{Vivians POV}

"Say cheese!" My mom shouts happily as I roll my eyes at her taking her hundredth photo of the night.

"If you keep taking pictures of us every 5 seconds, the place is gonna close before we even get there" I groan as my mom rolls her eyes.

"I can't believe your dad, the king, actually let you guys use one of his beautiful carriages to ride to prom" My mom says turning to Alejandro and his mate who decided to go to prom together with me and John tonight.

"My dad knew that I was gonna leave the castle to go with my mate to prom even if he tried to keep me locked up in my room, so instead of arguing with me this whole week, he decided to let me have my way tonight and use only two of his royal guards to drive us to prom in one of his special carriages tonight." Princess Phoebe says while happily squeezing Alejandro's arm.

"If the princess didn't pick me up before coming here, I would've got us one of my brother in law's limo. Just so it could be a special night for you and I" John whispers into my ear as I laugh before kissing his cheek.

It hasn't even been a full second of my lips touching his cheek before the bright flash of my mothers camera made me roll my eyes for the hundredth time tonight. Instead of just taking one picture of me and John in our prom outfits tonight, she's been taking hundreds of pictures of us every time we move a centimetre of our bodies at the same time.

"Can we just go already mom? Your camera storage is probably already full anyways. We needed to be there before 8 and it's already 8:45 now" I groaned seeing how late we were as she sighs before nodding.

"Fine, you guys can go now. Remember that you don't have a curfew tonight okay? You have fun and make sure that tonight is the best night of your lives" She says smiling at all four of us now standing in front of the front door ready to leave.

Alejandro and Phoebe were the first out the door, and when I was going to follow John out after them I was being pulled back into my house. Before I turned to see who grabbed me, I was engulfed into a pair of large tatted arms that I could recognize anywhere.

"You could've just took a picture with me and side hugged me while mom was taking thousands of pictures of me earlier" I mutter into my brothers large chest as it rumbled from him laughing at my words.

"Just wanted to be the best for last. With you being to busy getting dolled up by mom the whole day today and than your mate being glued to you for the past 2 hours mom managed to keep her hands off trying to make sure you look perfect, I just wanted to make sure I was the last person to say how much of a beautiful young woman my baby sister grew up to be" He explains while pulling away from our tight hug as I smiled happily up at him.

"Look, I know I haven't really been supportive of you and your mate for the past few months. I'm not saying I'm gonna welcome the dude with open arms right now, but I just want you to know that up until now, I honestly haven't seen you this happy since the day you found money under your pillow thinking it was from the tooth fairy" He continues as I laugh at the memory.

"Anyways, I'm not good at any of this apologizing and being all lovey dovey type of stuff. If your mate continues to put that bright smile I know and love on your face for the rest of your life, I might be able to tolerate the kid" He finishes off with a shrug before I slapped his arm making him laugh.

"Well that's all I've been wanting to say. Go have fun little sis" He adds on before pulling me into another tight hug.

A flash of bright light caught us off guard making us pull away from each other.

"I'm putting this one in a frame" My mother gasps excitedly looking down at her camera as we laughed at her expression.

With a pat on my head and a happy smile on his face, my brother let me walk out of the house to meet up with my mate who was still standing next to the open door of the carriage waiting for me to get in.

"Did he say he liked the corsage I picked out for you?" John asks curiously as I shook my head at his cute way of trying to see any signs of my brother actually stop hating him.

I know the main reason why my brother was over protective of me was because of what happened between me and Andrew. That's why he hasn't been talking to me as much as he used to during the weeks that John kept taking me out on our dates. I understood why he stopped talking to me since our falling out that happened the first night John took me on our first date, but with both of us being stubborn like our mother we both didn't say anything to each other till today.

And with John noticing how tense me and Damon's relationship has been since we started dating, him being his amazing self, he tried his hardest to fix up our relationship. But I knew the only way Damon would ever do that was for me to reject my mate who he thinks would hurt me the same way Andrew did.

