What ?!
I know how it feels .
MAEVE
ALEX Yeah right . Says the person who ' s not even wearing a mask .
( MAEVE shows ALEX their mask )
Yeah well I used to .
What ?
MAEVE
ALEX
MAEVE It stuck to me too . Took me a while but when I finally got it off-
ALEX Don ' t tell me it feels great or you ' re happy . I know it doesn ' t . That ' s why I put it on in the first place .
MAEVE You ' re right . I ' m still sad , sometimes still angry , and still anxious . But I ' m free . At least now I can feel that real happiness instead of faking it .
I do feel happy .
ALEX
MAEVE According to who ? To you ? Or to the other STUDENTS and the TEACHER at school ? I know it ' s hard , but it ' s better without it .
Why do you even care ?
ALEX
MAEVE I don ' t know . I just don ' t want another person to have to feel how I felt . It was horrible .
ALEX
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