The film opens with a girl, kira and a guy, ben in bed. The guy awakes, opens the curtains and catches a glimpse of himself in the mirror. He sees blood. And wonders where it could possibly have come from. He looks behind at the girl he woke up next too. He takes a closer look and realizes she is beaten and bloodied. He paces the room franticly, what can he possibly do? What is going on? He sits with a cigarette at the end of his bed and starts to think.
He gets a flashback of the night before. The party. He tries to piece together different parts of the night, but they all merge into one. He comes back to reality and starts to think. Once again, he goes back into a flashback and tries to remember everything that happened that night. When he comes back into reality again, he hears footsteps and the door opens.
It's one of the girls from the party. Sarah. She walks in and sees Kira on the bed. Ben slams the door shut and covers her mouth before she screams out in terror She wants to know what's going on. But the disbelief of Sara makes her escape, run down to the rest of the drunk teens and tell them what has happened. She tells Ben to wait where he is. But he's frightened. Frightened he will get the blame. He climbs out the window, down the trellis at the side of the house and gets in his car parked outside and drives away franticly.
He's so confused, why did he drive away? He's got nothing to feel guilty about. But he's already gone now so what can he do about it. He stops at a red light and lights a cigarette to calm himself down. The police, parked a couple cars down, notice his tail light is broken. They drive after him to pull him over. But Ben panics. Have they called the police on him. He doesn't know what to do! So he stupidly tries to outrun the police. It turns into a mini police chase. Ben outruns them. He knows he can't keep in his car now though. They would have his registration. He finds a river close by and dumps his car. By this point he feels as if he has gone mad. He had just dumped his car! So out of character. Why was he making such a big deal out of something he hadn't done. He starts to walk away and as he does he has some more flashbacks.
This time more specific ones of kira and who was at the party. What everyone was doing and how they were acting towards her. He remembers that one boy, Curtis is pushing her around and making her feel bad. Ben tries to stop this, which is what made her so clingy to him all night. Which he suddenly got sick of and angry. Back in reality, remembering this he wonders, 'maybe it was me who killed her' He looks at his phone, 8 missed calls. Mum 'the police called round, they are looking for you, please come home. I don't understand what's happening. No one will explain but please come home. Oh and some people from a party called, some guy Curtis in particular. They said it was urgent.'
Ben throws his phone in anger. One night of being drunk, and all this happens. Why, why him. The confusion of everything begins to get overwhelming. Could he face being in jail for murder. How could he cope without any support. His mother would never talk to him again. If she knew. He was starting to doubt himself at this point. He walks to a bridge, walks amongst the cars. Maybe this was his fate. His future. Maybe this was as far he'd ever go in life. He'd never been religious, but he started to prey. Prey to the heavens that he didn't sin. As he finishes his prayer, he jumps off the bridge, into the water below.
He slowly drowns, and as he does, he gets his last flashbacks. They all piece together now. He sees kira getting into a fight with some girls, which makes her all bloodied and bruised. He then sees curtis selling her drugs, drugs she wasnt prepared to pay for. It was strong stuff. He threatens her for money. But she declines. Which is when Ben stepped in to try and help the 'helpless' Kira. She drinks more out of everyones way and goes upstairs. Ben so drunk, goes up to find a place to sleep, and hardly notices her there.
By the time he realises it wasnt his fault. It's to late. He's to weak and fragile to swim his way to the top. He dies in the water. They attend Ben and kiras funeral. While the reverand makes a big speech about morals. And how they had not deserved their fate surely. But what happens in life cannot be stopped.
The end.
by kira knight
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