Summer, 2003. An easygoing teen skateboarder and his insensitive best friend must navigate their changing friendship when a flirty boy comes between them.
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Sixteen-year-old Matteo is a simple dude. It's 2003, his brother is fighting in Afghanistan, and his best friend Logan is obsessed with gay jokes, but Matt doesn't like to worry. He just wants to film his skateboard video.
Then cute emo boy Quinn applies to work at the skate shop with Matt. Being friends with clever, flirty Quinn is like learning a new skateboard trick: a little bit intimidating but totally (probably) worth the challenge. Now Logan hates Quinn, there's money going missing at the shop, and Matt can't seem to figure out if Quinn might possibly, maybe, want to kiss him back. This summer just got a lot more complicated.
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*featured in LGBTQ+'s "BxB Teen Fiction", LY's "Love Your Identity", and WattpadNaNoWriMo's "2019 Top Picks" lists*
Complete at 59k words.
- zero: throwback thursday
- one: the interview
- two: the video
- three: the job
- four: the music
- five: the game
- six: the kiss
- seven: the date
- eight: the tattoo
- nine: the talk
- ten: the snakebites
- eleven: the girlfriend
- twelve: the birthday
- thirteen: the sleepover
- fourteen: the skin
- fifteen: the truce
- sixteen: the tragedy
- seventeen: the fallout
- eighteen: the confession
- nineteen: the homecoming
- twenty: the future
- author's note & playlist
- fanfic: fifteen years later