Robby Weber - If You Change Your Mind

Praise for Robby Weber

Will leave you smiling and swooning... I loved it!

Adam Silvera, #1 New York Times bestselling author of They Both Die at the End

A summer-sweet, dreamy rom-com, If You Change Your Mind is a heartfelt debut readers will instantly fall for... My heart is still caught in the pages.

Julian Winters, award-winning author of Running With Lions

Fresh, funny, and full of heartI adored If You Change Your Mind . The perfect summer romance!

Morgan Matson, New York Times bestselling author of Take Me Home Tonight

Everything we love about a summer read. Sun-drenched, swoony, and dripping with chemistry and charm.

Jenna Evans Welch, New York Times bestselling author of Love & Gelato

Charmingly captures the intricacies of love and the perfect feeling of summer.

Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka, authors of If Im Being Honest

Robby Weber is a Florida-based writer who loves sunshine, summer, and strong-willed characters. He can normally be found as close to the ocean as possible with his dog, Arthur, and a novel from Reeses Book Club.

RobbyWeber.com

If You Change Your Mind

Robby Weber

For Mom.
My best friend.
Ill always want to be you when I grow up.

And for Gabby and Reagan.
My beyond talented and creative sisters.
You inspire me in every way.

Contents

Dear Reader,

My absolute favorite kind of day is one thats sunny and spent with a book at the beach before pizza at dinnertimewhen Im still toasty from the sun, with great music and loved onesfollowed by an evening at the movie theater. Somehow, Ive been lucky enough to write a story that feels like my favorite kind of day in book form, and my hope is youll feel the same sense of warmth within the pages that I do on those perfect summer days.

For so long, in film and literature, all of my go-to romantic comedies had been about a guy and a girl, which I didnt have complaints about, but I found myself wanting to write my own, centered around laughter and love just like all of my favorites. I really aimed to create an optimistic book that felt welcoming and, hopefully, comforting, with a focus on relationships and the duality of lovefalling in and out of italong with friendship and family. It was a conscious decision to include many nods to romantic comedies, and to try to tell a story that felt somehow both familiar and fresh, featuring a gay lead.

One of the best lines in the film Somethings Gotta Give is when Diane Keatons character says: People need romance...and if somebody like me doesnt write it, where are they gonna get it? Real life? Its tongue-in-cheek, andspoiler alertshe does end up finding romance, after all. In this book about love, with its emphasis on romantic films and its own screenplay thats really a rom-com with a twist, Harry questions if love exists at all outside the movies. I hope youll take away from this story a firm, lasting belief that the best, warmest kind of lovebe it love for family or friends or a romantic partnerdoesnt only happen in movies or books at all.

Thank you so much for reading!

Robby

WHEN HARRY MET LOGAN

Hot guys are the best part of summer. Pastel ice cream scoops, lemonade-like sunshine, and sea saltstrung hair are staples, but theres something about guys with sandy calves and strong, tanned arms wearing low-hanging swimsuits.

Honestly, I love everything about summer. The warmth, the way my mom stocks the freezer with the variety pack of popsiclescherry for Milly, grape for Lottie, and orange for me. Theres new music and the feeling of going into a cold movie theater on a hot day. And, yeah, the guys. Everywhere you look, theres a hot guy. Its like that Oprah memeyou get a hot guy, you get a hot guy, everybody gets a hot guy!

I can absolutely appreciate all of the six-packs and dimples, but only as long as I keep my eye on the prize and stay focused. My mom always says fortune favors the determined... Or something like that.

And I am determined. I have two weeks and six days to finish and submit my screenplay before the Reel Sunshine competition deadline, which is totally doable.

My whole future depends on it. No pressure.

Damn, there really are attractive men everywhere lying out at the pool or, past the iron gate and sandy walkway, stretching across the volleyball court down on the beach. Its like in summer, hot guys get even hotter. Its the sweat and the bronzed abs.

I dont do the whole dating thing anymore, so this summer really is the equivalent of scrolling through the Calvin Klein Instagram or somethingpurely about the visual.

Getting close to a boy leads only to heartbreak, disappointment, andmost importantlydistraction from ones goals. See, most people spend their high school years searching for their great romance. One like in the movies. But Ive already had mine, and TSwifts Death by a Thousand Cuts was my top song on Spotify last year, so Im good.

Maybe once Ive secured my spot at USC. Actually, maybe once Ive gotten an internship at a studio. By then I wont even remember Grant Kennedy or what heartbreak feels like and Ill be able to spend a little bit more time focused on romance.

Well, realistically, I should probably wait until I sell my first script and

My youngest sister, Lottie, laughs maniacally, and I am snapped to the real world. I watch in horror as she grabs a fistful of Millys hair and yanks her down into the shallow end of the pool.

Lottie, I say. Come on, that was totally unnecessary!

Lottie, though she be but five, is fierce. And now she has hair that barely falls under her chin because she decided to give herself an impromptu trim with her crafting scissors just before her last day of school. Nana had to give her an emergency haircut. She narrows her eyes at me and then shrugs.

My mother is careening down the path from the clubs new restaurant, a tote bag slung over her shoulder with a large silver tumbler in one hand and her phone in the other. I havent been yet, but the photos Ive seen are really cool.

Mom met some local beauty influencers there at the launch event and theyve been promoting her products. Really, her company doesnt need much more press since Jen Aniston likes her stuff, but she says it cant hurt to keep reaching the younger crowd.

Harold, Mom says, out of breath.

She always calls me Harold. Even though Lottie and Milly get nicknames and everyone I know calls me Harry, apparently Ill always be Harold to her. Because of this, Milly and Lottie call me Harold, too.

I thought you guys went to the kids pool. I was worried for a second youd disappeared.

Moms are always worried. Im convinced its a personality trait thats earned as soon as they change their first diaper.

Sitting in the chaise next to my table, Mom is wearing a white cover-up and big black sunglasses. Under a giant straw hat, her hair is probably tied up into a knotits dyed much lighter than Millys dark brown waves and certainly differs from the more chestnut hair Lottie and I have. Mom lowers her glasses to eye the girls, and then her phone sounds an alert.

Theyre at war, I say, gesturing my Spider-Man pen toward my flailing siblings. This pena gift Lottie selected for me from her class treasure chestreminds me of another reason to love summer: the new superhero movies. It isnt all about hot guys. Even if most of the heroes are hot. Thats a happy coincidence.