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Here's chapter 43!

Please excuse my slowness, Senior Year of high school just started for me and things are already pretty busy. This chapter is kind of short but I just wanted to try and post something because I've already kept you all waiting long enough!

~Dazzler 916~

Chapter 43

Graduation

(Seth's P.O.V.)

"What a year." I said as Ella snuggled up closer to me and rested her head on my chest.

"I know." She yawned. "Don't remind me."

"Is it weird to think that we'll be graduating in twelve hours?" It was already one in the morning and I still haven't left her house yet.

I was supposed to leave ten but her parents don't know that.

"Yea. Feels like just yesterday that my parents caught us making out in the kitchen." She laughed.

"Sophomore year." I shook my head. "I'm never gonna forget the look on your dad's face when he saw us."

"You should just stay here tonight." Ella gave me the puppy dog face.

"I should be getting home." I sat up.

"Please babe?" She begged.

"Fifteen more minutes. I have some things I need to take care of tomorrow morning."

"Fine." Ella yawned again and closed her eyes.

I ran my fingers through her hair and watched her doze back off to sleep. She's so beautiful. Can't believe we actually talked our parents into letting us live together in New York.

Looking up at the ceiling started to get me thinking. My life has changed so much in such a short amount of time. And then out of nowhere came this beautiful girl who made my life so much better.

I can't wait to marry her someday.

I can't wait to finally start a new chapter of my life with her. It's gonna be great. I just know it.

"Seth?" I looked down to see Ella's eyes slightly opened.

"What's up Elle," I whispered.

Ella sat up and stared blankly at the wall. "It's June." She said.

Yea she's really tired. "I know that." I laughed quietly. "It's been June for eleven days now."

"No no no," She shook her head. Now I was a little confused.

"I don't get it." I scrunched my eyebrows together.

We looked into each other's eyes for a moment and something told me that I must be forgetting something, yet I'm not sure what it is.

"If certain events didn't happen we would have..." She trailed off for a moment and looked away from me. I could hear the sound of her heartbeat speed up a little bit.

Instead of asking her more questions and making her frustrated, I chose to stay silent and give her a second to finish what she was gonna say.

Ella reached over towards her nightstand and turned on the lamp.

"Hold on a second." She got up off the bed, walked across the room to her desk and started looking through some of her papers.

"Ella?" I wanted to know what she was looking for.

"Just a minute Seth." She kept picking up folder and going through old assignments. "Wait," She said to herself out loud. Ella dropped her folder and went back over to her nightstand and opened the top drawer. Her back was facing me so I couldn't see what she was looking at.

Ella got very quiet for a moment.

"Hey," I got up and placed my hands on her shoulders so I could get a good look at what she was holding in her hand.

She was holding the ultra sound picture from January.

"Is it crazy to think that if the accident never happened, we would've had a baby by now?" She asked me.

"No." I told her in a comforting way and then wrapped my arms around her. "It's not crazy at all. I've been thinking about it too."

"I mean, just imagine how different things would things would be right now."

"I can't." I said bluntly.

"What do you mean you can't?" She turned around to face me.

"We can't live like this anymore. It's all apart of life. It happens. And now we need to move on and accept the fact that we can't change things that happened in the past. Especially now okay? High school is just a small chapter of our lives and once graduation is done with we're getting out of this place. Never did I think I would be leaving La Push. Everything I've ever known is here. I could even go around this entire area with my eyes closed and now I have an even greater opportunity to see what the world has to offer...with you."

"Anything else you'd like to say before I kiss you?" She reached up and cupped the side of my face with her left hand and ran her thumb over the tiny hairs on my chin.

"It's getting late," She yawned. "You should probably go home and get some sleep."

Well that wasn't the response I was hoping to hear.
Good job Seth.

"I'm just kidding." A smile had come across her face the second she saw that I was beginning to frown. "I love you." She kissed me.

"I love you so much." She kissed me again.

"I love you more." I kissed her on her forehead.

I chose stay a little while longer. I left right after she went back to sleep.

When I got back to my house I took a moment to look around and I said to myself, "I'm really gonna miss this place." Quietly, I opened the window to my bedroom and crept inside, hoping not to wake up anyone. The first thing I did was lay on my bed and look up at the ceiling.

I couldn't really sleep that night. I ended up actually getting some sleep about three hours before my alarm went off and then my mom barged into my room.

