Just outside the creepy-looking building. One by one, everyone releases their stars, and one by one, stars begin to reappear in the sky. Ivy is lying on the grass once again, watching the stars reappear.
Olivia: To think he discovered the greatest thing in the universe, but he abandoned it all for money.
Hailey: He didn't abandon it all. His notes should still be in there.
David: I want to read those so badly.
August: (grinning and tousling David's hair) Just you wait for college. You'll read so much you'll learn to hate it.
David: I'll never hate reading!
The scene switches to the voiceover like in Scene 1, with the others still talking and gesturing without noise.
Ivy: A star all collapsed in a cylinder is not a happy star. It's not an impressive star, and it doesn't really seem like a real star. Stars, like us, are meant to be free. As I watched my friends release stars back into the night sky, I finally realized how certain people were scared by space. You could see anything through the stars, and that impossibility is frightening. But even if the stars are wild, I still believe that they can belong to someone, too.
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Lights Out
AdventureWhen seventh grader Ivy Kepler watches a star disappear from the night sky, her first instinct is to tell her brother, August. Despite his intelligence, he is of no help to Ivy, so she decides to take her problem to the only other person she thinks...
