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"Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future."

Chapter 48
Andrea's pov

"Is she awake?"

"I think she's dead. Nobody sleeps this heavily."

"Try poking her."

"No I'll do this."

"Andrea!! Wake up!" Somebody shouts in my ear.

Looking up, I am greeted with Sebastiàn shaking me vigirously attempting to wake me up.

"Hey, only I can call her Andrea." Zach enters the room.

"Am I dreaming?" I ask since Sebastiàn was here.

"Glad to know you're dreaming about me." He winks at me.

"Watch your tongue, that's my girlfriend you're talking to." He points his finger at Sebastiàn. "And you best be not dreaming about him." His finger points at myself.

"Guys, what time is it?" I sit up and glance at the time plastered my phone.

"Why the hell are you guys waking me up at six in the morning! Somebody better be dying." I was fuming that they ruined my sleep.

"I've got something better. We flew from Alabama to attend your graduation." He offers.

"Couldn't you have just waited for me to wake up?" I rub my head. "And you." I point at Zach.

"What did I do now?" He complians.

"You should've stopped him from waking me up this early. School doesn't start for another two hours." I get back into my covers and take in the warmth of the comforter.

"Andy dear. It's so nice to see you." I hear the familiar voice of Zach's Abuela.

"Abuela!!" I stand up and hug her as she charges my way.

As the hug comes to an end, both Zach and Sebastiàn look at me with wife eyes staring at me like an owl.

"What?" I catechize.

"All we get is a moany little Andrea and Abuela gets a 'Abuela!!!"' Zach overlaps his arms over his torso.

"Look at the one who's being moany now." I point out.

He makes a few more faces before the four of us travel downstairs. On reaching the lounge I am welcomed by a swarm of people.

"Surprise!" They all shout simaltaneously.

I was welcomed by Sebastiàn, Aunt Ximena, Uncle Alejandro, Abuela and Abuelo.

"What are all of you doing here?" I question them all.

"We came for Zach's graduation. He's always insisted on us being there." Abuela teases Zach.

"You can leave for all I care." Zach tries to hide his happiness.

"I don't mind if I do." Abuela begins to leave the house.

"I was joking Abuela. Of course I would want you at my graduation." He pulls her back.

"Mamà these kids nowadays are too arrogant to admit things. Especially this son of mine." Joanna says to Abuela as she ruffles Zach's hair.

"Preach." I knew exactly how Joanna felt.

"I'm not that arrogant." Zach smirks.

"Have you met yourself?" I raise my brows.

"So how come Rose hasn't come?" My mom asks unknowingly.

"Mom, Rose..." I begin but Abuela stops me.

"It's ok Andy." She vocalizes then faces my mother. "Unfortunately we lost Rose. That was the reason Andy came to us in Alabama." She explains calmly.

"I'm really sorry." She then looks at me." My daughter never tells me anything." She bites her tongue from saying anything more.

"It's not a problem. No need to apologize." Aunt Ximena speaks.

"I think you two should start getting ready now." Joanna points at Zach and I.

"But there's still another hour left." I make my valid point.

"Not according to my watch there isn't." I check the time to realise school was close to starting.

"Fuck." I curse.

"Language!" My mother looks at me sternly.

"Sorry. Shit, I need to get ready." I correct myself.

"I'll be waiting in the car." Zach informs me as I jog up the stairs.

That's my workout for the week done.

On arriving my room I rummage my closet and pick something decent as Zach's family had come from Alabama.

I widely chose a mustard sweatshirt, some leggings and my adidas tubular grey trainers alongside a snapback.

Sprinting down the staircase, I could hear the recurring sound of the car forming. Somebody was persistent.

"Calm your tits woman." I casually slide into the passenger seat.

"How long do you take?" He drove off.

"I only took two minutes." I defend myself.

"It felt like an hour." He complains.

"Glad to know you miss me." I miss him in the cheek and suddenly he faces me.

"That's not a proper kiss." He acts like a child.

"You won't get a kiss until we reach school." I tease him.

"But whyyy?" He grouches.

"Because you're driving." I remind him and I notice a car coming from the right. "Eyes on the road!" I move his head so that his eyes could witness his terrible driving skills.

"Why'd you do that for?" He asks.

"Because I dont want to die!" I emphasise. "Now stop whining and park in that space over there." I point to the empty space situated in the corner.

As we exit the veichle Rhianna joins us.

"Hey Zach. I was wondering..." Zach fnishes of her sentence.

"If you could back off. I could deal with you all year but now just leave us the fuck alone." He storms of leaving me to face Rhianna alone.

"I didn't say anything. He did." I direct her towards Zach.

"I can't wait to get away from you. I'm so glad there's only a week left." She turns her back and sways her hips as she struts away.

"Touchè." I knew exactly how she felt.

Heading to join my friends, I swiftly get by the students and greet then.

"What was that about?" I look at Zach.

"Nothing. She just annoys me." He simply answers. "Shouldn't you be thanking me? You practically loathe her." He makes a good point.

I ignore his remark and focus my attention on which class I was supposed to go to. I rarely attend school which means that my timetable never sticks in my mind.

