KANSAS CITY, Mo. — This time of year, we hear a lot about senior pranks or senior skip days by antsy teens ready to graduate. But there are some kids who graduated with a much more serious approach to their final days in high school and their futures.

“Anxious, more anxious than anything.”

It’s the final high school celebration for Washington High School’s class of 2013. There are many futures in this crowd, including a call to lay down your life for others.

“It’s always been my dream to serve my country and it’s been a family tradition and I’m just glad to do it,” said Jason Langley, whose part of a handful of students who will enlist in the military.

Courtney Liston is another.

“I didn’t really want to live the college life right after high school, and the experience and to be able to travel, the discipline I’ll receive,” she said.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Kansas City woman who admits shooting and killing her husband may serve just four months in jail after a Jackson County judge sentenced Charleatha Nevins to what’s called “shock time”.

Judge John Torrence sentenced her to 120 days in the Jackson County Detention Center. Nevins was 28 when she shot her 25-year old husband Eric Nevins on February 13, 2012. The two had been arguing about a credit card when she shot him in the 3400 block of Forest Avenue.

“She knew what she was doing. She had every intent to shoot him,” said Taloni Miller, the victim’s sister.

Miller is furious with the sentence. She says her former sister-in-law got a slap on the wrist.

“I wish someone would make sense out of it for me ’cause I can’t make sense out of it.”

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. – Ex Parte orders are suppose to be for a person’s protection, often from a violent ex-boyfriend or spouse. But increasingly, some legal experts say, the system is being abused by people who seek Ex Parte orders to bully anyone under the sun.

Independence mom Melissa Mahl says she was served with an Ex Parte after she stood up for her 10-year-old daughter.  Mahl tells FOX 4 an 11-year-old boy who rides the bus with her daughter, threatened to hit the 10-year-old girl.  Mahl says soon after confronting the boy and his mother, she was served with an Ex Parte.

“There used to be a time when you could take it to the parent…. nowadays you have to worry about getting the courts brought on you, ” says Mahl.

Ex Partes are a temporary restraining order typically granted by judges based on nothing more than a written complaint from person A against person B.