The Dumping Ground (TV Series)

The Barbecue (2014)

Jessie Williams: Lily Kettle

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• Lily : There you are. I've been looking all over. Look, Carmen, please don't be angry with me.

  Carmen : I'm not angry. I just... I just don't see why you want to go.

  Lily : To be with my dad, be part of Jonah growing up. Look, I don't know, it's important.

  Carmen : Aren't your sisters important? Me, the Dumping Ground? Doesn't what's here add up to more than a dad that's let you down more than enough times?

  Lily : It's a new start for me, too. There's a college not far, I can sign up for a catering course. Maybe one day I'll be a professional cook.

  Carmen : What, and there's no colleges here?

  Lily : Carmen, we are completely different people. We want completely different things. This caff, it feels like... I don't even know what it feels like. When I imagine it all, all of us working together, cooking, making the place feel dead welcoming... it's exciting. Carmen, you won't be sticking around here for long either. Once you've got enough money and you've left school, you'll be travelling the world.

  [Shows animation of Lily at the cafe by the beach, and Carmen leaving on a aeroplane] 

  Carmen : Have you told the others?

  Lily : Mike's telling them.

  Carmen : How long has he known for?

  Lily : Only a couple of days. I rang him to say I wouldn't be staying again. Someone might need the bed.

  Carmen : Wait, so Mike's known for days and you decide to tell me the day you're going? See, if it had been me, you know you'd have been the first person I told!

  Lily : Carmen, I wanted to tell you face-to-face, but...

  Carmen : How can you say that you're going to come and visit when you won't bother to cross town to tell me you're going?

  Lily : Carmen, I will visit.

  Carmen : No, you won't.

  Lily : Carmen, I have to. Poppy and Rosie are here.

  Carmen : Yeah, that's right, your perfect little family. If there's any time left, you can come over and give me five minutes.

  Lily : I didn't mean that.

  Carmen : Or stand at the top of the street and wave.

  Lily : Carmen, please...

  Carmen : Leave me alone!

• Lily : [Outside Carmen's room, where the door is closed]  Carmen, I lied about the Shadow charm. I didn't buy it off the market. I borrowed my first week's wages off of Shannay. Are you listening? Do you know what? You go on about mates. If you were really a mate, you'd be happy for me. All you care about is yourself.

  [Carmen opens her bedroom door] 

  Carmen : Lily, I am not the one who's just turned up, "Oh, by the way, I'm leaving and didn't bother to tell you."

  Lily : I am not the one that threw a present back in your face.

  Carmen : I didn't.

  Lily : Gave it to Floss, then, same thing.

  Carmen : Lily, I didn't give it to Floss.

  Lily : Why do you think I bought you that charm? Because it's me that'll be forgotten, Carmen.

  Carmen : Lily, I didn't give it to Floss.

  Lily : She told me! I don't care, she can have it. Have a nice life, enjoy your travelling, I hope it makes you really happy.

  Carmen : Why do you think I make all these plans about travelling? I don't even know if that is what I want to do.

  Lily : You go on about it enough.

  Carmen : Yeah. So I can be the one that's moving away, instead of everyone else moving away from me, because that's what happens, isn't it? Everyone leaves.

  Lily : Now you're just feeling sorry for yourself. It's you that's pushing people away.

  Carmen : So you are saying I pushed my mum away?

  Lily : No, you know I didn't mean that.

  Carmen : I've never pushed anyone away and you know that, people just move on and find something better than me, which is exactly what you've done.

  Lily : It's not better. It's just next.

  Carmen : Look, Lily, I never gave it to Floss, OK? She made me.

  Lily : Yeah, right. Look at the size of her! What did she do, kick you in the shins?

  Carmen : No. She just saw me do something. Look, I was upset... and I kicked the ball and I bust the window.

  Lily : Wait, Johnny's window?

  Carmen : Floss saw. She said if I gave her the bracelet, then she wouldn't tell anyone.

  Lily : Bailey was arrested. You watched the police take him away.

  Carmen : Lily, I was upset.

  Lily : Arrested, Carmen. And you let that happen?

  Carmen : Fine!

  [Walks out the room and makes her way downstairs] 

  Lily : What are you doing now?

  [Follows Carmen] 

  Carmen : [Cuts to the office where Mike and May-Li are]  Mike, take me to the police station. I smashed the window.

  Mike : Wait, slow down.

  Lily : Don't let her go, this is stupid.

  Carmen : Haven't you got packing to do? If you don't take me, I'm going to walk.

  Lily : At least let me come with you.

  Carmen : No, thanks!

  [Leaves the house] 

  Mike : I'll go. Carmen wait.

  [Leaves the house too] 

  May-Li : She's just upset that you're leaving.

  Lily : Do you know what? I don't even care.