First thing Thomas always heard in the morning was Minho's voice. "Asshole! Wake up!" he'd scream as he'd slife inside Thomas' room from the window. Today was no different except at the same time Minho entered his room, so did Thomas's mum.
So, Thomas was woken up that day by his mother's shrieks and his friend's fall on the floor. "What the-" he jumped out of bed and grabbed a bat from underneath his bed. "What's going on?"
Thomas's mum raised her hand. "Sorry, sorry. My bad." She walked over to Minho, who was on the floor groaning, and pulled him up. "Really, Minho? You could have just used the door."
"But this is much more fun," Minho replied rubbing the back of his head. "And you know what's more fun? Not nearly falling from my death thanks to my best friend's mum."
Thomas's mum rubbed her forehead before looking at Minho then at Thomas. She threw her hands in the air. "Next time, I'll try not to be a good mother and wake up my son for school!" she said in defeat before leaving the room.
Minho shouted after her, "Sending your child to school doesn't make you a good mother -ouch!" He glared at Thomas who had hit his ass with the bat in his hand.
"That's for cheeking my mum and nearly giving both of us a heart attack," he told Minho before throwing himself back on the bed.
"Aw! Come on, shunk-face. It's not my fault your mum screamed. I bet you the neighbors think someone is getting murdered," he said just as the bell rang. "And that's the police! Probably trying to find out who died."
"I hope my mum puts a restraining order against you," came a muffled response from Thomas.
Minho jumped on Thomas's back. "Come on dude! Don't be such an ass." He began shaking Thomas's shoulders who just groaned in annoyance into his pillow.
"I really do not want to ask what is going," a British accent was heard from the door, "but sometimes my curiosity gets the better of me."
Thomas felt his cheeks go red as Minho grinned and turned to look at Newt. "Hey handsome, care to join us?" he joked, adding a wink to the end.
Using this as a chance, Thomas was able to push Minho off. Minho fell to floor again for the second time this morning. "Hey babe!" he called to Thomas who had stood up and was making his way to the bathroom. "I'm sorry! I didn't know you wanted me all to yourself!" Thomas cut him off by slamming the bathroom door closed. He could hear Newt laughing.
"I don't understand how you shanks wake up so damn early," Thomas grumbled as Minho drove them to school. They all had their driving license, but Minho was the only one with the car which was a bad idea. Most of the time Minho nearly got them into car accidents and started fights with other drivers.
"Because some of us actually bother to do our homework," Newt said from the backseat, referring to Thomas.
Minho snorted. "Speak for yourself, man. I wake up early to watch porn while my parents sleep." He beeped at the driver in front of them to go faster.
"And I'm guessing you picked up some tricks and decided to try them on poor Tommy here?" Newt told him, teasing.
"To be fair, Tommy was enjoying it."
"Can we stop?" Thomas snapped. "This is getting-"
"RED LIGHT!" Newt screamed. Minho immediately pulled the brakes just in time. Tense silence filled in the air as everyone caught their breath. Thomas felt as if the traffic light's red glow was laughing at them. He really hated the color red at the moment.
Minho was the first one to speak. "Thanks for almost giving me a heart attack, Newt!" he shouted.
"Hey, hey! Don't go shouting at Newt! He just saved our lives!" Thomas shouted back at Minho. Another tense silence.
"At least we didn't bloody die," Newt said, an attempt to be cheerful.
Minho and Thomas agreed. "Just keep an eye on the road, Minho. Please," Thomas requested. Minho nodded and drove to school a bit more careful, much to Newt and Thomas's relief.
Glade High School was torture. Everyone hated it. The rules were strict, homework piled over and over, and the students felt it was hell. They called the teachers Grievers and despised the company who created the school, WICKED. They had to be careful about what they said about WICKED since some of employ's children studied at Glade High School though you could tell they hated the school and WICKED as much as the ordinary students.
The thing about WICKED was that they were cruel and ruined many lives. See that mall WICKED built? That was a family's home until they forced the family out and brought their house down. See that homeless man with his family? That's what happened to him when he declined a job offer to work with WICKED. It would take forever to list all WICKED's sins though once upon time, according to Thomas's mother, WICKED was a nice company. Yeah right.
However, there had been rumors that WICKED was getting slowly sabotaged by a slowly-rising company called Right Arm. It was started because the founders of Right Arm were done with WICKED's cruelty and decided to play fire with fire. Still, some didn't believe Right Arm was actually sabotaging WICKED. There was no proof that WICKED was getting sabotaged, but people, like Thomas and his friends, clung to the hope that Right Arm would take WICKED down.
Until that happen, the trio were stuck at school hoping to pass the year.
