Chapter 11
Graduation
A/N: Thank you everyone who has supported this. I am going to assume we are half-way through this story, so, yep. Enjoy!
Everyone has felt relieved that they left the darker side of the book. The team still suspected that there would be more moments like that, but now that their quiet ninja was done winning sparring matches, she was at a party. Everyone in the background was dressed fancy-looking.
In this picture, May and standing beside Sun Lin with their arms wrapped around their shoulders in a friendly way. Melinda was wearing a short, baby doll red dress that barely passed her knees. She was wearing a bracket on her right arm. It was a silver colour that was shining because of the flash from the camera.
Her shoes were black high heels, that looked about 3 inches. There was a certain complexity to the shoes.
Beside her, Sun Lin was wearing a short orange dress that looked like Melinda's. Sun Lin was wearing a necklace that was a golden colour around her neck. It looked like it was a locket of some sort.
Her shoes were silver flats. They had a little bow on the front of each shoe. "This is Melinda and Sun Lin at graduation," said Skye. "Grad. We were just looking at her starting high school moments ago."
"I don't think it was 'moments' ago," explained Coulson.
"Fine, maybe half an hour, if that," she corrected.
"What did she do after high school? Was she at the academy?" asked Simmons.
Coulson nodded. "Yep." After the team realized what Coulson said, they moved to the next picture. The team was excited to see the next pictures of her at the academy, but could wait these last three pictures before seeing the pictures.
The next picture was very similar, but was with Koh. He was wearing a nice black tailored suit with a white-collar shirt underneath. He had a skinny blue tie that had a plaid design that included white, navy blue, light blue, and yellow.
He had a shiny watch on his left arm that was wrapped around Melinda's waist. His hair was combed back and gelled to keep his hair in place. His shoes were nice, black dress shoes. "This is quite sweet," said Simmons. "They both seemed happy." They both showed big smiles with their teeth.
"We should get Coulson to convince her to dress up and do it again," Skye said, thinking how she could get a picture of both her parents for the future.
"Not again," he muttered to himself, but became unlucky when everyone glared at him.
"Again?" Simmons asked, thinking what he could be talking about.
Coulson, the leader of the team who never let people's words affect him, blushed slightly. "Yes," he said. "Again. It doesn't matter though."
"I am getting really excited to see these next pictures," Skye said, who held the book up higher for a moment so she could stretch her legs.
"Let's continue," Ward said, who didn't seem thrilled about what Skye said. Everyone shrugged as they looked at the next picture. Koh, Sun Lin, and Melinda were all in the picture, but what was different from the last picture was that they weren't serious, but were posing and laughing.
There was Koh, who was the most serious out of all of them. He was standing in the front holding his right hand up, with his finger in the shape of a gun. His left hand was in the pit of his arm.
Behind his, there was Melinda resting her head on his right shoulder. Her eyes looked like they were watching her ears, but they weren't sure if that was an intention or not. Her right arm was wrapped around his waist and the other one was holding at the pit of his left arm. Her knees were slightly bent, but her right knee was the only one that was hovering beside his right knee. The other leg wasn't noticeable.
Sun Lin wasn't that noticeable in the picture, but you could tell that she was behind Koh slightly. She had her left hand holding a cocktail glass with some liquid in it, though not much. Her right hand was holding something that looked like an egg, but the team wondered where they got the egg from, but wouldn't know until Melinda came back. "I get it," said Fitz, who was laughing quietly to himself.
Coulson took another look at it before going into his conscious to remember what Melinda liked when she was at the academy. He kept thinking about her interests, then he came with something. "What year was this again?" he asked.
"Some time after 1983," Simmons explained, getting the movie reference.
Skye said, "Was that-"
"Don't ruin it for Coulson!" Simmons said. "Let him think about it and move on to the next picture."
In the last picture of the page, there was Melinda standing beside a women who looked to be Melinda's mother. Melinda was holding a diploma one of her hands while the other free hand was wrapped around her mother's waist. They were both smiling together. "This is Melinda who has graduated from high school," Skye read. The team smiled.
"This is sweet," Simmons said. "I wish we knew this side of her before."
"I think we can all agree to that," answered Skye. The team nodded before Skye flipped to the next page.
Hope you've enjoyed and tell me what you think. If you want anything specifically, just ask. Also, whoever guesses that movie reference with what Koh, Melinda, and Sun Lin will be mention as the winner in the next chapter. I will tell what movie it is if no one has guessed it.
