The Unbreakable Dancer

Chapter 8

I hold my envelope tightly with my heart racing. My leg starts bouncing, it always does that when I'm anxious. Moose puts his hand on my knee.

"Don't be nervous, we got this," he smiles.

I sure hope we do

I smile back and we open our envelopes. Both of our papers are folded.

"I'm too nervous to read mine," I say

"Same with me,"

We look at each other and switched papers.

"Same time?" Moose asks.

"Same time?

"3," Moose starts the countdown.

"2," I say.

"1," we say at the same time and open each other's papers.

There's silence for a couple of seconds and we are reading what each envelope says about one another.

"I got in," we say at the same time then we realize that we forgot that we are looking at each other's paper.

"You got in," we say simultaneously.

We smile and each other.

"WE GOT IN!" Well, yell at the same time.

Moose hugs me and picks me up to spin me around. He puts me down and hugs me.

My door bursts open with my mom holding cupcakes on the other side.

"I heard y'all got in," she says with a huge smile plastered against her face.

Me and Moose take the cupcakes from my mom's hand and go downstairs to celebrate.

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Moose ended up staying over longer than expected and he left to go home around 11.

I call Andie and tell her that I got in. She was screaming over the phone and I was screaming with her.

After my call, I wash and lay in my bed thinking about what's to come.

I'm about to go to college with one of my best friends and be like an adult.

Wow.

I close my eyes and let sleep take me over.

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*Two months later* -In may

Today was graduation day and I wore this short green flowy dress with sneakers because I have gotten so tired of wearing heels.

I go backstage and talk to Andie and Moose.

"I can't believe it. We're graduating," Andie says to us.

"I know right, we only have the summer left and then we'll be going our separate ways.," I say sadly.

"Don't worry Tess, you'll still have me for a while," Moose says.

"Sadly I will," I joke.

"Okay places we are starting in 3 minutes," some administrator says walking backstage.

"Let's get in order, I half to walk to the end of the line by myself," I groan.

"I have to walk with you, my last name is West," Andie says.

"Oh yeah, I forgot.

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I get into the place and order and hear music starting and names being called.

"Emma Adams, Drake Adri, Bella Afrunk,"

This is going to take a while.

I zone out for a bit until I hear a familiar name.

"Robert Alexander III or Moose as he likes to be called,"

I hear the crowd scream, and my mom's voice above the rest.

"I know that dancing kid," She yells.

As Moose walks across the stage to get his diploma, the song The Way I Are by Timbaland starts playing on the speakers, every administrator looks confused or angry except director collins who smiles slightly.

"Dance, Dance, Dance" the students chant.

Moose starts dancing to the director doing cool moves in his cap and gown. When he finally gets to him, Director Collins smiles at him. Moose grabs his diploma and dances off the stage. Everybody claps and the graduation Music starts again.

After a few more names another one of my friends is called.

"Madison Heathers,"

Madison walks over smoothly to the director and smiles.

After what feels like a thousand names I hear someone special.

"Andie West,"

I scream and whoop for my friend. She shakes her head at me and mouths 'Shut Up' I smile and mouth back 'no' and start to yell louder. Andie rolls her eyes and grabs her diploma and sits down.

"Tessa Wren," I hear my mom's loud voice over everything else in that room. I grab my diploma and see Moose smile at me. I smile back.

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"I'm so proud of all of you," My mom says walking over to me, Andie and Moose.

"So am I," Sarah says walking over. Sarah and my mom hug and start catching up a little.

"Guys," I hear a familiar voice yell.

"Kido!" We say and all hug her.

"We need a group picture of the entire MSA crew in our cap and gowns," I say.

"Good idea, let's go round everyone up," Andie says.

After a while, we got everyone and took a whole bunch of pictures. We even had some pictures without our gowns on and just our clothes doing funny poses.

In one of the poses, we were holding Andie up. Another pose we did was the girls being in the front and the boys 'checking us out. In the final pose, everyone got with a partner and did something silly. Moose picks me up bridal style and holds me, with a huge smile on his face.

After loads of pictures, we gave each other hugs and cried a little knowing this would probably be the last time we all would see each other since most of them were going away for the summer.

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After graduation, we had a mini get-together and shared to fun times we had. We all gave mini speeches and cried a little.

That night me, Andie and Moose were joking around and hanging on the last bit of time we have before she leaves soon. After Andie leaves we make a vow to spend as much time as we can before we break off.

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Summer was filled with pool parties, hanging out, dancing, and gathering college supplies.

The day Andie left I was in a pool of tears but luckily Moose was there to comfort me.

In the last few days, we helped each other pack and register. Even though we couldn't room together we tried to get as close as possible.

Now in a few days, we'll be leaving to go to NYU for freshmen orientation. I am freaking out but, as long as I have Moose with me, I think I'll be alright.

Just a little filler chapter before we actually get into the next movie.

Hey, I'm back. So I will actually have more free time since my season for winter guard just ended this past weekend at championships. That means I can update more since I won't have practice. SO be prepared for more chapters coming out soon. 

Have a great day or night since I'm posting this late :)