It Wasn't Me! Charlie and Lola

THEY LAUGH

Oh! Charlie!

Lola?

Charlie.

Oh! Ooh! Ooh!

Hmm.

Fly, Frisbees! Fly!

I have this little sister, Lola. She is small and very funny.

Sometimes, Lola likes to play with my things.

For example, this is mine.

-Oh! Charlie! Give me the Frisbees!

-Hmm.

I know it's yours, Charlie, but I really need to play with it.

-PLEASE!

-OK, Lola.

-Frisbee, Frisbee!

-You can play with it.

But be careful, they're not for indoors.

I will be extremely careful.

LOLA GIGGLES

Oh.

-CLATTER!

-Whoops!

-Oh!

Beep. Beep.

Beep. Ground control, this is Alpha Charlie.

Permission to dock.

CHARLIE MAKES ROCKET NOISE

Wow!

Oh, yes. it took me ten days, three hours and forty minutes

-to make the outside, which is called the superstructure.

-Ooh!

It's built from three cereal packets,

ten yoghurt pots,

157 sweet wrappers, in various colours,

28 bottle tops and a roll of extra-extra-wide tin foil.

-Wow!

-And you see that, Lola?

That is the first-prize badge that Mrs Finch gave me

for making the best rocket in the class.

I beat Marv and that boy Harvey.

-Wow!

-No! Don't touch it!

-Oh.

-Don't touch it!

This rocket is REALLY breakable. It's the best thing I've ever made.

-There!

-LOLA SIGHS SADLY

I don't mind you playing with most of my things, Lola,

but this won a prize. It's not really a toy anymore.

You must double, triple promise you'll never play with it.

-LOLA MUTTERS

-Do you understand?

Um...let's play with something else then, Charlie.

-Well, I've promised to play football with Marv.

-What am I going to do?

-Cooking with Mum?

-I don't want to do that.

-Why don't you play with Lotta?

-She's playing with her cousin today.

-Can't you play on your own for a bit?

-I don't like playing on my own.

Why don't you play with Soren Lorensen?

'Soren Lorensen is Lola's imaginary friend

'and no-one can see him except Lola.'

That's a good idea, Charlie. He ALWAYS wants to play with me.

Hello, Soren Lorensen.

Hello, Lola.

Charlie's gone to play football with Marv.

So we can go and play a very good game, can't we?

Oh, yes! We can have an adventure.

With, um...

-With, um...

-Those two nasty hyenas that are brothers and twins.

Charlie told me about them. They're the dogs that laugh.

Well, yes, they can be in it. How about that tiny small elephant?

-Yeah, Ellie?

-Yeah, Ellie.

And...and where will the adventure be?

Um...the place where all the animals live!

SOREN MAKES ANIMAL NOISES

That funny elephant has a trunk.

But he can't blow his nose!

ELEPHANT SQUEAKS

HYENAS LAUGH

He can't blow his nose!

I don't think that's very nice.

He's really sad

because he doesn't like the nasty hyenas laughing at him.

Those hyenas are meanies, aren't they?

What are we going to do?

A tear! We can't leave Ellie all sad.

No, we can't cos we have to get him away from the nasty hyenas.

Yes, he must go back to all his nice friends in Animal Land.

Oh, Soren Lorensen! How are we going to get him there?

I don't know.

Oh! The rocket!

But that is an extremely breakable and very special rocket

and Charlie said we should never, never touch it OR play with it.

What Charlie meant was that if we did play with it,

we must be extra specially careful.

-We will, won't we?

-Of course we will.

LOLA STRETCHES AND GROANS

Lola, remember you've got to be extra specially careful.

I am! I am!

-Oh, no!

-Oops.

Oh, Lola!

Eek!

You know, I think that when things are broken,

they can always be mended again and made like new.

Hmm.

-<

-Hi, Mum. ..Hi, Dad. ..Hello, Lola.

-Have you been playing with Soren Lorensen?

-A little bit.

I had a great game - scored two goals.

Lola, if we both act normally,

then maybe Charlie might not think we did it.

No, he'll never know.

He'll never, never know.

Aaargh! My Rocket!

LOLA!

Soren Lorensen, I'm going to have some pink milk. Do you want some?

-LOLA!

-Yes, please.

-Lola, did you break my rocket?

SLURRRRP!

Did you break my rocket, Lola?

Me?!

I didn't break your rocket, Charlie.

Well, it was fine when I went out and now it's totally ruined!

Did you break it or not, Lola?

(Not.)

Did Soren Lorensen break it then?

-INAUDIBLE

-Lola!

Soren Lorensen was with me the whole time.

And I absolutely did not see him break the rocket.

YOU are telling a BIG lie, Lola.

And you know it!

-I'm going to tell Mum and Dad right now that...

-Wait, Charlie!

Don't tell Mum!

I just have to quickly talk with Soren Lorensen.

Come on.

Do you think we should tell him what REALLY happened?

I don't know.

He's really, really cross.

Maybe we could tell Charlie somebody else broke the rocket.

Why don't you tell him...? HE WHISPERS INAUDIBLY

Yes! Cos it's NEARLY true!

Right!

-Charlie...

-What?

Soren Lorensen and me have got something

VERY extremely important to tell you.

What?

It's the real true story of who broke your special rocket.

Who did break it, Lola?

Well, me and Soren Lorensen were playing in our room, Charlie,

and you know Ellie, that tiny small elephant?

He needed to go in your rocket cos he was very, very sad.

I didn't think it was a good idea

but he HAD to get away

because the two nasty hyenas were laughing and laughing at him.

So we squeezed Ellie...

..but it was a real squish.

But we did it!

And then we took off.

And then we saw Animal Land.

And then we landed

and we were so squished... that the rocket fell to pieces.

And that's what happened.

Right.

MUM! Lola broke my rocket and she doesn't want to tell the truth...

Oh, dear. I don't think he believed us.

I think I have to tell Charlie the truth.

Hmm. It'll make you feel much better.

Will it make Charlie like me again?

Maybe.

As long as you say sorry too.

-The booster.

-KNOCK AT DOOR

There's something we want to say.

Soren Lorensen wants to say sorry for breaking your rocket, Charlie.

Just fix that on...

and there!

KNOCK AT DOOR

Charlie,

it was me that broke your rocket.

Just as I was getting your special rocket

down from the really high shelf,

it slipped and fell and...

and broke into lots and lots of pieces.

I'm really ever so sorry

for breaking your extremely special rocket, Charlie.

Are you really sorry, Lola?

Sorry, Charlie.

That's OK, Lola.

You have told the truth.

Charlie.

Oh.

LOLA LAUGHS

Oh! You mended it, Charlie!

Don't touch it!

Phew!

I like it.

LOLA LAUGHS

Subtitles by Laura Jones Red Bee Media Ltd 2005

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