Setting: After episode 02x04.

Chapter 1: The Arrival

Effy's Point of View.

Cass and I arrived at the community centre on our first day of community service. Some old-ish probation worker who looked like he couldn't give a shit dragged us (not literally) into the office and started typing away on his laptop. I sat, crossed my arms and said nothing; Cassie did the same…except she decided to flash her usual, sweet smile. Shaun (the probation worker) just ignored us; he gave a few sighs now and then before getting up.

'Wait there, I'll go get your overalls and then you can go meet the others and start on some work,' he said in his deep voice.

'Why are you smiling?' I asked Cass in a moaning voice.

'Well, you know...why not,' She replied, her voice getting higher on every word she spoke. At that point she got up and walked over to sit in Shaun's seat.

'Cass, what are you doing?' I asked, intrigued as she started to stare at the screen.

'There's five of them, how lovely.'

'Five of who?'

'Others.' I got up and walked around to see what Cassie was staring at. It was just a list of names. 'Wow, cool, they have weird names,' she laughed. At that moment the probation worker walked back in.

'What the fuck are you doing?' He sighed as he handed us bright orange overalls.

'You expect us to wear those?' I snided.

'Yes,' he replied, sharply. I gave a slight moan as we walked out. We walked unwillingly along the corridors and headed for the outside. Half way down the corridor we bashed into some tall, lanky, curly haired guy.

'Who are youuuu?' He practically shouted in his strong, Irish accent.

'Who are you?' I said, getting closer.

'I'm Cassie,' she smiled walking forward slightly to shake his hand.

'And you?' He said to me.

'Effy,' I said unwillingly, refusing to gain eye contact with him.

'What the Eff?' He laughed, before continuing. 'Nice name, gonna have fun with that. I'm Nathan. Nathan Young. Between you and me, we've been needing some other hot people besides myself here for quite some time now.'

At that point some other guy appeared next to him. Bit creepy if you ask me, I didn't see him coming. He stared at Cassie for a few seconds before turning to Nathan and whispering something.

'Well looks like the others can't quite deal with the fact that I am highly in demand. We should do this again, or maybe we should just..skip the meeting stage and skip right to the bed stage? Laters.' He said before he walked off.

'Wanker,' I muttered quietly but loud enough for him to hear.

Cass and I went and sat down on some near by chairs knowing that the others were all outside.

'They can't know about our powers,' I stated.

'But what if they have some?' She replied.

'Fuck that, they don't need to know we have them either way!'

'They seem lovely though,' she said sweetly. I got up and walked over to the window to watch them all. The five of them sat there deep in conversation looking exactly like what a group of kids with asbo's stereotypically would look like. I stood there watching their movements and trying to figure out what they were talking about.

'So what are we going to do about these new girls?' Simon asked.

'Well if you take blondie, I'll defiantly 'do' the other one,' Nathan laughed.

'Shut up twat, this is serious!' Kelly shouted whilst hitting Nathan hard on the leg.

'But have you seen her? Just, wow, seriously. We needed something fresh. Well by 'we' I mean my cock did.' The others started to ignore Nathan.

'We can't tell them anything,' Curtis said with a very serious tone to his voice.

'They'll find out,' Alisha stated.

'Ignore me then,' Nathan moaned. No one took any notice once again.

'Well we ain't fucking tellin' 'em,' Kelly snapped.

'Right, well that's sorted then. We tell them nothing,' Simon accepted.

Eager to know what the others were talking about, I decided to walk outside to see if they'd tell us. Cassie carefully followed me, acting shy, although she wasn't. Neither of us were big talkers though. I'd speak if I needed to. Cassie would just say stuff that no one else could possibly understand.

'I see you've accepted my offer,' Nathan joked, jumping up out of his seat as soon as he noticed us coming. 'Oh, and I'll have you know am not a wanker.'

'Errr, your wank sock begs to differ,' Kelly laughed. I couldn't help but laugh with her. Nathan gave a snide look at Kelly before walking closer to me. Cass stood there staring. Curtis was whispering to Kelly as Nathan started staring deeply into my eyes, it was freaking me out.

