Epilogue

I_pooped (Sophia)

GUYS

GET YOUR ASSES ONLINE RN!

Will_the_devil (Will)

GEEZ, LANGUAGE!

I_pooped

OH PLEASE! YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY THAT ANYMORE.

I KNOW WHAT KIND OF BOOKS YOU READ THESE DAYS.

The_real_prince_charming (Noah)

Damn, what?!

Will_the_devil

Chill! It's just wattpad.

I_pooped

JuSt wAtTpAd

What about the smut you read?

Will_the_devil

Um...

What's smut?

Quinn_beach (Quinn)

Bro, please, you can't use the innocent card anymore.

Will_the_devil

Seriously, I have no idea what a smut is.

I just read the books that Caleb suggested me to.

He said it will educate me about everything I need to know.

The_real_prince_charming

Okay, Will...can we know the names of these books you read?

Cereal_killer (Caleb)

Ahem, ahem.

Let's keep it a secret. Okay, Willy?

Will_the_devil

Why though? Is it wrong that I am reading 'irresistible desire' right now?

I_pooped

EW!

CALEB, YOU SON OF A BEACH!

Chloe_awesome_scott (Chloe)

Guys, let's not get distracted...

Or else, we will be late.

I_pooped

Oh right.

I shook my head with a smile, keeping my phone inside my jeans pocket, just in time for my mom to call me downstairs.

"Chloe looks who's here!" my mom exclaimed with a clap of her hands, as soon as I entered the living room.

I turned to look at Noah, with both his hands stuffed in his pocket, giving me a breathtaking smile.

Don't fall for it, Chloe. You are still mad at him.

Right. So, I schooled my features into a scowl. Noah's face immediately fell, and my stupid heart stopped beating for a moment.

Nope, stop feeling bad for him, damnit! He didn't feel bad at all when he was about to die and leave you alone. Ugh!

"Chloe," my mom said, as her eyebrows rose disapprovingly, "Is this what I have taught you?"

"Why are you here?" I asked Noah, ignoring my mom.

"I thought we could meet before the event starts at school," he said quietly.

"For God's sake, it's your graduation day!" my mom exclaimed, "cheer up both of you! Come stand in front of that wall, we will take some pictures before leaving."

"It's okay," Noah replied, grimly, "I don't think Chloe wants anything with me."

This son of a- I mean, just yesterday, we were having ice cream together (and, I decided to let my grudge slide for that) but, this annoying SOB was as ungrateful as ever.

But, ugh, he knew how to make me give up. I had to let my grudge slide again when he started to turn around to leave and my mom looked like she was about to scream her lungs out (of course, Noah's fangirl alert!)

"Come and take pictures with me," I grunted, grabbing his wrist and pulling him along.

Almost immediately, his lips quirked up to the side and he wrapped his hand around my shoulder. "Okay, if you insist, Chloe."

I rolled my eyes at him and we took a position in front of the wall. I couldn't believe that my mom had no problem with taking my pictures with my boyfriend. And, that too looking like she might shed tears of joy anytime.

"Here, put on your graduation gowns and caps," mom ordered after taking several pictures.

My mom was taking more pictures of us when suddenly Noah planted a kiss on my cheek, and my mouth fell open in shock. My dear mother captured that shot. There were a few more, with Noah making my mustache with his finger, or two horns at the back of my head or stretching my lips on both sides so that I looked like a constipated hippo. In pretty much every picture, I was just glaring at him. After a few more photos, where I was embarrassed, Noah took a few pictures of me with my mom. And, in the end, I clicked shots of my mom with Noah (with my mom looking like she would faint anytime.) and then, we set a timer and clicked a group photo.

Jordan, my brother, was going to meet us directly at school, so without wasting any more time, we left for school.

"Are you sure Caleb is going to graduate today?" Noah asked me on the way, "I thought he was in grade third..."

I smacked his arm, and replied drily, "Very funny."

He chuckled, "No seriously. I mean, do you remember how he bawled his eyes out when he was saying goodbye to his pizza guy and how he demanded free pizza for a lifetime as compensation?"

I couldn't help but laugh as those memories came back to me.

Those last three days in the palace had been quite eventful. After Alice had shot Charlie "by mistake", she was taken for questioning. She revealed that their plan was to kill me. But, somehow Noah had got a whiff and ruined it for them. Then, the whole drama with Anna pushing Charlie in front of the bullet happened.

