You’ll be fine,” Lena said.Ībigail glanced around the stage. Plus, I’d be forced to come back as a ghost and haunt you for the rest of your life.” “I really don’t want to die before opening night. “You’ll catch me, right?” her friend asked. She bit back a sigh and swapped places with Abigail. Jackson was all about “trusting the process and trusting each other.” That’s why the cast had spent hours over the past few weeks doing team-building exercises and almost zero time on things Lena thought were pretty important, such as making sure that all the cast members actually knew their lines. He was probably regretting casting her as a playing card. Jackson giving her a disapproving look from the foot of the stage. Clearly, Lena’s relationship with gravity was a little more complicated than theirs. Sure enough, all the other kids in her school’s production of Alice in Wonderland were flopping around like half-dead fish, throwing themselves into each other’s arms.

“You’re going to have to do a trust fall sometime. “Maybe next time,” Lena said finally, opening her eyes.Ībigail groaned. Because under Abigail’s arms was the hard, wooden, and potentially very painful stage. Meanwhile, Lena stood with her eyes closed and her arms crossed over her chest mummy-style, trying to will her body to drop backward into Abigail’s waiting arms. Fall!” Lena’s best friend Abigail called behind her.

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