chapter 27- m y m a f i a n i n t e r n



I quickly adjusted myself and I looked around for my table to see my father talking to the rest of my group and I could feel myself internally cringe because he's probably telling them about my childhood.

"And there was one time where she had peed herself and--"

"Yeah, my father will now be making his way to the parent chairs," I say and my father looks like he's about to argue but I raise an eyebrow at him and he pouts, leaving a kiss on my cheek before walking off to the chairs.

I turned to face the group and I could feel the slow smile appearing on my face as Diego's mouth was hung open with Luca and Sebastian looking at me like two proud parents. Diego doesn't hesitate to jump away from Sienna, trapping me in a bone-crushing hg and soon two other pairs of hands wrap around me. We finally pull away and Sienna and Valentina are just fangirling over some of the guys but Diego is too distracted to notice.

"You know, I actually thought you weren't going to come," Sebastian says and I nod. I wasn't going to come in the first place because I thought I couldn't do it, but I knew I didn't go through all that for a reason. Besides, I think my mother would really want me to go.

"Yeah well, here I am."

"But no one told me you looked this sexy, like how the hell did you change so much in two years?" Diego comments and Sienna's attention is automatically snapped back to us while she hits him in the arm.

"I mean I agree too, I thought you were talking about another girl," She says and we all laugh. It's only then I notice that Sebastian and Luca still have their engagement ring on but not their actual wedding ring.

"You guys didn't get married?" I ask them and they both smile.

"We couldn't get married without you, it just felt like there was a missing piece and Sebastian kept freaking out about how you'd have his head off if you weren't there," Luca finishes, and Sebastian groans while everyone else on the table laughs.

"Wait where's Mateo?" Valentina asks and I look around the couple of tables where the interns sat but he wasn't seen anywhere.

"Don't sweat it Maliyah, he's the valedictorian. He went to go prepare for his speech that's all," Diego comments but a few smiles are plastered on their faces and I can't help but question them but as soon as I'm about to the lights dim out completely ending the little bits of chatter that were scattered around.

I don't know why but I can feel myself at the edge of my seat and I feel myself being eager to see Mateo's speech. He had basically told me that he was in love with me but he hadn't actually said it. I mean maybe I had misinterpreted everything, but that's what my heart was telling me. My brain, on the other hand, wanted to throw an apple and dash the fuck outta here.

But for once I actually listened to my heart.

The stage lights were turned on and Giovanni walked onto the stage holding a microphone and everyone started clapping while he waved with a smile till his eyes finally found mine and a huge grin was plastered on his face. He walks to the small little stage where he rested his elbows. The crowd finally stopped and he held the microphone to his mouth.

"I welcome you all to the Internship Graduation," He's interrupted by a couple of claps and cheers, "It's quite amazing that you all looked so different now compared to two years ago, but obviously people change and that's great too because every single one of you should be proud of what you've become. When you all leave this place, it will definitely be a night to remember and I hope you enjoy the rest of your night. But enough time wasted, please welcome in our Valedictorian, Mateo Nicholai Samuels!" The crowd claps and cheers and I find myself clapping slowly as Mateo walks out of the curtains but his eyes scan the crowd and he finally stops at me, with a smile slowly appearing on his face.

He approaches Gio and shakes his hand while Gio says a couple of things in his ear causing

Mateo laughed a little and nodded. Giovanni gets off the stage and he stays by the curtain looking between Mateo and probably someone behind me.

The crowd goes silent again and Mateo clears his throat, locking his gaze onto the crowd. "I just wanted to start by saying thank you to Gio and the rest of the team behind the scenes that made it possible for me to be able to actually talk at this thing." He laughs and a few cheers are splattered around.

"Um, so this internship thing has been an absolute rollercoaster for me, and I suppose for everyone else too," His gaze shifts to mine, and a slight smile is on his lips and no matter how hard I try I can't fight mine off either, "You know, at the start of this internship I would've never thought that I would be the person I am presently am right now. I thought things were just going to be easy and it'll be as quick as I needed it to be. I was wrong.

The internship was the worst but best fucking year of my life. I had met the best friends a guy could ever ask for, the best group a guy could ever ask for, hell we even went on a fucking mission and I could've sworn at one point of my life that was the best feeling. But no, I was wrong again." Once he finished the sentence, there was a screen behind him which he turned to and the song 'Say You Won't Let Go' started playing.

Mateo had gotten rid of the microphone he was holding in his hand and he now had the ones that you attach by the shirt. The screen lit up, causing a couple of gasps and mutters from the crowd but my lips were only pressed shut, trying to figure out what the hell Mateo was doing.

