*Ariella's POV*
Today's my highschool graduation im very excited im just an ordinary girl with a simple dream that is to graduate collage and be a flight attendant im here at my seat but my mom's not still here so i called her
*kring....kring....kri---* at last she answered
"hello baby?"i know in her tone she's asking
"mom where are you?the program is about to start and yet your not here"i said straightly
"im sorry baby im stuck in a traffic but don't worry im almost there"mom explained
"okay mom bye love you"i said in goodbye and dropped that call every since highschool i've been a nerd this is my first time wearing off my glasses since first year the Principal comed to me and asked
"where's miss Mendez?"asked by the principal she's talking about mom
"uhmm... she's on her way she's stuck on a traffic but don't worry ma'am she's almost here"i said and smiled
"good well go back to your seat"she said and gone away so i gone back to my seat im in the first row there's only 4 seats here because only four got into top when practicing graduation i found out that the three other honor students are Micheal Oxford,Athena Montefalco and Chistian Theo Curtiz finally moms here i seated properly because the program is starting
"so we are here today to see our students,daughters,sons,to graduate and to receive their deploma's today is Tuesday 17th of March batch 2018-2019 for our prayer let's call Ms.Anny chua ....
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this is it we're goona march
"for an average of 92.3% our top 4 let's give a round of applause for miss Athena Montefalco!"the mc announced then athena walked to the stage received her diploma took a picture and gone down
"next for our top 3 ganing an average of 92.42%,best in Filipino Mr.Micheal Oxford let's give around pf applause!"the mc annouced he done the same thing that athena did
"for our top 2gaining an average of 95.27%,best in history and best in Christian life let's give around of applause for Mr.Christian Theo Curtiz!"he did the same
"for our top 1and valedictorian this school year let's give around of applause for miss Arriela Stacey Mendez for gaining an average of 97% best in Math,english,Science,home economics and best in Christian life!"the mc shouted and i walk to the stage i gotted my medal,deploma and certification ofcourse im gonna give my valedictorian speech
"Good afternoon my fellow students,parents,teachers and staffs thank you for being here in this afternoon, my journey in being a highschool isn't easy there are many ups and downs sometimes im asking myself should i stop?,should i Surender?,No because my mom did everything for me to be able to study here my mom did her best to make me study in a international school so why would i?im just a normal student experienced what others experienced being bullied but that doesn't stop me for achieving this i am here infront of you because i passed my highschool journey and i won't be here if it wasn't for my mom who did everything she could she gaved me the love, attention,support and time which some pf you are craving also i wouldn't be here if it wasn't because of my bestfriend Anny she cheered me up when im down she makes me happy when im sad so thank you bestfriend for being on my side thank you mom for everything i love you both i know that wherever dad is he's watching me and proud of me because i achieve what he want me what he dreams for me also thank you to my teachers who didn't stop on believing on my talent once again good afternoon."i said and gone down my mom and Best friend hugged me
"you deserve it Bes!"my bestfriend said
"no we deserve this"i said we took a picture and we waited until the event ended
"Heina come join us for dinner to celebrate their success"mom said to tita heina the mother of Anny
"sure"tita said so we drove to our house my auntie, uncle,mom and cousin prepared this to celebrate i gone up and changed clothes Anny have some clothes here at our house because we're always doing a sleep over to finmish our project and for our bonding time i changed into my floral dress abpve knees and Anny chance into a red off shouldered dress we gone down and they praised us
"congratulations girls!"uncles said
"this is my gifts for you Ariella and Anny"auntie said and gave us her gifts when we opened it we have the same i think couple it's a couple ring friendship ring to be exact it has a emerald on it's center we just celebrated the whole night, because tita was drunk,,,Anny and tita slept onto your house that night my room is at the center the left one is the room where tita stayed the Right one is mom and dad's room me and Anny shared room so that we could bond more because Anny will study abroad i will be sent into my grandparents school i don't really have any clue on that school I've never been there because it's only for senior highs i hope they'll be good to me so thatwe won't have any problems i will miss her miss our bondings and miss her attitude i love her as a sister we've been friends since 4years old and i hope to see her again her flight is Next next week we don't have much time but i will be with her for the whole 2weeks ofcourse bonding and also i have to enroll at the moment she leaves so I'll be needing to devide my time