Wastelands → Newt [Movie Trilogy]

34 → "MAKE YOUR PEACE"

34 → "MAKE YOUR PEACE"

Hours later, by late afternoon, Adeline and Newt wandered the length of the shoreline with their fingers intertwined, watching as the sun began to dip down below the horizon of the ocean. Behind, some of the survivors prepared for the Bonfire in an hours time.

"Newt! Adeline!" The familiar voice hollers, and both find Minho had dragged Brenda, Aris and Frypan toward the shore of the beach. Minho, seemingly back to his normal self despite everything over the last six months, waves them over. "Come join us!"

Both Newt and Adeline share a glance, Adeline grinning at Newt and pulling him over toward the small group. As they neared, the others had begun kicking their shoes off, disregarding them by the grass before the sand. Adeline kicked her shoes off, making Newt do the same, before they raced into the salt water to the depth of their ankles, feeling the wind slap against their cheeks.

"Where's Thomas?" Adeline found herself asking. Brenda grimaced, pointing behind her, where the boy sat watching his friends. Adeline gave a slight wave to the boy, who waved back. His face held that same look from earlier; and his eyes held a sad look to them after everything over the last six months. Newt, noticing the sadness in his eyes, glanced back at the girl beside him. Her eyes held a similar sadness still, but just moments before he'd watched some sort of happiness glint from them. When Newt tried to wave the boy over to join, Thomas just held up his hand, shaking his head. Both Newt and Adeline gave one last glance back at the boy, before trudging through the water that laps around their ankles, Newt pulling her in to his arms and holding her close. Wrapped in each others arms, both Newt and Adeline watched as Minho took advantage of this new freedom and safety that they now had, splashing at his friends. Brenda splashed the boy back. But, as soon as she had, her eyes widened.

"Minho, no!" At that, Minho pushed the girl into the water. When she resurfaced, Brenda did the same back to Minho. Soon enough, Brenda, Frypan, Aris and Minho were chasing after one another like little kids, pushing each other and splashing one another. Minho turned to the both of them, Newt's eyes widening as he realised what Minho was about to do, causing both to pull away from one another. But, instead of Minho pushing Newt over, Minho wrapped both arms around Adeline's waist and fell backwards. Adeline got a mouthful of salt water as she went under, coughing and spluttering once she'd resurfaced.

"Minho!" Adeline chuckled, before shoving the boy back under.

After a good while of them playing around like carefree kids, like kids who hadn't escaped from a mad world, they stood on the sand, attempting to dry off. Shortly after, Vince threw a handful of towels at the group of teenagers who were soaked through their clothes, ordering for them to go change before the Bonfire. Following the man's orders, Adeline heads to one of the huts, finding a change of clothes that fit inside one of the containers. They only got a handful of clothes to wear for now, but Adeline didn't mind. Changing into a long sleeved shirt and trousers, Adeline laces up her boots and uses her fingers to brush through her hair before braiding it down her back.