Holden's POV

History was made that day. As we protested outside of our campus parking lot, we were victorious in winning a battle against her old professor Mr Stone because the education system has changed their minds about keeping him at our university and they suspended Her ex-boyfriend Matthew Cotton alongside his friends from our campus too.

We're going to celebrate our victory even every single second of the moments in our life where we have finally achieved our goals and dreams that the six of us have made possible for never giving up hope especially when life comes with obstacles or problems that may prevent us from reaching to the stars. We did it all but it wouldn't be possible without my sweet heart.

Here we are again!

Our new favorite nightclub Scorpio cheering our wins and if anybody asks me who I was going to vote to be president next year then i would have said that I would choose to vote for Natatila Spielberg or my cousin Flora McClellan who were both strong women who believe in equality and change in our society because this world wasn't going to improve without making any difference for in our lives. I would say this was an amazing experience for someone like us to create the greatest change in our world.

"Let's make a toast to my girl who not only made a change on campus but made her mark on the world!"I announced it to everybody who was there.

I watched the incredible work and improvement that she made in her radio show, her study and her work placement all by herself as she worked through the toughest challenges only for her to come out the other side of a dark tunnel still seeing the light even after her accident. She was really an incredible inspiration to all those people in her life who had been blessed by having such an amazing girl like her in our life. Thank god for what a gift she was to everyone else.

"I couldn't have made it without you guys helping and loving support too." She smiled and said modestly. "We made it through a very difficult month and we did it!"

All of us had looked at each other before we looked back at her and said "no, you did it, Natatila all by yourself but we're glad that we get to help you with this victorious moment." We all raised our glass cups in the air to do a little toast in her name. "You made it possible for everybody else to come up with their stories and be free from their fears or burdens."said one of her friend called Charlie.

Victoriously celebrating our first movement in university making history with a peaceful protest and this was a perfect story for all of us to tell our kids about in the future because it was such an amazing teachable experience for them to see that they can do anything that they put their minds to accomplish anything or be successful at whatever they choose to do in their lives.

Every single person in our friendship has lived it all!

Sometimes we can be born into a legacy or we can make our own legacy for the future generations and our children can be proud to be a part of.

"I got something to tell you guys about."she told us while she sat down in her chair. "But it has to wait until we get home."

Her doctor had told me that her bones were healing naturally and she was in good healthy to soon start walking without wearing the boots which was great news to hear but i was going to miss her if she does decided to move back into her dormitory room on campus like just this morning we had a little cuddle when all of her effort to build a walls in between the two of us by using a lot of pillows had falling down off my bed. As much as she had tried to pretend that she doesn't enjoy our time together however, she had almost let a smile slip this morning. Yeah, she had really started to warm up to me in many ways too.

Do you know that people who live all over the world have many different interpretations of the word home? but to us the word home means something a little more different from them.

"Let's get these drinks moving then!"exclaimed happily, her red haired friend Avena.

The word home means a magical special kind of place where we can be able to feel loved,wanted, cared about, safe and sound. Nonetheless, it was always a place where we don't feel alone or judged by the crushing weight of society. A house might be made out of bricks, mortar and concrete except for a home that was built on love, trust, loyalty and respect from the people who we have chosen to have in our lives. It was a place where we belong.

"Do know what I always want to do?"asked Jessasnym as she looked around the table at all of us. "To make a time capsule for memories sake." She said something interesting to us.

"I think it is a great idea because who knows where we will be from now on to future generations." I replied back to Jessamyn with a genuine question about where we were going to find somewhere to bury it. "There is only one problem which is where are we going to bury this wooden box?" I asked her friend Jessamyn.

Music started playing through the speakers as her friend Rochelle played her guitar as she started singing and we were all cheering her on. I began to notice Mason watching her so intently not even his eyes had lingered away from her eyes which I thought he might have liked even though he hadn't said anything to us about it yet because no one else had ever quite seen him like this before.

It was like he was enchanted by her voice.

"Ave, got a place in her huge backyard where we could all bury it up together there."Wyatt answered my question.

Who knew that Mason would find Rochelle captivating to watch up on the stage? Which has taken us back by surprise whilst he continues to watch her singing with a smile on his face.

"Your friend Mason seemed very interested in my friend Rochelle." She assumed as we both began talking about how Mason hadn't taken his eyes off her short dark brown hair with royal blue highlights friend Rochelle.

