Clock's Tickin' Lockie Leonard

# They were burning themselves out in the sun

# Worlds away from anyone

# They were burning themselves out in the sun

# It was just enough to get them all away... #

'The Board-Rider's Association had grown.

'There were so many members,

'meetings were getting out of control.'

OK, everyone. Come on, listen up.

Everybody, come on.

WHISTLE!

SILENCE

We've got a lot to get through, so let's get on with it, eh?

'The most stressful thing about meetings - making decisions.

'Decisions are hard. How do you know if you're gonna make the right one?'

OK, surf carnival, two weeks' time.

Our first ever surf-off against Noel Springs.

And as president, I have to pick the teams.

Look, if you're gonna be secretary, you gotta take notes.

Who put you in charge?

-Let's get these teams sorted.

-Sorry, guys,

need to talk to you about youth camp.

-THEY GROAN

-No, it's gonna be great this year.

-It's called Camp Find Yourself.

-What if you're not lost?

-LAUGHTER

-Look, guys,

this is a chance to discover a whole world of stuff about yourselves.

Every day we'll gather together and...talk...

about you.

It won't all be work.

There'll be bush walking and canoeing.

And there's ping pong.

Oh...

I need an indication of those who may be interested in coming along.

-What parents are going?

-There'll be some teachers,

but no parents.

THE BOYS CLAMOUR

'Over at his place,

'Egg was struggling with a meeting of his own.'

Geoffrey, sweetheart, I'm going away for awhile.

Your mother's going away for awhile.

There's an art gallery in the city. They want to talk to me.

Art gallery...in the city.

I think we understand.

How long are you going for?

well, they might give me some work,

I might have to stay there for awhile.

I'd love you to come and live with me, if you want.

Or, you could stay here. It's totally up to you.

It's your decision, Geoffrey.

'Suddenly, Egg felt like he'd been thrown into the middle of

'some weird game show.'

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

-OK...

-HE LAUGHS

OK, folks, it's time to play

-the Clock's Ticking!

-CHEERING

The show where you get asked to make a decision, a very big decision

that can change your entire life.

And our first contestant today is...Joy?

Thanks, Sarge.

-Yes, all the way from Angelus it's Geoffrey "Egg" Eggleston!

-Oh!

APPLAUSE

Here he comes.

Eggman!

You're decision is...

whether to stay with the Rev or leave with Mum.

What's your decision?

And, remember, the clock's ticking!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Can I go to school camp?

It's called Camp Find Yourself.

Maybe if I find myself, I'll know what to think...about all this.

Camp Find Yourself. What a name!

Sounds a bit wet.

I don't care if it's called Smash Yourself In The Leg -

-there's no parents.

-There's ping pong.

Hardly any teachers.

We could spend some time together - just you and me.

Yeah, we could hang out. Do stuff.

So, we're going, right?

Sure, why not?

This could be really, really good for both of us.

Yeah, apparently there's canoeing.

'Vicki was keen on the camp thing.

'Like, Egg, home wasn't the best place to be at them moment.'

-MUM:

-Don't you ever think about anybody but yourself?

-DAD:

-You don't keep quiet long enough for me to think at all.

'When the big day came,

'everyone was psyched.'

'Vicki and I were looking forward to hanging out - just the two of us.

'Egg was all fired up to find himself. And Boof...'

Nobody touches my stuff!

'Well, he was Boof.'

You've been divided into work teams and each team has a task. OK?

As you were.

-We're on the same team.

-Cool.

And we've got kitchen duty.

BOOF: I bags the top bunk - no arguments!

On the walls, you'll find an envelope with your name on it.

-This is for personal comments.

-Comments?

You wanna tell somebody something, you write it down

and put it in their envelope.

I don't understand.

You wanna tell Geoffrey Eggleston he's a great guy?

No. LAUGHTER

You take a piece of paper and you write down,

"Geoffrey, you're a great guy."

You go to this envelope here...

in it goes. ..Geoff, happy reading. Any more questions?

-<

-Where's the ping pong?

-In the games room.

Now, what I...

Uh-uh-uh.

Dinner'll need to be ready by six o'clock sharp, so get to it.

-Egg, what are you doing?

-You told me to cook the potato.

You don't stir fry a whole potato, you boil them in water.

Oh...

Oh! This is hopeless.

