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Alright, so this chapter I want to know what your favorite song is. Mine is "Fourth of July" By Fall Out Boy. Also, I love quotes too so if you have any good ones you should definitely let me know. Love you all, let's get this story started.
"The torture of small talk with someone you used to love"
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Alby quickly starts barking orders, telling everyone where to go and what to do. I'm about to run off and do something useful when he grabs my hand.
"You need to stay here and stop the bleeding, the Greenie is going to be here any minute and we can't let him see any of this, okay?" Alby seems a little panicked, but it's clear he has this under control. I nodded unable to form any words. He takes off, running towards the box. I look down at Gally and take a deep breath, I've got this. I see what Alby is talking about and I push down hard on the long deep cut on Gally's side. Clint runs up to me and slides down next to me.
"I need you to hold him down, this is a new batch, but we still don't know what will happen once we give it to him." I don't answer because a part of me is terrified, I mean what if what happened to George happens to Gally. I shake that thought off and straddle Gally's hips. I take his wrist and pin him down. He's barely conscious but his head keeps turning side to side and he's mumbling under his breath. "You ready?" Clint looks up at me, making sure I'm okay. I nod at him and push his wrist into the ground. I watch Clint take a deep breath before giving him the shot. Gally's whole body tenses up before going limp. My eyes widen and I check for a pulse. I give out a relieved sigh when it's still there.
"We need to get Gally to the Homestead and tie him up. We don't know how long he's going to be this calm for," I say to Clint, standing up. Clint stands up and pulls a limp Gally up, wrapping an arm around him. I wrap his other arm around me and we head towards the Homestead. I turn my head in the direction of the box surprised to see the newbie. Usually, I just show up and see them wandering around. This breaks my heart. He's sitting on the ground, rocking back and forth, tears falling down his eyes. Part of me wants to run over and help him but we have to take care of Gally first. I see a kid walking past us and I ask him to take my spot before Clint has a chance to ask where I'm going, I say.
"I'm going to go get some rope to tie him down with." And I take off sprinting to the map room. I grab my key and with shaky hands, I unlock the weapon chamber door. I rush in, looking around frantically for a rope. The entire time I'm mumbling to myself before I finally find it. I slam the door shut behind me and lock it. I start sprinting again, once I'm in the homestead though I freeze. I hear an animal like scream come from above me. I have to catch my breath. This could end up just like last time. Someone could get hurt. Someone can die. I shake the thoughts out of my head and take off upstairs. When I get into the room my eyes widen. Gally is thrashing around the bed, going completely insane. The random kid and Clint sit on him trying to keep him still.
"It took you long enough!" Clint yells and I can't help laughing when his hand slips and Gally ends up hitting him. I run over, grabbing Gally's hand and I tie it down. I do this to all of his limbs only getting hit like six times. One of his feet hits me in the nose though, so now my nose is bleeding. I yell out fuck, but it ends up coming out more like shuck, with all the blood in my mouth. Clint gives me a weird look, raising an eyebrow at me. I tie down his last foot, glaring at it.
Clint and the kid get off of him, breathing hard. Gally is still thrashing around and screaming, but at least now he isn't fighting us. I actually get a good look at him and I grimace. He does not look good at all. His veins are sticking out and they're a sickly blue color. The rest of his skin is a gross grey color, and his screaming isn't even human. I look over at Clint, and he smirks at me.
"Did you really just say shuck?" He and the other kid start laughing so hard they have to hold their stomachs.
"Yes, now if you don't stop shucking laughing, I'm going to shucking stab you," I say with a small smirk, crossing my arms. Their laughing immediately stops. I walk over to Gally, moving some of his sweaty hair out of his eyes.
"Are you sure that stuff is going to help him?" Clint just shrugs and shakes his head.
"Only time can tell now."
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I'm in the map room, studying the maps when Newt and Minho finally get back. I really just needed to get away from all the chaos going on out there. I mean we have a newbie and Gally gets stung all on the same day. Talk about weird.
Newt is out of breath but he's smiling a little bit. "How's it going, love?" But then he notices my nose and his smile fades. "What the bloody hell did you do to your nose?" I just huff at him and keep going through the maps. Newt and Minho give each other a look before starting to draw their own map of the day. They start saying their directions out loud at the same time, which sounded kind of creepy. When they're finally done, they sit on either side of me.
"What happened?" Minho says gently. I just look at him and roll my eyes. Freaking runners.
