"We've spent five solid years together, some of you I loved and some of you I couldn't stand at all and to be honest, I'll be sad to see you all go because no matter what we all say, half of us won't keep in touch at all.
The teachers here have been great as they've tried their hardest in their efforts to try and teach us and let's face it, they were good attempts but most of them never even worked. I wish you all the best luck in college and hope that I will see some of you again." The redhead finished her speech and walked down the steps back into the crowd and took a seat in the front row that had been left vacant for her.
The slideshow started as a song blared in the background, pictures of them all started to appear on the screen. The first few photos were of all the students in their primary school photos before they started at the high school, then the images flicked through in order of stereotypes so that all the images were ordered and put together.
A bunch of blondes with horrendous fake tans, guys with their arms around each others shoulders with their short, gelled hair and doing stupid faces, Those who were deemed as geeks in their perfect uniform and thick black glasses.
The Goths who sported their black hair and many facial piercings and their customized uniforms, who were not smiling, a mixture of boys and girls in which you couldn't tell the difference in genders.
Then there was the Bristol Grammar HotShots as the rest of the school liked to call them, they were the popular, rich kids who everyone liked, who everyone wanted to date or just wanted to be. They were the people that the rest of the students would kill to talk to or even get looked at by.
The first image of this group where the two red headed Fitch twins who were identical in every way, even down to the smile that they were both doing. The twins were a perfect contrast of each other in a way still though, they weren't identical in their personalities. Katie was bossy and could be dangerous when angry and everyone knew that if you were a footballer for Bristol Rover's Reserves then you would have a shot with her, as she only did the best.
Emily was the shyer and quieter one, she didn't like the spotlight and was scared whilst doing her leaving speech, she was different to Katie as she didn't go for the Reserves, well not unless they were the female reserves, but Emily was happy with her girlfriend of two years.
The next image that came up was that of Emily and Naomi Campbell. Naomi was the tall, headstrong, blonde one of the group, the one who thrived and owned politics and loved the environment. She was the one that you wouldn't like to get in to an argument with, try to hurt/mess around and you just wouldn't follow her anywhere. She wasn't a slag, she wasn't brought up that way, she was happy with her Emily.
The third image consisted of Naomi, Elizabeth Stonem and Pandora Moon. Elizabeth of Effy as she named herself because of her strong dislike for her actual name was the female drug addict of the group, she was one of the two people that got the whole group in to the drugs, she used them everyday and she drank everyday to make sure she was happy, she was pretty and she knew what she was doing and how to handle things. She knew how to make situations easy and how to make them awkward. If you messed with her, your entire life could be wrecked in a second because of her fearsome brother, Tony. Effy could read people like they were the most open people, she never had a problem with anyone. Her best friend was Pandora or Panda who was the slow one of the group, the innocent one who never understood anything or knew how dirty she actually sounded with every word that she said. She was dating Thomas, who was from the Congo who was one of the nicest guys that anyone could ever meet, he usually said hello to everyone even if they weren't if his group of friends. He spoke amazing French and taught the rest of them very well. He appeared on a photo with Panda.
A new image showed up of three boys. One had very curly, thick brown hair who had braces and looked a bit geeky, this was JJ or Jonah Jeremiah Jones, the problem kid as some called him, he was one of the cleverest people in the year and could get locked on but always had his friends to look after him. One of his best friends was Cook, James Cook who was the male equivalent of Effy, the drug obsessed one and the always drinking guy. He shagged anything he could, did anything and drank everything in sight, he's the guy who just didn't care about anything at all, he was way past caring.
The last boy was tanned skin, dark brown/black hair, had a few cuts and bruises and even a little bit of gruft, he was the king of weed and always had a lot on him, he was the skater and found it extremely easy to relax, he gets overprotective and loves Effy, his screwed up girlfriend.
That completed the hotshots of Bristol Grammar and it also completed the slideshow. Everyone cheered then started to sing and chant and cry, whilst the almighty group looked at each other, got up and left early and not giving a care in the world. Naomi held Emily's hand proudly whilst Katie smiled at them. Freddie had his arm around Effy whilst lighting up a joint before even being outside of the building, Cook had his arm around JJ in a manly way, cheering very loudly at the fact that he was finally leaving school and bringing up the rear was Thomas and Panda who were smiling at the life they all had ahead of them.
"Nice one" Katie said as soon as they were out of the door.
"Yeah, finally free of that fucking shit hole yeah!" Cook yelled and shook JJ.
"Yeah but what do we do next?" Pandora asked.
"Panda… don't be stupid. We do what we always do, what we do everyday" Effy replied.
"GO TO THE PUB!" Everyone shouted and cheered as they walked down the path towards the pub.
The group finally arrived at the pub and got the beers in, it was amazing that they all still got served in their school uniform, but that's how easy things are when the person who owns the pub is one of Cook's uncle's best mates, when it's like that, life is so easy that it's unbelievable. As they sat down with their beers, vodka and shots and whatever else, they took their blazers off and removed their school shirts and revealed the t-shirts that they were all wearing underneath but left their bottom halves on. They drank their first few drinks slowly and progressed to downing them all in one and then decided on a round of sixteen tequilas which they all happily shot and after a while the few 15 year olds and the sixteen year olds were properly leathered and just could not take any more, they always thought that they couldn't take anymore but in all honesty, they knew that they could take so much more and that was when Cook pulled the pills out of his pockets and put them on to the table.
"Come on then girls and boys, let's get happy" he announced to the table with a slur to nearly every word. They all took a pill and put it in their mouth and washed it down with a bit of drink, they were getting truly fucked up tonight as it was a special, coming of age and leaving school occasion. This was nothing compared to their prom plans in a month or so.
A couple of drinks and pills later, the group decided that it was time to go home and have a good sleep or to get even more fucked up, which really meant that Katie would go and shag Danny all over the football team's changing rooms, Emily would be around at Naomi's either watching a lovely film or having sex in the most unbelievable ways and creating some of the loudest moans and screams known to humans. Effy and Freddie would go and get even more fucked up and shag all night until they passed out on each other. JJ would go home and have to take his medicine and make some model airplanes. Pandora would go around to Thomas's and they would have their fun ad Cook would go out and drink some more, and pull and shag every girl that he could.
That was what every day and night would probably be like now that they had finished school, this is how it'd had been since last year. They had known each other for five years and used to have fun without getting drunk, stoned and having sex and constantly partying but last year, they had discovered that some of them could get served and had a way of getting drugs and all of that stuff and naturally, they adapted to drinking constantly and doing whatever they do and it's all they've done ever since, it's all that they know these days and they'll go in to college like that.