Malory and Kyle must participate in the annual April Fest production as the leading co-stars. If they can cooperate by the end of the production, their long records of uncivilized behaviour towards each other will be forgotten. 
Malory and Kyle attempt to cooperate, grabbing the opportunity to make a positive impact on their own future. In the process, they become entangled in the chaos of the other’s personal life. Malory learns of Kyle’s disturbing reality, and Kyle learns of Malory’s scarring past. Can these two brilliant but messy teens learn to rely on each other in the face of their silent battles?

Between The Lines

 “So Ron’s just not talking to you at all now?” 


 “He kicked me out of his house and said he needed time,” he tells me, sipping at a big cup of hot chocolate. 


 I tap on my green mug and think. “Does this mean I can actually talk to him about it? I can get my thoughts out to him and he’d understand?” 


 “I knew that Ron was going to take all of this to heart and that he wasn’t going to be cool about it,” Kyle says. “But now he’s genuinely upset and I feel like he’s one of those people who would go insane just from telling himself that he can forget all I told him –and then he’d probably eventually report everything.” 


 “Ron’s not like that,” I say. “Have a little more faith in your best friend. If he really didn’t care about you, he would have acted right away. You’d know Ron better if you ever actually took the time to understand him.” 


 “I don’t think that he can forgive me this time,” he says, frowning. 


 I frown, too, because perhaps he’s right. 


[27] Somehow; Someday; Soon (Part 6)