[Write the Story] The Night Before Graduation
Prompt: The Night Before Graduation
Words: obscene, margarita, paradise, story, tempo, truthfully, stonewall, plain, opposite, loan
Story
Vivian’s pulse pounded in her temple in tempo with the band. She sipped at her obscenely large margarita. Probably her last, of at least these. Tomorrow she graduated and would leave this veritable paradise for good.
“What’s your story, Viv? You look like someone died! Come on! Tonight we eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we are adults!” Her friend, Taffy yanked the drink away.
Vivian let herself be pulled into the crush on the club’s dance floor. Taffy was right. She should have one last hurrah. She couldn’t stonewall the future. And truthfully? She didn’t want to. The institute had loaned her out for her post-grad research project, and she was excited to have her ideas wanted and appreciated.
“You’ve gone pensive again. Stop it!”
Vivian wished she could shut out the whirling thoughts and crazy brain weasels as easily as Taffy, but along with the excitement, she was terrified. Her job was at a science facility on the opposite side of the galaxy. She – a plain, ordinary student – selected to go off-world. To go beyond. To be not ordinary. That was terrifying. But that was also tomorrow. Tonight she was determined – or from now on – to be more like Taffy. To eat. To drink. To be merry. For tomorrow – tomorrow would be here soon enough. But there was still time to be young, silly, and still have time to save the world. After graduation.
Word Count: 237
Written: 1/15/18