Meant to be / Book 2 / A maze runner story

Chapter 4 - Other Mazes

We get to this other scientific lab and they all separate us to test us. I am with Minho and we are running on the treadmill. Weird how two runners on three were chosen to do this task. It's as if they knew. I look on my right and see Newt sitting on a chair. This man, what seems to be a doctor, goes next to him. He is holding a blue tray with what I think is a needle. He lifts it up and it is im fact a needle. I see Newt panicking. I wonder what the hell is that thing. I don't like the look of it. Minho and I are still running and this lady brings up the speed, forcing us to run faster. I now look on my left and see Thomas also sitting down on a chair. They are taking blood samples from him. A lot of it too.
- "Evening Dr. Crawford!" Says the man taking Thomas's blood.
This woman walks in front of me.
- "Good evening." She says. "How are the new arrivals holding up?"
- "So far so good."
She walks up to Teresa, who is sitting on this weird bench thing at the end of the hallway. I wonder what they are going to do to her.
- "And you must be Teresa." Says Dr. Crawford.
She closes one of the blinds. Weird.
- "Thomas." Says this man.
- "Yeah?"
- "Come with me please."
I look at Thomas nervously.
- "Hey!" I say. "Where are you taking him."
- "Don't worry. He'll be back soon." Answers the man.
I look at Minho.
- "Relax." He says.
Thomas walks away but turns around. He looks at me and then at Teresa. The look in his face changes. I turn to look at Teresa, but Dr. Crawford, closed the other blinds. Why in the world do they need privacy. There is definitely something going on here that is fishy.
- "All right that's good enough." Says the woman slowing the treadmills down for us.
Minho and I hop off.
- "Everyone. Follow me." Says this other man. "My name is Jace if you have any questions."
The group follows him, but I stay behind. Jace notices and turns around.
- "I said follow me."
- "Yeah well I'm not going anywhere without Teresa." I say.
- "She'll meet you guys soon."
- "Yeah well even if that's the case I'm not leaving."
- "Y/n. Please." Newt says, sending me a death stare. "Don't make a scene. Come on."
I give in and walk towards them. I go next to Newt.
- "What the hell was in the thing they injected you with." I ask him.
- "Just some nutrients that I was deprived of from being in the maze."
That doesn't make sense.
- "If you were deprived from them, that means we all were. Why the fuck didn't they inject us too."
- "Y/n. Please. Stop worrying. These people are doing nice things for us. We're safe now."
I roll my eyes.
- "I saw that."
I hear some talking far away. There's seems to be a lot of people. The talking becomes louder and louder. We are walking right towards it. Jace opens the door and it reveals a bunch of kids our age wearing the same things we are. They are all eating, which means this must be the cafeteria.
- "Go inside." Jace says.
We all slowly walk in and look around. What is happening here. This guy walks up to us.
- "You guys must be new." He says. "I'm Jackson. Follow me, lets make you guys grab some food."
We walk towards the food section and I go next to him.
- "Who exactly are you guys?" I ask him.
- "Just like you. We were all put into mazes by Wicked."
I slam my tray down.
- "You mean we weren't the only maze?!"
I look back at Newt in Minho and they are as surprised as I am.
- "Haha yeah. Now come on. I'll bring you guys to my table."
I grab my tray full of food and follow him. We sit down. There are a few other people.
- "Everyone. Meet the new recruits."
- "Hey guys." Says Newt. "Im Newt. This is my twin sister Y/n." He points to me and I wave. "Minho, Frypan and Winston." Everyone else waves.
- "Nice to meet you guys." Says Jackson.
- "Wait wait wait. So all of you were also in other mazes?" Says Minho.
- "Yup! Every single one of us in this room has."
I look around and notice this one kid sitting alone. He is wearing a hood up and he seems lonely. I think of Thomas and Teresa and I become nervous. They both should be back by now.
- "Y/n?" Says Newt.
- "Uh?" I say.
- "Are you alright?"
- "Uh...yeah. Yeah." I say lying.
He looks at me. He knows I'm lying to him, but he lets it slide.
- "I'll go grab some other stuff. I'll be back." Says Minho while getting up.
- "I still can't believe how awesome it is that we weren't the only maze." Says Winston.
- "Yeah I have to agree it's pretty sick." Says Fry.
I look up and see Thomas with Minho. I sigh in relief. They walk up to the table and Thomas sits next to me. But Teresa is not with him.
- "And there was this big, loud, explosion, and these guys came out of nowhere." Says Jackson. "Started shooting up the place."
I look at him with a weird look on his face. I have no clue what he is talking about because I completely zoned out.
- "It was intense. They pulled us out of the maze and brought us here."
- "What about the rest." Asks Newt. "The other people left behind in the maze, what happened to them?"
- "I don't know."
I turn to Thomas.
- "Where the hell were you." I whisper to him.
- "I'll tell you later. Where's Teresa."
- "I thought she was with you."
- "And I thought she was with you."
We both look at each other. There is definitely something wrong.
- "How long have you guys been here?" Asks Newt.
- "Not long." Answers Jackson. "Just a day or two. That kid over there," He turns around to face that kid I noticed earlier, "has been here the longest. Almost a week."
- "His maze was nothing but girls." Says the guy next to Jackson.
- "Really?" Says Minho.
- "Some guys have all the luck." Says Jackson.
I roll my eyes.
- "Yeah well in my case I was the only girl and you would of thought I would think of myself lucky, but no not really."
Newt punches me.
- "Hey! That's not very nice."
I giggle.
- "Good evening, gentlemen." Says Jason, walking into the cafeteria. "Ladies. You all know how this works. If you hear your name called please rise in an orderly fashion, join my colleagues behind me where they will escort you to the eastern wing. Your new lives are about to begin."
New lives? What is he talking about. A few people clap. Jackson opens up a clipboard.
- "Connor." This one guy stands up. "Evelyn. Justin. Peter. Allison. Squiggy." They all get up and a few people laugh at the name 'squiggy'. "All right. Settle down. Franklin. And Abigail. Now, now, don't get discouraged. If I could take more, I would."
What is happening.
- "There's always tomorrow. Your time will come." Says Janson, leaving the room.
I look at Thomas confused.
- "Where are they going?" Asks Minho.
- "Far from here." Answers Jackson. "Lucky bastards. Some kind of farm. A safe place."
That's bullshit. I don't believe it.
- "They can only take in a couple of people at a time."
Thomas looks to his right and his expression changes, the same way it changed earlier today. I look and see Dr. Crawford and Teresa follow her. They are on the other side of the glass. Thomas looks at me.
- "What the hell?" I say.
We both quickly get up.
- "Hey Teresa!" Says Thomas.
We both run next to them, but we are on the other side.
- "Teresa!" We both yell.
We bump into these guards but they push us away.
- "Hey, hey, hey." Says one of them.
- "Where are they taking her?" Asks Thomas.
- "They just have to run a few more tests."
- "Why? Is she ok?" I say.
He looks at me with a straight face.
- "Don't worry, they'll be done with her soon."
- "No. Seriously. Is she ok?" I say, insisting.
- "She's fine."
I don't believe him whatsoever. Thomas and I look at each other. We turn back around and walk towards the table.
- "I don't believe him." I say.
- "Me neither."
We both sit down and stay quiet.