As Laurie throws Annie's purple and orange gown at it's proper owner, the realization of what day it is hits her at the exact moment the gown hits the face of the smaller girl.
It's graduation day.
The day that, once upon a time, Annie and Laurie had been looking forward to. They'd even came close to starting a countdown to this day.
Laurie remembers being barely fifteen, lying in the grass on the football field after Annie's cheer practice, holding hands with a certain miniature cheerleader, talking about how they were going to "get the hell out of Haddonfield" as soon as graduation rolled around.
But now graduation is rearing its ugly head and, truth be told, Laurie doesn't want to leave high school and officially grow up, especially not without her parents.
Another reason why she doesn't want to make that journey across the stage? The memorial. Haddonfield High had decided that the best way to send off this year's graduting class is with a memorial for the would-be graduates who died at the hands of Michael Myers.
And Laurie knows that this memorial is just going to make both her and Annie relive Halloween night. She also knows that every pair of eyes in the room will be on them. On the survivors. Although both of these things are not exactly ideal, she would pick them over the fact that once the memorial starts she'll be picturing Annie's picture up on the stand next to Lynda's, because she just won't be able to stop from thinking about the "what ifs?" that were so close to becoming reality.
A soft hand placed on her arm stops Laurie's thoughts from going any further, and she knows without looking up that the hand belongs to Annie. But she looks up anyways and meets Annie's worried gaze with her own unsure one.
That's all it takes for Annie to grip Laurie's hand in her own and lead the more-than-happy-to-oblige blonde away from the ceremony through the school's back enterence.
And when the music for the graduation ceremony begins, two of the would-be participants are over on the football field busy getting their gowns muddy and grass-stained as they talk about their future together, much like they did two years prior.