The first thing Thomas saw when he entered was Ben. His sickly green veins that ran along his whole body, his purplish bruises, his bloody scratches and his bloodshot eyes that didn't seem to focus on a single spot and just kept darting from left to right. Fortunately for him, he only saw Ben for a second before Alby threw his pictures on the ground and pushed him out of the room. Probably to yell at him for entering the room, serves him right. In the meanwhile I collected all the pictures and put them back in the envelope.
"What a slinthead" said Jack.
"He still has to learn a lot" Newt agreed and when Ben began screaming again, Alby entered the room.
"Uhm, dinner for Benny, care to help me?" Jack said. Lovely, note the sarcasm. I had to put soup in Bens mouth, while Newt and Alby held his legs and Jack his arms. When we finally finished because Ben kept spitting the soup out, I went to sleep.
The next day Newt woke me up to braid my hair.
"You're going to show the greenie the grievers?" I asked him.
"Yes"
"And Alby is going to show him around, right?"
"Yes"
"Newt?"
"Yes?"
"I think I saw him before this ... whole thing" I admitted.
"You mean you arriving in the glade? And yeah, I kind of figured that out with your little staring contest" did I just hear some jealousy?
"Why do I recognise him?" I muttered to myself and faced Newt when he began to talk.
"What if he's like you're brother ... or or you're related or ... or your ... boyfriend?" Oh, my poor Newt. I took his hands in mine and looked into his eyes.
"If he really was, screw him. And I don't even think that's the case. I don't feel like I know him that good, more like I recognise him but I don't know him. If that makes sense." I hugged him and went to the North Wall to put the pictures on the wall. We might as well use them for something not-creepy.
"Why do you want to put them up, there are too many pictures, we're going to be here for the next twenty years before we finish this" Jack whined.
"Shut up, you big baby. You're not even doing the hard job and you should be grateful you're here and not with Ben." I said while balancing on the ladder, trying not to fall and taping pictures to the wall.
"Hey Jackiepoo, can I get another picture?"
"Whatever you want, slinthead, whate-" Pieuwpieuw toetatoeta wioewioe. Wasn't that the newbie alarm, but how? We all looked confused at each other, I jumped down (without breaking my ankle, what a surprise), helped Chuck get down and ran to the box. To my great surprise, the greenie came to me.
"What's happening?" he asked.
"To be honest, I don't know" with those words I left him and continued my trip to the box. I couldn't see anything, like always, and jumped up and down but that didn't help. I could hear Newt and Alby open the door but I didn't see anything so I still didn't know what was going on.
"Piggyback ride?" Jack who had suddenly appeared beside me, whispered.
"Holy shuck, you're really a ninja" from now it's official, he's one, not that it mattered at the moment. I jumped on his back and saw that Newt had just jumped in the box to look at the surprise newbie (from now on, that's my name for him). He looked confused, not like a puppy, but really confused.
"No" he mumbled, no what, could he be any less vague.
"What the shuck" Alby said when he saw the newbie. I just wanted to see him, but no, the leaders just had to be vague as fuck. While I was insulting Newt and Alby in my head, the other gladers began to ask questions.
"SHUT UP" and suddenly you could hear a pin drop. "Two newbies in two days, what's going on?" he asked Thomas. Like he would know the answer (if he did, I would really think he's a creep). Okay yes, I hadn't decided if I could trust him, but accuse him of this, whatever it is, is maybe that's a bit cruel. And they still hadn't said what was in the shucking box. Thomas was about to reply when Gally opened his mouth. For once I'm grateful for him speaking, whatever Thomas was going to say, it would only get him in more trouble.
"What's in the box?!"
"It's a girl"
Not a him, apparently.