This is an idea I have (based off an old show; AND WARNING; RATHER LONG):
The setting is Toronto, during the summer following the high school graduation of many of the Degrassi High characters, before they part ways for university and adult life. The story opens on graduation day, approximately two years (some of the characters may have taken gap year, while the middle group would have just completed year 12, and the youngest group of kids (Tessa Campinelli, Scooter, and Bartholomew) would still have been in their senior year when fall came; after the series finalé, "One Last Dance", and one day shy of 4 years after the first date between Joey Jeremiah and Caitlin Ryan to the school dance in the third season finalé, "Bye-Bye Junior High".
The crux of the feature focused on long-time recurrent couple Joey and Caitlin. Caitlin is approximately one year younger than Joey, yet the two had been classmates since Joey's dysgraphia necessitated his repeat of grade 8. Despite having been held back four years earlier, he remained closer to his friends in his former class than to his contemporary classmates, aside from Caitlin. As Joey approaches his nineteenth birthday, his friends are preparing for university and far-off travel, while he faces another year of high school. Exacerbating the situation, Caitlin has taken a number of extra classes to complete high school in three years, and has just graduated with Joey's former peers.
Eager to hold on to her before she leaves to study journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa, Joey proposes to Caitlin at the graduation party hosted by Caitlin's soon-to-be roommate, Lucy Fernandez. Caitlin demurs, explaining that she is not ready for that kind of commitment. Joey storms out, only to run into classmate Tessa Campanelli fresh from an argument with her boyfriend Todd, and he agrees to give her a ride home.
Arriving at the Campanelli house, Tessa pulls Joey toward her for a kiss. The next day, on her break from the photo processing store, Tessa visits Joey next door at Shoppers Drug Mart and asks him on a date. Tessa rejects Spike's argument, noting that Caitlin will be leaving for university in a matter of weeks anyway. Joey, though initially hesitant, accepts Tessa's offer, has a great time, and (as he tells Wheels the next day) gets to "third base." Joey sees little of Caitlin who is working as a waitress to make money for university; instead, he spends most of the summer with Tessa who, unlike Caitlin, "goes all the way." Tessa confides in her co-worker, Christine "Spike" Nelson , the details of the relationship. Spike reminds her that Joey and Caitlin have a pattern of breaking up and reuniting.
Other plot lines include Wheels spending the summer trying to get his 200-dollar junk car to work in order to move to Calgary in September to be with Karen, Alexa preparing her wedding with Simon, and Snake's hope that his lifeguard job will impress a woman enough to take his virginity. Joey is uncharacteristically cruel and annoying toward Snake, incessantly teasing him about their contrasting sexual success.
Tessa realises that Joey is still dating Caitlin with no intention of leaving her. Tessa dumps Joey without telling him that she's pregnant and having an abortion. Joey and Caitlin finally make love on his nineteenth birthday, approximately a week before Caitlin, Lucy, and Snake are all scheduled to depart. The coitus is Caitlin's first time, and she is unaware that it is not also Joey's first. Unknown to Joey, Caitlin has decided to attend a local university in order to remain close to him.
The next day, at a lake house party, hosted by Lucy's boyfriend Bronco Davis, Caitlin accepts Joey's earlier marriage proposal. An overly confident Joey teases Snake one too many times and the latter lashes back, loudly criticising Joey for his infidelity toward Caitlin and fornication with Tessa. (Caitlin's now infamous line, "Tessa Campanelli? You were f***ing Tessa Campanelli?" was edited to "You were sleeping with Tessa Campanelli?" for airing in the United States). She storms out after breaking off their engagement and telling Joey of her would-be plans to study locally in order to be with him.
Immediately after unintentionally breaking up Joey and Caitlin, Snake realises that former classmate Allison Hunter is drowning and rushes in to the lake to rescue her. Everyone congratulates him for saving the her life, but he breaks down in a flood of emotion and anxiety.
While Snake is arguing with Joey and saving Allison, Wheels is driving drunk with Lucy to get more chips for the party, and collides with another car. The crash kills a two-year-old boy in the other car, and both cripples and blinds Lucy, an aspiring filmmaker who was scheduled to major in the subject. Joey visits Wheels in jail, where Wheels asserts that it is not his fault that the child was not wearing a seatbelt or that Lucy needed more chips. Snake is disgusted by Wheels, particularly in light of Wheels having lost his own parents to a drunk driver three years earlier.
In the epilogue, most of the gang meet up again two months later for the 19 October wedding of Alexa Pappadopoulos to Simon Dexter. Absent are Wheels, Erica Farrell, and Lucy. Still incarcerated, Wheels is set to plead guilty for his crimes, while Erica is teaching abroad in the Dominican Republic and has met a new boyfriend in the process. Meanwhile, Lucy has since regained her vision in one of her eyes but is still not well enough to attend the wedding. Snake is accompanied by his girlfriend Pam whom he met at university, and he appears considerably more self-assured; he is still vocally disgusted by Wheels. Both Snake and Caitlin are receptive to Joey's apologies for the way he had behaved toward them, and the former fiancés share a dance as friends. He predicts that she will be famous.
ALL COMMENTS ARE WELCOME
MATT
13:58 BertL you mean in high school people don't spontaneously break into song and dance
There's a lot of good, albeit simple, stories here. I, too, like Valentine's Death, and Blowd sounds interesting.
