The time had come. It was time for the seniors of McKinley High School to graduate and go on to college or to have a career which some of them had to go straight into because they weren't smart enough to get into college.

Santana had been dreading for this day to come her entire time she was a senior because she didn't want it to end. She enjoyed high school. She enjoyed being on the Cheerio's and she loved being in the New Directions, but of course her time had come and it was time to graduate. But now it wasn't just the New Directions that she was going to be leaving behind but her boyfriend who she loved, Sebastian Smythe. He had another year to go before he graduated and she was afraid that she was never going to be with him again because of college. She thought that because he wasn't seeing her he would move onto somebody else.

But what she didn't know was that that he was thinking the exact same thing. He thought that she would go to college and think that because she's not getting it every week like they had been doing it she would want to move onto somebody else and get the sex. They never told each other their thoughts because they thought that they would think that they were both stupid, but they were both stupid because they both knew that they would never stray because they loved each other so much.

Sebastian leant against his car wearing a plaid shirt, denim jeans and a pair of black converses. His arms were folded across his chest and he casually glanced down at his watch waiting for Santana to come out of the door. She opened the door and walked out, he looked up at her and smiled. She was wearing her graduation McKinley red cap and gown with black court shoes. She walked towards him with a huge smile on her face.

"Well," she asked him, "What do you think?" She spun around.

"You look beautiful," he told her, "It's just a shame I couldn't be doing it with you."

"Don't worry," she said to him, "You can come and join me next year in New York."

"I know," he said sadly, "But I wish that I could've come with you now. But I'm stuck in little Lima Ohio for another year."

"Sebastian Smythe," she said placing her hands on her hips, "You can come and visit me any time you want, you have the money to do it."

"Yeah," he said sadly again, "But only for a weekend or over the spring break, because I know that you're coming back in the summer and winter so that we can spend Christmas together."

"Of course," she told him with a nod, "I wouldn't want to spend it at any other place. Well, other than my mom of course but other than her, you're the only other person that I would want to spend Christmas with."

"What about your dad?" he asked her.

"What about him?" She said harshly, "It's not like I see him anyways so why would I want to see him before you?"

"That's true," he smugly said with a smile.

"But," she told him, "It's not time to get emotional yet. We've still got the entire summer together and we can spend the time together making up for time we're gonna miss," she winked at him flirtatiously. He smiled flirtatiously back but stopped as soon as he noticed her mother coming out of the door and he cleared his throat casually nodding behind her indicating that her mom was coming out. She turned around and looked at her smiling at her. "Hey mom," she said innocently, "Are you ready to go?"

"I am," she said suspiciously, "I didn't interrupt something, did I?"

"Mom!" Santana said in shock, "I can't believe that you would accuse us of that. What do you think we are? Animals?"

"No," she continued, "I think you're two teenagers in love who find it hard to keep your hands off one another." They both blushed with embarrassment and laughed awkwardly.

"Okay," he said awkwardly, "Wow."

"I was a teenager once you know," she told them, "I know what teenagers get up to. I was a teenager when I had you, remember."

"Okay," Santana said cringing, "Too much information. We should really get going to school, I don't want to be grossed out anymore before my graduation." And with that they all jumped into Sebastian's car and he drove off down the road heading towards McKinley.

[Graduation]

Everybody was seated and ready to have their names called out. Sebastian sat in the crowd next to Blaine, Tina and Sam as they waited for their names to be called out. Principal Figgins stood on the stage next to the microphone with Emma standing beside him with the scrolls in her hands.

"Ladies and gentleman," Figgins said over the microphone standing behind the podium, "Our senior student body." The crowd clapped and whistled as Figgins called out the names of the students graduating. But he left the New Directions till last they did the school proud by winning the National Championships for the first time in the school's history. As all of the students had collected their scrolls a part from the New Directions, Figgins clapped his hands together. "Now," he continued, "For the first time ever in the school's history, the McKinley High Choir, the New Directions won us the National Championships." The crowd stood up and clapped their achievements, Mr Schue stood in the crowd and felt so proud of himself. The only burden he had now was producing another National Championship trophy two years in a row.

Figgin's looked down at the piece of paper that lay on the podium in front of him and he leaned forward towards the microphone, "Miss Rachel Berry," Figgins said into the microphone and gestures towards the curtain at the side where Rachel stepped through pushing the curtains to the side, the New Directions who were sitting in the front row of the audience clapped and cheered as she walked passed them and onto the stage collecting her scroll from Emma and hugging her in the process. Figgins carried on calling out the names alphabetically and they all walked through, all excited and hugging Emma as they received their scroll.

