I catch up to Newt when he's just outside the computer room door. The sign on it reads 'Room C'.
'Newt, are you sure this is safe?' I whisper, scared we're going to get caught.
'No. But let's do it anyway,' he replies.
He slowly turns the handle and opens the door. I'm surprised by the fact that the door is actually unlocked, let alone the fact that the room has no people in it.
Newt puts a finger to his lips and raises his eyebrows at me, telling me to be quiet. I pretend to zip my mouth shut. Then he hesitantly steps into the room, and gestures for me to follow him.
'Are you kidding me?' I murmur under my breath, then step inside the room myself.
I'm blown away by the computer room. We should have called it the screen room. There are screens covering every inch of every wall. Screens between desks in the middle of the room. Screens everywhere. Then I turn my attention to what is actually on the screens. Most of screens lining the walls have images of what looked like a large, grassy plane. The images were moving ever so slightly, as if there were tiny cameras scuttling around on the grass. Some of the screens lining the wall have pictures (or should I say footage?) of huge stone walls. The stone walls appear to be put together to form some odd sort of maze. The screens in between the desks in the middle of the room had faces on them, each face with a little sentence next to it. I walked cautiously over to the desks, and got a better look at the faces. I gasped when I saw my face. Next to my face the sentence reads 'Group A, Subject A0, The Last.' I gasp again when I see Newt's face, a few spaces above mine. 'Group A, Subject A5, The Glue.' Then I see Minho's face, and Gally's, and Thomas', and Teresa's…
'Emmy?'
I turn around and see Newt right behind me.
'Yeah?'
'What in the name of hell is this place?
I open my mouth to try to answer but then jump at the sound of footsteps coming our way. Newt looks at me with frightened eyes.
'Quick, hide!' He whispers.
He grabs my hand, sending shivers up my arm and down my spine, and pulls me towards a desk right in the corner of the room. We scramble under it and pull a chair close to us. I squeeze my eyes tight and hope that whoever comes in doesn't see us. I hear two people walk into the room. I sneak a look and see it's Teresa and Thomas. They sure do spend a lot of time in here. At that moment I realise that Newt's arms around me, clutching me close to him. I blush, which seems like such a stupid thing right now. Thomas and Teresa step closer to us, and Newt pulls me closer. We're so close now I can hear the fast thump of his heartbeat.
'Don't you think they'll notice the cameras?' Thomas says.
'All they'll notice are strange, lizard-like creatures. With their memory gone and all, they'll have bigger things to worry about.'
My mouth hangs open. I make a silent wish they aren't talking about us. But deep down, I know they're talking about all of us whose faces are on those screens. But then why are their faces on the screens?
'There are some very smart people going in there, Teresa. Surely Alby or Newt or someone will realise they're cameras.'
I feel Newt's heartbeat quicken at the mention of his name. I grip his hand tightly.
'Just relax, Tom. They'll be fine. I'm telling you - the Maze Trials will be a success.'
'How do you know?'
'I just do.'
Silence.
'What about us, Teresa? When we go up there? How do you think we'll cope?'
'I don't know, Tom. I don't know,' Teresa whispers so softly I have to really strain my ears to hear her.
Thomas exits the room abruptly. I hear Teresa sniff, like she's crying.
'Tom, wait!'
And then they're both gone.
