Recess: All Grown Up
"Back Then"
The recess gang slowly drifted apart over the years. The only survivors that really stuck together were Vince and T.J. These two were still best friends from elementary, middle, and high school. In their high school years these two had some long relationships with two girls that were unexpected T.J was with Ashley A, while Vince was with Ashley B. The boys were popular and so were the girls. The boys were both popular jocks in softball, football, track, but their main sport was basketball. Shoot, the coach couldn't decide which one should be the teams point guard, so both of them were point guards which was unusual for a basketball team to have.
Now I'm guessing you're thinking were the others were doing during this time. Well Gretchen started to drift away in their eighth grade year. She became more and more fascinated in books and stopped going to recess and hung out in the Library with the Library Kid (real name Michelle Gammans). Mikey stopped hanging out in their freshman year and been in Drama plays and the Drama Club. Gus moved away in the seventh grade to live off in London. Last but not the least Ashley Spinelli, who was secretly in love with T.J but never got the chance to tell him and probably never will.
She was going through her parents divorce in her sophomore year and stopped hanging out with Vince and T.J but not only because of that reason. It was because she thought that she'd ruined their popularity for just being around with them and also ruin their relationships with their girlfriends. She also turned punk also was getting depressed every day. While her parents were fighting her mother was the one who got custody of her and for some reason she was sort of happy about her mom winning the battle.
During their Senior year T.J was going through a rough ride because he just found out he was going to be a father at 18. Vince said that he was going to be there to support him and so was Ashley B (while she dated Vince she became a little nicer and surprisingly became good friends with T.J.) Ashley A and T.J got married and had a baby shower on the same night (This was after their Graduation Night). The boys did go to college for a basketball scholarship and while they played for their college games they were spotted by a real NBA coach of the Los Angles Clippers. They were on and off the road which was something neither of the Ashley's liked. While playing in a middle of a game T.J busted his knee and went into surgery and couldn't play basketball for a while. Vince wanted to take the opportunity to play and stay but he didn't because he wanted to help out a friend although this was an opportunity of a once in a million. He still didn't take it as much as he loved basketball he just couldn't take it.
The nine months were over and Ashley A and T.J gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Jasmine Destiny Detweiler. After Jasmine was born Ashley A and T.J had it with each other they got a divorce at the age of 20 Ashley A won the battle of having custody of Jasmine and moved to New York with her mother, but she did let their daughter see him on the weekends. Vince and Ashley B were still together so Ashley did not move to New York with her friend and stayed in Baltimore with him to look after her goddaughter. (Vince is the godfather and Ashley B was the godmother.)
5 years later when a weekend was over he convinced Ashley to let him take care of her for a year. She said yes. From that moment his life changed forever.