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It's graduation!
A day supposed to be the happiest
The happiest at least in half a decade
And here on a moulded parapet alone
Sat with visions blurred
And blinks with the speed of the clocks
It's graduation!
A day not as envisaged
With friends, love and family
In high praise and in great pride
In bliss and much merry
With fatted calves and drinks fizzy
It's graduation!
An end to a period of timelessness
In times of hunger and dreams unknown
In times of thirst and early wakes
Missions to accomplish in depths of stress
It's graduation!
A day that begins it all
-Nicholas Boateng
School – oh how I didn't miss it. Today, Jill and I started school again after our suspension, and thankfully, we only had two months until graduation. Two months of studying. Two months of people having break-downs. Two months of total freedom. The school had decided that we would work better at home, so they were letting the seniors come to school two days of the week – courteously of Jill's wishful thinking, if you catch my drift.
"Ew, it's uglier than I remember" Jill hissed, pulling down the sunglasses sitting on top of her blonde hair. Today she wore a tight red blouse, black jeans and black high heels. You could only see her tattoos today because the blouse finished at her elbows.
"Hey!" Jessica Stanley hugged Jill's slutty 'sister' Juliette roughly, tossing her around like a rag doll. I was pretty sure they were going to come out of the closet soon, because they were drooling all over each other.
"It's a free porno" Jill groaned, dragging me inside the hell hole us teenagers called school. Students littered the hallway like bugs attracted to a dead carcass. They moved out of the way as soon as they spotted my best friend and I, but a few unlucky pupils got knocked over by Jill. I loved that they were so fearful of us.
"Two more months, Bella" Jill said 'my name' more forceful than necessary, adding a smirk to the end of it. I laughed and made it to my locker just as an announcement went over the speakers.
"All senior students report to the gymnasium immediately. I repeat, all senior students report to the gymnasium immediately" The robotic voice of the school receptionist rang throughout the halls, making a few seniors groan in annoyance. Jill and I walked slowly towards the gym, only stopping whenever we seemed fit. When we finally arrived, everyone was there and sitting down in uncomfortable chairs. Fortunately, two empty chairs were situated at the very back, facing the stage. We claimed them before anyone could look our way.
"Good morning, students" Mr Greene called into the microphone. "As of this week, you will arrive to school on only Tuesdays and Thursdays. You are more than welcome to come other days and study in the library, but you will not have any periods to attend too"
"This day could not get any better" Jill whispered to me, a cheeky grin on her face.
"Now, our school performing arts dance team have a number to show you all" Mr Greene clapped and gestured over to the students wearing nothing but black leggings and shirts. They tried, they really did.
"And I was right" Jill continued, snickering as one of the dancers fell over. It got worse as soon as the music changed from some 80's classic to an upbeat number. By the end of the performance, Jill's and my face were red and tears were leaking from my eyes. They bowed before running off stage, tripping over their own two feet.
"Thank you ladies, and now a special announcement from Mrs Wells" Mrs Wells was a highly regarded teacher that I loved to piss off. She was a rounded lady that looked like a heart attack waiting to happen, and she always wore white.
"Thank you, Mr Greene" her deep voice filled the gymnasium. "Us teachers have decided who our Valedictorian for 2012 will be…Jessica Stanley" Wow…shocking. Everyone clapped enthusiastically as she stood up on stage, bowing and holding her hand to her heart.
"Thank you so much everyone, especially Mr Greene. I couldn't have done this without you, sir" she looked over at our principle and blushed like a maniac. I only caught the wink he sent her for a second, but I still saw it.
"Oh my god! Jessica's doing the principle!" I hissed at Jill, dragging her arm and leaving the now sweaty gymnasium. Jill's eyes bugged out of her head as she stared at me, a creepy smile soon replaced her shock.
"This fucking awesome!" she screamed, slapping a few lockers shut.
"What?! How is this 'fucking awesome'?"
