One of Us [Maze Runner]

Hungry games. (12)

Alaynah woke up, feeling horrible. Her waist and leg ached as she tried to remember what was happening. She stood up and looked around herself. She was in the infirmary. And in front of her was Newt.

"Newt?"

"Yeah?"

"Wait... me going into the maze actually happened? I went in?"

"Yeah, and we had a meeting about you and Thomas. Thomas is now a runner -"

"I'm not, right?"

"No, you're not."

"Good that."

"Yes, it's good. Thomas has a day in the pit, too. So do you. You'll be in the pit when your leg and wwist are fine. Barely over half of the people chose for you to have one day without food. Others chose for 2 days without food or 1 week with food." Newt said.

"Wait, why two days -?" Alaynah started.

"You had a stolen gun and knife."

"Oh." How was she going to explain this? She tried to come up with a perfect story.

"Want to explain why?"

There was no point in lying to Newt. Maybe a little bit of lying was fine, though. "I woke up really early yesterday at 1:30 am. or something. I then went to a random place, which after 5 minutes I realised was the builders room. I basically had a dream where I was in the maze, so I got weapons because I had a feeling the dream would become real." Great. What a good lie.

"Right. Also, a girl came up in the box." Newt reported.

"I hope she's likeable." Alaynah muttered. She started to get up from her bed, but Newt pushed her back down.

"You're going to get hurt if you get up."

"Newt, Sin dolor no hay ganancia. Je déteste ça."

"I'm sorry, what did you say?"

"It's Spanish. The second sentence is French. Well, that must mean something."

"What?"

"If I know Greek, Spanish, and French, I must be a language lover. Or maybe my parents forced me to learn them. They're probably dead, though, so..." Alaynah shrugged. She got up again.

"Laynah..." Newt started.

"I'm staying up. What even did I break?"

"Fracture on arm. Will fully heal in a few days... weeks, not days, actually." Newt answered. "Just... stay here, okay? I don't need you getting hurt."

"No, Reddie."

"Reddie?" Newt asked.

"Yeah. It's opposite to green on the colour wheel, and people call newbies greenies, and you're the opposite of a greenie, so you're a reddie."

"Makes sense. Please stay here. Please."

"Newt. I wanna go out. Please." She hated staying here. Not going out sucked.

"If you're going out, you're staying with me then." Newt declared.

"Fine by me."

Alaynah and Newt looked over at their side. Teresa. She woke up. It was good that this was the movie version of Teresa. She opened her eyes and looked at Alaynah for a second. She got up fast.

"Uhmm..." Alaynah said.

"Hi!" Newt said. He looked at Teresa.

***

Teresa had kicked the med-jacks' balls. End of. She then ran out of the infirmary, onto the tree house thing. She was throwing circular things. Of course, Alaynah and Newt followed.