"We had a Greenie come up in the box today," I say still looking at the maps. I get two very confused looks. "And Gally got stung." I hear both of their breathing stops and I look up at them. Newt has a very concerned look on his face, while Minho just looks confused. Shocker.
"How did Gally get stung? He's not even a runner. Does he even have a job?" I roll my eyes, clearly annoyed at him. Newt puts his hand on top of mine and I give a "what are you doing" look.
"Did he hurt anyone, is he okay?" I know what he's really asking though. Did he hurt you? Is he dead? And I sigh putting my head in my hands.
"Clint gave him the new serum, but he doesn't look very good. He keeps thrashing around and screaming. This was the only place you can't really hear him at. The Newbie is freaked. I mean I'm freaked too." I feel a hand rubbing my back and I almost flinch away from it, but I don't. I look up at them. "One of his feet slipped from my hands when were tying him up and he ended up kicking me in the nose. Clint says it's just bruised and that I'll be fine in a couple days."
"I still don't understand how he got stung, did the griever come into the Glade or..." His voice trails off. His eyes widen and he looks at me. "No way, Gally went into the maze?" Minho sounds like he can't even believe it himself. I nod.
"No one knows why or how far he got, we just heard him scream and we watched him crawl out. Alby is pissed, I don't even want to know what Nick is going to do." We all look away. We know what might happen. We only had three set rules, and they were all punished by banishment. Though all the Keepers had to vote on it first when it came to this rule. We don't even have all the Keepers picked out yet though. Everything is going to hell, and we've only been here a few months.
"What is Nick going to do about what?" We all jump when he jogs in, I let out a deep sigh and lay my head on the table. "What's her problem?" I see Nick's feet under the table and I kick him. He cries out and I laugh, that made me feel a little better. I look up at him and he just rolls his eyes and begins to draw out his map. We wait until he's done and I explain the whole thing again to him. Nick sighs and puts his head in his hands. He's obviously stressed. About two weeks ago we voted him the "official" leader of the Glade. Ever since then, he's been trying to get everything into some sort of order. It hasn't been going very well, and this obviously wasn't helping.
"I'm going to go check up on him," He gives us all a look, "You guys are in charge of the bonfire tonight, don't fuck it up." He gets up to leave but before he can I say.
"You mean, don't shuck it up," I smirk at him. They all give me the weirdest look, but there was a small smile on Nick's face as he leaves.
"Did you really just say shuck?" Minho asks? I just smile at him and get up, we have a bonfire to get ready for.
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"Are you sure you know what you're doing?" Frypan asks me handing me random supplies. Gally always made this special drink for the bonfire. Got us all to...loosen up a bit. It all started when some kid sent a message the creators asking for booze, and to all of our surprise, they did. We asked for a lot of other stuff after that, like a T.V., some movies, and a lot of other stupid stuff we never got. But it was worth a try. Before the first bonfire, Gally had spent the entire day trying to come up with the perfect drink. Finally about an hour before the bonfire, he figured it out and ever since then it's been a tradition.
"I've watched Gally make this stuff at least.." I pause and think. "How many Greenies have there been?" Frypan just laughs and rolls his eyes. If I'm being honest though, I have no idea what I'm doing, but so far, it doesn't taste to bad. I grab a cup and hand it to Frypan. "Tell me what you think." I'm nervous, I mean, it could be completely wrong and you never know with alcohol.
"Cheers." Frypan takes a swig and my eyes go wide, I mean that's a lot all at once. He immediately starts coughing and I wince.
"How did you manage to make it even stronger" He's laughing though and I smile, tonight's going to be fun.
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"Newt, you can't stack the wood like that! It's all going to fall down." I roll my eyes and walk over to him. I start moving everything around while he just stands there shaking his head. Once I'm done I step back and look at it smiling. "See, that's how you do it." Newt just rolls his eyes.
"Mine was way better!" He counters. I just cross my arms, mirroring his stance, smirking at him. He huffs. "Okay, yours is better." I throw my arms up in victory.
"I win!" He laughs at me and pretty soon we're both laughing. "Ready to light this shit up?" I ask him. He smiles and pretty soon we're both running around. We start screaming things like "Bonfire's starting soon" and "We're about to light shit up". Other people start screaming too until almost all the Gladers are gathered around. We all get ready to light the fire. I grab the sticks with dry hay at the end lighting them each on fire before handing them out. Nick's running around trying to get all the guys excited. When he runs past me he smirks and lets out a very excited "Wooooo" grabbing one of the sticks from me. I can't help but laugh and I do the same. Once all the sticks are handed out I go and stand by Minho, he's laughing too. He looks down at me.
