The Last Boy and Girl in the World by Siobhan Vivian

But she never found this one, and I liked that it was still there. Over time, she’d peeled them away, though their sticky gum outlines were left behind, like permanent shadows.

Everything in Morgan’s room used to be covered in stickers-her walls, her mirror, her closet door. Not a real one, but a rainbow sticker I had put on the underside of Morgan’s bedside lampshade a million years ago. Especially since the forecasters were already predicting a band of severe storms later in the week, supposedly the worst to hit us yet.Īctually, the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was a rainbow. So it was really nice to wake up to the sun the morning our high school’s Key Club went to help shore up the riverbank with sandbags.

In those early days, I remember that, more than anything else, feeling wrong. In fact, most kids still wore winter coats to school even though it was the beginning of May.

All of it thickening me like a full-body callus, while my dresser drawers were full of neatly folded spring clothes that I was dying to wear. Thermals under jeans, T-shirts under button-ups under hoodies, tights or leggings under dresses under cardigans. But the air always felt damp and unseasonably chilly. Some days it just sprinkled, some days it only misted. We’d had a couple of big storms, not one long and endless monsoon. The weather hadn’t reached biblical levels. After three weeks straight of precipitation, I was ready to blow off finals and move to the Sahara. That was before Aberdeen had its wettest spring ever recorded. The drowsy, dreamy way a day can pass when there’s not a single ray of sunshine. Curling up against your best friend to share her too-small umbrella. The coziness of hiding inside a baggy sweater. Mostly cloudy, with steady afternoon showers, 49☏ Because it’s not always clear what’s worth fighting for and what is best left to become a memory. It just might not turn out the way she thought. It’s the end of Aberdeen, but the beginning of Keeley’s first love story. The reward almost always outweighs the risk.

You might do things you normally wouldn’t. There’s a weird sort of bravery that comes from knowing there’s nothing left to lose. The goal is to make the most of every minute they still have together.Īnd for Keeley, that means taking one last shot at the boy she’s loved forever. While the adults plan for the future, box up their possessions, and find new places to live, Keeley Hewitt and her friends decide to go out with a bang. What if your town was sliding underwater and everyone was ordered to pack up and leave? How would you and your friends spend your last days together? From the critically acclaimed author of The List comes a “transcendent love story” (Stephen Chbosky, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower) about a girl who must say goodbye to everything she knows after a storm wreaks havoc on her hometown.

The Last Boy and Girl in the World by Siobhan Vivian