American Dad Ivan Grozny School Siege
12:00PM Langley, Virginia
Twenty year old Hayley Smith walked around Ivan Grozny University waiting for her friend Ray Adams to straighten his black mortarboard a top his head. Once the hat was perched neatly a top his head he greeted her with a firm handshake.
Today was the university's first graduation of the year. Last year's graduation was cancelled due to a malfunction with the central cooling system and old auditorium. The graduates eventually received their certificates of completion from a different university. Hayley couldn't remember the name; her memory at times seemed to fail her. She wasn't graduating however, Ray was. She was still a junior trying to finish the final semester of her year after transferring from her community college. Ray was a senior and had met her in middle school in Lynchburg. He'd never imagine he would graduate from Ivan Grozny University. It wasn't a difficult school to get into but its curriculum was overly demanding.
Hayley walked beside him as they marched across the courtyard. A medium size statute of Ivan Grozny toward over their heads, Ray grumbled at the statute. She smiled wearily. Today is sure going to be an eventful day…She thought suddenly turning to Ray halting him in his stride. "Ray I'm going to miss you!" She hugged him affectionately stroking the back his head gingerly. He hugged her in return surprise by her mournful mood. He nodded agreeing.
"I'm going to miss you too. I'll miss you're left wing Marxist attitude!" They both shared a laugh before breaking the hug.
"Get going before the coordinators have a near heart attack!" She patted his head watching him leave the courtyard to jog over to the brand new recently built auditorium where a massive crowd of black gowned and mortarboard capped congregation of students had gathered. The majority of the crowd was women less than half were men. Ray was still intimidated by his old junior high fears of girls in large crowds. All the women seemed to stare at him as if to say, 'look at this one…Late as always!' He quickly shuffled over to the men huddled in their own circle with most of their backs turned to the women. There was an invisible barrier between the two groups that could not be broken by the coordinators who ordered everyone to stay in their place and not move from in front of the auditorium. A handful of parents watched smiling.