title: Summer Boys #3: After Summer
author:  Hailey Abbott 
description: <div>Hailey Abbott is the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of the SUMMER BOYS series. She grew up in California but now lives in New York City...but still loves nothing more than writing while on the beach.</div>
zlib_text: _Chapter 1_
  
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  BREAKING NEWS: YOUNG GIRL MELTS ON SIDEWALK DURING RECORD HEAT
  
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  It’s hot. Right now as I sit on my front steps waiting for my BFF, Hailey
  Jones, and her mom to take us to the air-conditioned mall on the third day of
  an awful heat wave, it’s the kind of hot that makes me wonder if I could
  actually dissolve into a unrecognizable blob of goo by the time Hailey gets
  here. _**Breaking News: Young Girl Melts on Sidewalk During Record Heat**_ is
  what I’m thinking.
  
  It’s also the kind of hot that makes me wish for a chill in the air and
  sweaters and, believe it or not, school. School just goes with fall. School
  also goes with seeing my forever and ever crush, Michael Lawrence, every day.
  I haven’t seen him since the town’s Fourth of July fireworks display, which
  was awesome. Hailey, Michael and his friend Frank, and I all went together. I
  couldn’t really call it a double date since Hailey says she doesn’t have a
  crush on Fr