Peace And Harmony! (和平与和谐!)

Peace And Harmony! (和平与和谐!)

Part 1-The School Singing Competition Characters: MAYA (11):Elena's best friend ELENA (11):Maya’s best friend MRS. GABLE (35):The music teacher THE AUDIENCE (All ages):Here to watch the school singing competition The scene:A large, slightly crowded school gym with a high stage The school singing competition is in full swing. MAYA and ELENA are next. ELENA: "You know, my voice is so beautiful! I always win first place in solo competitions! We're totally going to win!" MAYA: "Yeah Elena, I know we can do this!" ELENA: "Let's show the audience what we can do! That long, high note I can sing!" MAYA: "Yeah! We'll make sure we're bold and stand out!" MAYA and ELENA both walk on stage beside each other holding hands. Excited for their turn and ready to show the audience what they can do.

Part 2-The Winning Contestants Characters: MAYA (11):Embarrassed about her loud singing voice ELENA (11):Hoping MAYA's loud singing voice doesn't prevent her from winning first place MR. HENDERSON (30):A tired but kind judge ETHAN (11):MARK'S best friend and partner and a boy who has a powerful singing voice MARK (11):ETHAN's best friend and partner with a equally powerful singing voice THE CLASS (All 11):Listening and watching to see who sings the best The scene:A classroom currently with an exciting, high-stakes vibe into it MAYA and ELENA are sitting in their seats, holding their breaths and their hearts both pounding in perfect synchronization. They breathe, hoping that they are the first place winners for the school singing competition. MAYA: "I hope we will win, Elena. Even though my singing doesn't sound as beautiful is yours." ELENA: "Well, I sing beautifully, so, I'm sure it will be fine." MR. HENDERSON: "Alright, class! That was such an incredible competition! Everybody did really well! So, the winner for this year's school partnership singing competition is..." MAYA and ELENA both held their breaths, their hearts both pounding. They both had a shimmering, crystal clear glow in their eyes, hoping that MR. HENDERSON is going to say their names. MR. HENDERSON: "Round of applause for..." MAYA and ELENA kept on holding their breaths, their hearts both pounding even quicker. The shimmering, crystal clear glow in their eyes seemed to glow even brighter. MR. HENDERSON: "MARK AND ETHAN!" The whole class including their teacher cheered loudly and gave MARK and ETHAN a rounding applause. MARK and ETHAN were both standing proudly on the podium with their hands on their hips with genuine smiles. MAYA and ELENA were both shocked. They both gasped and their mouths began to form wide, astonished O'S. Their jaws dropping. They both began to look towards each other with surprised faces, feeling completely skeptical that a couple of boys singing a dinosaur song won first place and not them.

Part 3-The Conflict Starts Characters: MAYA (11):Now feeling bad about herself and her loud singing voice ELENA (11):Now regretting choosing to have MAYA as her partner for the school singing competition and wishing she was partners with someone else MR. HENDERSON (30):The judge whose answer just sent both MAYA and ELENA in disbelief ETHAN (11):MARK'S best friend MARK (11):ETHAN'S best friend The scene:The classroom which is slightly crowded and a little bit quieter than it was earlier MAYA and ELENA are are staring at each other with skepticism and are still in disbelief that ETHAN and MARK won instead of them. While MR. HENDERSON was busy handing over the trophy to ETHAN and MARK, a hot, fiery spark started to burn in ELENA'S eyes. She started to feel mad at MAYA for her loud singing voice and was starting to think that MAYA is the cause of her not winning the school singing competition. ELENA: "Maya... I am starting to get really mad at you..." But, by coincidence, MAYA also felt the same way towards ELENA because ELENA felt "Too Perfect" MAYA: "Yeah Elena, honestly, I am starting to get mad at you too..." ELENA: "I wished I wasn't your partner for the school singing competition. I wished I picked someone who sang more beautifully. You just sing too messy and too loud." MAYA: "Same with me, You just sing too perfectly and too beautifully that our voices don't match. I feel like I can't keep up to your standard. I wished I picked someone who sang just as messy and noise as me." ELENA: "Honestly, You should have spent more time singing! I have been practicing since I was three years old! Then, you might've sounded as good as me and our voices would both match!" MAYA: "Yeah, I should have." ELENA: "You're just a horrible singer! You ruined the whole competition! If you didn't sing this bad, then we could've won! It's all your fault we didn't win!" MAYA: "And you're a horrible friend to be around! You're just too perfect and too untouchable that I can't even keep up to your standard! I hate you and we are not best friends anymore!" ELENA: "Same with me, Maya! I hate you too and I do NOT want to look at your face ever again!" MAYA: "GOODBYE FOREVER!" ELENA: "I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU IN CLASS EVER AGAIN!" MAYA: "HMPH!" ELENA: "ARGH!" Both MAYA and ELENA sat down in their chairs in silence, refusing to even make eye contact with each other or look at each other's faces. They are mad at each other, and it's clear that they don't want to see each other's faces ever again or hang out or even sit beside each other ever again. They are officially not best friends anymore.

