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- I know you're supposed to live in the moment

and I really do try, but...

(sighs)

How am I supposed to do that when I know

this moment will affect the next moment

and that moment will affect the moment after it and so on.

It's like a Russian nesting doll of moments.

♪ I woke up like this ♪

♪ Perfectly and perfect me ♪

♪ Unapologetically ♪

♪ Whoa whoa ♪

♪ I woke up like this ♪

(laughing)

- Oh, great job, Ellie.

(cheering, clapping)

Okay, why don't we go ahead and put our instruments so that we can get ready to go?

(kids laughing, chattering)

- I can't believe she hugged you.

That never would have happened two months ago.

(laughs)

- She's a pretty cool kid.

Once you get through the tough exterior.

- Keep up the good work, okay?

- Okay!

- You'll make the rest of us look bad.

- Ooh, I don't really think that you need my help with that.

Since you're here and the rest of your class is...

Is where?

- They just finished a big project

and they're about to present it.

- Oh. - Yeah.

- Um, is this some sort of modern art piece

I don't understand?

- Just wait for it.

(soft music)

- "You're a masterpiece... Go to prom with me."

(laughs)

(clapping)

You helped with this?

Since when did you become mister romance?

- Doctor Romance, actually.

- Okay.

- Are you two going to prom together?

(awkward laughs)

Hmm?

- Uh...

I guess.

- I think we could.

- As friends?

- Of course.

- Great.

- My work here is done.

- Okay.

(chuckles)

♪ All of these years oh my ♪

♪ Is this really a love song ♪

♪ I never thought I'd fall for you ♪

♪ Am I singing a love song ♪

♪ I never even had a clue ♪

- It's really nice to see you writing again.

It's... been awhile.

- I guess I'm...

I guess I'm inspired.

- By your prom date?

- Mom!

- What? It's an honest question.

(sighs)

- Fine.

It might be informed by Tyler,

but it's just a song.

- Well, sweetie, it's beautiful.

- Thank you.

- Can we talk about what's next?

(sighs)

- I don't even know.

We're only going as friends,

but who knows if there's going to be another date or not...

- That's... great, I was actually talking about life.

- Oh.

- I mean, have you given any more thought to the U of W

Because you know, you only have two more days to accept.

- I don't think college is what I want to do next year.

- What do you have planned instead?

- Keep volunteering at the Collinsville Children's Club

and plus, I'm this close to making some real money off of music.

I can feel it.

- And honey, I'm your biggest fan in that,

but I do think that it's important to... you know, have a plan B.

(sighs)

- Mom, I don't even know what I want to study.

- Oh, I know, it can be so overwhelming,

but that...

Tada! Is what this is for.

Why don't you just have a look and see what courses might interest you?

- Fine, okay. I'll figure it out.

- I know you will.

Now that all this serious talk is over...

(clears throat)

Why don't we talk about prom dresses?

(chuckles)

♪ You and me run to a different beat ♪

♪ We are brave lead the way lead the way ♪

♪ Be the you inside ♪

♪ And watch the world take flight ♪

♪ We are brave lead the way lead the way ♪

♪ Be the change ♪

♪ Be the change ♪

♪ Gotta be the change ♪

(sighs)

- Flower arches?

- Check! Full of irises, freesias, crocuses and gladioluses.

- All from the Iridaceae family.

- I know they're your favourite.

(chuckles)

- Dessert table. - Check.

Chocolate fountain with strawberries, bananas,

potato chips for dipping.

- Chips and chocolate?

You definitely stole that from me.

- Only because they're incredible.

(chuckles)

Your genius must be shared with the world.

- Hard to argue with that.

Alright, last item.

Convince Amy to plead with the principal

to let her go to prom.

Sav, you know I can't do that.

- But chips with chocolate! (sighs)

- I got in so much trouble already

for distracting everyone with that cow.

I'm lucky I even get to go to graduation.

Besides, I have a meeting soon with a professor

about a potential summer lab job.

I should use this weekend to prepare.

- So, you're just gonna miss the prom?

Amy, the theme is A Night Under the Stars.

I've made sure the constellations on the gym ceiling

are astronomically accurate.

- And I appreciate that effort,

but I have real life stuff to focus on.

