Keystone Outcasts

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Robbie grins as he looks inside the packaging, from the first box he pulls out three expensive and professional looking pens. Graffiti pens. Usually used for drawing on windows. The black one wasn't a usual pen, it had a rectangular and long nib, to make better lines. The other two colours were red and white. He grins a little and opens the other package, then pulls out two cans of spray paint. Black and red. He looks up at Lee, "you've just created a monster."


Lee had been glaring at Chloe, his eyes narrowed, but when Robbie spoke he grinned and looked at him. "I've created a monster? No I think I've created... Something good? You need graffiti back in your life, don't get them confiscated." He laughs a little.


Melanie looks around for a moment. "You know, these walls could do with a little decoration Robbie. How bout it?" She offers, a small smile on her face as she looks at him.

 

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Joshua grins, "You can make this place a little more lively with your talent, Eh?" He says with a smile, looking around at the walls that looked overly boring. Chloe glances at Lee who had been glaring and chuckles quietly before looking at Robbie and smiling.

 

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Robbie pushes himself up to his feet and cracks his neck, then his fingers dramatically. He pulls of his jacket, picks up one of the cans and looks at it. He pulls off the lid and chucks it to the floor before walking over to one of the walls. He examines the wall for a moment, before walking back and grabbing the other spray paint. He spins them in his fingers while he concentrates on what to do.


Lee watches Robbie for a moment before looking at Chloe. "Don't think we've forgotten about you, too. This is also a celebratory evening because you made it into the pack!" He laughs a little and snaps his fingers. "You are officially... An Outcast."


Melanie nods her head vigorously, watching Robbie but listening to Lee. "Yeah, Chloe, how's it feel to be involved in the least cool group in school?" she laughs a little and slowly turns to look at Chloe.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Joshua leans against the opposite wall and grins at Robbie as he watches. Chloe grins at Lee, "Well thank you all for welcoming me." She says before chuckling, "Don't put yourselves down too much, I think you all deserve more credit than that. I'd say, we are the coolest group in school. So what if we don't fit in, what's fun about being a sheep and following the crowd?" She asks with a grin, taking another sip of the energy drink and looking at everyone.

 

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Melanie grins a little, "That is true, and we all know it. We are the coolest group in school." She laughs a little then opens one of the chocolate bars, biting into it and smiling at the taste. "If you want it, take it." She says, knowing that Lee was looking at one of the chocolate bars. He reaches over and takes one, opening it and biting into it.


Robbie was still spraying, he even used his pens, even though they were specifically meant for glass. He had a grin plastered on his face as he drew it, and it didn't take him long either. You had to be fast if you wanted to graffiti, so the cops couldn't catch you on the scene. Soon enough, he was done, and he spun his cans between his fingers again.


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(on wall not glass)

 

[CrystalSmith]

Joshua grins, "That's brilliant, damn your good." He says with a smile looking at him. Chloe grins grabbing a chocolate bar and drink more of her energy drink. She smiles and looks around slowly.

 

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"We're all good at something." Robbie says, looking up at the graffiti. He turns around and sits back down in his original place, looking at the cans.


Lee looks at him and leans over, "You will not get them confiscated." He says slowly, as though he were trying to hypnotise him. "Comprende?"


Robbie nods, a grin on his face.


Lee grins and sits back, "Good. That's good. And now you're going to do me a favour. Next time we go to the traintracks, spraypaint a naked woman on the wall so that when people go past on the train-"


Melanie slaps him on the back of the head.


"Or nah..." Lee mumbles, rubbing the back of his head.


Robbie grins, shaking his head slightly. His phone suddenly rings, and he stands up, walking out of the actual house area to answer the phone.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe laughs lightly at Lee, "Is there not a second that goes by where you stop thinking about different girl being naked?" She asks, pausing and watching as Robbie goes to answer his phone. She drinks the rest of her energy drink and looks around, "He's a good graffiti artist." She says smiling at what he just did.

