The Summer We Fell

The Summer We Fell

Author: Elizabeth O’Roark Listening Length: 9h 11m
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He was my boyfriend’s best friend—and the bane of my existence. I wanted to hate Luke Taylor. I did hate him. I just never hated him enough. Now, a decade later, tragedy has brought us back to the place where it all happened—my best times, and my worst. Our lives have changed, but that pull between us is just as str...

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M y final months of school feel especially anticlimactic.

Hailey isn’t going away to college either—the only school she applied to was in LA, to be near her boyfriend, and she didn’t get in—but everyone else is.

They come to class in their college sweatshirts.

Girls compare bedspreads they’ve picked for their dorm rooms and share rumors about what’s to come, and it’s as if everyone around me has an engine they’ve just started, but when I turn the key in mine, it simply clicks once, then dies.