(~BBW, Romance) - The conclusion of the RFK Girls Series and a last look at all of the characters
Sadly our tale of the girls of Robert F. Kennedy High School now comes to an end. But what happened to our heroines? Such a question would be cruel to leave unanswered. Sadly, the fates of everyone who has been involved cannot be related. Suffice it to say that many graduates of RFK High went on to perfectly normal lives with their share of happiness and tribulations. However, there are those who have flitted in and out of this story with some importance, even though they may have attracted only cursory notice. Indeed, you may not even remember them at all, but their fates deserve our notice for a moment.
Wendy the waitress finished community college and decided to hold off on getting her bachelors degree. Instead, she moved to Seattle and worked for a while in a bar, drawing on her earlier waitressing experience. She got to know one of the regulars by the name of Joe Stanley over the span of several months when hed come in with his friends. By a series of odd events, she and Joe wound up dating, which went great for one weekand then went disastrously. However, after a couple months of awkward interactions at the bar, for some reason the two were drawn to one another again and this time they stuck. Joe and Wendy eventually got married and Joe, a successful executive, made enough money that Wendy never waitressed again.
Kelli Coffey wound up at West Virginia University, where she majored in inebriation studies and minored in drying out. In all seriousness, Kellis major in political science didnt matter a whit because her temporary post-college job as a secretary at a Washington, D.C.-based investment firm wound up being how she met her husbandher boss, a hot-shot stock broker on the rise. Shortly after their marriage they moved to New York City so her husband could get in Wall Street and they began living the high life. Kelli became a trophy wife and enjoyed her life immensely, buying expensive clothing and being driven around in flashy, expensive cars. The dream came to an end when she discovered her husband was having an affair with his secretary. After a sizable divorce settlement, Kelli moved to New Orleans and has bounced from one man to the next ever since.
Hayley Oxford was arrested for driving under the influence in her senior year of high school, as well as being under the influence while under age. Unfortunately for her, it was an election year for the District Attorney, who decided to show his constituency that he was tough on drunk drivingespecially since it was a good looking white girl whod fallen into his net. Hayley was unable to make a deal that her lawyer could advise her to take and was found guilty. She was sentenced by an equally harsh judge, also up for reelection as it turned out, and had the book thrown at her. She was fined $1000 and had her license suspended for six months. However, the latter punishment was an irrelevant technicality as she was also given a six month prison sentence, the maximum sentence for a first time DUI offender in the state of California. After she was released, she was forced to go to community college after having missed regular college admissions. She eventually married a mediocre real estate agent. They had two kids and filed for bankruptcy three times.
Katie Rollins went to Northwestern University and studied journalism and how to be a sorority sister. After graduation, she went where her work took her and she wound up in Helena, Montana, working for the Helena Independent Record covering Montana state politics. The job was supposed to be just a foot in the door to bigger and better things like the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, or the New York Times, but years later Rollins had become a member of the papers editorial board and was firmly settled in Montana. She married twice and had three kids.
Justine Greenwood went to Chico State and majored in mass communications. During freshman year, Justine took full advantage of the party scene at Chico and as a result found herself sporting the freshman fifteen by the end of the year from a few too many beers and late night snacks. Try as she would for the remainder of her life, Justine never quite shook those fifteen pounds. She glumly accepted the fact and wound up marrying a guitar player shortly after graduating college. The marriage lasted two years before they parted ways after things just didnt work outmainly because Justine discovered her husband was a bum who couldnt bring home any appreciable income. Justine dated off and on while living and working in Seattle, Washington, for the next few years. Work took her to Cleveland, Ohio, where she met an engineer who she married with greater success. They had two children and Justine carried out the rest of her life as a suburban housewife.
David Chang and Jeanine Lin both wound up going to Senior prom together since theyd known each other for so long and they figured they could just have a good time together. As a result, they discovered that they each liked one another quite a bit and the fact that they were both headed to Pepperdine University. They got an apartment together after Junior year and got married three years after college. They moved up the coast to Monterrey where Jeanine became a third grade teacher while David worked in advertising. Together, they had four children and enjoyed spending time holding hands as they gazed out from their deck upon the Pacific Ocean.