"Think about it Char, if we can get some actual evidence, like a photo or video, we can blackmail that bitch" I wasn't sure if she was referring to Mr Greene or Jessica as the bitch, but I went along with her plan anyway.
"Okay, so what do we do?" I walked behind Jill as we entered the media room, thankful it wasn't occupied by a sophomore class. She grabbed three hand-held cameras and placed them delicately on the blue table out the front of the class.
"We'll place these around his office, because they will meet up again during the week, and no doubt it will be in his office: I'm sure he has kinky shit in there somewhere" she placed overly large batteries in all three of them. "These batteries last for a good 170 hours, which is just past a week. Oh, and she will be thanking him sometime soon for the position of valedictorian"
"And you need me to put the cameras in his office and turn them on?" Jill nodded enthusiastically at me before handing me the cameras and walking off. I sighed, and walked towards the office. Thankfully, the emergency assembly going on was still in progress, but I was positive it would be finishing in a few minutes. I crept into the office, making sure the receptionist wasn't being a sneaky bugger and hiding. She wasn't, so I walked over to the door that had 'Mr Greene' in huge black letters over the top of it. I tried the door, and was surprised to find it unlocked. Didn't he know this school was known for stealing things?
"Ow!" I hissed, tripping over the loveseat situated in the middle of the room. I rubbed the now sore spot on my shin and contemplated on where the best views would be. I turned them all on before I decided where to put them. I chose to place a camera on the bookshelf right next to the entrance door, covering it with a book. I placed another one in a vase facing Mr Greene's desk, and I was thankful the vase had holes in it. The last one I chose to put it on a shelf behind his chair – it would be blend in with some plastic fruits. I left his office just as the bell rang. Jill skipped towards me with a huge grin on her face.
"Where the hell were you?" I asked, walking beside her towards our second period class. Her smirk never left.
"I was poking holes in Jessica Stanley's condom packet"
"And how did you get Jessica Stanley's condom packet?" I was honestly not surprised by Jill's actions; I had been expecting something like this from her.
"I know everyone's locker combinations, and I just happened to stumble across hers. So, I decided to have a little bit 'o fun" by the end of her sentence, she sounded like a hill-billy on drugs. I shook my head at her, and stepped into Government.
"Ah, ladies, so good to see you back" the teacher clapped sarcastically. I rolled my eyes at his poor attempt to make the class laugh, and sat down at a bare table. The teacher went on to tell us about the homework he would be expected from us during the week sometime. It was something to do with law or democracy…I honestly didn't know. My phone vibrated in my pocket, indicating my phone was either having another one of its vibrating fits, or someone sent me a text.
First day of school since the 'incident', and I've already gone wolf – J
I laughed at Jacob's message, showing Jill who was carving something into the table with her pocket knife. She made a 'pfft' sound before turning back to her handy work. Jacob had referred to the whole 'turning into a wolf' fiasco with the 'incident' – just in case some normal human was to look through his texts.
Yay! Have you attacked anyone yet? Maybe a certain female someone with black hair and her last name rhymes with deer slaughter… - B
I quickly hid my phone in my bra before the teacher came around to check our work. He took Jill's knife away and searched for our papers.
"Where's your work?" he demanded, leaning his heavy weight on the table. I would have been scared that he was going to break the damned thing, but the table had metal support down the middle of it. God, it's like Jesus knew these tables were going to be in his class.
"I can't write; my hand's broken" I explained, lifting up my limp wrist in the process. He glared at me before fixing his gaze on Jill, who was still trying to carve into the table, but now with a pencil.
By the end of the day, I had three projects and a whole heap of homework due. Pfft, and the teachers thought I would do it…pa-lease.
"That was officially the shittiest day of school ever!" Jill complained, jumping in Chevy while I threw around my homework sheets. Jill didn't want to drive Lamborghini because 'people would think it is suspicious' – I had to give her credit, she really thought it through.
"I hear ya" I started the engine before pulling out of my parking space. I nearly ran over Juliette, but unfortunately she jumped out of the way before I could make contact.
