Thomas POV
It had been 5 days since their arrival into their paradise. They had gotten up the main building, daycare building, and two houses. The houses were fairly large, with two floors. Each house so far had two bedrooms upstairs, and a big room downstairs for whatever. Two more houses were being put up at the moment.
Thomas had asked Teresa, and they were going to share a house. Minho, knowing that Thomas would probably want to be with Teresa, had decided to share a room with Brenda, and a house with Aris and Jorge. Thomas wondered if something was going on with Minho and Brenda, but said nothing. Anyways, they were going to have their house built smaller, because there were only two of them and most of the other houses were meant to hold at least 4 people.
There were also outhouses, but they were placed way away from all of their food and water, in the area where the sand met the dirt and grass. They had two built so far, and there would be three more in the end. He wanted their house to be near the beach, but not anywhere near the outhouses; on the opposite side is where they would put it. Teresa had said she wanted it to be right up against the sand, so that one door led to grass and another to sand. Thomas hadn't complained, and they were to have their house built the next time there was a building crew open.
At the moment they were at a government meeting. They were discussing the topic of the exploration group, and where they should be sending people. Thomas thought they should be sending people in all directions, for more resources.
"We need to have everyone in the forest for now" Minho stated in a matter-of-fact tone. "Why would we send people anywhere else when the forest is right there next to us?"
"I think we should be sending people in all directions" Thomas chipped in.
"But we do need people in the forest. We could have a mixture of both." This was Teresa. Brenda and Frypan spoke up, saying that there should be people exploring the mountains and canyon.
"Maybe there should be different groups spread out" someone piped up.
"Yeah" Minho agreed. "That's probably a good idea, but they can't be spread out all over the place. Maybe we should have most of the people in the forest, but have a group of, say, 7 people go and explore the mountains beyond the forest? We can always send out more groups later." Everyone seemed to be alright with this idea, so they took a vote. There were 8 people for it, and 3 against, so that is what they planned to do.
That was all they had planned for that meeting, so everyone dispersed, and Thomas went to go have one of his two daily meals. He walked over to the daycare and went inside. He made his way over to the section that had been made for food temporarily, and he was given a banana, 10 nuts, walnuts, he thought, and a bowl of some sort of plant root soup. Thomas smiled at the person running the food counter, and then went and sat down at a crudely built but effective table.
He ate the banana and nuts, but was hesitant about the soup. Finally, he decided that food was food, and he tried it. It was actually pretty good, and he finished his serving completely, licking the wooden bowl clean afterwards. Putting his dishes in a bin on the way out, he headed towards the field to rest for a while. It was almost night time anyways.
He watched as the builders finished one of the two houses under construction that day. They were almost finished with the other one also, however it was getting dark fast and they all were tired and ready to eat. They put their tools down and walked over to get their food for the night. Thomas lay in the grass, staring up at the twinkling stars. The image was soon replaced by Teresa's face, but Thomas didn't mind the change of scenery. "Hey" she said, a soft smile on her face.
"Hi" he replied, patting the ground for her to lay down. She did, and Thomas knew she could tell that he was in a good mood, because she said to him:
"You seem really happy tonight"
"Yeah" he told her "I just can't wait for our house to be built, probably tomorrow."
"Me either" she said with excitement. They were silent then, and they looked up at the stars for a while. People were finally gathering in the grassy area to sleep, and people were giving them weird looks. Wanting to be alone, Thomas picked Teresa up, and they made their was towards the hill, Teresa laughing the whole time. He sat her down on the hill, and lay down next to her. He pulled her on top of him, so that her head was resting on him, and that was how they stayed the whole night long.