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LNys
BLACKROCK
going to be good. Right beside the netball courts. Your
tree, forever and ever.
She plays the song again
ere you were, all over the news again last night. It’s
‘let you rest, They wouldn't name Scott
avo, two minors, they said, just two minors, with
ry bits over their faces. They named you often
eh? Put your face, your mame all over
ja, Now everyone’s talking about what'll happen
hem three. But whatever happens, they'll still be
alive and you'll still be dead.
DIANE appears, followed by GLENYS.
Do Ihave to chain you up like a dog? Grounded means
rounded, Cherie. Get in the ear.
‘You don’t even care what's happened. You heard what
those three did to her—
Stop going crook on me. It’s not my fault!
Nothing’s anybody’s fault, She raped herself. She killed
herself. That's what youse all think.
I don’t think that, love,
‘Fell you what I think..
1 don’t want to know.
You douse yourself in kero, then start playing with
matches, you can’t blame anyone else when you set
yourself on fire.
Shut uy
She tries to hit GLENYS, who grabs her hand.
Don’t raise your hand to your own mother.
You're not my mother! Not if you say that about Tracy.
And here, where she can hear you.
he can hear me? You think she can hear you?
CUERIE nods.
nk she can talk to you?
DIANE
GLENS:
CHERIE
cLenys
OLENYS
DIANE
GLENYS
DIANE,
GLENYS
DIANE
GLENYS
DIANE
GLENYS
DIANE
BLACKROCK I
Let it go, Glenys,
I wish she could, Cherie. So she could tell you not to be
the bloody idiot she wa:
‘CHERIE dives at her. DIANE restrains her.
Take it back!
It’s true, I want you alive, not dead!
CHERIE breaks and runs away.
That was a bit rough.
Shut up,
Well, it was.
You're not bringing up a girl, Jared can take care of
himself. Cherie’s got to learn the way the world works.
No, Glen. She knows more than we do. She knows this
isn’t natural. When the
ready for it most
What brot
I'm crook. A: red, They're going to take this
off.
‘She touches her left breast.
Oh, Jesus...
‘She puts her arms round DIANE.
T don’t want to die,
You won't. You won’t die. You'll bury the lot of us.
One thing I was always sure of was my body. Brai
not too crash-hot. But this body..
When is it?
Any day. I'm waiting for a bed. My bag’s packed. They
gave me a booklet, it says bring pyjamas or a front-
opening night-dress..,
You told Jared?
Not yet.