DEFENCE SYSTEM | NEWT; THE MAZE RUNNER

chapter three | questions

"i don't care, i've been in this place for only a day and i already hate it here, i need to know more," i said shoving his hand off my arm.

"look, i know you want answers, we all did when we first came up here, but the runners are concentrating on mapping the maze, do you really want to distract them from doing something that potentially can get us out of this 'hellohole'," he said the last part from my tone of attitude. i though carefully at his 'speech'. i sighed and stomped away from the doorway to the map room. newt followed me. obviously.

"where are you going?" newt asked still beside me.

"this place has already shucked up my brain, i just want to be alone," i said.

"i see you've already used the gladers language," he said putting his hands on his hips.

"not the time for sarcastic funny jokes newt, i need to be alone," and with that i walked faster, but he continued to follow me.

i, well i thought just me, WE ended up in the forests' river, which i feel most calm. i saw newt at the corner of my gaze. i rolled my eyes, sat on a rock and looked at him, unamused.

"please go away newt, i wanna be alone," i saw throwing rocks and stones into the mini river.

"i ain't leaving ya greenie," newt said with attitude in his tone.

"i mean it, i will throw a rock at you," i threatened gripping onto the biggest rock i could find.

"no need to get violent greenie, i'm just here to keep you company," newt said again with his attitude.

"no need to get bratty, i'm just here to throw a rock in your face," i said some-what repeating what he just said just to piss him off a bit. it worked. he took his hands off his hips and sat down beside me.

"on a serious note greenie, how to do recognise thomas?" when he said his name i felt that weird sensation again. it's whenever i hear his name i can feel the connection all over again.

"i honestly don't know, it's like when i first saw him, it triggered my brain and i knew his name, it was weird," i said looking at the water in front of me.

"okay, well when we were at the bonfire last night and you pulled tommy for a chat, what did you say?" he asked not keeping his gaze off me.

"why do you need to know?" i said, now looking at him.

"well, i am second in command after all," he said cockily lifting his chin up slightly to brag about being in lead. i just scoffed and turned back to throwing rocks in the river.

"i thought you said, and i quote, 'on a serious note greenie'," i said turning back to face him.

"well, i-" he stuttered and i giggled slightly.

"yeah yeah," i said and stood up and began to walk away from the river. he followed me. again.
"god, you can't stop following me can you?" i said cockily trying to bug him.

"i'm sorry that your boring and want to be alone all the time," he said sarcastically trying to annoy me, which didn't work.

"you were right," i sighed stopping my step and looking at him.

"how?" he asked me stopping in his tracks as well.

"this is a bickering 'friendship'," i put more effort in the last word to bug him. he just chuckled. i walked away from him again and finally he didn't follow me. but a part of me wanted him to follow me, he was the only one who made me feel calm when he's by my side. by this time the runners were out of the map room and scattered god knows where around this place.

i only wanted to find one boy to talk to him again. thomas. i was walking around the glade trying to find him when i suddenly bumped into someone. someone who i haven't met yet. minho.

"woah!" he said stumbling back a bit. as did i.

"sorry," i said looking at the boy i bumped into. he stared at me

"are you the new girl-shank?" he asked looking at me carefully.

"well i am the only girl full of a maze with over 30 boys, so you tell me," i said with my attitude coming out again.

"woah, someone's got an attitude, i can tell we're gonna be friends, maybe even sass besties," he said sarcastically, which resulted in me rolling my eyes and trying to walk away until he stopped me.

'god why can't anyone here let me be by myself' i thought with a huff.

"where ya' going greenie?" minho said stopping me from going any further.

"i'm trying to get away from my 'sass bestie'," i said with more and more sass growing over me.

"yep, we are definitely besties," he said giggling like a little girl.

'he is way more annoying than newt' i thought.

"look, i'm tired, confused, sweaty, dirty and i can go on if you like, i just wanna go speak to someone and take a shower to calm myself from punching a certain someone in front of me, will you let me get past or you will have a black eye?" i said putting my hands on my hips. minho just chuckled and shook his head.

"whatever bestie, be my guest," he said and stood to one side and let me past. i took a deep and needed breath and walked away from the most annoying human being in this place.

i felt the urge to talk to thomas. i need to. i'm just happy i'm not with minho. it took my so long to find thomas, i just gave up. i thought i found him but it was just a random glader called jack. my gaze fell to the doors, which were still open. newt told me that the doors close at a certain time everyday, but at the same time so they don't close and trap anyone out there.

it still made me want to go out there and explore the maze, but i knew that if i went in there, i would get punished royally with more work, slammer and no food. so no thank you. alby and newt said i couldn't go out there, but they never said anything about going near it. as long as i didn't put my foot in there, then i'm technically not breaking any rules. i was walking towards the doors and i could already see the entrance and what was lurking beneath the doors. it honestly didn't look that bad but yet it still looked kinda scary.

it lured me forwards. its almost like a voice in my head was telling me to keep going and don't stop. so i kept going. i was nearly going in there until i heard a voice, that's not in my head.

"HEY!" a boy shouted from my right. it was gally. great.

it was like deja-vu, he shoved me on the floor, again. with my back hurting, again and some of the boys surrounding us, again. gally loomed over me "well here we are again" he said getting closer and closer to my face. i finally broke. my rage was filling through my body. i almost thought my face was turning bright red from the anger built up inside me.

"I WASN'T GONNA GO IN THERE! I WAS JUST LOOKING!" gally was the one guy in the glade that could easily push my buttons. minho, yeah he was annoying and all, but he never made me rage out like this.

"hey, calm calm calm!" was all gally said with his hands out to stop me from hitting him square between the eyes.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN CALM? I WAS NEVER GONNA GO IN THERE YOU SHANK!" by now most of the gladers, including alby, newt, minho, jeff, clint and thomas were here trying to calm me down.
"GET THIS IDIOTIC SHANK AWAY FROM MY FACE UNTIL I RIP HIS OFF!" i said before stomping away. i turned back once more and saw newt with a devilish smirk on his face looking at me almost with proudness.