As I walked around the entrance I looked up at the wall. Somebody had painted 'I'M GOING TO KILL YOU.' in big red letters, I raised an eyebrow at it. 'Fucking great.' I muttered under my breath knowing full well that we were going to have to clear this shit up. I joined the rest who were also gawking at it.
'This is a joke.' Curtis announced, 'Did one of you do this?' He accused turning to us. I furrowed my eyebrows.
'Yes Curtis you caught me, I came back to the community center after hours to right some bullshit threat on the wall only to have to clean it up again the next day.' I retorted sarcastically, 'I think it's safe to say that none of us gives enough shits to do this.'
'I'll tell you who it is,' Nathan said, 'It's that banksy prick. There's some kind of hidden meaning behind it.' He enlightened as he brought a roll up to his mouth.
'I think the message is pretty self-explanatory.' I stated.
'Nah.' He decided, 'It's like the monkey policeman with the banana and tesco bag. Hidden meaning.'
'Right, well when you've figured it out let us know.' I bit at his stupidity.
'I think Sinead's right, maybe it does mean that someone wants to kill us.' Simon piped up. I glanced over at him to see that he was nervous about speaking up. Fuck, he really looks familiar. This was going to get on my nerves.
'An' why would anybody want to kill os?' She demanded obviously taken offense by the statement but she never got to hear Simons answer because right then the Probation worker, Tony waltzed up.
'Can you see this?' Curtis enquired, 'Taking the piss.' He bit.
'It's horrible isn't it? All this anti-sociable behavior.' He countered sarcastically, I furrowed my eyebrows at him.
'Is he making a dig at us?' Nathan requested, slightly surprised. Just then Alysha's phone rang and she answered it once again, talking to her friends.
'No, no no!' Tony snapped, 'Give me your phone.' He demanded, reluctantly she handed it over but made sure to take a picture of him first and snickered as she placed it in the pot. He went to us one by one demanding our phone, I sighed and handed it to him making sure to glare at Alysha as I did so. Then he got to Nathan.
'I'm waiting for a phone call from my mum.' He resisted but Tony just snatched it out of his hand, 'Fine, leave a message then.' He muttered, clearly frustrated. After that Tony just ordered us to get change into our jumpsuits and clean the graffiti. I was ¾ of the way through the K when Kelly spoke.
'Ya know after the storm, did any o' ya feel weird?' She asked, I glanced at her slightly only paying semi attention. The only thing that storm gave me was a fucking headache.
'I did!' Nathan declared causing all of us to look at him, 'I had a weird tingling sensation in my anus!' I just rolled my eyes and turned back to the scrubbing dunking the sponge into the water another time.
'Did ya feel weird?' Kelly persisted turning to Weird kid - Simon. He looked like he wanted to tell her something.
'You mean you don't want to hear about my anus?' Nathan continued in the background, we all ignored him.
'Yesterday, something happened to me.' He stammered.
'What? Did you pop your cherry? Well done weird kid!' Nathan jeered, I glared at him before returning my gaze back to Simon.
Simon then hesitated and turned back to scrubbing earning an aggravated sigh from Kelly. I was rather annoyed as well as I was slightly curious as to what Simon was going to say. I then heard Nathan pull his gaze away from Kelly and laugh to himself, shaking his head.
All of a sudden Nathan collided into me causing me to collide into Curtis.
'Ow!'
'Shit!'
'Fuck.'
I glanced up to see the cause of that collision only to see Kelly walking away in a strop. I regained my balance and rolled my eyes at her behavior.
Eventually we all decided that we deserved a break. Tony hadn't returned to tell us off so like hell was I going to waste my time cleaning up someone else's mess. Most of us was in the hall room, Kelly was still sulking, Gary was MIA and Alysha wandered off, probably to do her makeup. Which left Nathan, Curtis, Simon and me. They were all talking over the pool table whilst I was resting against the chair drawing in my sketchbook, I was drawing nothing interesting. Just a few doodles really. I could over hear Nathan talking, he said, 'I have to say, it's a shame women don't commit more crime. We did get lucky though.'