"I think I actually enjoyed that car ride," Thomas commented as he and his friends stepped out of the car. Minho glared at him, but didn't bother coming up with a comeback.
The trio silently walked up to the school's entrance until Newt spoke up. "You guys weren't really having sex, right?"
Minho punched Newt's shoulder. "What the hell, dude. Of course not. You know I'm into girls and even if I were into guys, Thomas wouldn't be my first choice."
"Gee thanks," Thomas said.
"Don't mention it. Just thank God that you ended up a boy, not a girl."
"Thomas as a girl?" Newt snorted with a grin. "Now that would be ugly."
Thomas brought his thumb and finger close, leaving a small space between them. "This is how close I am to punching you both." His friends laughed just as company joined them.
"Punch them? Why?" Teresa asked walking beside them and Newt and Minho scowled. Thomas felt awkward at that moment despite the fact part of Thomas hated Teresa. Once upon a time ago, before Thomas met Newt and Minho (what a peaceful time that had been), he and Teresa were best friends. At one point, Thomas fell in love with her and so did she. However, in high school they had drifted apart.
Teresa had started believing that WICKED was good, but they just couldn't see or understand how. Thomas disagreed. No human should be treated so horrible and unfairly as WICKED treated all of it's victims. Teresa said some extremes had to be taken and at one point said that the victims might have deserved it because they didn't know the whole story. The made Thomas almost hit his head against the wall.
Still, these differences didn't get to them. What made them drift apart properly was the ultimate betrayal. One day, Aris, a childhood friend of Thomas and Teresa's, had found Teresa crying in the parking lot because she was scared of losing Thomas especially since she had realized she loved him. Aris, after finding out that Thomas and Teresa were slowly drifting apart and Teresa had no idea whether Thomas felt the same way about her, had suggested to Teresa that he and her fake date to see how would Thomas react and make him realize he'd lose Teresa if he didn't do something.
Teresa, hopelessly desperate and heart-broken, had agreed to the plan.
Things didn't go well. Thomas, after seeing Teresa and Aris kiss in front of him, pulled Teresa aside and went crazy. How could she do this especially since during the summer Teresa had flirted with him and then kissed him at the end of the summer? How? Teresa started shouting back that they had been drifting off and she had to do that to get his attention and he should have asked her out since they were both clearly interested.
Eventually, after calling off the plan to Aris, Teresa and Thomas patched things up, but this betrayal had left their relationship with Thomas keeping his distance as Teresa tried and tried to again to restore their original friendship. Around the whole Aris-Teresa thing, Newt and Minho, who talked to Thomas only in Gym, had stepped forward to be Thomas's friend clearly realizing how Thomas felt about Teresa.
Three years later, they were in their junior year with things still awkward between Thomas, Teresa, and Aris and Newt and Minho standing by Thomas's side and clearly despising Teresa that it made her give up on trying to be in good terms with Minho and Newt.
"I don't know, but at least we didn't end up fake dating you," Minho said coolly.
"Minho," Thomas snapped halfheartedly.
He waved his hand dismissively. "Whatever," he muttered before walking inside The Glade's hallways. Newt looked at Minho then Thomas before shrugging and walking after Minho.
"What is his problem?" Teresa muttered. "It's been three years."
Three years or three centuries, Thomas wanted to shout, it still hurts, Teresa! It hurts! Instead he just shrugged. "How are you?" he asked, politely. Teresa winced at his formality.
"Tom, it's been three years. I said I was sorry, what else can I do? Stab Aris in the heart? For God's sake, he's dating Rachel now." Rachel was another childhood friend, but Aris was closer to her just like Thomas and Teresa use to be.
"Sounds like a plan and maybe after that I'll make out with Rachel as a way to comfort her," Thomas replied sarcastically. "How's that?"
Teresa winced again. "Tom," she began in a pleading voice, but he cut her off.
"Not now Teresa. It's enough Minho nearly gave my mum a heart attack and nearly did a car accident. I need to be alone," he said and left Teresa with a hurt yet confused expression.
Minho and Newt were standing at the doorway. "What did that bitch want?" Minho asked when Thomas entered. Newt shot his friend a warning look, but Thomas could see Newt thought the same way about Teresa.
"Nothing. She just wanted to talk. Catch up," he answered dismissively. Minho was about to comment, but Newt nudged him in the ribs.
As much as Thomas hated Teresa, a part of him achingly still loved her.
So this story is not Thomas/Teresa story even though they will have their moments. I wanted to focus this Fanfiction about Thomas, Newt and Minho's friendship.
But while we are on this topic, who is your ultimate ship in the Maze Runner series? For me, it has to be Newmas and Trenda (doesn't mean I hate Teresa).
Please tell me what you think x