Finally, the epilogue is here! So much earlier than I expected, but you guys all read so quickly and you're all dying to see what happens. Also, I was really excited. Wow...this is really the last time I'm going to be writing this story. I must say, its a strange feeling. I'm going to miss you guys so much. This is the first full-length story I've completed, and its all of course due to you guys. If it hadn't been for everyone's interest and dedication to the story, I never would have gotten this far. So here's a shout-out to all the reviewers. BTW: Thanks for getting me to 100 reviews guys! This is the first time and its really exciting!

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~Sirius (for the last time on this story :( but I love you guys)

May 22, 2014: Graduation

(Its been over a year since the story ended; during the story they were juniors.)

Mario stood in the hallway, peering out the window.

He saw many families chattering outside. He couldn't find his parents though.

"Hey bro, what's going on? We got to get into our seats and stuff." Luigi said, approaching his brother.

"I can't find mom, dad or Catarina." Mario responded with a frown.

"Mom just texted me. She says they're all seated and ready to watch us graduate." Luigi replied with a huge grin.

Mario blew a sigh of relief.

Luigi chuckled patting his brother on the back. "You didn't think they'd miss this did you? I mean no one actually expected you to graduate."

Mario rolled his eyes. "Whatever Luigi. Let's go."

"Hold on. I'm waiting for Rosalina."

Mario looked at him quizzically. "Why?"

"She was gonna go find Daisy. She's no where to be found. I hope she didn't get upset."

Mario sighed. "Well you know, Daisy's probably scared about the future just like the rest of us. Of course she hasn't always been the best at hiding her emotions."

Luigi smiled. "Ironic thing to say about her, don't you think?"

"Found her!" Rosalina was steering Daisy over to where Luigi and Mario stood.

"Are you ok?" Luigi asked, looking quite concerned.

She smiled. "I'm fine guys. I was just fixing my hair! I can't believe you guys thought I was crying or something."

"Well..um there's nothing wrong with that. A lot of people are going to be crying you know." Luigi responded nervously.

She giggled and quickly gave him a peck on the lips.

Luigi blushed while Mario and Rosalina smirked.

After junior year had ended, Rosalina had met a cute French guy while vacationing and they had started dating.

Luigi had found that he was not upset about this when he found out, so he decided to finally make a move on Daisy.

And when senior year began, it was common knowledge that the two were a couple.

"Does my hair look ok?" Daisy asked.

Luigi sighed. She looked wonderful as usual.

Her brown hair had been straightened and pulled into a high pony. She wore a halter dress with a navy top and a floral print skirt. Unlike most of the girls she had opted out of wearing heels and wore navy toms instead.

Rosalina had scolded her but Daisy had cheekily told her no one would noticed underneath the long graduation gown and she didn't want to kill her feet.

"You look great." Luigi assured her. "You too." He added to Rosalina.

Rosalina's blonde hair had been curled and let down. She was sporting a draped light turquoise dress and white heels.

She grinned. "Thanks. Now, lets go get our graduation gowns and caps. We better hurry because as class valedictorian I have to give a speech."

The four went to the gym where they were supposed to be getting their caps and gowns.

"Has anyone seen Rosalina? She's on in about 15 minutes! Oh no! Graduation is ruined we'll never find her!"

They were alarmed to find the principal Mrs. Pierce flailing her arms anxiously looking for Rosalina.

"Mrs. Pierce," Rosalina began softly. "I'm-"

"Not now Rosalina! I'm looking for-" She giggled slightly when she realized her mistake before quickly resuming her sharp expression.

"Where have you been?" She asked sternly. "We were all scared to death!"

Everyone smiled even though they knew Mrs. Pierce had been the only one acting like a nervous wreck.

"All right. Just go grab your cap and gown and get outside. You have to give a speech before the ceremony. You'll be speaking after Vice Principal Salinas speaks."

"And Mario," She added. "I almost forgot, you'll be after her as well."

Mario suddenly looked alarmed. "What? I don't have any speeches to give."

Mrs. Pierce raised an eyebrow. "Did you forget that you are the class elected speaker?"

Mario nervously chewed on his lip. "Of course not! Don't you worry, I got myself a great speech ready!"

She looked at him suspiciously, but she didn't have time to question him so against her better judgement she walked away to go worry about the seating.

