Radio Rebels: Signal Boost

A year after they went official, a clip of Radio Rebels goes viral and a slick media company offers Casey, Priya, and Deshawn four million listeners -- if they let the show be reshaped around a single star. Fame is knocking, but it wants to break up the trio that built everything.

It had been one year since Casey Chen, Priya Patel, and Deshawn Williams stopped being the three most invisible kids at Bridgeport Middle School.

Back then, Radio Rebels had been a secret -- anonymous broadcasts from a hidden booth, the whole school buzzing about the mystery DJs nobody could catch. Now it was official. Principal Okafor had given them a real room down the music hall, a door with a hand-painted sign that read ON AIR, and permission to broadcast for twenty minutes every day at lunch.

Casey still could not quite believe it. 'A year ago I figured I could vanish for a week and only the attendance computer would notice,' Casey said, flopping into the squeaky chair behind the mic. 'Now people say hi to me in the hallway. It is honestly kind of weird.'

'Weird good, or weird bad?' Deshawn asked, spinning a pencil across his knuckles.

'Weird good,' Casey admitted. 'Definitely weird good.'