'How's that?' Curtis asked as if he was obliged to, he didn't really seem interested though.
'We've got three girls and three boys. Perfect division. Which also works out for you weird kid because I don't see it happening any other way. It would be nice if there were more girls though I was hoping for more of group scenario. Not that either of you would be invited.' Nathan stated, referring to Curtis and Simon.
'You do realize I'm right here don't you?' I asked, slightly pissed at their current conversation. What does he think women are? Objects? Fucking prick.
'Men talking here sweetheart.' He said waving me off.
'There used to be four of us.' Simon mumbled.
'Ooh, that's too bad then. I'm not being funny but I think out of all of us you drew the short straw.' He said patting him on the shoulder, 'I'm talking about getting laid! A bunch of young offenders doing mindless shit all day, it's gonna happen! It's biology! Or physics… So come on how are we going to do this? How are we going to work this out?'
'You have got to be kidding me.' I muttered under my breath.
'I've got to say, the girl with the frizzy hair? I can't see me and her getting on it.' Nathan exclaimed.
'Why? Cos she's beautiful?' Curtis returned.
'No because she looks too high maintenance. Too much work. I'd have to take really good care of her. But that one over there-' Nathan said, gesturing towards me and clicking his finger as an attempt to remember my name.
'Sinead.' Simon filled in for him, I smiled at him slightly.
'Right, Red.' I blinked at my new nickname. 'She may be sarcastic and rather aggressive but I can see me and her getting it on for hours but on the other hand the other girl-' Nathan paused in another attempt of trying to remember a girl's name.
'Kelly.' Simon filled in.
'Right, her! On the other hand she has got huge knockers and I can't see it taking a lot for her. A few Bacardi Breezes and she's good to go, probably more than a few for me but hey! Who's counting?'
'And do they get a say in this?' Curtis commented.
'Evidently not.' I muttered.
'So deal?' Nathan spat in his hand and gestured it to Curtis, he looked at him as if he was mad.
'No.' He put bluntly.
'Well fine, more for me. But when I'm shagging all three of them and you're all on your own with your empty box of tissues who's going to be laughing? Me!'
'Or how about you go fuck yourself?' I suggested sarcastically. Nathan just grinned and winked.
'I already do, 3 times a day! Every morning, lunch and afternoon!' He declared.
'Well that's good cos I definitely ain't.' I informed him and got up to leave.
'She must be delud-' Was the last thing I heard as the door slammed shut behind me. After collecting my chocolate milkshake from the vending machine I realized that Alysha was there, packing away her makeup. I mean, I wore makeup too but I usually just applied it once and didn't bother with it again for the rest of the day and I only wore mascara and foundation, liquid eyeliner if I was putting in the effort, but I just really didn't see the need to apply it on every few hours. When Alysha finally realized my presence she just nodded in acknowledgment as I went to sit down and I did the same. Shortly after the boys joined us again. Only then did Alysha start to perk up again.
After a few mind numbing minutes Alysha turned to Curtis and started blabbering on about how he spoke at her sixth form or some shit like that.
'I heard that you were dealing crack.' Alysha said
'Nah, I read in the newspaper that it was steroids.' Nathan corrected her.
'I'm not a cheat! Everything in the papers was bullshit.' And then he explained how he got done for only having a tiny bit of coke on him. He said that if he was anybody else he wouldn't of gotten this sentence but because of his profile he got a harsh sentence to 'send out a message'.
Of course that's where Nathan decided to be a prat, 'You let yourself down.'
'Please be quiet Nathan, just because you have the ability to speak doesn't mean that you should.' He just ignored me though.
'You let let the kids down,' He continued with a sly smile causing Alysha to laugh, 'You let your parents down!'
Nathan obviously crossed a line because all of a sudden there was a slight explosion from Curtis and all of his advances were on Nathan. 'Shut the fuck up!' He growled, 'All I ever did was train! You know nothing! I shouldn't even fucking be here!' He snapped, holding Nathan from the collar of his jumpsuit.
