Newts Little Sister (The Maze Runner)

Chapter Sixteen

DREY'S P.O.V
Gally, Newt, and I were in the homestead. Zart, Frypan, Winston, Minho, and Thomas just got back from running into the maze to look at the dead Griever from the night before. They came in and handed Newt a small silver capsule. It had dried Griever goop on it and had a glowing number 7 on a small screen.
"We found this." Thomas was explaining. "It was inside the Griever"
"Those are the same letters we get on our supplies." I stated looking over Newt's shoulder. He rubbed the letters trying to get the goop off of them so he could see them better.
"Whoever put us here obviously made the Griever and this is the first real clue the first anything you guys have found in three years right Minho?" Thomas asked
"Right." Minho said
"Newt we gotta go back out there. who knows what this could mean for us." Thomas said
"You see What he is trying to do right?" Gally Asked and I rolled my eyes.
"Gally just listen to what he has to say for once." I told him.
"First he breaks our rules and then he tries to convince us to abandon them all together. The rules are the only thing that have ever held us together why now are we questioning them. If Alby was here you knew he'd agree with me. This shank needs to be punished." Gally said pointing at Thomas.
"Your right. He needs to be punished. One night in the pit. No food." Newt said and I almost laughed at Gally's reaction.
"Oh come on Newt!" Gally yelled "you really think that's going to stop him from going into the maze?"
"No and we can't just have nonrunners running into the maze whenever they feel like it so lets make this official. Starting from tomorrow your a runner."
"Wow" Gally said and walked out pushing Frypan out of his way.
"Thanks Newt." Thomas said and Newt nodded. They left leaving me and Newt in the gathering room alone. I looked over at my big brother with a grin on my face.
"What?" He asked
"Did you see Gally's face?" I laughed
"It was pretty good, wasn't it?" He replied beginning to laugh too.
"Bloody brilliant," I said and walked out of the homestead. Right away I almost ran into Minho.
"Hey," I smiled at him.
"Hi," he muttered back.
"Whats wrong?"
"Gally," he replied glancing across the glade to glare at him. "He gets on my nerves."
"Oh come on," I told him shaking his arm looking up at him, "at least he didn't get his way today."
"Yeah that was pretty good," he replied beginning to smile back at me.
"More than pretty good," I said
"Hey do you-" Minho started
"Minho! Audrey! Where's Newt?" someone yelled and ran up to us.
"He's inside, why? what is it?" I asked as Chuck stopped infront of us.
"The girl." he said out of breath from running. He pointed across the glade. I glanced at Minho and then we ran in that direction. I looked around only to find the black haired girl climbing up the tower. Without thinking I ran to the nearest bridge and climbed up the rope.
"Aud, be careful!" Minho yelled up at me.
"I will be!" I called back over my shoulder. I walked the long plank until I reached a few feet from the railing of the tower. The second she saw me she grabbed something off of the floor. She raised it in her hand and I saw what it was.
A very large rock.
"I'm not gonna hurt you alright? No one is!" I yelled
"How do I know that?" she said raising her hand higher. I put my hands up to show her I wasn't dangerous but she threw the rock anyway. I ducked just in time.
"Calm down!" I yelled but she continued to throw the rock's. She missed every time though.
"Audrey!" Minho yelled as he ran up beneath us and the rocks stopped. I looked up to see her looking down at his worried face. She lifted the rock and chucked it at him. It hit Minho in the shoulder and he quickly grabbed a crate to protect himself.
The other gladers ran over and soon Realized they needed to save themselves too. They all held crates and pieces of wood above their Heads like shields. She kept throwing rock's at them and a few of the make shift shields broke and cracked. She was bound to hurt someone eventually so i had to think fast.
Thomas.
She knew Thomas. Maybe he could help.
"Newt!" I yelled and climbed off of the bridge before the girl could throw a rock at me.
"What?" he asked laughing at how crazy the girl was and holding the crate over both of us.
