A couple of weeks later, Shawn was arguing with Jack over the massive graduation party Jack had planned.
"Graduation doesn't mean anything to me, Jack."
"Well it should, you overcame a lot to get here."
"I didn't overcome anything."
"Sure you did, your dad, your mom, the, um…other stuff."
"Yeah, but that's still going to be there even when I have a stupid diploma."
Jack sighed. "Sometimes overcoming things means earning a stupid diploma even when they're still there."
"Look, I just don't want to make this a big deal."
At that moment, they heard a knock on the door. Shawn opened it to find Angela.
"Can we talk," she noticed Jack standing behind Shawn, "alone."
"Why don't we go up on the roof?"
They went out onto the balcony and climbed up onto the roof.
"So do you want to tell me what that thing in the living room is supposed to be?" Angela asked.
"That is a caricature of me with a big head and a small body riding a diploma into the future."
"Oh, so he's planning a big party?"
"Yeah." Shawn was noticeably unenthusiastic.
"And you don't want him to?"
"All of a sudden, something tells me you won't be there."
Angela looked down at her hands "Actually, that's what I came to talk about."
"About how we'll be halfway across the country from each other?"
"Right, and about how I'm going to be spending this summer with my Dad in Europe and I'll probably want to travel and stuff during summers in college, and about how I don't want to be tied down in a long distance relationship when I'm trying to start a whole new life. It doesn't have anything to do with you, or Cory, or your… issues. I just want a fresh start."
"Come on," Shawn forced himself to smile through the tears, "a little of it has to do with Cory."
"Kind of. When I look at him and Topanga I can tell that they have something we never will."
"No, we won't, but we made some good memories."
Shawn and Angela leaned in for one final kiss.