We had been Counting stars since the moment I was born up until now. I had realized this when Rochelle began to sing this song as her last closing acts of tonight even then, we were all in our early twenties still figured out what lives had to offered us and discovering who we were as a person because our past doesn't make us who we are today but it was actually in fact the choice that we had chosen to make along the way on our own path.

Self-discovery is the process of gaining knowledge or understanding of your abilities, character, and feelings about new life experiences that happen every single day of our life.

Mason had acknowledged that we were both talking about him "I can hear you guys talking about me, you know."he turned around to face us. "You should be focusing on yourself, big guy, especially when you're not ready to tell her the truth about the science competition back at your old highschool." he blurted out a little secret that I wasn't ready to tell her myself.

The only one who could know about this was Grayson since he was there when it happened as I went to confront him about telling other people the secret about how i won the eleventh grade science competition all for her not even caring if i was considered a nerd to other people in our old year group. Here I thought that the past was in the past and it would continue to stay buried there for as long as I liked it to. And once Grayson heard me coming over he still tried to play it cool as if he didn't just tell someone what happened back at high school during this Avenna, Asher,Charlie, Dean, Grayson,Jessasnym, Rochelle, Wyatt and the rest the our group comes back to sit at the table a upon discovery part of the reason why she had hated me since then.

"What truth about the eleventh grade science fair competition?" she asked me with a look of confusion that was written over all her face.

A lot has happened since eleventh grade but our lips almost brushed past each other at our last year paintballing and then we kissed it brought back all of my old feeling for her but she was constantly keep turning down other guys until she dated Matthew her ex-nothing because he didn't even deserve the boyfriend title at all. She didn't even look my way unless I called her names such as the ice queen, frozen heart girl and black swan. Not to mention where I signed myself up as a model to be in her art classes to make her realize we were meant to be.

She was my childhood crush and my sweetheart too.

"It all started back in eleventh grade when I was trying to get your attention by winning the science fair and I didn't mean to ruin your science experiment at all." I sighed exhaustively as I remembered the memories so clear as a day just like it was only yesterday to me. "I wanted to give the trophy to you as I waited for you to leave the room but when you showed up my brain back had mal-function that led me to be so cruel to you. I'm so sorry for being an a-hole to you back then." I apologized to her.

The truth was I didn't even want to enter the competition until I noticed that she was interested in all of that sciencey stuff.

"See, I'm all forgiven now since the truth was finally out." Grayson let out a breath of relief and then added. "Please just give my mate a chance because he did all that for you and made us your own personal bodyguard too." he came to my defense to tell her that i wasn't a bad guy.

My hockey teammates all came to jump to my defense and just rescued me from the doghouse that I might be in soon. They were all spreading good words about me to her and I was grateful to have them as my best mates because it does matter whether we were on or off the ice rink that we were still a strong team of hockey players who had each other back constantly. Even in my time of need I still know that they could come rescue me, for example when i saw her lying down on the bottom of the stairs on campus she looked so fragile that it practically broke me to see her like that. I couldn't sleep, eat, concentrate on work, my study and on hockey especially when she was all that was on my mind every single day i felt like i had failed her.

I can no longer see it black and white in my head but what we had was as golden as the sun.

"He even learned how to cook just to take care of you by watching all of those cooking shows."Wyatt blurted out to her.

A moment between the two of us but all we could hear was her friends gasping in surprise or a look of shock on their faces. She finally smiled a real smile at me. This was the same smiled that i was missing so many years ago and everyone know that i don't let a girl temporarily moved in with my friends and i in the hockey house just to look after them for a while additionally, i haven't invited any girl or show them my room there except for the fact that Natalia wasn't just any girl she was my incredibly, intelligence, beautiful, funny, passionate, wonderful, inspiring, lionheart and stubborn girl who didn't let the world destroy her.

"You did all of that for me?" she softly asked me.

I answered her question with a nod and said "of course, gorgeous, when it comes to you I will do absolutely anything in the world for you." I felt her arms wrapped around my shoulders as she pulled me into her side to give me a hug and she whispered "thank you for being my rock." "You deserve the world, you know that."I pushed her braided hair behind her ears whilst I saw happy tears in her eyes and then she said "you're a very charming number twenty three."

Our lips softly brushed against each other until neither of us could hold any of our willpower to finally kiss one another during Dean requesting for the DJ to play just kiss the girl out loud for everyone else to hear it on the speaker. And I guess that they might have felt this sort of tension between the both of us.

She asked many questions and reminisced about her old memories whilst I answered every single one of them.