"Damn it!" Jill had cursed. I just laughed, and started driving towards my place. Charlie had been leaving a lot usually because people were frequently getting murdered and fondled by old people. So, Jill and I had made a silent agreement that we would go see Jacob and Billy – unannounced. I entered La Push and already felt warmer. Fucking werewolves and their weather.
"I bet he's going to be so jealous when he finds out we only have two days of school a week" Jill chuckled, playing around with the radio. I slapped her hand away as soon as the device made a weird squeaking sound.
"No touching the merchandise" I scolded, taking a hard left. She rubbed her hand as we entered the familiar woodsy land of the Black's. We made it just as Jacob stepped on his porch.
"What's up, son?" Jill called, getting out of the car before it even came to a stop. She immediately jumped on his back, swinging her legs and arms around like the little spastic she was.
"I missed you terribly" she went on. I laughed and jumped on his back too. It was now wide enough for three people. My little unborn monster child was one lucky lady. Jacob chuckled before swinging and jumping us around, purposely throwing off Jill. Luckily, she landed on the grass.
"Bitch" Jill hissed, standing up and dusting off dirt on her behind. I got off willingly and made my way to the shed, which was when I saw two motorcycles perched up against it. One was red and looked like it had come from hell and back, and the other was blue with mud attached to the surface.
"No! Don't even think about it" Jacob yelled as I got on, revving the engine so loud I was sure China could hear me. I smirked, and moved forward. Jacob stood his ground as he glared at me – I was riding around him in circles. Unlike little Bellsy fucking Swan, I was awesome at riding motorcycles. I had ridden them for ten years before my mother got broke and sold it without my knowing. Stupid home-wrecking bitch.
"I'll give you to the count of three" he warned, holding up three fingers. By now, Jill had taken the red bike and was following me. I could tell he was starting to get dizzy, but he tried really hard to keep up his composure.
"One…" I giggled as I went faster.
"Two.." Jill sped up and tried hitting the back of my bike.
"Three" I couldn't even see his hands wrapping around my torso, lifting me up and off the bike. In his other arm, Jill dangled carelessly. I could tell the bikes had already fallen over, because the engines whined and groaned.
"I warned you" Jacob tsked, placing us back on the ground. I rolled my eyes and stamped my foot on the ground. This was so not fair! And, I wanted to have fun!
"Can we pretty please, with a dog treat on top, ride on the bikes?" Jill begged, getting on the ground and grasping onto Jacob's bare leg. He was lucky to be wearing shorts today, because I was sure Jill would have already pulled them down by now.
"No" Jacob stated, walking back towards the safe confines of his home. Jill sighed before checking her nails – she was up to something.
"It's alright, I'd be jealous if a bike was faster than me too" Jacob's back tensed, but he never turned back. "Especially if I was a dog" she went on. During the whole ordeal, my mouth and eyes were wide open. She was practically skipping on her grave right now.
"Fine – you're so on" before Jill or I could blink, Jacob shifted into a very large russet wolf. His clothes turned into tiny confetti pieces. His brown eyes stared at us for a second before he took off. We were quick to move as we grabbed the bikes, started them up, and sped out of there. Jill was slightly behind me, but I knew she wasn't really trying: she was enjoying the moment. I caught sight of Jacob's wolf through the tree-line – he had waited for us.
"This is paradise, Bella" Jill yelled over the engine, swerving to the other side of the road as soon as a car had past. I wanted to yell out 'I know', but I kept quiet. I was enjoying this moment too: soon I would be knocked up and married, and maybe I would never get out of this psychotic land of the supernatural. Don't get me wrong, I would miss Jacob and Jill more than my own life, but I sure did miss Rhi, and even Riley. Jacob's wolf howled for a second before sprinting up ahead.
"What's up his ass?" Jill asked, now riding right beside me. The wind whipped her hair all over the place, but she somehow looked graceful. Lucky bitch!