"When did this happen?" Mario asked nervously.

"You were informed last week." Daisy reminded him.

"Oh well, I-I guess I wasn't paying attention."

"There's a shocker." Luigi retorted rolling his eyes.

"Bro! Why didn't you remind me."

Luigi glared at him. "I did! Like 3 times last week. And Yesterday I asked how your speech was going."

"I was watching some guy's speech on tv." Mario replied exasperated. "It was his acceptance speech for winning the world record for most meatballs consumed in a minute. I got nothing!"

"Well, you better think of something." Daisy said nervously. "Because, you don't have much time."

Soon all the students were ushered to find their gowns and go sit in the audience.

Mario hoped to escape in the mob, but Rosalina grabbed his collar and dragged him with her to the stage.

"You're speaking after me." She reminded him. "Just try to paraphrase something from my speech if you can actually pay attention."

"Um..ok." He gulped and nervously took a seat next to Rosalina on the stage.

"Welcome to the class of 2014 graduation!" Mrs. Pierce's voice boomed. Mario was certain that the entire audience could hear.

"I am so proud of this class of graduates. I wish them nothing but success in the future. And now we have a few words from the vice principal."

It was actually more than a few words really.

Mr. Salinas meant well, but he could be as boring as a brick wall, and brief was a word that did not exist in his dictionary.

After about 30 minutes of "inspiring quotes" he managed to wrap up his speech.

"And now for our class valedictorian, Rosalina Martelli!"

The class started clapping as Rosalina made her way to the stage.

"I-I would ll-like t-to.." Her voice began to crack as she looked to the horizon.

"This has been a great year." Her eyes began to water with tears. "I-I am so glad that we all graduated together. This is a great class to be apart of. I am really looking forward to the future. Thank you."

She quickly rushed to her seat, unable to contain her tears.

The class clapped, and Mario quickly scurried to the stage.

"Umm..." Her nervously began looking at the blank stares in the crowd.

"So the truth is...I completely forgot I was supposed to prepare a speech, so I'm just gonna wing it." He said.

Mrs. Pierce was glaring at the back of his head, but the good humored comment evoked laughter from the graduates and the rest of the audience.

"Yea, I mean being class elected speaker is cool and all..." This managed a few snickers.

"But what was really awesome was hanging out with all of you. I mean at the start of the freshman year, I hated like half of you, but look where we are now." He beamed, and made eye contact with Bowser who curtly nodded.

"Too be honest, not everyone was quite sure that I would graduate. But I guess anything is possible, am I right?"

The crowd roared in laughter applauding.

"So, I'd just like to say. We did it guys! We made it through all the drama, and the tests, and the teachers, and we beat the system. We're free to do whatever we want. And I know that we're all gonna live like its our last day. Remember this moment! We are eternal!"

Rosalina rolled her eyes when the crowd cheered. The end of his speech hadn't been terrible, even though he hadn't invented the lines.

Still at least he hadn't choked in the middle of his speech.

"Umm...so that's it I guess." He quickly stepped away from the podium and in his hurry he ended up falling back.

"Ouch." He whined rubbing the back of his head.

His stumble only evoked more laughter from the crowd.

Mrs. Pierce glared at Mario before stepping to the front and announcing, "Ladies and gentlemen now we may proceed with the ceremony! Thanks again to our valedictorian Rosalina Martelli and um our class speaker Mario Ricci."

Mario and Rosalina headed back to their seats. Rosalina headed off since she was further in the front than he.

He was seated in between Luigi and Fredrick Richards.

He looked around attempting to see his friends.

Yoshi was one of the very last people and Daisy appeared to be towards the front.

Most of the ceremony, he didn't pay much attention.

He glanced up the first time when they called Daisy Dilaurentis because Luigi was clapping extra loudly.

He managed to exchanged a smile with Peach Fuentes as she went up to grab her diploma.

So he and Peach were never going to date. Despite being on better terms, she would never see him as more than an acquaintance, but Mario found he was completely fine with this. It never would have worked out anyway.

Peach was going to Paris for a fashion internship after the summer.

Mario thought it ironic that the only person from the school who was going to be accompanying her was Rosalina herself.

Rosalina had applied for the university of Paris so she could attend with her boyfriend. Much to her dismay she discovered she was on the same plane as Peach.