"See, there will be a point in time where you see a person and you'll think, yeah that's the person I wanna live the rest of my life with, now that feeling was the best feeling of my entire life." He looked towards the screen and there was a picture of me while Mateo was on my back and Diego was in the background, almost jumping on. I looked towards Sienna and she only smiled, gesturing for me to turn back to Mateo.

"Never in the twenty-seven years of my existence on this earth have I ever met anyone like her. And that was kinda weird because I had met a lot of girls," He made eye contact with me and I could basically feel myself tearing up now, my make-up probably ruined.

"I couldn't go to bed without thinking about her and even when I woke up she was the first thing that was on my mind. All I had wanted to do was to tell her how much I desired her, how much I longed for her in my arms but I couldn't; it was too early and you could obviously she didn't have an easy way of trusting people." I couldn't necessarily see Mateo properly since I was basically a waterfall now but he had come down the steps and stood there still looking directly at me.

"So I rolled with it, I wasn't content with what we had but I'd had kept her as close as we were instead of her leaving me. Weeks went by and I had only realized that I couldn't keep my feelings bottled up anymore, it was getting frustrating but it was also a scary thing for me, I had never really felt anything for another girl other than her. But unfortunately, just when I was about to tell her just how I felt, she had heard the wrong thing. It was simply, wrong place, wrong time."

"I fucked up, I seriously fucked up."

I tore my gaze away from Mateo's brown eyes and the clip which Igor had played was shown. I wanted to run out at that point but I couldn't. I wanted to hear his side of the story if that meant possibly having a future with Mateo.

"What did you do?"

"She asked if I had feelings for her and I didn't respond,"

"Well do you have feelings for her?"

"No, I don't think so, she was only meant to be someone I'm fucking, no one else and I don't know how the hell it escalated to this."

"Bullshit, fucking bullshit. You're lying to yourself, you know you love her and she loves you just as much and I know it's scary for the both of you because you both have probably never been in an actual committed relationship so you both don't even recognize you love each other."

"Shit..."

"Shit is right, now are you going to fucking stand here or are you going to go run after your girl?"

The clip ends and I can feel myself literally going into shock. Mateo was now next to me and I had looked up to him, not bothering to blink away the tears away from my face.

"Maliyah Livienne Halton," Mateo said, reaching to get something in his pocket and he went down on one knee causing a hand to fly to my mouth, trying to stop the sobs escaping from my mouth. The crowd was looking between us in anticipation and I was sure my father was tearing up behind along with the other adults. "I've been in love with you for exactly two years, seven months, seventeen days, and counting." He opens the box to reveal a giant ring and some other people are starting to cheer. "Will you and your sex-driven self do the honors and marry the fuck out of me already?"

I tried to open my mouth but only cries were left so instead I nodded my head and his eyes lit up so fucking hard. "SHE SAID YES!!!" Diego shouted and everyone stood up cheering while Mateo hauled me up and in a bridal style way and kissed the hell out of me like there was no tomorrow.

"HAHA THIS IS MY WIFE NOW BITCHES!" Mateo shouted towards the crowd and I laughed.

"HE'S FUCKING RIGHT BITCHES!" I shouted back at them and we both walked on to the stage where Gio was holding both of our diplomas and we collected it now turning back hand in hand to face the cheering crowd. I saw my father clutching on to a woman as if she was life support while he dearly cried for his life.

"Now announcing Mateo and Maliyah Samuels! Congratulations on graduating," Gio turned to us and we both hugged him and I pulled back before looking back to my table where Diego was clinging onto Sebastian with Sienna and Val hugging each other crying. Luca was trying to drag Diego off of Sebastian but it was just futile.

I knew then and there that these people were my permanent family now and there was no going back. So yeah, internship year was the best for me. And even with all the struggles I had gone through, I'm so happy it has led me here. If there's one thing that I have taken out of my journey here, is that Mateo is finally mine, as well as I am finally his. Mateo was finally My Mafian Intern.

And I was his.

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-OMGMGMMGMGMGM WE'RE FINALLY HERE?!

-this is so crazy, NEVER IN MY LIFE, would I be able to finish a story like this so I want to give a couple of claps to all of you *claps really loudly*

-i'm thinking of making book two, but I am in the process of actually making another book so should I just do the epilogue and GIVE U GUYS, more drama with a whole new book?!

-I AM SOBBING THE PAST FEW CHAPTER HAVE JUST MADE ME UGHHHHHH, someone hand me tissues.

-thanks so much for supporting me on my journey here and i hope this will not be the last time we all meet together :)

-ta ta for now, fellow Matiyah shippers :)

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