Meant to be / Book 2 / A maze runner story

Chapter 5 - Bodies

We are still sitting in the cafeteria when this guy in a black suit walks up to us.
- "Follow me." He says.
I slowly get up, not knowing whether to actually follow him or not.
- "Where are you taking us?" Asks Thomas.
- "Your headquarters."
I sigh in relief. I don't think they would lie about something like that. We start walking, following the man. I look around and everything I see, I automatically think it's suspicious. We get to the end of this hallway and the man opens the door. There are a bunch of bunk beds. He wasn't lying. We all walk in, one following the other.
- "I got top bunk!" Says Fry.
Minho jumps onto the top bunk as quickly as possible.
- "Too slow." Says Minho.
I giggle. Typical of him.
Winston lies down on one of the bottom beds.
- "I could get used to this." Says Winston.
- "Yeah. It's not bad." Says Newt.
The door closes and locks. Weird. Thomas and Newt are next to each other and I am right in the back of them.
- "What do you think those guys want with Teresa?" Asks Thomas.
I point to Thomas in order to show that I am asking myself the same question.
- "If there's one thing I know about that girl is that she can take care of herself. Don't worry about it. Both of you are thinking too much." Says Newt.
He turns around and goes up onto a bunk bed. Thomas and I look at each other and sigh. Thomas goes in the bed under Newt and I go in the bed behind him. Not long afterwards, the lights close. Immediately, I get scared. I don't know why but I just do. I get up and make my way towards Thomas's bed. He's not sleeping either.
- "Can I join?" I ask.
He double taps his bed and moves closer to the wall, in order to leave me some space. I lie down next to me and he grabs me in his arms.
- "Do you...do you think we're safe here?" I ask.
- "No."
- "That's what I was thinking too."
He hugs me tighter. We don't say anything to each other but things are not weird nor awkward at all. We used to do this quite a lot, just laying in bed into each other's arms, and it was the best feeling ever. The amount of serotonin running through my vains is unbelievable. Thomas gets up to go the bathroom. Once he's finished, he washes his hands and also puts water on his face. He makes his way back to the bed.
- "You ok?" I say.
- "Yeah, I'm just worried about Teresa."
- "I know...I am too...especially since I don't have a good feeling of this place."
He looks at me and nods in agreement. This weird noise of metal moving is heard. Thomas and i both sit on the bed. What the hell was that. We look around trying to see where the noise came from.
- "Pst." A faint voice says. "Hey!" The person says a little louder. "Down here."
Thomas and I both bend down over the bed.
- "Sh." The guy says.
- "Oh my god." Says Thomas.
Instantly, I realize that it was the kid sitting alone in the cafeteria with the hood.
- "Come on. Both of you. Follow me." He says backing up into the tunnel.
- "What?" Says Thomas.
He looks at me and we both look at each other confused. Why does this kid want to follow us.
- "Come on." I say.
I get off the bed and Thomas does the same. He enters the tunnel first and I follow him. We are crawling following this guy, not really knowing why or where we are going.
- "Hurry. This way." The guy says. "Come on."
We follow him for a couple of minutes. Thomas turns around to me and shrugs.
- "Hey wait a second." Says Thomas. "What the hell are we doing?"
- "Come on we're gonna miss it." The guy says, looking down at a trap.
- "What the hell am I doing?" I hear Thomas saying
Thomas and I get next to it and look down. There's nothing there.
- "What are we doing?" Asks Thomas.
- "Shhh." Says the guy. "Watch."
Suddenly Dr. Crawford comes. She looks around and pulls out her card out of her lab coat. Following her, these weird things that have human holograms on them roll one after the other. It seems as if there are dead bodies in them but I am not too sure because they are covered up. But it sure does look like it. She swipes her card into this door and the trollies enter one after the other. I was definitely right to be nervous about this place. They will kill every single one of us. I was right. We probably never left Wicked. Thomas and I look at each other in shock.
- "What the hell was that?" Says Thomas.
- "They bring in new ones every night like clockwork." Says the guy.
I think of the people called from the cafeteria today.
- "The chosen kids." I say.
- "You know what they do with them?" Asks Thomas.
- "I don't know. This is as far as I've ever gotten." He turns his head around, looking to see if we will be caught. "The vents don't even go into that section."
They are definitely hiding something then.
- "But once they go through that door, they don't come back out. I don't think anybody ever really leaves this place."
- "I think you're right about that." I say.
- "Come on. We've gotta go before somebody notices were gone."
- "Why did you show us this?" Asks Thomas.
- "Because maybe the others will listen to you guys. There's something weird going on here. And I know you both think so too."
The guy crawls away from us.
- "Hey wait." Says Thomas. "What's your name?"
- "Aris."
He crawls away and disappears. Thomas looks at me.
- "We should head back." He says.
He crawls away and a few minutes later end up back into our room. We both sit onto Thomas's bed. I cant sleep after what I just saw.
- "Thomas." I say. "We'll die if we don't leave. Who knows when we will be called." I turn my head to face him. "Any of us could be called tomorrow."
- "I know. Let's tell the others when they wake up."
For the rest of the night, Thomas and I remain awake, sitting on his bed. I don't know what he's thinking for sure, but I do know he is very nervous. We were the only suspicious people out of the group and they might not truly believe us and he need to find for sure what is behind that door. As well, we need to figure out a way out of here, which will not be easy. Then it clicks.
- "Thomas!"
- "Yeah?"
- "You know those guards in the caf?" He nods. "They definitely have ID's. Tomorrow, after when they call people's name's, one of us will get up and pretend to be one of the people called. The guards will definitely notice and then we grab their card. The other person, will make it seem as if it wasn't planned by pushing the person away. I don't know if that makes sense."
He smiles.
- "Yeah, no. That's actually a great idea."
- "I can grab the card and you can make the situation look real."
- "Absolutely not."
- "Why?"
- "I'm going to do that."
Suddenly the lights open and everyone slowly wakes up. I'm about to say something, but Thomas signals for me not to do so. He points himself signaling that he will do it. I get up from the bed.
- "Guys. We need to talk to you." I say.
Thomas gets up and comes next to me. Everyone gathers around us.
- "Not even a good morning or anything uh?" Says Minho.
- "We we're right." Says Thomas.
- "About what?" Asks Newt.
- "Not having a good feeling about this place."
- "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
- "We saw bodies being transported into this secret room. They were entering one after other."
- "What do you mean bodies?" Asks Fry.
- "We don't think anybody really leaves this place." Says Thomas.
- "Are you guys sure it was bodies? I mean did you see them?" Asks Newt.
- "Not really no they were covered, but" I say.
- "Alright then, stop worrying until we actually know for sure." Says Newt cutting me off.
The doors open and a guard signals us to head outside.

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