Part 4-The Isolation On The Playground Characters: MAYA (11):Swinging by herself on the swings ELENA (11):Going across the monkey bars by herself The scene:A vibrant, sunny playground with lots of smiling and laughter It is recess time and all the children and playing with their friends and having fun outside. However, MAYA and ELENA are separate from each other and on different sides of the playground. They are very very far away from each other. Usually they would play or chat together, but this time, they are alone. MAYA: "Ah! Finally some peace! It feels so much better without some annoying, too perfect singer around me." ELENA: "Yes! Finally some relaxation! It feels way better without some loud, too messy singer right beside me!" MAYA and ELENA continue to do their own separate activities in their respective areas. They feel peace and relief that they are not together this recess. Although there is a good feeling missing in this situation, Friendship and connection.

Part 5-The playdate that is never happening Characters: MAYA (11):At home and currently sitting on the sofa with her mom ELENA (11):At her own home and currently sitting on the sofa with her dad SARAH (38):MAYA'S mother STEVE (39):ELENA'S father The scene:MAYA and ELENA'S separate living rooms It is the winter break and the students are all taking a break for school for a couple of weeks. MAYA and ELENA are in their own respective houses sitting on sofas with their moms or dads. SARAH: "Hey Maya, would you like to have a playdate with Elena this winter break?" MAYA: "Uh, no thank you Mom. I'm good by myself." SARAH: "Okay, whatever you enjoy." Meanwhile at ELENA'S house, the exact same conversation is happening in the living room with ELENA'S dad STEVE. STEVE: "Elena sweetheart, would you like to have a playdate with Maya this winter break?" ELENA: "No thanks, Dad. I would rather be by myself." STEVE: "Okay, honey. Whatever you prefer to do." MAYA and ELENA both continue to chat with their moms or dads on their sofas in their own respective living rooms in their own respective houses. The playdate was a plan in mind, but it will never actually happen.

Part 6-The wave that never happened Characters: MAYA (11):Trying to walk to class ELENA (11):Also trying to walk to class The scene:A large, slightly crowded school hallway with a bunch of classrooms The students are all coming back inside for recess. They are all trying to get to their classes. MAYA and ELENA are both trying to get to their class. MAYA and ELENA pass by each other in opposite directions. Usually they would do a big, enthusiastic wave or shout each other's names, but this time, they were refusing to even make eye contact with each other. MAYA (Whispering to herself): "Oh, no! It's Elena! I better not make eye contact with her so she doesn't notice me!" ELENA (Also whispering to herself): "Oh, no! It's Maya! I better not look at her so that she doesn't know I'm here!" MAYA and ELENA pass by each other quickly without even making eye contact with each other. They were both safe and continued to head to class. But, the one thing that made the school hallway special is currently missing, Their special friendship.

Part 7-Maya Gets Bullied For Her Project Characters: MAYA (11):Excited to show a new project that she has been working on for weeks and is finally finished AIDEN (11):A bully in MAYA and ELENA'S class that is trying to look for another student to make fun of The scene:A clean, relatively empty hallway with fewer people and less noise The students have all just arrived at school. It is the first period and the start of the school day. MAYA has finally finished a new project that she has been working on for 4 weeks. She made a glittery pink castle with realistic, miniature touches on it, including a door, windows, plants, trees, grass, and many more. She is very excited to show it to the class. But, then AIDEN is also walking in the hallway. He is a few steps behind MAYA and sees her pink castle from behind. He starts walking faster to catch up to MAYA so that he can make fun of her castle. AIDEN: "Hey, Maya! I saw your castle project from behind! It looks disgusting! Who adds glitter on cardboard? Yikes! I feel like I want to puke just by looking at it!" AIDEN: "Are you ready for the whole class to laugh at you? Well, I will take a photo of this whole thing and share it with the whole school! Everybody is finally going to see how disgusting it looks and laugh at you!" MAYA: "Please don't say that. I worked hard on this and I cherish it a lot." AIDEN: "You spent all those weeks just to make a castle that ends up like this? Ha! I'm going to snatch it from your hands and stomp on it and it will break!" MAYA: "No! Please don't stomp on it! I like it!" AIDEN snatches the castle from MAYA'S hands and uses his right foot to stomp on it. The castle, once a beautiful craft made by cardboard, is now just a flattened piece of garbage, crushed, cracked, completely broken, and now lying on the hallway floors. MAYA gasps and tries to reach out for the castle. But, it was too late. MAYA started to have tears dripping from her eyes and started to let out a sob. Then, she started crying loudly. MAYA: "I spent weeks working on this castle... all just to have it stomped on and destroyed?" MAYA: "I have nobody to comfort me. I guess I will just cry alone. *Sobs*" Usually ELENA would come to help, but this time, MAYA started to lie down on the hallway floors and started letting out full volume cries by herself. She had tears dripping down from her eyes for the next 20 minutes and was crying until second period of class time. She started to miss class due to her sadness and was starting to regret destroying her and ELENA'S long-time friendship all for a silly singing competition.