I don't know if it's because we're mates but there's something inside me that somehow knows for certain that John would never do anything to hurt me. And with the actions that he's shown me these past few months by taking me on dates, surprising me with either bouquets of flowers or boxes of chocolate candies randomly at school, walking me to classes everyday, managing to spend lunch with me in the library instead of how he usually did with his football friends, and of course making sure he drives me home safely after school each day after he begs me to watch him at his football games and practices.

When we first began dating I didn't like the idea of being in a relationship with a person who was not only part of the royal bloodline but also the most popular male in our school, but after 4 months of being shamelessly spoiled and adored like no other, my wolf have fully accustomed itself to completely be smitten with John and his wolf.

"Do you want me to pick you up in a carriage everyday before school from now on?" John whispers as I turned to him confused.

"It's really beautiful in here and you look astonishing sitting here admiring the view" He comments with a wink as I felt my face heat up at his words.

This perfectly well mannered man has not stop complimenting me every 5 seconds since we started dating as well. It's like he's trying to make my face turn into a tomato everyday.

"Did you like the corsage? I had one of the gardeners at the castle make it exactly the same color your dress was" John continues on speaking while lifting my arm as I smiled down at the blue dendrobium orchids corsage on my wrist.

"It's beautiful, but what I don't get is why you had to get yourself a royal blue tuxedo to match my royal blue colored dress?" I ask noticing how our clothes were matching.

"You should already know how I feel about matching with my mate" He replies with a wink as I laugh at him gesturing to the fact that he would make it a mission for him to match our clothing every time we went to school together after he gave me one of his football jerseys to wear the first time I went to one of his football games.

"We're here!" Alejandro shouts excitedly as me and John turn towards the window of the carriage seeing the big building our school decided to have prom at instead of at our small gymnasium at the school.

"Look, there's people taking pictures of couples before they go into the building" Phoebe gasps as I remembered she hasn't been anywhere outside of her castle for the majority of her life as a princess.

"You ready?" John asks as soon as the carriage stopped.

"As ready as I'll ever be" I reply with a nervous sigh as he grabs my hand so that our fingers intertwine.

"Don't be nervous, bunny. It's just a bunch of people from school in a big building. You know I wouldn't let anything happen to you" He says planting a kiss on my knuckles as I smiled.

The reason why I was so nervous to come to prom in the first place was because of 2 reasons. Number 1, as I've said before, John is a popular wolf in school and also part of the royalty family in our pack. The main reason why I didn't want John to be my mate when we first met was because of the fact that as soon as everyone in school found out, they would end up attacking me more than when they did after finding out about what happened between me and Andrew. It was already bad enough that the whole school thought I was a desperate lovesick best friend trying to sleep with another persons mate. And now I'm labeled as the lonely non virgin nerd that the moon goddess blindly cursed the brother in law of the alpha king to be mates with.

The 2nd reason I was nervous to go to prom with John was because of the fact that this was the first time me and him ever showed up together to a school function where everyone would finally at the same time be seeing me and John as an official couple. I mean yes John and I did the normal couple stuff at school like holding hands, sit together, and sometimes when John was feeling excited he would plant a kiss on my cheek. But we never actually walked into school or at a party filled with people at school holding our hands and acting like an actual couple. It just wasn't in me to flaunt a relationship that I knew most people around us didn't even like.

"Chin up V, you got mister protective here by your side and of course your sexy best friend beside you tonight as well" Alejandro says rubbing my back while planting a quick kiss on my forehead making me roll my eyes at the smirk on his face.

"We're here too! Hello!" A familiar voice shouts behind us as we turned around seeing Christian and Ethan in matching black and white tuxedos.

"I don't know what mister grouchy over here was talking about but since I'm your mates best friend, I'm pretty sure by natural default that makes me your best friend as well" Ethan says wrapping his arm around my shoulder before it was being shoved off by both Alejandro and John.

"I'm just gonna take my mate back now" John mutters quickly pulling me to his side.

"Let's take our picture" He continues while leading me to the front of the building.

"Wait up for us!" Ethan calls out while running after us as we were already standing in front of the camera man.

"Group pic!" Christian shouts while him and Ethan group around me and John just before the flash on the camera went off.

"Yes! Now let's go dance our asses off tonight princess" Ethan says pulling me under his arm again before it was taken off again by John.