Autumn in Philadelphia Trilogy

The Return: Questions and Answers: Part 2

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -Albert Einstein

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For the first time in his life, Cory was standing in Shawn's bedroom in house that wasn't on wheels. Well, gawking at Shawn's bedroom was more like it.

"Man," he exclaimed with awe-filled appreciation. "I've heard about this place for forever. This is nice."

Shawn grinned, please with his assessment. "Yeah, it's amazing. Jon did a great job."

Cory rifled through the CD rack before going through the PS 1 games. "I would loved to have had this room as a kid."

Shawn gave him a funny look. "Why? You had a great room."

"Yeah, but this room is so much better. Eric's touch isn't stamped into the walls."

Shawn chuckled, thinking back to the days when the brothers frequently fought over their shared room. "C'mon, Cor, we better get to work since Topanga won't let you spend the night."

"Don't remind me," the social studies teacher pouted, looking forlornly at the bottom bunk. That was his bed after all and he hadn't even been able to use it yet.

"So," Shawn pulled out the computer chair as Cory took on seat on his section of the bunk. "We need to come up with a way to get Jon and Audrey together."

"Right. So I've been thinking about this," Cory rubbed his hands together. "You said they wouldn't go back to John Adams High but what if we brought a little bit of John Adams High to them?"

"What'd you mean?"

"Well, you know how we used to do all those films in high schools, the interviews, that stuff?"

"Yeah."

"I say we go old school with the big camera on VHS tape. We head back to the ol' stomping grounds and interview everyone we can find who knew Jon and Audrey. Get them to tell their memories about our favorite couple. The we come back here and do the same thing. Add in a little bit of your fancy editing and we got ourselves a blockbuster. On their anniversary this year we get all those people together in one place and show the video to the guests of honor. Kind of like This is Your Life: the Jon and Audrey edition. Then we send 'em off on a second honeymoon. Oh, wait," Cory caught himself and frowned. "I guess it would be a first one technically."

"They didn't have a honeymoon either?" That had never occurred to Shawn until Cory mentioned it.

"Nope. They had nothin'."

Shawn frowned and bit his bottom lip in thought. "I like the idea. I really do. It'd make a great anniversary gift. There's just one problem."

"What?"

"It's only the end of February. Their anniversary is in July. If we wait that long, I'm not sure they're going to make it."

Cory regarded him seriously, suddenly very concerned. As busy as things had been lately, he and his family hadn't spent much time with the Turners as they normally would, but everything seemed all right as far he could tell when they did see them. "Are things really that bad, Shawn?"

"Yeah, they are." Shawn got up from his chair and began to pace the room.

"You know," Cory mused, "After you've been married for a long time, you do tend to hit a few kind of low spots. It's pretty normal. Things go back up if you stay with it. Jon and Audrey have more experience with that than Topanga and I do. I'm sure they're going to okay."