Good Night

Ned leans across the table at dinner and tells Doreen that he has a surprise for her. All night long at the movie he won't tell her what it is. He drops her off at her house and kisses her good-night. She tosses and turns in anticipation. On her locker the next morning is a note telling her to meet him at Sunwapta Falls at three o'clock.

Doreen can barely make it through the day. She cuts out of classes early and drives to the waterfalls. She sees Ned and runs to him. Just before she reaches his arms, Tom Bailey jumps out with a switchblade and stops him.

She must watch helplessly while the two boys fight. At the last moment Ned plunges into the falls. She cannot believe it and rushes down the path to save him. At the bottom she meets the head of the teenage gang of hoodlums, Devlin Darling. He tells her that Ned's dead. She'd better forget about him.

Devlin pushes her up the stairs back up to the parking lot. He drives her home in her car and forces her to go inside. She retreats to her bedroom so her parents won't ask questions. All night long she dreams about Ned falling over the cliffs. When she wakes up she hears the phone ring. She picks it up. Devlin warns her that she knows too much. She'd better keep her trap shut. Doreen had better figure out what's going on, or soon she could be as dead as Ned.