The whole student body of King High sat, bored might I add, most of them drooling on their gowns as Angelica sang. It was a nice song but too mellow and was putting everyone to sleep. The graduation ceremony was dragging on and on and I was about ready to get out of this dreadful shit hole. I chanced a look around the auditorium, as I fidgeted in my seat, at the rest of my classmates and I swear I saw Fred Bailey picking his nose and making cartoon characters out of them, he was so bored. Angelica’s song continued on and drowning her out, I went back to the silent nervousness that started to bubble up in my stomach. I was next to give my speech and boy was it going to be a killer one. I mean come on it is coming from The Ashley Davies and Im valedictorian. Everyone is expecting it to be within the parameters of whats right and good…boy are they so wrong. Although this is a fact, I was still shitting bricks. Why? You might ask? Well lets go back a few days earlier…

Flashback:

“Jesus Ashley you will never see this girl again…NUNCA!” My best friend Carmen said rather loudly from the other side of the stacks as we roamed aimlessly around the library. She came around to my side with a rather exasperated look on her face. She sat the book that her and I both knew her meat head had no intentions of reading back on the shelf

“Dude seriously after graduation she’ll be gone til…like the tenth reunion…that is if you both even live that long. And trust me she’ll be..” She paused, her eyes going wide and blew out her breath, “She’ll be so very pregnant by then, baking someone else DNA and she’ll have this like big pregnant cow grin on her face. She wont even remember who you are.” Yea way to cheer a sister up Carmen, I thought as I flipped through the book I picked up off the shelf. It was the autobiography of Justin Beiber. I seriously did not think they lent out that kind of shit in our library.

“Gee thanks Carmen,” I said as I threw the book back on the shelf. “All have you know I’ve sat behind her in almost every class.” I say this with dignity because to tell you the truth i’m proud of it.