"What class do we have?" I search for a reliable answer.

"I think you have math." Mia helps me out.

"What would I do without you?" Was the last thing I said before she head to her class and I head to mine.

On entering the classroom I see Mizz Gomez ushering the kid's into the classroom.

"Get settled in kids." She closes the door.

"We're not kids." Ryan, from the football team shouts.

"Say that to your dic..." I was unable to finish my sentence.

"Miss Parks!" She shrieks.

"Yes Mrs Briggs. Sorry, I meant Mizz Gomez." I answer.

Everybody knew that Dean Briggs and Mizz Gomez were going out. Although they were old our school still shipped the two together.

"By the way, I do not have a small dic...penis." Ryan corrects himself.

"Whatever helps you sleep at night little Ryan." I ruffle his hair and the classroom erupts in laughter.

"Why aren't you laughing?" I nudge Zach.

"I just don't find you flirting with another guy funny." He sulks.

"Aww. Is Zach Cowen really jealous?" I pinch his cheeks.

"No."

"Oh, I was going to give you a kiss but seeing as you weren't..." He crashes his plump lips into mine and they collide with each other until they depart.

"Go on then Andy!" People began cheering in the classroom.

Halfway through the cheering somebody entered the classroom with their eyes landing on mine.

"Dean Briggs wants to see Andy Parks in his office." The girl states than leaves the classroom soon after.

A bunch of 'oohs' and 'aahs' echo around the classroom as I pack my stuff up and slung the bag around my shoulder.

The last time I got called to The office was when Andrew came.

"Hey, don't worry. It'll probably be nothing." He reassures me as he notices my anxious state.

"She probably made a sex tape or somma." Ryan laughs and I glare at him.

"Shove this up your ass." I show him my middle finger.

"Ooh. Fiesty, I like it." He licks his lips.

"Dude, if you flirt with my girlfriend one more time my fist will make contact with your face. And it won't be by accident." A smile crawls onto my face.

"You heard my boyfriend." I earn and leave the classroom.

As much as I was happy to leave the classroom, I was slightly terrified to enter the office. Normally I wouldn't be this nervous as the Dean's office was practically my second home but since the whole fiasco with Andrew I wasn't as settled.

Reaching the room, I stroll in without knocking and take a seat.

"Andy, glad to see you've made yourslef at home." He smiles at me looking at my legs sprawled across the seat.

"No worries." I shoot back.

"Do you know why I've called you in here today?" He asks.

"Not really." I wasn't up for the sarcastic comments.

"Well as you know, you're graduation ceremony is next week which means that your year needs a valedictorian. Somebody to deliver the farewell statement and I feel as if you would be best for that role." I was not expecting that to come out of his mouth.

"You've got to be kidding me, right?" My flabbergasted self couldn't handle this much information.

"Even I couldn't believe it but you have the best scores in the year. Although I can't say the same about your attendance." He cracks a smile.

"Me? I have the best scores? In the year?" I was genuinely shocked.

"Yes. So are you up for the position or not?" He intwines his fingers.

"Hell yeah." I get up ready to leave.

"Is that all?" I ask.

He nods allowing me to leave the office.

Racing back to class, for once, I storm inside ready to tell everyone the news.

"You got expelled didn't you?" Ryan asked.

"Nah, I bet she has to resit the year. She probably failed all her exams." Ethan jokes.

"As a matter of fact you're looking at your valedictorian." I announce and they all cheer.

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"Forget about that. Can't you guys remember when Andy pissed on Dean Briggs' front lawn?" Mia laughs heavily.

"That was so funny. I was trying not to piss myslef." Ethan agrees.

"I just wanted to wipe that smirk off Rhainna's face so I went for it." I laugh.

"Who knew Andy was such a rebel." Sebastiàn voices.

"You should've seen her in middle school. She was a real badass." Mia brings up my past.

"I wasn't that bad. I just acted a bit differently." I tried to hide up the fact that I was kind of messed up.

We were currently all gathered on the beach late at night. Not many people were around besides us. It was myslef, Zach, Mia, Ethan, Savannah, Jonathon, Sevastiàn, Ryan and a few more of our friends.

"Guys we should get food from this food court that close by. The good there is amazing." I remember how good the hot dogs tasted.

"When did you come here?" Zach asks.

"You know exactly who I came with." I nudge him slightly.

"Just checking you remember." He takes a sip of his beer.

"Don't worry. I would never forget." I sounded really cheesy and he gives me a kiss.

"That food was amazing. It gave me a foodgasm." I exaggerate.

"I'll tell you what other 'gasm I could give you." He smirks and I give him a disgusted look.

"Do not want to know about your sex life." Sebastiàn covers his ears.

"Just because you don't have one." I wind him up.

"Guys, I've just realised that after this summer we're all going to be heading to college." Jonathon's word's really hit me.

"Don't worry guys, I've got the perfect summer planned for all of us." Mia lightens up the mood. "We're all gonna go on a roadtrip and visit each other's colleges." She says in a high pitched voice showing her excitement.

"Andy, so you know what college you're going to?" Ethan asks since everybody else already knew where they were going.

