PART THREE

Everything around is massive. You dodge through people walking, legs striding. Weave your way around bollards and leap over a dropped coke can. Smell the cakey sweetness drifting out of Galloways. No time to stop! She must be down this way. Keep moving forwards. This is not the first time you have been lost. And you have always made it back before. It’s like an adventure and I’m with you every step of the way. Just don’t drop me like you did last time. Okay! Keep walking down to the bottom of the street but we can’t go any further because it’s a big road and we are not allowed to cross it on our own. You are nearly there when all of a sudden there it is a voice loud and piercing. (ALFIE) It shouts again!.. (ALFIE SAMSON GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW) You recognise your name.. You turn to look back the way you came and there she is in the distance. Red faced and fuming. She yells something at you. You begin to run.

We rummble suddenly into a different memory. The music is lighter

You are 18. I’m holding your right hand. I’m the one you’ve been dating for the last year. The one you are keeping a secret. Well trying to! We are standing on the corner by the traffic lights. Look across to the opposite diagonal corner towards the centre for advanced technical studies. That’s where we are going. Let’s use the traffic lights and make our way over there… When we get there we are going to head along Parson’s walk towards the park.