The rest of the nice I slept peacefully, no nightmares, nothing but then I heard the screams of someone. I woke up panting, scared, who was yelling? I think to myself. I look around the dark room and can just barely see everything but there is no sign of Newt, "Newt?" I whisper into the darkness but no reply. I slowly get up and walk towards the door, towards the noise. I hear other voices whispering, but shouting at the same time, I also hear grunts and yells of agony.
I walk over to the door and put my hand over the knob pausing before I open it. I peek my head outside and there is no one, no light except a few little lanterns lit to light up the hallway. I hear the cries of pain again and walk towards it, why am I doing this? I think to myself. I am still walking to the room but cringe every time I hear the screeches coming from the person. I arrive at the door and pause, "Do I really want to do this?" I say to myself, out aloud, I stand there pause for a bit then open the door.
I see who was screaming and yelling, it was Ben, his skin all filled with dark bruises and bloody scratches, his skin covered in hives and his veins popped out all green and purplish, it was gross and his eyes were bloodshot and scary as if looking deep into your soul. Around him trying to hold him down is Jeff, Newt, Alby and Minho, no one notices me at first until I see Jeff look up, "Tris?" he says, then everyone turns around to look at me, they are still firmly holding Ben down but all eyes are gazed on me
"Tris, what are you doing here?" Newt says, letting go off Ben slowly then walking over to me
"Oh I just, um...well I heard Ben and I was just wonder-"
"He's fine, you should sleep, don't worry about him he'll be fine", Newt says cutting me off
"Well I can't sleep anyway", I say, it's true, how can I sleep after I've just seen that.
"Okay here I'll come with you", Newt says and walks me out of the door, his hand on the small of my back, his long slender fingers send shiver up my spine and a warm and safe feeling, and I liked that feeling. We arrive at my room and he then turns on the little light to illuminate the room. I crawl into bed again and watch him sitting there next to me, "Sorry that I had to do this, I'm just..."I couldn't finish of the sentence, that word, it felt strange
"Scared?" Newt says
"Yeah, that word"
"Don't worry we all were scared on our first night, like I said, it takes time to getting used to all of this", he says comforting me, "Now just close your eyes and when you wake I promise to be here"
"Promise?"
"Promise", he says smiling, what a liar, I think to myself, I knew he must be lying because he is second in command after all he would obviously be busy every second of everyday, but I close my eyes and drift off to sleep, praying I don't get anymore nightmares and surprisingly I don't.
I wake up the next morning, eyes hazy, head hurting and my body weak, why am I so exhausted I did nothing yesterday, I think to myself. I look over to the side and see that Newt was still in the same spot he was in the last time I saw him, in the chair next to me, his head dangling down and arms by his side, I smile a bit, so he did keep his promise, I think to myself.
"Hey Newt", I whisper gently trying to wake him up, I shove him a bit so he cradles a bit and then he slowly lifts his head and yawns
"Hey Tris, morning", he smiles at me, he looks down at his watch and looks to see what time it is, "Late riser are we Tris?" he jokes to me
"Wait what time is it?"
"9:00am"
"Seriously 9:00am, is late?" I ask shocked
"Yea usually everyone is awake by 7:30-8:00am", he says, he gets up off the chair and stretches his arms up, "Let's go greenie, today is the day of the Tour", he smiles then walks out the door not bothering to wait. I rush out the door and find where he is, I run to him and he just smiles, "Bit slow are we?" I laugh along with what he says and we go off to eat breakfast, "Hey Frypan, what's for breakfast?" Newt asks, who Tris seems to decipher as the head chef
"The usual", he says and hands us both a plate each, "So how you liking the new place?" Newt asks me once we sit down
"It's okay", I say, not really wanting to say much, and shove the food into my mouth, "Woah, hungry little bugger aren't you", Newt says as he slowly eats his food
"Of course I am", I smile at him opening my mouth to show him all my chewed food, I am starting to get comfortable with Newt which is a good thing I guess, "That's just disgusting", Newt says cringing up his face, we both continue to eat, laughing at who knows what when Alby comes.
"How you doing greenie?" he says to me
"Fine", I reply
"Good, because today is the Tour", he smiles then ushers me to follow him, I look at Newt questionly and he just nods. I get up and run after Alby, "So what do we do on the Tour", I ask him once I've caught my breath, that is too much running in one day, I think to myself, "Well today I will tell you about the jobs, rules, simple things then for the rest of the day you have to take a turn at one job, then tomorrow another job and so on, got it?" he replies, I nod, not even sure that he saw it
"Okay so we have 9 jobs here on the Glade, but you will only be trying out 7 of them, don't ask just listen" he says before I could ask anything, "Jobs are builders; they build everything here on the Glade, and their keeper is Gally", he says pointing at a boy, he was tall, skinny kind of but had a nice build, his nose was an odd sort of shape and had black hair and green eyes, he was ugly at first sight, "then we have bricknicks; they have the same jobs as the builders practically but they rebuild the broken buildings not create new ones, the sloppers; mainly all greenies do that job, they do all the things no one else wants to do, baggers; deal with dead bodies, and act as guards, cooks; their keeper is Siggy aka Frypan, as their name states, they cook, track-hoes; keeper is Zart, they work in the garden, med-jacks; keeper Clint, doctors, take care of all the injured", then Alby's face drained, colour diminishing from it, "the slicers; their keeper is Winston, take care of the live stock and slaughter the animals for food, then the runners; keeper is Minho, everyday they go into the Maze and try and find a way out", Alby finished off, I have the need to be a runner, I swear I have done something like this before, having to run, find a way out, it's just so familiar. Alby saw my face and continued, "Don't think you can be a runner shank, it takes time"
"What if I have ran before, ran like how the Runners ran, would you let me?" I immediately reply
"We will see", then he continued to walk. "We have 3 rules in the Glade, just 3 shouldn't be that hard", he grins at me, "The 3 Rules are, 1. Everyone does their part, simple, 2. Never hurt another Glader, and 3. Never go outside the Glade, so don't think you can just waltz out of here and go into the Maze got it?" he says strictly at me, I just nod, "Good".
We arrive in the middle of the Glade, next to the box, Alby then points at a bunch of trees around south-west, "Those there are the Deadheads, where the graveyards are at", I gulp at that word, "Graveyard?" I ask
"Yes graveyard", he says so casually
"Why would you need a graveyard", I ask
"People die shank, people die", then he continued on, "Over there, south-east, Bloodhouse, were the slicers work, then over here, north-east, the gardens and last but not least in the north-west, the homestead, where we all rest for the night, practically the main point of this Glade and behind is a Slammer", he then finishes off, "Any questions shank?" he asks
"Nope", I lied, I have heaps, but it just isn't being formed in my mouth and my mouth is being lazy and not having the guts to say it
"Good let's get to work", he says and we walk off, I need to be a runner, I need to find a way out, I need to find my life, I need to know. Now!
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Sorry for the late ass updates, but here is a new chapter, really long I'm sorry and it's really boring, I'm sorry again and really cliché, I'm sorry again but hope that the next chapter will be different so thanks guys~dauntlesslionrunner