Chapter 20
Midnight - outside
Atth sneaks out of the dorm and walks across the oval. He stops at the beginning of the road to adjust his pack. Someone sneaks up behind him.
Dard: Lets go. (Atth jumps.)
Atth: (turning around) Shit! You scared the crap outta me.
Dard: We'd better hurry if we want to get into town before light.
Atth: We?
Dard: Yeh, I'm coming.
Atth: (firmly) No, you're not.
Dard: Ok, I'll just go find Peter, maybe he can give you a lift to Agnes.
Atth: Fine, just walk quickly.
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1 hour later.
On the road.
Dard: My feet hurt.
Atth: (looking down at her feet and seeing she's wearing lace up boots) For god's sake! Don't you have any other shoes?
Dard: No.
Atth: Didn't Peter make you buy hiking boots?
Dard: Yeh, but I left them at Horizon, they were ugly. (Atth shakes his head annoyed and continues walking. Dard limps after him.)
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Horizon - Guys' Dorm - night
Clarence walks in late, everyone else is in bed, he walks into the bathroom and stops. Rhys is sitting on the floor, next to the toilet, his head against the wall, with his eyes closed.
Clarence: You ok? (Rhys looks up shocked)
Rhys: (Standing up.) Yeh.
(He starts to walk out, but Clarence pulls him back into the bathroom.)
Clarence: Sit down. (Rhys reluctantly sits back on the floor, Clarence sits besides him. No one talks for a couple of minutes.) How was dinner?
Rhys: Fine.
Clarence: Why do you do, that.
Rhys: Do what?
Clarence: Throw up.
Rhys: I dunno.
Clarence: (Changing the subject.) Do you get on with your mum?
Rhys: I don't really talk to her.
Clarence: Why not?
Rhys: She's always round my dad and she takes his side. What about you? Do you like your parents?
Clarence: Nuh, they're snobs. They're never round anyway.
Rhys: Is that why you cut?
Clarence: Yeh. (Changing the subject) Have you ever partied?
Rhys: What taken drugs? Nuh, my dad would kill me, (sarcastically.) Wouldn't want to end up like my brother.
Clarence: What happened to him? (Rhys doesn't answer. Clarence changes the subject again.) Do you know where Atth is? He wasn't in his bed.
Rhys: Nuh, haven't seen him.
Clarence: (Joking) Maybe he's run
Rhys: (Smiling) Yeh. He failed that maths test.
Clarence: Really? Didn't he study with Mys for it?
Rhys: Yeh.
Clarence: He mustn't have been happy.
Rhys: He wasn't, he came into the dorm and was chucking stuff round.
Clarence: What'd you get on it?
Rhys: 89, you?
Clarence: 95. (Rhys raises his eyebrows.)
Rhys: Shit.
Clarence: He's been spending a lot of time with Mys.
Rhys: You jealous?
Clarence: No!
Rhys: You are! (Clarence shrugs)
Clarence: What about you, who do you like?
Rhys: (hesitating) You can't tell anyone, Maddy.
Clarence: Oh yeh, I should've guessed.
Rhys: Is it obvious?
Clarence: Nuh, but it's so obvious she likes you. (Rhys shakes his head.)
Rhys: Nuh.
(They sit there for another 10 minutes, Rhys breaks the silence.)
Rhys: There was a fire.
Clarence: Huh? Oh. (Remembering his question about Rhys's brother.) You wanna talk bout it? (Rhys shakes his head.)
(After half an hour of not talking, Clarence falls asleep, Rhys stays awake.)
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Midnight - outside
Atth sneaks out of the dorm and walks across the oval. He stops at the beginning of the road to adjust his pack. Someone sneaks up behind him.
Dard: Lets go. (Atth jumps.)
Atth: (turning around) Shit! You scared the crap outta me.
Dard: We'd better hurry if we want to get into town before light.
Atth: We?
Dard: Yeh, I'm coming.
Atth: (firmly) No, you're not.
Dard: Ok, I'll just go find Peter, maybe he can give you a lift to Agnes.
Atth: Fine, just walk quickly.
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1 hour later.
On the road.
Dard: My feet hurt.
Atth: (looking down at her feet and seeing she's wearing lace up boots) For god's sake! Don't you have any other shoes?
Dard: No.
Atth: Didn't Peter make you buy hiking boots?
Dard: Yeh, but I left them at Horizon, they were ugly. (Atth shakes his head annoyed and continues walking. Dard limps after him.)
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Horizon - Guys' Dorm - night
Clarence walks in late, everyone else is in bed, he walks into the bathroom and stops. Rhys is sitting on the floor, next to the toilet, his head against the wall, with his eyes closed.
Clarence: You ok? (Rhys looks up shocked)
Rhys: (Standing up.) Yeh.
(He starts to walk out, but Clarence pulls him back into the bathroom.)
Clarence: Sit down. (Rhys reluctantly sits back on the floor, Clarence sits besides him. No one talks for a couple of minutes.) How was dinner?
Rhys: Fine.
Clarence: Why do you do, that.
Rhys: Do what?
Clarence: Throw up.
Rhys: I dunno.
Clarence: (Changing the subject.) Do you get on with your mum?
Rhys: I don't really talk to her.
Clarence: Why not?
Rhys: She's always round my dad and she takes his side. What about you? Do you like your parents?
Clarence: Nuh, they're snobs. They're never round anyway.
Rhys: Is that why you cut?
Clarence: Yeh. (Changing the subject) Have you ever partied?
Rhys: What taken drugs? Nuh, my dad would kill me, (sarcastically.) Wouldn't want to end up like my brother.
Clarence: What happened to him? (Rhys doesn't answer. Clarence changes the subject again.) Do you know where Atth is? He wasn't in his bed.
Rhys: Nuh, haven't seen him.
Clarence: (Joking) Maybe he's run
Rhys: (Smiling) Yeh. He failed that maths test.
Clarence: Really? Didn't he study with Mys for it?
Rhys: Yeh.
Clarence: He mustn't have been happy.
Rhys: He wasn't, he came into the dorm and was chucking stuff round.
Clarence: What'd you get on it?
Rhys: 89, you?
Clarence: 95. (Rhys raises his eyebrows.)
Rhys: Shit.
Clarence: He's been spending a lot of time with Mys.
Rhys: You jealous?
Clarence: No!
Rhys: You are! (Clarence shrugs)
Clarence: What about you, who do you like?
Rhys: (hesitating) You can't tell anyone, Maddy.
Clarence: Oh yeh, I should've guessed.
Rhys: Is it obvious?
Clarence: Nuh, but it's so obvious she likes you. (Rhys shakes his head.)
Rhys: Nuh.
(They sit there for another 10 minutes, Rhys breaks the silence.)
Rhys: There was a fire.
Clarence: Huh? Oh. (Remembering his question about Rhys's brother.) You wanna talk bout it? (Rhys shakes his head.)
(After half an hour of not talking, Clarence falls asleep, Rhys stays awake.)
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