'So,' he began 'what are you two hotties here for?'

'Not your business.'

'Wanna know why I am?'

'Not really.' I yawned whilst stepping back from him slightly.

'What are you here for?' Cassie asked him.

'For stealing pick 'n' mix,' he stated. Well that I was not expecting and couldn't help but grin weirdly at him.

'As if,' I murmured.

'All true.' He stepped forward, his face now just centimetres away from mine. 'Bet my life's more interesting than yours.'

'Is that so?' I grinned. Kelly walked closer to Nathan and gave him a harsh stare.

'It is.'

'My boyfriend got hit to death with a bat by my psychiatrist.' I couldn't help but say it, that was pretty weird.

'My brother died in a car fire because of some chick being too hot,' he said, almost boasting.

'That's nothing special,' I replied, knowing I wasn't being told the full story.

'Ahhhh fuck it, I still win!'

'Are you always such a dick?' I grimaced.

'Believe me, he gets wel' worse babe,' Kelly replied before he had the chance to. 'Cmon chick, I'll show ya' around,' she added. I rolled my eyes at Nathan and walked off, following Kel.

'Coming Cass?' I asked, whilst walking.

'Oh wow, urm, no,' she said as I interrupted her conversation with Simon, the weirdest looking of the group.

Cassie's Point of View:

Simon and I went and sat somewhere quieter. That Alisha girl stared after us as we left as if she was interested in Simon or something. He'd explained everything to me though, Alisha and Curtis were a couple. They were like, so cute.

'Are you sure Alisha doesn't like you?' I asked, still unconvinced.

'She wouldn't like me..ever,' he replied, sadly.

'How? You're like, so nice.'

'None of them like me really.'

'I like you.' I leant over to him and kissed his check, something I did a lot. It was my way of saying 'I like you' or 'thanks.' In this case it was more of the first option but wow he seemed nice, sweet…a little geeky, but that had always been my favourite type of guy. A massive smile came onto his face although he looked slightly embarrassed. I smiled too and laughed slightly.

'Tell me about yourself,' he said, shyly.

'Wow, well, I'm 21. I have a brother, Reuben, he's 4. I went to New York it was lovely, everyone's so nice there, but I had to come back because y'know, you stay there and then you have to come home because otherwise it's lonely and it isn't fun anymore. I like to stare at the stars, through telescopes. I wanted to travel a lot, but like wow, now I'm stuck here and don't have a choice to be anywhere else.

'What did you do? W-h-h-h-y are you here?' He stuttered.

'I, wow, well-Effy said I shouldn't tell anyone.'

'You can tell me.'

'We sold illegal drugs. That's all. People do that everyday.'

'Same as Curtis.'

'Oh wow, cool. We shouldn't be here. What did you do? You, wow, seem too nice to do anything bad.'

'Arson. I was sent to a psychiatric unit before being forced to do this.'

'Wow..that's like me. Well.. I had to go to a rehab clinic…when I wouldn't eat. Everyone was happy there.' I started thinking out loud. 'Everyone but that mad twatter who wanted to kill my boyfriend,' I mumbled.

'You urm, you have a boyfriend?' Simon asked, nicely.

'Oh, no. Wow, no. When I ran away to New York, I never saw him again.' I frowned thinking of Sid for the first time in months.

'Oh,' he said, sympathetically. There was silence for a while whilst I thought to myself about Sid and how I never saw him again. I wondered if Effy had any idea where he went, her brother Tony and he were best friends. Although I'm guessing they went their separate ways when uni began.

'Have you ever been in love?' I asked him.

'No,' he replied. 'Have you?'

'Yeah. Love's like really important, it's like always there..you just can't see it all of the time. It's good to be loved, I've always said that.'

'I wouldn't know.'

'You will.' I glimpsed a smile at him and stared into his massive blue eyes until the corner of my left eye noticed Effy coming around the corner.