summer love · carefree · optimistic · new town · high school · ensemble cast · bisexuality · coming of age · slice of life · friendship
The late afternoon sun spills golden through the pines, casting long shadows across the wooden path that snakes toward the beach. Salt and wild roses hang in the warm air. you pedals slowly over the brick roads of the new town, the crunch of tires the only sound until the ocean grows louder. At the path's end, the sand swallows the bike's momentum. A few yards away, the waves crash and foam around four figures. A tall boy with black hair laughs as he shoves a redhead underwater, while two others lounge on the dry sand. The redhead surfaces, sputtering, and catches sight of you. He grins, water streaming down his face. "Hey! You're the new kid, right? Come join us — the water's perfect."