TRUST||Minho

5. Cranks and revealed scars

We started to explore the abandoned mall looking for some clothes, weapons, maybe some water or food.

Thomas went with Minho, Newt Fry and Winston were together and me Aris and Theresa were looking for clothes.

I went somewhere else to change because of my scars.. i was still afraid that the rest will look at me with disgust. I changed into some black jeans, a black top, black boots and some dark blue jacket to keep my skin protected from the sun. I knew that in the morning the sun will be like a ball of fire. I left my hair down and I found a first aid bag that was still intact.

Newt gave me some water and some crackers to put into my bag. We were waiting for Minho and Thomas when the lights came on. Then we saw the boys running at us and... from something.

"RUN!"
"RUN NOW!"

"Oh fuck those are cranks, run now!" I shouted.
Here we go... my favorite activity.

We ran. We ran fast. Up some stairs we ran.

Suddenly a crank fell on Newt. "Newt!"

I kicked the crank off of Newt. "Thanks Leah."

"Don't worry about it!"

"Come on!" Minho took my hand and I ran faster but still looking back to check on Aris.

We finally found a door to escape but it was closed. Winston stayed back with a gun to shoot at the monsters. Bad mistake.

"AAAHH" the cranks took Winston and their nails pierced into his stomac. It was gruesome. Me and Minho took him away from them just in time for Fry to opened that door.
We hid under some concrete outside.

After I patched Winston, since I was the closest thing to a medic, he felt asleep in Fry's lap.

Someone pulled me into their arms. It was Minho.
"Are you ok?"
"Yeah. Define ok." i rested my head on his chest and he held me close.

I reached for Aris's shaky hand and he took it, moving close to me. Thomas was close to Theresa and Newt, Fry was with Winston and we felt asleep finally.

"Hey! Leave!"
A voice woked me up. It was Thomas who tried to make a crow leave his bag. I laughed silently.

I was laying down into Minho's arms while Aris was sticked to my back. Damn I feel like a mother.

"Hey." i said softly to Minho. He opened his eyes and when he saw me he smiled.

"Hey." he said still tired.

"He have to go. Come on." I helped him up.

We went to a hill and the view was... horrible.
Sand everywhere and buildings abandoned. It was horrible.

"Welcome in the Scorch i guess.." i said

"The whole world is like this"? Aris asked

"I guess so" Thomas said bitterly. "Okay come on, up that hill over there."

We saw there the mountains. They were far away. Maybe a 3 days walk...
"Shit."

"We have to get there.. come on." Thomas said.

Out of nowhere Winston collapsed. "NO"
"WINSTON!"

We rushed to him.

"He's injured bad. We have to find a way to carry him." I told them worried.

After maybe 2 hours of walking we found a shelter. I went to change Winston's bandages and he thanked me.

I went then to the rest of the group, next to Aris.

"You ok?" Aris asked
"Yeah it's just hot.."

"Take off your jacket Love." Newt told me. I froze.

"I-uh" They all looked at me confused.

"Leah take you jacket off it will be better." Minho told me calmly.

"They won't judge you Leah, you can trust them." Aris told me and the group was even more confused. I sighed and took it off slowly.

TW⚠️
Minho's Pov

I didn't understand why Leah wouldn't take her jacket off. It was something about it that I wanted to know since I met her. We all looked at her curious.

She looked at us with... fear. But not regular fear. Fear of judgement. Why? I guess we find out now.

We nod at her and she slowly took her jacket off.

We froze at the sight. I was speechless. Both of her arms and wrists were covered by cuts up until her shoulders. Some of them were small, some big, some healed, some not fresh but not old.
There was a big harsh cut on both her wrists, vertically. She tried to end her life. My stomac dropped. The rest had the same expression.

She had her head hung down in shame and regret and I saw the tears falling on the sand.

Oh God, Leah...

"I had a sister." she started and we finally took our eyes off of her arms. Again we froze at the news.

"Her name was Lisa and she was in the maze with me. We were so close... she was a mapper in the maze.. like you were a runner Minho. One day she was attacked in the maze and the other girls took her to me and the other medics. We tried to save her but she died anyway. Her last words to me were that it wasn't may fault. But I knew it was. I started to self harm before that but after her death I tried to end all of that. But Sonya found me and saved me. I'm clean now... it's hard but I'm doing this for Lisa, she wouldn't want to see me like this." She finished and I swear I almost saw tears in every person's eyes.

I finally get it now. And I couldn't imagine what she went through. She was a medic so blood probably didn't bothered her, but still.

She got up and went behind a rock to calm down a bit "sorry i need a minute" her tiny voice broke me.

I went to get her but Aris stopped me. "She needs a minute but she will be back don't worry." He said and I understood him.

"We didn't want to make her feel bad about that.." Newt said in a sad tone and all of us nodded.

"It's ok she knows but this two topics are sensitive for her. Just give her time." Aris said softly.

And we did that.