ALAN CONNELL DENISE ERIC GER KAREN LORRAINE MARIANNE MISS_NEARY MR_KERRIGAN RACHEL ROB MARIANNE Hey. MARIANNE Come on in. LORRAINE Marianne was telling me you got your mock results back today? CONNELL Just English. They come back separately. LORRAINE And I hear you did very well? MARIANNE He was top of the class. CONNELL Right. Well. Marianne did pretty good too, can we go? LORRAINE Didn’t realise we were in a rush. LORRAINE I just have to pop up and take a load out of the dryer. And then we’ll be off. Immediately. Okay? MARIANNE D’you want some? CONNELL No. Thanks. MARIANNE Didn’t you get French back today? CONNELL Yesterday. CONNELL I got an A1. What did you get in German. MARIANNE Are you bragging? MARIANNE I got an A1. CONNELL You’re going to get six hundred are you? MARIANNE You probably will. CONNELL You’re smarter than me. MARIANNE Don’t feel bad. I’m smarter than everybody. CONNELL You’re not top of the class in English. MARIANNE Maybe you should give me grinds Connell. MARIANNE Make me some study cards. Check my practice papers? LORRAINE Good to go? CONNELL Yeah. MARIANNE Thanks for everything Lorraine. LORRAINE You rob the place while I was upstairs did you? CONNELL What? LORRAINE The quick getaway. LORRAINE You could’ve said goodbye. CONNELL I did. LORRAINE She doesn’t exactly have an easy time of it, Connell. You could try being a bit nicer to her. CONNELL I’m nice to her. LORRAINE She’s actually a very sensitive person. CONNELL Can we talk about something else? LORRAINE Any other mocks back? CONNELL French. LORRAINE Was it alright? CONNELL Yeah. It was alright. LORRAINE There’s a surprise. DENISE Has this just come out? MARIANNE About five minutes ago. I made some salad. DENISE Could you not have drawn the curtains, Marianne? MARIANNE It’s literally only just started to get dark. DENISE You’ve got the heating on full and the curtains wide open - MARIANNE Did you have a good day? DENISE Hm? MARIANNE I was just asking if you’d had a good day. DENISE Depends what you mean by good. Get rid of one client and another one arrives. MARIANNE Isn’t that good business? DENISE Yes. DENISE Where’s your brother? DENISE Don’t shrug, Marianne. MARIANNE I don’t know. I haven’t seen him. DENISE How was school? MARIANNE Yeah. Good. I got my English back. The mock. DENISE And? MARIANNE I got an A1. DENISE Good girl. ALAN There any food? DENISE Your sister reheated a lasagne. ALAN Good effort Marianne. DENISE How was your day? ALAN Alright. Not too busy. DENISE Are you out this evening? ALAN Yeah. Come on Sheridan. MR KERRIGAN If you’re staring out of the window daydreaming, then you’re not learning, are you Marianne. MARIANNE Don’t delude yourself. I have nothing to learn from you. MR KERRIGAN Okay. In that case. Principal’s office. MARIANNE Yeah, I might go there, or I might go home. It’s not really your business what I do, is it? ERIC Don’t worry sir. She’s a psycho to everybody - MR KERRIGAN Yeah, d’you want to follow her, Byrne? ERIC No sir. ROB You enjoying your book there are you? ERIC Not getting distracted by the fucking window? ROB You really showed him, Sheridan. ‘Might to go the Principal’s office. Might go home. Might go eat a yoghurt ‘cos I’m such a legend.’ ROB Kerrigan was in a foul mood after you pissed off, so thanks for that ERIC Here. We’re saying thanks for that Marianne. Cheers for ruining our day - KAREN Ah shut up, it wasn’t that bad. I thought it was kind of funny Marianne - RACHEL Oh for fuck’s sake. That is absolutely tragic. RACHEL Um. Excuse me? RACHEL Am I disturbing you, Marianne? MARIANNE No. Obviously not. RACHEL You just thought you’d take your top off in the toilets? ALAN Hello? GER Hey, how’s it going - ALAN Good, yeah - GER Listen, any chance of a lift in? I’m after missing the bus and, look, I know I can’t be late again - ALAN Yeah, yeah sound. You’re at the house are you? I’ll swing around for you now - GER Best boss ever. ALAN No bother at all man. Stall it there, I’ll see you in a few. GER Alright, cheers. Owe you one. MARIANNE What are you doing? ALAN Uhhh did you not hear that Entire call - I’ve got to pick up Ger out in Garryduff. You hop out here. MARIANNE Are you serious? I’ll get drenched. ALAN Right, shit buzz for you pal. Maybe you should learn to