Best friends. Some are inherited at birth, some in early school days, and some are acquired later on in life. For Melina and Eleni it happened somewhere in between. They were both fresh out of high school, and attending an annual convention that was popular among the Greek community.

Melina- a native New Yorker was getting ready to study at NYU, and Eleni- a Southern California transplant who would be attending the University of Southern California. Although having lived a country apart, one faithful summer with NYC as their playground, the girls would embark on a friendship that would last a lifetime.

For the next seven years, the girls spent a week in a different US city, followed by three weeks in Greece. It became their tradition. A week of strictly family, followed by two weeks of island hoping and endless hours in the sun.

This summer would be the first the girls would not be gallivanting off to Greece, each girl would be "stuck" on their respective coasts, but one thing was for sure, their worlds were about to be changed in a way neither of them could imagine.