Group A - Newt

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It was about 3:30 in the morning, Newt was asleep. He was dreaming about a girl, about 5 years old, with long blonde hair put in a messy braid. She was looking out a window, delicate white fuzz was falling from the sky. Even in Newt's clouded mind, he could tell it was snow. The little girl's face was filled with pure joy as she watched a snowflake land in the center of her palm and melted into a droplet of water. All of a sudden, as if she saw something outside her blue eyes dropped into terror. There was a loud bang, jerking Newt awake. He looked around him in the dim light to see everyone still asleep. What happened to the little girl? he thought. After trying to go back to sleep for another 30 minutes, Newt decided that wasn't going to happen. He got out of his hammock and walked towards the box. It wasn't open at the time but a new Glader was due the next day. He sat on the little platform next to the box, the metal was cold to the touch. Newt sat there until sunrise.

"Newt?" Minho called, "Newt have you been sleeping here the whole night? The metal is freezing!" 

"Huh? Oh" Newt said realizing he dozed off

"What do you mean 'oh'?  You're gonna freeze!" Minho said taking his jacket off and putting it around Newt.

"I'm fine, honestly Minho, bloody calm down."

"Maybe tell me what you were doing here?"

"I just wasn't able to sleep, that's all"

Minho didn't look like he was going to believe it but couldn't say anything as Alby shouted to the gladers for wake up.

Newt got up quickly and winced as his bad leg stung a little, it has been two weeks since it broke but the pain didn't go away, he was fairly sure it never would. 

He limped towards the Map room, his head wandering back to the little girl, he felt a vague emptiness within him and also guilt, as though it was very important for him to know who she was, but, he just couldn't place his finger on it.  

After Minho and the other runners went into the maze, Newt wandered into the woods, today he was supposed to be on Mapmaking duty but he didn't have to do that till the runners came back, he didn't realize how tired he was until then, he collapsed next to a tree and dozed off. 

He woke to the soft rustling of leaves, indicating that the maze doors were about to close soon.. He checked his watch, based on the time the runners should be back in exactly 15 minutes. He jogged over to the map room to get the paper and markers ready for when the runners came. As soon as he left the woods Alby came running up to him.

"Why weren't you at lunch shank?" he asked, Newt had totally forgotten about lunch, but he wasn't hungry in the least, so he told Alby half the truth.

"I wasn't hungry." 

Alby believed him, Newt skipped lunch, not a lot, but enough for it not to raise many questions from gladers. Just then the first runner, Edison, appeared at the north door, followed by the other runner he ran with. Then came the two runners through the west door, then the runnerS from the south door. Minho went running alone because Newt got hurt and couldn't go with him. But he still hadn't shown up, Newt wasn't very worried because there were still 30 minutes till the walls closed but there was a nagging feeling something was wrong. The runners went into the map room and the other mapmakers got to work, Newt didn't go in yet, he could wait just a little longer till Minho came. 15 minutes passed, then 20. Minho still hadn't shown up yet. Newt was getting really anxious. He paced around the east door. Alby and two other gladers came too. No one said a word but there was a tension in the air. The doors started to rumble close.

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