We thank you for our athletes, these young men who will represent our school tonight and who will seek to glorify You with their performance, Father Simon says. We know You have endowed them with a special gift— He said LSU losing the championship pushed him over the edge. Said he’d rather root for the Tide for the next four years. Asshole.” say something to test it? a clear voice says through the speakers, and they all swing their eyes to Baker, who stands at the half court line holding a cordless microphone in her hand. Oh, she says, half-laughing at herself, her earnest expression visible even from the bleachers. I guess it’s working now— I hate all of you, Joanie says. Come on, Luke, let’s go before I change my mind about wanting to hang out with you. Han, will you take my bag home?

Baker takes Hannah on a date for her birthday. Language: English Words: 1,229 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 3 Kudos: 39 Bookmarks: 1 Hits: 588I’m sorry,’ Hannah says. ‘I’m sorry for putting you through this—I’m sorry for not telling you—I’m sorry for being the way that I am—’ say something to test it?” a clear voice says through the speakers, and they all swing their eyes to Baker, who stands at the half court line holding a cordless microphone in her hand. “Oh,” she says, half-laughing at herself, her earnest expression visible even from the bleachers. “I guess it’s working now—” Clay runs a hand through his dark hair and mutters Big night for the third time, and then a building door opens several yards behind him.

Hey, how are y’all celebrating? Colby asks as he hugs them. Are you having a party? Or know of any going on?Amen, Hannah mutters, tossing the word into the great rush of Amen that sweeps across the gym. She raises her hand to her forehead to make the same Sign of the Cross that everyone else is making, the words and actions ingrained in her brain, her movements mirroring those of every other person in the gym.

See you later,” Sana says. “Oh—but Jisoo? I’m not trying to be mean, but the lounge is exclusively for seniors. If we start letting selective juniors in, then all the other underclassmen will think they’re entitled to use the lounge, too, and it kind of defeats the purpose, don’t you think?” Hannah wants to spend her senior year of high school going to football games and Mardi Gras parties with her tight-knit group of friends. The last thing she wants is to fall in love with a girl–especially when that girl is her best friend, Baker. Hannah knows she should like Wally, the kind, earnest boy who asks her to prom. She should cheer on her friend Clay when he asks Baker to be his girlfriend. She should follow the rules of her conservative Louisiana community–the rules that have been ingrained in her since she was a child. But Hannah longs to be with Baker, who cooks macaroni and cheese with Hannah late at night, who believes in the magic of books as much as Hannah does, and who challenges Hannah to be the best version of herself. And Baker might want to be with Hannah, too–if both girls can embrace that world-shaking, yet wondrous, possibility. Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen – eBook Details Felix cups the tennis ball in his palm and looks to Lisa for permission. Lisa looks to Chaeyoung, who smiles. “I don’t mind,” she says. Just something small. Just the six of us. I didn’t think you’d want anything crazy, especially after that pep rally and the game— Oh, I’m sorry, Hannah says, "would you like me to choose something else from my library of three-thousand songs that you accidentally deleted when you were wasted?"

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They walk up the wooden stairs in silence, their feet tracing the familiar path to Lisa’s room, and Lisa feels content just to be together, just to have another Friday night sleepover in which Chaeyoung will borrow one of Lisa’s t-shirts to sleep in, and Lisa will turn the ceiling fan on high because Chaeyoung likes it that way, and they’ll fall asleep with some sitcom episode playing through Hulu on Lisa’s laptop. Seventeen-year-old Hannah wants to spend her senior year of high school going to football games and Mardi Gras parties. She wants to drive along the oak-lined streets of Louisiana's Garden District and lie on the hot sand of Florida's beaches. She wants to spend every night making memories with her tight-knit group of friends.