Lizzie Carle and Sean McEnroe dated for the remainder of high school and attempted a distance relationship during college. This was strained by the fact that she got into Georgetown Universitys ultra-exclusive School of Nursing while Sean stayed in California for college. Sadly, they broke up at Thanksgiving, which hit Lizzie rather hard. While she was there, she met a boy named Ryan Rissmiller, who would later turn out to be the love of her life and become her husband a few years after graduation. Lizzie and her future husband moved to Philadelphia where they had a quite a bit of fun going out on the town together. They were madly in love with one another for the remainder of their lives.
Morgan Jones, who has darted in and out of this narrative several times, left California and went to the University of Pennsylvania and then attended Johns Hopkins medical school to become a pediatrician, her lifes goal. She settled down in New Jersey and was happily married to a corporate executive. She remained slim and trim for the rest of her life, which was relatively uneventfulas most happy lives are.
Penny Smart eventually broke up with Aaron, though without acrimony. Two boyfriends later, she left RFK and went to The George Washington University where she majored in English. After graduation, she traveled to New York City where she settled down as an editor in a publishing company. It was work that many found dry, but for Penny it was a profession she had a passion for. Though she was worried about dating in the Big Apple, she quickly found her groove at a bar nearby her apartment where she eventually met Ted Foley, a lawyer just out of Columbia Law. The pair hit it off immediately and after two years of dating (minus one brief separation after a particularly nasty fight) Penny and Ted were engaged and got married a year later. The pair eventually left New York City and went about as far away as they couldHawaii. Penny had family there and landed a decent job in a small publishing house while Ted was admitted to the Hawaiian Bar Association where he began a modest practice on Oahu. They had four children together and spent the remainder of their lives enjoying the warm trade winds.
Good old Patsy Fagan was destined for one place after high school, and that was her parents alma mater of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. She got her degree in accounting, much to the surprise of those who knew her in high school, as she relentlessly cheered on the Red Sox. In her senior year, Patsy met the thoroughly Irish Ryan OConnor and the pair fell madly in love. Two years later they were happily married in Atlanta, Georgia, and Mrs. Patsy OConnor was very happy that she was no longer part of a famous Irish ditty. Though their Irish temperaments made for a few good flare ups between them, the couple always patched things up by the end of the day. Their life together was long and happy.
As for Molly Creighton, no one is quite sure what happened to her. The rumors are many, but I do know for sure she never wound up on the Supreme Court as had been predicted by those who knew her in high school. Something tells me shes doing all right.
And then there are the fair ladies who we have come to know and love. Their fates, I expect, are the ones that you all really want to know.
Chelsea Magyar and Ross McKenna broke up early in Senior year. Though their time together during the second half of Junior year had been great, Chelsea found that something that was missing in their relationship. Though she agonized about the decision, Chelsea made the decision to end things. Chelsea regretted it once it was said and done, but still felt like it was the right decision. Though the two parted on amiable on terms, they both didnt speak to the other that much for a few months until the sting of the end of the relationship had worn off. Their time together had a very positive impact for Chelsea. Rosss acceptance of her and her chubbiness left her with a lasting self-confidence that she carried with her even after the end of the relationship, even snagging herself a Senior prom date (something at the beginning of her Junior year she thought would have been impossible). After graduation, Ross went to the University of Arizona where he majored in Mathematics. He later moved to Austin, Texas, where he met his wife, Emma Bauer. The pair later moved to a suburb of Dallas, where they raised their family.
Chelsea went to California Polytechnic State University, where she majored in civil engineering. She dated sporadically throughout college, mainly meeting people at her church where she was highly active. Upon graduation, Chelsea joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to work in the Andes of Chile in impoverished, rural communities. When she returned to the United States, she was immediately hired by an engineering firm in Palm Springs. Finding life there rather mundane after a few years, she accepted a position in Tempe, Arizona, at a major engineering firm. While at a company event at an Arizona Cardinals game, Chelsea met Sean Costello, a sharp computer programmer. The pair hit it off amazingly well and were eventually married. Chelsea was blessed with three children, including two girls, who were the joy of her life.
