Wavelengths

Epilogue: Graduations

Grizzy tugged on his good shirt, eyeing the mirror critiqually. Smiity was frantic, flying about the apartment setting everything up.

Kryoz was graduating that day, having finished his 4 year degree. They were getting ready to go watch him walk across the stage before heading to the apartment to have a small celebratory dinner.

They'd have a full celebration,  proper party, that weekend, but Kryoz didn't want to deal with the graduation ceremony and a bunch of people at the same time.

"Ready?" Puffer said from the doorway and Grizzy turned, smiling faintly. "As ready as I can be. Thankfully, with your guys' last name being Alarie, he'll be near the beginning, so I don't have to actually pay attention to the whole thing," he said with a grin and Puffer laughed, nodding.

They headed out, Kryoz already at the school to prepare for the ceremony. "Alright, we've got 30 minutes, come on, move," Smiity demanded, pushing Droid and Pezzy towards the door.

Droid raised an eyebrow at him, a flash of purple showing in his eyes. Smiity immediately took a deep breath, shoulders and intensity relaxing.

"Smit, calm down. We won't be late, we'll get to see John walk across that stage. So breathe, over worrying won't help anyone," Pezzy said calmly and Smiity nodded, taking another breath.

"Alright, everyone got everything? Yeah? Let's go," Blarg said cheerfully, steering Smiity out the door. Everyone followed, Grizzy pausing to lock the door before hurrying after them.

The trip to the graduation location took 15 minutes, the group handing over their tickets and finding their seats in the next 10 minutes. They were seated and ready about 10 minutes before Pomp and Circumstance started, everyone standing as the graduates filtered in.

Grizzy was going to fully admit, he didn't remember a damn thing about the ceremony except for when the president of the university called "John Alarie, graduating with a Bachelors in Media Art and Associates in Business."

Their whole group had gone nuts, Smiity whistling loud with his fingers in his mouth. Kryoz had shaking his head, face flushed with a grin as he accepted the diploma and shook the man's hand.

The rest of the ceremony wasn't super interesting, Grizzy not really knowing many of the people graduating. He recognized Dooo and McNasty, having met them occasionally after Smiity's trial against that one fucker, but that was really it.

The afterparty though, Grizzy was looking forward to. He wasn't one to drink insanely, mostly because he was underage and getting arrested for underage drinking would not look good on resumes, but also because, he didn't need alcohol to have fun.

Of course, that didn't mean he would turn down a drink with his friends. It was just going to be a small, simple party with the group, Percy joining later but not for long.

"I'm so proud of you!" Smiity cried, running to Kryoz to throw his arms around him. Kryoz chuckled, kissing the top of his head as he squeezed him back.

Once Smiity finally let him go, Kryoz' brothers pounced on him, wrestling him around and being generally rowdy. Grizzy and Droid exchanged amused glances at the sight of literally everyone around them staring in shock at the four brothers being loud and silly.

Grizzy had to look away from Droid in order to not burst out laughing, moving forward to fist bump Kryoz once the other three had finally let him go. Droid gave him a side hug, nudging him with his hip and giving a grin.

"Now, party time!" Droid cheered, the group cheering as they left the area. They could all feel everyone's eyes on them, the room almost dead silent except for random whispers but none of them cared.