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

 Kyle is absent today. I been trying to consider his wishes for this week; to consider him busy. I shove the thought of him aside for the rest of the day. When school finally ends, Olivia approaches me just as I’m walking to the exit. 


 “Hey, Mal,” Olivia says, meeting me at the entrance door, “you don’t have a meeting this evening, do you?” 


 “I have an Animal Rights meeting. I’m just heading out to go get a coffee from that place up on the hill. Apparently it’s a miracle,” I say, remembering Kyle’s enthusiasm over the same drink the other day. 


 “Didn’t you say you were going to resign as the president?” She asks, confused. 


 “Yea,” I say. “Today I’m going to have someone else take over. We’ll do some voting or something. I don’t know. I’ll be talking to the other members of the group about it. I think it’s a good thing that I’m dropping all these extracurricular stuff for now. It gives me more time to focus on actually studying –and of course the play.” 


 “Okay,” she says, “I’ll see you around, then.” 


 “I thought of coming over to your place to practice the role of Valerie with you. My Valerie might be vastly different from yours if I don’t take a thing or two from you. I don’t want it to be too different. It’d be good to see how the two of us portray the character.” 


 “I’ll have time from next week,” I say. “How about we do that then?” She nods, smiling brightly and waving me goodbye.


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