Running From Your Problems (a Newt/ Maze Runner fanfic)

Runners

Right when Newt and I step out of the woods, I am surrounded by Gladers that wanted to talk to me.

"What's your name Greenie?" One of them teases.

"(Y/n)!" I yell, "I told you what you wanted to know now get away from me!"

"Jeez Newt," an Asian looking boy asks, he looks older than me, probably around 16. "How come you haven't run for the hills yet? She sure freaks the klunk out of me."

Newt shakes his head and laughs. "She is all bark and no bite, she bloody threatened to stab me with a knife. But, I doubt she's got the stomach to do it."

He whispered the last part, but I still heard him and was infuriated by it.

"I will still follow through with that threat of you get too close," I warn.

Newt does nothing but laugh.

"See what did I tell yah? But Minho, I have another thing that you need to know."

The two boys walked a few feet away and attempted to have a private conversation, which I overheard the whole thing.

The boy who was apparently Minho scratched his head. "Let me guess, she ran."

"Well, yes but, not only did she run. She ran for at least a half hour and never slowed her pace."

"Big deal. She can run long distances and I doubt very fast."

"That's the thing," Newt was starting to look frustrated. "she got a whole bloody mile and a half farther than me in the same exact time. If you don't..." he lowered his voice even more and I lost the ability to hear him.

Minho's expression changed and I can see him look at me out of the corner of his eyes.

"Newt you know the rules, but if by the time she is done going through all of the jobs and is ready for her permanent one, then I might just consider making her a runner."

Newt nods and walks back over to me. And sits down on a fallen tree branch nearby.

"Who was that?" I ask already knowing the answer.

"Minho, keeper of the runners. They are the ones that go and run the maze all day long."

I could see the hurt in his eyes as he talked about it, so I decided to drop the subject.

"You told me that you would answer any of my questions as long as I don't run." I say trying to break the silence.

"Yeah, what do you want to know?"

"How do I become a runner?"