Her Name in the Sky

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Lisa wrote me a list of dares for the assembly,” Chaeyoung says, unfolding the notepaper Lisa had slipped her that morning. “Look at this.” Our student body president, everyone, he says in his deep, rumbling voice. Hey, y’all know it’s her birthday today, right? They finish their cake slices—Jungkook finishing Lisa’s and Chaeyoung’s second pieces for them—and sit around the table for another hour, long after Lisa and Jisoo’s parents have gone up to bed, just talking and making fun of each other, and asking Jin to do impressions of their teachers, and asking Chaeyoung to tell her story about the time she walked into Mrs Kwog’s office to find her talking aloud to the curtains, and indulging Jungkook with his questions about how the St. Mary’s crowd reacted to the game tonight (“A couple of old women started speaking in tongues every time you got the ball, Jin says; It’s true,” Jisoo says, “I sold them a nacho with your face imprinted on it”). Felix pushes discarded sprinkles around his plate while he listens to the conversation, and Jisoo leans her head against Jin’s shoulder and starts to doze off, and Lisa stands the plastic Baby Jesus on the table and dances him over to Chaeyoung’s plate until Chaeyoung, her eyes swinging sideways to meet Lisa’s, tugs him out of Lisa’s hand. Bye, Hot Little Mary!” “We love you, Hot Little Mary!” “Get it, Hot Little Mary!” The students around the gym shout, and Mrs Kwog frowns at the bleachers, her mouth pulled tight in disapproval. Careful, Jungkook,” Jisoo says. “Lisa gets really competitive about finding the Baby Jesus. She once pushed our cousin Ji-Hoon Into the refrigerator just to beat him to seconds. He had a bruise on his chest for a month.”

When I was in tenth grade I transferred high schools. Same relatively small town, different schools. So here's 15 year old Karly (shy, timid and full of self-loathing) starting a new school, sans her best friend and small social circle but now, once again, surrounded by her bullies from elementary school. It was terrible; my first month and a half there were a living hell. A funny thing happened though, I started to make friends! Mostly with the outcast kids, and with one girl in particular, we’ll call her "Jane" (that's not actually her name, of course). I was initially very hesitant to read this novel. My past experience with religion was an unpleasant one, and I steered clear of most literature that made any reference to Catholicism/Christianity. But... this book did come highly recommended, so I decided to give it a shot. Jungkook, his mouth hanging open in uncertainty, rakes his eyes over the group before he shifts in his chair to face Sana. “Not at all,” he says. “We were just having a delayed celebration. You know, for the big win last week.” Okay,” Chaeyoung takes a long gulp, her eyebrow raised as she waits for Lisa to smile. “Here you go.”Then the boys have gone, and Jisoo has lumbered upstairs in a half-sleep, and now the only thing in the room seems to be the water pouring forth from the sink. Chaeyoung turns where she stands and casts Lisa a gentle, sleepy smile before she wordlessly walks to the sink, takes the other sponge, and starts to wipe down the table. Here are my suggestions for your speech today. I think you’ll find this list comprehensive and inspiring. Ten points to you for each one of these gems you manage to work in— She lays down, running her fingers through the dewy grass, looking at the world above her. She stares at the sky, expecting the answers to be in the stars, like her name should be written in the sky with everything she needs to know. But there’s no answers, no words written in the sky to tell her what she’s supposed to do, how she’s supposed to feel. All she wants, all she needs is for things to make sense, and for a second, she fears that they never will. Language: English Words: 795 Chapters: 1/1 Kudos: 17 Hits: 248 Chaeyoung kisses her with tenderness. Lisa feels the weight of Chaeyoung’s body on her torso, pressing against her ribs and stomach, warming her. They kiss, and then they move their hands over each other’s clothes, and then they are naked on the bed, their bodies cupped together and open to the outside world. He looks the same as ever, Luke says. Like he’s high and doesn’t know what he’s doing here. Gotta love old Goach.

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— I absolutely loved reading Her Name in the Sky--it was painful, but in a good way. Kelly Quindlen is definitely on my list for books I will be watching out for in the future. I am going to deviate from the template and finish off with one of my favourite quotes from the book, because it's really what the book is about: "When we love, we automatically know God without even trying to, because God is love. If we love as He made us to love--if we love with our hearts instead of our criteria--then we simply are love."Jin whoops with laughter when he bursts into the lounge. Jungkook and Jisoo follow close behind him, Jungkook clapping his hands together and Jisoo whispering “Bitches and hos” with giddy reverence. Chaeyoung comes last, her long hair swinging behind her as she closes the door and turns to face the table. She meets Lisa’s eyes and her smile grows even larger than Lisa pictured.

You do realize you don’t have to whisper that like it’s a guilty secret, right? It’s not a sin to be bored.” End the speech by invoking prayers for the football player’s herpes outbreak; proclaim your faith that their discomfort will not prevent them from winning Her Name in the Sky is a young adult novel about two best friends who can’t help falling in love during their senior year at a Catholic school in southern Louisiana. As they try to figure out their relationship, they grapple with the religious and cultural constraints of their community and, more severely, with internalized homophobia. The story has a happy ending. Jisoo rolls her eyes. Jin takes her hand and says, “Aw, do you not know how to respond when we publicly shame you?”

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Doesn’t mean anything? Clay says, his expression incredulous. "Are you kidding? Dude, like Baker said, it’s a chance to show we’re the best. Fifty years of competition with Mount Sinai and we can finally prove we’re better. We’ll have bragging rights for the next 50 years! Besides, think about that prize money. If we could pour that into the football program—" Jin, are you seriously standing on our dad’s flowers?” Lisa says as she crosses the driveway, balancing the cake box awkwardly under her arm. “Don’t you know better by now?” The intersection of queerness and faith. I’m on the leadership team of Fortunate & Faithful Families, which supports and affirms Catholic parents with LGBTQ children. I also organize retreats and safe spaces for Catholic LGBTQ teens. You can read more here. Felix snorts, and Lisa shoots him a sideways smirk. Jin looks down at Jisoo with exaggerated pity, almost like she’s not in her right mind.