The maze runner ~ Minho x Female!reader

3. New greenie

I'm standing next to one of the beds in the medic hut. Minho is sitting on said bed with his legs hanging off the side. He came back with a large wound on his right arm. He said he tripped, fell and scraped his arm on a sharp rock.

I already cleaned up the dried blood around the wound. He winces once I try to wrap a bandage around his arm.

"You really should be more careful out there Minho. This is the third time this week you've come back wounded." I say cleaning up the supplies I used.
"It's not my fault that stupid rocks are lying on the ground is it?" He says while rolling his eyes.

Smart-ass.

I go stand in front of him and look him in the eye. "Promise me you will be more careful and will always come back." I stick out my pink. It's called a pinky promise. I have no idea how I got the idea but one day I just remembered it or something.. Since then it's something Minho and I do. It's an unbreakable promise. If you break a pinky promise, you break the other person's trust. Minho keeps his eyes locked on mine as he intertwines his pink with mine.

"Pinky promise"

About a week later the alarm of the box blares through the glade. The boys and I run towards it and gather around. Some stay a little more back watching from a distance. Every time the alarm rings my hopes for another girl flare up.

The Box opens slowly and everyone tries to get a glimpse of what's inside. Gally is the first one to jump down. I can't get a good view of the greenie since 'Eyebrows' is standing in front of them. I can hear him say something but I can't make up the words.

Gally pulls the greenie to their feet and Newt helps them out of the box. Another boy. I push back my disappointment and take a good look at him. He's tall and slim, short brown hair. He's around 17 years of age I think. After looking around confused he starts running to the maze doors.

"We've got a runner!" Zart yells and the boys start laughing and cheering. I roll my eyes and start running after the greenie.

Before he can reach the doors I tackle him to the ground. He rolls a bit further before landing flat on his back. I walk over and look down on him. I give him my hand to pull him up again. He accepts it hesitantly.

"Sorry about that greenie, just making sure you're not gonna do something you'll regret." I smile at him. He stares at me. "I'm Eloise." I say introducing myself. I can see he is trying to remember his name. "It's normal that you don't remember anything. You should remember your name in a few days. It's the only thing they let us keep." That seems to bring him a little reassurance, but not enough though.

"What is this place?" He finally asks. His voice is hoarse. "Welcome to the glade greenie, paradise on earth." He looks around again. I understand. It's a lot to comprehend in the beginning. You don't know where you are, you don't remember anything about your past, etc.

It's terrifying.

"Greenie?" It's funny how those two questions are almost always the first ones asked. It makes sense of course.

"It's what we call the new people that come up in the box. There is one every month." I say repeating the words Newt told me when I first got here.

Newt and Alby join us. "Greenie, may I introduce you to the first in command," I say nodding my head in Alby's direction. "And the second in command." I finish nodding my head to the blonde boy who came to stand next to me. Alby introduces himself first and then Newt.

He and the greenie hold eye contact and for a moment I can see something in their eyes but they look away before I can identify what it is exactly.

Alby takes the greenie on one of the towers next to the gardens. Probably to give him the speech about the rules and later he will probably give him a tour of the glade. That's basically how it goes every month.

I go back to the medic hut where Clint is patching up one of the builders and Jeff is cleaning supplies before putting them back in the right place.

"Hey Ellie." They say in unison. I sit down on one of the beds. "I hope it hasn't been busy when I was gone." I say. Not that I've been away for long but you never know. Jeff shakes his head in response.
I close my eyes and rest my head on the wall behind the bed.

I never slept that well, at least for as long as I can remember, but the past few days it has been worse. I sleep barely an hour and for the rest of the night I just lay awake. Staring at my ceiling. I have this feeling, I can't pinpoint what it means but it doesn't feel good. My stress levels have been higher too. Like my body is preparing for something but I don't know what.
On the nights I do get to sleep I usually would get this weird dreams. Well it's more like flashes from certain images. I think they might be memories but I haven't been able to see any of them clearly.

"Still not sleeping well?" A voice suddenly asks causing me to open my eyes. "Same as always" I reply, looking at the Asian boy that is standing in the doorframe of the medic hut.

There is no one else in here anymore. Clint, Jeff and the builder must have left quietly when I was resting.

Like I said I've always had bad sleep and most of the boys I'm closer with know that. Minho was the first person I told. He let me sleep on his shoulder for almost the whole of his free day. I don't know how or why but that was the best sleep I've gotten. No dream, I slept like a baby. Since then he offers me to rest my head on him from time to time.

Minho just gave me an apologetic smile in return.
I got off the bed and walked past him before turning back around, looking at him.

"Come one, we got a bonfire to attend!"

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I'm gonna be honest with you guys.. I have no idea where I want the story to go..
I have a few ideas but I'm just going chapter by chapter.
Ofc I have a few plotlines I want to write but other then that I'm just doing whatever feels right

I hope it's good :)

Thank you and love you my darlings <3