𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 - Maze Runner, Newt

Chapter sixty-nine - Payback

'Love, wake up or I'll throw the cold water on you too.'

It was a very nice sentence to start my day with.

'Excuse you?' I chuckled and looked at Newt, who already stood on the side of my bed.

'Let's go!'

'You're excited.' I muttered but couldn't help to smile at Newt.
He didn't notice the cuts on my thighs and I quickly got dressed.

When we got outside it was still dark. 'How early is it?'

'Early enough for Minho to not be awake yet.' Newt simply replied. We got some cold water out of the kitchen and tiptoed to Minho's hut. 'We have to be quiet, love.'

'Look who it says.' I grinned and we opened the door to Minho's hut. Slowly Newt walked over to his bed and dropped the water on top of him. Minho immediately sat straight up and rubbed his eyes. I grabbed Newt's arm and we ran out of the hut.

'Whoever did this, is going to pay!' Minho shouted through the whole Glade. I giggled and Newt let out a laugh too. We filled the basket with water again and walked into the Homestead. Dozens of boys were sleeping on hammocks and it took us a while to find Chuck. After almost tripping over a ridiculous looking Thomas, who was lying on the ground with his mouth wide open, I found the kid.

'Newt!' I whisper-yelled. 'Over here!'

Newt rushed over to me. 'Poor kid.' He muttered and looked at Chuck. 'But it's his own fault.' And with that Newt poured the water on top of Chuck.

'Aaah!' My cousin screamed. 'Help!' He started wiping the water off his body, or trying, at least. He let out a few other screams, making Thomas wake up too.

'What the-.' Thomas mumbled in a sleepy voice.

'Nora!' Chuck noticed me. 'How dare you do that!' He screamed. I gave him a big smile before me and Newt ran away from the Homestead.

'Oh my- that was awesome.' I sighed and got in my hut. Newt grinned from ear to ear and I noticed how much he enjoyed everything that happened this morning.

'We better be careful, though. Minho's about to kill us.' Newt chuckled.

'He doesn't know it's us.' I smiled.

'He'll find out someday. But you're right.'

'Wake up, you two! I'm not telling again!' Minho shouted from the outside.

'He's grumpy.' Newt laughed.

'I wonder why.' I smiled again.

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'Who did that?!' Minho shouted at breakfast. 'Was it you?' Suspiciously he looked at Chuck, whose curls were still wet.

'No! I got it too!' Chuck defended.

I accidentally let out a giggle and Minho immediately turned to me. 'It was you!' He pointed his finger at me. 'Do you know how long it took to fix my hair?'

'Payback.' I smiled playfully.

'Now let's go into the maze before I give you more payback.'

~

We didn't find anything new in the maze. Section seven was closed again and we didn't see anything special. Though I liked running, every movement on my thighs hurt.

'Hey, love. How was running?' Newt asked once we were back.

'It was great. We didn't find anything, though. I'm going to the Map Room. I'll see you in a minute, okay?'

Newt nodded and walked off. Instead of going to the Map Room, I walked into the med-hut. The fresh cuts on my inner thigh had to be cleaned, otherwise, they might've gotten infected. I pressed a wet cloth on the cuts and shivered. Quickly I finished cleaning and wanted to walk away, but noticed Alby lying on one of the beds. His eyes were open and they looked normal again. Not black like they were before.

'Hey, Alby.' I sat down on a chair. 'How are you doing?' I gently asked.

'Better.' Alby replied. 'Not completely fine, but it's okay.'

'Do you want to get dinner with us?'

'No. Clint and Jeff will bring it to me. I have to stay here.' The pain in Alby's voice was noticeable and I felt bad for him.

'Sorry to hear that.' I smiled weakly. 'I'll see you around, Alby. It was nice to speak to you.'

I got myself some food and joined Newt and Logan.

'It took you bloody long to map.' Newt mocked.

'I was checkin' in on Alby.' I replied.

'Alby? You said you were mapping.' Newt frowned. 'Why were you in the med-hut?'

I realized how stupid I was to tell him I talked to Alby. 'I just wanted to see if he was okay.' I couldn't find any other excuse.

Logan furrowed his brows. 'Show me your wrists.'

'This again? Newt checked me yesterday.' I argued.

'Please.' Logan quickly added.

I sighed and unwrapped the bandages. My left wrist was the most damaged and the cuts still hurt a little, but I was able to move my arm. The other wrist wasn't very damaged and had just a few cuts on them. All of them were either scars or healing.

'Good.' Logan seemed satisfied. I gave them a small, fake smile and started eating.

Chuck, Thomas, Minho, and Teresa joined our table and started eating too. My knees accidentally touched Newt's and I felt the warmth going through my body again.

Newt smiled and continued eating.

~

'What's that?' Newt asked as I changed into my pajamas.

'What's what?' I quickly put my pants on.

'On your inner thigh.' My body froze for a split second, but then I turned around.

'Why were you looking at my thigh, Newt?' I tried to joke.

Newt's cheeks flushed red. 'I wasn't- I just noticed- never mind.' He finally said.

Luckily he didn't say anything else about it. I crawled into my bed and motioned for Newt to get in. He lay down next to me, but I pulled him on top of me so his head was on my chest and my arms wrapped around him.

'This is new.' Newt said. 'I like it.' He got even closer to me if that was even possible. I slid my hand into his blonde hair and slowly drew circles, just like Newt had done to me earlier.

'Now I get why you like that.' Newt smiled and closed his eyes. I smiled too and eventually fell asleep.

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A/N: I decided to write a sequel!