A/N: So this is it. Dear Diary 2: Beyond the Pages will finally be ending (it only took me forever...). I’m really dedicated to this chapter because I’ve had this idea in my head since the last chapter of Dear Diary, plus I can finally express how I felt at my own graduation. Hope you all enjoy it!

Chapter 32- The Beginning of Forever

“You need to calm down.” My mom said to me as I ran down the stairs with my cap and gown on for graduation. My dad and her were in the kitchen making a late lunch.

“What do you mean calm down?” I said slightly out of breath. “Graduation is in-.”

“In 4 hours.” Roxas said walking down the stairs without his graduation attire.

“Kairi, chill.” Sora yawned walking behind him. Since it was the last day of school and graduation, the seniors got the day off to get ready while the others had to do their finals. It was one in the afternoon and we had to be at school by four-thirty to get set up prior to the ceremony which started at five.

“So who is all coming for the party afterwards?” My dad asked setting plates on the table. I placed my black square cap on the counter and sat down at my usual spot at the dinner table.

“Just about 12 others from school besides the group.” I said as I slipped off my black gown over the back of the chair.

“Plus all of your friends parents, the Johnson’s, the Jilling’s family since Shawn and Christy are together; Christy’s friend, Cindy and her family; Kyle, Jenna, Chris, Casey and their families will be there too.” My mom said reading off a piece of paper in her hand.

“Dang...” Sora reached his hands in the air to stretch.

“Some of those people I don’t like.” I declared looking out across the street.

“Well, it’s the end of the year, you probably won’t see half of them again after graduation. Just try your best to be a sport.” My dad sat down at the end of the table as my mom finished the cooking.

“Yeah, I guess.” I sighed.

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“Come on Kairi!” Roxas called from downstairs. I was in my room redoing my make-up and checking to make sure I looked alright. “You were the one complaining about being late earlier!”

“I’m coming!” I yelled back as I grabbed my cap off my bed. I slipped it over my head and ran down the stairs to meet up with Sora and Roxas.

“It’s show time.” Sora said opening the door. By the time we got to school, most of the seniors were in their assigned classrooms waiting for graduation to start. Since Sora and I were walking partners, we were in the same classroom. Even if we weren’t walking partners, our last names are so close, we would have been near each other anyway. I studied the faces of my classmates who were talking excitedly amongst themselves. It was weird what a black cap and gown could do to someone. We all looked so much older and it was hard to believe that this was it. After we throw our caps in the air and be recognized as “The Class of 2007" we’re no longer just teenagers trying to live, we officially become the future.

“Okay, we’re getting ready to walk out.” The teacher who owned the classroom announced. All the teachers wore white gowns to be easily recognized in the crowd. “I’m going to call you and your walking partner and I want you to line up outside we can have an easy stream out to the field.”

As our names began to be called, I quickly reached over to hold onto Sora’s hand. I was so nervous and excited. Once our names came up, we walked into the loud hallway. All I could see was a mix of black walking to squeeze in line. It took about 15 minutes total to get lined up and ready.

The large class of 2007 from DHS walked in line onto the field where they began to play the graduation music. The crowd was amazingly large and they all stood up as we walked together down to the front of the stage. It was rather hot out but it was barely noticeable with all the excitement. The sun was getting ready to fall behind the trees within the next few hours and there wasn’t a single cloud. There was a light breeze that made the experience bearable. As Sora and I walked down the long isle, I was smiling but I wasn’t sure who to smile at. There were so many faces staring back at me. (A/N: This whole graduation part was exactly how mine went and that’s why it’s so descriptive. -smiles-)

After reaching the seats, it seemed to take forever for the rest of the class to fill in. We had a fairly large class. Once everyone was seated and quiet, our principle got on stage to start the beginning of forever.

Walking up behind the stage as names were getting called up, after almost an hour of speeches, everything seemed like a crazy dream. I looked behind me to see Sora looking behind us to see the rest of the kids in our row waiting anxiously. I was finally to the stage and was able to see hundreds of faces staring up at me. I always wondered what that feeling was going to be like on stage to get my diploma case. There were cheers as my name echoed out into the field. It was nothing like I imagined. I figured that I would be too nervous to recall anything, but it felt so right as I walked across to take a formal picture with the principle before walking off stage.

