During this phase, every second feels profound. You are building the frames for the movie you will torture yourself with in October. The "naughty" aspect intensifies because summer is ending. The ticking clock makes you reckless. You have the fight in the parking lot. You have the make-up sex in the hotel room with the broken AC. You promise to call.
Will you write in present tense, as if the summer is happening now? Or past tense, as a memory? Will you address your younger self, or the other person, or no one at all? The frame shapes the bitterness and sweetness. A present-tense frame keeps the pain raw. A past-tense frame adds the wisdom of distance. naughty time rendering bittersweet summer saga