The following is an excerpt from The Sky Blues, a young-adult novel by Robbie Couch, published on April 6, 2021, by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers.
The story follows 17-year-old Sky Baker as his plans for an epically gay promposal to his big crush blow up in flames, rattling his small town in northern Michigan.
My bedroom is nestled away in the farthest corner from the stairs, which gives me the type of privacy the other Brandstone kids can only dream of.
Hardly anyone comes down here but for the occasional construction worker, Thelma and Louise, and me and Bree when we feel like forgetting about the rest of the world, which has been most of senior year.