Estrangement
noun
the feeling that you don't belong, especially when you're surrounded by other people.
the mountain men were low on blood and Cage Wallace desperately wanted to leave the mountain to explore earth, so he sent 3 moun...
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"I can't believe she just used you as protection." I scoff with a simple roll of my eyes.
48 people came from the sky, and they were found on the ground, have now joined Mount Weather and it's been a week or more for most of them to get settled in.
In saying this, one of them, Clarke Griffin, I think her name was, is a bit hostile.
"It's fine. I'm over it now." Maya says with a small smile.
"Yeah, still... I would've punched her." I say with a shrug and continue to eat my raspberry pie.
A guy —brown eyes, thick dark brown hair, pale skin and a slim figure— who I've never seen before, possibly one of the 48, walks over to where the cake were supposed to be but it's all gone now. He sighs annoyed before Maya smiles and looks up at him.
"Take mine." Maya lightly pushes the cake that sits on a glass plate closer to the sky person.
"Thanks." The guy smiles and shakes Maya's hand. "Oh, cold hands."
"Heh. Low vitamin D. Unlike yours, which off the charts, by the way."
The brown haired boy smiles and looks down at me, noticing my existence.
"This is my best friend, Blair." Maya says when she notices him staring at me.
"Jasper." He greets.
"Nice to meet you." I give him a small smile before shaking his hands.
"Warm hands." Jasper notes.
"Yeah, I don't know why. We don't get sun in here, and my vitamin D is no where near as low as everyone else's here." I shrug unsure why I happen to have Vitamin D higher than my family and friends.
Jasper smiles and takes the plate of cake.
I look over at Maya who is staring at him and I smile to myself. I stand up from my seat and my friend's eyes widen. Jasper doesn't seem to notice her reaction.
"Here, you can take my seat. I would like to meet more of your people." I walk away from the two, and I hear the chair screech when Jasper sits on it and then he pulls it closer to the table.
I notice a Korean guy and a girl with blonde hair sitting at the table in the mess hall. They seem fun, I'll introduce myself.
"Hi guys. I'm Blair Darwin, if you have any requests or just want to ask questions or talk then come to me." I say with a smile.
"I'm Monty Green." The Korean boy says and I nod with a smile. I look at the blonde girl, waiting for her name but she doesn't say anything. "She's Clarke Griffin. Don't take offence to her lack of words, she's just worried that some of our people are still out there."
"So you're the infamous Clarke Griffin..." I smirk.
"How do you know me?" Clarke says with a weird look on her face.
"My friend, Maya, she just told me how you contaminated her." I inform the blonde. "Anyways, I understand that you're worried but if my people find your people then trust me, they'll do everything they can to help them and bring them here."
"I'm going to go apologise to Maya. I'm sorry for that, I didn't know where I was and I was just scared." Clarke apologises and leaves Monty and I together at the hall table. She walks over to Maya, who seems to be interesting in everything Jasper says.
"So, Monty. Are you enjoying the cake?" I ask him as I take a seat in front of him.
"Love it. It's so good." He moans in delight, before taking another bite.
"No chocolate in space?" I question and tilt my head slightly to the side.
"None. Space sucked." He rolls his eyes and I let out a giggle.
"Possibly, but at least you're able to go outside and live. We're stuck in here forever." I huff.
I've always wanted to go outside and enjoy the fresh air. I remember being little and being outside with younger boys and girls but none of their face were recognisable to me in Mount Weather.
I told my parents about this and they said it was just a dream and that never happened.
But why does it feel so real?
"Yeah I heard you're unable to leave, why is that?" Monty asks as he takes the last bite of his chocolate cake.
"Due to the radiation. You see, we never adapted to the radiation so if we go outside we basically die. They've done some experiments and people lasted a couple minutes outside but then they instantly die. No one knows how they lasted minutes in the radiation, considering that we've never once set foot outside and we are the only people on the ground so we don't know who to ask or where to get information on the outside—"
"Wait what? You're not the only people on the ground," Monty says, shaking his head. I cock my head to the side, how are there more people? "There are other people, they're called, grounders, they also live on the ground."
"Grounders?"
When Aaron and I were playing Scrabble, I put down Grounders and I never realised I did that until Aaron told me.
Why do I feel like this work should mean something to me?
"Yeah, they're the descendants of people who survived the Nuclear Apocalypse 97 years ago. They're dangerous though, they've killed a lot of our people. We wanted peace but I guess that's too hard for them to understand in their pea sized brain."
"Uh, I can see you really despise the grounders." I laugh at his hatred.
How can a group be that bad?
From behind me, I hear chairs being dragged across the floor and I look behind me to see Maya and Jasper running. Moments later, I hear the ALERT sound playing along with code five.
