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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Written By SUNRAJ BOLINA

Oaks Park High School 45-65 Oaks Lane Newbury Park Ilford IG2 7PQ sunraj@hotmail.co.uk

FADE IN INT. SCHOOL CORRIDOR - AFTERNOON The school bell rings to signal it is home time; students rush out the classrooms and exit the corridor. FADE TO: EXT. GATE - AFTERNOON Students walk along the path to exit the school DISSOLVE TO: EXT. STREET - EVENING LUCY (17) walks down the street as she listens to music through her earphones; she looks at her phone to check the time. INERCUT MR WICKS IN SCHOOL INT. SCHOOL CLASSROOM - EVENING MARK (17) is in detention after school for behaving badly, MR WICKS (35) is with him (teacher) MARK is sitting in front of the teacher doing his classwork looking ashamed. MR WICKS is marking students homework effortlessly.

INTERCUT TO LUCY EXT. OUTSIDE LUCYS HOUSE - EVENING LUCY arrives at her house and takes her keys out of her bag, she opens the door and enters the hallway INTERCUT TO MR WICKS MR WICKS looks at the clock to check the time, MARKS detention is over.

MR WICKS You can go now MARK MARK puts his papers and pen in his bag; he gets up and looks at MR WICKS angrily. He walks to the door, urgently opens it and exits the classroom. MR WICKS gets up and puts his equipment and papers in his bag. He looks around the classroom to check if it is tidy, walks towards the door, turns off the light and leaves. INT. CORRIDOR EVENING MR WICKS locks the door and walks down the corridor where he exists. INTERCUT TO LUCY INT. HALLWAY/BEDROOM EVENING LUCY looks exhausted as she goes straight upstairs into her bedroom. She drops her bag and sits down on her bed. LUCY picks up a photo album which has the print MUM written on it; she looks upset as she looks through the pictures. INTERCUT TO MR WICKS EXT. STREET EVENING

MR WICKS walks down the street, he arrives at his house, gets his keys out of his blazer pocket and opens the door INT. HALLWAY - EVENING MR WICKS enters the hallway; he drops his bag and walks inside the living room. INTERCUT TO LUCY LUCY begins to whimper as she turns over the page of the photo album, she glares at a certain photo then smiles and softly touches the photo. INTERCUT TO MR WICKS INT. LIVING ROOM EVENING MR WICKS walks towards the mantel piece and focuses his attention on a memorial plaque which has Lindy Wicks 1966 December 2012 printed on it. MR WICKS (Loudly)Lucy? (Prolonging) Luuucy? MR WICKS looks confused as his daughter does not respond even though he knows that he is at home after seeing her bag in the hallway when he entered. He walks out of the living room and makes his way upstairs towards LUCYS bedroom. INT. LUCYS BEDROOM EVENING MR WICKS worriedly enters LUCYS bedroom, LUCY does not respond to him entering her room. He walks towards LUCY and gently touches her on the shoulder. LUCY jumps and quickly turns her head. She softly sighs as she realises it was her father. MR WICKS

Hey what you up to? LUCY Just looking at some photos of mum. LUCY rubs her eyes in despair. MR WICKS sits beside her and they both look through the photos. LUCY I miss her so much! MR WICKS Yeah me too, I cant believe two years have gone by; if she was still here things would be so different. LUCY Weve still got each other MR WICKS smiles as they both look at each other, he moves even close to LUCY. MR WICKS You remind me of your mother so much, so beautiful MR WICKS moves LUCYS hair behind her ear. He undoes his top button and takes off his tie. MR WICKS puts their photo album on the floor. LUCY looks uncomfortable as MR WICKS begins to undo his buttons on his shirt. MR WICKS Leans close to LUCY, the camera pans to the right showing the photo album FADE OUT INT. (2 WEEKS LATER) LIVING ROOM EVENING MR WICKS is calmly watching television whilst enjoying a couple of beers. INT. BATHROOM EVENING

LUCY is crying, her mascara is running down her eyes as she looks at herself in the mirror in disgust. She slowly and quietly backs away from the mirror and lowers herself to the ground where she begins to (softly) whimper even more. LUCY hears a loud bang from downstairs; she quickly gets up and wipes the running mascara off her face while looking in the mirror again. LUCY reaches in her pocket and pulls out a pregnancy test; her hand is shaking as she holds it. FADE OUT END