summary: you are a member of the core boys team and decide to invite them to your graduation on a whim not knowing how hard they'll actually celebrate you
cw: mostly gender neutral with the 2nd person pov but probably a few fem pronouns, slight adapt focused, but mostly platonic for everyone, when i say team i imagine her as something like an assistant, i def skipped some parts of how an actual commencement would go but we’re going to ignore that </3 my first imagine pls send requests i thrive off of them, 2.05k words
you tap your fingers against the steering wheel as you wait for the gate to the house to open for you. humming along to the song playing on the radio, you turn into the parking area making sure that your car is out of the way in case anyone leaves before you.
you put your car into park and pick up your phone to see if you missed any messages while driving. seeing nothing, you open your car door and walk out and around to the other side to pick up the food order from your backseat.
continuing to hum, you grab your purse to put it around your shoulder but notice the manilla envelope laying on the floor of the car. picking it up and looking through it, you notice that it’s your leftover printed graduation invites that you passed out a few months ago to your family members who knew you were in school.
looking a little longer you think, ‘why not’ before grabbing a couple invites out of the envelope and placing them in your bag. finally, you pick up the food bags and close your car door, making your way to the house entrance.
you can tell the door is open so you just kick it slightly with your foot as your hands are full. the foyer is pretty empty, you notice as you walk in. you kick the door shut with your foot and by that time adapt is making his way down the stairs.
“hey you need help?” you don’t refuse and instead reach out an arm of bags to him.
“thanks!” you say with a small smile as adapt follows you toward the kitchen.
when you guys make it to the kitchen, you notice that almost everyone is already in there talking about some business idea. you think at this point they are probably used to you bringing food around this time of day that they naturally start to gather.
“hey everyone!” you greet and they each respond in their own little way.
you place the stack of boxes on the island and adapt copies your action, stepping back to let you take full reign of separating the food. you set down your bag and pull out your phone to read the food orders so that you can write each name on the corresponding box.
the boys all hover somewhat around you, with silky and lacy discussing which new food items they’ll make for their next cooking segment, ron doomscrolling in the corner on tiktok, marlon drinking from a water bottle, and adapt texting on his phone, probably telling jason that you’ve arrived.
you finish writing names and announce that you’re done, moving out of the way so that everyone has a clear shot at grabbing their food. to your surprise, instead of them all splitting up to go to their normal locations, they all stay at the island to eat.
“thanks y/n, you’re the best,” silky says giving you a side hug on his way to the other side of the island.
“no worries, just doing my job,” you say with a thumbs up. everyone follows up with their version of thank you and you just wave them off moving to tidy up the rest of the kitchen. you place jason’s food in the fridge separate from the extra boxes for the cameramen so that he’ll be able to find it later.
you still have a couple errands to run so you move to grab your purse but notice the cards sitting up. everyone seems to have gone quiet for a second in their phones which causes you to hesitate before just saying ‘yolo’ and pulling them out.
“hey guys,” you start, causing everyone to look up at the sound of your voice. you get a little nervous with all the eyes but swallow it down quickly with a smile.
“i know it’s a little last minute but i just wanted to invite y’all to my graduation this weekend from usc. i have a couple extra invites so if anyone was free and wanted to support that’s up to you all! of course no one is forced to come i promise i have family that will be there regardless,”
you are hit with a wave of “congratulations!” and adapt, the one standing closest to you, reaches out to give you a full body hug.
“of course, i don’t know about everyone else but i should be free! i’ll be there,” he says, giving you a little squeeze before letting you go.
“yo i didn’t even know you were in school this whole time, that’s so awesome!” silky exclaims, reaching out for a high five which you return.
“yeah what’s your major?” ron asks, picking up an invite from the stack that you placed on the table.
“my major is business admin, i did it all online and get to walk on saturday,” you reply happily.
at that moment, jason finally walks in looking a little tired, probably just waking from a nap. he notices the energy of the room and asks “what happened?”
marlon replies, “y/n is graduating from usc and is inviting us to the ceremony this weekend,”
jason widens his eyes in shock and turns to you, opening his arms for a hug, “what! congrats! i’m literally there,”
“looks like we’re all going, i hope you’re prepared for a crowd of supporters,” lacy concludes with a slight chuckle.
you laugh softly with him, “i appreciate you guys. if anything comes up don’t hesitate to attend to that first, the ceremony will probably be boring anyways.”
“no shot. we will be there. matter of fact-,” adapt cuts himself off to grab an invite off the island. he grabs a magnet off the fridge and sticks the picture to the door using it.
