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| The Final Goodbye |
Well, it was fun while it lasted.
Meeting friends, keeping friends, the final party, the final goodbye. It's not officially over yet (we've still got our exams to charge through), but in a way, it is.
There were so many signs yesterday, ones that increased my nervousness as the Graduation Ceremony neared. For instance, we wanted to be there early so that we could get good seats. We were planning on leaving the house at 5:00 p.m, actually, so we'd be there by 5:15. The ceremony started at 6:00.
But things started going wrong, and the trepidation just kept building and building. In my case, anyway. Aehshaan (Note: Brother) said that his hunger was building more than anything.
Mum and Dad went out for something around 1 o'clock, and promised to be back no later than 2:15, with lunch. I had an appointment at the salon for my hair, at 3:00. Before we knew it, it was 4:00 in the evening and my parents were nowhere in sight. I was in a full-blown panic (although no longer hungry, because Aehshaan ordered burgers), convinced that we would never make it in time. I was going to miss my own graduation!
But Mum called and said to be ready, jump into the car as soon as it reached the house. I stood outside and when the Tahoe pulled up, we hightailed it to the salon. Once there, Mum dropped me off, promised to be back within forty minutes, and took off to the local mall to eat lunch because she'd apparently gone without.
The salon did their work within the forty minutes, thank god. Janie, my usual hair stylist, couldn't attend to me personally because some other woman had a stupid wedding (not as important as my graduation, the nerve!) and she had to handle her instead of me. But she did keep popping up and messing with my hair when she thought something wasn't right. Thank God. I trust Janie more than any of those other women, mostly because I've been going to her for the past three or so years.
With my hair done, Mum came and picked me up and we rushed back home to get dressed. It was 5:00 when we reached the house, so you can imagine my state. We were all ready to leave by 5:40, at least.
When we left the house though, there was a tennis ball that was placed exactly underneath our garage door. So when we pushed the button that ought to have shut it and drove off, Aehshaan turned back in time to see the stupid thing hit the ball and then lift back up. We had to drive back home, Aehshaan had to jump out and kick the ball out of the way, and then we tried again.
Five minutes later on the road, we managed to hit a bird.
I hope the thing made it. I doubt it, and I feel sorry for it if it did, but I really hope it made it.
Stupid bird. Just another thing that served as a weird premonition that things wouldn't go so well.
But I was wrong. I reached the place in time, the graduation ceremony was perfect, and I couldn't have asked for more. Robbie (Note: Awesome photographer/cameraman/director/video-editor/friend) made this professional-looking video that I will one day link here, once it's up. It was amazing.
Earlier, I was worried that I wouldn't cry at the ceremony, because I was certain that everyone around me would cry because we were all leaving and all that. But I totally cried. And there was this one bit in the video where there's this photo of me and a bunch of friends, and it kind of falls off a locker and lands on the ground and just lies there. I burst out into sobs at that point.
Saddest part? I was the only one in my row to cry. Niki was crying directly in front of me, and I wish she had been next to me instead so that we could have cried together (I love you, Niki), but ah well.
Samiya gave me a tissue. (I love you too, Sam.)
We got into the limo after that, and went around for an hour in it (Note: It was a Porsche Cayenne limo) before it dropped us off at Raffles. Oh, and we popped a non-alcoholic grape-juice-style champagne bottle in the limo! *grin*
The grad party was so much fun. We danced and we danced and we danced. And we went outside for a bit at one point, and we wanted to wander off into this garden-esque area, but when we did, this girl came out and said, "You don't want to go in there, there's someone having sex in there." And she said it that way too, with the emphasis on the sex part.
What did Niki and I do? We grinned at each other, grabbed each other's hands, and charged in to see if we could find these people.
We couldn't, sadly. But oh well.
Anyway, the grad party was great. The food, the music, the people, it was all amazing. We left at around 1-ish, although the thing was supposed to go till 3:00. Dad wasn't too keen on letting me stay that late though, but that's alright. 1:00 a.m was pretty reasonable, really.
Anyway, my hair's been a mess since yesterday.
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| Post-Grad Mess |
Ciao.
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