Kell a senior in highschool struggles with understanding who he is along with his new found power of looking into and understanding a person’s soul.
This is a screenplay adapted for e-reader, Includes a non-related short story at the end.
Kell seems like any other senior in high school going about his day to day routine, slowly he is realizing that he can look into a person’s eyes and know what they are thinking. At first he has no understanding of this ability, but slowly his mind begins to unravel as he finds himself talking to a fictional dog that was a character he created for the school play. Kell finds himself falling into love with the play’s director fellow senior Can. His best friend Anderson begins to show concern over Kell’s crumbling mental state. After Kell’s cousin tells his family he is gay, Kell begins to fell animosity toward his father who he feels has neglected him since his mother’s death.
As Kell and Can’s romance progresses so does the school play, as well as Kell’s mental spiral into chaos. Kell begins to often regress into his mind and converses with not only the dog but all the characters from his script. He helps his cousin to begin dating the actor who plays the dog in the play. By the time the production is shown Kell begins to become unstable, his relationship with Can becomes tangled and while working on a new script he begins seeking attention from other girls and even his cousins boyfriend.
In the climax Kell has seemingly separated himself from Can, and gone into a mental state of apathy toward his friends who begin to impatiently pull away from his lack of social control. After his father confronts him about his recent behavior Kell retracts into his mind and finds that many of the things he believed about his world are false and that his best friend is a manifestation of his own mind that is trying to gain supremacy as a new mental supervisor in place of the flawed personality of Kell’s original mindset. In the end the mental apparition of Anderson has taken over Kell’s mind and left the original mind as a screaming terror in the dark recesses of the mind. This new mind set manipulates his friends, family, and teachers and even his girlfriend Can into agreeing to his slightest suggestions.
