The Feeling (Newt x Reader)

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- Y/N Perspective -

     "What do you mean?" I asked Newt with a slight shakiness to my voice.
     "Well greenie, just because we got our memories taken away doesn't mean we don't know romance now does it?" Newt winked and smiled. I felt a shiver down my spine. Was it him? Every time I felt fluttery or shivers or anything like that, it was always with Newt. What did that mean? I heard the girls giggle as Newt smiled at them. Once again, it seemed like they knew something that I didn't!

- Newt's Perspective -

     "Well greenie, just because we got our memories taken away doesn't mean we don't know romance now does it?" I smiled, trying not to laugh, Y/N was so cute when she was clueless. I noticed the other girls laughing and I guess they found her cluelessness just as funny as I did. Donna noticed me looking and I smiled as if to say "She's so oblivious right?" I noticed Y/N was getting frustrated with everyone giggling behind her back, uh oh. Her plate of bacon was almost empty so I decided I would take her to her favorite spot.

- Y/N Perspective -

As I took my last bite of bacon, Newt stood up as if he were to leave. Part of me was sad to see him go, I wanted to spend more time with him. What the shuck was going on with me? Maybe it's because Newt was just a lovely person to hang around with.
     "Walk with me Y/N." Newt smiled. He was waiting for me? My chest fluttered in excitement.
     "Alright, where we going?" I asked, trying to hide my excitement. Why was I so excited? We made our way out of the eating area.
     "Dunno, I just want to spend some time with you. Besides, you looked a little frustrated back there." He said pointing towards the table with the girls giggling. He noticed?! I tried so hard to hide it!
     "It just seemed like those shanks knew something I didn't, not a big deal, I guess that was just my short temper." I said trying to hide my embarrassment.
     "Well they do." Newt stopped in front of me, a familiar sparkle in his eye and a slight curve on his lips. He smirked, who knew someone could be so beautiful?
     "What do you mea-" My question was cut off as Alby shouted in Newt's direction.
     "Quit slacking around you slintheads, get back to work!" Alby said, a tinge of annoyance in his voice.
     "Oh bloody hell Alby, we were talking about something important you shank!" Newt replied, not loud enough for Alby to hear, it was almost like he was thinking out loud. Newt scratched the back of his head and ran his finger's through his hair. I felt my knees go weak at the sight. He placed his thumb on his bottom lip, his eyebrows scrunched and his smirk became a frown. Cute, it's his thinking face, I thought to myself.
     "Can we carry this conversation on at supper tonight, love?" He said, his eyes making contact with mine.
     "Y-Yeah of course." I stuttered, struggling to handle the fact that Newt just called me love. He jogged toward Alby, a slight limp to his leg. What was that? More importantly, what did he mean before Alby cut us off? I guess I would find out at supper.

I carried on with my day, drawing and thinking of more ways to escape the maze. Geez, I thought. If I'm so smart why can't I find out what this fluttering in my chest is? I sat at my desk that Gally had kindly built for me. I stood up to continue my work when suddenly I jolted as the door to the map room burst open. Athena and Minho panted, they always entered like this but something seemed different.
     "We... Found... Something... New!" Athena tried to speak as quickly as she could while still catching her breath. Minho waved his notepad, signalling me to take it. All runners had to have notepads with them so they could keep track of new routes or discoveries.
     "Okay, well if this is important have you told Newt or Alby?" I asked as I flipped through the small beaten notepad Minho handed me. Poor thing must've went through hell, I thought, feeling bad for the ripped up notepad.
     "Shuck it Y/N! Just read the damn notes, we can tell those shanks later okay, this is more important!" Minho said. He seemed to have caught his breath. I flipped to the page Minho had recently worked on.
     "The numbers on doors, they mean something. So we've already found out that the maze changes and exactly eight days ago, section 7 was open." Minho looked up at me hoping I would understand what he was saying.
     "Okay so??" I replied.
     "Today, section 7 was open again!" Minho rolled his wrists and looked at me as if to say "do you get it now???"
I thought about what he meant and started to understand. If my brain had gears, they started to turn because it finally made sense to me. My eyes widened and I flipped the book to where Minho had written eight days ago.. they were in section 7! I flipped the notepad eight days even further and my thoughts were correct, section 7 was yet again open.
     "Minho, Athena, you shanks, I think I've got something!" I looked at them with excitement and turned towards my desk, going back and forth from flipping through Minho's notepad and writing notes of my own.