'He walked up smiling that lovely smile, big brown puppy dog eyes twinkling and his arms outstretched inviting me into his warm embrace. Whenever I hear that song this image lights up my mind and I think my heart races to a stop all over again. I think I can even still hear him laughing and saying “This silly boy can always make you laugh, and we both know it”, I can even still feel the ghost of the innocent hands clasped together and the arms around me keeping me safe from the cold. It’s a memory now but it’s a part of me.'

It seems that at least once in everyone’s life they will experience that ever famous cliché, summer love. And as much as I may like to deny the fact, I am one of those people. There’s just something so magical about it, the way that the summer makes you feel lifetimes away from your actual life filled with the school year routines. The days and nights fade together in that endless string of memories filled with smiles and laced with laughter. And on top of it all there is that one person you spend every day beside. The one you look over from the passenger seat and smile at, because their presence makes it all worthwhile. It’s the one summer you wish you could put the world on hold for, just to spend your life living in this alter universe. But you have to come back to the ground sometime and the summer must come to a close. That’s why the song Summertime by Mae is a keeper on my soundtrack, it always brings me back to sunny days laughing and the chilly nights cuddled up to that silly boy.