but a stuck in love plot where they grow up together and start off as rusty/kate. she's popular but sad and has a drug problem and he's the one that she thinks can save her. they fall in love and are happy for a while but she slips up and ends up in rehab. they break up, but remain friends. he's there for her the entire time, helping her with her therapy and doing everything he can to make sure she's happy. they both end up attending the local state college, where they enter the louis/samantha phase. at this point she's jaded and cynical about life and love and all that, and he tries to get her to see that being in a relationship isn't that bad and tries to make her fall for him. it ends up working, he breaks through the walls and they grow up and get married blah blah blah and now they're bill/erica. the marriage isn't as happy as they thought it would be, and they both end up cheating, then get divorced. it takes many mistakes and lots of angst, but eventually they end up together and it's happy in the end and la di dah i'm making myself sad goodbye