Nina Hampton was right that she wasnt cut out for the life of a cook. However, she had no desire to get out of the kitchen. She had been truly happy there. Nina went to Sacramento State University where she got a degree in Nutrition and Food Studies with an emphasis in food management. During this time, Laurel Stone went to cooking school at nights in Santa Barbara for a change of scenery. As she predicted to Nina, Laurel worked at another bakery in the morning to pay the bills. She and Nina kept in touch via phone and visited each other frequently in their respective cities for pig out sessions, often cooked in part or whole by Laurel. After Ninas graduation, she moved to Santa Barbara where Laurel had been working as a pastry chef in an upscale restaurant making desserts and other delicious baked goods. Laurel had gotten engaged to a local entrepreneur who upon meeting Nina insisted that the pair go into business for themselves. Laurels fiancé rustled up the money and soon the Edelweiss Bakeryan homage to their rootswas born, situated near UC Santa Barbara in Goleta. The college crowd fell for the bakery immediately and an instant clientele was born. Through Laurels good food and Ninas shrewd management, the pair soon expanded into downtown Santa Barbara where they met equal success. It was at this second location that Nina met a young advertising agent named Alan Fourier who was a frequent customer. The two hit it off instantly over a series of dinners and a year later they were happily married, living down the street from also recently married Mrs. Laurel Heinlein. As a side note, Laurel and Nina found that they often hired teenage girls, some of them from UCSB, applying to work in their stores. They hired them with knowing smiles.
Kristin Royal dated Chris Anderson for their remaining days at RFK High. They continued to be one of the cutest couples in the school, though few people were aware that it had to do with the fact that it was based in Chriss acceptance of Kristin and the resulting self-confidence it inspired in Kristin. Eventually the popular girls who had formerly had crushes on Chris gave up and bothered Kristin no more. There was a movement to name them prom king and queen their senior year, but it didnt happen. Kristin and Chris were fine with thatthey needed no accolades to crown their love. They had a typically teary goodbye when Kristin left to head to college at the University of California at Davis with Chris destined for Arizona State University. They kept up a healthy correspondence over the phone and through the Internet, but the lack of a physical presence tried them both. Kristin did her best not to let her longing for Chris keep her from enjoying the many pleasures of collegeand actually succeeded. After a couple months of a long distance relationship, both Chris and Kristin realized that things werent working. When Kristin hesitantly worked up the nerve to break up with him over the phone, she was relieved to find that Chris had reached the same conclusion. Their parting was, amiable, if tinged with regret that things hadnt worked out. For the record, Chris would go on to work in chemical supply out in Pennsylvania, happily married.
On Kristins end, her relationship with Chris had positive effects for the plump pear shaped girl. Kristin carried with her the feeling of confidence in her own body that Chris had awakened in her throughout her college, and indeed the rest of her life. Though she still had to work on her shyness, it was a result of inexperience in dating and new social situations rather than a lack of self-confidence. Kristin went on to date a few different guys in college and eventually graduated with a degree in Animal Science. She continued at Davis for graduate studies and eventually became a veterinarian, joining a practice in Denver, Colorado after graduation. In the course of a routine examination of a golden Labrador retriever, Kristin was asked out to dinner by the dogs good looking owner, who was named Brendan Schmidt. Kristin accepted and eight months later she was married to Brendanand Charles the dog. After the birth of her three kids, Kristin took over the veterinarian practice for herself, which she operates to this very day.
Lynn Phan and Tony Tran were a couple for the remainder of high school and a very happy one at that. They continued small feeding episodes for the duration of their relationship. When it came time to make choices for college, Tony went to the University of California at San Diego while Lynn decided on the University of California at Irvine. Though the distance between the two was not be as great those some couples were facing, the impending separation began to cause quite a bit of friction in the relationship. By July, Tony had made it clear he didnt want to talk about their future, while Lynn wanted to address it head on. Finally, Lynn told Tony if he wasnt interested in discussing the future, there was no point in staying together in the present. They broke up with one another, and not without a great deal of sadness on each side. Tony would go on to graduate from UCSD with a degree in bioengineering that he used as a springboard to a PhD in the field. He would work in the biotech industry based out of San Diego for much of the remainder of his career.
