Different (The Maze Runner)

Chapter 41

I get thrown into the same cell as Thomas and Teresa.

Teresa immediately looks at me. "A-Alyssa."

"Teresa."

She hugs me. "Oh my god it's-it's really you."

"It's really me."

"You don't remember, do you?"

"No, I do. I remember a lot."

Thomas's eyes slowly open, and I realize he was asleep.

"He stung himself," Teresa tells me.

I sigh. "You're an idiot, Thomas."

"I know, but I'm the idiot that's gonna lead you out of here today." Thomas says.

"T-today? As in, today? We're getting out of the Maze today?"

He nods. "I'm leading you guys out."

"Thank you."

"Now, the bad part. Wicked, the people who sent us here. I was with them. We all were, the three of us."

"It can't be true," Teresa says.

"It is," I add. "I remembered it too."

Thomas looks up to see Minho, Chuck, and Newt crouched up above us, outside the cell.

"What the hell were you thinking?" Chuck asks.

"Guys we-we were with them. The three of us, down here in this cell. We were with WICKED."

"That doesn't matter," Newt says. "What matters is who you are now." He looks at me, and I smile a little. At least he doesn't hate me.

"Who died?" I ask.

Minho sighs. "Alby."

I shake my head. "WICKED is horrible."

Newt nods, then looks at Thomas. "I know you think you've shucked up, but you haven't. You went into the Maze and you found a way out."

"Yeah but if I didn't Alby would still be alive."

"Maybe, maybe. But if he were here he'd be telling you this exact same thing: pick your ass up and finish what you started. Because if you don't that means Alby died for nothing and I can't have that."

I look down at the ground, then back up at them. "What's the plan?"