Young Writers Society

The Lights

Scene 1

Sarah, Keith, Sophie, Laura, Tammy&Callum are standing underneath a lamppost.

The village strikes 10o'clock

Sophie: We’ve to be home at half ten, Laura, OK.

Laura: Yes, OK

Keith: Do you do everything your mum tells you?

Laura: NO!

Sophie: It’s just we are going swimming tomorrow at 7 in the morning

Callum: Why?

Laura: we’re training with the school swim team

Keith: why do you even go to it Jamie used to be in it and Billy Bradley is in it

(To Callum) you know the one that was in our math’s class last year

Laura: We don't care who's...

All the lampposts go out and they’re in the dark

Tammy:(scared) what just happened?

Keith: It’s just a power cut

A bright light came from the old graveyard up the hill.

Sarah: Yeah, well what’s that!

Tammy:I'm scared!

Keith: It’s just a light it can't do any thing to us!

Sarah; yeah, but what's making the light?

Tammy: Let’s go home! I'm scared!

Callum: Yeah, I agree let's go

Keith turns to Callum and can't believe his ears

Keith: What!

Callum: HELLO, it’s Halloween

Keith: and?

Callum: It’ll be some drunks who’ll be carrying on. They’ll come this way soon.

Keith: You’re just chicken (walks around Callum clucking)

Callum: No I’m not!!

Keith: prove it then!

Callum: how?

Keith: Walk up there. By yourself

Sarah: shut up Keith, he doesn’t need to do it if he doesn’t want to.

Callum: it’s all right I’ll do it

Callum starts to walk away

Tammy: don’t go!

Sophie: Tammy fancies Callum!

Tammy: No I don’t!

Laura mimes to Sarah and Sophie she does

They can no longer she Callum

They hear a scream coming from where the light is

Keith: come on we need to go see what happened

They run along the road

When they get to the light it’s gone but they see Callum lying on the ground

Tammy: I told him he shouldn't’t have came by himself

Sarah looks into the trees

Keith: what are you looking at?

A hooded figure comes out of the trees

To be continued………