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The tone turns personal as the narrator explains she used to live only for weekends, vacations, and summers—until a moment changed her patterns years ago. That origin begins at a party she was not supposed to attend, where a chance meeting with Everett Bridges introduces a new thread of connection.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDedication  \nFor Georgia From the sixth floor to the rest ofour lives, and whatever comes after that too.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nCover  \nTitle Page  \nDedication  \nthen  \none  \ntwo  \nthree  \nfour  \nfive  \nsix  \nseven  \neight  \nnine  \nten  \neleven  \ntwelve  \nthirteen  \nfourteen  \nfifteen  \nsixteen  \nseventeen  \neighteen  \nnineteen  \ntwenty  \ntwenty-one  \ntwenty-two  \ntwenty-three  \ntwenty-four  \ntwenty-five  \ntwenty-six  \ntwenty-seven  \ntwenty-eight  \ntwenty-nine  \nthirty  \nthirty-one  \nthirty-two  \nthirty-three  \nthirty-four  \nthirty-five  \nthirty-six  \nEpilogue  \nacknowledgments  \nAbout the Author  \nPraise for the novels of Sally Blakely Copyright  \nAbout the Publisher  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nthen  \nI spend the entire year waiting for summer. Not the whole of it, but its return. The moments just before it actually begins on a calendar, when you’re already calling it summer, when people are already on patios and at markets and kids are out of school. I wait for the edge between the pleasantly warm days of late spring and the heat of July, when there is nothing but a seemingly endless stretch of days ahead of you.  \nI used to be waiting for a trip: a group of people, an A-frame cottage with creaky floors and the rush of salt air through open windows. But even with that all gone, I still find myself waiting for that moment. Some shift in the air that starts in April and lasts through the solstice in June that signifies something turning over, starting fresh. Not fully realized yet, but getting there, waking up.  \nI wasn’t always this way. I used to be someone who vowed that I’d never live for weekends, vacations, summers. But the habit rooted in me ten years ago. Checking off days on a calendar, marking moments by how much closer they were to summer coming back.  \nAnd it all started at a party I wasn’t even supposed to go to.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \none  \nSpring  \nTen Years Ago  \nIt was unusual for me to go to a party without anyone else in tow, and by“anyone else” I mean the five of us—me, Laurel, Gabe, Davi, and Zoey. But it was the last Friday of spring break and Laurel was out with a girl from one of her marketing classes after she’d decided to ghost the guy she’d been seeing from her econ class last week, Gabe and Zoey weren’t back from their trip to Barbados with her parents until Sunday, and Davi had oneof those infuriating spring colds, made all the worse by the fact that we only had so many weekends like this left between us and graduation.  \nBut there was a call from a classmate, and springtime California air as we walked the few blocks to the house where she knew about a party. Music and drinks in the fridge and no real concept of a before or a during or an after for any of us, and then a cheer going up at the front door for someone arriving. Golden-brown hair and flashing eyes and a case of beer hoisted in the air. A second beer in the kitchen while I laughed along with everyone else, and a screen door closing behind me as I stepped onto the quiet back deck to cut through the alley and head home.  \n“Got to be a record,” said a voice from behind me. I turned. The guy everyone had been so happy to see earlier leaned against the railing, a water bottle in hand. He was wearing a navy-blue sweater, the sleeves pushed up to above his elbows, the white of a T-shirt just peeking out underneath the neck of it.  \n“What?” I asked.  \nHe glanced at a watch on his wrist. I didn’t know anyone who wore an actual watch at that point, and this one looked well loved, a leather band that had been worn by someone before him.“Ten thirty,” he said.“Sorry the party disappointed you.”  \n“This is your party?” I asked, pointing back at the screen door, a rectangle of yellow in the dark, voices and a song that Laurel turned up every time it came on the radio spilling out of it.  \n“Nah,” he said, shaking his head. 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