The Scorch Girl// Book 2// Newt TMR Fanfic

Chapter 23

I'm off to a cool festival in Sydney Australia today, gonna spend the day in the city :) gonna sip some coffee and write my story

Enjoy lovelies! ❤️
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Nightfall had fallen and was also slowly beginning to let the daylight through. Which makes my capture to  a day.

To my dismay I'm still locked up, correction, I'm still tied up, to a chair, with numb legs.

Joy had given me some food because of how sorry she felt towards me. It didn't help the fact I was still tied up, and missing Newt not to mention worried sick for the rest of the group.

"Any clue as to when your group are coming back?" I ask, my voice cutting through the deathly silent air like a knife.

Joy looks over at me from her position in the cave, "soon, hopefully. Teresa said they needed a Thomas boy first"

Why would she need Thomas? I think to myself.

Rose? Are you there? His voice was clear in my head. I bite my lip, I couldn't reply, I can't.

Rose please just reply, look I'm sorry for what I said

I squeeze my eyes shut, I've been sworn to silence. I didn't realise I was chewing on the inside of my cheek or the fact Joy was looking at me, a weird expression on her face.

I look away before realising I had no reason to listen to that girl with the black hair. What did I care if she killed me for it.

I'm not angry at you, you Slinthead

Then why didn't you answer his reply was muffle and detached, like a poor connection.

Kind of in a situation

Well whatever that 'situation' is the group is worried sick

"Huh, no kidding" I mumble out loud, right well I'm not going anywhere anytime soon so where are you? This gang of girls are coming to get you and they don't seem happy-

I know he cuts me off, it sounded almost like he was laughing, I already have a bag over my head and back pain from rocks

This boy was crazy, what did he mean by rocks? Um, what?

They're dragging me through a heap of shuck rocks!

Got it I reply

The girls are group B, we're group A. They're gonna kill me, says so on my neck Thomas states.

I furrow my eyebrows, then I guess I'll be seeing you soon, look this Teresa girl told me to ignore your mind call thingies so just be careful. She's aggressive.

She never used to be this aggressive is all Thomas says before the quiet sets in. What did he mean? He remembers her? I didn't understand how he would considering our only memories were of the Maze yet then again, I could remember things in the Maze. If only I could remember what I remembered.

Loopholes! I thought to myself.

"You've gone quiet again" Joy interrupts.

"There isn't a lot to say"

She nods her head before looking away.
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"Let's go hotshot" Harriet says as she unties me,

"You sound like a grandma" Sonya jokes as she stands on the other side of me.

The cave was packed up, blankets gone and all bow and arrows that had previously been strewn across the floor were now slung across numerous girls' torsos.

"Where are we going?" I question,

"To the safe haven" Sonya begins, "so we just head north" Harriet finishes.

"I hope you're ready to get to know some of us!" Joy interjects with a smile, pushing in between Harriet.

"Just hurry up!" Teresa says quickly before walking out the mouth of the cave.

Compared to the Heathen boys I've been stuck with since the Glade it'll sure be different, I chuckle instead, "I intend to learn"

Everyone was huddled around a tree outside as the blazing sun unwillingly began to set. when the group disperses I spot someone who I wasn't expecting to see. It was Thomas!

I break away, moving forward, "Thomas?"

His face fills with recognition, he moves forward yet is stopped by Teresa's arm. "Turn away" she demands, looking at Thomas in the eyes.

Considering I thought those two would be close considering Thomas had hinted he was close to her earlier, I was wrong. Very wrong.

"I don't know what you're doing but I would very much like to speak with Thomas" I seethe, I was really starting to hate Teresa's guts.

"Permission denied, now keep moving we need to get through the pass and to the safe haven" Teresa answers bluntly.

I huff in annoyance and look at Harriet who was leaning in to whisper to me, "I wouldn't test her, she seems real pissed"

I nod my head and start walking,

Talk here Thomas' voice rings in my head.

What the hell are you doing here?

I could ask the same thing

Is the group ok? I ask worriedly,

They're fine, I'm hoping they're headed north

If that's where the safe haven is then I hope so too

We both stop talking for awhile, when I talk in my head I seem to look out of it which could lead to suspicion.

Although these girls didn't seem harmful anymore, they're really just trying to survive.

"Thomas over there says you were part of group A, That true?" Sonya asks

I nod my head, "yeah"

"So then you would know Teresa" Harriet replies, looking at me as she walks backwards.

Her foot catches a rock and I stop her from falling over, she moves back to her original walking position which was next to me.

I shake my head, "I don't remember her"

Both Thomas and Teresa face me, looks of confusion evident on their faces,

"Rose you met her before Gally killed-" he doesn't finish his sentence.

I clearly remembered that yet Teresa wasn't anywhere in them, I look at Teresa and examine her. There was no lying she seemed deathly familiar yet I didn't know how.

Teresa moves closer, stopping me in my tracks, "you really don't know me? At all?" She narrows her eyes as she waits for me to answer,

I push her away slightly, "No, I don't. Do you mind?"