Episode 9: Chapters 34-36

Episode 9: Chapters 34-36

Secrets slip, drinks spill, and the cracks get harder to hide. Bergan’s dinner with her mom spirals into quiet dread, Dakota palms pills at a party, Bobby loses his stomach, and Owen loses his home. In a haze of homecoming dresses, blaring bass, and borrowed couches, the kids try to hold it together as everything starts to fall apart. Because sometimes growing up isn’t loud, it’s just lonely.

Episode 8: Chapters 29-33

First smokes. Last summer mornings. One busted Volvo and way too much teenage static. As Chloe, Bobby, and Beathan stumble through the first weeks of school, things start to crack. Secrets drop, friendships shift, and no one’s really ready for what’s coming. Parties blur, the days drag, and freedom feels just out of reach. It’s 175 days ‘til graduation, but who’s counting?

Episode 7: Chapters 24-28

As summer stretches on, lines blur between connection and distance. Bergan opens up to Owen on a quiet afternoon that feels like a turning point, while Bobby tries, and fails, to keep up with a group that’s slowly moving on without him. Dakota’s caught between frustration and resignation as her mother stumbles back into the picture, and Chloe, desperate for a high, finds unexpected kinship next door. By the river, on front porches, and under the fading glow of August sun, the group tries to hold on to their summer.

Episode 6: Chapters 19-23

In the slow heat of mid-July, friendships deepen and quiet tensions rise. Owen wrestles with ghosts of the past and a growing crush on Bergan, while Beathan plays middleman between feelings and fear. Dakota endures another strained dinner with her mother, and Bobby finds fleeting peace on a hazy pizza run with Ben. As the group drifts between couches, basements, and blanket-covered lawns, it becomes clear that growing up isn't marked by milestones, but by the moments that almost slip away. This is a work of fiction. While inspired by the messiness of real life, the characters and events are imagined. Any resemblance to actual people, places, or events is purely coincidental.

Episode 5: Chapters 13-18

At the ruins deep in the woods, Bobby finds fleeting belonging, Beathan drifts toward something real with Sadie, and the group bonds over beer and smoke. But by the Fourth of July, the fireworks aren't just in the sky. Tensions ignite at a house party, secrets surface, and one misfired mortar changes everything. This is a work of fiction. While inspired by the messiness of real life, the characters and events are imagined. Any resemblance to actual people, places, or events is purely coincidental.