In My Mind

CH.14 - The City

YOUR POV

We get up and Newt seems to be back to his old self. He is very happy and cheerful, I can't help but be joyous myself. We gather our things and are off again. As we walk, Newt holds my hand. He's never done that before and it makes my heart flutter. We get closer to the city and I can tell the group is getting excited. Finally someone says what I was thinking, and it's Aris.

"How are you guys sure that the save zone is in the city?" He asks.

"We're not." Minho says. "But where else is it going to be?"

"True." He says.

"It's okay Aris. We'll make it." I say. He gives me a little smile. We are so close to the city that I can make out multiple buildings. We start walk up to one of the buildings, but before we can get to the door a man comes out from the side of the building. His hair is disheveled and his face is streaked with blood. He comes staggering out towards us and mumbles a few things.

"Step back." Minho says. "He's a crank." As if his words triggered something, about 15 more of them some staggering out from behind the building. They are both men, women and children.

"Come here." The first man says. "You'll love it here." We all take a step back. I look over at Minho and he looks very startled. The man starts walking and motions for us to follow.

"No thank you." Minho says. "We're just going to leave." We all turn to leave, but only turn to another group of cranks. They seem to have surrounded us.

"You can't leave now." The first man says. "You haven't even come into our glorious city. You have to experience EVERYTHING." He says with an evil smirk. All of a sudden a gun shot goes off and we are running. I turn to see who was shot. I'm so glad it wasn't Newt, but he didn't deserve it. He's just a kid. He looks at me so peacefully. I mouth "I love you Aris." at him and quickly turn my head so I don't have to look anymore. I try to find where the rest of the group is, and we are all split up. I turn to see where Newt is and he's running in the other direction.