'You can't hit someone in a wheelchair!' Nathan exclaimed, laughing lightly.
'I'm pretty sure you can if they're being a monumental dick'ead.' I declared decisively.
'I shouldn't even be here, it's not fair!' Curtis bit. I rolled my eyes and snorted.
'Life isn't fucking fair.' I muttered under my breath, earning me a funny look from Nathan and Simon. An awkward silence hung in the air until Alysha spoke up.
'Do you want to know what I got done for?'
'No.' We all replied but she continued on with her story anyway, it started off with some party and something about a girl called Ella and Chloe and some boy cheating, none of them really seemed interested. If anything they seemed bored until she got to the part where the police car stopped her and asked her for a Breathalyzer test. 'So then I was like, "Do I suck or blow?".' She smirked before taking the bottle to her lips and then started to preform a blowjob on it. The boy's expression immediately changed and they soon seemed pretty interested. I turned my attention to the boys properly, I didn't need to see how a blowjob was meant to be performed I already knew pretty damn well, they looked shocked slightly and hot and bothered but what was mostly stood out for me was how Nathan crossed his legs. I laughed, I couldn't help myself. Alysha shot me a glare, 'Now I don't know if he's gay or something but next thing he's telling me I'm four times over the limit.'
'Maybe you should've gone one step further and tested it out on him that would guarantee you an out.' I replied sarcastically.
She just shot me a filthy look and turned to me, 'What about you? What did you do?'
'Me? I got done for causing bodily harm and infliction on a guy.' I said.
'What did you do to the guy?' Nathan asked.
'Kicked him in the balls so hard he is now unable to conceive.' I stated bluntly not going into detail which resulted in all the guys crossing their legs in some awkward position and placing their hand over their crotch as if it was going to protect them.
'Remind me to never get on your bad side Red.' He said.
'You're already half way there.' I winked. Nathan looked like he was about to reply when there was a loud crashing sound, we all turned our head to see a very panicked and scared looking Kelly falling to the floor.
'Nice entrance!' Declared Nathan.
'E's going to kill us!' She declared.
'What?' I asked, completely and utterly confused.
'The probation worker! 'E attacked me! He's going to kill us!'
'Are you high or something?' Alysha asked.
'No! I'm being serious! It was the storm! It did somefink to me! I can 'ear these voices in my 'ead It's like I can hear what people are finking!' She cried desperately.
'Have you been sniffing glue?' Alysha reverted.
'No I'm telling the truth!' She cried manically. 'Why are you in a wheelchair?' She asked looking down at Nathan. 'It was the storm!' He declared, causing her to look shocked, 'The tingling sensation in my anus went down to my leg and now I can't walk!'
'I'm being serious!' She cried once again.
'The storm, it did something to me too' We all turned to face Simon who spoke up, 'earlier, in the changing rooms, I turned invisible.' He uttered. I looked at him as if he was mad.
'Uh, I think we'd notice if you just vanished.' Stated Alysha.
'You didn't! I turned invisible, I was standing right in front of you and you couldn't hear or see me.'
'She can read minds and you can turn invisible?' Curtis laughed, 'Yeah, that seems likely.'
'Alright then,' Said Nathan wheeling over to him, 'Turn invisible.'
'I don't know how too.' He mumbled, 'I'll try.' Then he did this weird shaking thin but nothing happened, I could still see him.
'You're invisible!' Declared Nathan.
'Can't you see me?' Simon asked waving his hand in front of him. Then Nathan picked up my bottle that Alysha violated and chucked it at him.
'Nope, you've completely vanished.' Nathan mocked turning his wheelchair around, heading towards outside. But Kelly blocked him placing her hands on 'his' wheelchair.
Nathan looked as if he was about to get up and leave but Kelly got in his way, 'Don't go out there! He's going to kill you!'
'Alright, what am I thinking then?' He tested her, folding his arms smugly.
'What?' She demanded angrily, 'you think this is bullshit?!'
