Fearless (1 of 3)

Stone-throwing

Summer...

"I shucking know you know where they are!" Gally yelled at me. I was now the one sat in the hot seat. Gally was trying to get out of me where did almost all the Keepers go. You know why? Because Thomas went with them. And somehow in the eyes of Gally, I am the best friend of Thomas now. I glanced at Newt who was trying to calm down Gally. It was no use tho. 

"Gally, she already said she doesn't know. She was with me the whole time." I am just lucky no one else is here now. Just me, Newt, and Gally. 

"She and Minho can communicate through their eyes if you haven't noticed. All these secretive looks they send each other all the time. He must have told her where they were going." Gally was fuming in anger and right now I had nothing more to say. I was simply said speechless. 

"Gally, you stupid shank stop yelling at my sister," Winter called marching into the room. I breathed out a sigh of relief. Finally, someone will save me. 

"You have no right to be here." Gally snapped at her. Winter just shrugged and leaned against the pillar. She ran a hand through her short hair like usual. 

"And yet here I am." She smirked. "I came to see you blow up like last time. Honestly, you are trying too much to get Thomas punished. You should lay off to spear your feelings." Winter taunted. You could see the vein on the side of Gally's head pump up. Someone's pissed. 

"Listen here you..." Gally was cut off by the doors opening and a group of boys coming in. Minho cast a weird look my way when he saw me in the hot seat. 

"What did you do?" He asked confused. I frowned. 

"It's what did YOU do! You guys disappeared and this shank here thought I knew where you went." I whined. Newt came over to me and helped me up. Holding me to his side. Joined at a hip again...great. 

"Where were you?" Newt asked. 

"In the maze." And again Thomas spoke as if it wasn't even a big deal. They were in a shucking maze. And Winston, Frypan, and Zart aren't even Runners. That is just nuts. And why wasn't I invited? 

"What?!" Gally almost lost it. This is a clear violation of the rules I admit. 

"We found this," Thomas said, completely ignoring Gally. Minho walked forward and handed Newt some metal oval thingy. It was covered in some weird slime and it had red seven at the side. "It was inside a Griever."  

"These are the same letters we get in our supplies," Newt mumbled. Running his thumb over the letters. 

"Yeah. Whoever put us here obviously made the Grievers. This is the first real clue, the first anything, you've found in over 3 years. Right, Minho?" Thomas is getting it a tad bit out of line now. I am Minho's running partner. There is no way he is taking my place. Minho won't replace me like that... 

"Right." What? I looked at Minho with wide eyes, but he was avoiding my gaze. I looked at Winter and she held her hands up in surrender saying that she didn't know what was going on either.  

"Newt, we gotta go back out there. Who knows where this might lead us." I frowned at Thomas' determined tone.  Newt looked at me and I just shook my head. 

"You see what he's trying to do, right? First, he breaks our rules... and then he tries to convince us to abandon them totally. The rules are the only thing that have ever held us together. Why now are we questioning that? If Alby was here, you know he'd agree with me. This shank needs to be punished." While Gally is talking I am wondering why am I even angry. I mean I like Thomas, he saved my life but he is taking away my running partner.