Original Treatment

Treatment

For many years Dexter, a teenage boy has had a crush on Charlie during their years of school together. At the age of 16 he finally gets the courage to ask her out on a date. At his locker, he stares in gaze at the many pictures he has collected of her through the years. When he closes his locker, he is mesmerised to find that she is close by a few lockers away. After having carefully thought about it for a long time, he goes up to her to ask her out on a date. She politely rejects his offer, thus leaving him heartbroken and shattered.

Later from hearing what happened, her friends Sasha, Jay and Brad find it amusing that such a guy could even think of asking her out. They begin their act of taunting him and humiliating him for doing so.  During the day, Dexter is unable to hide his emotions as he begins to harbour deep feelings of revenge due to being rejected. This, added with the humiliation received from her friends leads him to think she is nothing but worthless.

During a period of revision between the friends after school, Jay leaves to go to the toilet, however after a period of time it goes noticed that he has not returned back. Curious as to where her friend has gone, Sasha goes to look for him. As it is after school and lessons have ended, she is surrounded by the isolated corridors and eerie atmosphere that is around her. She hears someone call out her name, and this makes her panic and in fear. She looks back but no one is there. She looks to the front and Charlie appears, causing her to take a fright. Sasha explains that she heard someone call her name, though Charlie says that it was probably just her imagination. Sasha asks Charlie if she has seen Jay and she confirms that she just saw him a few minutes ago. Charlie says she will leave to go home.

As Sasha returns to go back to the study class, she hears her name again causing her to become extremely scared. She turns around the corner and a figure dressed in black appears. A chaotic chase then ensues as Sasha is confused and in fright and runs to a dead end.

Back at the study room Brad is wondering where everyone has gone. He leaves the study room to find his friends. He stops off at the bathroom but then is alarmed to hear Jay shouting at him to leave. He tries to open the door but it is locked. Jay frantically is shouting for him to go though Brad does not understand why he is in so much fear. The next minute a knife is pierced through the back of Brad and he lets out a small gasp. He is badly injured but still alive. He turns around to see a figure dressed in black. Frightened as to what to do he painfully makes a run for it though only manages to walk. The villain is watching him and lets him walk. When Brad no longer has the energy to carry on walking, he stops and falls to his knees. He is helpless and cannot go any further. The villain walks slowly towards him and finishes the job by killing him.

Elsewhere, we find that Jay who was locked in the bathroom has managed to escape through the window, however is trapped in the school grounds. He phones Charlie to let her know that something has happened. He reveals to her that he was locked in the bathroom and there written in blood on the mirror, together many pictures of Charlie, were the words “You destroyed my heart, so now I will destroy yours and everything that comes with it”.  He warns Charlie to get far away as possible however Charlie cannot believe what has happened and insists that she is coming to back to the school.

Jay is furious that Charlie is coming back so he tries to phone the police to alert them, however as he is just about to ring his battery goes out. Jay with nowhere to go, enters back into the school to try and find Sasha whom he believes is still alive. As he walks to the corridor, he is in shock to find Sasha hanging by a rope, covered and dripping in blood. He throws up and feels so weak from seeing this image that he falls to his knees. From his point of view from crouching down, a figure in black shoes walks around the corner. Jay looks up and says “I don’t’ believe”. A knife is then seen being brandished with blood. The villain lunges it into the heart of Jay, and continues to do this with Jay screaming until he can no longer scream.

Charlie enters back into the school but as she does she receives a text. It says “Your friends are waiting for you, come to the ground floor of the design and technology room and don’t’ call the police or your friends will pay.

Charlie arrives and is terrified to be there. She calls out but no one answers her. As she walks further into the room, she sees a large white sheet covering something so she tensely goes to see what is there. To her horror, there lies the three bodies of her friends, covered from head to toe in blood. She is about to throw up when the door is heard being closed. She turns around and there is the villain in black. She shouts and curses him to what he has done to her friends. The villain says it was her fault and that she caused them their deaths. Charlie is in tears and falls to her knees. The villain walks towards her right to her face. He says to her “All it took was a simple yes” The villain takes off his mask, and is revealed as Dexter, the boy whom she had refused to go out with. Dexter argues about how he felt humiliated when she said no to him, and he was ridiculed by her friends. She reveals that she didn’t know they were so horrible to him, but Dexter refuses to believe her. A fight then ensues between the pair, at which point Charlie is slashed in her leg by his knife. She is backed into the corner. Dexter is about to finish her off when she feels a hammer behind her. Just as he is about to kill her, she grabs the hammer and lunges it at his head causing him to be knocked out with blood spilling out.

The film ends with a fast forward in time to a year later. Charlie has moved to a new city with her family. She has started a new school and has made new friends. As she walks to the car of her boyfriend, a boy standing by the school building is seen watching her. A friend of his comes and greets him by the name of “Daniel”. Daniel shows his friend a picture. His friend asks him if she is his girlfriend. He replies that she isn’t, but he has known her since they were little and would like to catch up with her. The film ends with Daniel smiling with an evil intent.