Afterschool Page #5

- Rob, it's not your fault.

Can I tell you something?

And you promise

you won't tell anybody?

Swear?

I knew the girls

were using drugs.

I knew they had issues.

I knew a year ago.

They stopped coming to see me.

This year, other kids

were talking about it.

I hear what's going on.

Anyway...

I decided to tell, you know,

the school.

I felt like the girls

were in danger, and...

they told me

they didn't want to hear it,

that the Talberts were

too important to this school

and friends with certain people

and, uh...

they weren't worried about it,

so...

Nothing you can do,

nothing I can do.

In case you thought there was,

there wasn't.

[strained breathing]

[screaming]

- Okay, I'm excited

to see what you got.

Should I turn off the lights?

- Yeah.

- Oh, gosh.

Look at them.

- Okay, so it's not

completely done yet.

It's-it's close, I think.

- My mother once

knew a girl who-

she was at a party,

and she overdosed on drugs,

and her friends thought

that she just passed out

because she had drank too much,

and so they took her

to the school,

to the parking lot,

and they just laid her

in the rain,

thinking it would be funny,

but, really, it wasn't,

because she died there, and...

- I don't know,

they liked to have fun.

They were real cool girls.

I didn't know them as well

freshman year,

but obviously they-

they were a little intimidating

in the beginning,

because they were

so pretty and-

they sort of took over

as soon as they got here,

and it took me a little while

to get into

the swing of things,

so I didn't think I deserved to

hang out with them right away,

but, um...

they were-

they were more genuine

than I thought they were.

So they were

a lot more approachable.

So it was really cool

for me to-

I don't know.

I sort of felt honored to be

able to hang out with them.

- No.

But they-

They always seemed like

they were having fun,

and everyone always

talked about them...

and I guess they were

the kind of girls

I would like to be like,

and it's weird

that they're not there anymore.

- I'd really just ask them

about their, you know,

final experiences on this Earth

and just what

they were thinking,

any remorse for any mistakes

they had made, any...

- It was always a marvel to-

I'm sorry, can we-

can I-can we start again?

It was always a marvel to me

to see how two young women

who seemed so similar-

Was that serious, Robert?

- What do you mean?

- Is there something

wrong with you, Robert?

I'm no editor,

but I can safely say

that was probably

the worst thing I've ever seen.

You didn't even have music.

I'm gonna tell Mr. Wiseman

to have someone else

re-edit everything.

I'm very disappointed.

[voices overlapping]

- I like pudding.

Don't you like pudding?

[voices overlapping]

- Yo, Rob,

let me get the homework, man.

- No.

- Give it to me.

- No.

- Yo, Max.

- Yeah?

- Can I get the homework?

- Okay, fine.

Here.

[voices overlapping]

- F***ing p*ssy.

- F*** you!

You f***ing killed them!

You f***ing

killed them!

- Come on.

Come on, outside.

- You almost killed Dave.

Do you realize that, Rob?

There are a lot of people who

think you should be expelled.

You boys are roommates.

Friends.

What would make you

want to do that?

I know this has been

a tough time for you,

Rob, in particular.

It's been a difficult time

for everybody here.

Dave, I can only hope

you've been there for him.

- Yeah.

I've been really worried

about Rob.

He's been acting

really weird lately.

- Rob, calm down!

All right.

Dave, um...

I need you to give Rob and I

a few minutes.

Then I'll come

and talk to you.

I've heard things

from Mr. Virgil.

There are a lot of things

he says

that really worry me, buddy.

The things you've been

looking at on the computer,

that's not good.

A lot of things,

and the kind of things parents

don't want to know

about their son.

And there was something else,

something you kept saying.

Do you remember

what you kept saying, Rob?

You were cursing like a madman,

and you were saying,

"You killed them.

You killed them.

You killed them. "

What did you mean, Rob?

- I'm sorry, Mr. Burke.

I don't know what I was saying.

- Were you talking

about the Talbert Twins?

- No, Mr. Burke.

I don't think

I was talking about anything.

- It's a serious allegation,

Robert.

That's why I'm asking you

like this.

I know Dave,

and I know his parents.

He's a good kid.

He's like you,

just a little troubled

right now.

Were you trying to say

Dave had something to do with

the death, Rob?

And if you know something,

please say it now.

- No.

- All right, Rob.

I had to clear that up.

There's something I haven't

really said out there

to the other kids,

but...

no one knows where the girls

purchased the drugs

that they got for sure.

It's scary to think it could

have been someone in the school.

But the truth is, Rob,

we all kind of gave the girls

those drugs that day.

Do you see, it's not just

one person's fault, Rob.

It's everyone's.

In a way, it's mine.

And, in a way,

it's your fault, Rob.

In a way, we all kind of gave

the girls those drugs that day.

Do you see?

In a way, we all did.

We're not gonna expel you,

buddy.

I think what you need

is some time away, back home.

I've talked to your parents,

and they're obviously very

concerned.

It could be a couple of weeks

or a couple of months,

but when you're ready

to come back,

Bryton will be here for you.

Robert?

Can you get up?

It was always a marvel to me,

to see how two young women

who seemed so similar

could be so different.

Anne and Mary,

we'll miss you terribly.

- Whenever I would see

the girls pass by my office

before morning meeting,

they always had a smile

on their face,

and they would always wave.

I'm gonna miss them.

They were a bright spot

in the day

and in the week for me.

- Nothing like this should ever

happen to anybody.

You'll be missed.

Take care.

- I was happy

to have known them,

and I miss them.

- Bryton won't be the same

without you.

- You're the most

beautiful girls I've ever seen,

and I'm really gonna miss

seeing you around campus.

Good-bye, Anne and Mary.

- Good-bye, Anne and Mary.

- I'm gonna miss you.

- I would say

that she was the best person

that I ever knew

in my entire life.

- I will miss you.

- I never knew

the Talbert Twins,

but I'd always admired them.

We'll all really miss them.

Our hearts go out

to their parents.

- To the students of Bryton,

we want to thank you very much

from the bottom of our hearts

for all of your well-wishes

and your kind words,

flowers, cards,

the many things

that you sent to us.

- Anne and Mary loved

many of you very much,

and we do hope that

in the future of this school,

that will never happen again.

[applause]

- That was beautiful.

Please join me

in a moment of silence

in memory of Anne and Mary.

Thank you.

I'd like to give

another round of applause

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