I knew the orphanage was gonna make my life worst as soon as i saw where it was located: a run down, vandalized, part of town. I was 13 when they brought me in. Where were you those years before the orphanage,you ask? I was given to an aunt that was the same as my mom. She took "care" of me for the first 7 years of my life then I was on the streets for 1 year and was found not breathing on a sidewalk and was brought into a hospital and put into a coma for 5 years.
The doctor who was dropping me off brought me in and had the papers about me. The "caretaker" was an old woman with grey hair and had blue, fading eyes. Lets face it. I was scared to be in this new place. The lady said her name was Ms.White. I turned to look at the doctor with an expression saying "please don't leave me" the doctor looked at me for a second then turned and headed out the door.
"Don't worry you'll love it here" Ms.White said. Something about her tone said i probably wouldn't.
She brought me into a room with about 15 kids my age. More boys than girls. A boy with blonde messed up hair looked at me, as it sizing me up. I knew I would be a target since I was skinny from the condition I was in. i had brown hair that sorta stuck my head, and I had brown eyes. The blonde hair kid pointed me out to the other kids and laughed.
"This is.." Ms.White said.
I realized she meant for me to introduce myself. "Thomas" i said shyly.
Ms.White pushed me in with the rest of the other kids. "Your bunk is in a different room" she told me. I then noticed a bunch of bunks pushed against the wall to the right, with worn out painted dresser drawers pushed against the wall at the top of the room and a medium sized tv to the left of the room playing a show I didn't know, but it involved a talking sponge and a pink starfish I think that were living underwater.
"Where's my bunk?" I asked.
"With Newt." she pointed to the blonde hair kid.
"Newt" groaned loudly when he heard I was in the same room as him.
"Newt. Show Thomas the room." Ms.White said. As Newt walked to the door, he pushed into me with his shoulder hardly. i followed him as he went to the right. We walked into a smaller room with a 2 bunk bed on the left wall, 2 drawers on the left and a tv on top of the nearest drawer.
"My bunk is on bottom" Newt told me. "Have fun not falling off the top." he added.
I took my bag with me and climbed the ladder and placed my bag on the mattress. I climbed back down and I noticed newt staring at me.
"What?" I asked
Newt, suddenly coming back to reality, quickly replied with "Uh, nothing." I looked out the window in the center of the room and saw it was already dark out.
"Ms.White doesn't let us leave the room at night" Newt told me. I nodded at him in reply. Ms.White was in the doorway now and told us it was time to get ready for bed and to do everything we need to do since she wouldn't let us leave.
Newt opened one of the drawers of the dressers and pulled out a pair of pants with football teams on them. He began to change into them, and I quickly looked away. I turned faced toward him again and he was now only wearing his pants and had no shirt on. I remembered the doctors giving me a few pairs of clothes before leaving. I grabbed my bag and looked through it for pajama pants. I realized I had the same exact pants as Newt. I took them out and Newt looked a little surprised and laughed a little about the fact we had the same pants. I was about to change into them and then I realized newt was still in the room. I was suddenly shy to change.
"Will you..you know..not look?.." I asked Newt awkwardly. Newt laughed and went on his bunk and turned and sat facing the wall. I put my pants on and told newt he could look now.
"So how old are you?" Newt asked.
"13, you?" I replied
"Me too." Newt said
"Time for bed everyone!" We heard Ms.White yell out. I climbed the ladder and layed down on my bed.
A few hours into the night I was awaken by searing pain on the right side of my body. I would've screamed out if it weren't for the hand that covered my mouth. my vision was blurry, but I saw brown eyes and blond hair leaning over me. I felt my body being lifted and placed on a mattress. I felt a blanket being placed on me, then another. I blacked out right after that. I awoke a few hours later. Newt was sitting on the edge of the bed and his eyes shot open when he saw I was awake. "you're awake!" He said.
"Why would you care?" I asked.
"Well you fell off you're bed and possibly have a concussion." he said
I lifted my head up and a wave of nausea went through my body.
"Am I okay?" I asked.
"Uhh well according to Ms.White you are, but you never know with her." a long silence was after that. "So....Tell me about yourself." Newt said.
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Newtmas fanfic
FanfictionThings don't start out that great, but can life stories bring people together? Inspired by the Maze Runner. In this fanfic, the trials never happened. Thomas is the main character