CHAPTER THREE—RUNNER?!?
[EMMY'S PERSPECTIVE]
FRYPAN SHOOK THE GIRL AWAKE, they had set up a bed for her on the floor. she groaned as she turned away from him, not wanting to open her eyes.
"come on, greenie, nick's here." he mumbled and she gave in, slowly opening her eyes and sat up, facing nick. as she rubbed her eyes he walked over to her whilst frypan walked out.
"follow me." he simply said those two words and followed frypan, emmy rushing over to go after him.
"what? where are we going?" she scoffed but got no answer. "hello? leader guy?! answer me!" her comments made nick turn around and point a finger in her face.
"shut up." he muttered and turned back round, walking out of homestead. frypan and minho were the only others awake.
minho watched her as she walked with nick, her hair bounced as she walked. when she caught his eye, he didn't look away. neither did she. she couldn't get her mind off him, it was nick that broke their stares by stopping.
"we're here." he announced, handing her a knife and a hammer. it was a wall with the names of all the gladers filling it. "engrave your name on the wall, it's a tradition."
emmy approached the wall and searched for an empty spot, she ended up settling on a spot next to minho and newt's names. once she had finished, minho approached her as she looked at it with a tilted head.
"looks alright, greenie." he smiled and she shook her head.
"nah, it looks shit. i should've put it in that spot." she pointed to one next to ben's name and minho shook his head and put his arm around her.
"i think it looks perfect next to mine." he smirked and gave the girl a wink before getting shoved in the back by frypan.
"stop flirting with she-bean and help me in the kitchen like you promised." he smiled, half joking.
"why should i— you know what? fine." he sighed and followed frypan, emmy watching him as he walked away. then, her heart skipped a beat when she felt a hand on her shoulder, scared it would be nick or someone she didn't like.
she turned around and it was newt, she sighed with relief.
"i thought you were nick." she chuckled awkwardly and he raised an eyebrow.
"oh yeah? and why would that be a bad thing, eh?" he questioned and walked closer to her. "minho's staring." he whispered when she turned around and caught him staring at her for the second time today. her face heated up and her cheeks turned a bright shade of red. newt chuckled.
"shut up, newt." she shoved his shoulder and he snickered and stepped back.
"you know it's against the rules to date minho..." his smirk grew as he continued to talk about the topic.
"i know. what am i doing today?" she quickly changed the subject and he smiled.
"you are with me, greenie." he hastily grabbed her arm and dragged her towards the gardens. "we need more gardeners, it's only zart and me." he told her and emmy rolled her eyes.
"zart and i." she corrected and he shrugged.
"don't care." he stated and threw a bucket at her. "be helpful and get some more fertiliser."
"i don't even know where-" she began before newt cut her off.
"in the middle of the woods, you'll know it when you see it." he grabbed a shovel and got started early.
"but don't we have breakfast-"
"yes, but i didn't finish this crap yesterday because you showed up so now i have to do it 'bright and early' or zart will be pissed. understand?" his tone had changed tremendously than before, emmy nodded and grabbed the bucket. she headed into the woods.
"'be helpful and get some fertiliser' what an dickhead." she mocked and heard a twig snap, making her look around. when she saw nothing, she chose to ignore it and kept walking. "'zart will be pissed' he has a dumb-ass name, i don't care if he's pissed." she continued to mock the boy before someone ran at her.
she was knocked down but quickly slid out of his grip before running fast and far.
although, she couldn't catch the face of the boy who'd been chasing her. she ran and ran before she had come out of the other side of the woods, by frypan's kitchen. he and minho had caught the girl's mad-like running and rushed over to her.
"a... boy... started..." she took heavy breaths between each word before sitting on the grass, then the boy ran out of the woods too. she shot up and off again, running as fast as she could before minho caught up with the boy behind her, pulling his shirt so he'd go back. when he struggled, he got shoved over and knocked out.
"emmy!" he yelled and she turned to face him, she walked back when she knew it was safe. "you can run fast, shank." he pointed out before shifting his attention to the boy on the floor.
"who is it?" she asked, leaning in closer.
"george. i think he's been attacked by a griever or something. it's not he only explanation, he's not usually like this" minho groaned and lifted up the boys shirt to reveal a nasty sting and pulled it back down. "yep, let's get him to the pit."
emmy helped the runner get george to the pit, she felt bad. she didn't even know the boy.
"why was he there? in the woods?" she questioned and minho shrugged as he watched george in the pit.
"looking for you, probably." he sighed and walked over to fry's kitchen once again.
"so who's going to replace him?" she wondered and he looked her up and down and pulled her to one side.
"i saw how you ran, that was pretty fast. i think-" he was cut off by newt, who stormed over and groaned.
"bloody hell, greenie, is it that hard to get some shucking fertiliser." he looked up at minho and rolled his eyes. "and you're here with this piece of klunk? jesus christ, you can't stay away from each other for more than ten minutes!" he sighed and rubbed his forehead.
"i think george got attacked by a griever." minho mumbled and the blonde's attitude switched immediately.
"wait? what?"
"yeah, he chased me through the bloody woods like a mad man." emmy explained and newt's hand covered his own mouth. "he's in the slammer now."
the british boy walked towards the slammer, going to see george. emmy guessed the two were close.
"i feel like it's my fault." emmy mumbled and looked at the ground.
"that shank got himself attacked, you had nothing to do with it." he softly rubbed his hand against her arm and then gently hit it, making her look up. "besides, i say we make you a runner."
"seriously? i've been here less than a day." she scoffed and he smirked.
"i know. gally'll be pissed." he snickered and rubbed his nose just before walking off. annoyed at his exit, emmy followed.
"for crying out loud." she mumbled before putting her hand on his chest so she'd stop. "you really think i could be a runner?"
"do you know how fast you ran? i don't think you can be a runner, i know you can." he assured her, placing a hand on her shoulder before walking off again to find frypan.
emmy jogged over to the slammer, newt was there and was looking at george who looked like he had lost his mind. he was banging his head on the wall, the girl was in shock and began to tear up. this is my fault she repeated over and over in her head. no matter how much she tried to stop those four words from repeating, she couldn't.
"hey, you alright?" he looked over to her and she was snapped out of her daze. before walking off, she nodded. it wasn't surprising that newt ran over to her, stopping her the same way she stopped minho.
"are you alright?" he repeated himself, knowing her answer anyway.
"yeah i- minho wants to make me a runner." she admitted and rubbed her arm out of awkwardness.
"do you want to be a runner?" he asked, the greenie nodded. "no way." he snickered and she raised an eyebrow.
"what? why not?" she scoffed and he shrugged.
"you're a greenie and nobody wants to be a runner." he laughed.
"i do, i like running. it's better than being in a bloody garden all day." newt shrugged, half agreeing with her statement.
"it's really up to minho and nick, not me." he sighed and their conversation was interrupted by a loud yell.
"BREAKFAST TIME, SHANKS."
a/n- i hate this chapter lols
another thing: some of the songs in the playlist are for specific chapters, i'll tell you in a/n right at the beginning if they are :)