Like most small-town gay kids, Otto has accepted he won't get a high school romance. He refuses to let popular guys play with his feelings just to stroke their own egos. But everything changes at a bonfire party in the woods when the host Urijah pulls Otto into his orbit.
Just a reminder: this is an early draft.
Otto comes to a stop under a streetlight and surveys the neighborhood. “You sure we’re going the right way?”
Armoni pivots mid-step to look back at Otto and smiles sheepishly. “Uhh... I think?”
“It’s a yes-or-no question!”
“No, I don’t—do YOU know where it is?”
“Mmhmm, just gimme oooone second.”
Otto slips his phone out of his pocket to look at the OurTown Map again. Armoni walks right up to Otto and leans in to see his screen.
“Oh, that’s not...”
“You had us going the wrong way, you stupid bitch!”
Armoni looks around in mock bewilderment as if a crowd is being addressed.
“Yeah, I’m talking to you!”
“No, no, you can’t be.”
“Oh, but I am.”
The streetlight above them buzzes like angry hornets. Otto and Armoni both snap their eyes upward.
“The hell?”
“Aaand that's our cue to leave. C’mon, let’s go.”
It’s a YA romance novelette set over the course of a single night featuring two teenage boys falling in love at a party in the woods.
