I Promise | The Maze Runner

Chapter 33: Micah and Adi ✔️

And that's when I do feel a heart beat. 

I immediately sit up. "Please, please." I mumble the words over and over again as I check his heartbeat again. Sure enough, there it is.  

I hear the sound of a gunshot and I quickly get on my knees, standing above Newt. I raise my gun, carefully looking around. 

"Hurry up, Adi! The place is gonna explode!" A guy about 20 comes running into my view.  

"I'm running, Micah! You're the super-speedy weirdo!" A girl about a year younger than the guy comes running after him. 

The guy notices me and looks back at the girl before running towards me. "Hey, we should probably get out of here. The place is probably gonna explode." He says as the girl runs up. She stops at him, out of breath. 

"Damn you and your super-speed." She mumbles under her breath. 

"I'm not leaving him." I say, slowly lowering my gun. 

"That's not a problem. Adi, you take her, I'll take him." The guy says, looking at the girl for confirmation. 

"Fine, but you better come back for us." The girl says, pointing a finger at the guy. 

The guy walks over to Newt and kneels down. "Damn, knife in the chest and he's still alive?" 

I grip my gun tighter, unsure if I should trust these two. "I guess. I got a heartbeat." 

The guy nods. "Okay, don't freak out. Stay with my friend, Adi." 

I look up at the girl as she adjusts the strap of her backpack. I slowly get to my feet as the guy carefully picks up Newt.  

"Meet us at the hideout." Adi says to the guy. 

He nods. "Be safe."  Adi nods as the guy turns and he becomes a red flash before the two disappear. 

"Wha- what?!" I yell. 

"Don't worry, he has these weird super speed powers. Just come on, we need to get going." Adi says before turning and starting to run. 

I glance at where the guy and Newt just were before following Adi through the streets. She looks up, nervously as a berg flies over us.  

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Adi comes to a stop, probably about a mile away from the city walls. She sits down on a rock, breathing deeply. I sit next to her and look out to the sky that's now sunny.  

"Almost there." Adi says after a minute before standing up. Instead of running, she just walks. We get to a broken down bridge. She lifts a small flap and hits a button under it. A sliding door, part of the bridge, starts sliding open. "Come on." Adi says, glancing back at me before walking into the first room.  

We walk into a room filled with guns and different weapons. Instead of stopping, Adi leads me to a door and pushes it open. The door leads to another room which looks more like a house. Two beds sit on one side, a couch on the other. A table with three different chairs sit in the middle of the roof. Newt is laying on the table with the guy standing above him. 

The guy looks up as we walk in. "What took you so long?"  

"Damn you." Adi replies, sitting down on the couch. 

"Didn't introduce myself earlier." The guy says, glancing at me. "I'm Micah Smith. And that's my best friend, Adrianna Jackson." 

"Spencer." I reply. "And that's Newt." 

"No last name?" Micah asks, taking a cloth and walking over to Newt. 

"I don't know my last name." I reply truthfully. "My memories were takes four years ago." 

Adi looks up. "One of those WICKED kids, huh?" 

I nod and walk over to Newt. "Yeah." 

Micah puts the cloth up to the knife still lodged in Newt's chest. "We need to get the knife out and close the hole." 

"Hey." I say, getting an idea. "Do you have a syringe." 

"No, we barely have any medical supplies." Adi replies, boredly, from the bed. "Why?" 

"Nothing." I say, not knowing if I should tell the two I'm the cure for the Flare. 

"Alright, enough talking, let's do this before the kid dies." Micah says, grabbing a bottle of alcohol.  

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"Damn, I never wanna be in a maze after what you just told me." Adi says, leaning back in her chair.

"I don't either." I reply.

"I might be able to go find something to eat. Stay here and stay safe." Micah says, standing up. "Bye." With that, he turns, going to the door and walking out before closing it behind him.

I hear a cough and jump up. "He shouldn't be awake yet." Adi mumbles, also standing up. "Especially if he's a crank."

We walk over to where Newt is slowly opening his eyes. I smile in relief. He quickly sits up, only seeing Adi. "Where the bloody hell am I?!" He asks, stumbling off the bed. He falls to the ground, clutching his chest where the knife was.

"Newt!" I rush towards him and he opens his eyes again, seeing me.

"Spence." He says, relief in his voice. 

"I'm so glad you're okay." I say, pulling him into a hug.

He gasps in pain. "Ow, that hurt." He mumbles, putting his hand over where the knife was. "Whoa, wait. Where's Thomas? And Minho? Gally, Fry, Brenda, Jorge?!" Newt tries to stand up and I help him.

"They, uh, they...left us." I say, quietly.

Newt looks at me confused as he sits back on the table. "That doesn't seem like Thomas." He whispers, confused.

"He thought you were dead and I might have pointed a gun at my friend, saying to leave me so, yeah. They left us." I say.