Standing Up

Synopsis: Johnny Kroftman, a 20-year-old, man encounters trials when his step-father doesn't approve of his sexual orientation and kicks him out of the only home he's known.
Year:
2012
7 min
182 Views


I read about a monkey / i

the Russians sent into space. / i

They knew it would die after some / i

weeks due to the heat from the sun. / i

They said atrejsen was priceless / i

for spatial program's future. / i

I wonder what made them / i

to choose the monkey? / i

And if it was so unique, / i

why they put so its life at stake? / i

If the monkey had known / i

why they chose it - / i

- was it really so / i

behaved differently? / i

cry it when it realized / i

what they had done? / i

Ready?

Sometimes popular children / i

be very cruel. / i

They can get a person to / i

feel completely worthless. / i

Detprvede they with me / i

at Camp Tall Pine. / i

I thank God, / i

let anyone change mylife. / i

Hurry!

Pick up some wood for the fire.

I am looking for firewood.

Come on, Bryce!

Help me, boys!

- I do not really know Bryce.

- Do I have to do everything yourself?

Let go of me!

Stop it!

Let go of me!

Let go of me!

No, Bryce!

Stop it!

No!

- Look, he freezes.

- Can you believe it?

He does not display.

We run away.

- Is he doing?

- So what?

away! / i

- They left me ...

- Get out, I said: / i

They left me with no clothes on.

Let me inside.

Mosquitoes stab me,

and I'm cold.

Dumped also you?

Dumped also you?

Yes.

They left something for you?

Only a backpack with rubbish in.

Neither blankets or clothes?

- I'm cold.

- There are only a blanket.

I have.

We are certain this year's joke.

They will surely come back tomorrow

and laughing at us.

I hate them.

Really.

There is a candle

and a box of matches.

- I turn it on.

- Do not look at me. I mean it.

I thought we were grilling.

I'm so stupid.

What lured you out here?

They said that we should dump

Julia Christiansen.

We had to bathe naked,

and so we had to dump her.

Dumpty Julia Christiansen?

Is not she quite popular?

I thought they liked me.

Set we are gone,

when they come back?

Set we swim ashore, getting clothes

and show up for breakfast?

I will never see them more!

I will not talk about it anymore,

so shut up.

I'll burn to a fire.

We have to keep us warm.

They're coming back!

- They're coming back!

- Why is that?

They will probably shoot us

and force us to eat sand.

We go down to the water.

When they go up here, we take a canoe.

- Are you coming?

- I do not know.

- I go.

- Wait!

I'm coming with.

- Why do not we turn off the lights?

- If it burns, do they think we are here.

There are some kids down there.

What should we do now?

We swim.

Come on.

- I can not swim.

- And you say now?

You just hang on.

Can you do it?

Yes.

I can do that.

So sneaks we go there.

This flowing.

- Come on.

- I can not swim.

You do not.

I push you forward. Come on.

Come on!

It is so cold!

I'm losing grip.

No.

Hold on.

- They're not here.

- Are they swimming?

- She can not swim. Can he?

- He can swim, but it is 1.5 km.

Who think this is funny?

She wanted to go home, but I said,

that she would make good friends here.

She survives. This is

a tradition among the children.

An idiotic tradition.

I feel bad.

It is a cottage up on the hill.

Can you walk?

I think so.

Come on!

- Where are we?

- In the cottage. We broke into.

- How far is it to the camp?

- I do not know.

The power led us slightly off course.

Did you blanket over me?

On the beach?

If you talk about it here

I will kill you!

I found some new clothes.

Here.

Eat them here

you'll get better.

It does not work.

I fetch water from the lake.

- We should move to another location.

- Where to?

- I do not know. Somewhere.

- A place?

I have to call my mom.

So we are looking for a phone.

You should call your parents.

They are in Greece.

- What are they doing in Greece?

- They are archaeologists. They work there.

Had you not come?

No. They wanted me to meet

new friends of my own age.

That's what my mother too.

My mother might run you over

to someone from your family.

- Will she?

- She often drives for my friends.

I have many friends.

We should pay for this.

The shirt, pants, food

and the camera.

I make a list,

then we can come back later.

- I need to find a phone.

- We'll hitchhike into town.

No, I have not.

It is dangerous.

- You would not swim.

- And how was that?

- What are you doing?

- Stand still.

- Our first house.

- God ...

- What do you do?

- Come on!

- Go on.

- It is theft. Put them back.

Do it yourself.

We need them.

We pay them back.

I must remember the license plate.

- How much money do we have?

- Approximately $ 1.80.

- If you pay them back?

- Each one cent.

A phone.

Urbach can not impose on you

responsibility for its negligence.

I suggest you raise the action

to detect Urbachs unfit -

- To meet

its obligations.

I apologize.

Can you wait while I take it?

- Marcy, I did not want to be disturbed.

- It's your daughter. / i

Now comes your mother. / i

- Mother!

- Hey, baby. Is everything all right?

- I want to go home.

- You fell out with the other kids?

- They are hypocrites.

- Is detgrund enough to go home? / i

I therefore home mom.

Can you speak to the commanding officer?

She's nice.

- She's all right.

- Hold out for three weeks.

So we need two out on a trip.

Is it okay?

I therefore home mom.

Will not you ...

- You're not a little girl anymore.

- We let the girls loose it here.

I do not know, Mom.

I'm in a bad situation.

- Does not visit weekend soon?

- It's on Saturday.

- But you did not want to come.

- I will now.

Two days.

Show that you can handle this.

Tough times never know

but tough people do always.

- Be cool. / i

- Cool.

See you on Saturday. / i

I love you, baby. / i

bye. / i

It's mr. Russell, / i

the director of Camp Tall Pine. / i

Put him through, and ask mr. Peck

to enter again.

She can not come.

- Not before on Saturday.

- On Saturday?

- I'm going back to camp.

- Told you what they did?

Mother and I

communicating as well.

She says I have to be tough.

I'm trying.

- I really try.

- How much money do we have left?

- The beneficiary paid.

- Should we buy a hot dog?

Do we share a hotdog

and a Coke?

I want chips.

Hippie Unger ...

Sorry.

Sorry!

Yes?

- A hot dog and a bag of chips, please.

- Yes.

- Do you want new clothes?

- How?

The guy stands alone in the kiosk.

He does everything himself. If you are staying

him, I can take a few baskets.

Suppose he catches us?

If we can not run from him,

we deserve it.

- How much money do we have left?

- 16 cents.

Is that all? I thought

that we could buy some more.

Get out!

Do not come back without money.

Wait a minute ...

- How.

- What?

Stay sausage man and say,

you found a stone in the sausage.

Excuse me ...

I took a bite of the sausage ...

and found in the stone.

- Sure. Get out of here.

- I will ...

- Do you want your money back?

- No, I ...

- I want a new hot dog.

- Shall I give you a new hot dog?

It makes you not. Why is the fly

Always in the last bite?

It was no fly!

It was a rock!

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