Alan is a 12th grader navigating the noise of his final school year, the chaos of August Fest preparations, the nervous energy of an unspoken crush and the warmth of a friendship he never fully understood until it was gone.This is a story about the conversations we never had, the people we forgot to check on and the things left unsaid that outlive us all. It is about growing up and realising, too late sometimes, that the people standing closest to us are carrying the heaviest things.