When Lynn was moving into the dorms for the beginning of freshman year, she was still a bit broken up about having ended such a wonderful relationship. It was on the very first day, not more than forty minutes after her parents had left she was in just such a mood when she introduced by a friend to Stephen Nguyen. Though Lynn didnt know it then, a connection was formed. By the end of September they were dating and before long they were a couple. The relationship, though it didnt last past freshman year, got Lynn back on her feet and helped her to realize that end of a good relationship wasnt the end of her life. She eventually graduated from UCI with a degree in biology. She worked in various biotech companies in and around Orange County before she met Jonathan Lee, who worked in telecommunications, who she eventually married. They settled down in the city of Orange and had four children together. None of them were ever pressured to have seconds at the dinner table, and none were denied an extra helping if they wanted it.
Tina Westley and Matt Sutherby went on to have a wonderful relationship together that lasted through the remainder of high school. Each was entirely smitten with the other that they became a stereotypical cute couple, the sort that held hands about everywhere they went, who always were going out with one another, the couple that was still together when it felt like everybody else had broken up. The pair remained together after graduation, but circumstances made that decision hard. Tina felt called back to Madison and was going to the University of Wisconsin as a result, while Matt was going to the University of San Diego. The pair vowed that theyd make the relationship work, despite being two time zones apart, and they did for the first few months. They were on the phone or IMing one another nearly every night. However, the relationship was strained by sheer geographical distance and by the time that both were coming home for Thanksgiving, each had a bad feeling in the pit of their stomach. It wasnt until Sunday morning, right before they were each to return to their respective colleges, that Matt was the one who told Tina it wasnt working out. It killed him to admit it, for he still deeply cared for Tina, but she was just too far away. Tina for her part was sad to agree and both returned to college in tears.
Matt was despondent for the first couple weeks after break before finals, and continued that way all winter break, during which time he couldnt bring himself to see or even call Tina. In fact, he spent much of the vacation in a funk. Though his relationship with Tina had been untenable, he just couldnt believe that it was over. It had been the first success of his dating career and it had felt like it would have gone on forever. When he returned to USD he was in much the same mood, a circumstance that his roommate decided needed to be ended quickly. He dragged Matt to a party where he literally ran into a dark haired girl named Regan Cabot. Though Matt didnt remember anything else about the evening the next morning but inferred that his headache indicated much of it had been a major mistake, he found a badly scrawled number and Regans name on a napkin inside one of his pockets. At his roommates urging, Matt called Regan and they began dating. It was just what Matt needed. In fact, Matt and Regan soon were dating in earnest and they just kept on going for the rest of college. When they graduated (Matt with a degree in history while Regan majored in marketing), they decided to stay together and they both moved to Atlanta. After dating for nine years, Matt finally popped the question to Regan and they were happily married a couple years later.
Tina was equally unhappy about breaking up with Matt, even though deep down she knew it needed to be done. She didnt have the heart to get back into the dating scene and generally withdrew into herself like she had in high school. Matt had inspired such confidence in her that now that they were no longer dating, it was like it had evaporated. She lost herself in her studies, spending a lot of time in the library (besides, where else would she want to go in the deep cold winter of Wisconsin?). It was one day as she was hunting for a desk in the library that she turned a cornerand ran smack dab into John MacGregor, sending his books all over the floor. In the process of whispered apologies as she tried to help him gather things up, Tinas eyes met Johns and she instinctively knew that this was a moment. It was up to her whether she wanted to seize it or not.
She did. She flirted as best she could with John right on the spot and he walked away with her number and promptly called her for a date the next night. That set Tina on track again and though Tina didnt marry John like Matt did Regan, she realized a break up wasnt the end of the world. Tina wound up settling in Madison after getting her degree in accounting. She worked her way up to become the CFO of a property management company over the years. As she did so, she went out to bars and clubs with her friends and eventually wound up dating a variety of men. One day while watching a Packers game in a pub, Tina wound up chatting with Jeff Sorensen, who shed go on to marry a couple years later. They would have two children and continued to live in Madison until a winter-weary Tina was glad to relocate to Miami with her husband, son, and daughter.