“there. so we don’t forget,”
you take a deep breath to settle your nerves as you sit in your assigned chair on the floor of the arena. earlier in the day, adapt had texted asking which side of the floor you would be sitting on so that they would be able to get close pictures and videos of you walking. you couldn’t believe they were actually coming. they said they would but it was so last minute that you believed no one would actually have room in their schedule.
you check your phone to see how much time there was left until the event started and at the same time are met with a photo message from the groupchat which you use to communicate with all of the boys at once. the picture is of you, taken from a side angle. you look to your right and scan the audience for a familiar face, spotting ron waving manically.
you laugh and wave back, seeing everyone else sitting next to him. you wave and pose for the photos and videos that they take of you from the audience. you open the groupchat up to message.
probably later, didn’t want to ruin the actual ceremony with stream snipers - lacy
with that, you close your phone as the dean starts his speech.
you take another deep breath as your name gets closer and closer to being called as you stand in the line. you spotted your family as you were walking to the stage and it filled you with happiness. now is just left to walk without any trips or mishaps to haunt you forever.
finally the girl standing before you gets her name called and your fan your face as you move forward into her previous spot.
you barely hear the first syllable of your name before the side which houses your family and team erupts in cheers causing you to smile brightly as you walk across the stage. you pose for the picture with your dean and diploma and end your moment with a kiss to the main camera.
as you walk back to your seat, your family and the boys are still cheering excitedly recording you as you walk. you hold up and point to your diploma excitedly, laughing as their reactions get even more expressive. you finally make your way to your seat, fanning yourself to get a little more air after the exciting moment.
you finish taking pictures outside of the arena with your family who says they will meet you at home. you hear your name being called as you walk across the parking lot to your car.
“y/n!” you turn and your eyes meet silky’s as the group makes their way over to you. you stop in your tracks smiling and waving as they close the distance between you and them.
“hey guys i didn’t know you stayed afterwards,” you say as you open your arms to greet the group in hugs.
“yeah we wanted to give you your gifts and say hello before you went off with your family for the day,” marlon explains as he holds out about four large bouquets of flowers for you to grab on to.
“oh my gosh thanks so much,” you reply grabbing onto the flowers. you see gilbert taking some off guards in the corner of your eye.
“did you guys want to take some pictures?”
the guys agree and they move to stand around and squat in front of you for the pictures that gilbert takes on his phone and camera. feeling content, you smile happily for each that he takes. the boys also each get an individual photo with you, with jason going as far as to asking you to make a tiktok with him, which you agree to with a laugh.
your photo time ends and you thank them all again. “i really appreciate all of you seriously. i’m glad you could make it,”
adapt waves you off, “of course. you do so much for us day to day with no complaints, it was a no brainer to come support your accomplishments.”
“here’s another gift, we weren’t sure what to get you so hopefully you like it,” lacy holds out a bag for you and ron grabs the flowers from your hold so that you are able to look in the bag.
“open the card last,” adapt chimes in.
you reach through the bag pulling out a cute stuffed animal which has your school’s logo on it, a couple gift cards to your favorite restaurants and a little gucci fragrance.
“aww you guys shouldn’t have,” you say with a slight pout feeling grateful for their gifts.
“don’t forget the card,” marlon says. you take out the mentioned card and open the envelope. the front has a simple graduation message on it which you read quickly and then move onto the inside. the right of the card has some signatures and messages from each of the guys but your attention is taking by the folded note in the middle of the card. you open it and read:
all expenses paid trip to destination of your choice (plus one included) funded by the core boys! redeem at any time
your jaw drops as the words register and the boys laugh at your reaction.
“what! guys this is too much! seriously the gift cards were enough,” you say trying to hand the note to someone.
“no way, you deserve it. school can be very hard and tiring and the fact that you juggled that and being with us is admirable so we wanted to repay that back. any time you need a vacation just let us know,” adapt reassures.
you reach out to hug him and the rest of the boys afterwards. you probably repeat thank you about fifty times before they playfully tell you to shut up. you place all of the gifts back in the bag and the boys offer to walk you back to your car to help carry everything.
you finally make it to your car thanking them one last time before you go your separate ways for the day.
as you open your car door to get in silky shouts one more thing,
“make sure you party hard for us today you heard!”
you just laugh and send a thumbs up his way. you sit in your car and take a deep breath to recollect yourself. smiling at the flowers in your backseat you think to yourself,
‘couldn’t have had a better day’
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