It was now time for Santana, she stood behind the curtain awaiting her name to be called out. She was nervous. She didn't want to fall over like some of them in front of her had, none of the New Directions but the rest of her school year. She took deep breaths. She was even more nervous than she was when she was performing on stage, but of course, she wasn't alone there, right now at this very moment she was alone, but she knew as soon as she stood out of the curtain that she wouldn't be alone, she would have Sebastian sitting in the crowd supporting her.

It was time.

"Santana Lopez," Figgins said over the microphone. She took another deep breath and opened the curtains, stepping out and shaking her hips. She smiled at everyone in the audience especially Sebastian who stood up and clapped his hands together, he cheered and whistled.

That was his girl. That was his girlfriend and he was so god damn proud of her. She finally arrived on the stage and took her scroll off Emma, giving her a hug like the rest of them did, she turned around and held her script up in the sky and whooped.

They'd all did it. They graduated. Including Noah 'Puck' Puckerman, the one person that they didn't expect to graduate. The only person that didn't graduate was Brittany, she wanted to stay behind another year and do her best in her exams because she didn't do her best this year, which of course, wasn't very surprising. They all stood together and sprung their caps up into the air whooping and cheering. They'd done it. They'd all graduated from high school and it wasn't going to be easy anymore, they all knew that, but they'd finally grown up and it was time to be an adult and sadly, to leave behind those that they love.

For Santana, that would include Sebastian.

[Later]

Santana was standing in the corridor of the school by her locking, finally clearing out final parts that she left behind. She heard footsteps but that wasn't unusual in a school corridor but as she looked down at the floor, she noticed a pair of converses, she knew those converses. They were her boyfriends. He tapped on her locker door softly. She smiled and closed it slightly.

"Hey," she said to him with a smile still across her face. "So, I did it, I finally did it."

"I know," he said with a smile, "I'm so proud of you. I'm glad that I was here to see you do it."

"There's just one problem now," she told him as her smile faded.

"And what's that?" He asked with concern.

"Now that I've graduated," she continued, "It means that we're not gonna be close to one another anymore."

"What are you talking about?" He asked her as he stepped towards her. "Of course we're gonna be close."

"But we won't see each other every day," she said sadly, "Which means that I won't be with you every day."

"So," he said shrugging his shoulder, "So what if we can't be around one another every day, big deal."

"Excuse me?" She said with attitude. "And what's that supposed to mean?"

"I didn't mean it like that," he told her apologetically, "What I meant to say was that as we get older we're gonna have to expect to be away from each other all the time, we'll have jobs."

"Well," she said, "Not you, you've got all the money in the world to keep you going."

"That doesn't mean that I don't want to do something with my life," he said with a smile, "Why do you think I'm going to college next year? I wouldn't be doing it to waste my time."

"Well," she said, "You never know, you might be doing it because it means you have a backup plan when mommy and daddy don't want to give you any more money."

He laughed. "Yeah," he said to her, "You would think that but it's not, it's because I want something of my life. And you never know. I could be joining you next year."

"It's still a year," she said sadly again as she looked down at the ground.

"But like I said to you before," he said stepping towards her and placing his finger underneath her chin and raising her head softly to look back up at him. "We've still got the summer together, and we'll be celebrating Christmas together. And I'll come and spend time with you on the occasional weekend, so, it's fine."

"But it's not every day," she whined.

"What do you think Skype is for?" He said humorously with a smile.

"It's not funny," she said with a smile and she playfully slapped his arm.

"It's gonna be okay," he said as his smile weakened and he looked at her with softened eyes. "Everything is gonna be okay. And most of all, we're gonna be okay. And hey, you could always come back when we're doing Regional's and when we're off to National's again, because we will be there again."

She smiled at him. "You've got yourself a deal there," she said to him. He placed his hand on her cheek softly and looked deeply into her eyes.

"I love you," he told her with a soft smile.

"I love you too," she replied with a smile. He leant down to her and softly kissed her.

Santana and Sebastian were madly in love with one another. And of course they were gonna be spending time a part from one another with her going to college and him staying in Lima Ohio where he would finish off his senior year, ready to graduate and go off to college himself. Yeah, there would be times where it would be hard for one another not being able to touch one another or kiss one another, or have their weekly sex session, but they knew that if they loved one another that their relationship could stay strong, especially when Santana wasn't so far away from him, and with him having money he could just get the next flight out just to be with her. That was the perks of having money, but he didn't care about that, all he cared about was seeing the girl that he loved.

As the year went on they would go back and forth to see one another but most of the time it was Sebastian flying out to see her and stay with her for the weekend. They spent Christmas and Spring break together, and when it was the Summer Santana would come home and be with her family and Sebastian. Even though it was a long distance relationship, it still held strong and they both supported each other when times got hard or when they needed the support because that it was loving relationships are about.

Who would've thought that two people who were from different families and different walks of life would fall madly in love with one another? And that's what they did because they had more in common with one another than they did with anybody else, and that's what drew them together.