drive. Go on, hop out, fuck off, go learn. MARIANNE You could at least drop me to the lights. ALAN Marianne. ALAN Get the fucking fuck out of my fucking car, okay? MISS NEARY Class begins at nine, Marianne. MARIANNE I’m aware. MISS NEARY Would you like to share with us why you’re late? MARIANNE No, not really. Can you just give me detention and move on? MISS NEARY Right. Moving on then. RACHEL I called you last night. CONNELL Did you? Must’ve missed it. RACHEL I’m having people over. Friday, after the match. Come celebrate. Or drown your sorrows, whatever. CONNELL Okay. Cool. RACHEL Great. ERIC What happened to you this morning? You were looking a bit on the drowned rat side. MARIANNE Thanks, yeah. It was raining. ROB Should’ve brought an umbrella. MARIANNE Wise advice Rob, if not quite timely. RACHEL You strip off in the toilets to dry yourself again? MARIANNE Not this time, no. Why, would you like an invitation next time? RACHEL You’re such a weirdo. ERIC ‘Give me a detention and move on’ was a good one. MARIANNE I’m glad you enjoyed it Eric. ROB The shit you get away with because you’re smart. MARIANNE I understand you’re at a disadvantage there, Rob. ROB Fuck off. MARIANNE Touché. And, she actually did give me a detention. ERIC What’s wrong with you? CONNELL Nothing CONNELL Is it printing? MARIANNE Yeah, it seems to be. Is this what you’re waiting for? CONNELL No. I don’t know what that is. MARIANNE People send such random stuff to the printer. CONNELL Sorry you got detention. CONNELL You were fairly harsh on Kerrigan the other day. MARIANNE Don’t you start. CONNELL He’s pretty decent, I don’t get why you had to have such a go. MARIANNE I object to every thought or action or feeling of mine being policed like we’re in some authoritarian fantasy - CONNELL But it’s not that is it? It’s just school. It’s the same for everyone. It’s not unique for you. MARIANNE You’re trying to act like your friends but you know you’re not that kind of person. CONNELL What kind of person? CONNELL I’m not acting. Maybe I am that kind of person. MARIANNE Why are you talking to me then? MARIANNE What was Miss Neary talking to you about after class? CONNELL Oh. Nothing. I don’t know. Exams? MARIANNE She must find exams highly amusing then. MARIANNE Does she fancy you or something? CONNELL Why d’you say that? MARIANNE God, you’re not having an affair with her are you? CONNELL Obviously not. D’you think it’s funny joking about that? MARIANNE Sorry. MARIANNE You’re right, it’s not funny. I’m sorry. CONNELL People are always going on at me that I fancy her or whatever. But I actually don’t. At all. I mean. You don’t think I’m like playing into it when she acts like that do you? MARIANNE No. I don’t think so, not at all. CONNELL Why does everyone else think I fancy her then? MARIANNE Maybe because you blush a lot when she talks to you. But, you know, you blush at everything. CONNELL Thanks. MARIANNE I guess you have one of those complexions. CONNELL Great. MARIANNE You’re blushing right now actually - CONNELL Yeah, I’m aware Marianne. MARIANNE I don’t care if you’re blushing. I won’t tell anyone. CONNELL Just because you won’t tell people doesn’t mean you can say whatever you want. MARIANNE Okay. Sorry. MARIANNE I don’t want to get into a fight with you. CONNELL We’re not fighting. MARIANNE I know you probably hate me, but you’re the only person who actually talks to me. CONNELL I never said I hated you. MARIANNE Well. I like you. MARIANNE Good luck in the match tomorrow. CONNELL Right. Thanks. CONNELL I should get back to class. DENISE I got a text this morning saying you were late for school. MARIANNE Mmmm. DENISE What happened. MARIANNE Alan wanted to give a lift to someone from his work so he dropped me off at the sports centre and I had to walk. DENISE And you decided to take your time about it, did you? MARIANNE No. It was raining. So. Not much incentive to linger. DENISE Why were you late then? MARIANNE Because it’s slower to travel by foot? You know the way cars go faster than people? DENISE Marianne. DENISE And I got a call from the head of your year. I was presented with a list of complaints about your attitude. DENISE You told one teachers you had nothing to learn from him? MARIANNE Which is true. DENISE