| - the one - | [newt maze runner]

chapter #9

Rens POV:

my eyes slowly flutter open and I am suddenly now hit with a piercing head ache, and I mentally groan. I hear voices, and at the very last second, I realize my surroundings. I am upside down hanging on a rope above a very big drop; maybe about 4 stories? I glance over at Jorge as soon as he pulls a lever, which causes all of us to drop.

"HOLY SHIT" I yell. "ah, good morning hermana... I do apologize for what happened back there, I hope you know that wasn't my intentions." I stay silent, breathing heavily after i'm pretty sure I just had a heart attack. Thomas explains some stuff to Jorge about the right arm, and he leaves with the man that chocked me, I think his name is Barkley?

"Ren are you ok?" newt asked behind me and I can hear the concern in his voice. "can someone please tell me why we're all hanging by our legs over a 4 story drop, relying on some very questionable ropes?" frypan lets out a small chuckle, but no one says anything so I continue, "I swear to mother fucking god Thomas if were here because you ran your mouth I'm gonna kill you." I say, half joking. "see! this girl gets it. I told you we should stay quiet Thomas, and in the past 20 minutes, she's gotten chocked and now we're all hanging over a drop that will kill all of us shanks, and we have no way out" Minho piped up.

"ok... ok I might have an idea" everyone goes silent. 

"Ren we've been here for 20 minutes, everything you're thinking we already tried." Thomas said, but aris argued with him on this one, "just trust her Thomas, she spent half her time reading in the feild." my mouth lifted into a smile as aris defended me, but frypan stood confused. 

"wait- y'all had books in your maze?"

"I asked for some and they sent like 50 down" I said

"hey thats not fair! I asked for a tv and they didn't do anything!" Minho jumped in

"well to be fair they did say they were just gonna go in the trash if no one asked for them, so I dont think it was a big deal to them" I argued back, and Minho finally stopped fussing.

"ok-" I said looking at our surroundings, "Thomas, if you can swing over to teresa and push her over to Minho, then Minho can grab her and push her towards the lever. if we get enough momentum going on the push, she can grab the lever and get off, then grab us so we can escape. the only thing is i'm in the way-" I looked around again and then it clicked "ok frypan, you swing over to me and push me towards newt, newt you'll hold on to me so my rope doesn't get in the way for teresa, and then everything is good and it should work, got it?" everyone nodded, shocked of my plan expect aris, who only smiled at the fact that the only reason I got that idea was from a specific chapter in a book called "the hunger games" I read in the field, and he knew it. 

newts POV:

"- and then everything is good, got it?" ren said with confidence. I couldn't help the shocked expression on my face not only because we didn't think of it, but also how she came up with a good plan like that not even 5 minutes after waking up. what confused me even more was the fact that her and aris were grinning at each other, and I had no clue why.

"hey newt! you ready?" frypan yelled, and I realized that he had swung over to ren, and is now preparing to swing her to me. 

"yeah go ahead!" I say, and after frypan counts to 3, he pushes her off to me, and I grab her. 1 million things rushed through my head at once.

'ok just stay calm- wait, how do I hold onto her while in the... respectful ways?' I really didn't want to make her uncomfortable. I finally decided on the most practical, holding her waist. her black tank cropped top exposed her stomach, and my heart skipped a beat as my cold hands held on to her warm skin. it didn't help the weird feeling in my stomach when she shivered at my touch, but then loosened up as I tightened my hold on her.