Ethan, Mia and Zach were all going to UCLA. Both Jonathon and Savannah alongside Rhianna were going to attend NYU and Sebastiàn and Cole was going to attend Boston university.

I was still awaiting my acceptance letters and was beginning to worry as I hadn't applied to many colleges.

"Nope. Haven't got a reply yet." I try not to sound depressed.

"Don't worry, I know you'll get into Julliard. And when you do we can both hang out all the time." Savannah livens up the mood.

As she said that I could see Zach's faint smile fade away. It really got me thinking about how we would stay together if I did get accepted into Julliard. We've all heard of long distance relationships but hardly any survive.

"So, have you got anything prepared for graduation?" Mia changes the subject.

"I did just get valedictorian today. I'll probably just make it up." Shrugging my shoulders, I throw the beer can to the side.

"Classic Andy." Sebastiàn comments.

"I never thought that I would ever be like this." I open up.

"Like what?" Zach asks.

"Happy." The truth was coming to light . "After everything that's happened with Andrew, Cole, Kylie and all the bad stuff that's happened, I'm finally happy." Smiles spread across everybody's faces.

"Glad to know you love us." Zach hugs me from the side.

"I really do. Even you Ethan." I ruffle his hair.

"What did I do now?" He acts innocent.

"You still owe me a month of free food for forgetting my birthday." I remind him of my sharp memory.

"Shit." He cursed knew his breath. "I thought you forgot about that."

"I never forget those people who don't buy me food."

"But you have to admit that My gift was the best." Jonathon refers to the book he gave me.

"No, mine was better." Mia interjects.

"I think we all know that mine was by far the best." The car that Zach had gifted had to be the best gift ever but I was never going to tell him that.

"The kiss she got from me that night is every girl's dream." He begins to act cocky.

"Shut up." My cheeks tint slightly.

Our first real kiss was still fresh in my mind. It was in the balcony late at night, just before the clock struck midnight. I didn't know what I was thinking but in that moment I just wanted him to be mine. I wanted to be selfish and leave nothing for anybody else and I still am.

"We have a clear winner." Zach applauds and everybody joins in.

"Guys, I'm really going to miss you. Everybody says that high school sucks and although I agree with them on a huge scale you guys are the only reason my attendance isn't 0%." The waterworks were close to starting.

It was true. Without them I don't think I would've ever showed up to school once.

"I can still remember the first day you guys ran into us." Mia reminisces these memories. "Andy literally soaked Zach in soda and I was a stuttering shy girl trying to get Ethan's attention but now I'm rethinking that." She recieved a slight nudge from Ethan.

"You were not shy, Mia. You were always the popular one from the pair of us." She was far more out going than I was.

"Everybody practically knew who you were, Andy. You own prank day, you're amazing at skateboarding and music and I always felt that you were more popular than me." She admits.

I was only know among the male population within our school mostly because we shared the same love of video games and food. I was never seen as a girl, to them I was 'one of the boys'. Whereas Mia, not only did she have the attention from the guys but all the girls envied her. Me being one of them.

"That could never be true Mia and you know it." I put a stop to our pointless conversation.

"It's getting a little boring guys. Let's crank up the music." Ryan accelerates the volume from the speaker and we all begin to sway our hips.

The music continued to play and by the time the speaker was playing it's fifth song, I was drunk. Actually, I wouldn't say I was drunk I would say I was tipsy.

Senselessly, I got up and moved my body to the beat of the music. I joined Mia and Savannah and danced alongside my bestfriends.

"Guys, I love you. You know that right?" I was too drunk to care what was coming out my mouth.

"We love you too Andy." They scream and we dance for what feels like an eternity.

After that eternity had passed, both Mia and Savannah were stolen by their boyfriend's leaving me alone.

"A girl like you shouldn't be dancing on her own." I could deal Zach's breath fanning my neck.

"What are you gonna do about that then?" I seductively whisper.

He spins me around and pulls me close to him. Our hands were clasped together and our lips were merely brushing each other. All I wanted to do was do him right there and then.

As he leand forward to close the space between us, I back away teasing him.

"You're not getting me that easily." I bite his ear and he moans.

"Stop it Andrea. You're killing me." I kiss his temple and his mouth makes contact with my neck.

He slowly kisses my exposed skin leaving a hot trail of kisses down my neck.

"I want you so bad right now." I'm the one to moan this time.

"Maybe you can." He continues to nibble on my sweet spot.

He finishes working wonders and I pull away but my head begins to spin and my vision starts to go blurry.

"Andrea, are you okay?" Zach holds me tightly.

"I want you." I couldn't let a little headache stop us from continuing.

"Maybe next time." He smiles as he picks me up bridal style. "For now let's get you to bed." He grabs my belongings ready to leave.

"I love you so much Zach." I mutter as he lays me gently on the backseat.

"You can never love me as much as I love you." He closes the door and my eyes close allowing me to fall into a deep sleep.

How was I going to wake up?

What's worse is that I was going to have a shit hangover when I wake up.

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A/N

I really hope you enjoyed the chapter. Guys there's only three more chapters left until this book comes to an end. However, fear not. I might be writing another book but I probably won't start updating until September.

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