"I dunno – maybe Sam's on his man period" we sped up, trying our hardest to catch up to Jacob, thinking someone had contacted him through the wolf mind-link. I could see his tail from up ahead – we were gaining on him. Soon, we were neck and neck with him. His head whipped to meet our smirking stares – his eyes narrowed before he gained more and more speed. By now, we were going at least four times over the limit.
"We've nearly got him!" I screamed to Jill, my grin getting wider and wider as my speed increased. Jill laughed before trying to meet my bike. With a deep breath, I pulled the accelerator towards me. The bike jerked forwards with such speed, I nearly fell off. Jill yelled out complaints, but soon they were non-existent. I smiled as I passed Jacob, waving my hand as his head watched my every movement. A wolf-y grin spread along his fury face before he really ran. He had been slowing down for us, sneaky bugger.
"Woah!" I yelled as my bike started to shake. I turned over to the controls and saw the fuel levels were bellow empty. Well…shit. Slowly, I pulled the brakes and kept the bike from shaking. My breath came out in short gasps whenever the bike jerked one way to the other, which was quite frequent.
"Thank the G-Lord" I muttered as soon as the death ride stopped. A prancy russet wolf ran back, howling and skipping along the dirt road. Soon, it was doing some sort of Beyoncé dance in front of my eyes.
"Has Jacob finally 'come out'?" Jill laughed, placing her bike on the ground next to mine. We watched in amusement as he jumped all over the place – radiating pure happiness. I was fairly certain this was the happiest he had been since he found out about Billy condition worsening. He wasn't exactly depressed, but merely confused and sad about the whole thing. God, I would be too if Charlie was going through the same thing, even though we weren't really related.
"I'd say so" I chuckled, leaning against a huge tree behind me. It took another few minutes for Jacob to finally settle down, but even then he was still jumping and howling.
"Shut the fuck up" Jill yelled, now annoyed that he was rubbing it in his face. He howled again, but that quickly disappeared as soon as Jill hopped onto his back. I thought it was impossible, since he was the size of a large racing horse, but she still managed to do it. Just like before, he shook her off effortlessly.
"Fuck!" she cursed, dusting off again for the second time today. I laughed before taking a stroll through the trees. I eventually made it to the top of a cliff, but not just an ordinary cliff, it was the cliff.
"Oh! Can we go cliff diving?" Jill asked, looking down at La Push beach with seemed miles away. Jacob was now in human form, and surprisingly there was a pair of shorts on his waist. Did he bring those with him? Or did he find them behind some tree? I was guessing the latter.
"No" he groaned, taking a seat on a log a few metres away. It seemed like forever since that Halloween night, and it made me feel old.
"Why now? I promise I won't die" Jill looked over the edge, her face paling a few shades. She shivered before stepped back a few metres. Was she scared? I peered over the cliff, and realised why she looked so frightened: the waves crashed against the cliff like a stampede of bulls were going at it, and the water didn't even look that deep. I gulped before facing Jill and Jacob with a grin on my face: no way in hell was I even going to show them I was scared.
"It doesn't look that bad" I commented, peering over again. Jill scoffed while Jacob kept a knowing grin on his face. He could most likely see through my act, but Jill was still easily fooled.
"Fine – why don't you jump off it then?"
"I would, but this is my favourite shirt"
"Then take it off"
"As if I'm flashing Jacob!" the idea repulsed me, and by the look on his face, I could tell the image scared him. Don't get me wrong, I knew he was straight, but we had too much respect for each other to think erotic thoughts about the other. The thought made me want to throw up.
"Another day then" she smirked again, thinking she had got me. Well, she had got me, but I wasn't ever going to back down that easily. I looked down at the water again just as another wave crashed against the surface. It wasn't even a windy day!
"Another day" I confirmed. And, to seal the deal, we shook hands. I smiled and Jill narrowed her eyes. It was definitely on…wait, what the fuck had I done?
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