SWITCH

27 3 3
                                    

Jenny is timid and shy 16 year old. In this scene she is running down a hill in the middle of the forest. Her clothes are torn from top to bottom and her body is covered in injuries, out of nowhere, she trips on a tree branch and falls several feet down the hill, with all the energy she has left, she shouts out for help and then falls unconscious. In the next scene, Jenny is in the hospital, the severity of her injuries are clearly visible, earlier fortunately, a by passer found her in the woods and brought her to the hospital outside, two police officers are talking about the case, judging by the previous bullying reports the officer is know that Jenny was bullied by the girls at her school, but before continuing the case, they will have to get a statement from Jenny, they also tried to contact Jenny's parents but it turns out that her mother died a few years ago and her father is overseas, he doesn't want to be in her life and doesn't care whether she leaves or dies. When she woke up the , the head police detective, Mr Grant introduces himself, he asked her a lot of questions about her health and the incident that happened today before but Jenny remains silent throughout the entire interrogation. They are disrupted by her form teacher Ms .Brown she quickly tells the officer to leave and let the girl rest, her intentions are very clear when she tries to stop Jenny from revealing who did this to her. Mr. Grant then noticed three middle aged women the are the mother of the girls who are suspected of bullying Jenny, he thought that they wanted to threaten Jenny or bribe her into saying nothing , he asked them to go away since they are legally not allowed to see or meet the victim but the women are persistent, their husbands are people with money and power which makes them think that their daughters can do anything and get away with it. Mr. Grant says that their daughters were the ones who called Jenny into the forest but the mother is non-chantly claimed that the girls were just hanging out, when the argument starts to get fired up Jenny asked him to go away because she wants to race. After the incident the form teacher Miss Brown meets the school principal. Both of them knows very well that Jenny was bullied, so to save the school's reputation the principal askMiss Brown to transfer Jenny to another school when she recovers. He hides his corruption by pretending to be worried about the school boys future. A few weeks later Jenny recovers from the injuries and can finally walk around, Mr Grant has tried to ask her about the incidents several times in the past week but Jenny still hasn't said anything, due to proper evidence because he's handed over to a counseling guidance teacher, and the bullies are let free once more. One night Jenny let the negative thoughts gets the best of her and tries to commit the unthinkable but has to stop when a lady walks into the hospital. The lady is the counseling guidance teacher Miss Henry. Miss Henry has seen a lot of students like Jenny and help them heal after being traumatized, she isn't like any normal teach, she was also bullied in her school and know how it feels like to be weak so, she helps her take revenge on the bullies, she doesn't seem to feel sorry for Jenny, she makes her remember the events of the other night which makes Jenny breakdown and cry, when she comes down Miss Henry ask her to be alive until she returns again. On the day Jenny is being discharged, she is visited by the leader of the bullies, she has brought her a new school uniform, knowing that her old one is torn up. The girl shows no remorse for almost killing Jenny and tells her, she is better off dead, love you before I leaving she threatens Jenny to keep away from the police, after she leaves Miss Henry enters the room having heard all their conversation, she brings Jenny to her house and help her settle in after that, Jenny goes to the neighborhood where her mother used to live before her day, she is remembering about the past when a by passer catches her attention, she follows the girl and soon find out she is her identical twin, Lisa. Jenny tries to reunite with her but Lisa walks away on interested, it is revealed that the girl's parents got divorced before they were born, the couple was not on good terms, so the father never wanted anything to do with Jenny and Lisa, but with time the mother's financial condition got worse so, she left Jenny at her father's home and started to leave live with Lisa. The sisters never met after the incident ,Jenny had to live with her father who thought of her as a burden. The next day, Miss Henry follows Lisa to the convenience store and noticed her shoplifting. She stops her outside and asked for help, even when she was told that her sister was almost bullied to death , determines uninterested in the conversation, she only agrees to help when Miss Henry offers her money in the evening, the three met at Henry's house, she suggest that they live there for a week or so until the plan comes to a conclusion, Lisa is not a fan of the idea about agreed to do it anyway but then, she is told that she will have to go to school as Jenny to teach the bullies a lesson , Lisa drop out of school a year ago. To her, no amount of money is worth going back to school again. She refuses to corporate and storms off the apartment. A few minutes later she receives a video in a group chat, the video is of Jenny getting bullied, a group of girls tear her clothes and shoves her to the ground and kick her repeatedly while a girl with an obnoxious laughs films everything.

SWITCHWhere stories live. Discover now