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We run across the lawn that leads to North Shore Community College and burst open the doors to the amphitheatre. We were meant to have the ceremony outside, but the weather refused. Family and friends are squeezed in here because they wouldn’t miss it for the world and I know mine are here somewhere.
The dean is already talking, and Lik and I attempt to make ourselves small as we walk to our chairs.
“’Scuse me.”
“Sorry,” he whispers after me.
“Almost there,” I smile to a girl who rolls her eyes at me.
“Right here,” Lik adds.
We fall on our chairs and earn ourselves a death stare from the dean. He keeps going on and on forever.
“I wonder if we should have come a little later,” Lik murmurs in my ear discreetly. I let out a small laugh and pinch his thigh.
“Quiet,” I chastise him.
Lik is called before me, and I have to wait forever on my own to hear my name.
White.
Stupid W-starting last name.
I shake the dean’s hand and look out in the crowd. There are too many people here, I can’t see shit.
Until I hear, “I love you, Rose!!!” I pinch my lips not to smile too widely and finally find Rachel in the crowd. She’s jumping up and down while Sam throws daggers at whoever is complaining about Rachel’s excitement.
“I love you too!” Lik screams from his seat. Rachel frowns and looks for him.
The crowd laughs but my Sunshine isn’t happy. She loves a good competition with Lik, though.
“Marry me!” she shouts, and everyone erupts in a laugh, including me.
“Alright, that’s enough,” the dean breaks our party. I walk down the steps and sit next to Lik until they’re done with the rest of the students.
“Congratulations to this year’s graduates,” he finally concludes. “And I wish you the best in your new life.”
Lik and I stare at each other as we get up. We hold hands as we throw our caps and smile.
“I love you,” he whispers.
“I love you too.”
He gives me a passionate kiss and we both miss our caps falling back down.
By the time we separate, Sam and Rachel are on us. Rachel gives me another kiss. It’s different, shyer, and less possessive, but just as great.
“Congratulations,” she jumps on the spot. She gives Lik a hug. “I hate you.”
“I love you too,” he replies.
Lik goes to his mom and Xi. Billie and Emma are here too with their dad. Billie nods at me and I nod back. We’re still not big fans of each other, but we can be in the same room without jumping at each other’s throat. Sometimes.
From behind, Sam grabs me by the hips, turns me around and lifts me up. I wrap my legs around his waist, my arms around his neck, and let him bury his hands in my hair as he kisses me deeply.
“I am so proud of you,” he tells me. “Of the woman you’ve become and everything you already were.”
I smile against his lips. “I love you.”
