"OK, thank you." "Thank you." "Can we settle down now, please?" "Can we settle down now, please?" "OK, everyone facing forward." "Facing forward, please." "We're about to..." "Facing forward!" "Excuse me!" "Excused... you." "Let's bring it down." "No throwing things, please." "Did that get her?" "So unintelligent." "OK, let's start by reading the story." "OK." "If everybody can pass their textbooks to the end of the row, please?" "Stand behind your chairs, please." "You haven't been dismissed." "OK, guys, off you go." "Thank you very much." "Thank you." "Why don't you stay?" "I can't, Holly, I..." "Just stay with me, just for tonight." "I-I wish I could..." "You always go." "Just stay with me." "Oh, darling..." "Please?" "You know I can't." "I'll call you tomorrow..." "OK." "..Holly, yeah?" "Yeah." "Love you." "Can I borrow that scalpel, please?" "Hello." "What are we doing here?" "What's your plan?" "I wanted to do something with the sea." "Right." "Because I like it a lot." "OK." "And this is a beach that I used to go to when I was little." "It's my mum and dad, when they were together." "And it's, like, you know, it's really calm and a nice place." "You're using lovely shots." "Did you take these pictures?" "Miss, I just want to say..." "I just want to say I'm really sorry about... how they treat you in English." "Don't think you deserve it." "I think you're a really good teacher." "Oh." "Chris and that are just... idiots." "Thank you." "I'm sure it'll be OK, but thank you." "That's really kind of you to say so." "I appreciate that." "Well, erm..." "Oh, here, is this your colour plan?" "Mm-hmm." "I think you should carry on with the same stuff." "I think you've done really well." "Build this up a bit more." "Hi." "Hi, Karen." "Can I help you?" "Are you all right?" "There's an exhibition on this Saturday at the Turner Centre." "Right." "Wondered if you'd come with me?" "Erm..." "I thought it'd be good for the art project." "Of course, it would be great for the art project." "Sorry, can I get back to you?" "Yeah, yeah." "All right." "Bye." "See you later." "See you later." "I'd rather be on my own, Mum, than just, I don't know, have some half-baked relationship." "You know, I..." "So there is somebody that's that?" "There is somebody but not someone you should get, you know, really excited about." "Because I think..." "Well, no, because I want YOU to get excited about it." "Mum, I don't know if I'm excited about it." "It's..." "You know, it is what it is." "I don't really know where it's going." "Our lives are very different." "Equally as complicated." "It's like, you know, like you said..." "I don't know, I'm not..." "If it's complicated, it might not be good." "It shouldn't be complicated." "It should be, you know, at your age it should just be sharing and lovely, and you know..." "I know, but I... meet the right people, and it's just..." "It's just, I don't like seeing you on your own." "I'm OK, Mum." "Hi!" "I'm so sorry!" "Oh, no, it's fine." "I missed the bus." "Don't worry, it's fine." "I'm so sorry." "Notice the finer detail there." "It's quite mad, isn't it?" "What do you think?" "Do you like it?" "Yeah." "It's got very big hands." "It DOES, you're right!" "It's..." "I mean, it works really well here because it's almost like they've been washed up onto the rocks." "Yeah." "And it's kind of got that coastal feel about it." "Yeah." "I like the idea that you can... capture a moment..." "I'm not sure I feel quite settled." "I don't know, it might be nice to get away again, travel a bit." "I mean, I loved travelling before." "But my mum's here, you know, and that's kind of... kept me here or bought me back here." "I mean, personally, I don't know... you know, where I see myself." "You're not married, are you?" "No, I'm not married, I don't have children..." "I live on my own." "It's all quite dreary." "Are you with anyone?" "Um, I don't know if I should be..." "You can tell me." "Erm..." "Well, you know, I've kind of been seeing someone." "But that's..." "Who knows where that will go?" "Does it make you happy?" "Yeah." "Do you think you'll marry him?" "No, I don't know." "Ooh, you answered that quickly!" "I don't know." "Why not?" "I don't know." "I don't think I'll marry him." "Erm..." "I don't know." "You can tell me, talk to me." "No, it's just, I don't know the answers to your questions." "It's just slightly embarrassing..." "Sorry." "It's all right!" "I've never met..." "I've never spoken to, I've never seen a guy that I really think I could completely open myself up to." "I think that the whole point of being with someone is so you can talk to them and let go of everything and even when you're at your worst, they still like you, still want to speak to you and care about you and stuff." "But you don't... you don't feel that you've found that yet?" "No." "No, who genuinely finds love at my age and stays with someone forever?" "It doesn't happen." "Things are always so tricky at your age." "I think you'll find it." "I mean, ultimately, it's friendship, isn't it?" "And..." "That's what I want." "I want a real friendship with someone." "You know, who I can trust with all my secrets and all my weird habits, and my nerdy little things." "And they'll still love me for it." "We want the story that comes before the final sentence, which is," ""The door slammed shut..." What?" "".." "Never to be opened again."" "Now, that is the final sentence of your short stories." "OK?" "Door, question mark." "What is the door?" "Where could the door be?" "In the classroom." "No, not now, in your story, when it comes to writing your story, which I'm going to ask you to do in a min... in a minute." "In a minute." "A pattern's emerging." "Has anybody got any