Lovers Maze

Memories

Chapter Seventeen

I sit in the shadows of the edge of the Dead Heads thinking to myself. Gally is right, this are beginning to change.

Suddenly I feel a really bad stinging pain below my neck and I move my hand up to clamp my neck. "Ow" I mumble and pull my hand away as the pain disappears.

I lean back against a tree and watch the Gladers go to work, it's peaceful. Tommy and Minho are back in the Maze exploring today and trying to find something to do with the number on the metal thing they brought back.

The stuff we injected into Alby yesterday had made an improvement and he's beginning to look a bit better.

I sigh and bring my knees up hugging them into my chest as I watch Gally cross the Glade carrying a hammer.

I lean my head back against the tree and close my eyes. A memory, just something so I can remember.

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I stand in a long corridor and I turn my head as I hear footsteps.

"Billie let's go!" A blonde boy shouts taking a girls hand as the run out of a room.

They begin to run down the long corridor "where are we going?" The girl shouts as I begin to hear footsteps behind them.

"Get back here!"

They turn their heads to see two figures running after them. I turn and I notice two boys emerge from the door with fires running after them.

I gasp, it's Alby and Gally. They're younger, so much younger. Like 14 or 15.
Behind them I can see Winston, Chuck, Thomas and a few of the others Gladers running after them.

"Stop cheating!" Alby shouts as they pass me. I run after them and I find my self about to crash into Gally. Only I go through him.

"We're not! It's a game of Man Hunt and you guys are the Hunters" the blonde boy shouts over his shoulder with a strong British accent.

Oh my god it's Newt.

They turns a corner and dive into a room. As I enter I see its like a big gym, but it's filled with fake trees and bunkers. Like a training room designed especially for the game.

I see a girl pop her head up from behind a bunk "Teresa!" The younger me shouts as I drag Newt forward.

"No no no! We'll all get caught!" She shouts running away.

Newt pulls younger me down into the bunker and I enter as he closes the door.

"I want to tell you something" Newt whispers hugging young me tightly.

"Yeah?" I ask.

He smiles hugging my waist from behind and laying his chin on his shoulder "I bloody love you"

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I open my eyes quickly and sit up gasping for air. Only now do I realise I'm sweating and I wipe my forehead with the back of my hand.

"It was just a dream" I reassure myself, no way it could have been real.

I look up stretching my legs out and I see the clouds are grey and darker. Everything's different.

Then it begins to rain very heavily and I pull my legs into hugging them to my chest and watch as the boys run to the shelter.

I stay here and I begin to wonder what I could do.

"Billie!" A shout rises from the Homestead.

I look up and see Thomas holding Newt under the shelter "where are you!" He shouts cupping his hands around his mouth.

I sigh "what have I gotten myself into?" I ask slowly.

I look up again and see Minho and Thomas now restraining Newt. If anyone goes out they'll end up getting pneumonia.

The rain begins to fall on my from the leaves that shelter my body and I shiver. I'm wearing shorts and a tank top that came up in the box.

I hug my arms and lean back against the tree once more.

"Please, make it stop" I whisper closing my eyes and hugging my body tightly to my chest in hope to keep myself warm.