- This is real life.

- They don't make teen movies about preparing for job interviews.

They make them about prom.

Getting your picture taken while looking stunning,

long-lost love showing up unexpectedly and just asking for one dance.

Partying with all your friends.

One last time.

Hey, we'll get to see all our friends at graduation,

it's literally the next day.

Honestly, I just don't really care that much about stupid prom.

- There's Holly.

I bet she doesn't think prom is stupid.

So, excited about prom?

- Who could care about prom at a time like this?

- Ha!

- My mom's making me go to U of W.

- Why is that bad?

That's where I'm going.

- Yeah, but I mean, what would I even take?

- College is so much more than just classes.

We're gonna expand our minds, meet new people who are like us

and be whoever we want to be.

- Do you even have any other option?

- Well, my mom says that if I can get a job,

I can stay in town.

- Great! Let's start there.

What are you looking for?

- Uh, something fun, cool and meaningful.

- Small target,

but we'll start searching job databases.

Build you the perfect resume.

I can help you send them out next week.

- I have two days.

- Then, you should probably just take whatever you can get.

- Honestly, your options in life are gonna be pretty slim without a degree.

- There are plenty of people who are wildly successful without a degree.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg...

- How much do you know about computers?

(scoffs)

It's your whole future, Holly.

- Yeah. It is.

I guess I'll just have to figure it out all on my own.

(soft music)

- Don't look at me.

You're having a really tough time supporting your friends today.

- What is that?

- My resume.

I need a job.

- Huh.

Well, most of your experience is either camp or music-based, or at the Calico.

There's not very much factory experience here.

- Okay, but I'm a quick learner.

- I don't have a spot for you right now.

- Please.

If I don't get a job, Mom's gonna make me go away to do school.

(sighs)

- Well, maybe you can make your own job.

Like I did. What do you love to do as much as I love baking jam?

- In town?

- Yeah.

- I mean, I love teaching at the Collinsville Children's Club.

- That sounds great, do that, then.

- It's volunteer.

And it's an after-school program,

which means it'll be finished when the school year ends.

- Hmm.

- But what if I was the summer program?

The kids could create their own music and then,

perform it for their parents at the end of the summer.

And then we could do evenings and weekends throughout the school year.

- Hmm.

- I have to go convince the manager to do this.

You are the best.

(laughing) - Good.

(soft music)

- Thank you. Have a good day.

(sighs)

- Hi. You need to restart the router.

- Big demands for someone who's been here for three hours without leaving a tip.

- Here's a tip:

get a better router.

- Who put a bee in your bonnet?

- I'm just... I'm trying to prepare for this huge interview

and nothing is going right.

All my friends are mad at me

and the Internet is terrible in this town, and...

I...

I just need to get to New York,

where the Wi-Fi always works and nobody's obsessed with prom,

because they care about much bigger things.

- But what's bigger than prom?

- Everything?

What do you know about prom anyway?

You're in 9th grade.

- Only that it's the biggest party we'll ever go to until our weddings.

- Which is no coincidence, since they're both just

different stops along society's unimaginative highway.

- Okay, fine. Don't ride in my limo, then.

- So, you agree?

Prom is just one night

and Savannah has no right getting mad at me over choosing

to prioritize my own life over some dance.

- She probably doesn't want to go alone.

- She won't be alone, she's head of the prom committee.

- Yeah, but Holly's going with Tyler and that's mostly who she'll be hanging with.

- She planned the whole thing, right?

She probably has some magical idea on how this will all play out.

- Definitely don't want to ruin her magical night.

How would you feel if I stayed here after you closed tonight?

- Again, lots of requests for someone who isn't much of a tipper.

- How about now?

- Oh! There you are.

(singsong voice): Starving.

- Thank you!

Dinner is here!

- Oh, yeah!

- Yum!

- And I... have an announcement.

- You're running away to join the circus and I finally get a room to myself?

(chuckles)

- Uh, no, actually, you're gonna be stuck with me

for another year or so, because...

I decided to decline my offer from U of W.

- Excuse me?

(laughs) - That's even better.

- Why?

- Because with a mistake this big,

I'm gonna be the favourite. - What about me?

