My last high school show
This will be long and articulate. Under the jump.
Last night, I had the final performance of the high school musical in my senior year. I've always had friends in the musical, but this year was so incredibly wonderful that I can't even describe it. I didn't even realize how close the cast was until the last show, but that's how it goes.
We have a tradition. The juniors give roses to the seniors, and they make a speech about each of them.
Julia did my speech, and I couldn't help but cry because I had never realized what an impact I had, how someone could want me at rehearsals, that I could brighten someone's day so much that they could really talk about it.
Then, even though he was in the pit orchestra this year and not the cast, Jacob spoke. That was when I really cried. He told me how incredible I will be, how I'm going to be famous. How he knows I snuck an anonymous poem into his backpack one day, and he keeps it next to his bed because he loves it so much. How we met 5 years ago. And we cried.
Everyone cried, we had black mascara lines across our faces, and people kept making impromptu speeches about how they had never really had friends before, but now they felt so loved.
To lighten the mood, then we handed out superlatives. Greg and I won "Cutest Couple (But Doesn't Know It Yet)." I took lots of cute pictures with people. I got pumped. George and Mady told me they were coming, and I smiled when I saw them in the audience, right near my grandma, parents, and Jake.
The show was the best we'd ever done it. My grandmother gave me flowers, and I drove people to the cast party at Jill's house. The party was fantastic. That's all I want to say about it, it was great and it was everything it should have been.
And now I woke up this morning with sparkles in my hair and bruises from my mic tape, and god do I miss everyone.
