𝐖𝐂𝐊𝐃 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 ᵗᵐʳ ⁻ ˢᵃᶠᵉ ʰᵃᵛᵉⁿ (Novella)

Chapter 1: New To the Haven

Newt
(Newt's chapters will most likely be shorter than Nicholas's chapters. Some may be longer)
4 Months Later

It had been around 3 days since Vince had brought me and the rest of the Gladers to the safe haven and surprisingly, nothing out of the ordinary had happened. The safe haven was similar to the glade, where you would do jobs. If you weren't sure what you were good at, you would just rotate through some jobs. But, if you were like Fry or Gally, and you were good at one job, you'd just do that one.

It was a regular, sunny morning as Fry, Minho, Thomas and I sat at one of the picnic tables, eating our breakfast. Gally disappeared many mornings so we never saw him at breakfast. This morning, Brenda and Jorge weren't anywhere to be seen. For breakfast, we had bacon and eggs, the best breakfast after waffles.

I got given the job as a gardener which is ironic seeing as that's what I did for three years straight while stuck somewhere, and now i'm free. Not complaining though, it's better than hunting or rotating through jobs every day 'till you find one you're good at.

"Do you guys WICKED will ever find this place?" Thomas asked.

"Hopefully not, man," Fry said. "I'm done with their crap."

"Yeah, same," Minho added. I wasn't really paying attention because I was staring at people. I felt a nudge on my shoulder and I tore my eyes from the direction of the people and faced them.

"Huh? What? Did you say something?" I asked.

"You're staring more than you are listening," Minho said. "What are you even starin' at, bud?"

"I-" I started but Minho cut me off.

"Let me guess... some boys?" He asked with a raised eyebrow and a smirk.

"Oh, shuck off," I retorted, lightly hitting his shoulder. Ever since we were here at the safe haven, things have been different. We changed but we tried hiding it.

He and the other two laughed. I guess it was nice finally seeing them laugh after what WICKED did to us.

A blonde boy walked past the picnic tables and everyone sitting went quiet while looking at him. Some were whispering to their friends and most people had disgust and hatred stuck in their expressions. I wonder why. His hair was blonder than mine and messy. He was wearing a grey sleeveless shirt and I could see he was staring at the ground.

"Hey, why's everyone actin' like that? Who is that boy?" I whisper-asked, leaning closer to my friends who looked just as confused as I did.

"No clue," Fry said. The boy walked past all the tables and made his way down to to beach, quickly disappearing from view. The other people started talking again like the boy was never there.

Strange.

Why did they act like that? It's not like he murdered someone... right? The entire table was silent. Not surprising though since the awkward thing that happened just a second ago.

Our silence was broken by Brenda and Jorge sitting at our table.

"You guys look like you just saw a ghost," Brenda said.

"Who was that blonde boy?" Thomas asked. "The one that made everyone stop and stare?"

"Ah, that, Hermano, was Nicholas. I don't know much about the boy other than that he was an ex-WICKED worker and that he did something horrible to someone's sister, but I'm not too sure what it was that he did," Jorge informed.

"That probably explains it," Thomas mumbled, stuffing some breakfast down his throat.

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Around 15 minutes later, we finished our breakfast, put our plates away and made our way to the jobs we had. Minho and Thomas were on hunting today. Fry just works as a cook with some of the others every day, Jorge leads the Hunting and I'm not too sure what Brenda had.

I made my way to the small piece of land where they grow the crops and since I haven't done the gardening before here at the haven, I had this weird introduction thing. This was my first day actually working here at the haven.

"Hi, I'm Lorraine, I'll be doing the introduction for you today," The lady said with a smile that as way too sweet to be real. "Have you done any type of gardening before?"

"Uh... I'm Newt... and yes, I've done gardening before just not here at the haven..." This, whatever it was, was really boring. I spotted the blonde boy from before but he looked different. His hair was wet and he looked almost scared or something...

I'll get to talk to him after this I hope.

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Sorry this chapter was really short, I wasn't too sure what to add.

I also won't update this as frequently as Play With Fire btw