Dial-A-Pizza's looking pretty good.

We can't dial a pizza, we're on kitchen duty.

If we don't have food for anybody, they're gonna think we can't cook.

-They're right. You can't.

-Well...

I'm giving it a go. And besides, it's the rules.

Who cares about the rules? We could hide, down by the beach.

Have some private time. Just us,

-away from everybody.

-No way. I'm not failing the test on my first day.

OK. Cut me up some onions.

Egg, what are you doing?

Finding myself and the self I've found is useless at cooking.

Well, you can learn.

What else have we got?

MUSIC PLAYS

Egg, salt.

Pasta Neapolitana!

Help yourselves.

It's OK.

'When you have your best friend and girlfriend beside you as a team,

'cooking isn't so bad.

And it sure beats cleaning up.

Egg, are you coming to play ping pong?

No, thanks.

Really? You don't want to play?

-Maybe later.

-Are you sure you don't wanna come?

Yeah...

-Are you all right?

-Yeah.

Do you want me to hit you with a shoe?

My mum's leaving. I don't think she's coming back.

Whoa...

She said I have to decide between going to the city with her

or staying in Angelus with the Rev.

What are you gonna do?

The clock's still ticking.

I haven't made up my mind yet.

You can't go to the city.

Angelus is where you live.

All your friends are here.

Why do you have to make the decision?

I don't know. I just do.

Lockie, come quick. You gotta see this. Quickly.

You gotta come see.

-What?

-I can't tell you. You've got to see.

-I'll be there later.

-No, you need to come now.

What's happening?

Boof's singing.

That's my surprise? Boof's singing.

-He's dancing and everything. Come on.

-I don't think I can.

-Shh...

Look,

Egg's having a hard time. His mum and dad are splitting up.

-Well, maybe they should.

-You don't mean that.

-Why not?

Do you think it's fun watching them fight?

HE SIGHS

I don't think I should leave him himself.

Right...

Egg, come with us.

Come watch Boof make a fool of himself.

APPLAUSE

# Twinkle twinkle, little star... #

'Take people camping, away from their parents,

'their normal lives,

'and all of a sudden they don't know who they wanna be.'

OK, Boof, what's your decision?

Who do you wanna be?

The Old Boof that nobody much likes

or a brand new, all-singing, dancing,

likeable Boof?

And remember, the clock's ticking!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

'Boof decided to be new and improved

'and Sasha liked what she saw.

'And even weirder, everyone else started pairing off too.

'It was like couples' club or something.

'And everyone in the room was a member.

'Well, almost everyone.'

Egg!

Egg! I don't know where he is.

Maybe he just wants to be alone for a while. Come on.

OK. Everyone, go to your envelopes.

So...who's going to read out their personal comments first?

-Vicki?

-"Can I borrow your surf ski?" I don't have a surf ski.

That was meant for Wack.

You didn't write me a message.

Er...Geoffrey Eggleston. What have you got?

"Angelus is a lot cleaner than the city."

That's true.

Well, I don't...know what that has to do with anything.

Give us another one, Geoff.

"There are better beaches in Angelus".

How many messages have you written me?

Sir, I've got a positive comment.

Well, that's...mildly astounding.

Um...I'd like to share it with the group.

"Dear Boof,

"you are one very special...block." Huh?

-"Bloke". It says "bloke".

-Oh.

ALL: Ooh!

Blue Team, your job is to hide yourself somewhere in this area.

Red Team, your job is to find them and tag them.

-How do you tag them?

-You hit 'em with one of these. If you get hit,

you're out of the game.

And you've only got three eggs each, so be careful.

I'll give one egg each to the Blue Team.

If you hit someone on the Red Team, they're out of the game.

The winner of this event gets to go canoeing all afternoon.

-Canoeing!

-All right, Blue Team, you have 30 seconds to find

your hiding places, starting... now.

Lockie! Lockie!

Lockie, here.

-'Egg got teamed up with the new Boof'.

-Agh! Agh! My foot's hurting.

Shh! If they tag us, we're out.

I know that. They've only got two eggs. We've got six.

-Seven, counting you, Egg.

-Ha, that's funny. See ya.

Hey, wait! My foot's hurting.

'Egg had a feeling the new Boof was never gonna last.'

Hurry up, Egghead!

'And he was right.'

