The Ignition - TMR Group B

Part 1

"I can't believe that Harriet and Rachel are gone Sonya. I miss them so much." 

"I know, but we'll see them soon right?" 

"Right." I say sighing and looking down. Sonya squeezes my hand. "It will all be okay Em. I promise."

I nod blinking back tears. It's been hard seeing your best friends having their memories wiped and being thrown into a maze once a month. Harriet, Rachel, Sonya and I are apart of Group B at WICKED. All of us are girls were taken from our families to help find a cure for the Flare, a disease that is wiping out all of human race. 

"Do you think we could see the boys tonight?" Sonya asks me, noticing that I'm really missing the girls that I've learn to love over the eight years that we've been together. 

"I think so. They forgot to lock our doors the past couple nights so we should be able to get out. I really miss Tom and Newt." I say, thinking about the last time we saw them which was about a month ago laughing and talking through the night, I haven't laughed that much in a long time. 

After dinner in the cold, grey cafeteria we've been eating in for most of our lives; Sonya and I head to our room. We crawl into our beds and turn the lights out pretending to go to sleep after the lights go out in the cafeteria, we put on our clothes and head out to the supply shed on the far side of the building.

Once we reach it we open the trap door on the roof and head to the janitors closet on the fourth floor that the boys like to hang out in. It's a small room four feet by four feet and crowded by shelves and supplies. No one uses this closet aside from us, as far as we can tell . We wait for what seems like hours, listening, waiting, barely saying a word to each other. 

"Listen." Sonya says, I prick my ears to hear footsteps approaching. We dive behind the crates and boxes that are scattered on the floor and wait to see who will open the door. The door cracks slightly and in slips Newt, Tommy and Teresa. They close the door turn on the light and sit on the boxes. 

I wink at Sonya and waggle my fingers. Sonya smiles and barely contains a giggle, I bring my finger to my lips and smile. 

"They're not here guys." Newt says, crestfallen. "I really wan-." 

"SURPRISE!" We both shout and jump out from our boxes that we were hiding behind. Tommy stands up, Teresa falls off the box she was sitting on and Newt just beams at us. I go hug Tommy and sit down on a box beside him. 

"I really missed you." I say to Tommy or Thomas as most people call him is my brother. We got separated from each other when we were brought to WICKED so I never get to see him. These midnight gatherings are all that we have in terms of family. I would die for the people in this room, every single one that's here. Newt hugs Sonya so tightly that she squirms and pulls out of his grasp. 

"I'm glad you guys are here." Newt says putting his arm around his sister. "I missed you guys so much. They're sending me into the maze tomorrow." Sonya starts to cry and buries her face into Newts shirt. I squeeze Tommy's hand trying to stay strong. 

WICKED is slowly weeding us out. One by one, every month one of us gets taken into the Mazes. Every time it gets harder. Every time one of the gang gets taken Tommy lets us watch on the monitors just to see how they're settling in. I wish that we could all stay together with our memories intact but we have to for the good of the world, at least that's what Dr. Paige says to us. 

Sonya and I stay later than usual because it's the last time that we will see Newt for a long time, and the next time we do seem him it will be after we escape if we don't die first.