"Someone knows we killed him." Kelly popped her gum. Simon looked up quickly asking us all "Do you think it could be Sally?" Curtis didn't even at the paper "Who's Sally?" I rolled my eyes and went to answer but Simon bet me too it "The probation worker." This seemed to spark Nathan's interest as he realized it was a chance to annoy Simon. "Oh Sally! Why d'you know her name?" I responded before Simon had the chance "She told us." I had started glaring at Nathan as he went on "He's a twat, 'cause Sally didn't show up till the day after we killed the other worker. I suppose you know his name, too?" As he spoke he started getting up in Simon's face. "Do you love him?" I grabbed his collar yanking him back "He's right. She wasn't here." I saw Simon staring at me as if he was trying to figure me out but as my eyes reached his he quickly looked away "If I'm invisible, I can see if anyone puts anything else in our lockers." He offered meekly. "Sounds like a plan." Curtis turned to look at Alisha who hadn't said anything up till this point as she was doing her make-up "You all right with that, yeah?" She smiled at her reflection pleased "Works for me." Everyone turned to look at Simon as Curtis demanded "Go on then. Turn invisible." Simon looked at each of us stressed out, I felt the urge to roll my eyes but suppressed it "I can't do it when everyone's watching me." I turned my focus entirely on Simon trying shift into him while he looked at me strangely. Nathan had just started speaking as I felt the transformation taking place. "So I guess it's like pissing at a urinal if you've got a tiny cock." He lifted his eyebrows as if proud of himself before turning around to leave and finding me staring up at him in Simon's body. He jumped back calling me a wanker. While I smiled at him feeling quite proud of myself. Alisha looked between the now two Simon's in disinterest "Well, that's really impressive." Simon didn't respond as he just looked at me confused. I smiled once more before transforming back. "I think I'm getting pretty good at that." Simon simply swallowed and nodded his head. I was hesitant but eventually turned to leave with the others.
The rest of us walked into the center holding bags of clothes to add to the giant pile in the middle of the floor. The guy in charge started explaining what we were supposed to be doing "Ok, so, all these clothes have been donated by members of the public and we need to sort them before we ship them out to Africa." He turned to look at us for confirmation we understood as if we were children. Alisha sarcastically replied "Just another day in paradise." He gave a little smile which felt a little off but I decided to ignore it "Well, I'm sure the people receiving them will be grateful for your hard work." Alisha threw her bag on the ground making another comment "They should be. They're getting a new wardrobe." This time he decided to ignore her pointing out different spots in the room "These are the categories to sort them into. It's children's clothes, shoes, coats, that kind of thing. Ok, if you've got any questions, just ask." Nathan raised his hand immediately "If a bear and a shark had a fight, who would win?" He pointed his finger at the man who simply stared back at him for a moment. "If you've got any relevant questions, just ask." He turned away "And if it's on dry land, I'd bet on the bear." We all watched him leave before rushing towards the giant pile to find interesting clothes to try on. I had managed to find a little kids cape and was trying to wrap it around Kelly's neck when Nathan picked up a boot. "Ski wear. Classic. Try walking ten miles to the well in these." Throwing it back into the pile he picked up some goggles and started to put them on excitedly "Who am I?" He then attempted to sing after our lack of response he stopped throwing his hands out in annoyance "C'mon! All right, I'll give you a clue. I'm an annoying cunt." I gave a little head tilt "Yeah, we know that." He cried out in frustration "I'm Bono!" Suddenly the door banged open and we all turned to see a girl walking in with Sally. "Who's that?" Nathan said as quiet as he could manage. Kelly replied in a bored tone "It's the girl I had the fight with. I've got to do some restorative justice bollocks with her." The two women had reached the mountain of clothes and Nathan still wearing the googles gestured to Sally "Bono, yeah?" She simply screwed up her face in confusion "What?" His arms fell in defeat "I don't know why I bother." Sally ignored him turning to Kelly "Jodi's here. Come on." Sh got up with an annoyed huff while I waved goodbye and started to pick up some roller skates holding them up to show Nathan as his eyes it up.
