Little Sullivan

Here I am at my graduation ceremony. Over a hundred seats were filled with graduates wearing their purple cap and gowns at the school’s football field. As the graduation ceremony began and I knew it’ll take forever for my name to get called out, I managed to sneak in my iPhone and listened through good music throughout the ceremony. Over at the bleachers, I’ve found my loud ass crazy brother sitting down by the bleachers with Brian, Matt, Zacky, and that one little cowboy shit head, Johnny.

Even with my ear buds on, I could still hear Jimmy calling out from the bleachers. I swear, I have no idea how haven’t he lost his voice yet, not even Matt, the lead singer of the band, could beat that crazy ass motherfucking brother of mines at being the loudest. The last time Matt, Jimmy and I had gotten into a bet on who could be the loudest, Matt ended up losing his voice for a while and yet he lost the bet.

Other than today being my high school graduation, it also happens to be my eighteenth birthday. You know what that means, I’m legal now. Now I’m old enough smoke cigarettes if I wanted to but I’m not because I hate the smell of it and it could really be bad for my heart condition.

Like my brother Jimmy, I was born with an enlarged heart and I may not be able to make it to age thirty but let’s hope I’m wrong. I want to live as long as possible and enjoy as much of life as I can like Jimmy is. Like Jimmy, I’m not going to let an enlarged heart ruin my life. I’m going to life my life and point and laugh at my heart disease with Jimmy.

As I popped into the big screen, I figured my name has been called to receive my diploma. I took off my ear buds, hearing the guys and Jimmy acting as if they were huge fan girls. I swear they are the loudest people in this graduation ceremony.

I began walking up on stage and as soon as I was about to grab my diploma and shake my school principal’s hand, I stepped into the podium and looked over to the guys. “It’s them!” I began to squeal with the top of my lungs as I pointed towards the guys.

A flash appeared right before my eyes. I began seeing flashes for a little bit, temporarily blinding me. I blinked my eyes a couple of times to adjust my vision then I grabbed my diploma and shook my principal’s hand and everyone else’s before walking back down to my seat.

As the graduation ceremony came to an end, me along with all the other graduates stood up and threw our caps up in the air. I didn’t keep my eyes off my cap, I saw it hit some fellow graduate who was in his seat, snoring.

I saw the guy jump up in full alarm and just began running out of the field. “THE SKY IS FALLING!!!” He freaked out before realizing there were only caps falling back down and not the sky.

“CHICKEN!!!” Jimmy called out from the bleachers.

“Brawkk-AWK!!! Brawkk-AWK!!!!” Brian clucked like a chicken.

“QUACK!!!!!” Jimmy quacked like a duck.

“MOOOO!!!!” Johnny tried joining in with the animal noise making.

I began walking towards the guys as I saw the guys giving Johnny a weird look as if he just ruined something.

“What? I thought we were making farm animal noises.” Johnny seemed puzzled.

The guys all began to shake their head at him. “No Johnny, no. Just no.”

“QUACKIDY DOODLE DOOO!!!” I butted in. “Leave poor gnome alone, can’t he just dream to become a cow once in a while?”

“STALLION DUCK!!!” Jimmy squealed and pulled me in for a tight hug. “Congrats my stallion duck buddy and happy 18thbirthday.” Jimmy pecked my cheek. “look at you, you’re all so grown up now, you just grow up so fast.” Jimmy pretends to get all emotional. “You’re just like a baby duckling, all grown up into the biggest fucking duck I’ve ever seen and all on you own now. Here, this is for you.” Jimmy hands me a giant stuffed duck and a batch of roses.

“Happy birthday and congrats.” Matt and Zacky hugged me and handed my roses.

“Congrats and happy birthday.” Johnny handed me some roses and hugged me.

“Yeah, congrats birthday girl, you’re school free and legal, you know what that means.” Brian smirked, handing me roses and a little graduation teddy bear before pecking me cheek.

I could feel my cheeks turning as red as the reddest rose I’ve ever seen in my life. “Thanks guys.”

“Come on guys, party at my place!” Jimmy called out as he ran to his car.

“Wait I need help carrying all this! I called out. “Jimmy!” I called out to him before I nearly dropped the stuff.

“Let me help you with that.” Brian grabbed the flowers from me. “Want to ride with me since your brother seemed to leave you behind?” Brian looked over at Jimmy drifting off in his car.

“Yeah, thank you.” I nodded as we headed over to his car.

Brian pulled out the keys from his pocket and unlocked the car with his remote with his free hand then he opened the back door and set the flowers down. I set my giant duck and down on the back seat.

As I backed out a little, Brian closed the door and got in through the driver’s side. I walked over to the other side and got into the passenger’s seat and buckled up as Brian began to drive.

“Has anyone ever told you how gorgeous you look today? You surely did beat every other girl in that ceremony you were the one that shined the brightest. And between you and me, you’re the prettier than your brother, just don’t tell him I told you, he would start crying like a big baby.”

I faced out the window, hiding my blush once again from Brian. Never had I ever heard him talk this way before, at least not in my presence. “Thanks…”

“Can I confess you something? Well ever since you were 14 and I was 18, I started to have feelings for you but I didn’t say anything because Jimmy might have kicked my ass for liking someone under age, especially if it turned out to be his younger sister.” Brian spoke.

“Age doesn’t matter when it comes to love, Brian.”

“I know Gwen… I still have feelings for you. I could have never resisted your beauty, your sweet voice, your soothing smile worth a thousand acres of pure gold and oil.”

“Wow… You really do love me that much?”

“And much, much more. So what would you say? Will you be my girl?”

“Yes, I would love too.” I smiled softly.


(Gwen's Outfit: http://www.polyvore.com/gwen_sullivans_graduation_18th_birthday/set?id=123110811 )

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