In the middle of nowhere, there is a small, small town called Providence. In this town, the sun comes up, goes down, and comes up again, and nothing changes because everything already has.
(Everything is fine until Thomas disappears. Newt has to find him without getting lost himself, which is a lot harder than it sounds.)
It’s in between strips of sunlight on a dirty table inside a Dairy Queen nestled into the Oregon coastline that Thomas notices, finally, that he’s in love with Newt.