Fast Forward a couple of days, and Beth, Nathan, Simon and Kelly were washing windows at the community centre. Kelly had been a little out of sorts the last couple of days, Beth had a sneaking suspicion that maybe Kelly had feelings for Nathan. She always kind of suspected it. Kelly did have feelings for him, but she was happy that Beth was happy. And the feelings weren't that serious anyway, more like a schoolyard crush, while it was obvious that Beth and Nathan were candidates for a happily ever after. Nathan was talking about talking to animals being his potential power. Beth, having already had this conversation that morning, wasn't listening.
"Beth? Beth are you listening?" Nathan asked, flicking a little bit of soap at her. "Stop ignoring me!"
"I'm not ignoring you," Beth said. It was a lie, but who could blame her? She'd already had this exact conversation. Nathan looked sceptical. "Okay, so maybe I wasn't hanging off of every word."
"So you admit you were ignoring me," Nathan said, testing Beth's patience. It was one of his favourite games lately. It always ended the exact same. Beth calling him a twit. Nathan was watching Beth's lips purse in annoyance. It had been a few days since they'd had their first kiss. And Nathan was more then ready for a second kiss. "I'm just kidding, Beth. Have I ever told you, that you look super adorable in that jumpsuit?"
"Flattery will get you nowhere," Beth said, pointing at him with the window brush. Flattery will get him everywhere, but like hell she'd ever let him find that out. Kelly snorted, making Beth assume that Kelly had heard her thoughts.
"Beth?" Simon asked.
"If you're going to ask her out, you're going to be out of luck, my friend." Nathan didn't even look over at them. Beth flicked the water off of her brush at him. "Why'd you do that?"
"Because you're being rude," Beth said, turning around to face Simon. "Go ahead, Simon."
"I was wondering if..." Simon was cut off by a girl walking up to the group and asking if they'd seen Curtis about.
"'Ew are 'ou?" Kelly asked, walking towards the girl slightly. She had short black hair, pale skin, and was very pretty.
"I'm his girlfriend," she said, shocking everyone. Beth looked at Nathan questioningly, wordlessly asking if he knew about this. He shrugged. He was just as confused as anybody. "Do you know where he is?"
"Uh, wha, I, he's been arrested," Nathan said, stuttering at first. Beth looked at him with a raised eyebrow.
"What for?" she asked, clearly distraught. Beth was confused, Curtis never seemed like the type to be a cheater. Beth always thought of him as a real classy guy.
"For exposing himself," Nathan said, gesturing to his chap. Beth rolled her eyes and smacked Nathans back where this girl couldn't see. He reached his hand behind him to grab her hand. Silently, Beth complied with his lie. Wanting to support Nathan in whatever dumb plan he had. Why didn't he just say that Curtis was feeling ill? "Yeah, flashin'."
"At some scouts," Simon added. Beth looked over at him. Why did boys do this? Nah, bro, my lie is bigger than your lie... Boys are stupid.
"Try tying a knot in that," Nathan said. It was clear that this girl didn't believe a word of it. Who in their right mind would? Kelly had the same expression as Beth. Both girls sat thinking about how much of a dingus boys were. "Or maybe you have."
"Yeah well, very funny. When you see him, tell him to call Sam," the girl said, leaving the same way she came in. Beth shared a looked with Kelly.
Nathan sprayed his Windex in her direction as she left, chuckling to himself. "She seems nice." Beth chuckled.
"At some scouts? You pervert," Nathan said. Kelly rolled her eyes, Beth pulled her hand from his grip. "I'm gonna go find Curtis," Nathan said, laughing as he walked off.
"Beth, before I was going to ask you if you could help me with something. Maybe over break or something," Simon asked. Kelly squinted at him.
"Sure, Simon."
Beth walked off to grab some lip gloss from her locker. Kelly kept eyeing Simon. Simon felt her gaze looking over at him. He looked out of the corners of his eyes.
