Zach Lines

Losing wrestling

Foul! It’s a Foul! Ref!

RUTH: She banned it last Year

She said climbing the tree’s banned, not wrestling. REMATCH!

ESTER jumps on ZACH

Ew, get off me woman.

BENJI: Aaron, you’ll be referee

Do you know Tom Wallis?

BENJI: He won’t know Tom. Come on

But he’s at Surrey Orchard too

BENJI: He won’t have met everyone yet

HE might have met him

BENJI: Our church play against his church every year

He’s way older than us though

RUTH: We don’t get a lot of new people.

Stick with us, we’re the cool ones. The other kids here are…

AARON: Not

Yeah, they’re freaks.

AARON: Is he actually doing it?

Oh my gosh, he’s doing it, he’s doing it.

AARON: Go on Lucas!

Yeah, go on Lucas!

BENJI: Just some kid, he’s not here anymore.

Cos Benji got him banned from the festival.

RUTH: I’m getting Beth

No, Ruth!

RUTH: You’re right, it’s not.

Cat fight.

BETH: Zach? And please don’t say something silly.

I liked the Lord of the Rings thing as well.

BETh: Okay, what did you like about that analogy?

Uh, I dunno, it was cool.

BETH: Anything more than just ‘cool’?

It made me feel cool. For being a tree of God. A warrior of God.

Lucas: I think he’d want us to look after humanity.

I agree with that.

LUCAS: I just think it’s a false equivalency.

ZACH: What does that mean?

RUTH: No. I think you’re just a boy trying to show off.

He literally survived, like, a one hundred foot fall, Ruth.

LUCAS: Sure. Do something. beat

See if you can fall out of the tree like he did.

BENJI: I’m not doing that

Eat a poisoned berry.

ESTHER tries to take it off ZACH

Estherrr

AARON: Esther, get out of the way

She’s so annoying. Go, doggy, go.

RUTH: Stop showing off to Lucas. ESTHER falls silent

Esther likes Lucas!

LUCAS: Zach, what are you allergic to?

What?

AARON: Here we go.

I’m not reacting to anything.

ALL BUT LUCAS: You are.

I’m not.

LUCAS: Is that true?

Well, we’ve never been ill so we don’t need to go.

a collective groan

I’m home-ed

LUCAS: Are you actually?

My mum doesn’t trust the national curriculum.

LUCAS: Happens to my dad every summer. Come here.

What’re you gonna do?

LUCAS: Do you trust the Holy Spirit?

Yeah?

AARON: Y’alright Zach?

Is this how everyone else breathes?

Scene 11, the other children run on stage to crowd around him.

You’re like Jesus.

AARON: Could you do that on a person?

He healed my hay fever, so probably could.

LUCAS: It’s okay, people didn't;t believe Jesus either. beat

You are Jesus.

BENJI:You’ve only just met him.

I can’t believe you killed it.

LUCAS: Zach and Aaron, you’re my disciples. You will spread my word.

Yessss. Get in.

LUCAS: You just do whatever we say, like a servant.

He’s got a point.

AARON: He does, you’re just not in it.

Ha ha.

LUCAS: Kind of like a witch

WITCH! WITCH!

NATE: Zach, mate, where’s Benji.

We dunno.

NATE: …and then we had marshmallows round the campfire. Next.

I liked Lucas’ speech.

GRACE: Meeting Lucas.

SHH

AARON: And we can do whatever we want.

Yeah

GRACE: Maybe?

Ha ha

AARON: He’s not weird, he’s cool.

Yeah, cooler than Benji. He knows way more stuff.

Any of you got the word leader?

I got “goat”