Chapter 1968 An Unlikely Encounter:>55

So I was standing on the stage that we put on the football field. Our facilities are pretty damn accommodating. Mostly because, hey, why buy a new set of class books when you can refurbish the stadium every year? Oh wait... anyway. The graduating class is sitting in chairs along the field, and the families are in the stands.
The speeches had already been spoken, and the principal stood behind and to the side of me by several feet, behind a podium. As he called out the names, students filed up to the stage from either the left or the right. I handed out diplomas for one side, and a physics teacher covered the other.
Yes, I knew I was going to be in this role. And no, I didn't tell Autumn. This was the fucking home stretch, man. As long as nothing absurd happened for the next hour or so, I was home free. Well, as free as I was going to get, statute of limitations pending. To be fair though, I didn't know if she was going to be called on my side or the other. Fifty-fifty, right?