Yours Truly

Chapter eight: The letter/New greenie

I have been in the glade for almost a month now. My friends consisted of Minho, Zart, and Frypan. There was also Newt but he was more than a friend to me. Not that I could ever tell him that. And although nothing had happened since the bonfire, it was still nice to dream that we could one day be more. There was also Gally I remembered one night in a dream that he was my brother. He was so happy when I told him, ever since then he has been twice as protective over me and has also started calling me princess. I woke up the next morning in Newt's arms. We had still been sleeping in the same hut, they were almost done with my own hut but I was hoping they took as long as they could. I looked up to his face observing his feachers, I swear every time I saw him he just became more and more handsome to me. His hair had grown out a bit more and you could tell that he looked tired. I knew that the work was really hard and I just wanted to help him out a bit more. I got out of the bed slowly so as to not wake him up. I then got dressed to head to work, I was now a med-jack with Clint and Jeff. As I walked the Glade I admired the rising sun from behind the walls, even though we were stuck here we still had some things to make us happy. I first go into the kitchen and grab an apple for breakfast before hedging to the med-hut. It was such a mess in there, the boys would always take all the things out to fix up the others but would never put anything away. That's one of the reasons why I always come in early. I go around the room with a bag in my hand and pick up all the bloody cotton and trash that was lying around the room. I then organized all of the medicins and the vials.

I heard the door to the hut open, "morning princess." I knew exactly who it was. "Morning Gal." I say turning around. I wrap my arms around his torso and he wraps his around my shoulders. "So we're getting a new greeny today." he said, breaking the hug. "Oh ya!" I say I had completely forgotten about getting the new greeny, although I didn't like that we were going to have another kid forced into this awful place. I couldn't help but hope it was another girl. "Sooooo," Gally says sitting on the bed behind me. "Soooo, what Gal?" I say mocking him. "How are you and lover boy?" he asks. My cheeks burn red at the thought of him. Gally was the only one who knew about my crush on Newt. "Nothing, and you know that. Plus Newt just sees me as a friend." I say honestly, disappointment lacing my words. "Now get up, I just made that bed." I say showing him out of the room. I hear him mumble something like 'oblivious shank' but I just shrugged him off. A couple of hours go by I had bandaged up a couple slicers and one builder. It was then when I heard the greeny alarm go off. I ran straight for the box. Since I was the last greenie I would be the one to greet this one. I looked behind to see Newt limping up to me, I was so sad when he told me how he got his limp. But he had told me that ever since I came he finally had a reason to never feel that way again. 

That made me happy. Everyone was now crowded around the box, we heard it click and the lights turned green meaning we could open the box. Gally and Newt open the doors and I hop down. What I saw almost made me cry. It was another girl, but she looked no older than four years old. She had blond hair and icy blue eyes. She was also extremely tan like me. She had backed up into the corner of the box. "Hey," I say in a sweet voice. "It's ok sweety, my name is Elle. Can I help you get out of this box?" I say reaching out my arms. She just nods her head in response getting up. I picked her up, setting her on my hip. I slipped my foot through the rope and the boys pulled us up. The boys said things like, "It's another girl?", "Aw man why does she have to be so young?" and "She looks kinda like a little Elle." the girl had tears running down her cheeks as she hid her head in the crook of my neck. "It's ok sweetheart i've got you." I say holding her tight. Newt comes up to me placing one of his hands at the small of my back, this small motion made butterflies erupt from my stomach. "She's so little." He says quietly as to try not to scare her. "I know it just breaks my heart," I replied, tears starting to fill my eyes. Newt sees this and places his forehead on mine. "It's ok love, we'll all protect her I promise you that." I just nod my head and muster a "thank you". "Hey Elle I found this letter in the box, it's addressed to you and gally." Zart says handing me the letter. I wonder what it was. I walk over to where Gally was and hand him the letter. The girl had fallen asleep in my arms. "Gal, you should open it." I whisper. He opens the letter and begins to read it. Tears fill his eyes as he folds it back up and slips it into his back pocket. 

He says nothing and just hugs the two of us. "Gal, what is it?" I ask him, feeling extremely worried now. "She's our little sister..." He says quietly into my hair. "Her name is Rebecca lee." he says, releasing us from the hug. "God she is so little. Why would they put her in a place like this?" I say, tears filling my eyes. "I don't know Elle, I don't know." "You're hut is finished by the way," Gally says to me. "Ok, i'm going to go and put her to bed there. She's exhausted." I say as I kiss Gally on the cheek goodbye. "Ok, tell me if you need anything alright?" He says kissing my hairline. I just nod and walk away. I head over to my hut approaching the door. "Hey Elle!" Newt yells from behind to get my attention. "Shhhhh! You'll wake him up!" I whisper and yell at him. "Oh sorry." he whispers back, putting his hands up in defence. "If you don't mind me asking, what did the letter say?" Newts says placing a hand on my cheek. I lean into his touch comforted by the motion. "It said that she's mine and Gally's sister and that her name is Rebecca lee'' I reply. Looking down at the girl in my arms. She really was a spitting image of me and Gal. Newt just pulls the two of us into a hug. 

"I promise you, with everything that I have that I will protect you two. I told you that one night in your hut that I would protect you, well same thing goes for her. No harm will ever come to the two of you as long as I live." he says placing a kiss on my forehead. I smile so wide I feel as if my cheeks would hurt later. I wish so badly that he liked me the same way I liked him. Because I loved this boy with all my heart. "Come one you two look exhausted lets get some sleep." he says opening the door to my hut. "Why are you coming in?" I ask. "Well last time you slept without me you had a nightmare, I can't let that happen again now can I?" he says with a slight chuckle. We walk into the hut and I get under the covers with Lee. 'Lee, that's what i'll call her' I think. Newt gets on the bed still on top of the covers. "Get under the bloody covers you shank." I say quietly, playfully shoving him in the arm. "I think you're hanging out with me a little too much, you're starting to sound like me." he says laughing. But he does get under the covers. I unclasp Lee's arms from around my neck and place her between both me and Newt on the bed. I curl into a ball Pulling her into my stomach, and Newts pulls us both into his arms, placing his chin on my head. "Sleep well love, I'll wake you for dinner." he whispers. "Thank you." I replied with a smile on my face. The two of us fall asleep in eachothers arms. Both think about the fact that we love the other so much. But neither of us were able to tell the other our feelings because we couldn't tell that we felt the same way.