And, as for the queen, she was found guilty in hiding information about her husband's murder (which unsurprisingly was planned and executed by Charlie with the queen's support). She said that she was fed up with being "degraded" for marrying a commoner and that's why she did what she did.

Yeah, people these days...

Thankfully, her children already knew about her nature and felt no real connection to her, except for Will. He was the worst hit in all this. He really did trust the queen...

But, luckily for Will, he had three great siblings and Sophia and us to help him get through those tough times.

And, after everything, Noah called a meeting with the political leaders and they agreed upon reducing the political powers of the royal family. A law was passed which set the lower age limit for the ruling member to be twenty-one, which meant Noah still had three years... and, another law was passed which stated that the royal property would be divided equally among all the heirs and they would have equal claim to the crown. And, many more amendments were made.

I didn't understand any of these. All I knew was that Noah, Will, Anna, and Quinn now had the freedom to live the way they wanted to. No one could restrict them in any aspect of life.

My thoughts came to a halt when we finally arrived at school. Students were assembled here and there, in their graduation gowns. Noah and I made way through the crowd, trying to spot our friends.

Finally, my eyes landed on Sophia. She was standing with...Will. Her eyes were narrowed in concentration and her fingers were combing through his hair.

"There," I heard her saying, seemingly satisfied with her handiwork, "your hair is all set. Now, remember what I taught you. Don't mess up on stage or you ain't getting a graduated from my side."

Oh, right...guess who was the chief guest today and who was going to hand us our degrees alongside the principal?

Dun dun dun...

Will!

"Oh, and don't let any girl kiss you, asshat," Sophia continued, "If they try anything funny, you know what you have to say right?"

Will nodded with a frown, "I will say, 'I have a girlfriend waiting for me, and a dungeon full of dead rats waiting for you.'"

"Yes," Soph patted his shoulder, "that's my boy."

Noah suddenly let out a wolf whistle, walking up to Will.

"Little Willy boy is whipped," he began singing amusedly.

"Never expected to see this day," Liam appeared along with Anna, "when Mr. oh-so-grumpy-stay-away-from-me-peasant would be dancing to a totally different tune."

"Now, that's the tea, sis," this time Caleb appeared, with a cup of tea in his hands, "then, again," he continued, when Mia, Quinn, and Tristan came to us, "All of us were expecting to see Mia with Liam."

Pin drop silence.

It was broken by Caleb sipping the tea loudly then exclaiming, "What?! How long are you all gonna be awkward about it? For God's sake, you are supposed to look back and laugh at your stupidity and thank God for not pairing you with the wrong person, because, then, you wouldn't be as happy as you are now."

Okay, when he put it like that...

"He speaks nothing but the truth," Tristan said in agreement, flashing a smile a Mia, "I am grateful that I got to know Mia."

Mia mouthed 'me too' back at him. I couldn't express how happy I was for her and for everyone.

I mean, who would have thought that a random text to a stranger in the middle of the night, would lead to this ending or should I say beginning? It didn't even matter to me now, that the journey entailed tolerating a royal pain in the texts who had some weird obsession with werewolves and who was the world's biggest annoying SOB ever. All that mattered was he called me his mate and let me wipe off my tears and snot on his shirt, whenever needed. And, the rest is obvious, I guess.

A/N: I wrote this in a hurry, but still, there you go. Time to say goodbye to these babies. I miss them already, tbh. They have been with me for the longest time and you all have no idea how much happened during the course of this book. It would be safe to say, that this book became the victim of many of my mood swings and my mental state, and hence, it's the closest to my heart. I had prepared a whole ass speech to write in this author's note, but, now my fingers are failing me. I suddenly feel empty inside. And, I don't think I have it in me to write anything else regarding this.

But, enough of the emo stuff. At least, it has paved the way for new beginnings.

As always, thank you, for following me on this journey, for your invaluable patience, for your precious votes and hilarious comments. I love you and I can't stress this enough. I hope to see you all again in my other works, and yeah...well, let's see if there will be bonus chapters or a possible spin-off, sometime in the future. What do you guys suggest?

See ya!

edit: hey, guys, I will be formatting this book soon since vold and italics are now available. i want to make it easier to read and understand. and, sorry for the delay in update. i had no idea that it was incomplete here.