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[color=deepskyblue]“I don’t understand why you have to be here?”[/color] Conner complained. [color=deepskyblue]“Don’t you have things to do at your hoity toity school in New York?”[/color] As if he needed any more reminders of how perfect his sister was. She had everything, and now she had to come here and rub it in his face.

[color=turquoise]“I told you, I happened to be in town, and mom and dad asked me to tag along and keep you out of trouble.”[/color] She put her hand on his shoulder. “I’ll be in town for a while, so I’ll be here to watch your graduation ceremony. Mom and dad are busy, so they won’t be able to attend.”

Conner swatted her hand away. [color=deepskyblue]“Bah, but they dropped everything to watch you walk on the stage and get a rolled up piece of paper.”[/color] He scoffed and walked into the auditorium.

Arianna sighed and walked in after him. If only he understood how easy he had it. He didn’t have to live under every one’s microscope at every moment of the day. It was exhausting. Just as she had these thoughts, random teachers approached her to talk about how their star student was doing after her graduation.

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Conner had expected this presentation to be boring, but it turned out to be anything but. The Trash Pandas hacked the ceremony, and Conner laughed out loud during the whole thing. This made this stupid thing way more exciting. The principal was losing his shit.

Arianna felt bad for the principal and the speakers who had their speech interrupted by some egotistical teens. The music was loud and obnoxious too.

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Conner and Arianna had differing opinions about this presentation of course. [color=deepskyblue]“That was awesome!”[/color]

[color=turquoise]“Obnoxious is what it was.”[/color] Arianna replied. [color=turquoise]“They couldn’t have found another venue to promote their band?”[/color]

[color=deepskyblue]“Come on Ari. Live a little. That… whatever it was boring as hell. That made the whole thing. That lead singer was hot too.”[/color] He had seen him around school before, but he was constantly surrounded by girls, he figured he was straight. Doesn’t mean he couldn’t admire from afar.

Arianna rolled her eyes. [color=turquoise]“Whatever. Let’s just go home.”[/color]

The two siblings went home, but Conner didn’t stay home. He changed into his beach clothes, grabbed his surfboard and headed for the beach without his older sister in tow.

Arianna realized he had snuck out some time later, and followed him. If he got into trouble, both of them would never hear the end of it from their parents.

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Conner spent hours on the beach surfing. Out on the waves was the one place where he could truly be free. No parents, no annoying sister, just the perfect wave! He stayed on the beach for hours. He didn’t care about being out past curfew, he wasn’t in the mood to be home and hear his parents lecture him and praise his sister.

[color=turquoise]“How can this boy do this for hours?!”[/color] Arianna complained. Conner was very predictable. She knew where he was going. She didn’t bother stopping him, she just took the opportunity to relax on the beach for a while. As long as Conner didn’t hurt himself, everything was fine.

At 10:00 PM, Conner finally left the beach to go to a secret location. Arianna followed. [color=turquoise]“Now where is he going?”[/color]

Conner had gotten word from his friends about some secret party thing. Conner wouldn’t miss it for the world! This Mr. Dude person seemed awesome, but Arianna thought he was creepy. Why would some stranger host a party for a bunch of teenagers? Regardless, Arianna had to go in after him.

Inside was a like a nightclub with loud thumping music, and a real DJ. All the kids were dancing, but Arianna couldn’t help but find this whole situation weird. She sat at one of the tables, and kept an eye on her brother. If anything bad happened, she would have to be the big sister whether he liked it or not!

Meanwhile, Conner hit the dancefloor. During his time, Conner happened to lock eyes with Sully, and it wasn’t long before the two of them crossed paths on the dancefloor. “Hey Sully! Bro!” He made a hang loose gesture with his hand. [color=deepskyblue]“That show you and your band pulled off was awesome! Really made that boring presentation more exciting!”[/color] Conner shook Sully’s hand. [color=deepskyblue]“Name’s Conner by the way.”[/color]