My chest was congested with regret, and relief, and resolve. So every day I would fight for Sebastian, and people in the same boat, who don’t have what I do, who struggle to find themselves in a world that tells them white and straight and narrow gets first pick in the schoolyard game of life. Every day I would be grateful that no one who matters to me questions whether I am too masculine, too feminine, too open, too closed.Įvery day I would be grateful for what I have, and that I can be who I am without judgment. Every day I could go to class as exactly the person I am, and meet new people, and come outside later for some fresh air and Frisbee. But missing him every day for the rest of my life was still easier than the fight Sebastian had: to stuff himself inside a box every morning and tuck that box inside his heart and pray that his heart kept beating around the obstacle. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him.“ He is never going to be here, I thought. 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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