Teenage Kicks ➝ Nathan Young x OC [Misfits]

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Kelly had arrived late, much to the confusion and annoyance of the group. She was wearing glasses and hiding from view behind a bright pink cap.

"Where've you been?" Alisha asked as the group still sat on the floor organising the piles of clothing.

"I had to go doctor's." Kelly said, looking away from the group. Nina knew something was up since Kelly seemed quieter than normal and hoped silently that she was alright, unaware that Kelly could see - or read - straight through her to witness her concern.

"Yeah? Well, while you were getting your smear test - BIG SHOCK - we found out the bodies are about to be dug up." Nathan said rudely.

"They're building an environmental monitoring station under the fly over." Simon explained as Kelly's mouth opened in shock.

"Sounds like bullshit. Right?" Nathan shook his head.

"Can you steal a car?" Alisha asked Kelly.

"Can you get a car?" Curtis asked too.

"Will you all fuck off?!" Kelly shouted back.

Nina didn't blame her - the group would often look to Kelly and Simon for answers and solutions but just as quickly judge them more so than anyone else. Kelly shoved a clothing pile off of the table and hopped on in its place as Nathan commented, "All right, touchy."

"Come on." Nathan began towards the entire group, "Look, we're a bunch of young offenders and not one of us knows how to steal a car? That is pathetic." His comment seemed not to strike a cord with the other...mostly due to the placement of a black sports bra he had pulled over his orange jumpsuit.

"Look, I'll borrow my dad's car." Alisha offered.

"You're banned from driving so that makes sense! Right?" Curtis stated.

"Ugh, you're like a whiny little bitch!" Alisha argued. Simon and Nina stayed quiet watching the others talk amongst themselves, shooting Simon a familiar look of 'here we go again'.

"Guys guys guys! Come on, we need to work together." Nathan attempted to defuse the impending argument, "Think of it as a team-building exercise, huh?"

Nina and Simon watched as Nathan slung his arm confidently around Alisha and Curtis' awkward shoulders, "I'm feeling this. Are we feeling this?"

"Prick." Alisha shoved his arm off of her, joined by Curtis and Nina laughed.

"What did I do?" Nathan asked, joining Simon and Nina back on the floor to organise the clothes.

"If anyone's going to try building team spirit, I don't think the role should be appointed to some self-entitled egomaniac bra wearing vandal in a community blowback jumpsuit." Nina said.

"You think the bra was too much?" Nathan asked seriously.

Nina laughed at him, "You have no self-awareness."

They continued their normal behaviours: procrastinating the set task by messing around, dressing up, listening to Nathan's outrageous stories, participating in his outrageous ideas (including throwing objects at him blindfolded to see if he had the power of heightened senses) and trying not to vomit at the sight of Curtis and Alisha's flirtatious conversations. Soon the morale was low enough for even Nina and Simon, who often continued with their work intermittently, to lose motivation, and for their probation worker to finally give them the heads up to leave.

As they each shuffled single file into the locker rooms the conversation about the body issue continued.

"So what's the plan?" Curtis asked as they all changed.