Dark Park is a sequel to Scrubber-Town, but if anything is worse than its next door suburb. There are more cat fights, vandalism, especially by the Spite Club Girls, grafitti and bad behaviour in general, particularly emanating from the Dark Park
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When the bus pulled up outside the Dramatic Society Hall, the kids raced towards the entrance, hardly waiting for the bus to stop. No amount of yelling;
Stand in line please girls and boys, by Polly Parker-Carr or Alvin Foyle, the deputy principal, had the desired effect. They did have to wait for Alvin Foyle to unlock the door, nearly knocking him down in the process as they stampeded into the hall. Stace and I thought the place smelt stale and musty, but then hardly anyone ever uses it except the drama kids. Stace actually said it felt creepy and that was even before we knew about its haunting legend.
The Dark Park kids had been expecting instant music action by the DJ Rabbit Man. Remember he's a friend of Wade Blade and the Raving Lunatics crowd. He's one of the top DJs around town and has actually worked overseas in Asia and Alaska we hear, so we can't understand why he's working out of Scrubber Town. We think he has an apartment in Emu Heights, which is next door to Beauvais Heights, but we're not sure. Both places are upmarket, so he must be doing ok.
Anyway, all the kids by now were yelling and shouting: We want Rabbit Man, we want Rabbit Man. You couldn't hear yourself think.
Mr Foyle yelled back; Shut the hell up, yer little mongrels. Rabbit Man isn't going to be able to make it today. He's been arrested on DUI charges and is twiddling his thumbs in jail.
The kids then started chanting; We hate the pigs, we hate the pigs. Free Rabbit Man, free Rabbit Man.
Bloody shut up; Rabbit Man isn't coming; so save your voices.' Mr Foyle sounded really pissed off.
Then Polly Parker-Carr said in a few moments of silence; Quiet children, quiet please, I've saved the day. I've brought along my CD player and you can all listen to the radio or my special selection of 70's and 80's music, which is great for dancing.'
This didn't go down at all well, but nevertheless, once they had accepted that Rabbit Man definitely wasn't coming, a few of the mob started dancing . They managed to find a radio station with their kind of music and some of the girls started twerking, with the boys standing to one side egging them on.
Other kids found their way into the kitchen and began having an early supper.
Cut that out, screamed Fiona Fitch the science teacher. You can't start eating yet.
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Anyone for an early supper?
Try stopping us, Fitchy, said a couple of the boys and gave Fiona the finger. They then proceeded to offer food around to their mates. These were bacon and cheese fingers and we know for a fact that these are sold by the Stinky Deli and are a recipe for food poisoning..
Shall we tell them? Stace asked me. No, let them find out the hard way, I replied.
Then one of the boys without a shirt yelled: Crap food, crap music, crap teachers. Let's all escape to the Dark Park Tavern and he started to round willing kids up, which was just about everybody. Youse can't come he said to me and Stace, youse are too old. Youse could be cougars if youse want.
