What Goes Round Comes Around by Sekada
Her name is Sophie. She is a girl who steals from people. At the age of ten she started stealing in primary school, from people, from friends, from shops. The gang she hung around it was a bad influence. After school they always ended up in a shopping centre and Sophie and her friend stole things. They thought it was fine stealing because there was no other way of getting new clothes and things.
Now she is twelve and has started secondary school. She made new friends, in a new gang. She told them what she used to do in primary school and her new mates want to try it out too. They need new clothes and things themselves. So after school they went to a shopping centre in town, and they stole things, whatever they wanted or dared take. They kept on stealing non-stop for a month, a whole month. One day they went to a shop called New Look. They stole some shoes – nice shoes. Except they forgot to peel off the label from the back. The sensor went off while they were trying to get out. It beeped.
Sophie, knowing the game, ran. She managed to get out but her friends didn’t. They got into trouble with the police. A whole lot of trouble.
Next day when Sophie goes to school, her friends are hanging out with the bad people. Her friends were telling on her with the bad people, the bad gang. They tell them what Sophie has done, how she got them into trouble with the police and ran.
At the end of the day Sophie goes to her locker. It’s where she keeps all her stuff. Her mobile phone. Her ipod her father gave her. Her school books, her jewellery. Everything she has, and none of it stolen from shops or other people. She’s proud of that even if she don’t admit it to anyone.
She opens her locket but it is empty. All her stuff is gone. Stolen. Her former friends hang around, pretending not to look, sniggering.
She hears someone singing. ‘What goes round comes around…’
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