{Johns POV}

"Boy stop moving!" My mother snaps while fixing my hair as I roll my eyes.

"It's just a graduation, I'm not winning an Oscar or something" I reply while drinking my coffee as she quickly backhands me before going back to fixing my hair.

"Okay mom! It doesn't take that long to gel down his hair" My sister says coming to my rescue as I thank her with my eyes seeing her laugh at my expression.

"Well maybe if your dumb older brother would stop bickering with your mate downstairs, his hair would've been done faster by him" My mother retorts before walking out of the room after my sister took the comb out of her hand.

"Your hair is fine, I'm pretty sure she was just taking her frustration from Jason and Kaden out on your poor hair" Jezzabelle says while smoothing my hair out before kissing the top of my forehead.

"Now come on little stud, time for you to cross that stage with your adorably cute mate" She adds on while handing me my graduation cap.

"Kaden you better have the kids in the car seats and already have your ass in the car by the time I get down there!" She shouts while walking out of the room now as I grab my phone to check on my girl.

😻=John

🐰=Vivian

😻 - ' You ready to cross that stage with me by your side for the rest of your life, bunny?'

🐰 - 'You really have been dying to say that the whole week haven't you?'

😻 - 'Since the moment we met, to be honest'

🐰 - 'Will you always be this sappy at 8:30 in the morning?'

😻 - 'If you're asking if this is what you will be expecting from me in our very long future, than yes ;)'

🐰 - 'Never change on me Mister Johnson'

😻 - 'For you? Never. You should already know by know that everything you ask from me will always be given regardless'

🐰 - 'Stop being so loving to me mister Johnson! I swear you're making me blush more than the blush my mother is putting on me right now :,)'

😻 - 'Then tell her to throw it out. Don't want the make up making you blush if that's my job >:('

🐰 - 'You are to much :) I'll talk to you later, Alejandro's banging on my door right now'

😻 - 'You guys are still going there together huh? :('

🐰 - 'His house is closer to mine and plus your family is giving you a special entrance in that big limo they own remember? I'll text you later mister grumpy<3'

Smiling down at the heart emoji she sent, it took me a while to figure out my whole family was calling my name from downstairs of the castle.

"Thought I was gonna have to go up there and drag you by your ear again" Jezzabelle says rolling her eyes before quickly snapping a picture of me walking down the stairs.

"It's not even the graduation ceremony yet, can you at least save some camera space for that" I reply while moving her camera down as our family laughs at the memory of her taking all the memory space on her camera on the night I got ready for prom.

"You weren't even finished getting into the suit and half of the memory card was already filled" Jason says while wrapping his arm around her shoulder as she shoves him off with a grunt.

"Okay! Let's go! If we don't hurry, we're not gonna have any graduation pictures to take" My dad says gesturing us all to get out of the castle.

"Can't believe my last baby is finally graduating" My mom says sitting next to me in the limo while kissing my cheek as I cringed.

I roll my eyes seeing my sisters camera flash before my mother moved away from my face. She laughed at my reaction before my brother quickly handed me something making me turn in surprise.

"You got me a gift?" I ask in shock as he winks at me.

"Don't open it till we get back home" He adds on as I looked back at him confused.

"Then why would you-"

"You really think after your graduation is done , all these people lining up to congratulate you afterwards are gonna let me show you your gift?" He asks with a raised brow as I laughed before putting the small gift box into my pocket.

"I got you presents too but I put them in your room so you don't mix them up with the ones your gonna get from the people coming to the castle to congratulate you after the ceremony" Jezzabelle says with a happy smile while holding onto her mate who was busy tasting the champagne drinks in the middle of the limo.

"When we get there, I want you to take a picture with Vivian before you guys get on stage" My mom glees with excitement while handing me her camera.

"You guys are so cute and I want to start a small photo book album of you guys together before you guys start popping out more grand babies for me" She continues while winking at me making me groan at the laughs filling the limo now.

