Summer was approaching. Dylan had kept his distance the last month, Emily had dumped him after spring fling. Kelly and Steve remained friends, Donna and David were officially together.
West Bev
"Alright, kids." Mrs Teasly spoke as the kids settled into their seats, "Summer is approaching, so I thought we'd have a little fun considering this is our last day of school. I've placed papers on your desks. I want you to write your thoughts down, it could be anything. Today, we aren't reading about great writers. Today you are the writers, and we're going to look inside your lives."
"I just want summer to start so we can start going to the beach and getting lucky." Steve grinned
"Well, you don't have much to write down then." David smirked
"I'm at a loss." Dylan sighed
"Just write down what you feel." Andrea comforted
"I might need some more paper." Dylan joked
"Take your time, and hand them in at the end of the day." Mrs Teasly added
Caferteria
"Hey." David smiled, gazing at Donna as he sat opposite her
"Hey." She blushed as he held her hand
"I'm gonna puke." Steve joked
"I think it's cute." Kelly smiled at them
"There's the jerk." Steve groaned, pointing at Dylan. "What's he doing with Andrea?!"
"Jealous, Steve?" Kelly smirked
"No. I'm just surprised she'd hang out with such a guy." Steve replied
Lockers
"Where's Kelly?" David asked, approaching Donna
"She went to hand in her paper to Mrs T." Donna replied
"Alright, well when you see her tell her to find me. It's important she meets me before she gets home." David urged
"Alright, everything okay?" Donna asked
"I don't know." David shrugged
"Wanna talk?" Donna asked
"We will, I just... have to tell Kelly first."
School Parking
"Hey..." Dylan greeting, approaching David and Steve
"What do you want?" Steve snapped
"Look... Sorry I've been such an ass. You guys were trying to be my friends and I threw it away."
"Well that's fine, because we don't wanna see you." Steve retorted
"Alright, I get that... But anyway, here David." Dylan handed him the broach, "It belongs to Donna. And Steve, here's the money you lent David." Dylan handed him the cash and walked off
Kelly was just about to get into her car
"Kelly!" David called after her.
"Yeah? Need a ride home?" Kelly asked
"No, I'm gonna go to the peach pit with Donna, I'll see you at home."
"Alright."
"But Kelly, before you go, there's something you need to know."
"What is it?"
"Our parents... your mum's pregnant." David let out, and Kelly stood there speechless.
"I can't do this." Kelly got into her car
"I'm sorry, my dad just told me today." David shrugged
"At least your father told you." Kelly exhaled, and David walked away, knowing they both needed to process this alone.
"Kel!" Dylan called over as David left
"Can't a girl get in her car?" Kelly mumbled to herself
"I want you to see this."
"This isn't a good time, Dylan."
"Just read it." Dylan handed her the paper
"This is Mrs T's assignment."
"Yeah... I'm gonna go to Europe for the summer, we won't be seeing each other for a while," He added, Kelly sighed and began to read his paper.
"This year, I've felt a storm of emotions, some familiar ones and some unfamiliar. Lonely, depressed, exhausted, drunk, if that's even an emotion, all the usual ones that cloud my thoughts, but this year, there were new ones, at least they seem new, maybe things have just finally reached the surface. I've been so afraid of letting anyone in and getting hurt that I've made a habit to hurt anyone that tries to get in. So people haven't tried for a while. But this year, people have, and I either hurt them or ran. Maybe I am a coward, I'd rather be the one to leave, at least then I have left by choice. I guess, I believe that if I stick around, they'll realise there isn't that much to me, and leave... And if that were the case, I couldn't handle it. What if there is no mystery after all. What if I'm not worth knowing? I'd rather be the guy that everyone wonders about, then the guy that disappointed everyone. So between hurting and leaving them, and not bothering to let them in at all, there was one common thread. Her. When someone's beauty catches your eye, and you can't look away, it does something to a person. Maybe I shouldn't have bothered at all, maybe we'd both be better off, but I guess risk won that fight, and I hurt her, and I left her and I just wanted her to know, that if I wasn't a coward, if I could do this, if I could really find it in myself to be brave enough to go for what I want, then I'd be with her right now." Kelly exhaled after reading it. "I don't suppose this is for Emily?"
"No." Dylan chuckled, "I haven't exactly been boyfriend material. I mean, I cheated. She found out at spring fling that I bought a gift for another girl and then I left spring fling without her." He chuckled, "I actually judge her for not dumping me sooner."
"So is that why you wrote this for me? Because she dumped you."
"Only you would think like that, Kel."
"You're going away... so why show me this?"
"Because... I wanted you to know my feelings for you are real. I just can't do it... And you're the one person here that I can't have look at me with such disappointment."
"Well here, you better hand this in." Kelly gave it back to him, he was about to walk away until she spoke again, "Dylan... my mother's pregnant."
"And the plot thickens."
"I heard about what you did for Steve and David."
"Well, I wanted you guys to remember something good about me."
"I'm gonna need a friend, Dylan. Someone I can actually talk to."
"Maybe in september... after we get some distance from this." Dylan sighed, and walked off.
Summer arrived. Dylan was gone. The gang spent it on the beach. David and Kelly helped each other adapt to the pregnancy. The gang spent their days on the beach, getting closer. Even Andrea had become a part of it. Things were peaceful. Kelly met a guy named Jake a couple weeks before the summer ended, but he had been hot and cold with her, another mystery.
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