Group C

Chapter fifteen

I knew instantly how to react. I ran to her side. And gave her a hug. She kept crying and saying
"I don't know what to do"
I didn't know how long we stayed there. It felt so good, holding her. If felt like something I'd wanted to do for a long time. A while later she got up. Whipped the tears from her eyes.
"Newt...I'm-"
"Ssh!"
"No! You-"
"No! Look it's ok!" I looked her in the eyes.
"Seriously it's ok"
She sat there ,staring into space.
"Look...newt, you deserve some answers! And I'm gonna give them to you!" She put her hands through her hair. I realised for the first time that this was what she did when she was worried or nervous.
"So there's a reason why those walls close at night and there's a reason why the runners come back before they do...cause no one has ever survived a night in the maze"
"Why"
"Because of the grievers"
She saw the confused look on my face.
"Well no ones seen one and lived to tell.." I followed her gaze. Annie. Still out.
"But they sting you see-" she walked over to Annie and pointed to her stomach. Newt didn't like the way she was talking about it...like it was...normal, like this happened a the time.
"Now this...kills you....unless you've got that!" She pointed to the empty needle that Sophia had ejected into Annie.
"That saves you, we don't know how or why, but they come up in the box every mouth. They make you go throw the changing." Her eyes went dark then. Fear.
"The changing...well no one knows...only the ones who's been through it....there never the same again Newt..." She looked at me.
"Never the same..." She trailed off, staring into the distance. She suddenly snapped back into reality.
"But you've got nothin to worry about! Cause them buggers only come out at night...and that's why you can't survive a night in the maze"