Meredith and her best friend, Missy are walking down a street in the suburbs of Boston, they are about 14.

Mer: so do you have any plans on what you want to do when you get older? Like a career goal or anything?

Missy: No. I haven't really thought of it, but knowing you Mer, you already have a couple of ideas, ones that will probably result in changing them in the next year or so

Mer: okay, so the professional athlete, and the vet so totally not me...what did I see in a vet anyway?

Missy: I have no idea, but what is it you want to do now?

Mer: I want to be a surgeon

Missy: a surgeon? Why would you want to do that, I mean come on, I bet its only because your mom is one, that and you watch that stupid TV show, newsflash Mer people like that don't exist, its all scripted, no one will come and sweep you off your feet into happy ever after,

Mer: (hurt, but not wanting to show it) I know, and its not a stupid TV show, it's very good and you could learn a lot, plus that's not the reason, I want to be a surgeon because, first I like to be in charge, you of all people know that, I want to be the one doing the cutting, your in charge, and come on you get to save peoples lives. Their lives are in your hands, not the doctor next you, yours. I love that kind of pressure, plus you think I want to be like my mom, never here always at a hospital, I don't even want to get married until I'm out of school, and no kids until I am an attending

Missy: I don't think you can do it; your dream will change in the next month

Mer: no it wont, and at least I have a dream

Missy: yeah but I don't think you could achieve it, you'll give up

Mer: I don't give up (thinking) so much for being my best friend, now I have to prove you wrong

Missy: whatever, you wont do it.

Meredith at the age of 14 had decided what she wanted to do and how she was going to get there, and no matter what, no matter what everyone said she was determined to prove them all wrong and achieve her dreams.

Years passed since the last scene and mer is now a senior in high school, just waiting for it to end, so she could get to college to start living her dream, that about four years ago missy had said was unachievable, and that it would change within the next month, no she still had her dream of becoming a surgeon. NO ONE thought she could do it, not even her mom, when she had told her mom, it was "it will be to hard you wont be able to do it. You don't have enough determination." she had about three friends that had said "mer, I know you, you have the determination to prove everyone wrong, and to do this, I see you doing it and I hope you do it, and become one of the best surgeons, just to prove everyone wrong. Mer just wanted to get out of Boston and start her dream, to prove everyone that she could do what she wanted to do.

Meredith had gotten her associates degree in high school, and now had a full-ride on academic to (insert school, sorry cant think of one at the moment) and then she planned on attending Dartmouth in the next four years after she had achieved her masters.

Meredith stood at her high school graduation, she had become valedictorian (sp?) and was giving her speech at graduation

And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives
Where we're gonna be when we turn 25
I keep thinking times will never change
Keep on thinking things will always be the same
But when we leave this year we won't be coming back
No more hanging out cause we're on a different track
And if you got something that you need to say
You better say it right now cause you don't have another day
Cause we're moving on and we can't slow down

mer: (near the end)...everyone, we made it. We survived the four years everyone calls high school. For some, it sucks, others it will be the best time of their lives. Tomorrow, we start into the real world, no matter what you want to believe you no longer get to come back here everyday and expect everything to be there. Some of us leave for college; others will stay and live with their parents until they finally decide that it's time to leave. No matter what road you take, you will never forget the friendships made along the way, you'll talk tonight about what's going to happen tomorrow, but never forget the people that made you who you are.

These memories are playing like a film without sound
And I keep thinking of that night in June
I didn't know much of love
But it came too soon
And there was me and you
And then we got real blue
Stay at home talking on the telephone
We'd get so excited, we'd get so scared
Laughing at ourselves thinking life's not fair
And this is how it feels

mer looked out into the audience where her mom was supposed to be and saw an empty seat.

Mer: I hope every one of you follows your dream, and achieves it to be the best you can be. For me that is what I plan to do. I hope we get to come back in twenty years and each of us says, I chased my dreams, and I achieved them. I hope we remember the years we spent and the teachers/faculty that spent their time with us to make us the best we could be; they never gave up on us. But no matter what happens to us, we will have the good, the bad, here at Boston High, and that it helped build us to where we are. Go Eagles!!!

As we go on
We remember
All the times we
Had together
And as our lives change
Come Whatever
We will still be
Friends Forever

she threw her hat in the air, as everyone followed suit.

At the end of the speech mer walked of the podium and found her boyfriend of one year with all of her friends. Missy, Shannon, Sarah, Emily, all of their boyfriends, and Michael, Mer's boyfriend

mike: mer, that was awesome, you are amazing (leaning in giving her a kiss)

mer; thanks mike

Shan: yeah, mer, you did awesome! (Giving her a hug)

Sarah: you nailed it; I don't think anyone could have topped that! (Also giving her a hug)

miss: can you believe we're done?

Mer: it's crazy

mike: tomorrow, we're no longer high school kids, we're adults (putting his hand around Mer's waist)

Shan: what happened, it went way fast, one second we're in seventh grade the next seniors in high school, talking about where our lives are going

So if we get the big jobs
And we make the big money
When we look back now
Will our jokes still be funny?
Will we still remember everything we learned in school?
Still be trying to break every single rule
Will little brainy Bobby be the stockbroker man?
Can Heather find a job that won't interfere with her tan?
I keep, I keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly
And this is how it feels

mer: well, lets live today, as if it were our last and that we were not going to leave, because I only have about two weeks before (school) wants me there

Sarah: lets not think of that, lets go party

miss: come on!!

Mer stood back as she watched her friends leave, she couldn't wait to leave, but she couldn't help but feel, sad, she was going to leave and live her dream, prove all of these people wrong in twenty years when she was making the money, but her friends well would she see them again, she hoped she would

Will we think about tomorrow like we think about now?
Can we survive it out there?
Can we make it somehow?
I guess I thought that this would never end
and suddenly it's like we're women and men
Will the past be a shadow that will follow us 'round?
Will these memories fade when I leave this town
I keep, I keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly

mer smiled, they were women and men, not girls and boys anymore, they had to make the decisions, make their rent but oh well, that was the fun in it all...right?