RFK Epilogue: Graduation
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Sadly our tale of the girls of Robert F. Kennedy High School now comes to an end. But what happened to our heroines? Such a question would be cruel to leave unanswered. Sadly, the fates of everyone who has been involved cannot be related. Suffice it to say that many graduates of RFK High went on to perfectly normal lives with their share of happiness and tribulations. However, there are those who have flitted in and out of this story with some importance, even though they may have attracted only cursory notice. Indeed, you may not even remember them at all, but their fates deserve our notice for a moment.
Wendy the waitress finished community college and decided to hold off on getting her bachelors degree. Instead, she moved to Seattle and worked for a while in a bar, drawing on her earlier waitressing experience. She got to know one of the regulars by the name of Joe Stanley over the span of several months when hed come in with his friends. By a series of odd events, she and Joe wound up dating, which went great for one weekand then went disastrously. However, after a couple months of awkward interactions at the bar, for some reason the two were drawn to one another again and this time they stuck. Joe and Wendy eventually got married and Joe, a successful executive, made enough money that Wendy never waitressed again.
Kelli Coffey wound up at West Virginia University, where she majored in inebriation studies and minored in drying out. In all seriousness, Kellis major in political science didnt matter a whit because her temporary post-college job as a secretary at a Washington, D.C.-based investment firm wound up being how she met her husbandher boss, a hot-shot stock broker on the rise. Shortly after their marriage they moved to New York City so her husband could get in Wall Street and they began living the high life. Kelli became a trophy wife and enjoyed her life immensely, buying expensive clothing and being driven around in flashy, expensive cars. The dream came to an end when she discovered her husband was having an affair with his secretary. After a sizable divorce settlement, Kelli moved to New Orleans and has bounced from one man to the next ever since.
Hayley Oxford was arrested for driving under the influence in her senior year of high school, as well as being under the influence while under age. Unfortunately for her, it was an election year for the District Attorney, who decided to show his constituency that he was tough on drunk drivingespecially since it was a good looking white girl whod fallen into his net. Hayley was unable to make a deal that her lawyer could advise her to take and was found guilty. She was sentenced by an equally harsh judge, also up for reelection as it turned out, and had the book thrown at her. She was fined $1000 and had her license suspended for six months. However, the latter punishment was an irrelevant technicality as she was also given a six month prison sentence, the maximum sentence for a first time DUI offender in the state of California. After she was released, she was forced to go to community college after having missed regular college admissions. She eventually married a mediocre real estate agent. They had two kids and filed for bankruptcy three times.
Katie Rollins went to Northwestern University and studied journalism and how to be a sorority sister. After graduation, she went where her work took her and she wound up in Helena, Montana, working for the Helena Independent Record covering Montana state politics. The job was supposed to be just a foot in the door to bigger and better things like the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, or the New York Times, but years later Rollins had become a member of the papers editorial board and was firmly settled in Montana. She married twice and had three kids.
Justine Greenwood went to Chico State and majored in mass communications. During freshman year, Justine took full advantage of the party scene at Chico and as a result found herself sporting the freshman fifteen by the end of the year from a few too many beers and late night snacks. Try as she would for the remainder of her life, Justine never quite shook those fifteen pounds. She glumly accepted the fact and wound up marrying a guitar player shortly after graduating college. The marriage lasted two years before they parted ways after things just didnt work outmainly because Justine discovered her husband was a bum who couldnt bring home any appreciable income. Justine dated off and on while living and working in Seattle, Washington, for the next few years. Work took her to Cleveland, Ohio, where she met an engineer who she married with greater success. They had two children and Justine carried out the rest of her life as a suburban housewife.
David Chang and Jeanine Lin both wound up going to Senior prom together since theyd known each other for so long and they figured they could just have a good time together. As a result, they discovered that they each liked one another quite a bit and the fact that they were both headed to Pepperdine University. They got an apartment together after Junior year and got married three years after college. They moved up the coast to Monterrey where Jeanine became a third grade teacher while David worked in advertising. Together, they had four children and enjoyed spending time holding hands as they gazed out from their deck upon the Pacific Ocean.
