Author Notes: So this is the chapter where you get to see Emma's mom, Barbara, Phil, Emma's dad and Stacey her sister, Emma's friends and teacher, not to mention Jack, Dean's dad. Basic you get to see all the people Emma and Dean left behind. Next chapter I will go back to Emma and Dean. Please tell me what you think about this chapter. Vote for gander and names. Please read and review!

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Waiting by 3sth3r

Chapter 5: Graduation (part1)

Barbara's POV

The letter sits on my desk. It arrived this morning but it is now the afternoon. It stares at me. It mocks me. But I can't throw the letter away, just like I couldn't dare remove things in Emma's room. Emma. I began to cry for the fourth time today. I try to rack my brain for anything to do, anything really. Should I tell Phil? I can't tell Phil he will want to go. I know what the letter in about. It's from the school. They sent out letters with tickets to the senior graduation. I guess they must not remove Emma's name from the long list they have. Or maybe they just send it as a gift.

I get up from the stool in the kitchen and start to pace back and forward. Finally, I make my choice. I take the letter and go to the backyard where Phil is grilling dinner. "Here" I said, placing the close letter from the school in his hand. "Here, take it."

Phil looks down at the letter and places the tongs to the side. He warps his hand on his apron and opens the letter. He is speechless. He backs away from the grill and sits on the bench on the far side of the walkway. "What do you want to?" he paused, "I mean do you want to…."

"I don't want to go but I want to see her friends and teachers..." A sob starts to pour out of me, "I want….I want…I don't know what I want." The thoughts that have plagued me for the last six months come back to me. The anger from don't finding Emma oozes up again. I cry in Phil's arms. What Emma?

After a while I take a deep breath and wipe the tears away from my eyes. I sigh. "So what do we do?" Phil asked.

"We go if not for us then for Emma. She would have wanted us to go." I said. I head back into the house and I head into my room. I grab my favorite sweater form the drawer and lay on my bed. I try to go to sleep but the images of Emma walking across the stage in her cap and gown replay in my head. I try my best to fall into sleep but I can't.

Jack's POV

"Hi again," I take a slip of strong two hundred year old whiskey. I stand staring at my wife's grave. The night surrounds me there are no stars to night. It been six months since Dean has gone missing and I have still not planned for his funeral. But why would I. It would just be me and his uncle's family, only four people.

I can't believe he's gone. He was the last piece of her. I take a larger slip of the whiskey the alcohol burns against my throat but I can barely feel it anymore. God, why couldn't he leave my son alone? But I don't believe that he is dead. I just can't.

Tomorrow is graduation, I don't know if I'm going or not. I hear that Barbara and Phil are going. I don't know what to do. I might go but what's the point. I think that Barbara and Phil have accepted that Emma and Dean will not be seen again, that they are gone. But they have been dragging their feet in burying Emma. They might feel that she is still alive in some level but it seems that it is fading fast.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I scream at the top of my lungs. I can't take this anymore. I take one more last slip and throw the whiskey bottle into the fence. The glass shatters and I walk away.

Stacey's POV

I can't believe we are here. It stuffy it hot and I'm sweating all over the place. But I get it this was going to Emma's and Dean's graduation.

She was going to graduate with her friends Lizze, Helen, and Jude but now there are to noticeable gaps in the seat chart. One by one the graduates get their diplomas. Principal Thomas makes a speech about the upcoming year. Helen the chosen student speeches (big shocker there!) she starts to talk about losing Emma like she was there.

God she soooo….aaahhhh… I take a deep breath and try my best to get through this for mom and for dad, and for Jack, Dean's dad who sits next to mom. Maybe this will be the end. Maybe this will bring all of us closure.

To be continued...