↓ TranscriptChapter 38 (The backboard of the basketball hoop reads: PLEASE DO NOT HANG FROM THE RING) — Alt text: There is a content warning for this chapter! Please see the ‘about’ page.
Chapter 38
↓ Transcript(Emily is studying in her room. Dee appears behind her. She turns in shock.) Emily: DEE!? Dee: Don’t waste your breath. I’ll go away soon. — Alt text: /cornelius fudge voice/ HE’S BACK
↓ TranscriptEmily: What – ? Dee: You have to go to your school. Emily: I – what? Why? Dee: It’s urgent. Emily: Urgent how? What’s this about, tell me what’s going on! Dee: No. Emily: Wha- No!? Dee: You can’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptDee (shrugging): Whatever. But you’ll regret it tomorrow. Maybe forever. Emily: Why are you being deliberately annoying? There’s no need to be cryptic! Dee: … Emily: -SIGH- FINE. So are we flying there or what? Dee: No, ride your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(Emily hops up to piggy-back on Dee with a ‘hup’. They speed through the night, and she hops down again. Dee points towards the doors of a building which says ‘SPORTS CENTRE’.) Dee: In there. Emily: Is it unlocked…[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(Emily sees something, gasps, and starts to run. A girl is standing on a chair in the gym, about to hang herself from the basketball hoop. She kicks the chair and it clatters to the floor, but Emily runs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptEmily: OH GOD (The girl is spluttering and gasping; Emily hooks the chair upright again with her foot and puts them both on it, trying to undo the knot.) Emily: SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT (Girl continues to choke.) Emily:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(Emily snatches the scythe from Dee’s hand.) Dee: Don’t cut her! (Emily snips the skipping rope away with the tip of the scythe; the girl gasps for breath.) Emily: There you go… there there… it’s off now… (The girl[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptEmily: Um… would you like a glass of water? Girl (voice weak): um… yes please (Emily leaves and returns with a paper cup full of water.) Girl: Th-thank you (Emily brings a second chair and sits in silence beside[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptEmily: But if you do want to, I’m here to listen. Makes sense if you don’t, though. Ah, I don’t really know what I’m doing an- Girl: My mum SAID she would pick me up. Emily: Sorry? Girl: We’d[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…