Lizzie Carle and Sean McEnroe dated for the remainder of high school and attempted a distance relationship during college. This was strained by the fact that she got into Georgetown Universitys ultra-exclusive School of Nursing while Sean stayed in California for college. Sadly, they broke up at Thanksgiving, which hit Lizzie rather hard. While she was there, she met a boy named Ryan Rissmiller, who would later turn out to be the love of her life and become her husband a few years after graduation. Lizzie and her future husband moved to Philadelphia where they had a quite a bit of fun going out on the town together. They were madly in love with one another for the remainder of their lives.
Morgan Jones, who has darted in and out of this narrative several times, left California and went to the University of Pennsylvania and then attended Johns Hopkins medical school to become a pediatrician, her lifes goal. She settled down in New Jersey and was happily married to a corporate executive. She remained slim and trim for the rest of her life, which was relatively uneventfulas most happy lives are.
Penny Smart eventually broke up with Aaron, though without acrimony. Two boyfriends later, she left RFK and went to The George Washington University where she majored in English. After graduation, she traveled to New York City where she settled down as an editor in a publishing company. It was work that many found dry, but for Penny it was a profession she had a passion for. Though she was worried about dating in the Big Apple, she quickly found her groove at a bar nearby her apartment where she eventually met Ted Foley, a lawyer just out of Columbia Law. The pair hit it off immediately and after two years of dating (minus one brief separation after a particularly nasty fight) Penny and Ted were engaged and got married a year later. The pair eventually left New York City and went about as far away as they couldHawaii. Penny had family there and landed a decent job in a small publishing house while Ted was admitted to the Hawaiian Bar Association where he began a modest practice on Oahu. They had four children together and spent the remainder of their lives enjoying the warm trade winds.
Good old Patsy Fagan was destined for one place after high school, and that was her parents alma mater of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. She got her degree in accounting, much to the surprise of those who knew her in high school, as she relentlessly cheered on the Red Sox. In her senior year, Patsy met the thoroughly Irish Ryan OConnor and the pair fell madly in love. Two years later they were happily married in Atlanta, Georgia, and Mrs. Patsy OConnor was very happy that she was no longer part of a famous Irish ditty. Though their Irish temperaments made for a few good flare ups between them, the couple always patched things up by the end of the day. Their life together was long and happy.
As for Molly Creighton, no one is quite sure what happened to her. The rumors are many, but I do know for sure she never wound up on the Supreme Court as had been predicted by those who knew her in high school. Something tells me shes doing all right.
And then there are the fair ladies who we have come to know and love. Their fates, I expect, are the ones that you all really want to know.
Chelsea Magyar and Ross McKenna broke up early in Senior year. Though their time together during the second half of Junior year had been great, Chelsea found that something that was missing in their relationship. Though she agonized about the decision, Chelsea made the decision to end things. Chelsea regretted it once it was said and done, but still felt like it was the right decision. Though the two parted on amiable on terms, they both didnt speak to the other that much for a few months until the sting of the end of the relationship had worn off. Their time together had a very positive impact for Chelsea. Rosss acceptance of her and her chubbiness left her with a lasting self-confidence that she carried with her even after the end of the relationship, even snagging herself a Senior prom date (something at the beginning of her Junior year she thought would have been impossible). After graduation, Ross went to the University of Arizona where he majored in Mathematics. He later moved to Austin, Texas, where he met his wife, Emma Bauer. The pair later moved to a suburb of Dallas, where they raised their family.
Chelsea went to California Polytechnic State University, where she majored in civil engineering. She dated sporadically throughout college, mainly meeting people at her church where she was highly active. Upon graduation, Chelsea joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to work in the Andes of Chile in impoverished, rural communities. When she returned to the United States, she was immediately hired by an engineering firm in Palm Springs. Finding life there rather mundane after a few years, she accepted a position in Tempe, Arizona, at a major engineering firm. While at a company event at an Arizona Cardinals game, Chelsea met Sean Costello, a sharp computer programmer. The pair hit it off amazingly well and were eventually married. Chelsea was blessed with three children, including two girls, who were the joy of her life.