"Wha 'ou needin' 'er 'elp wif?" Kelly asked. She didn't want Nathan to have a reason to be mean to Simon, as he did enough with no reason at all. When Simon answered 'just some stuff,' Kelly was unsatisfied. "'Ou know her an' Nafan are basically datin' righ?"
"I know, it's nothing like that. The opposite actually," Simon said, fiddling with his hair.
"Why no' ask me?" Kelly asked, crossing her arms. "If it's 'bout datin' I've had loads of boyfriends."
"I'm just going to ask Beth," Simon said, scurrying away from Kelly. Every single relationship Kelly has talked about sounded awful. Simon burst into the locker room, startling Beth. "I want to ask out a girl but I don't know what to say." Simon didn't want to meet up at break, making Nathan jealous, even if Nathan didn't actually have anything to be jealous of.
"Simon," Beth sighed. "Just be yourself, ask her for a drink."
"I'm afraid she'll say no," Simon admitted, frowning.
"Then she says no, at least you tried."
Simon nodded before scurrying away from Beth. Simon was just about the jumpiest person Beth had ever met. She wouldn't really want him to change though, he was fabulous as is. Beth was smiling to herself at Simon's retreating figure. Nathan had come into the room, and watched the small communication between Simon and Beth. He felt jealous, which was dumb because he knew that what he and Beth had was exclusive. It was exclusive right? They never actually made it official, oh my god! What if she didn't think the same thing? Oh no. This was a disaster.
"Hey Beth," Nathan said, sliding up next to her.
"Hey Nathan," she said, leaning over to give his cheek a little peck. He smiled slightly, losing all the worry he walked over with. He couldn't believe he thought that Beth would be that kind of girl, even if the thought was on his mind for only a second. Nathan bit his lip in thought for a moment, would now be a bad time to make it official? It should probably bit a tad more romantic, they were in jumpsuits; not a good story to tell his mom. "Nathan?"
"Hm? Sorry love, I was just thinking." Nathan smiled lazily.
"About?"
"Same thing I'm always thinking about." Nathan smirked. "You."
Beth laughed, and smacked his arm. "You bugger."
"Well, it's more true than not."
"C'mere," Beth said, smiling sweetly at the boy in front of her. "Gimme me a kiss."
"Yes ma'am," Nathan joked, leaning down to press a light kiss on Beth's lips. Just as he was pulling her closer, they were torn apart by someone coughing. They looked over to see Sally standing there with her arms crossed. Her lips were puckered.
"I don't remember assigning you to do this," Sally said. "Get back to work. Go on!" They all left the room. Beth embarrassed, Nathan kind of happy someone saw him kissing the girl he had been chasing.
The next day they were scraping fliers off of the walls. A task they had to do regularly, as the walls would never stay clean for more than one night.
"So didya go with nasty snatch gunk, yeah?" Nathan asked Curtis. Beth had no idea what they were chatting of, but she almost didn't want to know. Beth toned the boys out immediately, focusing on gettin the fliers off the wall.
Curtis move over to where Alisha was, so Beth moved closer to Nathan. Usually, Nathan slept at her apartment. But last night he didn't. So Beth was telling him about the phone call with her one of her old friends who had called her while intoxicated. But Nathan seemed distracted. He seemed to be looking around for something, or maybe he was just trying to be funny. Or he was being a prick. None of the options would surprise Beth at this point.
"Do you hear that?" Nathan asked loudly, completely cutting Beth off.
"Wha'?" Kelly asked. Everyone was looking at Nathan at this point. Except for Simon, who had disappeared moments ago.
"Baby... cryin'," Nathan said, still looking around.
"Wha' yah talkin' 'bout?" Kelly asked. Beth tapped Nathan's arm. He looked over at her, and she gave him a questioning look. He shrugged, and worked for another second before dropping the scraping tool, and jogging towards the community centre. Kelly, Curtis, and Alisha looked at Beth after he was gone. Beth shrugged, having no idea what he was thinking. She went back to work. She worked for another five minutes or so until Simon ran out to the group. He stopped just short of them, panting and pointing back towards the centre.
