High School Reunion

A/N: Yeah, this idea kinda popped into my head. Hope you like it, review and tell me if you want me to continue.

Prologue – Graduation

"Promise," Meena said holding her pinkies up. A very confused Zach just stared at her. "It's a pinky promise." She held her pinkies up higher trying to get him to undertand, but he continued to stare blankly at her. She just laughed; Zach had always been like this she thought to herself. She had known Zach since she was little, ever since that faifthful day at the playstructure.

13 years ago

"Hi," a little girl said to a little boy sitting in the sand box, "I'm Meena!" She smiled and waved her hand excitedly. The little boy just stared at her. "This is where you wave back and tell me your name."

"Why? I don't even know who you are," replied the little boy as he continued to play in the sand box.

"Silly, that's just the way it is," she said as she sat down next to him in the sand box, "Now can you please tell me your name."

"My name is Zach," the boy replied, "but I still don't see the point." Meena sighed in exasperation. She smiled again a second later.

"Well Zach, want to be best friends?" she asked, still smiling.

"No," he replied plainly without even looking at her.

Meena chuckled silently to herself. Even though he'd originally said no, Meena refused to stop trying. When she'd met him only a couple of months later in kindergarten she choose a seat right next to him. Seeing as she was the only person who would ever talk to him, they slowly became friends. Through out the next 12 years they were clumped into the "geek" group. Zach was a genius, and Meena came close. Finally graduation had arrived, even though Zach could have graduated years earlier, and they were both excited. They had waited for the moment when they would finally be free of their parents, and the teachers who knew them only by their GPA.

"Just hook your pinkies into mine," she said explaining it to him. She hooked her two pinkies together trying to explain it to him.

"What's the point?" he replied as he held up his two pinkies up, trying to see the point of a pinky promise. Before he could protest, she had liked her pinkies in his.

"See, we just made a promise," she said as she unhooked their pinkies.

"What exactly did we promise to do?" he asked letting his arms fall to his sides.

"We promised to never loose touch with each other," she said as they sat down in their seats. "We're going off to different colleges; you to Harvard and I to Princeton. I don't want us to stop talking to each other; we'll send e-mails, call each other, and whenever we're back in town we'll hang out with each other," she explained.

"Statistically it's never been proven that these pinky promises," he said putting air quotes around pinky promises, "Actually make someone fufill their promise to another."

"Oh my God Zack," she said laughing, "Can't you for once not ana…"

She was cut short, however, by their principal who was standing on the stage. Their principal talked for over an hour on how they, the students, had grown as a class. After that the student body president talked on how wonderful it feels to finally be here, graduating just like all other students before them. Meena tried to contain laughter throughout the entire speech, seeing as the student body president was so completely stoned that she was saying things she would never have said in front of an audience of over 5,000 people. The vice-principal had to usher her off the stage, and the student body vice-president took over, but her speech was so completely awful it made her sound a bit drunk too. About a half hour later, Zach turned to face Meena.

"Good luck on your speech," he said. Meena had been choosen as this year's valedictorian. She may not have been as smart as Zach, but at least her speech didn't include words that the majority of the human population didn't know meant.

"Thanks," she said as she stood up and walked towards the stage. Only 20 minutes later they found themselves walking through the halls of their school for the last time.

"So where are your parents?" Meena asked Zach as she rested her back on one of the lockers.

"They are at Michael's soccer game," he replied avoiding eye contact with her. Zach may have been the genius, but he came from a family where brawn definetly outweighed brain. His four sisters, Kelsey, Diana, Sarah, and Lydia, had all been on the school's varsity basketball and volleyball teams. His three brothers, Michael, Jason, and Scott, had all been quarterbacks on the school's football team. Michael had excelled in soccer, Scott excelled in basketball, and Jason had broken every track record at their school.

"They missed your graduation for a stupid soccer game?" asked Meena, surprised that his parents would sink to that level.

"They've attened six other graduations; mine just wasn't necessary," he said plainly, "What about yours?"

"Probably searching the campus for me, do you know they think that because I'm not going to Harvard I'm going to work at McDonalds?" she replied rolling her eyes, "God, they irritate me so much." She only had one sister, May, and her sister got all the attention in her family: her sister had graduated top of her class, gone to Harvard, gotten a degree in medicine, married another INDIAN doctor, and had produced 2 kids already. She on the other hand was second in her class, Zach was obviously first, not going to Harvard, getting a degree in biochemistry, which would have sounded impressive to any parents but hers, planning on never getting married, or ever having kids.

"So," Zach said slowly, "I guess this is good bye for know."

"Yeah, till I text you at three in the morning telling you how I can't decide what shoes to wear tommorow," she replied laughing.

"Yeah, untill then," he replied rolling his eyes.