I got this idea from vids on YouTube called What Would You Do? and decided to make this one shot based on those.
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Info;
-you and Lance are fifteen
-you are an actor who takes part in a social experiment
-this takes place at the park
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Your POV
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Today some other actors and I have been doing a social experiment in an outside restaurant, seeing how others would react.

I'm acting as the foster child who is getting abused by the mother.

The woman playing the Mom is named Celine, and the other girl who's seven is named Crystal.

Crystal is playing as Celine's real daughter.

So far people have come forward and said something to either Celine or me or both of us.

It's all being recorded for a show called What Would You Do?.

We've set up again, and this time, there are three teenagers nearby us who seem to be around my age.

One of the males has black hair in the style of a mullet and blue-grey eyes. (Keith)

Another one of the males has black hair with white down the center of his head and dark grey eyes. (Shiro)

And the final male has brown hair and dark blue eyes. He's actually the most attractive to me. (Lance)

Those three guys are just chatting and us actors start.

"Mommy! Can I get a sundae with a cherry on top?!" Crystal exclaims.

"Yes, sweetie, you may."

Crystal cheers.

Then 'Mom' turns to me, "But you can't have anything unless it's under five dollars."

"Yes, ma'am.." I trail off, looking down at my lap.

This started getting the attention of those three boys, and now they're paying close attention.

"May I ask something?" I inquire, looking up at Celine with a scared/sad face.

"Go ahead."

"Why does she get everything she wants, when I don't get treated the same?"

"I've gone over this a thousand times with you, YN. She's my real daughter, you're just a foster child. You aren't apart of the family."

The boys stare in shock and slight anger.

"Now don't ask again."

"I-I just.." I stutter, trying to sound scared and nervous, shaking lightly.

"Do you want to get another beating?" Celine threatens, and I make my breath hitch and I look down.

"N-No.." I mutter in a slightly higher pitched tone, trying to sound fearful as I wrap my arms around myself.

"That's what I thought."

Before each time we set up the experiment again, the makeup crew made it look like I have bruises on my body and a few cuts. There is a fake cut on my forehead on the left side of my face beside my eyebrow. There's also a fake cut on the right side of my jaw that's slightly covered by my fringe.

I have a fake black eye on my right one, and there's a bruise on the left side of my neck by my collarbone.

I'm wearing a long sleeved shirt and jeans, acting as if I'm trying to hide my other cuts and bruises which aren't there.

The boys are clearly fuming, but just don't know what to say, which is understandable.

"E-Excuse me for a m-moment, please.." I stand up and start walking away.

"Be quick about it!" Celine calls after me.

I stand off to the side and stand by a wall, hugging myself and looking down.

I force myself to have tears in my eyes and I bite my bottom lip.

This is going better than I expected!

One of the boys from earlier rushes over to me, and I notice that it's the brunette boy.

I don't look up, I just slowly rock myself back and forth, breathing short and quick.

"Hey, hey, are you alright?" The boy asks me worriedly, setting a gentle hand on my shoulder.

I make myself flinch at his touch, so he pulls away swiftly. I notice the camera guys filming us and the others.

I glance up at him in the eyes with a fearful look before looking back down.

I clear my throat and nod, "Y-Yeah, I'm fine..th-thank you."

"It doesn't look like you're fine." He says, "I'm Lance. And you're YN?"

"Y-Yep, that's me.." I look up again at him, "I, uh..better get back...i-if I don't.."

I shake my head, "S-Sorry, I've g-gotta get back now.."

I try to walk back, but Lance stops me.

"This will only take a second." Lance tries to reason, and I reluctantly nod.

"If that woman is abusing you, you need to tell someone. If you don't, then I will. And just because you're a foster kid, that doesn't mean you're any less of a person. You are special. You are worth something. I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure you get treated the right way, okay?" Lance reassures.

I blush lightly and nod, "Thank you, Lance.."

"Don't mention it." Lance smiles and lets me go back, him following close behind.

I sit back down at the table with the other actors while Lance goes back to his friends. His two friends look as if they're in flames with anger, Lance does too.

"I said be quick about it." Celine growls at me, and I fake flinch.

"I-I'm sorry.."

"Oh, you will be. Let's go somewhere more..private."

I bite my lower lip and stand with Celine as she says to Crystal, "Stay here sweetie."

"Okay mommy!"

Before Celine and I could go anywhere though, Lance and his friends stand up and start shouting things at Celine.

"No, no, no, no!"
"That will NOT be happening!"
"You better not lay one finger on her or so help me!"

"What?" Celine asks, fake glaring at them while I cower beside her.

"You can't abuse someone like you are with her! It's not right!" The mullet guy exclaims.

"Yeah! If you think we're going to let you take her somewhere more private, then you must be mistaken! All you're going to do is hurt her!" The other male says.

"She's my foster child and I can do as I please with her." Celine growls.

"No you can't!! She is a human being, just like me and you! The way you're treating her is awful! Just look at her! She's scared of you!" Lance practically yells, motioning towards me.

As the fight continues, the host of the show comes out with the camera men, breaking up the fight.

I stop the act and smile, so does Celine and Crystal.

The boys seem totally confused until the host introduced himself and describes what's happening.

"Oh my god!" They proclaim in unison and smile too.

"So, what made you want to go over and speak to YN when she walked off?" The host asked Lance.

"Well, since my friends and I heard everything, I got worried about her well being. YN looked really scared and I wanted to make sure she knew that she's worth it and everything." Lance explains, and I blush.

He smiles at me, and I smile back.

"And what made all three of you jump in while Celine was taking YN away?"

"We just knew that something bad was going to happen if she got YN alone—" Mullet guy started.

"—and we didn't want anything of the sort to happen to her." The final guy finishes.

"Have any messages you'd like to tell the audience?"

"If you see something like this happening, don't keep to yourself. Stand up to them and protect the victim as best as you can. You may be the only one that will." Lance says.

We cut the video and the three guys come up to me again as I try taking the makeup off with a wipe.

Lance introduces them to me, "Hey YN! This is Keith and this is Shiro."

Mullet guy is Keith and the other one is Shiro.

"Hey guys! It's nice to meet you. And obviously, I'm YN." I reply kindly, shaking their hands. Same with Lance.

We all chuckle.

We talk for a bit and Lance gave me his number, and I gave him mine.

Let's just say we're going on a date soon. ;)

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-CastrarWolf