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    Noe, this is my best and first family summer ever. And guess what? This summer you’re gonna be a member of the Harrison Ohana.
    NOELANI
    What do you mean?
    LULU
    I’m going to figure out another chance for you to hula. That’s what families do. Help each other.
    NOELANI
    I’m petrified even thinking about standing in front of people.
    Lulu clomps down the grand koa wood staircase.
    LULU
    (voice echoes as she hollers up to Noelani)
    That’ll be our summer goal! Get you brave enough to hula and show this island who’s really the best!
    Lulu darts out the palace’s side door.

    CUT!! Don’t you think things happen in crazy ways? This hula-off is a perfect example of how life can be nutty, but good things happen if you pull together with your sister and BEG your parents to do something—like leave work to help you not die of embarrassment dancing hula. And, because I have this amazing family acting as, well, a family this summer, I’m sure they won’t mind helping me get Noelani through her stage fright. As usual, I’ve got an idea but no plan, so I better get back to: ACTION!!
SCENE 12: QUIET ON THE SET
    EXT. DIAMOND HEAD HAWAII FILM STUDIO—HALF HOUR LATER
    Tall metal gates swing open. Maya drives a white Prius through the main studio entrance as a guard in the booth waves her through.
    WIDE SHOT OF Maya’s car as it slowly drives through the studio, past the makeup trailer and prop house. It pulls up next to Alexis’s black Volkswagen Bug parked in front of a tiny house called a bungalow. Lulu leaps from the car. Alexis pauses and reapplies coral-colored lip shimmer and strokes a Mason Pearson brush through her long hair.
    INT. PRODUCTION OFFICE BUNGALOW—CONTINUOUS
    The small bungalow is filled with schedules, scripts, clipboards, and frantic PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS. Every type of power charger known to man or woman is plugged in around the small space. Smartphones, iPads, laptops, walkie-talkies, wireless headsets—any communication tool that needs power, there’s a cord for it. MAXWELL, an eighteen-year-old guy with curly blond hair and khaki shorts, shouts his crisp British accent into a phone.
    MAXWELL
    Finish the auditions ASAP. Fiona wants all those extras on the set in two days!
    Maxwell notices the sisters. He smiles and gives a thumbs-up to Lulu and a wink to Alexis.
    Maxwell hangs up and turns his full attention to Alexis and Lulu.
    MAXWELL
    (kind, warm voice)
    Sorry. That was the casting director.
    LULU
    Aloha , Maxwell. Where’re my parents? I gotta tell them how great it was that they came to my hula-off. They made it so fun, and my friends loved it.
    ALEXIS
    (light, flirty, smiling)
    But they went tearing out of the hula thing and stranded me there.
    MAXWELL
    And that would be because after Linc and Fiona went zipping off with you, Alexis, the head of the studio, Mr. Sanyo, happened to pop by and visit the set.
    LULU
    He DID??!
    MAXWELL
    He jolly did. He wanted to have a chat with the director about cutting costs on the movie.
    ALEXIS
    Fiona isn’t good at doing anything on the cheap.
    MAXWELL
    Well, she better start, and while she’s at it, she better hurry up and finish production.
    LULU
    I’m gonna see if there’s anything I can do to help!
    Lulu bolts out the door.
    MAXWELL
    (to Alexis)
    As much as I’d love your beautiful company, I think you better grab your sister before she’s found on the set. Unless, of course, you want to see Queen Fiona do that “off with her head” thing to your sister.
    Alexis flips her silky hair in Maxwell’s direction.
    ALEXIS
    (standing up)
    If I didn’t think my head would roll too, I’d hang out all day.
    Alexis races out the door.
    Maxwell calls after her.
    MAXWELL
    Hilarious Hula was smashing, Lex. If Seas the Day folds, Linc and Fiona should switch from action films to comedy.
    INT. DIAMOND HEAD STUDIO, MAIN SOUND STAGE—CONTINUOUS
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