"Hey Nick" I greeted him. "What's wrong?" Nick stood bent over the box. The box had just delivered a newbie, Ken and it had already left. But Nick still stood at the box.

"What would be down there?" he asked curious. I looked in the hole. All I saw was an endless pit of darkness.

"I don't know. Did you tried to throw something in it?"

"Yes, nothing" Together we talked about what could be down there and we stared in the hole.

"Could it be an exit?" Nick asked hopeful.

"Sorry man, but I don't think so" The little bit of hope we both had, had left. "You die when you touch the bottom"

"Can't we at least try?" I looked at him like he was insane. Did he want to jump in the hole?

"You're crazy" Nick just shrugged his shoulders. We stared for a while at the hole.

"What are you doing now?" Alby asked.

"Alby, what's down there?" Nick asked. He didn't look at Alby when he spoke, he just kept staring in the hole.

"Uhm, total darkness and maybe a few chocolate cookies? I don't know. Jump in and look for yourself, shank" he gave Nick a little push in the back, so he wouldn't fall.

"Yes, okay, fine" he answered. Whaaaat? Did he just said that he was going to jump. I should get my ears checked, I guess.

"What? Did you went completely crazy? I'm not going to let you jump! No way in hell!" Alby shouted angrily.

"Well, then give me a rope and let me down." Nick said, Alby looked at him disbelievingly. Then he gave in.

"Good, I want to know what's down there. But we should have gathering first, but if you volunteer, it won't be a problem. Then we need to make a huge rope of ivy. If everything's ready, then we drop you" Alby immediately made plans. He sought Newt and the other keepers.

The next morning Newt was braiding my hair.

"We need a really long rope and that can take a while. We also need to make sure we can pull Nick up fast enough, in case something goes wrong. And he needs to be able to give a sign, if he's down. We have a lot of work today." Newt said.

"You take your job as second in command really serious, right?"

"You don't get it" he said "this is the first time in months that we have a little bit of hope."

"I do get it. And I would love to help. Now that Gally is cured and Robert is a normal track-hoe which is why Ferdinand can go back to being a slopper I don't need to clean anymore. And now Nick took your place as a runner, his job as a builder is for Bob and that's why Norman is again a bagger and Zart is again the keeper of the track-hoes so I don't need to improvise what to do. So I have more time."

"You can spend your extra time with me?" Ooooooooooh he's soooooooooooooooooo sweet.

"Depends" I answered.

"Depends on what?" He asked curious.

"Are you done braiding my hair?"

"Yes"

"Good" I turned around, gave him a peck and ran away.

"Heeey! Come back!" he shouted. I laughed and ran to the deadheads. He would have to search me. And, I can't even remember the last time I played hide-and-seek.

In the deadheads I, strange but true, bumped into Alby.

"Alby, what are you doing here?"

"Checking trees." Okay then, the most normal thing in the world. But before I could ask anything, he began to speak.

"So you and Newt?"

I blushed, "Yes" I said shy.

"So did he ask you or are just friends with benefits?"

Now I thought about it, he hadn't asked anything. "No, he didn't"

"So, it isn't official yet?"

"Yes, I think"

"But he didn't ask you?" Alby said confused. Hé, he was annoying.

"No, but we kissed and he said he liked me."

"What? When?" He asked curious to know what happened. He looked like a stalker who wanted to know everything about my crush.

"Uhm, the day after 'the accident' when I was in his room."

"Did you have -"

"Ieuw, no, what do you think of me? That I'm a slut." I said offended.

"No" he said scared that I would hit him with my stick. The stick that I didn't have.

"Okay then, so we were talking and Newt said that he liked me. Then he said that he did what he did because he couldn't bear the thought that I was together with Jack. Then I felt guilty because he had jumped because of me and then he kissed me."

"But you've never been together with Jack, right?"

"No, but he thought that"

"And what happened after that?" told you so, he's a stalker.

"We both said nothing and then Minho came in. He said something about sexual tension in the room and then he left. After that Newt said he really liked me."

"And then you kissed and lived happily ever after with three children, Minho, Alby and Lacey."

"No, and why Lacey? But, he said he liked me and we talked for a while and I left to sleep in my hammock."

"Yesyes, good guy, that Newt, right? I approve."

"What are you talking about?" I asked confused.

"Wasn't I the dad according to Minho?" Oh no, Minho was behind this. I should've known.

"Minho sent you, right?" Alby began laughing, nodded and walked away. Minho was an annoying little piece of shit.