I zipped up my orange jumpsuit and slammed the door of my locker closed. This was complete bullshit, stupid parents and stupid judges, no one understands me except maybe these other people here. Curly haired dude was trying and failing to look cool while casually leaning against his locker, he saw me looking and gave me a wink. I sneered at him as I tied up my laces on my converse, luckily we didn't have any bullshit shoes to wear so I got to wear my favourite shoes. I slipped my ipod into my pocket and hoped that I would be able to sneakily listen to music later.

I walked out of the changing rooms and wondered why they didn't have separate ones for boys and girls, I then realised that this whole place was cheap. I snorted to myself, like this place gets a lot of funding, it's complete bullshit. I ruffled up my hair at the back which I must admit was one of my bad habits, the curls flew back to where they were originally and basically it was a waste of time, but hey ho. I noticed a girl with a really tight ponytail catch up with me.

"You alright?" (AN: I'm not even going to try with the accent cause I just hate reading and writing it) She asked, slipping her hands in her pockets and staring straight ahead, I figured this was her trying to break the ice.

"Happy as can be." I sarcastically replied, she snorted but didn't reply. I guess that was our conversation over, which I was thankful for as she had a really thick chav accent that I knew would cause me problems. "I'm Natasha by the way."

"Kelly." I could tell we were going to get along just fine, by the end of our spectacular and very informative conversation we had reached the doors leading outside, I opened the door and breathed the air in, it was quite a nice view over the lake and I just knew we would be going in sooner or later, seeing as it was full of crap that was dangerous to the enviroment. What a load of bollocks. I walked up to the railing and leaned back against it, Kelly doing the same and we waited for our fellow criminals.

I should tell you that I was doing community service. I should also tell you that it was completely not my fault, unless you call stealing a car an accident which it was, I was a little bit stoned and couldn't tell which car was mine and when it wouldn't open I got a little pissed. So it was an accident, I don't know what's worse, the judge calling me a moron or my parents sucking up to him to get me out of a prison sentence, which I was actually grateful for but just hated seeing them flaunt their money at every available moment.

My attention was caught when the door opened and out stepped the frizzy haired girl, who I must admit knew how to accessorize this hideous outfit. I looked down at myself and then decided that I didn't care that much.

I nodded at her to acknowledge her presence, ain't I considerate?

"This is complete bullshit." She muttered.

"I know what you mean, I'm Natasha." I didn't hold out my hand cause I wasn't some sort of uptight handshaker.

"Alisha."

Next one out was the really tall 'gangster' and the dark skinned boy who didn't even bother putting his jumpsuit on properly just tying it at the waist. The dark haired, shy looking boy then the tall, curly haired boy, who basically waltzed out, he clapped his hands as if to say something but was stopped by the probation worker coughing.

"Get in a line." He ordered and the others came to join me and Kelly by the railing. I ended up smack in the middle with Kelly on one side and curly on the other.

"You all know why your here." Probation worker started, I strained my memory trying to remember his name, I think it began with a B, Bradley? No, maybe it was a C... Charlie? No I remember now it's Tony, anyway he kept talking about how were all going to do some community service, and make ourselves better and I was quite thankful when Alisha's phone went off.

"Hey." Tony's face looked like he was getting pissed off which I found very amusing, I started laughing when Alisha carried on her conversation completely disregarding him. He switched his glare to me and my laughter increased a little. Next to me curly was grinning like a loon.

"Hey I'm still talking here." Tony said in an exasperated tone. "I thought you'd finished." I snorted which caused Alisha to shoot me a quick smirk.

"My mouth's still moving that means I'm still talking."

Curly decided this would be the perfect opportunity for his imput "Yeah, but you could be yawning or chewing." He drawled in a cute Irish accent.

"That is true." I said with mock seriousness, again I was glared at but I mockingly hid behind Irish dude.

"Hey what's your name." I asked his back.

"It's Nathan, sweet cheeks and what would yours be?" I came out from behind his back. "It's definitely not sweet cheeks."

