All of her classmates have chosen everything on the list. Leaving her nothing, but the retirement home. It was the time of the year for the Seniors. The ugly, stressful, brain damaging senior project time of year. The assignment that contained 200 hours of community service, and 12 page essay. Aubrey wasn't looking forward towards it. Not because of all the work that had to be done, but the phobia she had towards seniors. Imedietly after she saw the last option that was left for her, she went to her teacher and asked her if it was possible for her to switch topics with one of her classmates. Her teacher responded by telling her it was ok to switch as long as there was someone willing to trade with her. Quickly Aubrey seeked for a friend that would trade topics with her. After a while of trying to find someone she noticed that no one would want to trade with her. She went to visit her teacher again and found a "theres nothing i can do" as a response. The next week it was time to start working on the community hours. On monday Aubrey made the desicion to not go to the retirement home, and instead went to hang out with her friends. The following day, as she walked into her english class. She was greeted with dark volcanic pairs of eyes that belong to her teacher. I found out you didn't show up at the retirement home like you were sopposed to?" Aubrey didn't hesitate to answer the question. The teachers got even more mad and turned around and left Aubrey.
After class Aubrey's teacher asked her to stay to talk with her. They were discussing about the whole retirement home subject and the reason why she didn't show up at the time she was sopposed to. Her teacher said " if you don't do your best with this senior project then it is like if you are not trying to graduate." Aubrey wondered what her teacher ment by that. She asked her and got the responds of "well if you don't try and do good in this last project of yours you will fail miserably and not graduate from high school, is that what you want?". Aubrey said "no, i want to graduate. I just don't want to focus and do my senior project on the retirement home. I want to do something ealse, anything ealse but that." Her teacher asked why she didn't want to do her senior project on the retirement home. She responded with an "i don't know." The next thing Aubrey was getting a phone call it was her mother that was waiting for her on the schools parking lot asking where she was. Aubrey left and and asked her mom to take her to the retirement home where she was to do her community hours.
When she got there Aubrey slowly got out of the c
Later on Aubrey was assinged to go read to Mr. Nickoy, a gentle in his own world elderly man. Whos family left him in the retirement home because they did not want to take responsibility and look after him. His face showed his sadness. Through his deep dark wrinkels you could he how they came to be. You could tell that Mr. Nickoy was a hard working man when he was a younger by his hard rusty looking hands. His eyes reflected the pain he went through in his childhood. And his white wide hairs told the storys of the hard work he had to do in order to take good care of his children, with getting no thank you back. Mr. Nickoy was a sad lonely man, his wife had passed away eleven years ago and ever since he has not talked to anyone, atleast talk in a convesation. He had a moody character, because of all the suffering he went through and that was the only way he could show his emotions.
Aubrey walked into the room where Mr. Nickoy was and as soon as she saw him she rolled her eyes while giving a big loud heavy sigh. Mr. Nickoy must have herd it, for his reaction was "you teenagers now don't have any manners" That made Aubrey angry she felt like talking back to the old man but she stopped and thought about it. She didnt want to ruin her only way to graduate just for talikng back to an old man who didnt know what he was saying. So instead she had laughed and said "sorry sir, im Aubrey and im her to read to you." Mr. Nickoy said "i dont need anyone to read to me, i am perfectly fine here alone, just by myself." Aubrey told him she had to do it, or ealse she could not graduate. Mr. Nickoy didn't show any affection but still managed to let Aubrey read to him.
After a month of this daily routine for both Mr. Nickoy and Aubrey they started to get to know eachother well and would spend their time talking about their most personal stuff with eachother. They got really close and saw eachother as grandfather-grandaughter. Aubreys "fear" towards elderly people soon vanished and it transformed into love and respect towards them.
The next month Aubrey had completed her community hours and had to start working on her reflection essay. She wrote about her experience with Mr. Nickoy and how their relationship started of bad but later on it got solid and strong. Even though Aubrey had finished her hours, she would still go visit Mr. Nickoy and check on him.
One day when Aubrey got out of school and went to visit him she didn't find him in his room. She asked the nurses and said that he had gotten compications with his health and was sent to the hospital. Aubrey eyes got filled with tears and quicly made her way to the hospital where Mr. Nickoy was at. She asked the doctors for him, but they would give her no answer. A couple hours later the doctor told Aubrey Mr. Nickoy was out of danger but he still had to stay at the hospital so that they could check on him.
Aubrey got permision to see Mr. Nickoy, he looked weak and fragile. Aubrey was scared to even be next to him and touch him because it seemed as if he could break.Aubrey started crying andprayed to God that Mr. Nickoy would get better. She had relized the love she had towrds him and that he was a very important person in her life. He had made her see that not everyone is the same and that she should respect her elders and mostly herself.
A couple of days later Mr. Nickoy was free to go back to the retirment home. After that Aubrey would still visit him and as to her senior project she got the best grade from her whole class and Mr. Nickoy was able to go to Aubrey's graduation.