WHAT IF? (THE 5TH WAVE)

The rumor and solution

*******pic of Tooth Pick*******

"Give me 3 laps around the field you maggots go, go, GO!" He shouts threw the pouring rain of the afternoon. I get to my feet and rush toward the field. I could see everyone else doing the same as they reach the field. "And remember, it doesn't count if your team doesn't reach the end together." Vosch reminds us as I meet up with the rest. "Ready?" Short cake asks from besind me. I smile at him and node and then turn to my side and node at tooth pick. "Ready" he says with a thumbs up. I look next to him at Narcissus and ringer "ready?" I ask and they node at each other " let's do this." He says eagerly and we continue running with higher speed this time.

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"Ugh, I'm so sweaty, pass me a towel." Narcissus asks as we walk threw the hallway on our way to our room. "Here" I say giving him the extra one I took. He raps it around his neck and slings an arm around short cakes shoulder. "You know what I want now?" He asks with out waiting for a respond . "Food, so much food that I'll never go hungry again."

Short cake leans away struggling to get free from his grasp."How about a bath" he asks as he lifts his arm off his shoulder but Narcissus just puts it back.

"Yea I guess that two but I crave food more." He says as we near the door.
I pull the door open and the smell of sweat floods the room.

"Okay we'll do youngest to oldest take a bath first." short cake suggests.

"So tooth pick then short cake then breeder then ringer then me, You got it." Narcissus chimes as he lays on his bunk.

"Hey I've been meaning to ask you" I start as tooth pick starts to pick his cloth." How old are you, like 9, 10 maybe?"

"I'm 10" he says finally turning towards me but soon walks away toward the bathroom door.
"And you?" I turn to ask Narcissus.

"17"he says and then turns back to sleep.

I don't even bother with ringer because I could tell she doesn't like telling people about herself so instead decide to wait till its my turn.

One by one we all get a turn and when everyone is out, we walk out the door and head toward lunch. This might be the only time I'll get to see Sammy and I want to make it last as long as possible.

"Hey do you think they might have macaroni today?" Tooth pick asks Ringer.
"I don't know, and honestly I don't care." she says shrugging her shoulders.

He seems to stay quite for a moment thinking about it for a moment. "Yea" he says nodding "But I don't want to eat mushrooms again, they look to squishy to me." He says making a face of disgust. I chuckle at his remark as he starts to argue with ringer about the pros and cons of mushrooms.

"Hey" Short Cake whispers to me from beside me "You think your brother would be there?"

"Why wouldn't he be?"I ask confused "Don't we all have the same lunch hour?"

"Well, most do but sometimes 3 or 4 squads have late lunch since there are many of us" He say as he fiddles with a string from his shirt.

I never thought of that as an option when I first got here. I was always sure I would see him everyday, even if it were just for an hour. Well we'd see each other during training everyday too but since I was new they decided to make our squad go easy for today and decided to separate us from the others, but we were going to see each other again tomorrow. hopefully.