bigger, brighter ideas?" "The door of a mental asylum." "The door of a mental asylum." "Miss!" "Miss!" "Miss!" "That could be very good." "Yes..." "Lorraine?" "Could it be a door to, like, a safe in a bank, maybe, y'know?" "Yeah..." "One of those big ones?" "..it could." "And what would that genre be?" "What if it was, like, a ghost, but it didn't know it was a ghost, and then it slammed the door of the ghost house and then it was a super-really-good story!" "Hi." "Hi." "Hi." "Do you want to go through here?" "There's the living room." "This is really nice." "Thanks." "Exactly what I imagined." "Oh, really?" "Yeah." "View's amazing." "I like it." "Will you tell me about this guy you're seeing?" "What do you want to know about him, Karen?" "Are you happy?" "I don't know." "It's really..." "It's, erm..." "It's really..." "It's just a complicated situation..." "I can do complicated." "And we talk about everything." "He's married." "Sorry." "Don't say sorry." "I can't see you like this." "I've never... felt like this around anyone before." "Me too." "And it feels amazing... and scary." "You make me really happy." "I really like Miss Shawcross." "Yeah?" "Mm." "Yeah, she's really cool." "She's..." "I mean, you..." "We get on, don't we?" "We get on with her." "She's nice." "Mm." "I think that you probably get on more with her than I do, you know?" "You've got a bit of a connection or something..." "She's cool." "She seems to like you too, like..." "There's nothing going on with you and her, is there?" "No!" "No, not at all." "No." "That would be weird." "No." "She's my teacher, that's it." "Yeah, that little flag there, that is one of my uncle's lobster pots." "Shall we get some lobster?" "I'm fine." "What's the matter, Holly?" "Look, I can't do this any more." "You can't do what any more?" "I don't want to be with you any more." "I'm going to go." "I'm going to go." "Yeah, maybe you should, yeah." "Look, Holly, please, don't do this to me." "No, don't get out the car." "Please don't grab me." "I'm going to go home." "Why don't you get in the car?" "I'm just going to walk." "No, David, don't." "Please don't follow me." "No, don't!" "Holly, just stop a second." "Look, it's over." "Please, darling." "It's over." "Holly, just get in the car." "Let me drive you home at least." "I'll be all right." "'Face forward, please.'" "If we could face the front, please, er, because what we're about to do is quite important now that you're all approaching your GCSEs." "We're going to practise writing under controlled conditions." "Ten minutes towards the end of your exam," "I will let you know that it is almost over and you should complete your work." "Has anyone got any questions, please?" "I've got a question." "Yes?" "How long have you been screwing Karen?" "How long?" "How long?" "How long?" "Anyone got any constructive questions?" "How long?" "OK, Chris, thanks very much." "Everybody carry on with your work." "It's ten past one." "Off you go." "Do you know how sick that is?" "OK, Chris, enough!" "Chris!" "That is sick!" "Chris, enough!" "Get your stuff." "I can't deal with this." "Get your stuff, get out of my class." "It's rude." "You're a very rude boy." "Get your stuff." "Get your bag, get your coat, get out of my class!" "GET OUT NOW!" "You're going to take a yellow form and go to Mr Stabley's room now and you are going to tell him why I've sent you out of this class!" "Oh, I'll tell him." "Get out of the class, please." "I need to know why you told him." "What?" "What?" "Why did you tell him?" "I didn't tell anything, Karen." "I don't know what you're talking about." "I know you did." "I watched you in there." "You couldn't look at me." "I don't know what you're talking about." "Did you see how upset she got?" "I love her." "What?" "You love her?" "Do you know how disgusting that is?" "That's your teacher, you know." "Karen!" "You know what?" "Yeah, I did tell everyone!" "Sweetheart?" "Mum, please stop doing this." "Doing what?" "You realise this is our relationship now?" "This is all we ever do." "You sit there and ask, "What's wrong?" ""Why are you not happy?" "Who are you seeing?" It's really annoying me, Mum." "All I want is for you to be happy, sweet." "That's all." "We used to talk all the time." "For Christ's sake, Mum!" "I'm seeing a girl." "I'm seeing a girl." "A young girl." "She's 16." "She's a student of mine." "Can you understand that?" "Can you get alongside with that?" "What are you saying?" "Is it easier for you to hear that?" "Just a minute." "A student of yours?" "You're a teacher." "Mm." "I don't know what..." "Why are you doing this?" "What are you saying to me?" "You see, Mum, I'm in love!" "I don't think you know what love is." "I'm in love with her." "You've got a student who has a crush on you." "This is completely..." "All right, all right!" "I'm going to have to go." "What do you mean?" "I'm going to have to leave." "I can't..." "I can't stay." "It's..." "Why?" "Because everybody knows what's going on between us." "I think there are going to be big repercussions and I need to go somewhere else before it all happens." "I just feel like everyone's slowly closing in on us and I..." "Hold my hand." "I have to go." "I could come with you." "I want to come with you." "You can't just..." "I can." "No." "I want to be with you every day like this." "Lesbian." "Lesbian." "Lesbian." "Lesbian." "Lesbian." "Lesbian." "Lesbian." "Lesbian." "Lesbian." "Lesbian!" "Lesbian!" "Lesbian!" "LESBIAN!" "LESBIAN!" "LESBIAN!" "LESBIAN!" "LESBIAN!" "LESBIAN!" "LESBIAN!" "LESBIAN!" "LESBIAN!" "LESBIAN!" "David?" "We're not good, are we?" "I'm..." "I'm all right." "You don't seem, um... er, as happy." "My daughter went to university." "We're all missing her."