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Blurb: A story about how one sentence can turn somebody’s life around.
Character biographies:
Zoe: 17, female, attend Henley College.
Alex: 17, male, attend Henley College.
Dan: 17, male, attend Henley College.
James: 17, male, attend Henley College.
Story line:
The story starts with the morning of a college day; everyone is arriving and heading to their first lessons. We follow Zoe just as she goes into her lesson room. It’s still early so the teacher isn’t there yet giving the class an opportunity to talk and gossip to each other. Zoe goes in and sits down with her close group of friends, Alex and Dan. Where they talk about normal things such as what was going on in the weekend and what was on TV last night.
James then walks into the room. He is going out with Zoe at the moment. He starts heading to his seat with a different crowd of friends than Zoe’s. As soon Zoe see’s James enter the room her positive attitude she had disappears and is replaces with a nervous shifty look. She looks at James who suddenly turns hid face to hers which makes Zoe look away back to her friends. The teacher then walks in.
When lessons are over Zoe grabs James as he’s about to walk past and explains to him that she needs to talk to him in private about something serious and that he should meet her outside R3 Block in 20 minutes. James grudgingly agrees and walks out the classroom door. Zoe also heads outside the room and heads to the back of R3 block. We watch Zoe nervously shifting around as she waits for James to turn up.
When James walks up he’s the first to talk. He tells Zoe that he doesn’t want the relationship between them to carry on any more. This causes Zoe to get very emotional and makes her shout out what she’s been trying to tell James all morning “I’m pregnant!” James stares at Zoe for 10-15 seconds in silence after she says this and then finally speaks saying that he thinks Zoe is bullshitting him and after that he says even if Zoe is pregnant it defiantly isn’t his. He walks away angrily not looking back at Zoe.
Zoe sits down looking like she’s about to burst out crying but has to resist doing this and instead puts on a brave face because Alex and Dan have spotted her and heading her way. They say to Zoe that their heading down into town to get something to eat and ask Zoe if she wants to join them. Zoe agrees and follows them down into Henley. When they are in town sitting down on a bench eating and drinking Alex asks Zoe why she has been so quiet. Dan then asks Zoe what’s wrong and why she looks so sad.
Zoe didn’t want anyone knowing she was pregnant, not even her friends so she kept quiet about that. She did tell Alex and Dan about James breaking up with her though to help mask what she was really upset about. Alex and Dan comforted telling her that they both thought James was a dick and what had happened was likely to happen and that it was better it had happened sooner than later.
When Zoe walked back into lessons she was almost back to normal until she opened the door to the class room and realised everyone was quiet and looking at her. This when Zoe noticed the white board which has all kinds of horrid language and pictures drawn on it, all relating to how Zoe was pregnant. About 5 seconds after Zoe had taken everything in on the white board nearly everyone was laughing at Zoe except Dan and Alex who stood a distance behind Zoe.
The teacher walked in and told the class to hush down. And saw the insulting language on the board and rubbed it off with a disapproving look on her face. Zoe sat down with Alex and Dan but could tell that even they were embarrassed to be with her. Alex and Dan had put more distance between themselves and Zoe and were not talking at all to her.
This is when Zoe got a ping on her phone which made her sigh with relief knowing she had something to do that could distract her from everything else for a minute. Her face changed to a shocked expression when she realised it was a group invitation to a group about Zoe and how she was pregnant. This was the last straw for Zoe as she picked up her bag and charged out of the lesson.
