If There Is A Light

Chapter 27

Ellia had quickly recovered from her washroom incident. She was more than annoyed at whoever did it (mostly because they just proved Newt right). She was also very surprised to hear it had not been Gally (but she supposed that made sense he was a little too clunky she thought to be able to sneak in without her noticing). Newt swore he had no idea who had done it. He had just found them lying around after confronting Gally. Ellia may not have been the smartest person in the Glade, but she was pretty sure she was smart enough to know that Newt was a bad liar. She did not know who he was covering for, but as long as it did not happen again... She could probably forget about it.

"I'm sorry, Ellia." Tim's voice came out weak and small. It was actually rather hard for her to hear it since his head was hanging down as well.

She smiled at Tim and pulled him into a hug. She was not sure why he was sorry, but she doubted it was anything important. She would humor him though, because he seemed genuinely upset. "For what?"

"I'm... I'm the one that took your clothes." Ellia's eyes went wide. She was in a state of disbelief. It seemed completely out of character for the sweet Glader.

"Why did you do that?" She wasn't mad. She thought she would be, but she wasn't. She now knew why Newt was lying though. She probably should have been mad about that too, but she found it a tad bit cute.

Tim sighed. "Why do you like Newt better than me?"

Ellia was trying very hard to keep the smile off of her face. So that was what all this was about. "I don't. I like you both the same."

"But you told him your name first."

"Yeah, but we were gonna tell you next. Newt just decided to act like a child instead."

One would have assumed that Newt would have learned his lesson from eavesdropping, but no. He stood just in earshot grinning at the two. He was not trying to get any information out of them, but he did not want to ruin their moment. He had a feeling that was the reason Tim was acting out. He felt sorry that the kid was feeling the way he was feeling, but not sorry enough to back off.

Once he was sure they had made up he decided to make his presence know. "You're sayin' you like Tim better than me?"