GRADUATE-Alex

Can I graduate
Can I graduate
Can I look into the faces that I meet
Can I get my punk-ass off the street

I'm actually graduating. Me. Alex Nunez. It's surprising. I surprised myself. I probably surprised everyone else.

I've been living on for so long
Can I graduate
To the bastard talking down to me
Your whipping boy calamity

So now that I'm getting out of high school, I have no idea what I'm going to do with my life. Paige had wanted to get an apartment with me by Banting. But I needed my own life. So I dumped her. Maybe I'll join the peace core, maybe I'll join the army like I told her, but I'm really not sure.

Cross your fingers
I'm going to knock it all down
Can I graduate

When I first came to Degrassi in grade 10, I was the bitch, Jay's girlfriend. Jay was my first everything. I don't know for sure, but there's a good chance that we'd still be going out if he hadn't cheated on me with that pathetic excuse for a best friend, Amy, and little miss cause girl, Greenpeace, Emma Nelson. Sean's ex.

Echo fading
We can't let go
She goes walking by in slow mo'

So Jay cheated on me and I became even more cold heated trying to forget everything about him. I move on, or try to, and I somehow develop a crush on Paige. Paige Michalchuk of all people. I went to the premire of Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh? With her, and spent the night at her house, where I kissed her. The next day, Paige and I are going out.

Sell your
Heart out for a buck
Go on
Fade out
Before I get stuck

Well, Paige got into Banting. And she wanted me to go with her. We ould get a little apartment, she'd be at university classes during the day, and I'd still be working at a movie theatre. Not my style.

"Maybe I'll join the peace core, maybe I'll go to a community college, I don't know. But I need to figure it out on my time."

"What's that supposed to mean."

"You'll be able to figure it out, you always were the smart one, Paige," I say walking away from her.

Talking to somebody like you
Do you live the days you go through
Will this song live on long after we do

And while I was the one who broke up with her, it hurt like a bitch. Of course, no amount of pain will ever amount to the amount of pain I felt with Jay. He fucking broke my heart. And I'll always love him, but not like I used to.

Can I graduate
Can I look into the faces that I meet
Can I get my punk-ass off the street, won't die on the vine
I want to knock it all down

When I got home that night, Jay was sitting on the couch, and he was defiantly the last person I wanted to see right now. He'd been trying to get me back all year, and I sue as hell didn't need him trying it tonight. But it turns out he was just there to watch a game with Chad, until he fucking passed out like he does every fucking night. And Jay, being the smart ass he is, tried yet again to get me back.

Can I graduate
Echo fading
Candle blow
Did you flash out long ago

"I'm not bi Jay, and I'm not confused. I'm a lesbian. Who just broke up with her first girlfriend and it sucks."

"I'm sorry. That's the first time I've said it and actually meant it."

"That's the first time you said it and I actually believed you."

And for the first time, Jay was there. Actually there. For me to have a shoulder to cry on, to have a friend to talk to about everything. And for the first time in a over a year, I opened my heart to Jay Hogart. The same Jay that stole my heart when I was five, the same one who broke it, was now somehow, being the one to repair it.

Cross my fingers
I don't know someone poked you down below
Can I graduate

And I'm here today, on the steps of DCS, about to throw my cap in the air. But to me, it's not just a cap that I'm throwing. To me, that cap represents everything I want to get rid of. Every mistake, every fuck up, every horrible memory. That's what I throwing.

Can I get my punk-ass off the street
Can I look into the faces that I meet
I'm not waiting here for you to die
Will this song live on long after we do

As I toss my cap in the air, and hug everyone, I look out into the crowd. And see an orange civic pulling away. I smile to myself and think Goodbye, Jay. Goodbye Degrassi.

A/N: I forgot to give credit for the songs on the other chapters.
MY WISH-Rascal Flatts
PHOTOGRAPH-Nickleback
GOOD RIDDANCE-Green Day
FRIENDS FOREVER-Viatmin C
GOODBYE-Spice Girls

This song (GRADUATE) belongs to Third Eye Blind.

Next chapter: Jimmy.

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