"Okay we're here! Let's go!" My sister shouts excitedly getting out of the car quickly before the limo even stopped.

"If you do that again, I'm gonna end up killing the chauffeur" Kaden says quickly jumping out to hold onto her small body as she scoffs at his words.

"And why would you do that?" She asks with irritation.

"Because if anything happened to you jumping out of a vehicle, I'll kill the person driving it. I obviously can't get angry at a car" Kaden answer back while rolling his eyes as she copied his action.

"Big J!" A familiar loud voice shouts from across the parking lot as I smiled at my two best friends jogging across the crowded school parking lot.

"Do you guys really have to make a big scene in the middle of the parking lot as if we haven't just seen each other less than 24 hours ago?" I ask with a snicker as they laugh before pulling me into a group hug.

"Oh my gosh! So cute! I'm gonna print this one multiple times" My mom cheers loudly as I realized she just took a picture of us hugging.

"Send it to me!" A familiar voice shrieks as the sight of Christian and Ethan's moms came rushing to my mother to look at her phone.

"You guys look so handsome. Especially you, Prince John" The voice belonging to none other than Ethan's younger sister who I remember him telling me had a little crush on me since we were kids.

"Hey Esmeralda" I turn around with a smile as she pulls me into a tight hug making Ethan roll his eyes.

"How about you keep your slimy hands off my best friend before his cute little mate rips your head off" He says pulling her off me by her hair before she slaps him.

"Oh yeah, I heard about you finding your mate. That's..

.....cute. Anyways! Are you gonna come over to our house tonight or-" Her annoyed brother cut her off before she could finish her question.

"Are you dumb? Mom has been bragging to us the entire week that we're all gonna be spending the graduation party at the castle" Ethan says as her face lights up in excitement.

"Oh my gosh! That's so great. We get to be together after the ceremony" She says touching my arm as I moved away awkwardly.

"Come on guys! We gotta go. The principles calling all the students to the gym and the parents to the outside bleachers" Christian says making me and Ethan follow him out of the parking lot that all our family members were beginning to move with the rest of the other families.

"If Vivian saw what I was looking at in the parking lot, you both would've been six feet under" Christian says nudging my arm before we got to the gym.

I definitely don't want my mate to be seeing another female throwing themselves at me but coming to think of it, jealousy was something I've never seen on my mate.

Of course there was jealousy shown on my side of the relationship since I've always hated the fact that she was close to a male wolf other than me. But seeing her jealous for once would be an interesting thing.

"Don't even think think about it lover boy" Christian says as we got to the entrance of the gym as I turned to him with a raised brow.

"Don't look at me like that, I already know what you're thinking about. If you want to survive the rest of your relationship than I'd suggest you to stop whatever you're thinking about" He adds on with a straight face.

"How would you know how to survive in a relationship? In our trio, the only person that has a mate is John" Ethan says looking at Christian as confused as I was before a pair of arms wrapped around him from behind.

"That's what I was trying to tell you guys yesterday while you guys were to busy arguing over video games. I found out who my mate was" He says nervously while pulling a small blonde girl in front of him.

"Hi! My names Violet. You two must be Ethan and Prince John" She says smiling up at us while keeping her arms around her mate as me and Ethan exchanged surprised looks.

"How did th-" before Ethan could finish his question Christian cut him off with a grin.

"Turns out the cabin place my dad was renting out by the lake for the summer was being rented out to her family. And when he sent me down there to show the family around-" Like any cliche couple, Violet finished Christians sentence.

"We instantly clicked when we locked eyes on the front porch" She says staring up at him with a dreamy look making him blush at her words.

"What the fuck?!" Ethan shouts randomly making all 3 of us look at him surprised.

"Why the fuck am I the last motherfucker in the group to get a mate? I wanna be all lovey dovey and shit like you two! This is some real fucked up shit" He groans out making all of us laugh at his sudden outburst.

