking down these empty hallways that were covered with banners, congratulating all the graduating classes made my heart ache badly. Thinking about leaving this place along with my friends made my stomach churn. Everything seemed to be going by so quickly and I wasn't prepared to actually say goodbye. Maybe I'm over thinking this whole thing, change is good right? Change is supposed to bring new opportunities, good ones at best but yet this time the new atmosphere didn't seem so good.

"Rocky! Rocky!" a voice yelled out. Why would they—

All the sudden, something collided with my face and I stumbled backwards and landed in someone's arms.

Ow. That really hurt.

Laughter filled the air and snapped me out of my daze.

"Are you okay?" Gunther asked helping me back onto my feet. I nodded with a confused expression on my face.

"You ran into a lamp post," he supplied. I could feel my cheeks heat up and turn into a light shade of red as I looked at my other friends who were laughing their heads off.

"Are you okay?" CeCe managed to repeat through her laughter. Deuce and Tinka on the other hand were violently gasping for air as they continued to howl.

"My sides hurt," Tinka chocked out.

Now my cheeks were burning into a darker red. "You're not laughing too?" I asked Gunther. He was obviously trying not to do it; I could tell by the way he was biting his bottom lip and had that sexy smirk on his face.

Wait, what?

That was uncalled for.

"It's not funny," he whispered, letting a small laugh escape from his lips.

"I hate lamp posts." Who wouldn't say that when they bump their heads into a lamp post?

I would. And I just did.

How was that? I know it was short but I think this is way better than my previous story. The chapters will gradually get longer as I get used to this story. Okay, a few quick things. For those of you who read my other stories I just want to let you know that Another Cinderella Story will be updated tonight and 99 problems will be updated sometime with week. So tell me what you think!

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