The Scorch Girl// Book 2// Newt TMR Fanfic

Chapter 1

hi guys. So I'm publishing his story earlier than I expected. I don't know why and it would not be a good idea to :) . I hope you all enjoy the first chapter of the second story. Please vote and comment some feedback, it wold be very helpful. Thank you guys and enjoy ;)
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I had to lie, they told me. Lie until the lie became the truth. I didn't dare disobey them either, they threatened to hurt everyone I cared about. Although I was scared for Teresa's safety, Aris on the other hand didn't seem phased.

My instructions; don't tell anyone about seeing Teresa. But it was morning now. Aris had woken up a few minutes ago whereas I had been awake for almost two hours now. I hopped down from my bunk, my feet landing on the floor with a thud. I looked over to where Teresa had been. It looked as though there had been no trace of her. The bed was made as neatly as possible. Aris's bed looked untidy compared to Teresa's bed. I sighed and walked around in circles. How was I going to convince the others that I hadn't at all seen Teresa. Aris, I think had gotten annoyed at my unnecessary pacing. He got up and headed for the bathroom. At that moment I heard the bang at the door.

I furrowed my eyebrows and stepped closer. I heard another bang, it sounded as though metal was colliding with metal. The last bang had the door opening and me backing towards the wall. The Gladers were all stumbling in through the door. Thomas was ahead of them all, closely followed by the rest. I spotted Newt and ran up to him. I wrapped my arms around his waist and put my head on his shoulder. "Rose!" He said "what bloody happened to you? I thought you were gone" he hugged me just as tight. I'm sure Thomas was looking for Teresa as he called out her name. I kept quiet. Newt told Thomas to wait for her to come out, but they didn't know it wasn't Teresa. Thomas' anticipation was growing which would only hurt him more when Aris emerges and not Teresa.

The toilet flushed and the door opened. Thomas began to step forward but before he did, Aris walked out and Thomas almost tripped. "Who are you?" Thomas asked

"Who am I?, who are you?" Aris replied somewhat sarcastically. Newt stepped closer to Aris

"Don't bloody mess around, there are a lot more of us than there are you, tell us who you are" Aris looked at Newt and at Thomas. He looked at me. I nodded at him ever so slightly that no one noticed.

"Fine," he snapped, "my names Aris, what else do you wanna know?" I knew if Aris wasn't careful someone was going to punch him, and it would probably be Thomas seeing as he's set on finding Teresa.

Thomas asked, "how'd you get here? where's the girl who slept here last night?"

"Girl? There was no other girl here but Rose and I was the only other person, and it's been like that since they put me here last night"

Thomas faced the direction to the door, "there's a sign out there that says her name, Teresa..... Agnes, no mention of a shank named Aris" it was something in Thomas's voice that made Aris change his attitude. I'd never really seen Thomas, let alone see him angry but if this was him a little angry you wouldn't want to get him in a state of utter rage. Hopefully Thomas didn't start asking me questions. Aris was being interrogated by Thomas and Newt when Newt came to stand next to me with his arms crossed over his chest.

"Do you have any bloody idea why you were put in a room with this shank?" Newt whispered to me.

"He seemed nice although I was awake for five minutes before he went to bed" I replied.

"What do you mean awake for five minutes, you woke up in this room? Because I bloody freaked when you weren't in your bed we thought you had gone for a wander but no one had heard the door open or close"

" I don't know, one minute I was asleep in the dorm with you guys and the next I was in a room with a boy named Aris" I shrugged.

"Maybe you should sit down, we have a lot to talk about" Thomas said. Newt stops looking at me and unfolds his arms. I guess then the situation flipped as Aris began asking them the questions. Thomas told him where we had come from and I guess you could say no one really trusted anyone at this point. I'm sure we wanted to but WICKED sort of threw trust down the drain.

"Who's that guy?" Minho asks leaning on the doorframe, terror struck Gladers stood behind him, why were they scared, what was out there?

"What's out there?" I spoke up

Newt looked at me as did everyone else, "you don't want to know" Thomas answered before anyone else could. I pushed past Minho and the Gladers who had made their way in when it hit me. The smell was absolutely revolting. But that's when I saw it. People hanging from the ceiling. My hands were cupped over my mouth as I prevented a scream from escaping my lips. I tried to forget the smell, but it was hard it was just something that followed you. The bodies that were hanging were all purple, as lifeless as lifeless could be.

I wasn't going to touch one but I wanted to so badly. I know I had seen them before but it didn't take too long for me to realise they were out rescuers, gruesomely hanging from a damn ceiling like dead pigs that had recently been slaughtered, except they weren't pigs. They were humans. I knew something was wrong here but could this have been it? Was there something more to this? Who would kill the people who saved us? These questions were exhausting when you didn't know the answer to any of them.

"Bloody hell Rose, get back in the dorm" Newt said in a muffled voice as he took my hand.

"Who-who would do something like that" Thomas had run out of the dorm room a little while after I had come back in, probably making sure Teresa wasn't one of the dead bodies, it could be a possibility. While Thomas went for a quick run, we unhooked the top bunks from the bottom bunks and placed in a specific spot to create a circle. Thomas shut the door and sat next to Minho where he previously pat the seat. "Talk Aris, tell us everything"