The girls didn't hate each other any longer, but they certainly didn't hang out often.

However, he suspected they would have to see more of each other come September.

"Bowser Gonzales!"

Bowser walked on stage and shook the principal's hand. He grabbed his diploma and did a fist pump.

Mario wondered what his father's disapproving glare would look like, but he figured Bowser didn't care at the moment.

Bowser was still in a tense relationship with his father, but college was the freedom he needed.

He was going to be attending UGA on a football scholarship.

His father had been furious when Bowser announced his decision to attend UGA instead of Alabama.

Eventually, Mr. Gonzales reluctantly agreed to let him go. This was the first taste of freedom Bowser had gotten in a long time.

Bowser and Peach eventually broke up for good. But this time they had parted as friends.

They realized their high school relationship was nothing more than a teen fling.

But Mario hadn't been jumping for joy this time. He'd found he'd actually been comforting Bowser.

Mario wouldn't go as far to call Bowser his friend. He didn't think that would honestly happen.

But he didn't hate Bowser. Nor was Bowser someone he chose to avoid.

He could make decent conversation with Bowser and that was good enough.

"We're gonna go up soon. Come on!" Luigi urged grabbing Mario's arm.

He zoned back in to see Toad Peters graduating, followed shortly by Toadette Peterson.

No they weren't related. Mario suspected that Toadette harbored a slight crush on Toad.

He wasn't sure where that would lead but they were both going to the local college of UCLA, so maybe in a few months he would hear of a new couple.

Mario and Luigi followed the other R's in front of them as they got into a line to get on stage.

After a long time of waiting, Luigi received his diploma and soon after Mario did too.

He grinned when he say his parents and Catarina waving and jumping up and down excitedly in the back.

"They didn't think I would graduate, but I was chosen class elected speaker as well." He muttered confidently.

"Shut up and smile for the cameras." Luigi said while trying to smile.

After he got down he headed back to his seat. Finally after "Yoshi Zavites, Finn Zhou, and Amber Zou," the ceremony was finally done.

The rest seemed like a blur to Mario.

There was the cap throwing and the hugs and laughter but none of that seemed to stick in his mind.

He was too excited for the graduation party for all the seniors.

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"Hey Mario! How's it going?" He heard Peach's peppy voice talking to him.

She was sporting a black tier dress with a floral print and black heeled boots.

Her hair was in a high pony like he had seen it during the ceremony.

"Good. The pizza is good." He said.

Pepe's Pizza Palace had offered to host the graduation party for the school this year.

Peach smiled. "Listen, since we probably won't see each other for a long time now, can I just make sure there's no hard feelings?"

Mario smiled warmly. "No. I can honestly say I'm leaving high school without any bitterness."

"That's good." She gave him a quick hug and walked away to talk to Birdo.

Birdo and Peach had reconciled after a while. Even if Birdo and Yoshi hadn't.

He found it ironic that Birdo had been the one left pining, but he knew it was for the best.

Yoshi was going to MIT and Birdo planned on staying in state and attending USC on a cheerleading scholarship.

Nevertheless, the two were now close friends.

As for himself, he was going to be attending culinary school in New York.

He figured, if he loved food so much, he would enjoy making it for other people as well.

It turned out cooking came naturally to him once he got off of his lazy butt.

Thankfully he wasn't going to be in New York alone.

Daisy and Luigi were both attending NYU as well, so he would have some friends in the big city.

Given, he was probably going to be third-wheeling for a good amount of time, but he'd make friends and meet people.

Leaving high school was a bittersweet feeling.

Never did he think he would miss the place, but life got easier after junior year, and he found he got along with nearly everyone even if he wasn't friends with any of them.

There would be tough days to follow, but now he had the courage to face them.

The End

Ok so that's really the end. It's a lot more wordier than I expected, but I wanted to make sure the main people's futures were all addressed. I know you guys were probably hoping for some Birdo/Yoshi but realistically most high school relationships don't last. I had some Luiasy in there so I hope you guys are happy! It wasn't much, but the story was about all the high school characters not just them, so I hope you don't get upset about that. And if you missed it at the top: If you want to see the girls' outfits go to polyvore and add this link cgi/set?id=84471755 or go to my profile and click on my polyvore link. The set is called Mario in High School: Graduation.

That's all. Thanks for being the best readers ever.

~Sirius