You go to a single-sex school. Kinda strict, no other school of the other gender to help you know how to, you know, interact with the other gender but whatever. You’ve got friends in other schools. You’re not societally disconnected.

Tonight your friend Nia who goes to a mixed school offers to take you out with her and some of her mates from school. Some boys and some girls. You’re a little socially inept. But eventually you agree. It’s a social opportunity is it not? Their school is a little rough. It’s a London school.

When you and Nia arrive to the park you’re meeting at its dark. Not like pitch black but dark. 4 girls wearing joggers and hoodies or jackets, wearing lashes and holding vapes are walking with 6 boys. The girls are Gia, Cerise, Lily and Rina. The boys are Noah, Freddie, Demris, Adonis, George and Sid.

Most of them look like they stepped out of shameless UK. The TV show. The boys are a bit rowdy. Loud. Weed in their hands.

Nia: “Don’t worry. The girls are really sweet if you talk to them. And I won’t put you in a situation you don’t wanna be in, I don’t drink anyway.”

You end up stood with Sid. A kid with slightly grown out buzzed hair, a tall and slightly stocky build. Blonde hair. Wearing grey joggers and an Under Armour jacket. He looks at you, and speaks with that informal voice you immediately know is a London teenage boy.

Sid: “Oi, you want a hit?” He asks offering you the weed thing. He doesn’t seem ill intentioned just probably saw you glance at him and thought you wanted something from him. His eyes aren’t agressive or like forceful. He’s actually offering, incase you want it.