[After Mini and her friends join Franky at lunch]
Haven't seen you around Bristol. How come you started so late?
I kind of, like, moved here.
[standing up] Look, if you are going to start shit now, then please could you get it over with, because I've had enough grief before, and I...
GraceBefore, like, Oxford, or past life before? Because I had a dream two Sundays ago that I was a slave actually working on a plantation and...
MLMini and Liv
[in unison] Shut up, Grace.
[Rich is sitting alone in a pub. Grace, dressed as a metalhead, comes to his table]
Grace
Shove up.
Sorry, someone's sitting here.
Grace
Oh yeah, who?
[looks up, notices Grace, and grins] You? Wha—
Grace
I'm Sub; short for Sub Rosa. Nice to meet you.
[Grace and Rich drink their pints in one go]
Grace
So... what do you do for fun, Rich?
Uh... listen to music, go to gigs, hang out with my mate Alo. That's about it, really.
Grace
You don't have any other friends? Just this "Alo" guy?
Grace
No-one else?
Well, recently, there's been a couple of other people... this girl, Franky, and... others.
Grace
Others?
Well, there's this girl who's been helping me, I suppose. Okay, what sort of music are you into, "Sub"?
Grace
Well, you know, industrial, mostly. Godflesh, early Scorn, TKK.
Grace
Fuck off! Trent Reznor can suck my cock! [beat] This girl, then, who's helping you. What do you think of her?
Grace
Honestly.
She's alright, but she lets people walk all over her, and her friends treat her like shit and she doesn't say a word.
Grace
Maybe she knows her friends love her?
Maybe she's got no fucking self-respect.
Grace
You think you know me, Rich. No-one fucking knows me. Not you, not Mini, not Liv. No-one's got a fucking clue what I am or what I can do.
[Blood rejects Grace's request to have friends over]
Grace
Why? Because education is war?
Education is war. Against inefficiency, ignorance, idleness, and chewing gum.
[David Blood decides to send Grace back to her old school.]
Grace
[hesitatingly] Dad, I can explain.
There's no need. I think our little experiment may be over. It's time you returned to Mayberry's College For Young Ladies.
Grace
[protests] No! You can't send me back there! It's in the middle of nowhere, and everyone's horrible and smells of horses!
This place is bad for you. These friends I see you with, they distract you from your studies.
Grace
[tearing up] But you don't know Rich or my friends! And I get As for everything! [shouting] EVERYTHING!
[Rich is beyond surprised when he finds out that his girlfriend, Grace, is the headmaster's daughter.]
Grace
Shh. He doesn't want people to know!
Grace
He thinks it will compromise his position if people know he has a daughter in college. He made me promise.
Grace
You're very sweet. But this can't happen, Rich. There's nothing we can do, it's over.
Oh, whilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?
Grace
Tell me. Tell me what to do. What's left to do?
The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine. What do people in Shakespeare do when it's all fucked, when they're trapped? How do they work it all out? Maybe stories are just stories. Or maybe... we can make our life a story. So marry me, Grace Violet Blood.
[Grace and Rich kiss]
Grace
Oh, wonder. How many goodly creatures are there here. How beauteous mankind is. Oh, brave new world. That has such people in it.
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