Epilogue
GRACIE
Ilaugh as Lana regales us of the story of how Cole freaked out after finding a spider in their hotel room during the summer.
I’ve heard the story already, but it’s her friend, Savannah’s first time hearing it and it’s still as funny listening to it now as it was the first time Lana told me what happened.
Lots of things have changed in the last few months, including mine and Lana’s friendship. It started off as a friendship between me and my brother’s girlfriend, but the more time I spent around her and the guys, the closer we’ve gotten.
Now, Lana and I will team up to get one over on the guys whenever we need to. I’ve also gotten close to Savannah, the friend she made when she first started here last year.
It’s the first day back at college, and I can’t say I’m not looking forward to this year.
When Cole, Lana, Noah and I headed home for Christmas last year, we told my parents about mine and Noah’s relationship.
To say they were happy about it would be an understatement.
I also used that time at home to have a talk with my parents.
I told them my thoughts and feelings about my degree and how I really didn’t want to work for my father’s company after graduation, and just like both Noah and Cole had told me they would, they accepted it wholeheartedly and encouraged me to take the path I think would make me happiest.
During the last semester before summer, I switched my major, and now I’m a full-time art student, rather than just taking the odd classes that I could fit in around my business degree.
I’ll have to stay in school an extra year, but that’s nothing compared to the time I’ll be spending doing something I love once I graduate.
As of right now, I have no idea what that will be, but I have no doubt that I’ll love every second of my life.
Noah plans to stay in his family’s house—the one in town—next year once he’s graduated.
While I’d love nothing more than to live there with him, the university doesn’t allow students to live off-campus, but at least I’ll have him close.
I thought maybe he’d follow the guys back to the city, but the look of utter disgust on his face at the idea of us being so far away from each other clued me into the fact that he’d be staying close.
We’ve only gotten stronger over the last few months, our relationship strengthening and solidifying into what it is now.
Unbreakable.
Sure, we argue at times and he drives me insane, but I love him with everything I am.
His family, especially, was over the moon when they found out about our relationship, but we take their comments of our future in stride whenever we see them, which isn’t often since they’re usually off jet-setting around the world and too busy to bother us.
I decided that for this year, since it’s their last year here, I would move into the cottage with the guys, to Noah’s delight and Cole’s absolute dismay. I want to spend as much time with them as I can while we’re all still here together.
It’s funny to think how often Cole had tried encouraging me to move into their place and now that I am, he’s conflicted about it.
But after he forced Harley and Noah to swap rooms so we wouldn’t be right next door to him, he was more accepting.
It took some time, but Cole eventually got used to the fact that Noah and I are together, and now it’s just our new normal—with him complaining whenever Noah kisses me and me laughing at his obvious discomfort.
I’m not sure how Noah is planning to continue our… activities now that we’ll be living together, since it was easier for him to sneak away with his mask in pocket when I lived in the dorms, but I’m sure we’ll figure a way around it.
I lost my shit when I found him putting the mask in the trash one day, but he eventually, reluctantly agreed to keep it, since there’s still some fun to be had while he wears it, even though it’s no longer a secret about who is wearing it.
I look up as two figures approach the table, only to find both Cole and Noah grinning down at us. Noah slides into the free seat next to me and steals one of my fries as Cole physically lifts Lana from her seat before placing her on his lap.
“Where are the others?” Lana asks and Cole rolls his eyes.
“Well, Logan is at practice, but Harley is being weird as hell. As soon as we entered the cafeteria and started coming over here, he got all weird and said he’d left his phone at home and needed to go get it.
His phone was in his hand, but he'd already left by the time those words had left my mouth,” Cole says and Lana and I share a look.
We have our own ideas of what has Harley acting so oddly at times, but I guess we’ll just have to see wait and see what happens with him.
Noah presses against me and I turn to smile at him as he puts his arm around my shoulder.
He presses a quick peck against my forehead before bringing his mouth to my ear.
“I missed you this morning,” he whispers, since I’d left him sleeping to get to my early class.
“I’ll make it up to you later.”
He grins. “Make sure you do, love.”
I can’t help the smile that spreads across my face at the use of his nickname for me.
Even after all this time, that name still does things to me.
If someone had told me a year ago that this would be my life, I would have laughed in their face, but now… well now, I wouldn’t change a damn thing.
I’m his, and he is mine.
Always.