 

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Melanie grins a little, "He's a good artist in general. If I could I'd steal one of his books and I'd show you, I might be able to manage it actually... I am sneaky like that." She grins a little. "But all his art is quite depressing..." She bites her lip. "Like, in most pictures it's that guy." She point at the graffiti. "But he's being hunted by these two people, but Robbie won't tell me what they're called."


Lee nods his head a little, "The Glove. And Nursey Worsey." He says, Melanie raises her eyebrows at him. "What? He told me."


Melanie nods her head slowly and then continues, "But basically, The Glove or whatever, he drew the red circle of death on him." She points to the circle on the graffiti. "Meaning that he's going to die, obviously. And then don't even get me started on all the drawings of people killing themselves..."


Lee glares at her, "Mel, shut up." He growls.


Melanie shrugs his shoulders, "What?"


Lee shakes his head, "You know what. We're not supposed to talk about it..."

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe looks at the two and smiles slightly, "Guys you can't blame him, god if I was in his situation I'd be the same, when you think about dying so much, It can become.. Uhh, what's the right word, addicting? No that sounds like a drug... overwhelming. That's the word. It becomes overwhelming." She says looking at the graffiti on the wall and smiling weakly, "It could be his way of getting all out of this system." She says quietly looking at them.

 

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"It would be..." Lee says slowly, looking around and trying to make sure that Robbie wasn't about to come back. He didn't want him to hear them talking about him.


"If he hadn't tried it." Melanie looks down at her feet and twiddles her thumbs before picking up her energy drink and taking a sip. The room was silent other than that.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe was looking into space, letting her mind wander. She looks at the wall and then opens the chocolate bar, taking a bite. She taps her fingers against the floor.

 

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Robbie walked back in then, a small smile on his face, and he sat back down. "Mum wanted me to come back." He explains, "I told her I didn't want to and she said that if I didn't she'd get police cars out looking for me." He laughs a little, "She's a little overdramatic, but we compromised. I have to be back home in around an hour or so." He looks around, "Why is it so quiet?"


Lee widens his eyes, "Not quiet. It's not quiet, open your ears man there's so much noise... Heh." He looks down at his feet and bites his lip.


Robbie narrows his eyes, "What were you talking about?"

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe looks at Robbie, "I'm not about to lie to him." She says to Lee and looking at Robbie again. She smiles slightly, "We were talking about your art and about how great it is and these characters." She says simply, she looks at the others and then at another wall, "And I had this idea just now, it's good and all painting a character on a wall who's destined to die but how about we all paint something, together. Us, all of us, painted on a wall, not showing all of our tragedies, not showing death or depression or nothing. Not showing the bits of us that we normally focus on. We focus on the good things. Now this picture, it can be anything, you can be whoever you want, but you show yourselves in it." She says still looking at the wall, "No red circle of death, no sad faces, we paint ourselves happier. I'm not saying ignore the bad things, just in the one graffiti art, show the good things." She says quietly, before turning to Robbie and shrugging lightly.

 

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Robbie bites his lip, and for a moment the place was silent, Melanie and Lee looked at Robbie. He stands up, crossing his arms across his chest, looking each of them in the eye. "Alright. Grab a can." He says, sighing slightly as he stooped down and picked up the black spray paint. He twirled it in his fingers again and shook it. "Just... Not on that wall." He points to the graffiti of the superhero.


Melanie grins and claps her hands, "wonderful idea Chloe." She stands up and grabs the red spray paint. "Although I hope you know what you've gotten yourself into, Lee here isn't amazing at anything to do with art."


Lee shrugs his shoulders, "Shut it Mel. I'm amazing at everything, as we all know." He stands up, grabbing one of the marker pens, the black one, and examining it. "I know what I'm doing."

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe smiles at Robbie and stands grabbing a can and laughing at Mel and Lee. She starts to shake the can, looking at the wall before starting, she'd mapped hers out already, not a brilliant artist but she'd try her best. She starts, half of her body, a cheerleader, showing the past her and the other half current her. She cheerleader her was smiling, and the current her, smiling too. She looks at it, taking her time with it and then glancing at everyone else. She paints a pompom in her left left hand and nothing in her right hand. She steps back looking at it, and then looking around. To finish it off, she paints a long black line separating the two halves.


