Graduation Day
Stacy
"Oh, just leave me alone!" I snapped at the phone in my room as it rang for what seemed to be the hundredth time.
All morning my cell phone had been ringing. I had been tempted to just shut it off. My father was supposed to call it to let me know when he was in Stoneybrook though. Everyone kept calling me and asking me the same question. Can you believe we are Graduating today? It was usually one of my girl friends with an annoying ditzy squeal in her voice. I didn't want to talk to any of them anymore, I couldn't wait until I was in New York where I didn't have to deal with any of them anymore.
There were three people whom I really wanted to talk to more the anything, but I wasn't sure if they wanted to talk to me. I didn't blame them if they didn't, I had been ignoring them the past four years of High School. I regretted it, and although I knew they weren't the same people they were back in the ninth grade, I missed them. I knew none of them were ditzy. I was excited about graduation, the same as anyone else but I was also nervous.
I wanted to talk to Claudia in the worst way. I wanted to apologize, and although I knew we wouldn't go back to being the friends we were, I wanted to be friends with her. She was the only person who could always keep me calm. She was the one who had always made me feel whole. I still talked to Mary-Anne at times, but I could sense some resentment in her voice. That and I was sure she like everyone else thought I was nothing but a slut.
I couldn't wait to get away from all the rumours about who I had slept with and how many times. No one would believe that I had never slept with anyone, not even my supposed best friends. Sure I had several boyfriends, but we had never gone too far. I was sure they all liked to talk about how far they had gone with me though. Who would believe me when the boys always talked about how they slept with Stacy McGill, and how easy it had been.
Not one of those boys had ever said I had smacked his hand away if he wanted to touch me in an inappropriate place. Not one of those boys ever said that I had told them I was waiting for someone special, which I was. I wasn't the type to want to wait until I was married, but I wanted to trust the guy first. I wanted to have a real commitment with them. None of the sleazy boys from my High School had been like that, and if they were, I hadn't met them.
I was surprised Mary-Anne or Kristy hadn't found the perfect guy in the ninth or tenth grade and had stayed with them all through High School. Mary-Anne seemed the type to have a long-term boyfriend. She wasn't the same as she had been back in eighth grade, but she was still sensitive, she just had a lot more confidence. Kristy was a tom boy, but she seemed like the kind of girl who would meet the right kind of boy and stay with them forever. As far as I knew, neither had done too much dating. Though I never talked to Kristy, which I regretted.
I missed them all so much that I wanted to do something with them all like we had in the old days. I wanted to invite Kristy, Claudia and Mary-Anne over for a sleep-over, like we had in the olden days to catch up and get to know each other again. I wanted them, along with Shannon Kilbourne, Abby Stevenson, Jessi Ramsey, Mallory Pike and Dawn Schafer. I knew they were all in town again. It was just convincing them all to do it.
I know it seemed childish, and the reason I had stopped talking to them was because I had thought they were all childish, but I didn't care anymore. I missed my old friends and I wanted to get together with them all before we all went off to college. There was a chance we wouldn't see each other again after this summer.
I started working out a plan as I stared at my cell phone which had stopped ringing. It was usually a Kristy Thomas plan, but it was because of me everyone had split up, and now I was determined to get everyone back together for our last summer in Stoneybrook. I smiled at myself in the mirror as I stood in my graduation cap and gown.
"Yes, today is a day for changes." I said. "It's time to make up for the past before I grow up."
There was a knock on my door. I turned to see my mother enter. Her face broke out into a large grin when she saw me.
"Oh you are so beautiful." She said with tears in her eyes. "You looked beautiful prom night... but this, this is too much."
"Don't let your makeup run too much." I told her. "Save that for later."
She laughed. "Your right. Your father called, he said you didn't answer your cell. He wanted me to tell you that he will meet us at the school."
I nodded. "I guess we should get going then."
She held out her hand to me, I hadn't held my mothers hand in years, but suddenly I felt like a little girl again. I wanted to be one again at that moment, I had plenty of time to be grown up later.
AN: Now it will go the beginning of ninth grade. Once I get to the end of twelfth grade, it will continue from this point. So you'll know what will happen eventually. You have a good summary of what will happen in High School though. Chapters are also going to be much longer. I am working on the first chapter, but I don't know when it will be up.