WRITING OBSTACLE

Write a gossip session between two friends which suddenly turns very serious.

How can you use dialogue and speech tags to convey the change of tone?

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I don’t claim any rightful ownership here, just imaginining. So no need to troll your lallies, it’s just a coddy screech..



1955. Two palones, **Mel** and **Jules**, are having a bit of a dish over their frothy coffees.




**MEL**

Varda Erin’s zhooshy story last nochy? Who _was_ that omi?


_(“Did you see Erin’s flashy story last night? Who was that man?”)_


**JULES**

Oh bona, I clocked her. A riah that lost the lingo.


_(“Yeah, totally, I saw her. A hairdo with no sense.”)_


**MEL**

Like some cod omi who says “I’m not like the other charpering types” and then tries to troll you into a rorty scheme.


_(“Like a fake guy who claims he’s different but then scams you.”)_


**JULES**

(laughs)

Naomi! And Erin looked all fakement, like she’d been edited in with an eyelash curler.


_(“Totally! Erin looked completely fake, like she’d been badly retouched.”)_


**MEL**

Something’s off, bona. Since the Vegas trollery she’s been giving me the cold wrist.


_(“Something’s definitely off. Since the Vegas madness, she’s been distant.”)_


**JULES**

I sent her a bijou message, she just flicked me a single lally emoji.


_(“I messaged her, and she only sent back a thumbs-up.”)_


**MEL**

(serious now)

You think it’s just jarrys, or something darkie?


_(“You think it’s just boy trouble, or something more serious?”)_


**JULES**

Like what?


**MEL**

I don’t savvy… that omi had a scar down his eke, and his tick-tock was on the palm side.


_(“I don’t know… that guy had a scar on his face, and his watch was on the inside.”)_


**JULES**

Only naff types or the bona scary ones dally their tick-tock like that.


_(“Only weirdos or the really scary ones wear their watches like that.”)_


**MEL**

Remember what she trolled about that dinar she borrowed?


_(“Remember what she said about that money she borrowed?”)_


**JULES**

Said it was ‘sorted’—but in that dead batty tone.


_(“She said it was handled—but she sounded really off.”)_


**MEL**

What if it _wasn’t_? What if she’s up to her riah in palaver?


_(“What if it wasn’t? What if she’s in real trouble?”)_


**JULES**

We can’t just varda her vanish into some omi’s luppers.


_(“We can’t just watch her disappear into some guy’s clutches.”)_


**MEL**

We need to have a bona bijou spill with her. No lallies, no screech, just real chatter.


_(“We need to talk to her. No nonsense, no drama, just real talk.”)_


**JULES**

Yeah. Just two bona palones doing right. Even if it’s a full-on slap in the riah.


_(“Yeah. Just two good friends trying to help. Even if it’s rough.”)_

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