The group of seven are on the run again. Except this time it's not in the maze. The scorch trials begin. Malia and her friends escape from the place they were brought to after finding out information they weren't supposed to know.
(Book 2 out of 3)...
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
"What?!" I exclaimed. Not believing him. Everyone stared at me with wide eyes. This can't be true, everyone's going to hate me. This can't be true.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier, but it's true, you're my daughter." Janson said with a small smile, as he tried walking closer again before Minho stood in front of me, pushing me behind him.
I didn't say anything, I cowered behind Minho. I couldn't believe it. My own father did this to me, to us. He's the reason I was stuck in that hell hole, he's the reason all my friends are dead. Him. My dad.
"Mary, I hoped we'd meet again," Ava Paige spoke up, changing the conversation. We all turned to see Mary standing between the kids who were still kneeled down. Janson had his eyes on me the whole time.
"I'm sorry it had to be under these circumstances." Ava Paige continued, as Mary walked up further towards us.
Mary shook her head. "I'm sorry about a lot of things too, but not this. At least my conscience is clear." Mary challenged.
"So is mine." Ava Paige said, unfazed as she took her gun out and shot Mary. I put my hands over my mouth and gasped. I looked at Janson angrily. Is this how he expects me to forgive him, no he didn't shoot her but he's apart of this.
Vince screamed Mary's name as he rushed over towards her, crying.
"Okay, let's go, load them up." Ava ordered, acting like she didn't just kill someone.
Janson then walked over and grabbed my arm and pulled me away. "Hey! You get off of her." Minho yelled out as guards began grabbing my friends, guards grabbed Minho pulling him away from me.
"Get off me!" I yelled as I tried getting out of his grip.
"Malia, listen to me I'm your dad." Janson said.
"No your not!" I yelled and pulled myself out of his grip. "You are no dad to me! You may be my father but you are not my dad! So stop calling yourself that. A dad wouldn't do this to their daughter!" I yelled at him, his facial expressions softened as he saw the tears streaming down my face.
I heard the guards yelling, and turned my head to see Thomas with a bomb in his hand, keeping everyone back. Janson walked past me, walking towards Thomas. I took that as a chance to go to Minho, seeing the guards leave him to help out Janson.
I ran towards him and wrapped my arms around his neck. "Hey, hey, hey it's okay, I've got you, I've got you." Minho whispered in my ear as he wrapped his arms around my waist.
"Let them all go!" Thomas yelled out as he had the bomb raised in the air.
"You know I can't do that," Ava protested.
"Thomas please stop," Theresa cried out. "I made a deal with them, they promised we'd be safe, all of us." Theresa pleaded.
"We're supposed to trust you now?" Thomas retorted.
"It's true, it was her only condition," Ava confirmed.
"Just shut up!" Thomas yelled, frustration clearly shown on his face.
"Everything can go back to the way it was. Thomas, do you really want them all to die?" Ava asked, her eyes moved around our group, me and Minho holding tightly onto each other.
"Listen to her, Thomas. Think about what you're doing." Janson said.
Myself, Minho, Newt and Frypan all looked at one another, having the same idea. We stood by Thomas, like we always did.
"We're with you Thomas." I stated, giving him a nod.
"No..." Theresa breathed out.
"Don't do this, Thomas," Ava Paige said softly, she almost looked afraid.
"Do it," Newt said, I grabbed his hand as well as Minho's, tightly closing my eyes.
"I'm not going back there," Thomas told Ava and Janson.
"I love you." I said to Minho, realising this may be my last chance to say those words to him.
He smiled and squeezed my hand, he bent down, kissing my lips. "I love you." He said as we parted.
I squeezed my eyes shut, resting my head against Minho's shoulder as he laid his head on top of mine, preparing for the worst.
A loud honking noise, made me force my eyes open. I squinted my eyes at the bright lights to see, Jorge behind the wheel. Guns fired at Jorge but he managed to dodge all of them, making them hit his vehicle, which surprisingly still managed working.
While Jorge tried making a distraction, three guards pointed there gun at Thomas, Thomas threw the bomb that he had in his hand and shouted, "Get down!" Minho pulled me to the floor, covering my body with his.
Once the bomb exploded, Minho helped me back up, I turned to see Janson pointing his gun at Thomas, "What a waste!" Janson said with a smug smile. "No!" I yelled out causing Janson to look at me, his smile slowly dropped, he was going to say something before a gun shot rang through my ears.
I looked up to see Brenda, she had shot Janson. I smiled up at her and she returned it. Thomas quickly scrambled to his feet.
I grabbed Minho and Newt's hand and pulled them away as we escaped. Thomas and Frypan followed as we ran past all the bullets, and using this chance to escape with Janson being on the floor, suffering with a bullet wound.
