Forever

Epilogue: Their Final Installment

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Ps. There will be a little goodbye at the end of the chapter. You don't have to read it but it will be my final goodbye with Zach, Alicia's, and Ashley...maybe.

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Epilogue: Their Final Installment

Two weeks after high school graduation...(about a year later)

I pulled on the strap of my dress one more time. The girl in the mirror could not have been me. Pretty, teary blue eyes, curved perfectly  into a cream dress with a baby blue band around her slim waist. But it was.

No, I was not getting married, you have to remember that I was only 18. However that was the day that Zach and I would be announced as the future Alpha and Luna to the Romolotti pack.

Was I ready? I could have only hoped.

As I looked at my face I noticed the subtle scar that was permanently on my face at the hairline near my ear, from the time I spent kidnapped by Nathan and Luke. A scowl made its way onto my face as the memories came back to me. But with those came the memory of what happened just a short while after I escaped that Hell hole and only a short while after Zach woke up.

Shortly after Zach was released from the hospital his parents called us to meet with them. We were both ignorant of what was to be said.

However we were soon informed about the whereabouts of Nathan and Luke, both of which happen to be jail.

The amount of happiness and relief that I felt in that moment was astounding. I felt all of the worries of them coming back flow off of me in waves, and the weight of the world was suddenly lifted off of my shoulders.

When I looked to Zach he was filled with the same emotions, I could read it oh so clearly. Normally he was the most difficult person to read, but then, he was an open book.

We celebrated that night, the three of us. Zach, Ashley, and I. We hadn't done any hanging out like that in the longest time. About six years, since Zach left to Australia...the first time.

We didn't waste the opportunity given and celebrated all night.

 I blinked a couple times and flitted my gaze from my face or rather the scar on my face, to my dress, then to the ring on my finger.

The memory brought a smile to my face.

I was standing at the staircase in the auditorium waiting for my name to ring through the clapping that surrounded us all. 

My name was called sharply through the microphone and I made my way up, a smile very present on my face.

I reached out and shook hands with the principle and a few other teachers, took my diploma in my hand and turned to the audience. The first person I saw was my loving mate. My smile widened even more than before, pride shining in my eyes at our success this year. Everything has gone to plan and we've had it easy as of that point.

"And now a word from our valedictorian." I was then directed to the podium and started to speak.

"Four years ago it started. A stepping stone that would help us venture off into independence, friendships, failures, and successes. A long journey that would take us all to different places..."

As I finished, clapping sounded from all around me, along with whistling, and chanting of 'Alicia'.

I smiled once again that day and made my way off of the stage as the principle wished us luck and said a quick closing. Just before the tip of my heels touched the floor I was engulfed into the sent of Zach as well as his strong arms. Suddenly his lips found mine for a short interlock. Thankfully I was the last graduate or all of the attention would have been on us by now. Talk about embarrassing.