You can’t speak to your teachers like that. MARIANNE Why not? DENISE Why are you making life so difficult for yourself? MARIANNE This is just my personality. DENISE We all make choices Marianne. You are choosing to be like this. CONNELL If I knew what I wanted to study I would obviously tell you. LORRAINE You must have some idea - use a fork Connell - CONNELL Nope. I know what I don’t want to study and that’s about it. LORRAINE Jesus. How long’s that list? CONNELL Pretty long. LORRAINE Well that’s a really great way to go about deciding Connell. Rule out Marine Biology and Astrophysics and all the rest til you end up with one. CONNELL I could be a Marine Biologist. LORRAINE Sure. That seems like your area of interest. You’ve not got long, form’s due soon. CONNELL Yeah, I’m aware. LORRAINE Come on. Eat up. Need your energy. LORRAINE You all set for tomorrow? CONNELL Yeah fine. LORRAINE You’ll put the fear of god into them. LORRAINE Go on, make a muscle! ERIC Sweet of you to come support, Marianne. MARIANNE Obviously if I could be anywhere else now, I would be. ERIC You’d make quite a cute cheerleader I reckon. ERIC Come on, you love it - LORRAINE Come on in. Sorry, I’ll be as fast as I can. LORRAINE I’ve just finished mopping - get yourself somewhere else. And well done. Man of the match. LORRAINE Marianne told me. Congratulations. Now bugger off. MARIANNE You played well today. MARIANNE Sorry. I didn’t mean to sneak up on you. CONNELL Yeah, I saw you cheering for us. That was nice of you. MARIANNE I can be nice. CONNELL I know you can. You know, you act a certain way in school but I don’t think you’re like that really. MARIANNE What am I like really? MARIANNE You can borrow it if you like. The book. CONNELL I’ve actually read it already. I don’t know why I picked it up. MARIANNE Any good? CONNELL Yeah. I liked it. You would enjoy it, I think. It’s got a lot about feminism and all that. MARIANNE Do your friends know you read so much? CONNELL They wouldn’t really be interested in that stuff. MARIANNE You mean they’re not interested in the world around them. CONNELL Not in the same way as we would. They have their own interests I suppose. MARIANNE Right. Like bragging about who they’re having sex with. CONNELL Yeah. They do a bit of that. CONNELL I’m not defending it. MARIANNE Doesn’t it bother you? CONNELL Most of it wouldn’t. Maybe they go a bit over the line sometimes. And that would bother me, obviously. But they’re my friends. It’s different for you. MARIANNE Why is it different? CONNELL You know you were saying. The other day. That you like me. By the photocopier you said it. MARIANNE Yeah. CONNELL Did you mean like as a friend or what? MARIANNE No. Not just as a friend. CONNELL Oh, okay. Yeah I thought that was implied but I wasn’t sure. CONNELL I’m kind of confused. About what I feel. I think it would be awkward in school if anything happened with us. MARIANNE No one would have to know. MARIANNE That was nice. CONNELL Alright. What’re you laughing for? MARIANNE Nothing. CONNELL You’re acting like you’ve never kissed anyone before. MARIANNE I haven’t. CONNELL Don’t go telling people in school about this, okay? MARIANNE Like I’d talk to anyone in school. RACHEL Man of the hour. RACHEL Thought you changed your mind. RACHEL Well, I’m glad you’re here. CONNELL Yeah. RACHEL What can I get you to drink? CONNELL Whatever there is. I don’t mind. ERIC What’s the craic, Waldron? You were on form on Friday. You must have been feeling it the next day. ROB You were almost as drunk as Rachel - RACHEL Fuck off Rob. You passed out in a hedge. ROB That I did. It was a good night. RACHEL It was a good night. ERIC Don’t suppose you have the French homework handy? CONNELL I do, yeah. ERIC Good lad. Can I get it off you before break? CONNELL Yeah. If you want. MARIANNE Your Mum’s not here. CONNELL Yeah. Look. Can I come in? MARIANNE Are you going to start kissing me again? CONNELL What do you think? MARIANNE Can we take our clothes off? CONNELL No. CONNELL No. This is. Stupid. We should stop. MARIANNE Am I supposed to know what’s going on here? CONNELL No. No. I don’t know. CONNELL I’ve got a free house. On Saturday. You could come over then. If you wanted. MARIANNE Yeah. Yeah I’d. Yeah, I’d like that.