'Of course I think this is bullshit, it doesn't take a mind reader to figure that out.' Nathan said getting up from his chair.
'Stop!' Yelled Curtis, 'She's telling the truth!'
'What?' I asked confused, 'How do you know?'
'It already happened once! You were standing right there and the probation worker, he killed you! And then it was like everything stopped and reversed!'
'What?' Alysha mocked, 'You can turn back time?' She didn't sound at all convinced.
'Don't go out there!' Fuck sake, I'm doing community service with a bunch of wackjobs.
'What do you mean we're wackjobs?!' Kelly shouted angrily. Fuck, she was telling the truth! I opened and closed my mouth like a goldfish lost for words as Nathan opened the door but slammed it shut immediately after and locking it.
'She's telling the truth! Run!' He yelped, we all got up to our feed crowding together as we watched Tony's figure from behind the door slam at it, the crashing sound echoing the hallways.
'The graffiti,' Simon announced, 'It was Tony!'
'I knew there was a hidden meaning!' Nathan stated as the crashing sound continued.
'He's going to fucking kill us! What is hiding behind that?' I turned my head to face him.
'Maybe not then.' He said meekly. The crashing stopped and Tony's figure was gone.
'We need to call someone.' A voice said.
'We can't! He took our phones!'
'You idiot!' Alysha shouted at Kelly, 'Why didn't you go get help?!' She was pissed.
'I came back to save you! I could've left ye all but I didn't!' Kelly returned defensively.
'Uh, whatever you chav.' Alysha bit.
'Call me chav one more time and I'll kick you in the cunt so hard that your mum will feel it!' Kelly threatened Alysha, I noticed how she took a bit taken back by that comment and even a little scared.
'Her mum will feel it?' Nathan echoed, 'How does that work?'
'Look I came back to save ya when I could've just left ya all. I'm sick of all of ya judgin' me all the time!'
'Where has he gone?' I asked bringing everyone's attention back to the current issue.
'Maybe he's gone to find another way in.' Simon articulated.
'Well I'm not going to wait around for him.' Alysha declared decisively turning her heal so she could leave, 'I'm leaving.'
'Yeah, through the back.' Nathan piped in. We didn't waste any time and quickened the pace of our legs, running towards the back entrance. I could feel my heart banging mercilessly against my ribcage. We were nearly there when I suddenly lost control of my balance, my feet sliding along the floor. Luckily though I grabbed onto Kelly so I didn't fall over but instead Nathan did.
Nathan looked like he was going to make a comment but stopped as he and everyone else realized what it was he slipped on. He scrambled to his feet, 'What the fuck?!' He cried. 'Jesus Christ! Get it off of me!' He flailed about.
'Is that… Is that blood?' I queried, my body going cold with fear. Our eyes followed the trail of blood, its destination was inside the locker. Reluctantly Simon opened the locker door, my breath caught in my throat at the sight. Poor Gary was in there, lying lifeless and dismantled with blood pouring out of him.
'I did wondered what happened to him.' Nathan said meekly.
'He's going to kill us.' Alysha affirmed, trying to resist the tears that were threatening her eyes.
'Come here, don't look at that.' Curtis soothed as he went to grab Alysha. As soon has his hand made contact with her skins his whole demeanor changed. 'Oh my god you're so beautiful I've got to have sex with you right now, c'mon let's do it raw.' I stared at Curtis in disgust as Alysha tried to struggle away from him, finally she managed to break free.
'What?' Curtis asked clueless, Alysha went to slap him but when he tried to stop her the same thing happened again. 'What? What did I do?'
'Er you were tryin' to shag her.' Kelly informed him.
'And you were getting your chap out.' Nathan pointed out causing Curtis to zip up his trousers straight away, Curtis looked at Alysha desperately.
'What's going on?!'
'It happened when you touched him.' Simon observed. Alysha tested out the theory and placed her hand on Simon's neck.
'I want to rip your clothes off and piss on your tits.' He said aggressively.