We walked into the locker room after sorting through some more clothes. Nathan was joking around with Kelly about the fight she'd had with that girl as I went to go grab my clothes from the locker ready to be out of here. Suddenly Simon appeared standing right beside me. I jumped loudly shouting at him "Don't be doing that shit around me!" Curtis suddenly looked at Simon with interest. "You been in all day?" Simon looked up at Curtis giving him a knowing look "Yep." He didn't move his head from Curtis only moving his eyes as to Kelly as she spoke "What happened?" I felt my heart speed up for seemingly no reason as Simon just continued to stare at Curtis like he knew something best kept secret "Nothing. No-one came in." Nathan broke both our trances with a gasp "That's an anti-climax!" I once again moved my eyes to Simon who hadn't moved from the spot he appeared in right next to me. He turned to look at me for the first time since he'd appeared. I felt a little embarrassed I looked down at the ground "That's a pretty neat trick, the whole invisibility thing. Thanks for staying here all day it must've been pretty boring" I smiled slightly looking back up at him. He stammered a little bit "Y-your's too." I felt awkward as I quietly turned away speaking quietly "It was the last thing my ex said, I was like a different person. This-this power, it's pretty much a constant reminder of that." I instantly regretted bringing him up quickly slamming my locker shut before turning back to Simon my walls back up as I allowed the anger to fill my body stopping any unwanted transformations. "I guess it is pretty nice to be someone else though" I winked at him as a forced myself to shift into a strange new body. He stared at my rapidly changing body unable to see the pain I was going through. I slapped his arm as I walked out of the locker rooms ready to have some fun. Only looking over my shoulder long enough to call out a quick goodbye and notice with a smile that his eyes had followed me.
A couple of days passed and I was sitting on the roof with Curtis and Nathan waiting for the others to show up. Nathan was still trying to discover his power and out of boredom I'd shifting into him mocking the faces he was making in his attempts to smash a bottle with his mind. Suddenly Simon loudly opened the door giving me a fright and causing me to shift back in fright. He didn't turn to look at me as I tried to regain my composure, he simply stared at Nathan who was still making strange faces "We've got a problem." Nathan refused to look away from his bottle even to reply "Will you shut up?! I nearly had it." Simon squinted his eyes in confusion looking between Curtis who had his arm over his eyes and Nathan. "What's he doing?" Curtis replied exasperated "He's trying to smash the bottle with his mind." Nathan started to make strange gasping noises as he put so much focus into trying to break the bottle he almost stopped breathing. This caused Curtis to sit up rather quickly and exclaim "I think he's gonna shit himself." Another moment passed before Nathan suddenly kicked his leg out in anger hitting the bottle towards Simon "Bullshit!" Simon spoke with urgency and it really got my attention. Something was wrong. "We've got a problem." Nathan of course ignored Simon "I've got a power. I can feel it in my balls." Once again Simon demanded "Listen to me!" and Nathan didn't turning to me and Curtis "It's like a soft vibrating. You get that, yeah?" Annoyed I snapped at him "Stop going on about your balls for one second Nathan and fucking listen." Nathan looked at me strangely while Curtis and I turned to Simon. "They're gonna dig up the bodies!" This got all our attentions as our bodies tensed. We were gonna be found out. Simon looked over us seriously "They're building an environmental monitoring station under the freeway." Nathan squinted at Simon unsure "They're building a what? That sounds made up. Are we supposed to know what that is?" Nathan's joking nature was ignored as Simon started explaining "It's to measure the carbon monoxide from the freeway. When they dig the foundations, they'll find the bodies."