As soon as I stepped off the last step and was handed my actual diploma from one of the counselors, I looked down and felt free. There wasn’t anything holding me back anymore, I officially made it into the real world. I waited for Sora to catch up as I grinned happily at him. We walked together back to our seats. It took a while to get everyone across the stage but it was worth it to see everyone I’ve known forever finally make it.

“So here’s to us Destiny High, class of 2007, we made it!” The class president cheered. Everyone stood up and threw their hats in the air. While everyone did that, I turned and kissed Sora.

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It was an hour and a half later and I was sitting in my room with Namine, Lissa, Amanda, Alexa, and Selphie. I had just finished writing about my graduation in my diary.

“It seems like forever ago that we graduated.” Namine said leaning her head off my bed.

“That’s for sure.” Selphie agreed. I closed my diary and slipped it in into its normal spot.

“We should get downstairs where everyone else is.” I said standing up and straightening out my thin-strapped, black dress. Since it was a big occasion, everyone dressed up. 87 people total were invited tonight and everyone showed. Sora’s parents and Roxas’ parents made special trips, along with my friends from Star City came with their parents and of course Roxas’s friends from Twilight Town came. We walked downstairs to see people everywhere. The back door was open which caused Princess to run around excitedly. Precious made sure she was away from everyone and was tucked up in the windowsill in my room.

One Destiny decided to make our final performance tonight at graduation since it was probably the last time for a while that we would all see each other. A large stage was set up with all the instruments needed.

I scanned the crowd outside to see the twelve people we invited from school. (A/N: originally when I started the “who wants to be in the last chapter?” thing, there were 33 people. I’m glad it shrunk, that was so many. Sorry to anyone who planned to see themselves in here, I never got those reviews I asked from chapters 27-30.). I saw Lilac, a girl from my English class. She's not really the lovey-dovey type. She's easy to talk to but can really kick you hard if you piss her off. But she's willing to stand for her friends and is a good girl to talk to with problems.

There was also, Reno, who was in P.E. with us, along with Darren. Reno’s way into making sure his friends are protected at all time while Darren told Sora that he’s always wanted to be animator when he got out of high school.

Saria, a girl with dark brown hair and hazel eyes was talking to Roxas. We met her in our math class this year. She is really smart but also loves sports, which kind of made her a tomboy, but still very stylish. Saria secretly loves to sing but not many people know that, except for Roxas who heard her singing one day after school.

I waved over at Joshua, not our Josh, but a junior I befriended in Science. He waved back with a smile.

Andrew Yashimoto was having a staring contest with Wakka near the stage. I laughed at this. He was pretty aloof and goofy but could be serious sometimes. He loves playing volleyball, poker, ps2, and staring contests, which explains what he was doing currently.

Rain, a blonde haired, tan, girl from my P.E. class was dancing with a few others. It looked like she was having a great time.

Roxas was now talking to Akina, a girl who lived just down the street. It was pretty obvious that she might be crushing on him but Roxas wasn’t the type to complain.

Astor, with kind of spiky black hair and light blue-green eyes, was inside talking with a few other people. He nodded at me and I smiled in reply.

Tate walked by me with a grin on his face. He has red hair, blue green eyes, freckles, and was kind of short. He was wearing grey and black shoes, some baggy kaki pants, a long T-shirt that said Cream Soda on it, and had some dog tags dangling around his neck.

Alyn, a guy with light brown hair and blue eyes, was talking to Sora about this new fencing trick he learned recently which actually seemed to interest Sora.

“Hey Kairi,” Rinoa, an old friend of mine from middle school said. We hadn’t really talked too much but she was a good friend and I couldn’t not invite her.

“Hey, you.” I smiled hugging her. She smiled and walked outside to the party. It was crazy with so many people here but it was interesting to watch and be around.

