Static* on hold

The sun shone down, it was the hottest it had been all summer and Karlee bathed in it all. The middle of nowhere felt like the best place to be right now, the car was parked up outside a farmhouse, in god knows where for Karlee to actually know would have meant she had paid attention to John's useless rant. All she knew is that they were at suppliers, a kind elderly couple who once had 2 mutant twins.

"Are you at least going to help" John's voice slashed through the peaceful trance.

Karlee laid back flat on the bonnet of the car, her black cami top attracting the sun her pale skin desperately craved after being copped up in the headquarters.Her blonde hair stuck to windscreen as she turned slightly to answer the voice, her muscles too relaxed in the moment to lift her completely up,"I'm sure you can manage by yourself, after all, you're the one with superhuman strength and I'm just a weak young girl"Karlee whined,annoyed at John for interrupting the first moment of silence she had gotten in weeks. He must get some strange pleasure out of tormenting her given that he had yanked her out of bed at 5 am to go on this trip.

"Weak? If your weak then Marcos and I are twin brothers" John said sarcastically."Well, that would be wishful thinking, Marcos is clearly too hot for you and him to share the same gene pool." Karlee smirked.John was always his most attractive when he was annoyed and Karlee knew her joke would leave him seething.Suddenly the air felt cold and everything went dark, sliding her shades down her nose to provide a better look at what was going on.John stood over her vexed, he had blocked out her source of vitamin d" That wasn't funny" he grumbled

"You gotta admit it kind of was,"Karlee gleamed.The two males had always had some strange silent competition, though the girls had always been aware and after a heated debate, it had been called a draw.However Karlee's wager would always be placed on John, he was the only one who had made sparks fly plus Lorna would maul the girl who so much as glance at Marcos in that way.

She slithered off the bonnet of the car, maybe a little too quickly as the heel of her foot began to slip beneath the gravel, It took the firm grip of John to steady her. Honestly, she would have rather fell flat on her ass, than give him the little victory of saving her ass literally.It was a small gesture she reminded herself, next time she would help herself even if it was just from the embarrassment of stumbling on the ground."Tell me why I picked you to help out." he mumbled the rhetorical question more to himself than her. Karlee took off her shades and pout her lips in sympathy " look at you all grumpy if you wanted me to help you could have just got Sonya to shift around my brain."Karlee had told John she was over what Sonya had done to Clarice but maybe she wasn't.With a pat on the back, she walked away lifted up the box of supplies, she had especially asked the supplier for some bits for Andy and Lauren, comics, magazine clothes to pastel for anyone's liking but it was the best she could do.

"Whats up with that" John asked tailing her to the boot of the car where she strategically placed the box in the corner to make space for the other stuff."Nothing, I just don't understand you've got every girl wrapped around your finger?"Karlee resisted the urge to puke did she really just say that.

"meaning?"

"Well, firstly Sonya and thanks to whatever memory of you two there's Clarice.I didn't even know you two were a thing." She elaborated, what she had meant earlier.

He paused for a minute taking in her face every tense muscle, freckle, the blue eyes that couldn't even meet him; as if he was solving a quadratic equation. A shit eatting grin gradually stretched across Johns' face.