Four months later…
"Avery Harrison!" With my heart fluttering up to my throat, I stood up from my seat and made my way to the front of the stage. I prayed that I would not trip on my graduation cloak and embarrass myself in front of the entire school. I carefully went up the stairs. "Miss Avery graduated today with Honor's and the tennis captain. She was a brilliant student from the start and her kindness and brilliance has shone through to make her a Forks High School senior graduate. She will be attending Colorado University. Congratulations Avery!" I blushed as the crowd gave me a huge round of applause. Shaking hands with the principal and accepting my diploma, I turned around on the stage and prepared myself for my speech. Nerves and excitement were coming over me in huge waves.
I glanced around the expectant crowd. Around in the middle of the crowd, I saw Renee, Will, Charlie, Bella, Edward, Alice, Jasper, Emmet, Rosalie, Esme, Carlisle (the Cullen's parents) and Jacob all grinning up at me. That gave me newfound courage and I cleared my throat.
"So this year for me has been absolutely amazing. I was only able to be here for the remainder of my senior year, but in that short time I made the greatest friends anyone could ever have.
"Before when I lived in Idaho I thought I had the perfect life; tons of friends, good grades, a super boyfriend, money, popularity, and love. But something happened that made me have to move here. And I will admit that I hated this place before. But now it's the best place for anyone.
"So I just wanna thank my mother and all of my awesome friends, and the teachers here for making my life here just that much more enjoyable. Thank you."
As I made my way down the stairs I was deafened by the sound of cheers. I went to Renee and Jacob and sat between them. I realized that I was crying and so was Renee. My life here was pretty good. Will had graduated a week before me and he had flown out here to come to my graduation. Jacob was going to be a senior next year, but he still came. And of course Bella and the Cullen's came to graduate. But it saddened me to know that my father would never see me graduate. I kept on glancing around just to make sure he wasn't there and I had just missed him before.
I clapped for all the rest of the graduates. Afterwards I went to a huge party. The parents had left and Will and Jacob unfortunately had to go too. Alice had gotten me a beautiful light blue silk dress with one strap going over the left shoulder. On the rim of the bottom was some black lace and over the bust was matching black lace with a bow on the left. I had matched it with a pair of Marc Jacobs black suede pumps with a band around the ankle. My hair had been crimped in put in a purposely messy bun with a strand of hair framing my face. I had to admit, I was pretty sexy!
The school had rented out part of a hotel, and there was everything: a DJ, a dance floor, and tons of food and drinks. Now this is the part I regret the most about what happened that night. They had alcohol there and I got into a have you ever game. If you had done something that a person would say you would take a swig of Vodka. Well long story short I ended up getting drunk (along with a whole bunch of other wild kids).
I guess I passed out. After that everything kind of went in and out of my mind. I remember hearing lots of different people's voices. Someone was laughing, at me. I felt someone strong and cold pick me up and put me into what felt a car...then I completely went blank. Until later that night.
I woke up in the dark the next time my eyes opened. I sat bolt upright and then I felt and searing pain shoot all the way up from my ankles to my head, and the pain stayed in my head. Even in the dark I felt dizzy. Slowly I sat back down. Groping around in the darkness, I searched for my bedside lamp. Turning it on, I realized I indeed was inside my bedroom. Safe and warm. In all a rush, I remembered last nights events. Groaning, I tried to stand up but collapsed. Thinking, Oh-no, I'm gonna fall and I'm not going to be able to get back up, I closed my eyes and waited for the blow. But it never came. Instead I felt a pair of unusually cold, strong arms wrap around me.
Gasping, I looked up and met a pair of cold topaz eyes…
Ok, so sorry I wasn't able to put this up yesterday. But with school starting soonish I'm not going to be putting up chapters very often. And I know this was a super short chapter, but the next one will be longer and better. Oh and FYI the topaz eyes are NOT Edward's…and Remember REVIEW!!