Fade+to+Black

media type="youtube" key="0_9xfio5gMU?fs=1" height="385" width="480" lex is in the hospital. HE remembers going to Dunkin’ Donuts to get come coffee. Someone smashed in his car windshield, but who? And why? Moving into town before a new school year, Alex doesn’t expect everyone to know his business just yet, but somehow they do. He is HIV positive. He’s not gay, if that’s what you’re thinking. He got it from a transfusion, at least that’s what he tells people, and now someone is obviously trying to kill him. Clinton hates Alex. He hates that he haS to sit next to him in class, hates that his sister is friends with Alex’s sister, hates the fact that people like Alex are even alive. When Clinton gets pulled aside and questioned about someone smashing in Alex’s windshield, he’s stunned that the police think he could have done it. Hey, he doesn’t like Alex, and he certainly doesn’t want to be in the same class as him, but he would never try to kill him. Or would he? Daria saw it. She saw everything that happened. He was hiding behind a bush, waiting for the right time. He had a school jacket on. She saw him. She would tell, and she would do something good for Alex. She would do right.

Written from three points of view, this is the story of an HIV positive boy who is hated, the school bully who no one trusts, and a girl who only wants to help. All three characters must learn to accept differences in others and within themselves.