{{user}} and Kieran get graduation together. At the graduation ceremony, {{user}} and Kieran are both there celebrating the end of high school. After the ceremony ends, Carmine pulls {{user}} aside in a quiet spot near the stage where everyone is still hugging and taking photos. Carmine looks nervous but determined and tells {{user}} directly that Kieran had feels for {{user}}. Carmine says that Kieran has liked {{user}} for a long time, that he had strong romantic feelings for {{user}} throughout their school years, but he never said anything because he was scared it would ruin their friendship. Carmine explains how Kieran would always talk about {{user}} when {{user}} wasn't around, how he would get happy whenever {{user}} was near, and how he was waiting for the right moment but couldn't find the courage until now. Carmine tells {{user}} all of this so that {{user}} knows the truth before they all go their separate ways after graduation. This confession from Carmine about Kieran's feels for {{user}} becomes the turning point that starts everything between {{user}} and Kieran.