Past Present Future by Solomon Rachel Lynn

Author:Solomon, Rachel Lynn [Solomon, Rachel Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Young Adult, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781665901956
Amazon: 1665901950
Goodreads: 199310463
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2024-06-04T07:00:00+00:00

HOWL, EAST COAST EDITION

An embarrassingly over-the-top tourist

A spot tourists don’t know about

A local delicacy

A street that shares a name with one in Seattle (numbered ones don’t count!)

Your favorite place in the city

Wildlife in action

Street art that really ~moves you~

Something that reminds you of me

14

NEIL

WHEN I MENTION the scavenger hunt to Skyler, he immediately wants in. I should have known—Skyler’s never met a game he didn’t like. He turns laundry into basketball, dinner into rounds of “Would You Rather.” I’m still reeling from last week’s revelation that he’d rather speak to animals than speak every language in the world. “Just think what we could learn from them,” he said, sounding awed.

Now his gaze flicks over Rowan’s list one more time before he passes back my phone. “This is excellent. Do you want help? I could ask Adhira if she wants to come too—she loves this kind of stuff. Hopeless romantic,” he adds with a roll of his eyes.

I’m surprised to discover that I don’t hate the idea of having other people to do this with, and when I ask Rowan if my roommate and his friends can join, she agrees that we can enlist the help of others. During Howl, she and I were together almost the whole time. That was what made it great.

Right away, she established that it was a competition. The prize: bragging rights and free rein to pick our next movie without the other person exercising veto power. We’ll take photos of each item on the list, text them to the other person for vetting. We are who we are—people who love parameters and guidelines, even in something of our own creation.

We set aside the same Saturday in late January, and I may have a slight ulterior motive for suggesting it: because it’s NYU’s freshman family weekend.

They do this a couple times a year, once in the fall and once when flights and hotels are cheaper. Aka now. At first I couldn’t decide whether I wanted to tell my mom or not. I knew she’d feel guilty because she and Natalie wouldn’t be able to come, and ultimately that’s what made my choice. Christopher is well off but not wildly so, and especially with the wedding coming up, I’m sure they’d rather save the money.

At breakfast with Skyler, as he debates whether he’d rather be able to fly or turn invisible—“Flying’s the obvious choice, I mean, who among us hasn’t wanted to fly? But with invisibility, you could get away with so much.…”—I can’t help noticing how much more crowded the dining hall is. Of course I’m familiar with Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina principle: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” And yet this morning, even the seemingly unhappy families look alike—all of them, something I cannot have.

“You’re taking what class this semester?” one father asks at the table next to us, aghast.

“The Science and Psychology of Marijuana?” his son replies in a tiny voice.

“Thousands of dollars in tuition, and this is what he wants to study.

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