Serendipity || Newt TMR || Book 1

Ludic

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Ludic
(adj.) full of fun and high spirits

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Newt, Gally, Alby, a few other boys and I stood around the fire, holding wooden poles with the tip on fire. "Light em up!" Alby yelled as we raised the poles and threw them into the fire; causing the bonfire to light up with red hot flames. Soon the boys had begun chanting 'Light it up' and everyone was happy. The boys were doing flips and downing cup after cup of Gally's special recipe; and I was beginning to feel a little funny, everything seemed a little fuzzy.

A laugh escaped my lips as I stumbled back from the fire and over to Chuck, "Never gets old..." The celebration seemed to be going on for about 2 hours now, and the real fun was only beginning.

"What the fire? Or Gallys special recipe." He retorts causing me to death stare him.

"T-That wasn't v-very nice, Chuckie..." I slur, "Now go," I usher him along, "You can go find Minho."

Maybe I have had too many of Gallys drinks...

My eyes drift around the bonfire until they land on two heads, sitting behind a log, so I decided to head over there; seems more fun than Chuck at the moment. I slowly stumbled over as I heard the Greenie begin to cough, "Oh my god, what is that?" He said while wiping his tongue as Newt took the drink out of his hand chuckling.

I stepped over the log and sat down on it, beside me, Newt and the Newbie were sitting on the grass, "I don't know... But if you don't want it-" I start slurring as I reach for cup, but Newts hand grabs mine for a second in protest.

"I don't think so, Love." He chuckled, "Don't want you getting clumsier... Do we?"

I lean in closer to him as I answer, "Do we?" I copy while raising my eyebrows, my face only inches from his.

Newts gaze stays locked on mine for a moment, his eyes flicking to places all over my face, but oddly his gaze stays on my lips a second longer than the rest, until finally he looked back at the Newbie. "We don't even know what it is, it's Gallys recipe and it makes you feel like that if you drink too much." Newt said to the Greenie beside him, "Its a trade secret."

"Yeah, well he's still an asshole." The greenie murmured, but I heard.

"Preach!" I said while sliding off the log and onto the grass.

"He saved your life today, trust me, the maze is a dangerous place..." Newt begins but I cut him off.

"Let's not talk about the maze." I say while pushing myself to my feet and wandering about 5 metres away, so I was out of ear shot from the boys.

"We're trapped here. Aren't we?" The greenie asked Newt while looking at the door to the maze in front of him.

"For the moment, but" Newt said while turning around, "You see those guys, over there, by the fire. Those are runners. The guy in the middle, that's Minho, he's the Keeper of the runners. Every morning when those doors open, they run the maze; mapping it, memorising it, trying to find a way out."

"How long have they been looking?"

"Three years."

"And they haven't found anything?"

"It's a lot easier said than done, Listen." Newt waits for the sound coming from the maze, "That's the maze; changing, it changes every night."

When I turn around to look at the boys, I could now see that their eyes were trained on me, though I couldn't hear them, I could see their mouths moving.

"What about her?" The Newbie asked.

"What about Avery?" Newt asked, confused on the sudden topic change.

"Why doesn't she want to talk about the maze? I mean, I keep asking her and she won't tell me. Did somethi-"

"That probably her story to tell, not mine, hey?"

I got bored of waiting for the boys, so I decided to leave them to their conversation. I stumbled over to Gally, who had his wrestling ring set up, just so he could prove he was the strongest. "Don't you get bored of all your masculinity?" I say without thinking.

"Me?" Gally questions me and I nod, "Never."

"Let's go then." I say while taking out my bun and redoing it, I may be a little tipsy, but I never turn down a fight.

I step into the ring, the boys gathering around to watch. I ran at Gally but he stepped around me, but I had a feeling he would do that, so I swung my leg around while dropping to the ground, knocking him to the ground.

A giggle escaped my lips as I stood back up. "Oh, it's on." He said while quickly standing up, and running at me, he picked me up like I was nothing and threw me over his shoulder, but I landed on my feet.

My eyebrows furrowed at the terrible attempt to get me to the ground, "Really?" I question.

"Didn't want to hurt you too bad..." He said while turning around to look at me again.

"Sure, sure." I countered but was taken off guard when he ran at me, shoving me backwards. I was expecting to hit the ground but instead I hit a person then the ground. I looked up and saw the Newbie, "Oh... hi." I smile, then grimace that a pain that shot through my back, "again..."

He didn't say saying just looked down at me and fixed his shirt, "What do you say Greenie? Want to see what you're made of?" Gally says causing the Greenies eyes to snap to him.

Newt must have noticed I was still on the ground because as he hovered over me; while the rest of the boys began to chant 'greenie'.

"You getting comfortable down there?" He questioned while squatting down beside me.

I look around and pat the grass as I answer, "I actually am...."

"Oh, come on, get up..." He says while grabbing my hands and pulling me up. A let out a few 'no's' in protested but finally I was up and without thinking I wrap my arms around his neck and hug him, the pain in my back slowly went away. "You know, Avery, I worry every time you do something like that..."

"Why?" I question while breaking away from him.

"I don't want you breaking your back again... because if you do, maybe next time you won't be so lucky." He breathed.

"Newt...." I look down, but Newt reaches down as raises my chin.

"Let's watch this," he said while nodding over to the ring, "shall we?"

I nod, "We shall." I answer as we walk closer to the ring, just as we heard the Newbie say, "Not bad for a Greenie, hey?" But I think his pride was cut off as Gally kicked the Greenie off his feet, causing him to hit the ground, hard.

"Oi...." I breathe; the rest of the boys began to murmur as I stepped forward however, I was quickly stopped by Newt, who when I looked back gave me a look of warning.

I looked back to the boy as he began to mumble something, he looked so familiar to me. I still don't know why though, because I don't remember anything from before the Glade. He began to mumble a little however I before anyone could tell him to speak up, he began to get louder. "Hey!" He yelled while standing up quickly, "Thomas!" He laughed but I didn't hear the rest because I suddenly got really dizzy.

That name.... Thomas...

That's all I could remember before I fell to the ground, though someone caught me. He was calling my name, asking me if I was okay. As much as I wanted to answer Newt and tell him I was okay; I couldn't. My vision began to change from darkness to....

Memories.

A/N: okay... I'll admit this update is so bad😭
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