Mysteries (Completed)

Shucking Jobs

"Up and at 'em, shank!" Minho yells and throws a pillow at my face. "Ah!" I spring out of bed with a terrified expression. I start to smack my body, thinking that the pillow was an insect. I now know one thing: I hate bugs. "Greenie, stop!" Minho yells and comes toward me, seizing my arms in his grasp.

"Bloody hell!" Newt.

He stumbles into the room, his crutches making it more difficult. He quickly raises one of his crutches up in a ready-to-swing like action. I immediately stop, ya, there's no bugs on me. Idiot. I whisper to the boys, "Sorry, I'm just a stupid Greenie."

The two boys look at each other then back to me. Newt surprisingly speaks first. "Don't be sorry, you're not stupid, some things happen sometimes." He gives me a reassuring smile and exits the room, making a loud noise as his left crutch hits the door frame and a curse is said under his breath.

Once Newt is long gone, Minho bursts out laughing. I laugh along, a little uneasily. I guess this is part of the Glade.

Eventually, Minho calms down and we go to breakfast. I grasp a plate and sit at the same table as yesterday evening. I take one bite of my french toast and immediately fall in love. My eyes widen and a smile breaks out on my face. "A french toast lover?" Minho asks while chuckling. I nod and stuff more of the deliciousness into my mouth.

"You have an exciting day ahead of ya, Newbie. You get to try out, drum roll, jobs! You do three jobs today, good luck." I didn't know I was working for these next couple days. "What jobs?" "I won't make you be a Bagger or Bricknick or Slaughter, so those jobs aren't happening. So... I think Builder, Cook and Med-Jack. Tomorrow you're doing one: Gardener. I have no idea why they didn't make the jobs even, but I don't run this place. Then the next day you are going to try out to be a Runner. The Runners are hard to become, good luck especially on that one. I'm a Runner because I'm brilliant, don't know about you."

Wow, Minho can be really sassy sometimes. Not that surprising.

Minho grabs my arm and lifts me off the bench effortlessly. Out of the corner of my eye I see Newt staring at the two of us with no expression. Right, I still need to talk to him. "Let's get you to your job: building."

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Let's just say that building isn't my strong spot. Once I first got there, I realized that Eyebrow Boy is Keeper for building. No surprise there. When I approach I hear him mutter, "Oh shuck." I walk right up to him, we are almost chest to chest. I have to look up at him, though. "Hey there, Eyebrow Boy, I'm working with ya today." He gives me a glare.

'Go try and and nail this into that.' Was all he -Gally- said to me until lunch when I finally managed to hit my thumb while hammering. I'm trying to nail something into a piece of wood, not really sure what it is. That's when I get distracted and the hammer hits my thumb.

"Holy Grievers!" I yell. A lot of eyes drift to me, either giving me a 'shut up' look or 'I hate everything, you're now on that list' look. I can tell that some gladers don't like me. Gally just sighs really loud and snaps at me to get back to work. I couldn't do too much, I didn't really have a hand.

A bell rings throughout the Glade. I jump and scan the area. What's going on? I get pushed forward and a very unhappy voice speaks. "It's the lunch bell, shank." "Hands off me, Gally." He turns around and glares at me. "Or what?" Oh shuck, I'm screwed. Or what?! Think!

"Or I'm going to..." Gally wiggles his eyebrows in mock because I'm speechless. "Or I'm going to kick your ass if you touch me again." I say in a sassy way then walk to lunch.

I grab my food, a sandwich with ham, cheese and mayo, and sit down at the usual table. I sit by myself because Minho is running, completely forgot about him and his job.

After lunch, I talked to Alby. "Which job now?" "Cook." "Oh Grievers."

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I ain't a cook. At. All. I almost chopped my finger off, I even jumped. I mixed the wrong vegetables. I also thought I grabbed the water, nope, it was a type of 'dangerous' liquid. Why do they have it in the kitchen, I have no idea.

Frypan was patting me on the back, "You should go to your next job... Med-Jack I think. I'm sorry Little Lady, but I don't think this job is going to work for--" I pat Fry's shoulder. "It's okay, I expected it coming." We smile at each other before I'm off to my last job of the day: Med-Jack.

"Hey Greenie." I shake hands with... a boy with dark skin and black hair. "I'm Jeff, Keeper of the Med-Jacks. For the rest of the day you'll be working with me."

Up until dinner I worked with the two Med-Jacks, Jeff and Clint. I'm decent at the job, I bandaged up some gladers, cleaned cuts, examine their cuts. It would be better if I got a different job though, because I don't really like being a Med-Jack all that much, it isn't fun.

Someone walks through the door, Clint walks over to him. "What can I do for you?" "I'm here to pick up the Greenbean." I turn around to face Minho. "Bye guys." I say to the Med-Jacks and leave with Minho.

Once we get a couple yards away from the hut I talk, "Thank you so much for getting me out of there, it was so boring." Minho places his arm around my shoulder. "Anytime." "Ew!" I squeal and push him back. "You're all sweaty!" He laughs and starts running at me. "Get away!" I yell playfully and start to run to the Kitchen for dinner.

I'm not even half way there when I know something's wrong.

I look to my left, Gally towers over the boy with the crutches, Newt I think. Newt looks like he's either going to break down or punch the living hell outta Gally. I turn, jerking my destination to the two boys who are bickering. Once I get closer, I hear Gally.

"You can't tell me what to do, shank. All you are is a broken boy who doesn't even deserve Second in Command--"

"Hey!"

I run over to the scene and slide in between the two blond boys, facing Gally. I see Minho watching me from a distance with a look of shock.

"What do you think you're doing? Lay off him!" I say, snapping. I barely know Newt, but I know that he doesn't deserve being yelled at like this. The boy has crutches and he looks so soft, for God's sake! "Oh, the little girl thinks she can come in and save the day." Gally sneers, getting in my face, I don't back away.

My heart pounds, screeching at me to stop, shredding my vocal cords. My mind says otherwise.

"You better stay away from--" Gally grabs both of my arms, sadly my instincts kick in. I swivel fast, facing a wide eyed Newt, and bring my tangled up arms down on Gally's stomach. He doubles over as I step away from him, staring at him.

What have I done? (I never got told the rules yet.) One glader runs over and grabs my arm, yanking me viciously away from the two boys. Newt stares at me in bewilderment, meanwhile, Gally is laying on the floor, clutching his stomach.

"Let me go!" I say and start to fight him off, casing a different glader to come and help the boy with me. They walk me to this old, stone building. It must be jail of some sort.

No more than one minute later, I knew I was right. There was a door that opened, revealing a dark, dusty dirt-floored room with one chair that looks like it's going to collapse if you blow on it with the lightest breath. The two boys chuck me in the room, locking the door behind them. There was a lock? I look at the door. There is a tiny window with three vertical bars, I could stick my arms outside if I wanted to. Just then I realized that it's almost pitch black in here, the only light is the light of torches cascading through the tiny window.

Am I going to be in here all night? The cold quickly comes and nips at my skin, those idiots didn't even give me blankets. I huddle up in a corner, shaking like crazy, teeth chattering. At night it must be winter, there's no other explanation.

After about thirty minutes I found a sitting position that's kind of comfortable. My eyes slowly droop, a couple minutes later someone opens the door. I open one eye and glance at the person. Newt, all he does is step in for a minute, then leaves.

That was weird. Luckily, I get some sleep.

A/N: Sorry that I didn't update for a while. I'm going to start writing more often, I just had a busy week. This fanfiction will be updated daily. Tell me what you think! 🔥