"Why don't you have a stick?" I blush and smirk up at him.
"I ask myself that question every day, I guess the Creators made a mistake." A very bright blush pops up on Minho's face and I start laughing even harder then I was earlier. He pushes me over gently shaking his head.
"Here, hold on to mine, and don't you dare say anything dirty." His blush doesn't cease, but I smile up at him, holding on to his. Nick yells.
"Let's light this baby up, 3, 2, 1!" On one we all throw our sticks in, and everyone starts hooping and hollering. Frypan comes over and lifts me up, spinning me around. I can't help but laugh. Once he sets me down I go over to where they're keeping "Gally's drink' which is what we're calling it. I fill my glass half full and then walk over to Nick. When he sees me his eyes light up.
"Sophia, come over here!" His voice is slurred and I roll my eyes at him. I stand by him and he throws his arm over my shoulders, pulling me closer. "Thank you sooo much for planning this for me, it helped me out soooo much." He starts laughing again lifting up his drink offering it to me.
"I've got my own, thanks though." I listen to him and another kid talk back and forth for a while, just watching everyone. I haven't seen everyone this happy in a while. I mean these things are always a lot of fun, but this one feels different. Which is weird considering how chaotic today has been. I finish my drink and nudge Nick so he'd take his arm off of me. I head over to refill mine when I see the greenie sitting alone, on the verge of tears. I sigh and grab a drink for him and me. I plop down next to him.
"What's up Greenie?" He looks down at wide-eyed. I raise an eyebrow and smirk at him. "It's almost like you've never seen a girl before." His mouth opens and closes unable to form words. "Yes, I am the only girl here and no, we don't know why I'm the only one." I take a long swig, coughing a little. I hand him his drink.
"Drink up, it'll help." He looks at it hesitantly before taking a swig himself, I smirk at him. He spits it out coughing hard, so hard his eyes begin to water.
"What is this?" He coughs out. I start laughing.
"It's this drink that Gally makes, crazy strong." I take another swig of mine and he looks at me like I'm crazy, which makes me laugh again. We sit there in silence before he turns to me.
"What's behind those walls?" His voice is quiet. Like he's scared to ask. I give him a small smile.
"I can't tell you everything, you'll go crazy thinking about it. But out there, "I gesture with my drink, "Is the maze. Only us runners are allowed out. If anyone else goes out there, they get in huge ass trouble. It's one of our three rules, which Nick has probably told you about already, "He nods. "Everyday the runners run it, praying that we see something, or we find an exit. So far we haven't. It's harder than it sounds though because the maze changes every single night." He goes a little pale, take a small sip of his drink. "Now that's all you're going to get for tonight, so try to relax and have little fun."
It's almost as if someone was eavesdropping on us because suddenly I'm lifted in the air. I let out a little scream and start half ass kicking and hitting the person holding me. I'm set down right next to Minho and I glare up at the person who carried me over here.
"I have legs Newt." He laughs and literally falls down next to me.
"Sorry, love, we just missed you." His voice is very slurred. I just roll my eyes and laugh. He's so going to regret this in the morning.
I'm sitting next to all my favorite people and I smile happily. I lay down, my head resting on Minho's backpack that he insists on taking everywhere he goes. Newt's head falls into my lap and Minho's head falls on my shoulder, and it just makes me laugh harder.
"Are you ever going to come running with us again!" Minho yells. His voice is also very slurred. I look over at Clint and he nods.
"I'm going the day after tomorrow, gotta get the bruising on my nose to go down." Nick's smile fades and he glares at it.
"I'm going to kill Gally when he wakes up." Okay, Ben and I are the only sober ones here, good to know. Newt makes himself comfortable and closes his eyes.
"If he wakes up." At that everyone around us goes quiet. I glare down at Newt and flick his ear. He jumps a little and looks up at me like "What the hell".
"That was very uncalled for mister." I shake my head, the mister part got a few laughs and that subject is completely dropped. I start to play with Newt's hair which is getting pretty long. He refuses to let me cut it after an incident with Nick's hair a month ago. He closes his eyes again, relaxing. I look up a little, trying not to wake Minho, and I look at my group of friends. I smile happily, everyone's pretty close to falling asleep, I mean I can feel Minho snoring. I sigh in content. Today was hard, but also really good. I'm still worried about Gally, but I'm really happy I'm here with these people. As I look up at the stars, I slowly fall asleep.
