June.

Thirty-three days into his summer at Logan and Sons Auto Repair, Logan has his first real clash with his father. A customer named Bernie arrives with a nail in his tire. Logan recommends replacing all four tires, but Bernie wants only a patch. Logan accepts this, but Logan’s father stumbles from the office, visibly drunk, and berates Logan for failing to push the more expensive repair. When his father slurs a taunt about Logan going undrafted, Logan’s brother Jeff steps in and steers their father back toward the house.

Logan stays late, closing up just after 10. A taxi deposits Tori Howard, a schoolteacher in her mid-twenties who brings her car in several times a year and makes her interest in Logan clear. As Tori describes her newly installed dual-headed shower with deliberate suggestion, Logan hesitates, still hoping Grace will eventually respond to him. He decides her months of silence are answer enough and accepts Tori’s invitation.

July.

Garrett surprises Logan at the garage with pizza and beer. Logan rarely drinks beer because it reminds him of his father’s drinking. Jeff sends Logan outside with Garrett while he finishes the remaining work.

They settle at the fire pit. Logan admits he went home with Tori the previous month but walked out without sleeping with her because the encounter felt empty. When Garrett presses him on what is wrong, Logan opens up about two things he has kept from everyone. First, his father struggles with an addiction to alcohol, has chronic leg pain, and cannot run the business. Second, Logan never made himself eligible for the NHL draft. He explains his deal with Jeff, which means he cannot go pro.

Garrett argues that Logan is choosing to sacrifice himself and reframes what Logan has left: one full year of hockey, friends, and freedom. He tells Logan to pursue Grace if she is what he wants. Logan resolves to do that.

August.

With one week left before the semester, Logan reflects on a better end to summer than expected, including a trip to see his mother and a few enjoyable games with the Munsen Miners, a local hockey team. The one gap is that Grace never responded to the voicemail he left after his talk with Garrett.

He drives to Hastings to use the team’s weight room and ends up going for a run with Dean and Hannah. When they reach the park, the gazebo reminds Logan of his night at the water tower with Grace, and a woman reading on the steps turns out to be her, now with blonde hair. Logan sends his friends ahead and approaches her. He tells her that the woman he claimed to want was Garrett’s girlfriend, and that he envied was their relationship. Grace is skeptical. When he asks her on a date, she declines. She mentions heading home for lunch with her father, so Logan walks in the same direction, ignoring her protests.

When they arrive at her house, Grace calls him out directly: He had told her she was a distraction and rejected her when she was ready to be with him. Logan does not argue. He asks her to remember the good parts from before that night, and she acknowledges she had liked him then. She offers forgiveness and civil coexistence on campus but refuses a date for now. Logan is hopeful.

At the start of her sophomore year, Grace moves into Hartford House and waits for her new roommate, since she has had no contact with Ramona since April. Daisy, who arrives from Atlanta, has pink-streaked hair and Doc Martens and runs several shows at the campus radio station. When Grace mentions wanting extracurricular work, Daisy invites her to meet the station manager, Morris, and Grace agrees.

“Logan”

Logan, Garrett, Dean, and Tucker are in high spirits heading into freshman open tryouts, though they are concerned about losing several key players, including their starting goalie, Kenny Simms. At the arena, most hopefuls are unimpressive until a freshman named Hunter tears through drills with exceptional speed and precision. A teammate explains that Hunter nearly quit hockey entirely and Coach Jensen had to personally persuade him to attend. Dean then launches into a loud, pointed mock lecture about orgasms, a jab at Logan’s failed encounter with Grace, before Coach Jensen spots them in the stands and orders the group to the weight room.

At the end of the first week of classes, Grace meets Ramona for coffee. Ramona admits she acted out of jealousy because she has always resented how easily people warmed to Grace. Grace tells her the friendship needs a break and agrees to occasional contact. After Ramona leaves, Grace sits with a feeling of both loss and relief, resolving that her sophomore year will be different.

Before she can go, Logan enters with his friends, sits across from her, and sets a muffin on the table as a gift. He asks her on a date and she declines. Garrett wanders over and offers to mediate, but Grace stifles a laugh, refuses, and leaves the muffin behind as she leaves.

Grace works her first full week producing a call-in advice show whose on-air guidance she privately considers absurd. She is interested in Morris, who flirts with her after the show. Morris invites Grace to a Sigma Tau kegger, framing it as an optional date offer. After a flicker of hesitation in which Logan crosses her mind, she accepts the date.

On Friday night, Garrett forces Logan to attend the Sigma Tau kegger. Logan has committed to a new personal rule: no more meaningless hookups. Once inside, Dean quietly tells him that Grace is there on a date. Logan searches for Grace, brushing off advances from Piper along the way. He eventually spots Grace heading upstairs alone and follows.

“Grace”

Grace is at the party with Morris, who has been absorbed in a video game competition since they arrived. Grace uses the upstairs bathroom and finds Logan in the hallway on her way out. The attraction between them intensifies, and when Logan softly tells her to kiss him, Grace gives in. The encounter escalates physically until Logan abruptly pulls away. He tells her he wants a real date, not a hookup.

Morris then appears at the top of the stairs. Grace introduces Logan as a friend and follows Morris back downstairs, forcing herself not to look back even as she feels Logan watching her the entire way down.