A Kiss in the Emergency Exit
Sixteen-year-old Celeste Velez can repair almost anything in the Rialto, Pittsburgh's aging movie palace: a loose marquee letter, a jammed door, a projector that complains before it fails. What she cannot repair is the deal meant to save the theater. A preservation grant would stabilize the building, but only by turning its accessible rehearsal room into a private event suite and pushing the free youth matinee toward the margins.
Then Celeste is assigned to work with Arlo Reyes, the developer's son, whose talent for reasonable compromises is matched by his fear of disappointing the father who has already mapped his future. As the hearing deadline closes, old paperwork reveals that Celeste's grandmother has made a secret move of her own. The fight becomes a question of money, memory, and who gets to belong in a public place.
Tender, funny, and grounded in the practical mess of keeping a theater open, this contemporary YA romance follows two teens who must choose honesty over polish. Saving the Rialto may mean changing it, and loving home may mean learning how to leave.
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The Rialto's letter R had been hanging by one screw since October, which meant Celeste had been lying to herself for four months.
She carried the aluminum step ladder beneath the marquee and set it on the sidewalk. Cars hissed through the wet street below the hill. Above her, the sign read IALTO in red bulbs, as if the building had swallowed its own beginning.
"You know," Jonah called from the doors, "some theaters pay professionals for that."
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