We were folding the clothes we had been sorting out quietly when I spoke up about the current issue "We need to move them." Nathan looked at me pissed off "A couple of questions. 'How?', 'Where?', 'Are you out of your mind?' Before I could start arguing Simon defended me much to my surprise "She's right, if we leave them, they'll find them." Nathan rolled his eyes at him. "Digging them up and wandering around with them's a low-risk strategy!" Curtis spoke out this time "You got a better idea?" Nathan always up for the challenge "Yeah, I do have a better idea. Why don't you" he started whistling while moving his hands in a spiral motion, "and stop us killing him in the first place." It was a kind of touchy subject since Curtis had no idea how to control his power "You show me how it works, and I'll do it." Simon once again tried to stop the fight "We need a car." Nathan turned to him and condescendingly asked "Have you got a car?" Simon quietly mumbled a no. "Great. We should call a cab. A eight-seater." Right then Kelly walked in, "Where've you been?" Alisha who'd been rather quiet asked. Kelly kept touching her hair which was down today, it seemed strange compared to her usually ponytail, "I had to go doctor's." Nathan took out his anger on her "While you were getting your smear test, we heard the bodies are about to be dug up." Simon explained the situation to her. I laid down on the ground sick of the whole situation while they started talking about stealing a car.
That night Alisha borrowed her dad's car to help move the bodies. We had just met up when Alisha asked the one thing we hadn't thought about, "So what do we do with them when we dig them up?" Tossing out an idea Curtis suggested "We weigh them down and toss them in the lake." Nathan replied rather annoyed "Then you know what happens next week? The council are like, 'Let's drag the lake!' So predictable." Alisha closed the boot now that the shovels were in there sending us into darkness "So we bury them somewhere else." We all about to climb into the car when Nathan whined "Enough with the digging and the burying already." I rolled my eyes, "You come up with something then." He hand an insane idea. "We boil them in a bath of sulfuric acid, serial killer style." I hoped in the car ready for Simon to squeeze himself in next to me while he stood there talking to Nathan. "We could store them at the Community Center till we decide what to do with them." He slowly squished in next to me slowly as if not to scare me while Nathan replied. "Great, the Community Center! Cos they have a special room for storing rotting corpses. There's a disused storeroom upstairs. I've got a key." Alisha turned to him curiously "Why have you got a key?" In the backseat we all looked to each other in wonder while he responded "I nicked them because I'm living in the Community Center, Ok? Happy? Big secret revealed." I suddenly felt really horrible, we never even realized, as no one had said anything Nathan spoke up again. "This is a sweet ride." Alisha started the radio and off we went.
We had dug up the bodies and stored them in the community center much to my disgust. Even though I knew it was impossible I couldn't help but smell the decomposition whenever we entered the building. While some other people to take the clothes to trucks or whatever the group stood around a tower of boxes listening to Simon's plan. "We should bury the bodies under the foundations of the environmental monitoring station before they pour in the concrete." Nathan seemed rather annoyed at all the work he had to do "So your plan is, we dig up the bodies, and then we re-bury them in exactly the same place?" But it only took a moment of thinking to realize it "You're a genius!" I cried out smiling at Simon. Kelly seemed to realize it to "That works. Yeah, that's dead smart." Simon gave a little smile he was obviously happy that we were on his side, while Nathan gave a huffy little "It's ok." The guy who had been over seeing the clothing project came up to us holding a box. "Ok, guys, if you want to grab a box and follow me." No one really moved apart from Alisha who took a step away from him he didn't seem to notice and just kept going on, "Guys, do you wanna grab a box? Anyone?" We all slowly picked up boxes which he didn't seem to mind, "Everybody, quick as you can. Thank you. Ok, this way!"
