Author's Notes: So again this is very short and I will post more soon. Next chapter will be much longer. Please read and review!
Disclaimer: I don't own The Blue Lagoon: The Awaking.
Warning: Time Lapse, and Flashback
Waiting by 3sth3r
Chapter 16: Graduate (part 2)
Barbara's POV
I fix Stacey's cap for the fourth time before she walks across the stage and gradates for high school. Soon Stacey rushes off to her friends before they take their seats for the graduation. I turn to Phil and remember our conversation form the night before.
'Do you think Emma's graduation would have made me this nervous and excited?' I ask Phil. He shrugs his shoulders. He does that a lot more enough. But I never ask him how he was doing with all this. I mean he did lose a daughter to right?
I sigh and turn to him, 'Are you ok?' I lay next to him in bed and places her on his chest with her ear near his heart. I can hear his heart beat faster. 'I mean I never ask about how you felt about losing Emma in all this and I want to know if you are ok.' I look up to Phil and see the pain in his face.
'I want to give you space to grieve and to heal. And I grieved with you but you took it very hard when she disappeared.' He sighs, 'So I let you be. I guess I thought it would make things better for you.' I nodded and fell to sleep with Phil holding me in his arms.
When I woke the next morning I had to think about Stacey choice for a school. It's not that I didn't want her to go to Princeton. I mean she deserves it but I always had Emma in mind going there, not Stacey. But she is going and Emma is not.
My focus spans back when the room goes silent and Principal Thomas walks to the stand and begins his speech. "It's been a great school year, but today we would like to honor the sister of a fallen student, Stacey Robinson." What is he doing? I think to myself.
"Even without her sister she has mange to graduate top of her class. So now give a hand to Stacey Robinson as she receives this special reward and scholarship for five thousand dollars." Stacey gets up from her seat and receives her reward. I would go up there myself and ask why Principal Thomas had to do this Stacey and our family.
After the sound dies down, the names are called and an hour or so later. We go home. Stacey will be going to Princeton in the fall. And Phil and I will have to face the sounds of an empty house.
To be continued…