The Assassin Trapped In A Maze ~Newtmas~

Chapter 22

~Alby's POV~

Mentally exhausted.

That was what was happening to me since I set foot out of the maze alive. I was utterly exhausted. I would have never imagined that life outside the maze would be like this. The stung had gave me memories, false memories, terrifying and haunting memories. Memories of a destroyed planet earth, memories of a life turned to chaos. A world no one would ever want to live in.

Waking up at the hospital and realizing none of it was true was confusing and exhausting. I had asked countless of questions about the destroyed world to the doctors and nurses as soon as I had woken up, asking them why the world seemed suddenly fine when I had seen otherwise. They had all looked at me as if I was the craziest shank ever and to be honest I felt crazy. I had to keep telling myself that life was not how I had been forced to remember it. It was somehow releaving, knowing that actually everything was fine for everyone, everyone but us that is. But it was releaving to know that I would now have a chance to live peacefully.

What bothered me though was leaving everyone behind. Everyone that I had spent so much time with. People that had become so important in my life. People I cared immensely about. People I had left behind once before meeting again a couple of hours ago only to get ripped apart from them yet again.

It was painful.

But it had to be done.

I had wanted to see my family since the day I set foot in the Glade, alone and afraid. And even though the gladers grew to be family, they would never be my real family. And a real family was what I really needed and wanted more than anything in the world. If I could only remember my life before the maze.

I was sitting in a plane, waiting for it to bring me to Canada where apparently I was living Three years ago with my parents and my three siblings. I was nervous but extremely excited to see them again. Knowing that I had three younger siblings was such a wonderful news to me and I couldn't help but smile widely at the thought.

"Are you that excited?" The agent that was accompaning me asked as she turned her head towards me. She was a kind woman in her forties and had this warm aura surrounding her constantly.

"Yes, I can't wait to meet my family" I said as I turned to look at her, having a hard time keeping the smile off my face and a sad smile appeared on her lips, making me confused.

"You shouldn't be" She muttered under her breath and I frowned.

"What? Why?" I asked, my smile fading slowly from my face as I watched her eyes send me a sad look.

"I'm not supposed to tell you this, sir" She replied but I shook my head.

"You can't just say something like that and not tell me what's going on" I exclaimed and she sighed deeply, looking down at her lap before glancing back up to me. She seemed extremely conflicted but since I wasn't letting this go she shook her head before taking a deep breath and looking back at me.

"I could be wrong," She started, uncertainty filling her eyes. "but from what I have seen on your file, your parents don't care very much about you or any of your siblings for that matter. I saw that you had went to the hospital a few times because of them as well as one of your brothers. Your sister was never physically hurt, not that we know of. Boss didn't want to send you back home, she argued with some men that was dealing with the matter but they didn't let her choose and they forced her to send you back home."

My mind was blank.

She had just explained to me that the parents I was so desperately and eagerly wanting to meet may have abused me. How was I supposed to react to that? I was slowly regretting ever leaving the gladers, I wanted to go back, if they were abusif there was no way I wanted to go back there. I already had my fair share of abuse in my life thanks to WICKED and I didn't need more. What I wanted was to have loving parents and a peaceful life. If I go back there, I would have none of those.