Stoneybrook Ayr

That's it, they've GRADUATED!

The students sat in their seats, playing with their navy and white caps and gowns. Some turned to wave to friends and family, some whispered with classmates sitting near them, and some slouched in their chairs, ready for the ceremony to start.

It had taken four years, some felt like the time had passed in no time at all, others felt it had dragged out forever. All the winter lodge trips, boy toy auctions, homecomings, proms, dances, parties. The trips to Disney World, California, Australia. The hook ups, the break ups, the scandals. This class had been through a lot together, and this was it. The end. Graduation.

After leaving Brock and Shannon, Mia was so angry she couldn't even think straight. She wanted to yell and scream, she wanted to punch something, she wanted to run out to the main road and hitch a ride back to Stoneybrook. She couldn't do any of those things, though, not without serious consequences. She told herself Brock wasn't worth all the trouble.

Storming up and down the hallways had given her a chance to cool down a little, but she was still really p*ssed. She lit up a cigarette, not even caring that she wasn't allowed to do that indoors. Down at the other end of the hallway she was standing in, she saw Howie entering a room. His own, she supposed. It was then that she knew exactly how she wanted to get rid of some of her frustration. Rushing to get to the door before it closed all the way, she made it just in time to stick her foot in the opening. Using her hand to slam the door all the way open, she was pleased to see that no one else was in the room. Zeroing in on Howie, she slowly eyed him up and down. "You up for some fun?" She was pretty sure from the way she was undressing him with her eyes, he'd know what she meant.

It was quite late in Stoneybrook, not to mention downright freezing. He had checked and they said it felt like twenty three degrees out or something. Freezing. But Woody still found himself sitting outside on the front porch, just kind of thinking and staring into the darkness. He wasn't thinking about anything in particular, but he did his best thinking in this spot.

He thought of the recent pictures he took for the yearbook and how he could arrange them in the book. He took it seriously and wanted it to look as best as he could make them. He thought of the essay that was due on Friday and of the test in Calculus also on the same day. He hates Calculus. It just didn't make sense to him.

Woody peered down the road. He saw a shadow walking in the darkness and wondered who could be wandering the roads at this time. It didn't matter too much, Woody thought of Stoneybrook as the safest place on Earth. Everyone knew everyone and no one truly seemed to wish ill upon others.

He maked out the shape of Howie, and smirked, "Sup?" He asked him as Howie started to pass by his house. He didn't think Howie could see him, but Howie was a friend of his, so he would have been rude to not acknowledge him.

Sunny had made a promise to herself that she would be more outgoing her senior year, and she vowed to keep it. Well, to try, anyways. She decided that making new friends was as good a place as any to start.

Sunny spotted Howie, a boy who was in one of her classes, sitting in the cafeteria, already eating lunch, and she went up to him. "Do you mind if I sit with you," she asked.

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Dorianne left Linnea's house after their So You Think You Can Dance viewing party and decided that she wasn't ready to go home. She still had a couple of hours before she had to make her curfew and she needed a break from her mom. So she decided to take a walk.

She was enjoying the solitude when she noticed someone walking in her direction. Obviously they weren't looking for her or anything, but she still waved at them.

Howie had been kept pretty busy since Prom. He'd gotten a job in a small Ma and Pa business, helping fix computers of all kinds, mainly for people who never used them, and therefore didn't realise anything was wrong with them. He'd had fun with Shannon at the dance. although she'd seem a little strange toward the end, and he'd found out after she'd gone to Sheila's after party. But the more he tried not to think about it, the more he did, especially when he was alone in the store. So he welcomed distractions, like the door chiming when someone came in.

"Hey!" he said, recognising Cary, as he entered.

Let the Junior Prom of 2012 begin!