Digging Deeper (Newt x Reader TMR Fanfiction PART 2)

chapter 2

Janson didn't appear again until the next evening, when we were all sitting down and eating dinner.

"Listen up!" He yelled, trying to get us all to be quiet again. Once we were he continued, "what I have here is a list of names." He held up a white envelope and pointed at it. "I would like for these people to join me up here and line up. I will explain what this is for in a little bit." He began calling out names and girls that I never met before stood up and went to line up next to him. After about a dozen names were called, he stopped and waited for the last girl to join the lineup. "We have a safehouse that is better than this one. A place where W.I.C.K.E.D. can never find you again." He's interrupted by a few whoops and hollers before he continues, "but we can only take a few at a time. These young ladies are the lucky ones who get to go first. I will be back tomorrow night and take a few more. Have a nice night." He leads the group of girls through a door I hadn't noticed before, next to the where we get our food.

"If the safehouse is where he lives, I want to go!" Xena exclaimed, taking a bite out of her hamburger.

"You like him that much?" I asked with a smirk.

"Like?!" She exclaimed. "More like love!"

"How can you love him when you just met, and you barely know him?" I asked.

"Haven't you ever heard of love at first sight? And besides, what's not to love about him? He's hot, obviously smart and looks like he could be a soldier." She said. "He probably looks sexy when he's fighting the bad guys!"

I rolled my eyes at her. I didn't see what she saw. I had a feeling in my gut that he wasn't telling us the full truth. Or that maybe he wasn't telling us the truth at all. I didn't want to bother telling Xena and ruin the way she felt about him. I could be totally wrong about him, but until I knew for sure, I didn't like or trust the guy.

I looked over at the rude girl from the other day, sitting alone at the table next to ours. I still didn't know her name "Xena, what's her name?" I nodded at the girl.

"Oh, that's Mabel," Xena said. "She's a little weird and always preferred to be alone. She lost it when Rachel died as if she was close or something. But I don't remember seeing her even say one word to her. Why do you ask?"

"No reason," I said. "I bumped into her yesterday and she was rude about it.

I locked myself up in my room after dinner. Declining Xena's offer of having a sleepover. I sat on my bed and stared at the empty one across the room. The other girls all had roommates except for me. Xena asked if she could be mine when I first arrived, but I told her no. I don't know why I did. A part of me wanted to have it all to myself. Like I had never had one to myself before. I thought about the maze I was apparently in. Trying to remember something but failing, I ended up falling asleep.

I was in a dark room, coughing up water. That's when I realized the room was moving upwards. A young boy was poking my face. Then I was pulled up and surrounded by young boys of all different ages. My eyes fell on a dark-skinned boy. Alby. Then a short and younger boy. Chuck. Winston. Frypan. A few names filled my head as I recognized the familiar faces of some of the Gladers. My friends. But most of the other faces I didn't recognize. A slim boy with blonde hair and chocolate brown eyes stared at me, but I couldn't remember his name. Did I know him?

I was awoken from my dream by a loud booming coming from my door. I get up and staggered towards the door, pulling it open. Mabel was standing there, looking behind her as if she was terrified of someone or something.

"Mabel?" I asked, still a little groggy. "What are you doing-" I was cut off by her pushing me inside my room and closing the door behind her. "Mabel! What the-" she put her hand over my mouth and put her pointer finger in front of her lips, telling me to be quiet.

*END OF CHAPTER 2*