In a flashback, Declan finds Blair as the school day ends and asks her to hide him. The girls of Seabrook High School have decided to ask the boys to prom, and girls bombarded many of Declan’s football teammates with promposals (Prom-Proposals) already. Blair feels jealous that so many girls have crushes on Declan, as she has romantic feelings for him.

Declan and Blair try to sneak off campus before they see a group of girls approaching. Blair asks him which girl he’d want to go with, and Declan says he’d rather go with Blair. Blair publicly promposes to Declan, and Declan accepts. Before he drives home, Declan tells Blair they have to really go to prom together so that they don’t look like liars.

In the present timeline, Blair returns home from her training session to see an unfamiliar van outside Lottie’s house. She realizes the hospice people have arrived and rushes upstairs. Blair begins to sob and heaves over the sink, seeing the dirty dishes and wondering what her future without Lottie will look like.

Blair goes back upstairs, and her mother tells her that Lottie’s time has come, and the hospice nurses have begun the morphine drip, but Lottie may not pass for a couple more days. Blair cries, and her mother holds her. Blair then crawls into bed with Lottie and talks to her, though she isn’t sure Lottie can hear her. She tells Lottie that she loves her and thanks her for being her second mother and making her feel so loved. Blair falls asleep next to Lottie, and when she wakes, the world is different.

Blair feels awkward at Lottie’s funeral, and she nearly laughs as a woman gives her a mournful face that reminds Blair of a “sad clown” (76). Blair sits in the front row and listens to Lottie’s friends tell inappropriate stories from their youth, which upsets Blair. Blair views Lottie as a “patient, an ever-constant, nonwavering source of love” and dislikes that Lottie’s supposed friends seem to misunderstand her (77).

Blair gets up to step outside and sees Declan standing at the back of the room. Blair hurries past him and pretends she has to go to the bathroom, and Declan calls her out on not needing the restroom. Blair steps outside into the parking lot, and Declan follows her. She asks him why he’s there, and he says that he knows her friends couldn’t make it and he wanted to be there for her. Blair asks how he knows and realizes that he checked up on her via Instagram. Blair asks him if he liked what he saw, and he admits that he did.

She finally asks him about his single photo with the blonde girl, and he reveals that she’s his cousin, and he only posted a photo with her to help their other cousin, the bride from the wedding, win a social media contest. Blair thanks him for clarifying and for coming before heading back inside the funeral.

In a flashback, Blair cheers Declan on during the first football game of Declan’s senior year season. She watches nervously to see if Declan will manage to bring the team to the state championship for the third year in a row. Declan now pursues his father’s dream as if it’s his own and carries immense pressure on his shoulders.

After junior prom, Blair wondered if her relationship with Declan would escalate romantically, but Declan has avoided any romantic potential ever since. Declan throws a game-winning pass, and as the fans crowd the field, he stares up at Blair in the stands. She runs down to him and jumps into his arms. They finally kiss, and Declan asks her how long she’s had feelings for him. Blair says she’s liked him for years and asks why he’s kissed her now. Declan is afraid of ruining their friendship and doesn’t want their relationship to end; Blair assures him that it won’t. They kiss again and Declan asks Blair on a date the next day.

In the present timeline, Blair arrives at the coffee shop for her first shift a week after Lottie’s funeral. Blair finds the grief overwhelming, and Faye and Roshi only offer rushed texts of condolences and support. Blair thinks they don’t understand how close Blair and Lottie were, since most people don’t form close bonds with their great-aunts.

Declan asks Harper to train Blair to make their new seasonal drink. Harper shows Blair how to make a hazelnut banana latte, remarking that Declan likes sweet drinks. Blair feels a flash of jealousy, as she knew Declan longer than anyone else at the coffee shop. Harper also tells Blair that she’s signed up for overtime, which is a non-barista shift helping with the shop renovations. Blair is happy to help until Harper tells her that she’ll be working alone with Declan.

Blair gets through the shift without the other baristas or customers seeing her grief, but she knows that Declan could see through her façade when they work alone in the evening. She’s unsure whether she’s more scared of Declan seeing her pain or not recognizing her emotions.

Blair goes home between her barista shift and her overtime shift and finds her mother sorting through boxes of photos and journals. Her mother shows Blair one of her old journals full of stories, and Blair can’t believe her dream used to be to become a writer. Blair grabs the journal from her mother after her mother notes that one of the stories is about Declan, and Blair feels embarrassed. She tells her mother that her new start date for the consulting job is in September, so Blair can spend the summer helping her mother get settled before going to work a job that can support her.

Faye calls Blair to rant about Faye’s mother’s plans to throw Faye a birthday party after Faye’s mother-in-law started planning one. Blair manages to provide support but feels hurt when Faye doesn’t ask about Lottie or her grief at all. Faye asks about Declan, and Blair says she has to go for an overtime shift, ending the call.

In a flashback, Declan picks up Blair for their first date with her favorite flowers, cotton-candy-colored hydrangeas that he has to have shipped into Seabrook. Declan drives Blair to a secluded beach he found on one of his runs. They sit on the beach together and discuss their feelings for one another. Declan reveals his feelings snuck up on him until he couldn’t avoid them anymore, and Blair says she’s liked Declan for as long as she can remember, even when they were five years old, and he had thick glasses and a gap in his teeth. Declan appreciates that Blair’s opinion of him and affection for him doesn’t change depending on his football success.

Declan and Blair play the question game, and Declan asks her what she’d like to know about her future if she could. Blair wishes she could know if her father would ever come back. Declan reassures her that there’s nothing wrong with her, though Blair subconsciously thinks she did something to drive her father away. Declan promises to stay with Blair in the future.

Declan wants to know what job he will be doing at 40, because most football players retire before then and he doesn’t have a backup plan. Blair tells Declan that he’d be a good engineer before asking him how their relationship will work if they attend different colleges. Declan reminds Blair that they applied to a lot of the same schools, but Blair tells him that she can only attend a school that offers her a full scholarship. Blair always assumed that she had money for college, since she lives in affluent Seabrook and never thought about the cost associated with higher education. Her mother told her, after she finished applying, that she’d need a full scholarship to attend any school. Declan reassures her that everything will turn out well, that their relationship will continue, and she won’t become less important to him than football. They kiss passionately.