Nina Hampton was right that she wasnt cut out for the life of a cook. However, she had no desire to get out of the kitchen. She had been truly happy there. Nina went to Sacramento State University where she got a degree in Nutrition and Food Studies with an emphasis in food management. During this time, Laurel Stone went to cooking school at nights in Santa Barbara for a change of scenery. As she predicted to Nina, Laurel worked at another bakery in the morning to pay the bills. She and Nina kept in touch via phone and visited each other frequently in their respective cities for pig out sessions, often cooked in part or whole by Laurel. After Ninas graduation, she moved to Santa Barbara where Laurel had been working as a pastry chef in an upscale restaurant making desserts and other delicious baked goods. Laurel had gotten engaged to a local entrepreneur who upon meeting Nina insisted that the pair go into business for themselves. Laurels fiancé rustled up the money and soon the Edelweiss Bakeryan homage to their rootswas born, situated near UC Santa Barbara in Goleta. The college crowd fell for the bakery immediately and an instant clientele was born. Through Laurels good food and Ninas shrewd management, the pair soon expanded into downtown Santa Barbara where they met equal success. It was at this second location that Nina met a young advertising agent named Alan Fourier who was a frequent customer. The two hit it off instantly over a series of dinners and a year later they were happily married, living down the street from also recently married Mrs. Laurel Heinlein. As a side note, Laurel and Nina found that they often hired teenage girls, some of them from UCSB, applying to work in their stores. They hired them with knowing smiles.
Kristin Royal dated Chris Anderson for their remaining days at RFK High. They continued to be one of the cutest couples in the school, though few people were aware that it had to do with the fact that it was based in Chriss acceptance of Kristin and the resulting self-confidence it inspired in Kristin. Eventually the popular girls who had formerly had crushes on Chris gave up and bothered Kristin no more. There was a movement to name them prom king and queen their senior year, but it didnt happen. Kristin and Chris were fine with thatthey needed no accolades to crown their love. They had a typically teary goodbye when Kristin left to head to college at the University of California at Davis with Chris destined for Arizona State University. They kept up a healthy correspondence over the phone and through the Internet, but the lack of a physical presence tried them both. Kristin did her best not to let her longing for Chris keep her from enjoying the many pleasures of collegeand actually succeeded. After a couple months of a long distance relationship, both Chris and Kristin realized that things werent working. When Kristin hesitantly worked up the nerve to break up with him over the phone, she was relieved to find that Chris had reached the same conclusion. Their parting was, amiable, if tinged with regret that things hadnt worked out. For the record, Chris would go on to work in chemical supply out in Pennsylvania, happily married.
On Kristins end, her relationship with Chris had positive effects for the plump pear shaped girl. Kristin carried with her the feeling of confidence in her own body that Chris had awakened in her throughout her college, and indeed the rest of her life. Though she still had to work on her shyness, it was a result of inexperience in dating and new social situations rather than a lack of self-confidence. Kristin went on to date a few different guys in college and eventually graduated with a degree in Animal Science. She continued at Davis for graduate studies and eventually became a veterinarian, joining a practice in Denver, Colorado after graduation. In the course of a routine examination of a golden Labrador retriever, Kristin was asked out to dinner by the dogs good looking owner, who was named Brendan Schmidt. Kristin accepted and eight months later she was married to Brendanand Charles the dog. After the birth of her three kids, Kristin took over the veterinarian practice for herself, which she operates to this very day.
Lynn Phan and Tony Tran were a couple for the remainder of high school and a very happy one at that. They continued small feeding episodes for the duration of their relationship. When it came time to make choices for college, Tony went to the University of California at San Diego while Lynn decided on the University of California at Irvine. Though the distance between the two was not be as great those some couples were facing, the impending separation began to cause quite a bit of friction in the relationship. By July, Tony had made it clear he didnt want to talk about their future, while Lynn wanted to address it head on. Finally, Lynn told Tony if he wasnt interested in discussing the future, there was no point in staying together in the present. They broke up with one another, and not without a great deal of sadness on each side. Tony would go on to graduate from UCSD with a degree in bioengineering that he used as a springboard to a PhD in the field. He would work in the biotech industry based out of San Diego for much of the remainder of his career.