- No, no, no, it wouldn't be a mistake, okay?

Because Robbie helped me figure out what I want to do instead.

- Robbie?

- Ha, the gift that keeps on giving.

- I pitched the Collinsville Children's Club manager

on a full-blown musical program that would run in the summer,

and then after school in the fall,

and she totally loved it.

(laughs)

- Wow. That's super impressive, kiddo.

- Thanks, it would help kids build their creativity and their confidence.

- Yeah, but you know what, sweetie,

I still think that college,

it's a better option.

- Okay.

Take a look at this, though.

That's the presentation I gave her.

- Wow!

That's a killer title page.

- Thank you!

Go to... Go to page three. The budget.

It would be cheaper than daycare, okay,

so if we could get enough kids,

then there would be enough money to hire a full-time director!

Moi!

- The numbers, they do look good.

I guess, if it's a real job that pays real money

and you think you'll love it...

- I would! I would!

So, you wouldn't be too mad?

- No, of course not!

I'm just... I may still have my reservations, but...

I've learned that it's foolish to stand between you and your dreams.

- Seriously?

That's all it takes for her to get back in your good books?

Fine. Then, I'm running away to join the circus.

- And honey, I will support you when you do.

(sighs)

(soft music)

- Amy?

Amy?

(drum roll)

"Will you take centre stage with me at prom?"

What?

- Is that a yes or a no?

- That's a "what" for what the heck is even going on right now?

- You guaranteed she'd say yes.

- I...

I thought she would.

What's wrong?

I got you a date to prom so you don't have to go alone.

- But it's... Reggie.

- What's wrong with Reggie?

- Keeping in mind I am right here.

- Nothing's wrong with Reggie.

Prom is the night we get to celebrate everything

that we've achieved over the last four years.

I don't want to go with some random guy.

I want to go with you.

My best friend.

- Oh. (chuckles)

Uh...

Savannah, I'm...

- Never mind.

(soft music)

(sighs)

- Still gonna pay for the tux, right?

(soft music)

- Holly.

- Hi!

- You're... seven hours early!

- I know, I know, but I just...

I couldn't wait to share the ideas that I have for the new music program.

So, I was thinking, one way that we can start brainstorming

is to have each of the kids put a word in a hat

and then, we take all those words, put them up on the board

and build a story up from there.

That way, they all feel included from the start.

(sighs)

- These are all really great ideas.

I'll pass them along to our director.

- Uh, director?

- To run the program.

- Oh, I thought that I would be the director.

- Oh... Holly,

we need someone with a college degree in early childhood education

or child psychology.

But if everything works out and it runs a few years,

as soon as you graduate college, the job is yours.

Until then, we'd love to have you keep volunteering with us.

- Yeah.

(soft music)

(laughing) - Okay!

Let's try a Charlie's Angels shot.

- Ooh!

- What's a Charlie's Angel?

- Uh, never mind. Just go back to back.

(clears throat)

- And hon, you might want to try smiling in this one.

(grunts)

- This isn't working. I need my tripod.

- Oh, hon, why don't we just let them get on with the night?

- It'll just take five minutes.

- You know you're not gonna find it.

- Yes I will.

- I will go help. You two,

you just stay looking cute.

- Okay, I was hoping that this picture would memorialize our amazing night,

but you've been giving faces ranging from

sad and scared to looking like you want to puke.

- I'm just anxious to get to prom.

- Uh-huh, and Titanic was anxious to get to America.

- Fine.

I turned down my offer from U of W to...

run the new music program and...

they're hiring someone else.

- Oh.

- I just don't know if I'm going to be able to face everyone tonight.

They're all gonna be talking about what great things

they're gonna be doing next year and...

What am I even gonna say?

- Why do you care so much about what everyone else thinks?

- Because I'm human.

- Let's forget about the worrying for one night

and just go and have some fun.

(birds chirping)

- I'm sorry, Tyler.

I don't think I can.

- Are you serious?

Holly, Holly!

(soft music)

(soft music)

- Oh, shoot!

- Holly?

- Hi. (chuckles)

(sighs)

- What are you doing here?

- Can't a girl visit her best friend?

- Shouldn't you be at prom?

- This isn't how I imagined the end of high school.