Alysha ripped her hand away, 'What is happening to me?!' She cried desperately.
It was then that Tony burst through the door with a metal pole, our body finally caught up with our brains and we ran. Or they ran and I fucking slipped and fell on the blood. I didn't have an time to get up because Tony was heading towards me at full speed, I shielded myself with my arms and hands and closed my eyes as I mentally braced for the pain but after about 5 seconds still nothing. Cautiously I opened my eyes and moved my arms slightly so I could see what was going on. Tony was in the air, by like a few inches but still in the air completely immobile. Then it finally sank in: I was doing that.
I turned my head to face the others who just stared, silently and shocked at Tony, 'WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!' I screamed. They all averted their attention back to say.
'How the fuck are you doing that?' Alysha asked shocked.
'Oh let me just get my manual out- I don't fucking know! Now can someone help me because my arms are fucking killing me!' I yelled again.
'Trying pushing him backwards with your arms, see if it works.' Simon instructed.
I nodded slightly in affirmation and strained my arms, trying to push him back, 'Fuck he's heavy.' I muttered, beads of perspiration building on my forehead. With one more force I pushed my arms forward sending him to fly backwards slightly giving me only a little bit of time to scramble to my feet. To my surprise though somebody was helping me grabbing me from behind and lifting me up, I turned my head to see that it was Nathan.
Tony ran towards us again but before he could get to any of us Kelly grabbed the fire extinguisher and whacked him over the head, dropped to the floor immediately. Blood spewed out of his head. I grimaced at the sight.
'Is he dead?' I asked feverishly.
'Well I'm no expert but you see the way his heads caved in there?' Nathan replied sarcastically.
Slowly Kelly took a couple of steps towards him to make sure that he was dead when he abruptly opens his eyes and grabs Kelly's foot, what took place after wasn't pretty but Kelly's foot was now covered with Tony's brain.
'That should do it.' Nathan mumbled.
'You killed our probation worker.' Curtis said accusingly.
'I had to, 'e was gonna kill all of us!' She said desperately.
'Guys!' I bellowed as an attempt to gain their attention, 'What are we going to do? I'm not sure if it's sunk in yet but we have two dead bodies here, one of which we're all guilty of murdering!'
'We call the police and tell them it was self-defense!' Curtis said desperately.
'Yeah, yeah!' Alysha chimed, 'They'll do some CSI shit and figure it out!'
'They won't do any CSI shit, we'll be banged up right away!' I declared, shattering their little delusion.
'We tell them what happened! We stick to our story!' Curtis told us, trying to back up his idea.
'An' wot do we tell them? That you can turn back time, he can turn invisible and she can pick things up without touching them! We'll sound mental!' Kelly argue back.
'If there's no body, there's no crime.' Simon's quiet voice spoke up, we all focused our attention on him.
'What?'
'We can bury the under the flyover, no one will have to know.' Simon elaborated.
'Oh, yeah, because walking out with two dead bodies won't look suspicious at all.' Curtis scoffed.
Nathan clicked his fingers, 'No, no, no it might just work. We give them a little,' Nathan whistled at them in a circular motion, 'Fix them up a bit and put them in a wheelchair each and it'll just look like a group of young offenders taking a couple of specials out for a walk.' He informed us.
I looked at him slightly surprised, 'That might just work actually.'
We threw Tony and Gary into the ditch we had dug up and started throwing mud back on them. 'I'm pretty sure this breaches the terms of my ASBO.' Nathan joked, I couldn't help but smirk.
'So I'm guessing it goes without saying we don't tell anyone about this right.' I confirmed.
'Yah, we can't tell anyone.' Kelly agreed.
'I'm not telling anyone, I cannot be a freak.' Alysha remarked. It went without saying that Nathan and Simon weren't going to say anything, we all turned to face Curtis who was being suspiciously quiet.
'There's no going back now.' Nathan said to him.
'Apparently.' I mumbled under my breath.
'You're black and famous. You're worse off than the rest of here.' Nathan informed him much to Curtis's dismay.
