flying high (misfits)

five (episode one) : something happened

I look over and see the quiet kid walking in, his facial expressions prove that he's confused. Where the hell did he go?! I definitely saw him... disappear. That wasn't my imagination. Or was it? Fuck, I don't know anymore!

"Yeah, you're just relaxin', eh? Take it easy," Curtis blurts out. I turn around and realize curly headed girl, Alisha is sitting down at the benches. Her jumpsuit is folded at her waist and her rainbow bra is visible. Some shades are relaxing perfectly above her eyes. Curtis wasn't wrong when he said she looked relaxed.

"Someone's just gonna write something else there tonight." She said. It looks like she never even picked up the sponge. "They make us do this bullshit little jobs, wearing these bullshit orange jumpsuits. They can suck my dick." She puts her sunglasses back over her eyes.

"Nice," He says, continue to stare at her. I sense a... tension and make my way towards Nathan and Kelly.

"Feel free to check out my tits, yeah," Alisha blows a kiss to Curtis. My step immediately picks up as my eyes widen. I grab my sponge and push it against the red paint, starting to scrub.

Kelly looks over at me and nudges my arm. I turn to face her. "You know after the storm, did any of you, like, get weird?" She asks.

I look over at the pale kid, waiting to see if he'll say anything. But even if he was going to say something, Nathan blurts out, "yeah, I had a strange tingling sensation in my anus."

I slowly turn around and face him, giving him a weird look. He looks down at me and smiles, going back to scrubbing.

I nudge his arm, waiting for him to look over. He eyes me and tilts his head. "Was your stepdad wanking it off?" I question.

"Uh... No." He says, shaking his head. "I mean, uh..." Hs looks back at the wall. "Totally."

"What, did you feel weird?" Kelly says. I turn around and see her talking to the quiet kid. Oh my god, maybe this is when he says it.

"What, you don't wanna hear about my anus?"
Nathan pretends to be offended.

"No, I don't think anyone does." I quickly face him.

"Do you really have to ask the question?" Curtis chimes in. Nathan goes back to scrubbing with a smile on his face. Why do I have some sort of drawing towards him?

I turn my attention back to the quiet kid. "Something happened." He mumbles.

"What's that? Squeak up." Nathan banters at him.

"Nathan, please." I turn to face him again. He looks at me and his face immediately feels apologetic but he doesn't say anything.

"Something happened to me..." He says.

I wanna just blurt our 'yeah, you turned invisible!!' but I don't wanna put this guy on the spot. "What happened?" I ask.

He gulps and looks at Kelly and I. "It's nothing." He starts to scrub the wall.

I look over, confused. I scrub the wall, trying to clean the disturbing letters. I know I saw him completely disappear. Why isn't he telling us? And is something happening with Kelly? I mean, I know she was acting weird in the locker room... But now that she's questioning us, I wouldn't be surprised if something happened to her during the storm.

"Psst..." Kelly whispers.

I look over, lowering my voice, "yeah?"

"I think that Nathan guy might be into you." She whispers. I turn to face Nathan and see him smiling.

"Why do you think that?" I look back at her.

That question makes her confused for some reason. She gives a weird look. "Nothing, no reason."

"Well, did he say something or-"

"No reason!" She says, not whispering. Everyone eyes us. Without looking at anyone else, she quickly walks away from me. She drops her sponge and completely leaves. I look around confused. They all share a similar expression.

"What was that all about?" Nathan whispers.

I look up at him, "I have no fucking clue." I shrug.

• • • • •

"It's a shame more women don't commit crime. Why is that?" I hear Nathan's voice as I lay on the nearby couch.

"Why's that?" Curtis's voice beams. They must be playing on the foosball table because I keep hearing little clicks. Unless I've gone 100% mad.

"I dunno. I mean, there's enough for all of us here. But wasn't there another guy?" Nathan questions. "Ah, oh well. No offense, guy but I don't think one of them will pick you. Bad luck!"

"There was four of us. I remember." The quiet kid said. I never got a chance to catch his name, seeing as he completely vanished.

"I'm talking about getting laid!" Nathan says. "So how are we gonna do this, man?"

"Do what?" Curtis asks.

"Divide them up. Cause I gotta tell you, the one with the frizzy hair? I don't see me and her gettin' it on.." They must thinking I'm asleep. I mean, they wouldn't talk about having sex with the girls right in front of me.

Curtis laughs. "Cause she's beautiful?"

"No! Because she'd be way too much effort. She looks way too high maintenance man. You have to treat her really well." He lets out a sigh. "But that other one, Jane..."

"I'm surprised you'd even remember her name.." The quiet kid mumbles.

"Whatever." Nathan moves along. "She seems into me but I don't know. I think I might be a little into her as well. I feel like her and I could get it on."

Oh.. My.. God. They're literally talking about me... right in front of me. They must think I'm asleep. And Nathan's into me?? Not sure how I feel about that. It isn't a bad feeling, but let's just say that if my mom were around, she wouldn't approve of him.

"Yeah, and the girls? Do they have a say in this?" Curtis chuckles.

Without hesitation, Nathan answers, "a group of young people doing mindless shit all day. Face it, man, it's gonna happen! It always does! It's biology... Or physics... One of those..." I guess he failed every science test.

"So do we have a deal?" Nathan says. I hear a spit and I can only assume that he spit on his hand to shake it off or something. I have no clue.

"No." Curtis sounds disgusted.

"Fine, well maybe I'll take all three of them."

Curtis tsks. "Yeah, I see that happening."

"Yeah, you will see it. And then you'll be sorry that you didn't accept the deal. And then who's laughing? Meee..." Nathan whispers the last word. I hear someone walking away and I can only assume it's Nathan.

"What did he get done for?" Curtis questions.

"He said he was done by eating some pick n' mix." The quiet kid answers.

"Prick."