Fix You | Newt x Reader | Maze Runner AU Fanfiction

Chapter 13: What Is Love

I was right thinking that I would be sore next day. My stomach hurt from laughing so much when I woke up.

I looked around me, the sunlight coming from the windows slightly blinding me for a moment. Everyone was still sleeping, softly snoring around me.

Since I had been the first to go to sleep, I was also the first to wake up.

I took my phone off my pajamas pocket and looked at the time. It was eight in the morning.

Knowing I wouldn't be able to fall asleep again and not wanting to wake anyone up, I stretched out and sat up.

Fondly, I looked at the closest people to me. Chuck was right next to me, sleeping like a baby. And Newt was at the left, peaceful and precious when he slept like a freaking angel.

Minho was sprawled in the floor next to Newt, and Brenda was in Minho's sleeping bag. Aw, he had been sweet enough to let her take it.

Remembering I had brought with me Paper Towns to the cottage, I thought that quiet would make the perfect environment to read a little.

So I gave both Newt and Chuck a kiss –in the cheek and in the forehead –and then went up to the girls room to pick up my book and sat down in the bed to immerse myself in the life of Quentin Jacobsen.

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I lost track of time as I went through the pages of that wonderful book, I just couldn't stop reading. So far, I liked it more than The Fault in Our Stars.

And Newt's notes commenting some quotes or ideas made it all even better.

He had underlined some sentences without commenting on them. Others, he put little post it notes over them to tell me something about them.

And other sentences just reminded me of him even if he hadn't highlighted them in any way.

Some made me smile as I read how Quentin admired Margo and made me wonder if Newt saw me in a similar way and kept loving every single thing about me just like that. Like that one quote that said "I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past."

The other sentences that reminded me of Newt made me sad because it made me recall the glimpse I had to his inner demons. His insecurities and fears that showed through a crack when he broke down that day a while ago before the finals. "Maybe all the strings inside him broke"

But at least it made me feel better knowing that Newt seemed to be happy. Since last time, he hadn't showed any signs of being so broken again. And that made me happy too.

Then, as I advanced through the book, I kept finding notes.

One was on this quote "My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said, but Newt had written instead "that's how you know you're in love"

And the other one was just adorable. He had highlighted it and drawn a smiley face next to it: "She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own".

I stood there for a few seconds, smiling like a fool for something so tiny and silly that I felt stupid. But I guess someone who's in love has the right to act silly from time to time.

He was so cute, though.

"Yo, Y/N!" Frypan called me from the living room.

I closed the book, using my thumb to keep track of the page I was at.

"What?" I yelled back to him.

"Get your butt down here, it's lunch time!"

I opened my eyes wide and looked at the clock on the bedside table. It was already one pm!