Watching for Comets

<p><strong>Summer nights first loves fierce friendships... A beautiful story about navigating a world that demands us to grow up even when we don't feel ready to. -Zack Smedley Award-winning author of <em>Deposing Nathan</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>History is All You Left Me</em> meets <em>What If It's Us</em> in this adorable heartwarming story of two boys grieving the loss of a friend and their chaotic yet charming path to healing.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>-----------------</p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>TYLER: </strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Life sucks. There's no point in acting like it doesn't.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Why else would it make me gay give me a family that hates who I am throw me in a town that would rather my kind be shipped off and then decide my boyfriend had to die? Or maybe that last one was my fault... The point is that life sucks. Everything about it sucks.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Oh yeah and now I'm stuck venting about it all to my archnemesis Aidan.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>AIDAN: </strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>You know what? Life hurts sometimes.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>It does right now. I miss my friend and I don't understand why he had to die. But there's a part of me that knows he's looking down from the stars right now and he wants me to smile again. It might be fake at the moment but it's something. The crazy part is I never imagined Tyler would talk to me again but here I am trying to help him through the same hurt I'm feeling.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>I just wish I knew why he hates me so much.</span></p>