**BOOK #2 of The Promise Series**
❝ We finally escaped the maze, but with what costs? I miss Ben. I miss Clint. I miss Zart. I miss Jeff. I miss Alby. I miss Chuck. And I miss Gally so much- maybe if I just had kept my promises, Gally could still...
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"GET DOWN!" Jorge shouts. I hide behind a car beside Minho and Newt.
"Shit," I mutter underneath my breath.
"Hey! Is everyone okay out there?" Thomas shouts.
"We're fine." Teresa answers.
"Anyone knows where those bloody shots came from?!" Newt hollers.
"Marcus led us into an ambush, didn't he?!" I shout.
"Everybody! Get set to sprint back to the truck! And hold your ears!" Jorge yells to the other teens. Newt, Minho, and I look at one another, worried.
"What the hell is he planning?" I ask them. They both shrug, but before Jorge's plan could go into action, they hear a girl.
"DROP IT! NOW!" She yells.
"ON YOUR FEET! LET'S GO! MOVE!" Another girl shouts. "YOU THREE, OVER HERE NOW!" The second girl orders. I look over my shoulder to see a girl with blonde hair that is braided and hangs over her left shoulder, she has a bandana covering her face and a rifle in her hand pointing at Minho, Newt, and me.
"DON'T BE STUPID!" The three of us stood up slowly with our hands raised. We carefully walk towards the others to join them as I was internally freaking out.
We all were then lined up beside one another. I was expecting them to shoot us individually, making us watch one another be killed. But, instead, they paused. "Aris?" The first girl takes a moment to look at Aris with a look of confusion and surprise. She pulls down her bandana that covered her face. She had an almond skin tone and dark brown hair.
"Oh my god. Harriet?" Aris spoke out in shock, he rushed over to the girl and she immediately hugged him.
"My god. What the hell are you doing here?!" She exclaimed. The other girl with the blonde hair pulls down her bandana and her mouth hangs open.
"Sonya!" Aris says cheerfully.
"Aris, you are lucky we didn't shoot your dumb ass. You all right man?"
"Yeah," he breathes out happily. Meanwhile, the rest of us all shared confused looks with one another.
"What the shuck is going on?" I look to Thomas who shrugs, still holding his hands up.
"Uh, what's happening?" Minho speaks louder for them to hear.
"We were in the maze together," Aris explains.
"Yeah, Minho. Come on," I slap his shoulder. "Keep up."
"You didn't know either, you shank," He rolls his eyes.
The girl, who is supposedly Harriet, puts her fingers in her mouth and whistles towards the mountains behind where they stood.
"WE'RE CLEARS, GUYS, COME ON OUT!!" She shouts. Figures on the tops of the mountains become visible. We continued to stand with our hands raised, slowly lowering them.