Are we...I mean... are you gonna stay here?

-Yeah, why not?

-I should hide somewhere else.

-Why?

-If we're together, we'll both be tagged.

-So?

-We'll lose the game.

-So?

-So... I should hide somewhere else.

-Don't be stupid.

-Shh! What was that?

-Dingoes. Come here.

-Seriously, I heard something.

-Lockie!

-If we win,

-we get to go canoeing.

-Haven't you been canoeing?

Yeah, with Egg. It was heaps of fun. We should do it again sometime,

-to cheer him up.

-Can you stop thinking about Egg for five seconds?

There's nothing you can do. None of this is your decision.

But what if he goes with his mum to the city?

-He's my best mate. I don't want him to leave Angelus.

-Let Egg

sort it out, OK? So we can spend more time together, like we promised.

OK, Lockmeister!

What's your decision? And remember, the clock's ticking!

CROWD CHEERS

You don't care, do you?

-You don't care that Egg's family's messed up.

-Of course I care.

-No.

You don't. All you care about is us being a couple.

-Lockie!

-Shh, keep your voice down.

My God.

-I can't believe you just did that.

-It's only a game, Lockie. For kids.

-I'm a kid. I like being a kid.

-OTHERS SHOUT >

Yeah!

Come on, Boof!

'Before we knew it, Camp Find Yourself was over.

'It was time to go back home. Back to our parents,

'back to being who we were.'

-Hey, Sasha.

-As if.

'For some of us, though, things were weird. And if Egg had

'made a decision about his parents, he wasn't letting on. Whether any

of us had found ourselves, I couldn't tell.

'One thing I did figure out, though. I realised why Vicki wasn't keen

'to talk about Egg's messed up family.'

< VOICES ARGUE INSIDE

-We planned...

-I know we planned...

'Compared to the Streetons,

'Egg's family weren't looking so messed up any more.'

'At least his parents cared enough to do something

'to stop the fighting,

'even if it was tough for Egg.'

-I don't...don't want to make a decision.

-OK, you don't have to.

But...I'm gonna make one, because I think it's cool

that you're letting me decide for myself.

And...the only thing I've figured out is that it's got nothing to do

with stuff like I like my mum better than my dad,

or my dad better than my mum,

-or anything like that.

-We know, sweetheart.

I'm going to stay here, with Dad.

-I like you.

-I like you too!

'While Egg was sorting stuff out, I decided to fix things with Vicki.'

I'm sorry.

About what?

You have enough family hassles of your own,

-without me going on about Egg's.

-That's my business.

Yeah. But...

want to go along the beach, or something?

No, I don't think so.

I love you. I do, I love you.

-And I want you to be in love with me.

-What does that mean?

-It means

you want to be with me more than anything else.

More than chocolate, more than canoeing.

-And more than Egg.

-Yeah. I like you more than all of that put together.

That's more like it.

But I still don't know if I love you.

-You either love me, or you don't.

-I just don't know.

I mean, I'm 13. I don't know if I'm ready to be a couple.

Yet.

-Oh, no, please don't cry.

-Don't touch me.

Vicki...

It's over. Finished.

-Listen...

-And none of this "Let's just be friends", OK?

-Lockie?

-Hi.

-Dinner's nearly ready.

-OK.

HE SNIFFS

(Come here).

OK! We've still got to organise the teams for tomorrow.

And we've got to decide who goes in the big ticket surf-off.

All those who vote Boof?

-Put your hands up!

-All those who vote Lockie?

It can't be official anyway.

The club secretary's not here to record it.

She doesn't record anything even when she is here.

I vote we kick her out of the association.

-You're not kicking her out!

-What do you care? She dumped you.

-She never dumped me.

-Who wants her out?

'I hate decisions. They tear your brain in half.

'But sometimes, if you get them right, they can make you happy.'

That's it. I quit. Get yourself another club president.

-You quit just cos of Vicki?

-What about the surf-off?

'On the day of the surf carnival, I hit the waves too...

'at a different beach on the other side of town.

'Thought I'd have my own surf-off. Easiest decision I'd made in ages.'

# Boy, it's breaking

# Underneath the wild sky

# Eh, hey, hey

# Eh, hey, hey

# Worlds away from anyone

# They were burning themselves out in the sun

# It was just enough to get them all away... #