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In chapter 8, Haven and Casey go for their daily walk around the neighborhood. When they walked passed Gwendolyn's house, they saw her standing there not moving. When she finally turned around they saw her. She looked absolutley terrible with a plain expression and extremley thin. Haven went out to dinner with her dad again and they talked about her dad and Lorna, his new wife and their future.

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In chapter 7, Haven ran into sumner everywhere. It turns out he had 4 jobs and Havne thought that running into him everywhere meant that he was meant to come back into her life and fix or change something. Haven talked to Ashley about Sumner being back in town and how he wanted to talk to her and see how everything was going with her, but Ashely had no interest whatsoever. This made haven very upset and when she told Sumner, he was also upset.

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In chapter six, there were two homecomings the first week of august for their neighborhood. One was the return of Haven's best friend Casey, who had spent the summer at a camp. The second, was the return of Gwendolyn Rogers, the local model who grew up in the same neighborhood as Haven. She had a terrible breakup with her boyfriend and she is now home and wont leave her house except when she goes for a walk in the middle of the night. Sumner has a second job at Lakeview mall as a security guard which Haven found out while working one day.

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In chapter five, Haven goes out to dinner every Thursday with her father to catch up with him since they dont live together anymore. This Thursday, he took her to a resturant when all of a sudden Sumner Lee shows up as their waitor. Haven and Sumner get talking and he brings up Ashely. He tells Haven to say hello to her for him and when she does, Ashley doesnt want anything to do with him. Haven can't seem to figure it out.

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In chapter four, Ashleys wedding continued to be the main focus around the house. Lydia, the neighbor has helped Haven's mom get through everything and is now helping get the wedding set up for Ashley. Haven has many flashbacks of Sumner, when Ashley dated him. In this chapter, she remembers how Ashley broke up with him. She Recalls that it was at night, Ashley had been on a date with him and afterwards when he dropped her off She broke up with him on the front porch. Haven heard the whole thing.

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In chapter three, Haven woke up to a wedding crisis. Ashley has a wedding crisis almost every week. Carol, Their cousin was the source of most of these problems. She is always saying she can't come to the wedding anymore then she will call and say she can about two days later. Haven has a job at Little Feet, a kids shoe store at the local mall, called the Lakeview mall. During her break, she went out in the mall and realized there was a fashion show getting ready for a show in about a few weeks.

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In chapter two, Haven goes over all of ashley's boyfriends the most recent one, Lewis, who was going to be married to Ashley come august ninteenth. Sumner Lee was Ashley's boyfriend a few years ago and he has been the only one who really mattered to Haven. He wasn't like any of the other boyfriends Ashely has had before. The best time they had was when haven's family and Sumner and Ashley went on a vacation to Virginia Beach.

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Over break, i read a book called That Summer by Sarah Dessen. In Chapter one, there is a fifteen year old girl named Haven. Her parents got divorced and her mom is having trouble getting over it. Her dad got remarried and she couldnt help remembering her sister, Ashley's old boyfriends. Her sisters new boyfriend is Lewis and Haven doesnt like lewis very much. she thinks he is really boring. Haven is really tall and she can't help but feel out of place.