“Kairi!” Amanda called from inside the kitchen. I turned around to see her with a mischievous grin on her face.

“What are you up to?” I asked walking closer. She pulled out two sodas from the refrigerator. As I came closer, I realized one had an “R” lightly written on the side. It was clearly in Sora’s hand writing. The memories of when I was unlucky to get the shook up can that Sora had planned for Riku a while back came to mind.

“Sora’s obviously going to try to get Riku still.” Amanda said shaking it a little more.

“Are you trying to help Sora out or something?” I questioned as she set the soda down. She started to laugh a little as she shook up the other can. “What are you doing?”

“Okay, get this, we’re going to meet up with the boys and hand Sora both of the cans. When he realizes the ‘R’, he’ll quickly hand it to Riku thinking he’ll be safe from getting sprayed. Little does he know, his trick will backfire and both boys will get sprayed.” She smiled. I started to grin.

“Oh, I like your thinking.” I laughed taking the sodas. “Let’s go.”

Amanda and I walked outside where the music was blasting and people were mingling. Sora, Roxas, Cloud and Riku were standing off to the side talking together. Once they saw us though, they quickly stopped.

“Hey guys.” Amanda smiled.

“Here.” I handed Sora the sodas. “For you and Riku.”

“How come we don’t get anything?” Cloud scowled, crossing his arms. I watched Sora’s eyes widen as he saw the ‘R’. He passed it quickly over to Riku, smiling. He was trying to hold in his laughter.

“Because we didn’t know you would be here. We’ll get you one.” Amanda reassured the other two. Her eyes were glued to Riku and so were Sora’s and mine. Riku yawned as he popped the top of his can. Sprite shot out from the top and got all over his face. We all busted up laughing as Riku slowly squeegeed off his face with his hand. Little did the others know that it wasn’t over yet. Sora was still laughing as Riku glared at him when he opened his can. The same exact thing happened to the little trickster. More people noticed this time and everyone began laughing at the boys. My stomach hurt from laughing.

“Got ya!” Amanda and I said at the same time.

“Now I’m all sticky!” Sora whined.

“It’s all your fault, buddy.” Riku started to laugh.

“You boys can go upstairs to take showers.” My mom laughed walking up to us. “I’m sure Sora has extra clothes you can wear.” Riku and Sora raced inside as they slipped all over.

“You guys are good.” Roxas laughed holding his stomach. Amanda and I looked at each other, smiling.

“Thank you.” I replied happily.

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After almost an hour, everyone was calmed down and outside. I was sitting at the edge of the stage with the girls. We were talking about what the plans were for this summer and who was going where. Life could go anywhere from here and I was pretty sure I was ready now.

“What are the boys doing?” Alexa asked watching them across the lawn. They were all standing around together in some sort of huddle. We watched them for a little while when they started to head toward the stage.

“Are we ready to preform yet?” Cloud asked.

“Totally.” Namine stood up and walked to the side of the stage. Sora, Cloud, Amanda, Riku, Selphie, Tidus, Roxas and I walked up stage and set up.

“Can we get your attention?” Sora said into the microphone. It fell silent and the music stopped. He smiled triumphantly. “Thank you. So I’d now like to begin our final performance as One Destiny. We’ve been together through so much and since everyone has different plans from here on out, this will be our official finale.” The crowd cheered and all of our parents smiled.

To make things right, we began to play ‘Graduation’ by Vitamin C. We also played a few other selections that represented us as a group. About after the fifth song, Sora stopped and gathered everyone’s attention once again. He took the microphone of the stand and walked to the edge of the stage. The rest of us stood where we were at.

“I’d like to tell you all a story about my life.” Sora began. “Or more about my girlfriend, Kairi and myself.”

“What?” I said to myself looking at Sora.

