Okay, so you are about to read the prologue to Can't Ever Forget. Please note that this is sort of something new for me since before this,m I've been working on basically thew same plot line for three years with OTH Memories, and then Boomerangs for another six or seven months. So now I am venturing out and starting a whole new story line, so if this does not live up to my previous works, I apologize. However, I have worked really, really hard on this prologue, so I do hope you enjoy. Let me know what you think either way in a review. Thanks so much (:-Maureen
Prologue: Together
They had finally made it. They were finally graduates. Lucas and Peyton…Brooke and Chase…Nathan and Haley…Mouth and Rachel…Skills and Bevin. So proud they all were, of each other and of themselves. It had been a long journey, high school, and they had made it through…together.
They were all together, on the river court, two weeks after graduation, and they were officially no longer seniors. No, now they were just young adults about to embark on whatever journey life set out for them. And they all had plans for their futures, plans that had come in a blink of an eye, it seemed to them then, as they were about to part for the summer, and some for longer.
Brooke and Peyton would soon head off to Los Angeles for the summer. Brooke would go to see her parents and pack and prepare things for school in New York come the fall. Peyton would start an internship at Sire Records, making a huge leap into the music career before college even began. They were headed to California for different reasons, but they would go there together, just like they'd done most things since they were six years old.
Lucas, Nathan, Haley and baby James would spend the summer home in Tree Hill, but would move to a place just outside of Tree Hill when school started in the fall. Lucas dreamed of becoming an author and publishing his novel, An Unkindness of Ravens .And while he pursued that dream and received an education, he would work as assistant coach to to Whitey Durham…the greatest basketball coach he'd ever known. His brother, Nathan, would be a Golden Flash under him, a shooting guard for the New Brunswick University Golden Flashes. And Haley would study at the university as well, as she was determined to be wherever her husband wanted to be because they were a family…her, Nathan and their son, James.
As for the others, well…Skills would play basketball for the University of North Carolina, where Bevin would be cheerleading, just as she had done throughout high school. Mouth, too, was off to UNC to earn his degree in Media and Television Broadcasting, though he had certainly jump started his career as a sports announcer with his high school creation, and Chase, on the other hand, would go off to New York, but not together. For Chase, New York would become his new home, as he planned to attend New york Universit, where Brooke planned to join him at summer's end. As for Rachel, New York would allow her the opportunity to really explore her options, finally freee of high school and able to figure out who she was.
But they all still had one last night together before the rest of their lives began. Yes…they would all soon have to part (some of them for weeks, some for longer, and some not at all). But there was still one night left. And that night, they spent together on the river court, hanging out, talking, laughing, smiling, playing basketball, and leaving their mark on that spot, signing their names to that court, and…making a pact.
Bevin finished her name last and stood up again, next to Skills and the others. The others shared in hugs, all of them realizing that the night was almost over.
"Okay…" Brooke spoke up. "We're not going to do this. We're not going to get sad. Nothing's going to change now. We'll all be friends forever…I know it."
"Yeah," Lucas agreed. "And in fours years, we'll all be right back here. You know…done with college and wherever we go…right?"
"Yeah…" They all agreed.
Nothing would change, they were sure. They would all be friends forever. They'd all meet again, in that spot on the river court. Nothing would change them. They were determined and sure of that. Nothing could change them. They would stick together, and that would keep things the same.
But they would all soon come to realize that they weren't in high school anymore, and that everything can't stay the same. They would learn that life is tough and that it changes everyone, in ways they would never expect it too, and even if they weren't expecting the changes that life would bring them.