"We should get Thomas. She knows him." I said and a rock hit me in the back. "Ow! We need to get him before she knocks someone's head off."
He nodded then saw Clint and Jeff.
"Guys! Go get Thomas."
They did and we all stood under the tower as the rock's continued to rain down. Gally kept threatening her but she hit him in the head after each threat. Frypan ran around with a piece of wood making jokes.
Guys would yell up to her but she wouldn't listen.
"This girl is crazy!" Minho called out. He held a long piece of an old door over the two of us.
"Leave me alone!" she yelled down
"Hey throw one more of those things-" Gally began only to be hit in the head.
"I don't think she likes us very much!" Newt joked.
"We just want to talk!" Thomas yelled running up but she kept throwing. "Hey hey! Its Thomas!"
All of the rock's stopped. Her head showed over the railing and Thomas gave her a small wave. She backed away and Thomas looked at us.
"I'm gonna go up. Just me." he said and we nodded.
"Okay I'm coming up!" he yelled when he reached the ladder.
After a few minutes I was beginning to think she murdered Thomas.
"What's going on up there?" Gally yelled
"Is she coming down?" Newt asked
"Can you guys just give us a minute?" Thomas called back down.
"How come you never did anything this funny?" Frypan asked me. I laughed and shrugged.
We all went out separate ways, most of the boys going back to work. I didn't want to go back into the medjacks hut. It was hard seeing Alby in his condition. Instead I began walking trying to find something else to do.
Finally a girl comes up, but she's too insane to even talk to, I thought. i had waited years for another girl, and now it finally happens. Of course, with my luck, she would be a rock-throwing phsyco.
I continued walking until I found myself on the edge of the woods. I could see Minho leaning against a tree  and decided to join him. I walked over and sat next to him.
"Hi," I said as I plopped onto the dirt
"Hey, what's up?" He asked
"Bored," I replied leaning my head back against the tree "how about you?"
"Same here" he said repeating my actions.
I could see the sky beginning to turn a pink color through the trees.
"How did you do It? The night in the maze?" I asked after a few seconds of silence.
"Honestly I have no shucking clue," he responded, "I practically gave up 10 seconds after those doors closed though"
"I would clunk my pants if I ever had to do that," I admitted, "i don't know what kept you going"
"More like who," he said
"What does that mean?"
"Nothing," he said. I lifted my head to look at him.
"Minho," I said causing him to look at me.
"Yeah?"
"What do you mean by who?" I asked becoming very interested.
"I dunno," he said, "thinking of the people I thought I would never see again... I was pretty scared, Aud."
It's rare to see Minho so serious. Normally he's making jokes and messing around, but not now. I could see that he had been holding it in since he came back into the glade carrying Alby.
"Do you want to talk about it?" I asked hoping he would. A small part of me wondered who his thoughts were in that night.
He hesitated before answering, but after a few moments of silence he took a deep breath.
"You," he said simply. He looked at me and gave a small smirk.
"Me?" I questioned
"Well it definitely wasn't Winston," he said jokingly.
I laughed, "Why did you think of me?" He shrugged and looked down. "Is someone blushing?"
"I like you okay?" He said, "and not in a friend-way. I mean like a more-than-friends-way."
"Minho..." I said looking into my lap. I wasn't sure what to say.
"Now look who's blushing," he said. I looked up to see him with his usual smirk that I had come to appreciate more than anything.
"It's not everyday the guy you like tells you they like you, too," I admitted.
"Really?" He asked his eyes getting wide, "You don't hate my guts or anything?"
"Minho," I said shaking my head, "I couldn't hate you if I tried. You're my best friend and-"
Before I knew it, he leaned in and pressed his lips to mine.
"I've waited for forever to do that, ya know," he said once we pulled apart.
"Well," I said, still surprised, "I'm really glad you didn't die."
He let out a small laugh, "Yeah, me too