Handsome Devil Page #4

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Okay then, be high.

Okay.

One, two, three, four.

Think that was alright.

Yeah.

Stop, stop, stop, stop.

Conor, sport, kicking,

takes a quiet mind,

you need to have nothing

going on in there.

Okay?

So what's eating you?

Sir,

sometimes I just

feel like a robot.

Doing this again and again.

Maybe there's a little

more to life than.

You have a rare gift.

And you need to use it.

And recently I've noticed

you hanging around

with different

people, that's fine,

I suppose, whatever.

But here's the thing son,

you lie down with

dogs, you get fleas.

Have you identified the fleas?

Don't complicated this son.

There's you and that and those.

Now come on.

For fucks sake.

Good morning Pascal.

Walter.

Question?

Have you run a background

check on Dan Sherry?

And why would I do that?

Sherry's not married, is he?

What are you asking?

I don't know what I'm asking

only I'm sure you notice

that Conor masters level

is dropping, he misses

a number of kicks

in the match yesterday and

then very late last night,

I encounter him sauntering

back to school drunk

in the company of a

certain Dan Sherry.

I want you to Walter,

I'm concerned.

Did you not take the boys

for a celebratory glass

of beer last night?

- Yes but that was just...

- But nothing.

If you don't know what

you're asking, Pascal,

be careful what

you're insinuating.

Walter, I need your support.

Everything hinges on this.

We, the team, we need it.

Dan Sherry is a

teacher in this school

just like you and I.

This is the team.

Sherry is like me?

Nah, I don't think so.

Listen, forget it, it's fine.

I just wanted to put my

concerns on the record in case,

that's all.

In case of what?

Boys Conor's age are

highly impressionable.

You know this.

Certain types of people

as teachers around kids,

once you know for certain

that those certain types

of people are those

certain types of people,

I mean, I would consider

myself a Christian

and a liberal but...

but?

But those certain

aforementioned types of people,

those certain types of behaviors

are seriously not cool.

Not cool near children.

You know this.

Thank you Pascal.

I mean, you have

to know that Walter.

Thank you Pascal.

Thank you Walter.

Okay, this is a

lesson in projection.

What?

In projection, yes.

Yes, move back.

Keep going, keep going,

keep going, keep going,

stop, stop, stop, stop.

Okay, when you sing tomorrow,

you can't whimper like some

weird little field mice.

Okay, you've got to project.

Reveal to me who

you are if you dare.

Let your voices

bounce off the walls.

Alright, begin.

I can't hear you.

At all.

What?

Louder!

Yes, louder.

Louder, louder, come one!

Better.

I just have to

do more, you know,

flexibility, conditioning.

That's your out-half there.

Any idea why Conor

left his old school?

No.

You have a cousin at

st Barts, don't you?

Well, he's actually

a second cousin.

But actually, I was

meant to go there myself

but when my dad died...

he's letting all our

hard work go to waste.

I wouldn't be happen about that

if I was on his team.

Matter of fact, I'd be raging.

Knock, knock.

Ah, there's Conor.

Hey, can I ask you something?

Yeah.

Yeah, why are you hanging

out with that freak Ned?

That freak Ned is my mate.

Your mate how?

He's my roommate weasel.

Oh, okay, got you.

Everything okay up there?

Everything's

really good, Conor.

Just, I have cousin in st Barts.

Well, second cousin.

But I know everyone says

you left your old school

because I don't know, you

were fighting all the time

but I was talking to

him and I was wondering,

what was the reason, you know,

for all this fighting.

Why the fighting, you know?

What do you want, weasel?

Conor, I promised my father,

on his death bed, that

I would do everything

in my power to win that cup.

I'm not the only

one that's noticing

you're spending a lot of time

with the wrong kind of people.

What we're gonna do is,

you're gonna pick your

company a little bit better.

You're gonna focus

on the semi-final.

And we'll let the rumors

from your old school

be rumors from your old school.

Yeah, good.

Good chat.

Good chat.

When I woke up on

the day of the talent show,

and there was no sign of Conor.

I wasn't that surprised.

If you play for the rugby team,

you're up early for training.

You look up,

eyes up everybody.

You get to skip

all sorts of classes.

Especially when it

gets to the semi-final.

You're carrying the

hopes of the school

on your shoulders.

Is an education more

important than that?

But I was worried by six P.M.

He's not coming, okay.

Sir, I can't do it alone.

You can, you can do it.

So give it up for Clinton.

He's a genius.

He's not, he's not a genius.

How is he doing that?

All you need to

do is go out there

and let them hear your voice.

That's all, that's all

you need to do, okay?

From two current

Woodhill college students.

Hey good luck, don't

be nervous, you're fine.

One of us, actually.

Turns out there's

only one of us.

Oh Jesus.

Hey there Pascal.

Can I have a word?

It's a free country.

So you must be pretty

excited, quarter finals.

- Semi-finals.

- Semi-finals.

That's exciting, yeah.

It's no time for complacency.

No, no, no, quite.

So listen, Conor, he

didn't show up to sing

at the variety show.

He had kicking practice.

Oh, you knew about it.

Well in semi-final week our

out-half had more important

things on his mind.

Sure it wasn't you who had

other things on his mind?

I consider you something of

a Trojan horse, Sherry.

Not sure where

this is going, pas.

Encouraging Conor

masters to be a singer

one week before the

semi-final of the senior cup?

Come on, I'm

trying to help him.

You can have the weird

ones with the dyed hair

and the banjos.

I've got f*** all use of them.

No interest.

I say this to you the once,

you'd do well to let the

boy focus on his rugby.

You get me?

Got apple in your beard.

Meanwhile, the school rugby,

for out-half Conor masters.

Inspiration with

the ball at hand,

troubled off the kicking team.

Despite two penalty misses,

Woodhill college progresses

to their first senior

final in over a decade.

Everyone

who's ever been young,

so that's everyone ever,

knows just what

humiliation feels like.

But worse than the embarrassment

was Conor's vanishing act.

He had disappeared from my life.

And I can't believe

I'm about to say this

but I missed him.

We were friends.

I wasn't gonna give

that up without a fight.

Halt, who goes there?

Oh, can I help you?

I was looking for Conor.

So I can say well

done, is he in there?

Oh um, nope, he's

actually not in there.

I'm really sorry.

Maybe I'll just check.

Yeah well maybe

instead of checking,

you just piss off, does

that sound like a plan?

I'm not gonna tell you

again to piss off, okay?

F***.

Uh uh uh, no.

Hey Ned, Ned, leave it.

Come on man, just

leave him be, will you?

Thank you, I wanna go

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