Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
2007 novel by Ann Brashares
Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (also known as Forever in Blue) is the fourth novel in Ann Brashares's acclaimed "Sisterhood" series. The story concludes the adventures of four girls who share a pair of "magical" pants that fit each one of them perfectly, despite their vastly different shapes and sizes. This is the fourth book in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series and was considered the last until Brashares published a fifth book in 2011. It was released on January 9, 2007.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, a movie based on the book, was released on August 6, 2008.
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Lena
While taking a summer painting class at RISD, Lena becomes friends with Leo, a classmate with a reputation as one of the school's most talented artists. Leo invites Lena over to his house for dinner, where she meets his mother, a professional artist who suggests that Lena and Leo pose for each other's figure paintings. Although this leaves Lena flustered, she agrees. She and Leo develop a mutual attraction and kiss after their first session.
Shortly afterwards, Kostos appears at Lena's dorm and informs her that he divorced his wife after she lied to him about being pregnant with their child.
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