Summer number four meant a move for the girl, so they did not meet on the beach. Coincidences being as they are she moved closer to the boy. Close enough to start at his school. Though he was two years older, it was a combined middle and high school.
Fate being cruel, he had a girlfriend, and a jealous one at that. This girlfriend, was very wary of the other girls involvement with her boyfriend, pleading with him to stop talking to her. He obliged, feeling terrible at the sad look on his friends face when he told her.