Title: Picture of the Past
Disclaimer: I don't own Grey's Anatomy. I don't own anything or anyone.
Summary: A girl has a homework assignment to find an old picture and write a story about the people in the picture. Then she must meet the people and find information about them. She drags up the past and brings long lost friends back together. Sequel to High School Never Ends.
Finding a Picture
On the third day of high school Laurel Write was given an English project. The project was based on a picture of people she doesn't know but has a picture of them. The project has them writing a story about the people in the picture and then later on meeting them.
When she gets home from school she finds an old box of pictures in the attic. The box has been up there for years and is covered in dust. She sifts through the pictures and finds some of her parents when they were younger. She finds a couple pictures of them on the cruise ship that she was told her father proposed on. She finds a picture of her mother teaching some of the girls cheerleading. Another picture of her father doing football practice grabs her attention. Laurel then finds a picture that has a young women in the hospital shortly after giving birth with what she suspects is the father of the baby and a bunch of other young kids who must be there friends. She doesn't know any of the people in the picture and decides this is the one she is going to use.
After getting her picture she calls her friend Hannah and has a snack in her kitchen.
"Hey Hannah I love this project we got."
"Laurel you have to be kidding me. Who has pictures of people they don't know in there house. I can't find a good picture to use for this project. Did you already find a picture?" Hannah asked the desperation in her voice.
"Yeah and I practically have the story written in my head. The picture I have has this young girl about seventeen or eighteen with a young guy about the same age holding her hand and she has a baby all wrapped up. There is also a bunch of what I would guess is there friends in the room." Laurel is getting excited about how this project could end.
"Wow you are lucky. That has a lot of possibilities."
"Yeah I am going to write a story about the parents of the baby trying to raise it. The friends are going to be there to trying to help as they get through college or something."
"Wow that is a great idea Laurel. Have fun with your project I am going to find a picture now. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Bye Hannah see you soon. I am going to get my story written now.'
Laurel sits at her desk and stares out the window. Summer was over and the trees in her New Jersey home's back yard were already starting to change colors. She thinks for a minute and then starts writing.
Elizabeth is seventeen years old. Her and her boyfriend Patrick of three years got pregnant unexpectedly and just had her baby girl Madeline. There friends are also there. There one friend Drew who looks like a scared child is in the room standing near his girlfriend Sharon, who is a bigger girl and is looking very happy it wasn't her in that bed. The couple closest to the bed are the best friends the very friendly blonde girl, Amanda, and her boyfriend, Chris, are each very engrossed in the baby. The couple who look like the high school sweet hearts are standing just to their left. The girl has red hair and long legs she looks like the girl any guy would date her name is Suzanne, and her boyfriend's name is Trey, who is like the super jock type and can have any girl he wants. The odd looking couple in the back of the room are happy and afraid for there friends. The girl who is of Asian decent looks pissed off. Her name is Brianna and her boyfriend who looks slightly older then she is Wayne. That day changed the rest of there lives. Now they all must come together to raise such a young baby. The days go by quickly waiting for Elizabeth to come home with her new baby. Patrick and Elizabeth get married a week after Madeline comes home from the hospital. There parents aren't happy that they chose to keep the baby but allow them to stay at her families house. Wayne is the best man at the wedding. They all remain close and marry the one they are next to in the picture. Amanda starts teaching the baby things and Drew tries to help with walking and talking. They all love the baby. Five years down the road they look back and see how happy Madeline made them and that they are still really close.
Laurel finishes writing her essay. She loves the family she created out of the friends and the other individual families that can conquer separately but chose to fight together. She can't wait until she gets to meet them and find out the truth behind the story book life she has created for them.
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A week later she hands in her essay to her teacher. Hers is the best essay based on the picture she found. They are told the next part of the project. Now they must find the truth behind the picture. She has until after Christmas break to do this part of the project. They are allowed to interview the people in the picture or they can just ask people about the picture. She wants to meet the people in the picture.
Laurel figures the young adults in the picture must have gone to the high that she attends and goes to the library to look at old year books.
She finds a year book from ten years earlier but the people in the photos are not in there. Maybe I should go earlier. She thinks to herself and pulls out a book from fifteen years earlier.
Bingo she thinks to herself when she turns to the B's and spots Preston Burke in the picture and now knows who one of the eleven people in the picture is. Laurel continues flipping through the book and finds Derek Shepherd to be the young father in the picture. She also found out the red head's name is Addison Montgomery and her boyfriend was Mark Sloane. The last person she finds in that year book is Callie Torres. She knows that the other kids in the picture were younger looking and grabs a year book from fourteen years ago and spots the girls from the picture. She finds the names of Meredith Grey, Isobel Stevens, Cristina Yang, Alex Karev, and George O'Malley.
She decides to call 411 and get numbers for these people to find out information. She gets the numbers but decides to wait to call them until tomorrow.