“So I met this shy little girl back in elementary school and instantly wanted to be friends with her. Even though she was shy, she seemed to have a great head on her shoulders. We talked more in middle school but it wasn’t anything amazing because, me being a boy, I had other girls in mind. She was still a pretty good friend of mine though. One day, I remember her telling me that she was moving and I bought her a diary for her to write her thoughts in. While she was gone, I hadn’t heard from her and neither had her friends. I figured I wouldn’t see her ever again. Then, before 11th grade, people began to move in across the street and of course I was curious but I figured I’d wait a while before getting to meet my new neighbors. On the first day of school, I was having a bad day when I ran into this rather cute girl, but since I wasn’t in my happiest of moods, I wasn’t the most polite person alive. The same girl ended up being in my first period class and when I began to study her, the image of someone I missed deep down appeared. Ever since the first day of school last year, I’ve been wanting to know Kairi more and more. Love eventually grew between us and we’ve been together through the worst and best parts of life. She’s been my everything and I love her to death.” My emotions were all tangled as I heard Sora explain this to the crowd.

My mother was leaning against my father and he had his arms wrapped around her. They were both smiling and I noticed so was everyone else. Sora turned to face me and walked up to me. He stood next to me so the crowd could see us both clearly. Roxas walked up in between us and took the microphone from Sora who was reaching into his pocket. My stomach started to twist and turn and I could feel my face turning bright red. Emotion began to flow out of me as if it had been held in for years. Sora pulled out a box and got on one knee.

“Kairi Hikari,” Sora said into the microphone that was being held down by Roxas. My hands immediately went to cover my face as I began to shake. ‘Oh, my, god...’ I screamed into my head. The silence was killing me. I moved my hands down slightly to see Sora. “I’ve already asked your parents and was given permission. Will you always be my everything, forever and marry me?”

“Oh, my god, Sora! Yes!” I screamed. The emotion was so built up and I didn’t mean to scream but I was so excited. Sora stood up and I jumped into his arms. Everyone clapped and cheered happily. I even heard a few people whistle. Tears were running down my face as all my friends quickly ran on stage to join the hug. Sora and I were squished together but he looked at me with a smile. (A/N: lol that wasn’t surprising to like half my readers. You guys are good.)

“I love you, Kairi.” He said loud enough for only me to hear.

“I love you, too, Sora.” I said as he wiped a tear that ran down my cheek.

“Okay, I have one more thing to do.” Sora said as everyone broke from the hug and was done congratulating us. “This song is what I dedicate to you.” He looked directly at me. I wasn’t aware of what song was about to be played but apparently everyone else did which had to mean that everyone knew what Sora had planned. “This is ‘Follow Through’ originally by Gavin Degraw.”

So, since you wanna be with me
You'll have to follow through
With every word you say

And I, all I really want is you
you to stick around
I'll see you everyday
But you have to follow through
You have to follow through

These reeling emotions they just keep me alive
They keep me in tune
Oh, look what I‘m holding here in my fire
This is for you
Am I too obvious to preach it
You're so hypnotic on my heart

So, since you wanna be with me
You'll have to follow through
With every word you say
And I, all I really want is you
you to stick around
I'll see you everyday
But you have to follow through
You have to follow through
You have to follow through

The words you say to me are unlike anything
That's ever been said
oh what you do to me is unlike anything
That's ever been
Am I too obvious to preach it?
You're so hypnotic on my heart

So since you wanna be with me
You'll have to follow through
With every word you say
And I, all I really want is you
you to stick around
I'll see you everyday

So since you wanna be with me
You'll have to follow through
With every word you say
And I, all I really want is you
you to stick around
I'll see you everyday
But you have to follow through
You have to follow through
You're gonna have to follow

Oh, this is the start of something good
Don't you agree?

“I can’t believe you just did that.” I smiled looking down at my new ring. I moved my promise ring onto my right ring finger. “You are amazing.” He pulled me close by my waist as I put my arms around his neck.

“I’m so happy for you two!” Namine cheered. I smiled at her.

“So who knew about this anyway?” I asked.

“Let’s see, all of the guys. Remember when I was acting funny before you ran away?” Sora looked at me before I nodded. “Well, it was because me and the guys were looking for rings. I’ve been planning this since my parents came for a visit back in March.”

