Newt showed me around the glade.
He explained to me all the jobs,slicers, track-hoes, baggers,sloppers , cooks,builders, runners and med-jacks.
"You'll probably be one of those shanks."
He said as we passed the only two med-jacks.
The blondies shoulder brushed mine again, sending warmth down my arm. A feeling I enjoyed but couldn't describe.
He'd been doing that a lot on my mini tour. That made me think.." didn't you have something to do?"
"I'm bloody doing it right now."
" what, just patrolling the glade? That's your job?"
"Yeah, that's what me and klunk of a leader Alby do. Occasionally we help out everyone, and make sure there's no buggi'n glader with an attitude."
"Your looking at one." I blurted out. What a lame atempt at a joke.
Newt smiled. Some of the heavy sadness in his eyes ran away, than came back in a flash like he couldn't handle to be happy.
"Why are you so-"
I was cut of abruptly buy a noise so loud, my ears were ringing. It sounded like metal and stone grinding against each other, combined with the screeching of a car crash played through a speaker.
"It's just the doors closing!" Newt yelled over the noise.
I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was Alby. "
It's mealtime!" The noise abruptly stopped.
I was introduced to frypan and a few others. There was this extremely cute young boy named Chuck who I decided to sit with.
" My names Mac." I told him.
"Nice to meet you." Chuck winked, which I found amusing.
"Hey Chuck." A boy with brown hair and beautiful brown eyes sat down across from me and chuck.
"Thomas this is Mac. What happened, you look like a price of clunk."
"Klunk is crap",Thomas said with a dry smile.
"Ofcourse it is."
"And I'll tell you two later."
About 30 minutes later Thomas had explained his encounter with Ben. I learned about things like getting "stung" and the changing, and the serum. Chuck supersede me with two sentences that I wish he said a lot earlier. "You must have some connection with Thomas, or you and the wiggly chick are just shuck different, well, besides being a girl. Nobody has come the day after somebody else.
Mac was shocked that chuck had suggested something like a connection with Thomas.
She had felt that same sense of deja vu with Thomas and Chuck, only it was stronger, like she had known them longer.
The girl felt like telling someone. Newt. He would listen.
But another part of her knew it wasn't the right time.
