Riva Corley needs a girlfriend. Not because she wants one, but because her boyfriend, Benton, is pushing her to kiss a girl in front of him. Afraid of losing Benton, Riva agrees to try, but she never expects to find a girl she actually likes and wants to kiss for her own reasons.<br><br>Daisy Mejia has stayed closeted for all of high school so far -- it seems pointless to come out for a kiss that's destined to go nowhere. Daisy also has no desire to put on a show for Riva's boyfriend. But she's had a crush on Riva Corley forever, and Daisy can't pass up this chance.<br><br>Before long, what starts out as a bad idea begins to look more like a relationship. Soon, Daisy must decide how much trouble she'll put up with, and Riva has to figure out what it means when she's falling for another girl.

Bad Idea

Emmy turned back to her project. That snapped-off clay messed up her whole plan. She’d either have to repair it or change the proportions of the entire object. Neither option sounded appealing. She wanted to grab the piece and drop it on the floor.


She could hear her dad’s encouraging voice in her head, assuring her that her work was awesome and would totally get her into SCAD, RISD, or whatever art school she wanted to attend. But she’d already been waitlisted at RISD, and it didn’t matter anymore if she got into SCAD because she didn’t need to worry about going to school close to Iris if Iris was with Nico Mathis, did she? Emmy wanted to forget everything and just move to LA. She had a cousin out there who was also a lesbian and had a bunch of queer friends. Emmy knew there must be queer women at SCAD and RISD, too, but she was so sick of being the only visible one at her school that she just wanted to jump straight into her cousin’s big, interconnected group.


Chapter 22