"Good morning Son!" Someone had too much coffee this morning. I heard her foot steps move towards my bed, but then I heard the sound of the curtains open and to my surprise, sunlight came into my room.

"Mom, close the curtains." I groaned putting my pillow over my head.

"It's gonna be beautiful day today." She said. "Sixty-eight degrees and sunny."

"Mom!" And here comes Leah. Great.

"Mom, I'm about to leave for my appointment. What time does the ceremony start?" Her loud voice entered my room.

"Starts at 1:30, don't be late." I muttered.

"Why aren't you up yet? I thought you had stuff you had to do." Leah asked.

"I do," I yawned. "I have to go run a few errands before I head up to the school."

"Well it's already 9:07, c'mon Seth get up! I made you breakfast." Mom told me.

"Fine," I huffed. "Give me five minutes."

"That food won't be there in five minutes if I eat it." Leah mumbled under her breath.

I sat up. "I heard that. And you better keep you're greedy hands away from my food." I threatened.

"Oh I'm so scared." She said sarcastically. "Just because i'm pregnant doesn't mean I can't still beat your ass!"

"Let's all keep our fingers crossed and hope that unborn kid of hers doesn't act just like her when she get's older. Jeez." I got up, grabbed a shirt off the floor and put it on.

"How touching little brother." My sister punched my arm. It actually hurt.

"Get out of my room." I snarled.

"And for the record it's a boy." She corrected me.

"Awesome." I said in an unenthusiastic tone.

"I'll see you later Mom." Leah kissed her on the cheek, glared at me and then went out of my room.

"Finally." I huffed.

"You obviously didn't get enough sleep last night. You're so cranky this morning." My mom said as she started picking up the clean clothes on the floor and folding them.

I could still hear Leah's voice echo down the hall from the kitchen. She had still not left yet. And to make my mother happy I decided to at least try and be in a good mood.

"Leah," I dragged my feet down the hallway and yawned again as I made my way into the kitchen where Leah just finished drinking some gross looking green health drink.

"What now?" She snapped without even bothering to turn around and face me. With that, I wrapped my arms around her shoulders from behind in an awkward hug and told her,

"I love you Sis." And I really meant it.

"Love you too little bro," Leah sounded surprised to hear me say that. "I'm running late," She shook loose from my embrace.

"I'll see you later." I watched head out the door.

"Yea yea," The door slammed shut.

As I started scarfing down the stack of pancakes that my mom left for me on the counter, I looked over at the oven clock.

It's only 8:30?! Well this day is gonna go a lot slower than I thought.

After I finished eating I changed clothes and put in a pair of jeans and one of my N.Y.U. t-shirts. Ella and I still haven't asked our parents if we can move into together.

We actually planned to ask them two days ago, then Ella chickened out and didn't want to do it that day. So right now I'm heading over to Ella's to help Mrs. Gardner out with some photos I'm helping her edit.

When I drove up, Ella's car wasn't there. Then I remembered she said she was gonna be out with her grandparents having breakfast.

The side screen door that leads into the garage was unlocked, so I walked right in.

"Good morning." Mrs. Gardner was hanging up some pictures to dry on the clothing line she had set against the wall.

"These looks good." I said walking over to get a closer look. "Where did you take these?" I asked her.

"At Crater Lake. I took these a few weeks ago when I went down to Southern Oregon to go visit my sister. The weather was beautiful at day." She explained.

"Never been there, but it looks cool." I said. "Take anything new?"

"Not since Saturday, I don't know what I wanna do with them yet. Today's one of those days where my brain isn't giving me any good ideas."

"Graduation?" I guessed.

"Yes. Ella grew up too fast. Now she'll be leaving in two months for college...with you." She said.

"I promise I'll keep a good eye on her." I told her.

"I know you will." She gave me a pat on the back. "My husband and I trust you."

"Well that's good to hear." I sighed in relief.

"It's funny, I remember the first time you came over for dinner a few days after you two had met. She wouldn't stop looking at you and instantly I knew that she was starting to like you. Then as both of you started to hang out more you and her just started looking at each other differently. At first I was so skeptic about moving here especially after everything that happened with Sasha. But ever since we've moved here she's been so much happier, especially around you. You really love my daughter don't you?"

"I wanna marry her someday." I said that with confidence.

"I believe it." She gave me a warm smile and a pat on the back.

