Guys I'm so sorry! I've been busy all week what with school starting again and all that crap. So I'm literally writing this chapter on Monday, the day I'm going to post. So, this is either gonna be crazy short, or late. I wrote a chapter, but then I hated it, so I'm writing a new one.

Also, a good thing to know about this story is- it's not really a bunch of drama to get to love. Jack's love is pretty straight forward and so is Kim's. It's really about what people do "because they care."

Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

"Your assignment for today is to write an essay on the "future." I'll collect them at the end of class," Mrs. Sherwood stated.

Future

The future is hard to anticipate. It's not something we can all think about. In other words, yes, the future is what somebody will have for lunch tomorrow. But it's more than just that.

The future is unpredictable. We can't precisely know the future. We can prepare for it all we want: stabilize our houses for earthquakes, write our wedding vows early. But spontaneous things are going to happen. For all we know, despite scientific calculations, the world could explode tomorrow. This is unlikely, incredibly unlikely, but it's still possible. Anything is possible.

I'm not exactly sure if my previous example is good or not, because I'm writing about the future, and not science. However, I can say that I know what I mean.

Having no regrets. That's a pretty important message. In the world, we regret a lot: not saying I love you, not pursuing our dreams, not causing your friend to laugh when you could've. However stupid your regret may seem, it is still a regret; a lost opportunity.

We don't know what's ahead us. We don't know who will be with us. I can't guarantee my friends will be with me when my world ends. I can't be sure I'll be with them when theirs end. It's kind of sad, when you think about it. So many high school friends, soon to be memories. You'll look upon them with nostalgia, when you're lying on the couch all languid and hopeless. I can only hope that in thirty years I may have the honor of being near one of my friends.

Those songs, saying we'll always be connected, they are true to a certain degree. I'll always have everyone I ever knew in my heart, forever. Only sometimes, an important person becomes so tiny in my sea of people I value because they no longer hold importance, and I'll forget them. But I won't really forget. I like to think that when you forget something, it is your brain hiding something that's waiting to be remembered. Like hide and seek. And I think with the more people I meet, the more I get the idea that I shall never forget anybody in the future. I'll be connected, in a way, to them.

Granted, there's no way of saying I'll make it that long. This world- we only live here for so long. Then we're gone. Some of us leave a mark, some of us don't. I can't say what I want to happen because I don't know yet. I don't think I'll know until I die. And then it will be too late, and I can only hope I left happily.

My boyfriend, my friends, my warriors, will always be important. But eventually, I'm not going to keep doing karate. I want to, I truthfully do, but I don't think I can. I'll be an old woman one day, hopefully proud of who she is. She'll look back, and wonder, "was my boyfriend just a new notch on my belt, or did he mean something?"

I can't predict the future. I can't even come close to it. I don't want to. I don't expect much. I don't know what I think. But if there's one thing I do know, it's that I will never forget high school. Wasabi.

Mrs. Sherwood came around and collected everybody's essays. She glanced over Kim's, looking amused. She nodded.

"Good job, Kim."

Then she finished collecting the essays.

"Class, most of you were simplistic. Which is honestly what I expected. You guys wrote what you see yourselves doing. Julie, you want to go to Harvard. Dan, you want to own a food truck.

"But there is more to our future than what we want to be. Kim thoroughly explains it. When can expect a lot, we can prepare, but we can't be sure. We can't guarantee we'll remember everybody, and I'm sure something life changing is bound to happen soon. But as long as we are connected to people, and know where we came from, we'll be alright."

Little did the class know, things would change quickly.

"That text will get questions rising."

"Their future is about to change. That boy better do as we say."

I know I didn't address any questions from the previous chapter. I'm awful like that. But c'mon guys, who doesn't want a little talk about the future? Okay, next chapter will get somewhere, this was a quick written one. Hope you enjoyed it anyway!

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