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Alright, so, I got the basic idea for the story known as 30 days, but I need to obviously figure out the beginning and the end and how it essentially parallels stories like breakfast club. So, this high school, you know, makes the principal at this high school, makes a rash decision as we all hear sometimes to sequester almost some kids for the lunch hour because of a recent set of hate crimes and harassment acts of harassment directed some Muslim kids from taunting them with food and enjoying Ramadan to full on shoving food down someone's throat. So, the how and why that this is happening in the story, I don't know if I need to address because I think it's extraneous. It's really about getting these kids together and seeing what happens now. The interesting thing about the stories that we discover who are Muslims in our society by looking at this group of kids and sitting in the library on their lunch hour. And how they interact with each other. And the story will unfold that they're just as diverse. So, how do we show that in the story? Well, you can find out that maybe the prom queen is maybe an Arab or Persian little princess girl who's dead. And she spoils her and mom basically tries to compete with her. And we see that relationship unfold throughout the story. We've got a jock who we've seen from. And we may have to play African American card on that one. You know, someone named Jamal, who's either a basketball player or a football player. And he gets bust into the school or dropped off because now he's parents petitioned the district and got him in so that he could play for the school where all the scouts go. And you got nerd. He's essentially someone who can talk computers and online gaming till his hearts content. But he won't talk about it in front of these guys because he knows they'll make fun of him. And then who else has three? And then we have a girl who's covered. But she's an amazing artist. And she doesn't show it to anyone. So it'll be kind of interesting when they discover this. Perhaps in some accident. And her hair is taken out. So what else? So that's four. So two girls, three guys. We need total like, I see they're going to be gossimo, punk rocker, something like that. Maybe it's top book or that's what it could be. And the strange thing is maybe only two of these people actually knew the rest were Muslims. And they learned that they're Muslim because they're all sequestered together. Now there might be a sixth who's a convert. Either the son of a convert or a convert himself. It depends on how well the convert can bring to the story. So anyway, the first chapter is going to be sort of like a jury selection process because we're going to have to narrow the group down because there's going to be a lot of students sequestered because the principal will have decided that they're going to need to request waivers from the parents of the kids in order to introduce them back into the cafeteria. So, and maybe the story starts with a message from the loudspeaker. Or now even better, they all get notes in class. And the principal collects the notes in the library. So what will end up happening is that the ones who don't fast, you know, will just go back to class. The ones that might be some of the two fasts that don't feel like they're safety is an issue. They feel like nothing's wrong. And then over those whose parents insist that they stay in the library. Oh yeah, and then we have to have someone who's a phob. But so they're all, so the librarian, of course, is extremely uncomfortable about this whole situation. She never expected her library to be turned into a mosque, not that she, she disliking for a slum, but she, her, her obsessive compulsive need to organize once to sequester them even further because it's her library. So she chooses to put them in a table near the religion and philosophy section. So each chapter is a different day. Certain things happen. It becomes a little microcosm, if you will. And so the students have this sense of isolation, but at the same time they have a sense that they're, you know, they have a sense of place, whether they like it or not, amongst fellow Muslims. Now, each one will bring a set of tensions that slowly kind of rises and falls. We're first going to see tension started with the punk rocker. And he's going to, he's not going to have it. He's going to be forced to stay in the library because they don't have a waiver form. And his parents aren't going to, parents know that if they send the waiver, he's not going to go to class. So this is the only way they think he'll study. So what might be interesting is that they hire a substitute. And they sequest with the kids all day. And the substitute is there just to read them their assignments. Yeah, that might be too hard. We're going to have to have like daily high school problems that they're going to need to get resolved, that they normally get resolved or fulfill or during their lunch break in. And those will play out throughout the story. So we're going to discover the, why the punk is so enraged or why the beauty queen is so insecure. And as much as they, and perhaps they discover that even they've made fun of each other at one time or another. And in fact, that's what will also be very interesting is because they'll be very polite on the surface. But it will, will be revealed that they have more deeper, deeper feelings towards each other. Like maybe the Persian princess wishes one day. So one day she could just walk to school and no one knows her the way no one knows who the hijabbi girl is. So the story, if the story is supposed to start on them, and the incident that we've had to occur on day one. And let's say perhaps day two.