'I shouldn't even be here.' Curtis bit one more time before throwing mud on Tony's face.
'How did you do that wiv ya power?' Kelly asked Alysha.
'I don't know.' She shrugged.
'Didn't you say you wanted to piss on her tits?' Nathan asked Simon openly in front of all of us, 'Best to keep that type of thing between you and your internet service provider.' He advised him. I just shared an exasperated look with Curtis.
'What about you and your power? What's that meant to be?' Kelly asked me.
I shrugged a response, 'I don't even know myself. The power didn't make it any easier to lift Tony though, might as well just fucking pick him up myself.'
'Wait, hold on a second. All of you have a power, he can do someth- He can do something! And I can't?!' Nathan exclaimed, pointing to Simon, 'Where's the logic? I was in that storm to.'
'Maybe you can do something, you just haven't found it yet.' Simon suggested.
'Yeah, yeah.' Nathan murmured perking up at the idea, 'Maybe I can't feel pain!' I took this as my opportunity as a chance to whack him around the face since I've been wanting to do it all day, apparently Kelly wanted to do the same thing because we both spontaneously whacked him around the head.
'Ow!' He cried, 'Stop hitting me!'
I always had myself out to be as a pretty good liar, I could lie without even breaking a sweat but apparently when you're being questioned about the whereabouts of your previous probation worker whom you had murdered and buried under a bridge, it's a totally different story. I was pretty convinced that if it wasn't for the extra layer of foundation I caked on today my face would be doing a pretty good impression of these bloody jumpsuits cos it bloody felt like it.
'So if you have any information about Tony or Gary please tell me, their family are extremely worried.' We just all shrugged, acting as if we hadn't had a clue as to where they were. She seemed to buy it, I wanted to scream in relief until Nathan stuck his hand up.
'I have some information…' And so went on a horrific story about Nathan catching Tony and Gary bumming each other in the toilets in very graphic detail and something about daddy cool. 'So my presumption is that they went of to continue with their illicit affair and I ask you, who are we? Who are we to judge them?' Was what he decided to finish his story with. The new probation worker, Sally looked as if she was going to cry so she just turned and walked away.
Eventually we went to the roof, I watched Sally below us gaze out into the lake before turning to leave and go back inside. 'So I think that we got away with it.'
'Do you actually believe that or are you just an idiot?' Curtis demanded.
'Yes, I actually believe it.' Nathan answered back. I took a sib of my beer.
'I wonder if there's any others with these bullshit powers.' I wondered out loud.
'Nah,' Nathan dismissed, 'That type of thing only happens in America.' He declared confidently as we all stared ahead. 'And where's my bloody power?!' He was still on that.
'Maybe you can fly.' Simon tried to help.
'Yes, there's always one who can fly!' He went and turned around, walking towards a chair and climbing on it.
'No, you can't fly.' Kelly sighed as if she was tired, like a mother with a child. Nathan jumped of the chair and land straight on the floor.
'See? I fockin told you.'
'Wait, we shouldn't dismiss the theory just yet. Nathan, jump off the building.' I commanded. I shared a grin with the rest of the group as Nathan laughed sarcastically walking back to his original standing spot.
'You're a fucking delight aren't you?' I just winked a response and took another sip.
'So, what next then?' Curtis asked.
'Maybe we're meant to be like super heroes?' Simon evoked, this got all of our attention.
'Uh, I did not sign up for that.' Alysha expressed to us all, totally horrified by the idea.
'Super heroes? Super heroes? No offence but in what kind of fucked up world would that be allowed to happen. In what world would that be allowed to happen? Super heroes!' He retreated, 'I love this guy! You twat!' He then took the ciggeratte in his hand an said, 'I guarantee that by then end of this week it will be the same boring bullshit and it'll all blow over.'
'Oh yeah! Super heroes!' I mocked, 'I'll tell ya what! We can be the Asbo Six, nothing like a group of kids with a criminal record to help the children sleep at night.' The Asbo Six, give me a break.
