Maze Runner Reprise: Path of Truth

Chapter 7: Fixed

It's almost been a week and a half since Mia hasn't spoken to Newt. Some of the Gladers attempted to cheer her up but she brushes them easily.

Mia always starts off the day early, she wakes up earlier than the rest of the boys in the Glade. Every morning she sits on the bench log placed in front of her house facing the Maze doors.

She would wait till breakfast was readied by the Cooks.

"You're up early Greenbean" a voice startled her from behind. It was Alby, he was wearing his favorite plain shirt as usual. The older boy took a seat beside the ginger head without permission.

"Aren't I always?" she asks, twirling the end strands of her beautifully combed hair.

"Newt's worried about you, don't you know that?" he scanned the relief in her eyes. But retrieved empty handed.

"Sure. Do try pulling my leg"

"After that intense fight with him. Newt snapped his neck out"

Mia's eyes widened in horror. Struggling to ease the fog in her mind. Was he dead serious about this, she thought. She faced the leader of the Glade with skin turning pale in color.

"No. Not literally"

"Oh. Pssh. I knew that" forcing a laugh to cover up for overreacting.

A fresh breeze carried a bundle of her hair in the wind. She felt a little better. It was nice to hear from Alby that Newt does care for her.

Pursing her red lips firmly she tapped Alby, "How's he doing?"

"Average. He sulks at times though." explained Alby ripping out the weeds from the grass. "You should see him blabber things about you everyday at the Gardens."

"All good things?"

"All good things."

Leaving with very heavy shoulders. Alby changed to serious mode.

"Somehow, when a Glader brings up Minho to the conversation. Newt turns quiet and numb."

With a fast side-swept of her hair. A cold shiver crept in her skin. Mia didn't response nor not even knowing how to respond to that. As the clock ticks by, Alby met boredom and left her without a trace.

"Apologizing doesn't always mean that person was right. It means you value your friendship more than your ego"

Mia talked to herself.

Breakfast came and everyone huddled over at the Kitchen. Disdain the pushing and hunger everyone was served neatly like a snap of a finger. As Mia was lining up, she saw a blonde boy looking at her by the corner of her eye.

She made her way to the scour and saw Newt averting his gaze as she do so. He was talking to Jack and Winston. He was acting so innocent and giddy like he never spotted her in the first place.

The longer she stared the more anxious she gets with the pointing eyes the other Gladers are giving her. She didn't want to be the center of attention, Mia pretended she forgot something from the house and eloped from the crowd.