"Maybe if you'd stop messing around with other peoples mates than the moon goddess would gladly send yours" I say patting his back as he rolls his eyes.

"What do you mean other peoples mates? Your sister knows that she's the only woman for me. By the way, she looked really hot in that little dress she was wearing in the parking lot" He says winking at me before I punched his arm as he laughed while running into the gym to get away from me.

"Glad to see you finally made it" Turning around to see the annoying voice belonging to the annoying owner.

"Before you get angry, I want you to know that the only reason why Vivian is doing what she's doing right now is because she needs to" Alejandro says nervously smiling at me as I looked back confused before looking behind him.

"If you move another inch, I won't hesitate to punch you in the balls right now" He says as soon as my expression changed from confused to angry.

Behind Alejandro was a long list of the rest of the students graduating with us, but it wasn't them that made me want to jump across this gym and unleash my wolf. It was the sight of my mate talking to the asshole that I still couldn't stand the fact of believing took advantage of her innocence.

"Move" I growl out while trying to move past Alejandro as he blocks me from moving away.

"Just trust me on this one, she needs to do this" He says quietly trying not to make a scene since the gym was already packed with students all around.

"What the fuck is he doing with her?!" I snapped while trying to push him away from me as he groans.

"The only way that she can get over her past is to face it. I know she hasn't said anything to you since she knows that you'd freak out like you are now, but she's been telling me for months that she's been trying to get over what happened between them for some time. You know how she reacts every time she sees him. That's not healthy to be crying and to become emotional every time she sees him so she's deciding to get her fear over with before we graduate and start a new chapter in our lives" He explains as I kept my eyes on her face to see if she had any sign of discomfort.

To my surprise, she put on a brave face and decided to place her hand out in front of her. Andrew the jackass decided to meet her halfway. From the side of the gym I noticed the 3 pairs of eyes staring daggers at my mate.

Of course the 3 snobs that bullied my precious mate were watching to see the interaction between her and one of their little posse's mate.

The two were still shaking hands when I decided to shove past Alejandro and make a bee line towards her in a flash. I already knew their conversation was already over judging by the handshake but I was dying to get my mate back in my arms where I can keep her safe.

"Johnson" Andrew says nervously as I quickly wrapped my arms around my surprised mate.

"I tried to stop him" Alejandro says breathlessly walking up to us as I rolled my eyes.

"Ill see you guys out there" Andrew blurts out awkwardly trying to walk away as I glared back.

"Did you really have to scare him though?" Vivian asks while turning around in my arms with a laugh as I shrug.

"I'll never like that guy and I honestly wouldn't mind snapping his head off if he wasn't a part of our pack" I say while watching his scared self walk back to his mate who was already questioning what he was doing.

"That sounds great but I already decided to leave the past in the past" She says hugging me tightly while nuzzling her head into my chest as I lean down to kiss the top of her head.

"I'm happy that you did that bunny, but I don't want you do stuff that's not easy for you to go through without telling me. I want to be by your side and help you through everything, even if you get annoyed of my clinginess, Im never leaving your side ever again" I whisper into her ear as she nods before looking up to plant a soft kiss on my lips.

"Okay lover boy" She mumbles against my lips as I smiled.

"Is that a new nickname for me?" I ask pulling away as she blushes before rolling putting her face back on my chest making me laugh.

"Hey guys, it's great being a third wheel and all but can we get to the graduation ceremony already so I can be lovey dovey with my mate already?" Alejandro says as we both realized that the students in the gym were already starting to walk out of the gym.

"You ready to live the rest of your life after this with me, bunny?" I ask while squeezing her small hands in mine as she smiles up at me.

"Anything with you in it is worth spending the rest of my life with" She replies making my heart flutter.

Even with the loud yelling of the school staff telling us to hurry up and get out of the gym, I leaned down to plant a long passionate kiss onto my happy mate.

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