Syn- 4

An autumn morning outside the front entrance of a secondary school. Shane, late teens walks into school, dressed in dark jeans, a stripy scarf and deep blue jumper. Who keeps himself to himself and not interacting with other students or staff. He continues down the corridors occasionally looking around him to see what is happening. Students around are talking and laughing in small groups, no one is noticing Shane. As Shane walks trough the doors at the end of the corridor he gazes around at the people and through some shrubbery he notices a small year 7 boy being bullied by older boys on the piazza. The group of older boys have short ties and their shirts un-tucked form their trousers, whereas the small year 7 boy is smart dressed with a full tie and jumper and black trousers. Still hidden by the shrubbery, Shane freezes as he hears threats by the older boys. As he continues to listen new voices delivering even more violent threats fill his ears. He watches on in distress focusing mainly on the older boys. He slowly edges forward towards the bullies, muffling something underneath his breath. The smaller boy keeps looking at Shane, whilst backing away into the distance. The older boys’ attention is drawn to Shane, as he approaches them. The group start walking towards Shane shouting ‘Oi… What are you looking at?’ Shane responds saying ‘what did the year 7 do that deserved him to be bullied?’ The boys move closer to Shane. Other students begin to gather around the argument to watch. The group of boys are now really close to Shane who asks them to stop bulling someone who is younger than them; they refuse. Face to face within inches of Shane, they shout at him to move out the way. Shane stands his ground. The boys start pushing him whilst shouting out him to move. Shane turns as if to walk away… there’s a moment’s pause and then he turns back and hits the leader of the group. Everyone around looks on in shock, whilst Shane stands there and looks at the boy on the ground and then up to the younger year 7 boy.