One step closer - A Scorch Trials Fanfiction

Chapter 19

One eye flickered open, and then the other. I looked around – well tried to anyway, it was pitch black.

I was confused, couldn't remember anything and I had a banging headache. I tried to sit up but that's when it all came back to me: Being reunited with the boys, being kidnapped by Aris, learning Teresa and Aris' secrets and finally being in that death trap of a box.

Was I dead? Was this a punishment of some kind? It didn't look like anyone else was here so I was alone – again.

Then a piercing pain shot through my head – I was remembering another song.

You know the bed feels warmer
Sleeping here alone
You know I dream in color
And do the things I want

You think you got the best of me
Think you've had the last laugh
Bet you think that everything good is gone
Think you left me broken down
Think that I'd come running back
Baby you don't know me, cause you're dead wrong

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone

You heard that I was starting over with someone new
They told you I was moving on, over you

You didn't think that I'd come back
I'd come back swinging
You try to break me, but you see

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone

Thanks to you I got a new thing started
Thanks to you I'm not the broken hearted
Thanks to you I'm finally thinking about me
You know in the end the day you left was just my beginning
In the end

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone

I smiled at the song, it showed that I didn't need Teresa. In the maze I was strong but ever since I have been in the scorch and Teresa has had control over me I've been weak and let the smallest things make me cry. I've learnt that the old Teresa isn't coming back so I need to turn over a new leaf and be the brave person I was back in the maze.

This time I was able to stand up but it didn't make me feel any better. It was still pitch black, I couldn't see anything and I didn't know where I was. I tried feeling out around me and I found that I was in a confined box but it was bigger than the one I was previously in.