Part 8-The Death Of Elena's Grandmother Characters: ELENA (11):Sitting at her desk and crying due to her grandmother dying last night in a severe car accident on a highway at 120 km/h The scene:A classroom that now had a very mournful, very devastating vibe It is second period of the day at school. The class is learning how to divide with decimals. But, ELENA couldn't focus because last night was a very sad night for her, her grandmother died in a severe car accident on a highway at 120 km/h. ELENA: "Abuela... I miss you so much... You were the best... Why did you have to die last night? Just why? Why did the other car on the highway be so reckless?" ELENA: "If only humans were invincible and unstoppable and would live forever. I wish magic exists in this world. If only magic existed in this world, a genie could come out of a magic bottle and grant a wish to bring my grandma back to life." ELENA: "Goodbye Abuela. I love you more than anything in the whole wide world. I hope you enjoy your time in heaven." Usually MAYA would come over to help, but this time, ELENA was all alone at her desk and started to process all of the sadness on her own. ELENA started crying even more. She cried and cried and cried until third period which was recess time because she was too sad to process the loss of her grandmother. She cried so hard that tears started to fall onto her desk. Her desk, once relatively clean and bright, is now covered in tears of sadness and very watery from all of ELENA'S hard crying. She continued crying until the teacher announced that it was time for recess.

Part 9-Peace And Harmony! (和平与和谐!) Characters: MAYA (11):Sitting on a hard bench and waiting to tell ELENA about the situation with her new castle project and AIDEN's meanness in the school hallway earlier ELENA (11):Sitting on the other side of the hard bench and waiting to tell MAYA about the situation with her grandmother dying last night in a severe car accident on a highway at 120 km/h The scene:The same vibrant and crowded playground usually filled with smiling and laughter, but this time, it also has a very rejuvenating, peaceful energy into it MAYA and ELENA are both sitting on a hard bench on the far end of the school playground. They are sitting right next to each other and ready to tell each other about their bad situations and be best friends again. MAYA: "So... I actually wanted to tell you something. I... think I want to be best friends again." ELENA: "Yeah... me too... I think I want to be best friends again as well..." MAYA: "I'm really sad today because I finally finished my new castle project. I have been working on it for 4 weeks. I was so excited to show it to the class until the class bully Aiden saw my castle from behind and decided to make fun of it and stomp on it. Now it's all broken and I cannot get it back." ELENA: "I'm sorry that happened to you Maya. I'm really sad today too. Last night, my grandmother died in a severe car accident on a highway at 120 km/h. The other driver was being reckless and both of their cars collided. It was heartbreaking." MAYA: "I'm so sorry this happened to you Elena. Sending condolences to your grandmother after this terrifying accident." ELENA: "Thank you, Maya. That's exactly the kind of comfort I needed today. I'm sorry about the school singing competition." MAYA: "I'm sorry about the school singing competition too, Elena." ELENA: "Best friends?" MAYA: "Best friends forever!" MAYA and ELENA gave each other a tight squeeze hug. Then, they shaked each other's hands. They are officially best friends again, and they will not let a silly school singing competition ruin their long-time friendship. MAYA: "Peace and harmony to you! (和平与和谐!)" ELENA: "Peace and harmony to you too! (和平与和谐!)" MAYA: "Our friendship is too strong to be ruined by a silly school singing competition now!" ELENA: "Yeah, indeed!" MAYA and ELENA decided to hold hands and skip to the swings together to hang out. They both smiled and laughed, happy that they are back to being best friends. They are an amazing duo who know how to comfort and encourage each other whenever one of them is feeling a bit down or upset. They are officially best friends again, and they will not let a silly school singing competition ruin their long-time friendship. They both learned that friendship isn't defined by whether you win a competition or not, it's defined by your bonds and personalities. They finally found a state of peace and harmony (和平与和谐) and are ready to be recognized as a duo again.