She passes the can to Joshua and smiles, he was still deciding what to do, he hadn't seemed happy with himself in a long time. He sighs looking at everyone. He stands and looks around, "I can't think of anything." He mumbles before Chloe interrupts, "I'm sure you can, just think of something you really enjoy or something that makes you happy." She says.

 

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Mel paints herself at the end, so that there would be a girl at either side of the five people on the wall. She paints herself with a black fedora hat covering half her face, and her body was draped in a clothes made by her. She tried her best to make the clothes look as real as she made them, and in her hand was a cigarette, smoke coming from the ends. She paints herself smiling. She didn't really have any negative emotions inside herself anyway, so she basically had just painted herself as she usually saw herself.


Lee walked over to the wall, he drew himself next to Mel. His jeans were much the same as what he was currently wearing, except it had rips in the knees of the jeans, and he decided to draw himself shirtless, musical notes covering his nipples. When Melanie glared at him, he sighed and drew a shirt over his chest, but then put a guitar in his hand. "Alright. I'm good here."


Robbie looked at Lee's drawing. "That's pathetic." He says, laughing, but when Lee glares at him he stops. Before moving into the middle. He shakes his can and sets to work, not really sure what he was going to end up with.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe smiles at Joshua, encouraging him to do it. Joshua thinks for a moment painting himself next to Chloe, he was wearing his usual clothing, blue jeans and a top. He was grin in this though, showing how he wanted to think. He made his arm clear are scars, and no bruises. He looks at Chloe and smiles slightly, before looking at the other art. Chloe was watching Robbie, and the other, laughing gently at Lee.

 

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In Robbie's picture, he was wearing a jacket, a shirt, and jeans, as usual, he even painted his usual scruffy graffiti'd converse. He left the head till last though, as he looked at it and drew the facial features, he bit his lip as he drew hair on his head, trying to think of not having cancer. In his hand he has a can of spraypaint. He steps back when he is done, looking at the drawings they had all done.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe smiles and looks at it, "I think, we all look smashing." She says looking at everyone slowly. She sits back down. Joshua sits down too, taking another sip from her energy drink and looking at Robbie.

 

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Melanie and Lee both sit down, grinning.


Lee shrugs his shoulders, "Mine certainly looks smashing, though I aint too sure about Melanie's. I can't even tell what it's supposed to be." He laughs a little.


Melanie glares at him, "Do we need to talk about those musical nipples of yours, Lee?" He shrugs, taking a sip of his energy drink.


Robbie stays stood up, his back to the group and his hands in his jacket pockets. He looks up at the artwork.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe looks at Robbie, "You okay buddie?" She asks with a small smile. She stands moving to stand beside him, looking at the painting they made. She looks at him and smiles slightly.


Joshua looks at Lee, "Why music notes from your nipples?" He says with a short laugh.

 

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Lee laughs a little, "I have very musical nipples. That's all." He grins widely and looks at Josh.


Melanie rolls her eyes, "You don't have musical nipples. For one it's not scientifically possible. You're so dumb."


Robbie looks at Chloe and smiles at her a little. "I'm grand." He looks back at the painting and bites his lip.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Joshua laughs, "Mel is right, it's not possible but you can keep imagining if you like." He says with a grin.


Chloe smiles at Robbie, "What's up Robbie?" She asks softly, noticing him biting his lip. She knew he probably wouldn't want to talk to her, she was new and not nearly close enough to any of them to expect them to open up.

 

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Lee pouts slightly, "I'm not imagining it! It's true I swear!" He crosses his arms across his chest, "Why do you guys never believe me?"


Melanie rolls her eyes, "Maybe because it's not possible!" She groans, before glaring at him. "Now stop saying it is, before I make it possible."


Lee widens his eyes, "Your threats are terrifying."


Robbie looks at Chloe, and tries to make it seem like everything was fine. "Nothing's up. I just... Lee's drawing capabilities are making me feel sick." He forces a laugh out.