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{{quote|'''Itoshiki:''' You could even say that relationships in high school are a preview of love, for when you seriously fall in love!... I think I just said something smart.

** And their first non-school interaction was her chasing him down in a helicopter for having saved a busload of people in his superhero identity.

* In the ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]'' manga, the sweethearts {{spoiler|are bound by the "fate-gene" and will both die when one of them stops loving the other}}. Add this to the fact that they are still very young ''and'' [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|of the same gender]] in a fairly homophobic society and you have a situation which might complicate their future lives considerably.

* ''[[Ranma ½|Ranma 1/2]]'', though they have a [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|rough time getting there]], and never ''do'' quite make it, [[Word of God]] says they will eventually work it out.

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' perpetrated the [[Because Destiny Says So]] version of the trope with Mamoru and Usagi, but mostly averted it otherwise.

* ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]''. This even extended to Ichigo's parents, who themselves met in junior high.

* The manga ''[[Ultra Maniac]]'' includes not one but ''three'' couples who pair up in junior high, and are still strongly together at the end of high school, suggesting a [[Happily Ever After]] for all of them.

 

 

* Pretty much every teenage movie ever made that wasn't meant to appeal to oversexed teenage dudes. And even some that ''are''.

* In ''[[Back to The Future]]'', Lorraine states that she knew she would spend the rest of her life with George McFly after they kissed at the [[High School Dance]]. Depending which timeline you're using, this is one week or less after she ''met'' him. There may be a slight subversion, though, as in the original timeline, the marriage was less than perfect.

* Brutally parodied by ''[[Not Another Teen Movie]]''. Jake spends much of the film trying to get together with Janey. At the end, she debates whether she should go off to an art school in Paris. Jake starts to convince her not to go, then he realizes the problems with this trope:

{{quote|'''Jake:''' Maybe you should get on that plane to Paris. Cause if you stay, we really only have the summer, then I go to college and we'll talk on the phone and spend the occasional weekend together which is nice. But chances are one night I'm gonna get wrecked and have unprotected sex with some girl in my dorm. You'll find her thong and call me a slut... I'll call you a cock-tease and we'll break up. So when you really think about it, what's the point?}}

== Literature ==

* Almost all the main couples in [[Jodi Picoult]]'s books. They may not still be together, but they did(or will) get married.

** Bill and Fleur met when Fleur was in high school (graduating that year) and Bill was already working. It's averted with Lupin and Tonks, who got together after knowing each other while in the Order, and {{spoiler|[[Cloudcuckoolander|Luna Lovegood]] and Rolf Scamander, who got together later in life as wizarding naturalists. She is the only character of the main cast's age who does ''not'' marry her high-school sweetheart, or even someone known in the school. Rolf is the grandson of ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'''s author Newt Scamander, but he does not appear in the books.}}

** {{spoiler|James Potter and Lily Evans began dating when they were in seventh year and went on to get married.}}

 

== Live Action TV ==

* This did not work out well for Will Schuester in ''[[Glee]]''. In fact, one might even call it a [[Deconstruction]].

** Quinn plans for her and Finn to end up like that.

** Kurt and Blaine are implied to end up this way - Blaine calls Kurt the [[One True Love|love of his life]] in "Dance With Somebody", and their tension comes not from wanting different things - they both want to end up in New York - but with how they will deal with their year apart since Blaine is a year behind Kurt in school.

* Bob and Amy Duncan in the [[Disney Channel]] original series ''[[Good Luck Charlie]]''. Bob played basketball; Amy was the mascot.

* Strongly implied to be the fate of Naomi and Emily in ''[[Skins]]''. Very much averted with the earlier Tony and Michelle though, who realise that they had great times together but now they're going to different universities.

** [[Word of God]] states Emily and Naomi eventually even got married.

* Marshall and Lily on ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' ''barely'' escape this trope (they've been together since the first day of college). However, Lily's actual high school sweetheart, Scooter, is convinced he and Lily are this trope, and fifteen years later, he's ''still'' in love with her and chasing after her, trying to cajole her into leaving Marshall. One wonders why she hasn't slapped him with a restraining order yet...

 

* Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable in ''[[Kim Possible]]''. They were Best Friends since Pre-K but became an [[Official Couple]] at the Junior Prom.

** The final season of the show, their Senior Year, had an episode that actually tackled the "fall in love in High School, but what about College?" issue. Ron, who applies everywhere on the off chance of getting in anywhere, stresses over the fact that it's unlikely he'll wind up at the same college as Kim, who can attend just about any school in the world.

* Homer and Marge from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.

* ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', [[Official Couple|Terry and his long-time on/off girlfriend]], become this in the [[Justice League Unlimited|JLU]], fully absorbed finale episode, "Epilogue", when Terry decides he's going to propose to her at the end of the episode.

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