Love in the Maze (Newt x Reader)

3. Trial and Error

The next morning, Y/N woke to see that most of the boys had woken from their hammocks to have breakfast, including Newt. She quickly pulled on her shoes, brushed out the most of the knots she could with her fingers, then walked to breakfast. All the tables were packed and alive with hungry teenage boys. From what she could see, boys were throwing food to wake up their neighbours sitting beside them. The whole table would laugh when the poor souls would end up jumping out of their seats from surprise. She chuckled herself, seeing how the boys were laughing and having fun after being stuck in the dang Glade for over a year.

Y/N decided to walk over get herself breakfast, then go sit on a nice patch of grass. Just as she was walking away, a certain sassy boy called out to her,"Hey, Sass girl! Come sit with us shanks!".
She was more than happy to comply. The Greenie walked over to Minho's table, which consisted of himself, Gally, Winston, Zart, Alby, and now herself. She sat down, just about to eat her scrambled eggs from Frypan (The cook of the Glade), when she noticed a certain someone was missing.

"Where's Newt?", she asked, genuinely confused as to where he was.
"He and Ben went to start their job early", Minho answered, shovelling the remainder if his bacon in his mouth. "And I should be rounding up the rest of Run- uh, I mean, boys to start their job soon. Bye guys!", and with that, the broad-shouldered Asian was off, rounding up some random boys from each table. "Where is he off to? And what was he going to say before he stopped?", Y/N asked, now really confused as to what was going on.
All the boys stopped eating their breakfast and looked at Alby. Alby nodded as if to confirm something and Gally started talking.

"Well, Greenie", he started," You know how there are all kinds of jobs in the Glade? Well, Minho and Newt obviously didn't mention a certain kind of job... They are called Runners, Minho is their Keeper. He is the fastest". As he said that, he pointed to one of the entrances. Y/N looked in that direction and saw the Asian in question sprint off, a lot faster than his partner. She turned back to the boys, asking,"Why are they running beyond the walls? Isn't it the 3rd rule NOT to run beyond the walls?". Gally was about to speak when suddenly Winston piped up, "You remember good, Greenie".
"Didn't I say to Gally last night that 'Greenie' is NOT my name", the girl questioned, a little annoyed that they still called her that.

Winston threw her an apologetic look and continued eating. Gally shook his head then turned back to Y/N. "Look, beyond those walls is a maze. It is huge and mind-boggling. The Runners go out into that maze everyday, to try and find a way out. Even though we have only been here for a year, Minho says that there is more to explore considering there are 8 sections of the shucking Maze to uncover". Y/N went into deep in thought. 'A maze?! How can that be?!'. But it was somehow, and she was curious.

"I am assuming Newt's a Runner, correct?", she asked the table of Keepers, who were finishing up their meal. "Yeah", replied Zart, packing his plate up," He is quite good, got a smart brain at that too! You need a good memory and speed to be a Runner, which luckily he does. We were gonna appoint him Keeper of the Runners, but he declined. Luckily Minho came up a few weeks later, proving himself to be a worthy leader, the shuckface that he is". The table burst into laughter at the statement, even Y/N knew that just from last night he was a handful. When they all stopped eating, Alby came up to her and dragged her away to test out her first job: Slopper.

~Elsewhere~

Newt was feeling better than he had in a long time. After yesterday's party, he slept like a log and woke up bright, chirpy and happy. The past few weeks he'd been a little down about this whole maze business. It had been over a year and they still hadn't found any way out. They hadn't even uncovered all of the sections! He was getting frustrated, especially when they keep telling the boys the same response everyday.
Every day
But after the new arrival, he felt like he had hope. Had a reason to believe again. She and him had a connection, he knew it. And even if she didn't realise it, he would still hold onto that connection for as long as he could. Because it was the only thing that kept him upbeat.