When Lynn was moving into the dorms for the beginning of freshman year, she was still a bit broken up about having ended such a wonderful relationship. It was on the very first day, not more than forty minutes after her parents had left she was in just such a mood when she introduced by a friend to Stephen Nguyen. Though Lynn didnt know it then, a connection was formed. By the end of September they were dating and before long they were a couple. The relationship, though it didnt last past freshman year, got Lynn back on her feet and helped her to realize that end of a good relationship wasnt the end of her life. She eventually graduated from UCI with a degree in biology. She worked in various biotech companies in and around Orange County before she met Jonathan Lee, who worked in telecommunications, who she eventually married. They settled down in the city of Orange and had four children together. None of them were ever pressured to have seconds at the dinner table, and none were denied an extra helping if they wanted it.
Tina Westley and Matt Sutherby went on to have a wonderful relationship together that lasted through the remainder of high school. Each was entirely smitten with the other that they became a stereotypical cute couple, the sort that held hands about everywhere they went, who always were going out with one another, the couple that was still together when it felt like everybody else had broken up. The pair remained together after graduation, but circumstances made that decision hard. Tina felt called back to Madison and was going to the University of Wisconsin as a result, while Matt was going to the University of San Diego. The pair vowed that theyd make the relationship work, despite being two time zones apart, and they did for the first few months. They were on the phone or IMing one another nearly every night. However, the relationship was strained by sheer geographical distance and by the time that both were coming home for Thanksgiving, each had a bad feeling in the pit of their stomach. It wasnt until Sunday morning, right before they were each to return to their respective colleges, that Matt was the one who told Tina it wasnt working out. It killed him to admit it, for he still deeply cared for Tina, but she was just too far away. Tina for her part was sad to agree and both returned to college in tears.
Matt was despondent for the first couple weeks after break before finals, and continued that way all winter break, during which time he couldnt bring himself to see or even call Tina. In fact, he spent much of the vacation in a funk. Though his relationship with Tina had been untenable, he just couldnt believe that it was over. It had been the first success of his dating career and it had felt like it would have gone on forever. When he returned to USD he was in much the same mood, a circumstance that his roommate decided needed to be ended quickly. He dragged Matt to a party where he literally ran into a dark haired girl named Regan Cabot. Though Matt didnt remember anything else about the evening the next morning but inferred that his headache indicated much of it had been a major mistake, he found a badly scrawled number and Regans name on a napkin inside one of his pockets. At his roommates urging, Matt called Regan and they began dating. It was just what Matt needed. In fact, Matt and Regan soon were dating in earnest and they just kept on going for the rest of college. When they graduated (Matt with a degree in history while Regan majored in marketing), they decided to stay together and they both moved to Atlanta. After dating for nine years, Matt finally popped the question to Regan and they were happily married a couple years later.
Tina was equally unhappy about breaking up with Matt, even though deep down she knew it needed to be done. She didnt have the heart to get back into the dating scene and generally withdrew into herself like she had in high school. Matt had inspired such confidence in her that now that they were no longer dating, it was like it had evaporated. She lost herself in her studies, spending a lot of time in the library (besides, where else would she want to go in the deep cold winter of Wisconsin?). It was one day as she was hunting for a desk in the library that she turned a cornerand ran smack dab into John MacGregor, sending his books all over the floor. In the process of whispered apologies as she tried to help him gather things up, Tinas eyes met Johns and she instinctively knew that this was a moment. It was up to her whether she wanted to seize it or not.
She did. She flirted as best she could with John right on the spot and he walked away with her number and promptly called her for a date the next night. That set Tina on track again and though Tina didnt marry John like Matt did Regan, she realized a break up wasnt the end of the world. Tina wound up settling in Madison after getting her degree in accounting. She worked her way up to become the CFO of a property management company over the years. As she did so, she went out to bars and clubs with her friends and eventually wound up dating a variety of men. One day while watching a Packers game in a pub, Tina wound up chatting with Jeff Sorensen, who shed go on to marry a couple years later. They would have two children and continued to live in Madison until a winter-weary Tina was glad to relocate to Miami with her husband, son, and daughter.