Flashback

I put my hand on the doorknob and pressed it down. I heard Sora, his parents and my parents in the livingroom talking. Being nosey, I silently closed the door and decided to see what their topic of choice was.

“Don’t tell Kairi anything.” Sora’s voice said sternly. Now they really caught my attention. I leaned against the wall with my coat still on, bag in hand, and being silent.

“We won’t say a word.” My mother’s voice said softly.

“I want it to be a secret until the time is right.” He replied with now a quieter tone.

“Honey, we’re proud of you for being so brave.” Yuri said.

“Thanks mom. Hopefully everything will be okay between Kairi and me in the mean time.”

“Graduation will be even more full of emotions then normally thought.” My mom sniffled slightly.

“After graduation though, how’s Kairi going to react?” Sora questioned. Now I was so confused. What does Sora mean, ‘after graduation, how am I going to react?’ My eyes opened a little wider when I thought of the possibility.

“No...” I said in a whisper. He can’t possibly mean he’s moving after graduation...

“Knowing Kairi, she’ll be strong and except the fact that it’s reality and not a dream.” My dad said.

“Sora, I’m proud to call you my son.” Ryuu declared.

End of flashback

“Wow.” I said in awe. How could I have been so blind not to see that coming. “Wow, I’m a little slow on things.” I laughed.

“It’s okay.” Riku grinned before I hit him lightly.

“We’ve all known about it.” Amanda said. “Well, the guys knew about it longer. We just found out about a week ago.”

“Thanks guys.” I said sarcastically.

“Well, we couldn’t ruin the biggest surprise of your life, Kai!” Selphie said.

“I know.” I smiled. “I wouldn’t want it that way. I liked how it happened.”

“Good,” Sora said kissing my forehead. “And since we’re still really young and we still should have a while to be the way we are, we’ll get married in our twenties. When you’re ready.”

“You’re the most amazing person.” I said to Sora happily.

“I was hoping you’d say that.” He laughed along with the others. My parents walked up to the stage. Soon, so were Sora’s parents.

“I’m so happy for you.” My mom had her arms open. Sora and I got off the stage and joined our parents in hugs.

“You take care of my daughter.” My dad said smiling at Sora.

“Of course, sir.” Sora replied.

“My baby is so grown up.” His mother wept making Sora roll his eyes.

“Oh, geez, mom.” He hugged her again.

“Well, we’ll let you two celebrate some more with your friends. Tomorrow, the Hikari’s and us are going to dinner to welcome each other to the family, so be ready at five.” Mr. Hikaru said to us. Sora and I nodded. Our parents walked away when Shawn and Christy came up together hand in hand.

“We just wanted to tell you congratulations on the engagement.” Shawn said.

“Thanks.” Sora said extending his hand forward. Shawn shook it with a solemn smile. Christy let go of Shawn and hugged me.

“We also wanted to apologize for all that’s happened between each other these last two years. It shouldn’t have ever happened.” She said.

“Same.” I agreed.

“Well, I guess we’ll see you around.” Shawn said as he led Christy through the crowd.

“This sure has been one hell of a year.” Cloud said. A waiter came by and we all reached for drinks.

“And life will never be the same either.” Josh agreed.

“Well, here’s to life after high school.” Tidus said lifting his drink in the air. Sora looked over at me and smiled. His spare hand reached for mine.

“We finally did it.” I smiled as we all joined our drinks in the air.

A/N: YAY! It’s freaking finally finished! Wow, this was the fastest update every for Dear Diary 2 history. I loved this chapter and I’m so happy with how it turned out, I think because I’ve anticipated this chapter since the last chapter of Dear Diary. All of you who were loyal I love you, like seriously. It took me two years and you still stayed. Now that’s being a true fan. Thank you!

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Dear Diary 3: Unwritten will be up soon. Don’t forget that there is a dear diary series website (you can find the link on my profile) there are news bulletins that you can find in “Progress”. Thank you again to my lovely reviewers and readers. See you soon on the FINAL dear diary story.