I will always have this.
He will remember this, too. He will feel this. He will know it’s been a perfect afternoon, a perfect evening.
He will wake up next to her, and he will feel lucky.
Times moves on. The universe stretches out. I take a Post-it of a heart and move it from my body to hers. I see it sitting there.
I close my eyes. I say goodbye. I fall asleep.
Day 6034
I wake up two hours away, in the body of a girl named Katie.
Katie doesn’t know it, but today she’s going far away from here. It will be a total disruption to her routine, a complete twist in the way her life is supposed to go. But she has the luxury of time to smooth it out. Over the course of her life, this day will be a slight, barely noticeable aberration.
But for me, it is the change of the tide. For me, it is the start of a present that has both a past and a future.
For the first time in my life, I run.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
For most of the novels I’ve written, there’s been a definite starting point—the spark of an idea that turned into the story. Usually I remember it. But for this book, I must admit I don’t. But I do remember three pivotal moments that pushed me into writing it. The first was a conversation with John Green while we were on tour. The second was a conversation with Suzanne Collins while she was on tour. And the third was an afternoon at Billy Merrell’s apartment, where I read him the first chapter (all that had been written at that point) and paid very careful attention to his reaction. I’d like to thank all three of them for giving me fuel for the fire. And I’d like to thank the man who was driving me and John, for keeping his promise not to steal the idea and publish it first.
As always, I must thank my family and my friends. My parents. Adam, Jen, Paige, Matthew, and Hailey. My aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. My author friends. My Scholastic friends. My school friends. My librarian friends. My Facebook friends. My best friends. And the friends who sat across from me writing their own books while I was working on this one (Eliot, Chris, Daniel, Marie, Donna, Natalie). And the one friend who was painting while I wrote (Nathan).
Huge thanks to my intrepid agent, Bill Clegg, as well as the fantastic team at WMEE, including Alicia Gordon, Shaun Dolan, and Lauren Bonner. Thanks to my fantastic home base at Random House, across all the sales, marketing, editorial, and art departments. (I would like to give a special shout-out to Adrienne Waintraub, Tracy Lerner, and Lisa Nadel, for almost a decade’s worth of dinners and booth signings, and to the watchful eye of Jeremy Medina and the careful planning of Elizabeth Zajac.) Thanks, too, to my champions at Egmont in the UK, Text in Australia, and the other international publishers of this book.
Finally, I give thanks every day to have Nancy Hinkel as my editor. I love it when I’ve got wheels and you want to go for a ride.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Levithan is the author of many acclaimed novels, some of them solo works, some of them collaborations. His solo novels include Boy Meets Boy, The Realm of Possibility, Are We There Yet?, Wide Awake, Love Is the Higher Law, and The Lover’s Dictionary. His collaborations include Will Grayson, Will Grayson (written with John Green), Marly’s Ghost (illustrated by Brian Selznick), and Every You, Every Me (with photographs by Jonathan Farmer), as well as three novels written with Rachel Cohn: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List, and Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares. He lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, and spends his days in New York City, editing and publishing other people’s books.
David Levithan, Every Day
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