“Everything’s fine,” she repeats, tossing her pencil down. But I can’t help it if she’s the ant and I’m the grasshopper in this relationship. My schedule isn’t complete and classes start up in two days and the good ones fill up fast and This is just so like you, Tanner. Unfortunately, neither of those things is going to happen.īecause, from across her bed, Autumn is glaring at me, waiting for me to explain myself. I want to celebrate like your average guy: with some private time and a few mindless hours down the YouTube rabbit hole. We’re seven semesters into our high school career, with one last-token, honestly-semester to go.

The end of our final winter break seems almost like the beginning of a victory lap. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him. After all, it takes only one second for him to notice Sebastian Brother, the Mormon prodigy who sold his own Seminar novel the year before and who now mentors the class. It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. Now, with one semester of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah.īut when his best friend Autumn dares him to take Provo High’s prestigious Seminar-where honor roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester-Tanner can’t resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Three years ago, Tanner Scott’s family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet.

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