One more to go... this chapter is more like a filler for the last chapter. So it is really, really short. Like, this has 922 words only.
Have fun reading!!!
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3rd Person POV
Mae woke up the a few days later to someone's soft breath fanning her neck. She smiled when she saw Newt's sleeping face pressed into her neck. They spent the entire night before talking and cuddling while Newt sneaked in a few kisses here and there. Not that Mae was complaining.
They hadn't told anyone that they were together. But everyone knew that they were friends again. Minho and Frypan could tell that something had happened to them. They knew something was going on between the two and Mae knew that they would figure it out soon.
Mae began to maneuver herself out of Newt's arms, careful not to wake him up. Newt had somehow gotten Alby to let him take a day off from running, and Mae didn't want to wake him up on the only day he could sleep in.
"No." He groaned, tightening his grip on her waist when he felt her begin to move. "Don't leave."
Newt, baby, you are the one that took the day off. Not me. I still have to go.
"But Maaaeee," he began to whine. "I'll be lonely without you."
He heard her laugh. Wow, who would've thought that sleepy Newt is a child.
"Am not!" Newt whined dramatically.
That just proved my point. She gave him a kiss on the cheek. I have a break around noon. Get some more sleep and we can hang out then, yeah?
Mae only got a snore in reply. She laughed lightly in her head, careful not to do it in his. After untangling himself from his grip, Mae left to get ready.
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"Mae, can you get me another bag of flour?" Neil asked, another cook in the Glade.
Neil was a nice boy. He was probably a year older than her and had a sweet tooth. He is one of the first people to try all of Mae's weird concoctions she makes to see if they are good or not.
She nodded and went to the back, grabbing a new bag of flour before coming back to hand it to Neil. Neil said thank you, opening the bag up and pouring a third of its contents into a bowl.
"So, what's going on between you and Newt?" Neil asked casually.
She looked at him curiously. "I don't know what you are talking about."
Neil was a terrible lip reader so she wrote it down instead.
"Sure you don't." Neil said, a smirk on his lips. "Can you hand me that spoon over there?"
Mae nodded, grabbing the spoon for him and handing it to him.
It was quiet for the next few minutes, all you could hear was Neil stirring the flour in with the eggs. Mae left the room, not being able to stand being in there. The atmosphere was so tense and awkward.
Luckily, for her, she just so happened to run into one of her favorite people: Will.
"Hey Mae!" Will greeted her, a big smile on his dirt-covered face. Will had recently got the position of a track-hoe, and Mae couldn't be any happier for him.
"Hey Willie." Mae greeted, pulling him into a hug.
"How's the cooking going?"
Mae shrugged. "Okay."
"That's good!" Will was such a enthusiastic kid. Mae sometimes felt winded just listening to him talk on and on and on. "Zart was showing me how to pull weeds out of the ground all the way so when it was my turn to give it a try, I pulled the weed out but dirt flew all over Zart! You should've seen it Mae! It was amazing!"
Mae laughed. "I wish I could have."
Will have her a bright smile, showing his white teeth.
"Hey there greenie." Newt walked up to them. "Hello love."
Hey Newt. Glad to see you're up.
Mae teased him, knowing that he couldn't reply without Will wondering why he said what he said.
"Hey Newt!" Will greeted cheerfully, happy to see that Mae and Newt were talking again.
"How's being a track-how, coming?" Newt asked Will.
He's green eyes brightened. "Oh it's great! It's actually quite fun!"
Newt laughed at his enthusiasm. "If I hadn't become a runner I was told my next job would've been a track-how."
"Really?" Will asked in disbelief.
"Yeah." Newt nodded.
"That is so cool!" Will bounced on the balls on his feet. "We could've worked together! That would've been so much fun! I was just telling Mae here about what happened today. Zart was teaching me-"
There he goes again. Mae mused.
Newt casted her a glance.
Once he starts you can't stop him. But you get use to it after a while. Mae said. Newt lifted his eyebrow at her, silently asking her if that was true.
Nope. Good luck stopping him.
Mae gave him a wink before waving goodbye to them, pointing back to the kitchen. Will got the message.
"-okay. Bye Mae!" Will said before continuing on with his story-telling to Newt.
Mae smirked, turning around to see Newt looking over his shoulder, giving her a glare.
Mae just gave another wave, but more taunting than the last.