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ACT I - SCENE X

ACT I

SCENE X

[Setting: In the school's cafeteria. It was a medium-sized hall with wooden tables that could take up to eight students at a time, but QUINN was on a table at the back sitting next to CODY whose usual pale colorful face was red.]

QUINN: Are you worried about something?

CODY: No... (Looks up from his plate of beans to look over at QUINN.)

QUINN: You look uncomfortable. (Frowns.)

CODY: (Sighs.) People are staring at us.

QUINN: (Looks up.) Oh.

[The whole cafeteria was indeed looking their way, some people turned away when QUINN looked up, but KARL and LINDSEY had their eyes fixed on him and CODY. Everyone was wondering what QUINN was doing with the weird kid that moved around the school building like a ghost. He'd barely been two meters away from his friend group, and now he was sitting with—in kind words—the school's outcast.]

CODY: (Looks away.)

QUINN: Do you want me to leave.

CODY: (Shrugs.)

[When QUINN had spotted him the cafeteria and left his friends to join him he'd been a bit surprised, but QUINN came with a smile and offered him food his mum had made him come to school with.]

QUINN: You should really start saying more of yes or no.

CODY: (Looks up, and visibly sighed from relief when he noticed QUINN was smiling.) I really don't know. You can leave if you want. I don't want people to give you trouble because of me—

QUINN: I'll stay.

CODY: (Blinks before looking away.) Okay.

[Although the cafeteria stared on QUINN stayed with CODY, easing his anxiousness by talking to the smaller boy. He found it a bit perplexing that CODY seemed so scared. The other kids were just looking because they were curious — QUINN would know, he got stared at all the time.

QUINN smiled when he noticed that CODY seemed calmer, and they began to talk.]

QUINN: Did you sneak in just fine?

CODY: (Frowns before relaxing his facial features when he realized what QUINN is talking about.) Yeah, I did. I didn't see my brother either.

QUINN: That's good to hear.

CODY: (Smiles.) Thanks for letting me stay over at your place.

QUINN: It's no problem. It was nice to have company as I waited.

[QUINN and CODY continued talking until a chough made them look up. QUINN frowned when he realized it was LINDSEY. She had an odd smile on her face.]

QUINN: What do you want.

LINDSEY: (Shrugs before folding her hands over her chest) Nothing, I just came to take a closer look.)

CODY: (Looks from QUINN to LINDSEY.)

[CODY began to wonder if he was now in the middle of a lover's quarrel. He looked over at LINDSEY, wondering if she was the person QUINN was dating. CODY thought QUINN had to be dating someone, girls were always flocking about him, so it only made sense.]

QUINN: (Looks back down at his plate of food) Well then, have a long hard look.

[After a while LINDSEY did leave, but she didn't go without making a blowing motion with her hands as she sucked on her cheeks. QUINN didn't seem to notice, but CODY felt like a bucket of cold water had been poured on him.]

[Does she know I like him? CODY thought to himself, making his hands into fists in attempts to stop his hands from shaking.]

Curtains fall.