"Welcome to the Glade", he says
It rings a bell, where have I heard that before, I think to myself, I dig through my mind to find something but then only one thing comes to mind. Tris is that my name, I think, it sounds like a name so it must be but I don't tell anyone just in case I'm wrong. From the crowd I see a boy walking through everyone moving to give way to him, must be the leader, I guess. The boy had dark skin and was not too tall yet he wasn't average height. He came up to me and stood there just staring for a bit, "Thanks Newt", he says to the boy
"No worries Alby", Newt replies then he turns back and they are both looking at me
"What?" I ask them
"Nothing it's just that you are the first girl here, obviously, look around we're all guys", Alby says
"And? It's not like it's a bad thing is it?" I ask them kind of worried
"No, maybe, I don't know, who cares we'll figure it out later but for now, you will stick close to Newt, don't cause any fights or anything okay, tomorrow we'll give you a tour of The Glade", Alby says then nods at Newt, I'm about to say something then I'm cut off, "Everyone clear out and get back to your shuck day!", Alby yells, "You two stick together okay, oh and Greenie, what was your name?" Alby says to me
"Tris", I say
"Okay good, oh and by the way Tris, Newt sometimes won't be here so you'll have to find your own way around sometimes", Alby says to me
"Okay", then he walks off, "What the hell is The Glade? What the hell am I supposed to do? What do we do here? Why is there that concrete wall all around us? Why do your clothes all look the same, dull and dirty?" questions starts to blurt out of my mouth before I even knew what I was doing
"Woah hold your horses there, I can only answer so much right now, the rest will have to wait", Newt says, he starts to walk off
"Where are you going?" I ask kind of angry that he didn't actually answer anything
"To eat, aren't you hungry Greenie?" he says then continues to walk; I jog up behind him and then slow into a walk, "So are you going to answer my questions?" I ask him
"The Glade is the place where we are at, this whole area is called the Glade", he says as he picks up some food to eat
"Why is it called the Glade?" I ask
"Just because that's what the Creators called it", he says his face falling a bit
"The Creators?" I ask half worried
"Don't worry, tomorrow you will know just relax and eat right now", then he turned to eat again; we eat in silence for a bit until after we're both finished then he looks down to his watch. "Okay I'll show you were you're going to sleep tonight, so follow me", he then stand up and waits for me to stand up to, then we both walk off towards a building. "This is the Homestead, since you're the first girl here Alby said that we might as well treat you a bit differently", he said then opened the door to a building that looked a bit unstable but stable enough. It was made from wood and sticks not the normal materials you would see for a building, we walked inside and the level was covered in dark wallpaper across the walls of the foyer and the hallway barely staying to the wall. There was nothing else there in the room besides a 3 legged table, a black and white picture of an ancient woman and the floor wasn't even still intact pieces missing everywhere.
"Follow me", then Newt walked up some wooden stairs, creaking as he stepped on each step. I got to the bottom of the stairs and then just stood there, what if thing collapse when I get on, I thought to myself. Newt turned around and saw that I was still standing at the bottom, "Do you need any help?" he asked walking down to the third bottom step and extending a hand, I waved it off then walked passed him. I got to the door and there were a few beds, all wooden and dirty then there were doors leading to other rooms. "Tris over here", Newt was at another door now, he opened it and more beds
"You'll be sleeping here for the night, no other people sleep here so it should be okay", Newt then walked over to a cupboard to get some blankets and pillows when all of a sudden there was a loud grinding noise, screeching through the air, I covered my ears to try and block out the noise when I saw Newt still going on with what he was doing.
"How can you still be..."I was cut off by the soreness of my ears that I fell to the ground clutching my ears, make it stop someone
"Don't worry, it's just the walls closing", Newt says placing down the pillows
"The walls?" I ask removing my hands from the ears, the walls stopped now.
"Tomorrow Greenie, tonight just sleep okay, you must be tired I guess, it's still a bit early into the night but sleep", Newt says. I don't hesitate, I'm so stinking tired that I go to the bed and as soon as I put my head down I'm asleep.
I'm looking towards a little machine, "Don't press it Tris, for the good of you", I look around and there is a man, his features are there but his face and his voice is distorted, a gun goes off, I'm bleeding, I look down and there is a ugly slime ball with spikes around it, one of its spikes jabbed into me, I'm bleeding non-stop, I start to go woozy when I hear a voice, "I love you Tris", I see a face fading away, I try to run to it but I'm blocked in my path when some cement walls smash in front of my face, I turn and see the grotesque slim monster thing with spikes coming towards me, moaning and groaning terrible noises, the spikes ready to attack, I yell for help but nothing is working my voice isn't even working, then everything goes black.
I wake up and hear that I am yelling, I'm sweating and panting, what was that, I don't ever want to sleep again if I dream that again, I look around and see that Newt is at the door panting, "Tris?! Are you okay?" he asks then walks up to me and pulls me into a nice warm embrace, I hug back
"I'm fine", I realise that I'm lying and I start to cry
"Nightmares?" he asks looking at me, I nod
"It's okay we all had some", then he pats the pillow indicating me to go back to sleep, I don't lie down though
"I don't want the dreams to come back", I say putting my face in my hands
"It won't, I'll protect you, I'll fight off the bad dreams if they come to get you", he says smiling, laughing a bit
"With what", I ask
"My bare hands", we both then laugh a bit, those few words sounded so familiar, so home like so I lay my head down on the pillow and fall asleep knowing that if those words felt like home that this place should too.
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Decided to mash these little quotes together from Divergent hehe, hope you guys like this chapter, sorry if it's a bit late, busy busy busy school is irritating and all, hope to update soon hopefully within a weeks time~dauntlesslionrunner