the wardrobe lines

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i knew it was you - what are you doing? you can’t be in there, get out!

friend one ignores

you know this is probably alarmed

friend 1 ignores

are we going to talk about this?

friend one ignores

hello?

talk about what?

er, we’re in a wardrobe. ina museum

friend one concentraters on phone

we have to meet back at the gift shop in 15 mins. wer’re meant to do the worksheet by then

i’m doing the worksheet

this is a wardrobe - its not on teh worksheet

yes it is - question 9

identify an antique dating from the tudor dynasty

identified

well were not supposed ot get inside it

we’re investigating the primary source. a historian has to be thorough

what about the other questions?

google ‘em

look, i can’t get another detention

then go, no ones asking you to stay

friend 2 hesitates

friend one plays games

are you all right?

huh?

are you ok?

am i okay?

yes

yea, im fine. i thought you were going

nobodys talking about it anymore

if your gonna go, then go

im just telling you that nobodys talking about it

do i look like i care?

well, your hiding in a-

im not hiding. you think im hiding? i dont care what shes saying about me. i don’t care what anybody’s saying about me. they can say what they like - it’s boring. so don’t even think of going out there and saying that i’m hiding.

i’m not going to

i just can’t be bothered with it, yk? all that whispering and sniggering. its so immature

yea, i know

i just can’t deal with it. she’s so fake, don’t you think?

well, i-

i widh shed just be honest abt it. don’t try telling me it was an accident. she knew that pic was in there, she knew what she was doing when she posted it. so just come out and say it to my face. you want to make a point. you want to put pictures of me online. just come out and say it. that be so much better. i’d have so much more respect for her is she just came out and said it to my face.

i don’t think that many ppl saw it

i don’t care about the photo, whatever, it’s just a photo - it’s the dishonesty i don’t like. i don’t have time for that. thats why i’m in here

back in the closet? beat. sorry, i didn’t mean-

you know the thing that rlly gets on my nerves? is that shes trying to make out like she’s done me a favour. like she’s helped me by telling everyone for me. as if i wouldn’t rather tell them myself. so now she comes out of it looking, like, decent, while i look like i’ve been lying.

she took it down, it’s not up there anymore

my cousing saw it. she told my aunt, and then my aunt told my mum, who told my dad and then…

oh…

it’s fine, its not a problem, it’s just…

i didn’t know

friend one starts crying

its fine.. im not upset, im just angry.. its just so annoying…

it doesn’t matter. A-R, H-T… who d’you think wrote that?

friend one tries to add initials

no, don’t. you can’t: this is like a… famous antique

A-R..Arthur Rex? H-T.. Henry Tudor?

don’t be ridiculous

i dont get why everyone is making such a big deal of it.

henry tudor?

shut up. about me

s’just school. people need something ot talk about

yea, but not…this

especially this

it shouldn’t matter

well, maybe one day it won’t

when?

i don’t know. soon? and when that time comes, d’you want to be the only one who can’t… ‘describe how the 1833 factory act changed working conditions for children’

1833… Factory… Act

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