The Magpie boarding school

The boarding school has one rule: if they knock three times, do not open. The real rule turned out to be different.

Lines: 31 · about 100 s of video · School

1. ThemSo how is it? Settling in?
2. YouFine. Two to a room, my roommate is quiet
3. The rules here are strange though
4. ThemSuch as
5. YouLights out at ten, phones handed in till morning
6. And you never open if they knock three times
7. ThemThey are winding up the new girls
8. YouThat is what I thought too
9. pause 1.5 s
10. Last night there were three knocks
11. ThemAnd?
12. YouMy roommate put her hand over my mouth
13. We sat like that for twenty minutes
14. ThemKate, that is hazing. Tell a teacher
15. YouI told one this morning
16. pause 1.2 s
17. She asked which room I was in
18. I said number twelve
19. She said nobody is ever put in twelve
20. ThemWhat do you mean nobody
21. YouThe second bed has been made since last year
22. pause 1.8 s
23. ThemThen who is your roommate
24. YouMy roommate is asleep right now
25. I am afraid to look at her
26. ThemGo into the corridor and call me
27. YouI cannot
28. Someone is knocking
29. pause 1.5 s
30. One
31. Two
32. pause 2.0 s
33. ThemKate
34. Kate, there was no third knock?
35. pause 1.5 s
36. YouThere was not
37. She came in without knocking

Every story here is fiction. Any resemblance to real people or events is coincidental.