Beauty and the Builder- A Gally Fanfic

Chapter 2- 'He's a tough cookie'

"All in good time greenie, all in good time." What did he mean by that? Why are they so hesitant to tell me everything? They can trust me right, it's not like I could give away any secrets even if I wanted too. I know they know something, something big but they're just not letting on. The only one who seemed to want me to know everything is Thomas but all he told me about was Gally and his weird friend Ben. It's as if they all have something to hide and if they told me, they'd be afraid it would change me. It's starting to get on my nerves.

Despite becoming extremely curious, I decide to keep my mouth shut as I can't stop thinking about what that mysterious boy, Alby said earlier. "I would appreciate if you could hold the questions, just take a moment to breath it all in." Ugh, what did he mean by that I know there's something, I just can't see the bigger picture. While thinking, I have been slowly zoning out and it shocked me a little when Gally snapped his fingers in front of my face. "Hello? Jeez I thought you lost it for a second there greenie. You haven't been listening to a word I'm saying, Have you shank! I knew this whole 'girl' thing was a waste of time!" He said while making air quotes, I just stayed silent. "Minho's calling us, there's gonna be a bonfire tonight."

"Nice, what exactly do you do at a bonfire round here?" I ask trying to lighten up the conversation as it was getting a little salty. I could tell that Gally wasn't the one for small talk. "Well there's the fire of course." He says crossing his arms against his chest. I raise one eyebrow as I say "I knew that much." and I storm away. Who does he think he even is? Jeez I hope everyone else isn't like this. The only people I like so far are Thomas, Newt, Chuck and Minho a little. At least they can make good conversation without insulting my intelligence.

"Hey Greenie, Chuck lookin' for ya." says a boy, I turn around and recognise him from before as Gally's friend Ben. "Thanks Ben, for the heads-up." 

"No probs Greenie." I nod and walk away, searching for Chuck. I don't want to be near Ben if he's friends with Gally, I kinda wanna avoid them at all costs. I really didn't have a clue where Chuck could be, for all I know he could be searching for me in the same way as I'm searching for him. I could have walked past him at any time. Luckily I spot him a while away.

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"So, Elizabeth this is the kitchen." Turns out all he wanted to show me was where to eat. "And this is Frypan, he's the cookie!"

"Cookie?"

"Yeah, the cookie he's the cook but we call him cookie coz..."

"I'm one tough cookie. Yeah, yeah Chuck I've heard it before. so funny..." Frypan turns to me and chuckles, he shakes his head at Chuck. "Oh common! It's a good one though! I'm pretty proud of it. It's good, right Elizabeth?"

I can't tell the expression on my face right now but I'm sure I look totally dumbfounded. "Uh, sure you laughed so it worked I guess." Frypan just shakes his head and carries on chopping vegetables.

A few minutes later of Chuck boasting about his joke, Minho enters with a few others, looking pretty sweaty. "How was the maze today Min?" Chuck says and Minho puts his hand over Chuck's mouth, looks up noticing me and smiles. His eyes glance at Chuck every few seconds.

"Maze? So that's what's out there!"

"God dammit Chuck." Minho says. "Don't tell Alby he told you. Ok? You hear me?"

"I hear you."

"Good that." Minho walks over to Frypan. "Greenie you met Fry?" and before I have time to reply he says "He's the cookie."

I laugh and reply "He looks like one tough cookie!" Minho's jaw drops. "Wha..How did you..." I glance at Chuck. "Chuck! Really? You can't go around using my jokes buddy! I'm the sass master and you know it."

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After everyone had eaten I start to get bored and walk towards Thomas and Newt who are just outside if the action, resting on a log facing towards the fire. They seem to be in deep conversation about something but stop and turn towards me, beckoning for me to sit with them. "Hey didn't mean to interrupt a private convo." I apologize for my slight intrusion.

"Not at all, it was nothing." Newt says patting the log next to him. He has a weird orange liquid in a jar that he takes a sip from every now and then. I didn't notice I was staring at the jar so intently. "That's Gally's special recipe." Thomas starts and Newt hands me the jar "I'd go easy on your first sip." I swallowed a sip of the liquid "Looks and tastes like pee..."

"Wow you're the first to swallow your first taste!"

"Yeah even I spat it out." Newt says.

"So what else goes on at fires like this.?" I start.

"Well we have a fighting ring and we do a series of one-V-one face-offs."

"Sounds fun, Who's the reigning champ?" I thought I outta know who I'm up against and the standard of the competition.

"Gally."

A/N
First of all sorry for the sort of filler chapter I felt a little sucky writing it. But Minho's joke doe, pretty fab if you ask me. (Also I know the title of this chappie is misleading, you thought I was talking about Gally huh.     Nope)

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