Minho Love Story (Maze Runner fan fic)

Six

"Come on we gotta get into the maze." I say to Minho and he looks at me. Tired and annoyed. I laughed at him. 

"Nah I think I'll stay here. Have a rest." I claims and I laugh even harder.

"Like you have a choice. Come on, I'll run with you." I offer and suddenly he seems happier. I roll my eyes. 

"OK." He grins and as the maze opens, revealing its secrets, we run in. 

As we run into the maze, we notice nothing has changed in the section we're running which only increases our frustration. No new clues on how to get out or obvious things that say 'pick me'. I'm no longer surprised though, I've been running this maze for over a year now and nothing. We take a lunch break in silence, enjoying each others company. We never get these moments. 

"I miss this." I state to Minho and he looks over at me and gives me one of his boyish grins. I look at him, slightly annoyed but happy that he knew that that is what I was thinking. 

"Yeah me too." He agrees. I start laughing and now it's his turn to be confused for once. "What?" He asks and I give him a grin. 

"If we really wanted to, we could turn this into a date. Which means we are on a date, in a maze, that wants to kill us. Woohoo!" I joke and he smiles before leaning over and giving me a long kiss which I lean into. Glad to be with my boyfriend. The person who knows me so well and the one who never ceases to amaze me. 

"I'd love to make this a date." He states before reaching over a picking a daisy from a crack in the concrete and putting it in my hair, making me laugh at his act. I then look at my watch and notice it's time to head back. We abandon our section for the day and head back to the glade, ready for tomorrow's adventure. But apparently, the world had something else in store for the day.

As soon as we get back to the glade I notice that Alby was having trouble controlling order in the glade. It seemed as though everyone was going on strike and poor Alby didn't know what to do. Newt was in no position to assert authority, we could see that when we noticed he was hiding in the corner of the homestead. Unsure of what to do. The minute Alby sees us, he sprints over, panic evident in his eyes. 

"Help me. Please help." He pleads. Minho and I nod and walk off to the other stations. We were both tempted to whack everyone over the head to knock some sense into them but that probably wouldn't end well. Instead we go around telling everyone to enter the council hall in five minutes. 

As we gather at the hall, the keepers in their positions, and Alby and I at the front, Alby conducts the meeting. 

"Keepers, aside from the runners, why did all of you go on strike? Why did no-one stick to our order and not listen to instructions?" Everyone sits in the room, silent and awkward. Everyone scared to say a word. 

"Come on you lot. What's going on?" I speak up and a response erupts from Gally. I roll my eyes. 

"No-one thanks us for the work we do. No-one appreciates what we do. Why should we? We make one wrong move and we get put in the pit for a night. We do something good and we get shrugged off. So we went on strike. What are you gonna do about it?" Gally answers and by God, I have never seen Alby so angry.

"You all did this because you weren't receiving appreciation? Because you were feeling hard done by? How old do you think you are? Because you're acting like a child. No-one gets appreciation for the work we do; not even the runners who risk their lives every day to find a way out! I'm not going to punish you but do it again and I will make sure you all have a night or two in the pit. As for you, Gally, you will spend a few nights in the pit as it seems you were the one who bought this on. All of you out, NOW!" Alby shouts and everyone quietly exits the council room, leaving just me, Newt, Alby and Minho alone. 

"Freaking children." Alby mutters and the rest of us leave, unsure of what to say, leaving Alby alone. 

The rest of the night carried on as usual with Frypan cooking up dinner, Gally giving his constant stink eye and the rest of us having a good time. There was the obvious tension from the earlier events of the day but aside from that everyone was in good spirits. Even Newt who was giving genuine smiles in what seemed like forever.