“Rebel without a cause”
Sheng’s Version
In the Observatory
Jim and John (Plato) solved their problem, but Jim Stark knows that Plato as
shot many people, and has the notion that it wouldn’t end good for himself to,
so he made a plan to escape with him and Judy.
Jim said “The
first part of the plan is to use my jacket with a heavier thing, which is
similar to a person, with the function of bait. It can catch their attention
and they will point all illumination to it, so we could have space to escape,
but we must be quick! After this we could be free! We just need some money and
we can go to other city or even other country!” Plato and Judy in spite of being
still scared they simultaneously said “Okay!” because they liked Jim and wanted
to stay with him.
As they expected,
when Jim threw the jacket outside the window everyone pointed the flashlights
to it and in that moment three teenagers escaped quietly without being noticed.
Judy understood
that after this situation nobody could come back home “Now we have no home and
we need money to survive. Ah! We can take this opportunity to assault people in
the street or even people on their home. Why not now? As we know the police are
all over there. This is our chance. Plato! We can use your gun.”
(…)
In this night they
easily obtained money and started their travel. But before that Jim said “We
need to be conscious that we will never come back again, so I will give you 20
minutes to go home, write something to your parents and prepare yourself! Hence
20 minutes we gather here with my car.” With no more talk everybody went home.
(…)
Of course they all
have left a farewell message to their parents. The 20 minutes quickly passed.
Jim came back to the same place and Plato and Judy were already waiting for
him. They will finally start their travel. As money may not be enough, along their
path they will rob and attack rich people to get some money.
(To be continued…)