Second paragraph of third chapter:

The poor freshman gives me a confused look but tries again, blowing into his clarinet. Thomas makes a spluttering, sad excuse for a sound, then lowers the clarinet and sighs.

Next up in my reading of the Lodestar Award finalists, this is a sweet sapphic love story about two Asian-American girls in Los Angeles, one in our world or somewhere very close to it, one in a parallel world where magic works and tech is less well developed. They meet through a rift between the worlds, struggle to manage teenage problems and also prevent the bad guys from destroying both versions of the city. And there’s also lots of food and coffee. Very breezy and cheerful. You can get Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe here.