(scoffs)

- Tell me about it.

Why does everyone make such a big deal out of prom anyway?

It's just a glorified dinner dance.

- Yeah, with tons of extra pressure, because apparently,

it's supposed to be one of the most memorable nights of our lives.

- Yeah.

Who decided that?

- Annoying people.

- You know, dates.

- And bright futures.

- And friends that aren't mad at them.

- And killer outfits that don't pinch in all the wrong places.

- But for everyone else, it's just a reminder

of all the ways they don't stack up.

All the ways you're not good enough.

I totally ruined my future, Ames.

And I don't think I can fix it.

- You just always have to one up me, huh?

(chuckling)

(sighs)

I don't know, I just...

I thought we'd all finish high school

and move on to the next chapter and I was kind of relieved

when I got banned from prom, perfect excuse not to go.

(horse neighs)

And now,

I just hate that I've hurt Savannah's feelings.

- Oh...

(sighs)

- And you know what's worse?

Even though we're ditching prom,

we're always gonna remember that we had a terrible time not going.

- I know! Right?

(sighing)

- So, how do I fix things?

(sighs)

(rhythmic music)

Hey.

How do I look?

- Stunning! Vibrant, a little slow, but that's fine.

Okay, there's no teachers at the table, so if we go now, we can sneak you in.

(♪)

- Hi, Holly Hobby and a guest.

Ooh, you should choose a song for your entrance,

really make a moment of it.

You know Savannah loves that kind of stuff.

I can talk to the DJ. Yeah?

- How about that classic Drake song, "Hold On, We're Going Home".

- Mister Alton.

(♪)

Please. Can Amy just come in for like, an hour, tops?

- Letting you into prom

sort of defeats the whole purpose of banning you from prom, doesn't it?

- I'm sorry my attempt to save the world ruined

the school-sanctioned fundraiser,

but if you don't let me into prom,

I might ruin something even bigger.

- I'm sorry, Miss Abbasi, are you threatening me?

- I just have to tell someone in there that she's important to me

and if I don't do it tonight, I might never have the chance.

So, please, I just need five minutes.

- And would letting you in set a good example for the other students?

- Admittedly, it wouldn't,

but please...

- Well, then, my verdict stands.

I'll see you at graduation, Miss Abbasi.

(soft music)

- Come on.

(soft music)

- Well, that's that.

High school ends not with a bang,

but with a whimper.

At least it's nice to know that there's always one thing we can count on.

- Oh, that's so sweet.

- I meant the fries, but our friendship will do too.

- Oh, rude!

(laughs)

(door opens, closes)

(footsteps approaching)

- Hey.

- Hi.

- I'm gonna go for a walk.

- What are you doing here?

- You said prom was stupid.

- I know.

- And because I cared about it, you made me feel like I was stupid.

- I know.

- Then, why did you try and sneak into it?

- Because it was important to you!

And you're important to me.

- I just wanted to spend prom night with you.

- Now I've wrecked it for the both of us.

- You didn't wreck it, because it's still prom night.

And we're together.

And I have something that you might want.

(laughing)

- Chips and chocolate!

- A perfect pair.

(laughing)

Cheers!

(♪)

- Waiting to hear from someone?

- You never responded to my text.

I thought you were mad at me for bailing.

I was.

I don't...

I don't like thinking of the future,

because for a long time, I wasn't sure I had one.

Then I realized I wasn't taking your problem seriously, so...

You know, if you want to think about other jobs or...

brainstorm things to tell your parents...

- No.

No, not now.

I can start worrying about all that again tomorrow.

Tonight... can we just dance?

- Just as long as you don't run away before the song...

- Shh...

(soft music)

The whole point of tonight is to not worry about the future.

♪ My heart is racing when I look in your eyes ♪

♪ After all of these years ♪

♪ Oh my ♪

♪ Is this really a love song ♪

Turns out it's way easier

to live in the moment.

♪ Am I singing a love song ♪

Especially when it's a moment you've been waiting for.

♪ That I hear melodies ♪

♪ When you look at me ♪

♪ And I'd sing in my sleep ♪

♪ Cause you're in my dreams ♪

♪ This might be a love song ♪

♪ Tell me if I'm wrong ♪

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