Newton's Law

Chapter 11

Jay's POV

The Deadheads was the only place I felt I could be alone with just my thoughts. The lake laid in front of me and I decided that taking a bath would help me clear my thoughts. I was just ending my period so I would not bleed in the water that much. I only asked Newt for Feminine Products because it was my last day and I want to just store up for emergencies.

I took off my shirt and pants, put on shorts and had a sports bra underneath. Then I walked into the water. The water was cool and refreshing, which is nice to clear my thoughts. Tomorrow is going to be a long and tiring day. I sighed, closed my eyes, and went under the water.

The coolness of the water engulfed my body. My eyes were burning from the cold and I crouched into a ball. I couldn't tell if I began to cry or not, but I could feel an aching in my heart. What Newt said earlier kept haunting me.

"We will never be the people we once were before the Maze." What does he mean? What were we like before the Maze? I finally realized I had not gone up for air for a long time. Eventually, I was sitting at the bottom of the lake.

Immediately I took my head out of the water and breathed in the air around me. Being surrounded by nature made me happy, I wonder if I was like that in the past. My eyes stayed closed, but then I heard a ruffling noise.

It had sounded like someone was there, but I couldn't tell who. When I opened my eyes, a shadow stood in front of me on land.

"Hello?" I wiped the water from my eyes to get a better look, but when I did, I wished I had not.

Gally stood in front of me with a smirk on his face. My heart pounded. Why is he here?

"Why?" I began my sentence, but Gally started.

"Remember I told you that you would regret it. Remember, when you hit me?" He walked closer with every word. I stood up in the water and began to walk backwards.

"Gally, what are you doing?" Before I knew it his feet were already in the water.

Gally took out a knife and smiled. "You pushed my limit, Jay. Now, you can pay." I laughed a bit inside because it rhymed, but I would push his limits more if I laughed outloud.

My path stopped when I felt a large rock behind me. I looked behind to find a way to escape, but two trees stood behind me blocking me from running.

Panic began to run over me like crazy and Gally was standing hand length in front of me. We stood eye to eye. The knife nowhere to be seen in the water.

"I told you that you would regret it." Gally stopped smiling. An increasingly sharp pain came from my stomach and the water began to turn red. This was not from my period. The only thing I could think about was that Gally must have stabbed me.

"Regret it? Oh, and if you tell any of the Gladers that I did this. Let's just say I got your big brother on a thread." He smirked and walked away. The knife was left inside of me.

I stumbled out of the water, trying to get air back into my lungs. It had felt like they were being filled with blood. I gasped for air. Newt, Minho, Thomas, get them. I tried to walk but it hurt like klunk. The only thing I could think of was crawling. That worked well, until the knife began to move.

With tears in my eyes, I rolled to my back. I got enough air in my lungs to notify the Gladers. I tried, and succeeded by letting out a ear piercing scream of help. The knife shifted back to where it was when Gally stabbed me.

I am going to die, and I haven't even figured out my past yet. I shook my head to try to get that thought out of my head, but that was the thing that stayed.