The girl from the scorch

10

The sun slowly shone over the walls of the broken down building and the light slowly started to wake everyone up. Jorge woke up first with a grumble, clearly annoyed about the long day ahead of us. He looked over at me, giving me a double take as he saw Newt asleep on my shoulder and Mollie's head resting on my lap from her moving throughout the night. With a slight smirk Jorge averted his gaze back towards me.

"You really care about that one don't you hermana?" He asked, with a slight laugh in his voice.

"No- no I just met him. He fell asleep on me I- I wasn't just gonna move" I stutter out, desperate for Jorge to drop the subject. Luckily he does as he stands up to go wake up everyone else.

Following his lead I turn to the side to wake up Newt. I lift my shoulder up and down to try and wake him but that only causes my other shoulder to flare up in pain. Bad move. Instead I reach down with my arm and shake his leg in an attempt to get him to wake up. Luckily this works and he slowly opens his eyes only to shut them again due to the blinding light shining down on us.

"Hey sleepy-head" I giggle at him as he slowly opens his eyes again, trying to adjust to the bright lights.

"Shuck sorry. I... I didn't mean to fall asleep on you I just-"I quickly cut him off before he could say anymore. "It's fine. You needed the sleep, you looked like death"

The joke causes him to laugh witch quickly sets me off laughing too, like a chain reaction. Soon enough we're both laughing and everyone is staring at us confused. That is until Minho whispers something to Fry and Aris causing the three of them to crack up as well. No me and Newt stare at them confused.

All the laughing ends up waking up Mollie who had still been asleep on my lap. I would say I'm surprised she didn't wake up sooner but that girl could sleep through a thunderstorm and never know it happened. Just like Newt, she opens her eyes to be met with the blinking Sun and quickly buried her face in my stomach again with a small, quite groan causing me to let out a small laugh. She eventually takes her head away from me and sits on my lap facing me, hugging me round my waste with her head resting on my good shoulder.

"Sleep well?" I ask her, but only receive a small nod into my shoulder.

"We should get going hermanos. Never gonna find Brenda and your friend say here" Jorge comments.

With that everyone begins to get up and make sure all their bags are packed. With a little help from Newt I manage to stand up with Mollie still hugging me. I place her on my hip and go to reach down for the bag which is quickly taken by Newt.

"If you've got her, I've got the bag" he says to me, repeating the same thing I told him yesterday. With that, he walked off towards Minho leaving me standing there.

"He's not so bad" I look at Mollie and say as we begin to follow behind everyone as they make their way out the door. And so it begins.

The journey was again long and painful, sand blowing everywhere, crazy people constantly popping up and Teresa's non stop complaint and worrying about Thomas. If it wasn't obvious she had a thing for him when I met them it sure as hell was obvious now.

I ended up putting Mollie down to walk next to me as my arms had began to ache from only being able to carry her on one side. As we were walking along, Minho dropped behind to talk to us.

"So you and Newt huh?"

I basically stopped dead in my tracks.

"Wh- what... what do you mean? I've just met you guys I barely know you" I quickly stumble out, denying the obvious connection I felt towards him.

"Oh come on. All of us can see it." He counters. "Well except Newt but he's oblivious to things" he adds, laughing to himself as he says so.

We begin walking again in an Akers silence as i am trying to process what he has just said. Was it that obvious. Without me realising, Mollie began to drag behind , pulling my hand back with her. Minho must have noticed this too as he was soon stopping and picking her up.

"Oh it's fine. I'll take her" I say, going to grab her from his arms but he just slowly trust his body away from me.

"Just rest for a bit. Jorge said we're gonna be here soon and you should be taking it easy on your arm anyway" and with that he walks off to the front of the group, Mollie still in his arms.

Was he really right? Did I like Newt in that sort of way? No we're just friends.

Before I knew it we were walking through a more active looking town. Although it was still all broken down, many people seemed to live here and I could even hear loud music playing from somewhere.

Out group huddled closer together as we passed more and more people. I was constantly looking at Minho and Mollie, making sure he was keeping her safe until suddenly we stopped.

We had arrived at Marcus' place.
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Sorry about the long wait I have exams that i am doing and trying to revise for as these make up my GCSE grades but I leave school soon so I hope I will be able to be more active once I have left as I will have no more responsibilities. :)