Community service went downhill pretty quickly. Nathan and gangster got into a pathetic fight that was hilarious and then we all trotted down to the lakeside to paint benches. How this would help the community I don't know. I tried to pick up my paint can but I am pathetically weak and clumsy so it got harder to walk with the paint can and paintbrushes, so Nathan stole it from me.

"Hey!" This was just for show seeing as my hands were bright red and I was really lazy. He sent me a wink and put it down with a flourish next to the bench he deemed for me to work at. He put his can next to mine and Kelly soon joined us. I somehow managed to open the can after a brief moment of concentration and stabbing of the can and I dipped my brush into the white paint. This paint was so boring, who wants a white bench, spice things up once in a while people.

I splattered a load of paint onto the bench and half-heartedly smeared it about, who cares about precision painting? I jumped when gangster shouted something about his hat and kicked his can into the lake, great, more crap for us to clean up later.

"Drama queen." I muttered, as gangster failed to kick a trolley out of his way. I zoned out again as I painted little trees and rabbits and crap into the bench before going over it again. Nathan nudged me slightly as he bent down to paint a bit of the bench and I came back to reality.

"What did you do?" Kelly asked him, which his reply was he stole some pick 'n' mix, yeah right. I could actually see that though. "Bollocks." Well put Kelly.

"What is up with this weather?" Nathan brought my attention to the dark clouds above us.

"Yeah, that is weird." I stood and stared at the clouds and spun when Tony announced himself while insulting us at the same time. He was cut off when a huge clump of ice hit a car behind him.

"That's my car." He said in disbelief, staring at it.

"Classic." Nathan said, really not the time for this but I held my hand out for a high five but I was left hanging due to the wave that crashed into us from behind.

"Jesus christ that's cold!" I shivered and tried to block out Alisha's frantic questioning of 'what the fuck?' The ice blocks nearly hit the shy kid and I just legged it. I was never the best runner but I somehow managed to keep up with Nathans long legs while the other guy sprinted into the lead and by the time the rest of us got to the doors of the community centre he found out it was locked.

"Open it!" I screamed at Tony while trying to protect my head from the bloody ice. I was not gonna die here!

"Open it!" We all screamed differed variations of this at him but he spun around when Alisha swore at him.

"Don't call me that!" He roared and then...

We were struck by lightning.

I flew through the air as I felt the lightning flow through my body, I squeezed my eyes shut as I felt my descent rapidly approach. When I hit the ground after what seemed like an eternity, safe to say, it stung like hell. I groaned and opened my eyes to see the sky was back to normal, although a few snowballs hit the ground near my head making me flinch.

"I feel really weird." I looked over as Kelly said this and saw she had managed to sit up. I tried to do the same but found my arms too weak to hold me, my bones felt like jelly. It felt really weird.

"That would be the lightning."

"We should be dead." Shy boy said, what a nice optimistic lad he was turning out to be.

"Why do you have to be so negative?" I snapped at him, trying to focus of getting up, which was turning out to be a lot harder than anticipated.

"Some reassurance would be nice you know," Nathan spoke to Tony, his voice slightly hoarse "Your fine, looking good."

"Wanker." I chuckled despite the circumstances.

"You got told." I was promptly ignored.

"Did you just- Did he just call me a wanker." Nathan spluttered, I reached over and patted him on the back having finally regained the use of my limbs.

"It happens." I mocked him.

"You can shut up."

"Is everyone alright?" Tony asked rubbing the back of his head.

"We could have died you dick." Alisha retorted, wincing slightly.

"I think we should call it a day." He struggled to his feet and walked away leaving us to stumble to our feet.

In the changing rooms we all dressed quietly, which was a big contrast to this morning. I slipped on my top and jeans on quickly and shoved the jumpsuit in the locker, I took my ipod out of the pocket and shoved it in my jeans pocket. I twisted the earphones around and as I turned around I saw it was just us girls left, Kelly was brushing her hair and Alisha was texting. I was about to walk out when I staggered against the lockers, my legs had given way.