We left the community center out of our jumpsuits ready to discuss our plans for dumping the bodies as the rest of us walked up to Alisha and Curtis she walked off with the clothes guy. Nathan called out loud enough for her to hear not that she cared. "Where's she going?" While Kelly asked in an equally as loud tone "Is she hooking up with him?" Nathan watched after them "Oh, that is definitely on." Simon turned to face the rest of us "How do we move the bodies without her dad's car?" Nathan got annoyed blaming Curtis for Alisha's disappearance "Get that tart on the phone, and tell her we need her dad's car to shift the stiffs." He walked off angry leaving us slightly panicked I called out "Where you going?" Kelly followed up in a slightly annoyed tone "Yeah, we need to move the bodies." Curtis didn't even turn around as he stormed off. Simon didn't even have to think about it before he came up the solution. "We could take Sally's car." Nathan had seemingly forgotten the conversation we had earlier in the week "Who's Sally?" Simon had gone in and stolen her keys while invisible. Kelly, Nathan and I had started to move the bodies and we had just gotten them in the trunk when Sally walked out of the center and towards her car. We hurried to get out of site and made our way to some nearby pipes, watching as she drove away. Dead bodies in her trunk.
Th next day right as the rest of us had arrived at the community center Nathan bombarded us, "Did any of yous get any sleep last night?" Alisha tried to calm him down being a voice of reason "We'd be arrested if she'd found them." And of course Simon ruined it with his logic "Or they're waiting we're all together." I turned to him in desperation "Why would you say something like that?" He looked at me rather awkwardly without an answer while Kelly asked Nathan a question. "What time does she usually get here?" He pulled out his phone, "About eight o'clock." We had a little bit of time so we all went to the pipes we'd hidden behind yesterday as she pulled up Kelly called out happily. "She didn't look in the boot. We're gonna be Ok." Alisha quietly exclaimed "We're not going to prison!" I noticed a look on her face. Like something smelt bad. Fuck. Suddenly Curtis called out in terror "She's going to get out the car walk to the boot, and find the bodies." Alisha questioned him unsure "How do you know?" He looked over at Sally who was getting out of her car. "It's already happened once." In desperation Nathan grabbed a brick and threw it at her windshield. Sally cried out "What the hell are you doing?!" Nathan acted just the same he always did non-nonchalant "It's just pure, mindless vandalism." Sally was starting to get angry and walked up to him. We all held our breath. "What is the matter with you? Are you mentally deficient?" Nathan seeming rather cocky replied "If I was mentally deficient, I would have missed. Check that out. Bull's-eye." She screamed at him "My office, now!" As the rest of us watched them walk inside, we slowly moved from our hiding spot and went to grab the bodies and bury them again before the foundation could be laid down
We were all hanging out on the rooftop relaxing after all the stress with the bodies. "Doesn't matter who's after us now. They'll never find the bodies." I said my voice filled with relief. Simon spoke up then "They're gonna think the probation worker's still alive. I stole his credit card. I used it to book a flight." Curtis smiled happily "That is smart!" Kelly commented on what was seemingly becoming a pattern "You're dead good at stuff like that." Even Nathan complimented him "Nice one, weird kid." Causing a little smile to appear on his face which he quickly covered up as Alisha said in disbelief, "I cannot believe we got away with this shit." Simon got excited, started moving his hands around a lot "We should all go out for a drink. You know, to celebrate." He stood up dramatically "It's like an ironic "fuck you" to the probation worker. We're all out having a good time, you're buried under the foundations of an environmental monitoring station." I just kinda stared at him, even after all we'd gone through were we even really friends? Alisha stood up walking off "See you all tomorrow, yeah?" Curtis followed her "Later." Nathan groaned and stood up from his chair. While Simon followed him desperate "D'you want to come for a drink?" Nathan took the piss "Are you asking me out on a date?" Simon struggled to answer him "N-no. I meant all of us." He dramatically turned around "Did you? I am not your whore." He turned looking to Kelly then me "There is no way I'm going out until my hair grows back. Sorry." Kelly walked off. We were alone and I looked at sheepishly. "Maybe another time?" I felt horrible but I had plans with my other non-criminal friends tonight. "I've got plans, see ya tomorrow?" I walked off not waiting for an answer I couldn't bear to see how he reacted.
*This chapter is based on Season 1 Episode 3 of British Television Drama Misfits I wrote it purely out of passion so it isn't perfect or an attempt to steal any works from Howard Overman or anyone else*