"I think I've just seen Nathan stealing a baby," Simon said, still gasping for breath.
Beth was gone before anyone else was. She tossed the tools to the ground and took off into the building. Everyone else was close behind her.
"He just ran off with it," Simon said as they walked into the building.
"Why would he take a baby?" Alisha asked. Such a good question.
"If he gets caught with it, he's screwed. Call the prick," Curtis said. Beth whipped out her phone and speed dialled Nathan. Obviously, he didn't answer. He was a little too busy kidnapping a child. Beth rolled her eyes, why were they getting caught in the weirdest situations? Why was Nathan kidnapping? Was he a paedophile? Beth would like to think he wasn't, or that she may have noticed that.
"We need to find him," Beth said, rushing down the hallway. They went outside and ran down the sidewalk, everyone looking for him in every direction. Curtis was the one to notice him on the roof. It almost looked like he was going to toss the baby from the roof onto the concrete.
Curtis led the group to the roof, as he was faster than all of them combined. Beth wasn't even out of breath after flying up the stairs. She was so confused, and upset, and overwhelmed. Both of the doors leading to the roof blew open. Nearly hitting Curtis. Beth could move stuff with her fucking mind. How's that for the a-list. She was like Professor X, except she wasn't a man, and she still had the ability to walk... and hair.
"What th' fock are yah doin'?" Kelly asked, walking towards Nathan slowly. Nathan hugging the child close to him. Nathan covered the babies head.
"Hey, there's no nee for language like that. Don't listen to her, that's a very bad word and she should know better," Nathan whispered to the baby. The baby gurgled happily in Nathan's arms.
"Yer actin' like a freak," Kelly said. Beth nodded.
"Give us the baby," Curtis said, reaching out to Nathan.
"You're not taking him!" Nathan said, moving the baby away from the group. "He needs me!"
"I think he's gone mental," Simon said. Beth grabbed onto Simon's arm, needing something to squeeze.
"Th' baby, hes got a power. Hes makin' yah fink tha' your the dad."
"He needs a dad," Nathan said. "I know what that's like. My dad was never around, look what that did to me. I'm going to be his daddy."
"You? You're gonna be his dad?" Curtis asked, scoffing. "You've got no money, no job."
"You're poor," Alisha said.
"And you've got a criminal record," Simon added.
"Nathan, you can't father a child! You can barely take care of yourself," Beth said, releasing Simon and crossing her arms.
"You're just jealous, Beth. It doesn't matter how I feel about you, it doesn't matter that you have the prettiest smile in the whole world. Finn needs me."
"Social services is gonna take one look at you," Curtis said.
"Seriously, the kid deserves better," Alisha said. "Way better."
"Him and his mum can come live with me at the community centre. I'll steal from the vending machines, I'll steal from other babies. I'll go to the park and forage for nuts and berries." Nathan's whole demeanour changed in a split second. He went from cuddling the baby to holding the child under the armpits and away from his own body. "Why am I holding this baby? I'm not being sexist but one of you ladies needs to take this off me before I drop him on its head!"
"Where's his mum?" Kelly asked, taking the baby away from Nathan.
"Nathan will take you to her, he has to apologize." Beth turned, and stalked off the roof.
"You're finally good at something," Simon said. Nathan raised an eyebrow. "Fucking things up with Beth." Simon walked after Beth, muttering 'asshole' under his breath. But Nathan heard him.
"I have to go find her," Nathan said, beginning to walk off the roof. Curtis put one of his large hands on Nathan's chest, stopping him in his tracks.
"Not until you return that baby," Curtis said, pointing to Kelly who was rocking Finn gently. Nathan groaned, but led Kelly to the mother right away.