"Whoa, you alright?" Alisha asked although I could tell she was trying not to laugh. I would have been annoyed if my legs didn't feel like they were trying to break themselves, I don't understand why this was happening. After a couple of seconds the pain went and I was able to regain my ability to stand.

"Yeah, just- I'm fine." I smiled fakely and walked out of the room, staying close to the walls just incase I decide to almost die again.

I made my way over to where I could see one of the boys.

"Hey, I'm Curtis." He nodded at me.

"Natasha." I still felt a bit unsteady so I leant on the vending machine. I studied the boy in front of me, he looked really familiar but for the life of me I couldn't figure out where I knew him from. "Crazy day huh" He chuckled and I slid to the floor. "What do we do now?" He was about to answer when Nathan came along.

"Hey love." He grabbed my hand and hoisted me up, I moved from the vending machine as he started shaking it, trying to get a free drink.

"That's not gonna work." I observed, in response he just started shaking it harder. Shy boy came along but it took me a while to notice him.

"Jesus! When did you get here?" He spluttered out an answer of he was in the toilets while stuttering so hard I thought he would chew off his own tongue. "Ok then, calm down. I don't bite"

"Yet." Nathan interjected. I sneered at him before turning to the other two.

"So, what was up with the probation worker?"

"I think theres something wrong with him, it's like he was having a spasm." Shy kid said quietly. Nathan snorted while banging on the vending machine.

"He was probably faking it, trying to get compensation, cheap bastard." He said hitting it again, I went over and smacked the back of it causing two drink to come out. I bent down and picked them up handing one to him and opening the other one. I took a sip.

"I don't think he was faking it." Shy kid said. Nathan turned on his waving his drink around causing it to spill a bit.

"You'd know all about being mental." He twitched his head and mimicked Tony "Wanker."

"At least he insulted the right person." I muttered.

"What was that?" Nathan asked me, I smiled cutely.

"Nothing." Alisha popped up next to the doorway.

"We waiting for something." She asked, popping some gum.

"Probation worker." Curtis replied.

"I ain't hanging around for that dickhead." She stalked away, I shrugged and followed her. I looked around for a bin, and put my can in there after chugging it.

"Hey Tash, wait up!" I spun around to see Nathan bouncing towards me.

"Why are you so happy?" I asked, as he stood next to me.

"Just admiring the view." I rolled my eyes and walked towards the doors of the community centre, I thought I saw the probation worker staring at us but Nathan blocked my view.

"Hey, there's no rush to leave, talk to me." He pleaded, still wearing his cocky grin. I sighed and pushed open the doors.

"I'm fine thanks, see you tomorrow." He pouted at me, but saw I wasn't going to stay and walked off in the opposite direction. As I walked home, I looked up at the sky wondering why the storm was so weird and sudden. I mean what kind of storm even was that, I knew that something would happen but I didn't know what. I was about to cross the road when suddenly I got a really painful headache, I had to stop and sit on a bench while it passed. I closed my eyes to try and block out the pain and when I opened them, everything was suddenly brighter and clearer. My ears picked up a womans phone conversation from across the road, and I could feel my teeth lengthening in my mouth. I reached up to touch my ears and they felt pointier and I was so weirded out that I snapped myself out of it and ran the rest of the way home.

When I finally got home, my mum and dad were out. I knew they were disappointed in me but who cares, you only live once. I put my keys on the kitchen counter and rested my head on my arms as I slid onto a chair. What was happening to me? I sighed and made myself something to eat, I don't know why but I was really craving a tuna sandwich and milk. After eating I went to my room and flopped on my bed.

"What a great day" I mumbled to myself. I flicked through the channels on T.V but there was nothing really interesting on. I was feeling really restless, like I was full of energy. I got up and paced my room before catching sight of myself in the mirror, I walked closer and again I got a searing headache, as I clutched my head I could see my eyes in the mirror changing to a gold colour.

"What the hell!" I screamed, I could see my ears become pointy and slightly hairier, and I was becoming really freaked out by now. So much so, that I managed to knock myself out turning around on my door and then I was out like a light.