Minho's Hope

Running

I wake up to Alby banging on our door. "Come on lovebirds get up" he shouts. We both wake up yawning and stretching, it feels like we only had three hours of sleep. "Good morning princess" he smirks kissing me on the head. "Good morning love" I reply with my thumb rubbing against his cheek. "We're up Alby" I shout while jumping out of bed. I'm finally officially a runner, I can be with Minho all day every day, now none of us has to worry. We got out of bed, have a shower and wear the same clothes as yesterday as we didn't have time to wash the other set. Minho now practically living with me, he's moved his things into our hut, not that we had much. Five outfits between us both, 1 pair of shoes each, my Beanie, our belts and our toiletries. Anyway just as a put my black cotton beanie on we head out to the lunchroom. Our usual Apple and Pear are still the same. Newt, Alby, Chuck and Ben waving us off. "Stick with Minho," Chuck says hugging me. "I'll be fine" I smile at him. "Good luck," Newt and Alby say. We turn around staring at the maze for a moment. "Are you ready princess?" Minho asks looking at me smirking. "Let's go" I say. "Just remember stick with me, I'll make sure nothing happens to you" he whispers. I smile. "I don't wanna put any more stress onto you by being here, don't worry about me i'll be okay" I say holding his hand. "Sure" he says smirking as we start go jog off through the maze. I could tell Minho wanted me with him so he knows I'm safe next to him but he worried about the horrors in the maze.

Not looking back as we turn the first corner still holding my hand. Minho takes me through the basics of the maze, it wasn't what I expected, but in all honesty, I'm not sure what I expected. It was cold, concrete walls the same height as the glade walls, veins, most coming down to the floor. Cracks in most walls and noises, the same noises I could hear in the glade just a hundred times louder. Turning every corner not knowing what was on the other side. After only two hours left of running we slowed down to a walking pace. "Are you okay love" he asks looking at me smiling at me. I nod my head smiling before giving him a quick kiss before carrying on through the maze. "Wait, can you hear that" I whisper. Minho grabs my hand while peeking around the corner to see not one but two grievers standing on a three-way path. "Shuck" Minho whispers. He puts his index finger to his lips telling me to be quiet while he slowly leads me in front as far away as possible, still holding onto me. As soon as Minho thought we were far away enough we started running back to the glade, we only had twenty-five minutes to get back. With six corners left to run we stand with a griever staring down at us. "Y/n run!" Minho shouts holding onto me running. I run as fast as my legs could take me, making sure Minho was no more than an inch behind me. Turning the last corner I was so glad to see Chuck, Newt and Alby standing there waiting for us, it felt nice knowing someone was waiting for us. The doors start to close as we start running towards the glade. The griever still right behind us. All of a sudden the griever catches Minho's shoe, making him fall to the floor in pain. With less then ten seconds to get back to the glade I help Minho up, carrying most of his weight. Barely making it back in time the walls slam shut on the griever who was so close to getting us.

Carefully laying Minho onto the floor I fall back out of breath. "What happened, are you alright?" Chuck asks us while hugging me tightly, which didn't help my breathing but always felt nice from Chuck or any of the gladers. I just wanted to focus on Minho. Clint and Jeff take Minho to the med hut while I help to carry him. "Y/n, take his jeans off, we have to check his full leg" Jeff shouts from the other room. I smirk at him helping him up so he can take them down to his knees while I take off the rest trying not to make it any more painful, you could tell it hurt but he didn't want to show me. I hold Minho's hand while he's lying on the medbed. No matter how lightly Clint pressed on his ankle he was still in agonising pain. "He's dislocated his ankle," Jeff says. Knowing the next part is gonna be the most painful part of this, I look at Minho rubbing my thumb on his cheek, saying little encouraging words to him like. "Your so brave" "you can do this" "I'm so proud of you." he looked into my eyes as they pulled his ankle back in place. Even though he struggled a lot, he didn't show as much looking at me.

After that baring pain was over, Jeff and Clint told us that Minho should rest up for three days minimum as it will still be fragile, it also looked like he sprained it so if that was the case he should stay out of the maze for at least a week. Me and Newt carried him back to my hut, the only place he wanted to be, I laid him on the bed. "Thanks, Newt," I say to him as he walks out, closing the but door behind him. "I'm sorry love, one day in the maze and it was-" Minho says as I whisper "it's okay, I'm just glad I was there with you when it happened," I say just before kissing him. He looks at me, smiles and pulls me on top of him, my head to his chest holding me tight. "Y/n, I love you" he whispers in my ear, rubbing my back. I smile thinking of those three words. "I love you too" I whisper kissing him.

Ours will forever be my favourite love story and coming up in the box was definitely worth everything that happened here. I love him and always will