Hospital Dreams || Newtmas

Good morn- who the hell are you?

The only thing worse than sleeping outside over night is waking up the next day and realizing that A) the back door was unlocked the whole time, and B) finding a complete stranger waiting on the inside. That being said, let me explain. 

"RAT MAN I WILL TEAR YOUR FUCKING LUNGS OUT!" was the first thing Brenda said that day. It was so loud, it legitimately scared the shit out of bird that happened to be flying over Minho, scared Tommy out of a tree, dragging me with him, and Tia to almost land on top of us.

"To bloody loud." I muttered sitting up, rubbing my eyes.

"Agreed." A voice said from beneath me. I looked and saw I was sitting on Tommy's stomach.

"Oh shit! Sorry about that, mate. I didn't realize." I apologized. He shrugged.

"It's cool. You could have ended up like Tia did." he explained, nodding up where Tia was hanging upside down from her knees. She didn't even seem to care, just pulled out her phone and began scrolling through what I believe was Twitter. I couldn't tell. 

"Uh, Tia? Need a hand?" Minho asked. She looked up- er down at him and shook her head.

"Nah, I was Dublin's best gymnast for a good ten years." And I think it may just have been to show off, but she swung back and forth before flipping off the branch, to a lower branch, and landing a flip on the ground. Minho let out a low whistle as Tommy applauded.

"That was awesome! Gally exclaimed as Minho, Tia, Tommy, and I made our way behind the rest of the Gladers. 

"Thanks." Tia said with a smile. Janson stopped and turned to us with a sheepish look.

"I uh, guess I forgot to check if the back door was unlocked," he said. "and it was." He said. Teresa walked over to him with a  look that could have killed him ten times under as Brenda grabbed her shoulder to restrain her.

"Rat man, I'm giving you five seconds before I let go of her. Run." Brenda said and Janson did as said and ran inside as fast as he could. Tia and Gally walked inside talking, quickly followed by Brenda and Teresa and Minho. I went to take a step in, but I was stopped by a hand on my shoulder. 

"Uh, Newt? Can we talk for a second?" Tommy asked me, a blush covering his face. I knew what this was about. I knew this was unavoidable. I nodded.

"Course," I said. He lead me over to the tree where we all slept last night.

"So uh, since last night happened, I just kinda wanted to ask you a thing." He said. If you've ever seen a toddler pull an adorable face, it holds nothing to the one Tommy had at that moment. 

"A-Ask away, Tommy." I said, unable to look away from the beautiful vision in front of me. He cleared his throat.

"Do you like me?" he asked. I blinked. He's damn lucky he's cute, because he's not all that bright. 

"Of course! You're cool, and nice, and funny and stuff." I said, scratching my arm. He frowned slightly.

"I mean do you like like me. You know, like how Tia like likes Minho." he asked.

"Maybealittle." I mumbled quickly, knowing damn well how red my face was getting. I glanced up, keeping my head down and saw a beaming Thomas looking at me.

"I like you too Newty Booty!" he exclaimed, wrapping his arms around me.

"You are such a damn child Tommy." I said as I hugged him back with a grin.

"If I'm such a child then you can't use potty words around me." he teased. I rolled my eyes as we walked in for breakfast.

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As Tommy and I walked into the mini breakfast buffet, I saw everyone was eating breakfast and talking. That wasn't normal. Normally, everyone sat on their phones, dreading Janson's return. But today they were all social. It was then that I realized my seat had someone's butt in it- and it wasn't mine. I saw someone who I vaguely recognized. I grabbed a coffee cake muffin from the cafe and walked over to my seat. 

"Who is this?" I asked Minho, as nobody seemed inclined to let me have my seat back.

"His name is Aris Lofland. He just got here from Idaho. Apparently he's a druggie." Minho said.

"I can't understand what's so good about him. Nor can I understand why he's in my seat." I whispered, earning a snort from Minho, which earned Tia's attention. 

"Thank Jaysus for you, Newt," She said, turning from me to Aris. "hey, that's his seat. Take mine." She said, getting up and coming over by Minho and I. I took my seat whilst Tia found a seat- on Minho's lap.

"So, Aris. What brings you to hell- I mean Rosebleak." Gally asked as he munched on a granola bar.

"Well, my cousin came here, and her mom told my mom it was a good place, and so my mom had me shipped off to this place." he explained rather blandly.

"Who's your cousin?" Teresa asked him. 

"Hypatia- the ginger on the dude's lap." he said, gesturing to Tia.

"Call me that again and I'll belt you. Fucking wanker." she grumbled. 

"I don't speak Irish." Aris said. In response, Tia flipped him off and turned to me.

"If you befriend this fucker, I'll belt you too." she threatened. Minho was looking confused.

"What does it mean to belt?" Tia pat his hand, which was resting on her knee cap.

"Should you piss me off, you'll find out."

Holy crap wow I am SO SORRy for the wait for this chapter. Wow. That was rediculous. I am so sorry. But, I was grounded and stole back my laptop. Yay! New chapter up in a week or two I hope!

-CaseyXX