The Quiet Between Us

After losing his mother, seventeen year old Alex drifts through small town life like a ghost barely talking to his dad, dodging the whispers at school, and pretending not to care about anything. When a new student Jamie, transfers in, Alex doesn't expect much. But small moments a shared silence, a sarcastic comment, an unexpected act of kindness starts to chip away at the walls he's built. The story follows Alex as he learns how to exist again, not though sudden friendship or dramatic healing, but though quiet, awkward, human connection.