BRING ME TO LIFE // Prince William

Chapter Fifteen - Vivienne's graduation

Today was Vivienne's graduation.  And like when each of Natasha and Peter's children graduated or had some big or monumental happen to them, they made two days out of it.  Today being the first day for celebration, earlier in the day, Natasha had scheduled a girls day at their favourite spa.  Natasha chose the sculptural face lifting - Buccal massage which works on strengthening and relaxing your face muscles.  It is equal to a cosmetic face lift which also helps with sagging skin and lacklustre.  Vivienne and Evelyn had chosen the ultimate facial which included the sculptural face lifting - Buccal massage as well as Gua sha, LED light therapy as well as a mask and cleansing the skin.  

"This is heavenly," Evelyn exclaimed as her esthetician was now giving her face, shoulders and décolletage a European massage.  

"Yeah," Vivienne agreed as they had their done at the same time in the same room.  

Their mum was in another room right next to them as their wasn't enough room for all three of them.  All of them needed this as they had been doing so much lately which led to Vivienne not taking the best care of her skin as she normally did.  

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Before her graduation, the family decided to have dinner at Vivienne's favourite restaurant at Petrus which made her favourite foods from Paris.  Peter had rented a private room for the whole family as there were a big lot of them.  The whole family was getting together as well as their grandma and granddad from both sides, missing their granddad from her mum's side were attending the dinner as well as her graduation.  The waitress opened up the double doors to the room and Evelyn let out a breath as she saw the familiar man she had come to know all these months and was now dating.  His shining deep blue eyes looked up into hers and they both smiled at each other as they met the other halfway in a big hug.

"William?" Evelyn said shocked yet excited at the same time.  "What are you doing here?" as she ran up to him and he hugged her, pressing his lips to hers.

"Well, I called your sister and she told me where to meet you all, so I'm here.  I thought I'd surprise you."

"I'm so glad your here," she commented back holding his hand in awe noticing the parcel he had on the table and three bouquets of flowers.  

"Oh yes, almost forgot.  Vivienne, these are for you," he handed her the parcel and bouquet of flowers as she thanked him her cheeks heating up in a blush.  "And these are you and you Mrs. Bennett."  

"Thank you, that's very kind of you," Natasha gave him a sweet smile.  "Please call me Natasha, William."

He gave her a closed lip smile back and they all took their seats.  William's hand stayed on Evelyn's thigh for most of dinner.  The waitress had come back after they left with their drinks.  Vivienne ordered herself a celebratory alcoholic drink as did Evelyn.  Evelyn was ecstatic for her sister.  They all ordered their dinner and were enjoying it as Evelyn stood up halfway through clinking her glass with a knife.

"I just want to say congratulations baby sister.  I know how much hard work you have put into your studies.  How you would be up countless nights studying for your exam the next day and holding study session groups with other classmates.  We are all so incredibly proud of you and quite chuffed to see how far you will go with your midwifery.  Congratulations, sister!" Evelyn cheered for her then giving a big hug as everyone clinked their glasses together and got up to hug Vivienne one by one.

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It was now time for Vivienne's graduation.  William would be attending with her family although he didn't want any attention taken away from Vivienne on her big day.  He remembered what it felt like to graduate as well and what a relief it was to finally be done.  He didn't go incognito this time as he felt as though that would bring more attention to him, somehow it always did.  William knew that it would be a big event and so he hoped that the focus of the graduates and the families excited for their graduates would overcome the thought as being in the same room as him.