We spent a good hour on organizing her studio and editing a few photos she took from Crater Lake, Ella got home just as I was about to leave. The two of us shared a quick kiss and then headed our separate ways to go get ready for the afternoon.

Only a few hours left till my chapter of senior year ends.

Finally.

(Ella's P.O.V.)

Can't believe this is actually happening RIGHT NOW!

The only friends I'm actually sitting closest to are Belinda and Nina. Seth's at the front but he keeps turning around and winking at me.

Our principal was still in the middle of giving a very tedious speech. Mike Harley was practically snoring right next to me, then again he always falls asleep in class.

I turned around for third time to look back at my loving family.

Mom, Dad, Megan, Tony, my grandparents, some of my friends from Forks and Seth's family was sitting right next to my family along with everyone in the pack. Elijah even showed up with his wife and kids...only now he has a buzz cut and not a full head of hair.

The only person not here at the moment was Sasha, but she promised to come meet up with me later.

When I turned back around the "Graduation March" began to play.

The first row of soon be graduates stood up and made their way to the stage.

"Joseph Allen,"

"Taylor Anderson,"

"Cathrine Bismark,"

The crowd cheered as more seniors were called up to receive their diplomas and shake the principal's hand.

And then my boyfriend finally got called up.

"Our Varsity Baseball Captain, Seth Clearwater!" The principal announced.

A roar of applause had filled the gym and most of it was coming from our friends and family. I even stood up and started cheering, then again I am his imprint.

Pretty soon Chloe got called up, then Ainsley, Skylar, Belinda...and then me.

"Ella May Gardner,"

Once again, a roar of applause from my family had filled the room. Seth stood up in the front row and cheered.

I got my diploma, shook the principal's hand and then blew a kiss to my boyfriend...and this girl did it all without tripping in her new high heels that got ordered yesterday afternoon and managed to get here this morning thanks to Alice.

When I walked off the stage and back to my seat I let out a heavy sigh.

Well now that this is all said and done with, I wanna go to beach.

"Congratulations to the La Push High School Class of 2013! Go Wolves!" Our principal said.

All of us stood up and threw our caps up into the air. I made my way out of the row I stood in and ran to Seth who picked me up and spun me around in a circle.

"We did it Baby," He kissed me. "So glad it's over."

"That makes two of us," I kissed him back.

"High school's finally over! Wooohooooooo!" A random killed yelled at the top of his lungs.

After the ceremony ended we made our way over to our families.

"I'm so proud of you Elle." Mom was already crying.

"Aww you don't have to cry." I told her.

"You know how your mom is about stuff like this." Dad teased.

"Stop it." Mom rolled her eyes.

"I'm very proud of you. He hugged me.

"Thanks Dad." I smiled.

"Way to not trip on the stage." Tony gave me brotherly punch in the arm.

"Yea yea." I rolled my eyes at him.

"Congrats Ellie!" My little sister hugged me.

"Thanks Meg."

I was at the gym for a little while as I continued talking with my family and Seth's family as they all congratulated us. Seth and I got a little anxious to get out of here after a while.

"You two go on out of here and have fun, we'll catch up with you later." Sue told us.

Seth and I ran out of the gymnasium and into the parking lot where all our friends were.

"Hey look, the New York superstars have arrived." Chloe teased us.

"Oh shut up. So are we still going to the beach?" I asked everyone.

"I speak for the girls when I say this, but I would like to go home and change first." Nina said.

"Probably a good idea. This grad cap messed up my hair." Lindy teased.

"Belinda you're hair looks fine." Mateo told her.

"No it doesn't Teo." She argued with her boyfriend.

"Well we're gonna go home and change, but we'll see all of you in a little bit." Seth told everyone.

Seth and I walked hand in hand to his car. Right when we got in and he started the car he looked over at me,

"We still have a good two hours." He said.

"So what are gonna do till then?" I asked.

"Hmmm, well maybe we should..." I trailed off and Seth unzipped the front of my graduation gown. "Why is it that you're too damn good at reading my mind."

"Because you're so sexy." He grinned.

I smashed my lips against his and we started making out...and then it got awkward a minute later when my arm hit the center of steering wheel and honked the horn.

It startled the both of us.

"Babe, we're still in the school parking lot." I told him.

"Yea, I should probably get us out of here." He winked at me.

So glad graduation went by fast.

Review! Thanks for reading! I will update soon!

~Dazzler 916~