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| Ceylon |
After another round of complains coming from Jessica, Rhain and I decide it's time to resume our trip. Mostly because we want her to shut up for once and this was the only way she would.
As we started to walk again, I noticed how close Aaliyah and Frypan were walking. It got me wondering how it would be like to be so close with someone. I moved through the gang towards the front- which happens to be the place Rhain was walking too.
She seemed to be deep in thoughts, that she didn't even know I was walking beside her. Suddenly I feel someone tugging on my arm, confused I looked to my side to see Emme smiling up at me.
"Ceylon, are we almost there".
Of course I wanted to tell her that we are close, but in reality none of us knew if we were even getting closer. We had been walking around for days that sometimes it felt like we were walking in circles. Although we were getting closer to what seems to be a city, so who knows?
"I sure hope so Em".
She smiles up at me before getting her bottle out of her bag, "I'm thirsty" she says before gulping down a quarter of her bottle.
"Don't drink it all at once Em, we don't know when we can find a place that has water".
The little girl nods before putting the bottle back in her bag. Her little worn out brown teddybear bag. On our first night out in the scorch without the Right Arm protecting us, she found it in an abandoned building. She loved it so much that she keeps using it.
"Rhain are we getting close" Emme asks again as she starts to walk next to our leader.
I look down at the sand, I was starting to miss the little girl's company. She's like a little sister, but it seems that since we met the boys, she stopped hanging around me. It was a depressing feeling.
"If I were you I would look up before you fall again" that British accent said teasingly.
I roll my eyes as I look up into Newts brown eyes, the reason why Emme was distancing herself from me. Why she was doing that is still a mystery to me.
"Oh you're not planning on catching me again?" I ask, immediately regretting what I just said.
Even Newt looks shocked about my choice of words.
I awkwardly rub the back of my neck, not believing what I said. Where's that brick when you need it?
"That's something- well what?" Newt said, still being flustered.
I hide my cheeks with the palm of my hands, not knowing what to do right now.
There's an awkward silence between us, while the rest around us are either chatting or looking around to find out what way we have to go.
"Sorry, I should have kept my mouth shut" I tell him softly, "my mouth has been getting us in trouble lately" I whisper to myself.
"Ceylon do not be like that, you are not the reason for our trouble. It's just the circumstances" Newt shots back, "while you were in the maze, were you the reason for trouble?".
I shook my head.
I could barely cause trouble because I was mostly inside the maze, I always saw the greenie last. The days I was in the Glade, I was just doing my own thing, not minding anyone's business.
"See" Newt comments, "it's not your fault. Maybe next time I raise my voice, I will be the one attracting cranks".
A small smile forms on my lips.
There's Newt again making me feel better about myself. Plus he was right, it's not my fault anyway.
"Well we all know who attracts cranks" I tell him as I glance at Jessica.
The girl is still holding her cheek as she blinks dramatically as if a slap from hours ago still hurts. Like how?
"Oh my God, Aaliyah stop bumping into me" the older girl suddenly shouts out of nowhere, Aaliyah was standing at least a meter away from her, "and you stop giving me stupid looks" she continues to yell as she looked at Aris.
"Sure scream louder and attract some cranks" Rhain deadpans.
"You know what? We haven't been running in a few hours, so why don't I attract some cranks so we can stay in shape? Okay?!" she rants.
I want to run over to her to put my hand on her mouth to stop her from getting even louder. But it's too late, she already let out a high pitched scream- as if she let all the build up frustration out of her system. Smart move, not.
"Girl what have you done" Frypan says, fear written all over his face.
I look at Aris who turned pale, "well Jessica you got what you wished for" he says with a shaking voice as he raises his arm. "RUN".
We don't hesitate for a minute before we start running, mentally cursing Jessica for being such an complete idiot. Maybe this shank is working for WCKD and that's why she keeps getting us in trouble, it's possible since she's mostly the reason for the attacks.
I run past the others to the front, trying to find a place for us to hide. Which is hard when you're still tired. At last my eyes caught a building that doesn't seemed to be that damaged.
"Guys this way" I yell as I guide them towards the building.
The sounds of the cranks are getting louder as I hope it's not a whole army this time. But Jessica had screamed loud enough to attract a lot of them.
"Nice job Jessica, next time yell a little harder because there's not enough cranks following us" Aaliyah yells, "as if we haven't been running enough lately".
She's starting to get out of breath but all it takes for her to keep going is Frypan holding onto her hand. Even in death situations they were being sweet with each other.
"Guys I can't anymore" I hear the squeaky voice of Emme say.
No this can not be happening.
I look around and see how tired the little girl looks, it breaks my heart. I want to run towards her but Newt grabs my hand.
My eyes widen as I look behind me but I see Aris had grabbed a hold of Emme and I feel a little relieved, maybe that feeling came too soon.
