Girl In The Maze (Newt X Reader Book 2)

- Teresa -

We started walking back to the homestead when Chuck ran over to us. "ITS THE GIRL!" He shouted and he pointed over to our watch tower. I looked at Newt and we ran over to the group of boys, what I saw then was hilarious. This new girl was at the top of the watch tower, and at the bottom were the graders, shielding themselves with planks of wood and bin lids. "What is going on?" I said to Chuck, "watch!" He replied laughing. All of a sudden this rock came flying over the wooden railing and hit Gally on the head. I couldn't help but laugh as Gally fell to the floor holding a hand to the spot the rock hit. "Girls are awesome!" Chuck said grinning and laughing at Gally's pain. I put a hand on Chuck's shoulder and heard Newt laugh. Thomas walked up to the bottom of the tower and shouted "hey it's Thomas! It's Thomas!" I was waiting for another rock to come flying down and hit him, but nothing did. "Does she know Thomas?" I said turning to Newt. "Oh shuck. You don't know do you? When I found her in the box the only thing she said was 'Thomas'" I stood there watching Thomas climb the tower, she said Thomas. How strange.

Thomas asked us all to leave so they could talk so we did and everyone went to lunch. I was so happy to see bacon. "Hey girl! How you been?" Fry says as I walk up to get my food, "I'm good man, you?" I say back. "Yeah I'm great. You enjoy that okay?" He winks and serves up my food, I smile happily at him and walk away to find Newt. He sitting at a table with Minho and Chuck, I join them. "So Greenie, ready for tomorrow?" Minho says winking at me. "Yes. More ready than you probably." I say sourly, Minho is getting on my nerves now with the flirting, when will he understand he's my friend nothing more. Minho scowled and the laughed probably because he knew I was right.

Late afternoon Thomas called everyone to council hall. "Guys...this is Teresa" he said once everyone had sat down. "Teresa this is Alby, he's our leader. Newt is second in command. Minho is keeper of the runners. Y/N...well what actually are you Greenie?" He said laughing. To be honest I didn't know what my role was in the glade, I was a runner yes but I was also the muscle, which is funny when you look at all the strong guys around but they had nothing on me. "I'm a runner" I say smiling at the girl.

The shrieks came again. It was griever time. "What's that?!" Teresa shrieked. "Just be quiet" Thomas whispered. I felt Newt's arm around my waist pulling me into him, I was grateful. He makes me feel safe and I love that. "Someone has to die right...you know that?" Newt nodded. "They won't stop until someone does" it was a morbid thought but no one wanted to be the one to die so close to escaping. I looked around at all the terrified boys and Minho met my gaze. He smiled sweetly at me and then stood up. "I'll go." He said. "You go where?" Gally piped up. "I'll go die."
"Minho sit down!" I said sourly. Minho only did that to get attention. Minho slumped back onto the step and put his head in his hands.

That night a boy who I didn't know very well was taken by the grievers. His name was Mark apparently, I felt bad that I didn't know him. The boys walked back to the homestead and all settled into their hammocks trying to forget. Newt was snoring on my bed and I couldn't hack the noise so I walked out of my little room and into where the boys were. I saw Teresa sitting up on her hammock so I walked over to her.
"You okay?"
"What was that?" She said clutching her arms.
"We call them grievers, I know it's not great"
"I know you."
"Yeah Thomas introduced is earlier" I said stating the obvious. "No..I KNOW you!" She said again, "I've seen you in a dream...you..." She looked at me and stopped talking as if she was going to say something bad. "I what?" I questioned her. "They designed you!" She said quietly. "Wait designed me? Who is they?" I said feeling very confused now. "WICKED. They designed you, took gene samples from people and made you in a test tube"
WHAT THE?! I thought to myself. "That's not possible is it? You can't just go around taking people's genes away right?" I said clutching Teresa's arm, a little too hard because she winced so I let go. "Apparently they can." She said shrugging her shoulders. "So what does that mean?" I said pushing her for more information. "It means you technically don't have a specific set of parents and the people that put you in here made you. Me and Thomas helped design this place, we helped gather everyone up!" I saw a tear run down her cheek so instinctively I hugged her and she hugged me back.
"You don't seem that upset Y/N" she said pulling away, she was right, sure I was taken back by the news that I was designed and not made normally like everyone else but to be honest nothing is odd about me anymore. I black out uncontrollably, I have super strength and I can run faster than everyone, I have nightmares where I can feel what happening and I heal faster than normal people. Finding out I was designed is not a massive shock to me at all. I explained all this to Teresa and she willingly listened, if we weren't in this maze I think we'd be pretty good friends.
She finally drifted off to sleep and I walked back into my room, I had to prepare myself for tomorrow. I had to put this new information to the back of my head and forget about it. I'm glad I have no memory because it seems my life before the maze was a living hell.

I led on my back next to Newt and he rustled and draped an arm over me. I had to come back for his sake. I had to get everyone out of the maze. I just had to and tomorrow would be the start of a new beginning, hopefully one where I don't have to punch Minho in the face for being an annoying little Slinthead. I smiled and slowly drifted off to sleep cuddling into Newt.

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