For seventeen year old Newt, the number ten is everything. Ten steps. Ten times you must snap your fingers. Ten nods of your head. Ten. When he's put in a mental institution for his extreme OCD, depression and anxiety, he meets some unlikely friends. And possibly the boy he's been looking for his whole life. But can he trust him? (also on AO3 under ava_kay) WARNING: content may be TRIGGERING for some (deals with various mental illnesses) most characters from The Maze Runner by James Dashner, I do not own them. p.s.- if newt says anything that seems ignorant towards mental illnesses, please know I'm trying to portray a teenager who doesn't understand yet, and that he eventually will understand!

Being thirteen years old, do you remember how it was back then? Feeling for the very first time something special for someone you've always seen as your friend. I remember perfectly those times but I couldn't explain to myself why my heart chose to love that one person. That one girl. All my friends were talking about loving guys and I was the only one having feelings for a girl. So I brought myself to forget her, it probably was just a phase like everyone always says. And with time flying around, with arguments happening and with distance breaking us apart, I completely forgot her. Chloé Moore was definitely out of my life. Until this morning. When I woke up, getting ready for the first day of my last year, did I know that I was going to see her again? And that all the feelings that went away would come back in a heartbeat?

[EDITING IN PROCESS//SLOW UPDATES] My name is Flora. I'm the only girl in the Glade. I was told that the Glade was the safest place I could be at. And I believed it. Safe. That was the one word I've always been told my whole life while living here. "The Glade is safe." "The rules keep us safe." "Staying within these walls keep us safe." And I always followed those rules. Everything was fine. Everything was good. Life in the Glade couldn't have been any better. No change ever came to these rules. Until the new guy arrived. Suddenly, things started changing. And not for the better. I was also not the only girl in the glade now that another was suddenly sent in. "She's the last one ever." What is that supposed to mean? Maybe the Glade isn't as safe as I used to think anymore. (All Maze Runner characters and original stories belong to James Dashner and Wes Ball (for the movie))

Hello babes, welcome to this new one-shots book about one of my biggest weaknesses, DOB. I hope you are going to like it and to support it as much as I loved writing it 💕 It may contain mentions of violence and smut so if you are not cool with it you may just skip it. -S