The Empty Chair
McKenna Nay
You walk into graduation and sit down at your seat. Next to you is an empty chair, where a gown and cap are neatly placed. You stare at it, tears filling your eyes. The empty chair should be where that girl is. The girl who’s been in your homeroom since kindergarten, the girl whose locker you’ve been placed beside throughout middle school and high school, the girl you’ve grown so close to. The rest of your class files into their seats eager for commencement, but you stare at the empty chair. Names are called and everyone walks across the stage, but they’re missing someone. The girl in the empty chair. They never mention her name, but her family still goes. Crying where her name should be,
but she never shows. The sun is shining and a butterfly lands atop the cap. She finally showed up. The girl in the empty chair.
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