↓ Transcript(School bell RRRRRIIIINNGGG) Abe: … Yeah, yeah, I’ll talk to him. Sheesh. Not like he’ll listen, probably… ABE DID AS HE SAID. WE STILL BUTTED HEADS, BUT AT LAST MADDY SEEMED HASSLE-FREE AND HAPPY. (Emily and Iris at the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptAbe: Hey! You can’t just go throwing around violence and threats like this! Emily: Watch me! I broke a guy’s nose once for picking on me. She’s basically my little sister! Markus: What’s going on? Abe: She says Samuel’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptEmily: ABE!! I’ve got a bone to pick with you! Abe: Oh yeah? What now? Emily: Your little brother is the piece of shit that’s been bullying Maddy! Abe: Is that so? Emily: Yeah! She missed the bus yesterday[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptEmily: Was that Samuel, from year 9? Maddy: Yeah, I think so. Emily: I should’ve known, he’s Abe’s brother. When I next see Abe – ! This is not on! I’m sorry, I really rigged the social circuit against[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptEmily: Maddy! Are you alright? Maddy: Y-yeah. Emily: I’m sorry, Maddy, I’m so sorry… Did they hurt you? Maddy: No… But they took my library book. Did we miss the bus? Emily: Yeah, but we can take the public[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(Emily peers around the corner to see three boys throwing Maddy’s things around while she is cornered.) Boy: Catch! Other boy: Hehe Emily: HEY!! Boy: Oh no RUN Emily: Yeah you better run!! I’ll get you!!! — Alt text:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptEmily: MADDY! (She wanders around the school grounds searching. Eventually she hears voices around a corner.) One: Haha! Another: Give it back! I’m gonna miss my bus! A third: Come get it then! — Alt text: the school is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptEmily: I know that seems the obvious thing to do, but I don’t really know how to. Iris: At least you speak the same language! And don’t you work with old people? Emily: They’re not just any old people![…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptIris: I don’t see why not. Look, this stuff… it’s complicated. There’ve been times I said I was plain Australian. And times I said just Sri Lankan. I can’t even talk to my grandparents cos they don’t speak English[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptEmily: Because… my grandma’s from China, and my grandpa’s half Chinese too, so I’m… nearly half, and… probably I’m… meant to acknowledge that? But I never have. None of my family really… I don’t know. I’ve always said I’m[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…