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A group of students, dressed in fashionable clothes are sitting in a classroom, lined with maths posters and trigonometry homework. They are scribbling in their notebooks and having individual, discrete conversations. At the front of the room a male teacher is sat at a desk. His eyes are firmly fixed upon a student’s text book while hemarks it. A boy named Michael has written very little and he has drawn childlike, amateurish cartoons in his book. Michael sighs and looks up from his book to scan the room for a source of entertainment. He notices an extremely attractive girl, sat in the centre of the classroom. The girls name is Jessica and she is desperately trying to read her maths book amongst rude remarks and sexual suggestions that are quietly thrown at her by a group of jack the lad boys; who are sat around her.

Jessica reaches to her bag behind her chair and takes out a pink mobile phone so that she can text and ignore the boys around her. Michael stares at everything she does from handling the phone to flicking her hair about and he continues to follow her actions as she replaces the phone back into her school bag, leaving it sitting on the top of some books. Michael continues to stare at the bag and his eyes then begin to shift between the girl, the boys and the teacher. Soon the boys begin to physically torment Jessica, by poking her and she engages into an argument with them. The temptation of seeing her mobile phone just sitting there is too much for Michael and with no hesitation he flicks his pen on to the floor directing its fall near to Jessica’s bag. The sound of the pen hitting the floor fails to alert Jessica who is now becoming stressed at the idle taunts that are directed towards her.

Michael cleverly positions his body to block the view of others as he retrieves his pen and at the same time he takes Jessica’s mobile phone from the top of her bag. He then immediately places the mobile into his trouser pocket. As Michael returns to his seat, the teacher stands up and walks towards Jessica and the boys, who have now fallen silent. The teacher asks Jessica if anything is wrong, but she fails to comment on the event that has just occurred. The teacher glances at Michael’s book before returning to his seat. Michael has a sigh of relief and discretely takes the phone out of his pocket and navigates through the phonebook.

Jessica leans back on her chair and pulls her bag to her lap. After placing the book she was reading into her bag, she searches for her mobile phone. Desperately, she starts taking books out of her back in an attempt to find her mobile phone. The small group of boys look bewildered at Jessica and then their attention is drawn to the presence of the teacher approaching again; who had noticed Jessica frantically going through her bag and he asks her if anything is wrong. The girl replies that her mobile phone has gone and she definitely had it when she entered the classroom and to make matters worse Jessica explains that her mum was having a serious operation that afternoon and she was waiting for her dad to text her.

The teacher asks everyone in the class to search around for the missing phone, while he reports the missing phone to the senior management as she can see how distressed Jessica has become.

As the teacher exits the room, Michael starts to panic and realises he is in serious trouble, so he gently taps Jessica on the shoulder and declares, he took it and it was meant to be just a joke. She quickly stares harshly at him and snatches the phone from his hand. Everyone in the class is now completely silent.

When the teacher arrives back to the class with a member of the senior management, Jessica quickly accuses Michael and he is then told to go with the member of senior management, to their office. Once inside the office, he is interrogated. Michael shyly and nervously informs him that he just really liked the girl and felt she was unapproachable, so he wanted to take the phone for a brief amount of time to look up her phone number during the lesson and then place it back in her bag. Subsequently he did not want to be humiliated by the other boys if he approached her personally.

The senior member of staff then turns to face the window to quietly establish a suitable punishment for Michael, and at the same time he/she displays a sympathetic facial expression.

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