I Am Eighteen, Finally Ch. 1
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The premise of this experience is about a newly turned eighteen-year-old who only this afternoon graduated from an intercity high school that was fenced and guarded by metal detectors, electronic screening, bag search, ID checks, and armed guards.
She lived with her Grandmother, a seventy-six-year-old widow of a Vietnam-era veteran who had PTSD, was alcoholic, and had dementia brought on by terrifying nightmares. He killed himself in a public park downtown. He was sitting in front of the town's war memorial statue. The note he left told why he blew his brains all over the plaque to honor the Vietnam GIs from that county killed in action or missing in action. The suicide bullet left a deep divot in the plaque.
This 'kid' knew her Grandfather. He was a child abuser, always telling kids they weren't supposed to tell his wife that he liked kids. He couldn't look at her without recalling the way girls were abused and used by the Viet Cong. Consequently, he protected her, even though he lusted after her.
Anyway, she wasn't the most stable high schooler that graduated that evening. She was awarded three scholarships, two of which she was ineligible to use because she wasn't a he.
When she was called to cross the stage to matriculate, the principal had to advise everyone that she could receive only one scholarship. It was a full ride to attend a preparatory college for the military academies. Even though she'd applied to four more colleges, the circumstances of her home life had excluded her from the liberal schools of the Ivy League.
When she started across the stage wearing the graduate's gown, she was naked underneath.
She had removed the velcro fasteners on her graduate's gown so that the only one holding the gown closed was the one at her neck. She held the robe pinched together with her fingers as the entry ceremonies droned on. When it came time to cross the stage, she quit holding the robe closed and let it fly back from her shoulders.
The audience didn't notice like she'd hoped. So, as she approached the dean handing out the diplomas, she danced a double pirouette, which flew the gown up to her shoulders, revealing her nude body to anyone paying attention to the stage.
The dean dropped her diploma, his chin striking his collar. The band leader was distracted and changed the rhythm of the dirge, so the music sort of warbled as he recovered, then rapidly looked away.
The young man behind her said, "We have been waiting to see what you would do. None of us expected to enjoy your antics as much as we are. I thank you for the whole class."
"Well, follow me on the internet from now on; you ain't seen nothin' yet."
She received the diploma after a little stutter in the process, and she once again performed as she left the stage. This time, she laid the diploma on the stage, pulled the robe up, and gathered It in a bundle above her waist.
As she picked up her diploma, she mooned the audience, flipped off the administrative group on stage, and said, "I am eighteen as of yesterday; this little exhibition is nothing. Keep an eye out. I have more to do, even though I have no more to show than you've been exposed to today."
Leaving the stage, she let the robe down at the bottom of the stairs and, instead of returning to her seat among her classmates, she left the building. She had graduated naked as she told her Grandmother she would. Why hang around after that?
Grandma knew she would do something embarrassing, so she hadn't attended but was waiting on a bench outside the fence when she came out of the graduation ceremony. They walked to the house. Grandma had Champagne, chocolates, and strawberries all ready to celebrate. After donning a T-shirt and a thong, the two sat on the front porch laughing about the graduation story as related by the graduate.
"Grams, you would have loved their reaction. They froze in place, many jaws dropped, and eyes were staring first at my tits and then my pussy. As you noticed, I'd shaved my pubic hair into an arrow pointing to my clitoris, which, under the bright stage lights, could hardly be ignored."
Just at the time she was relating the tale, her cell signaled a text had arrived.