*Hello! Because I felt like the last chapter needed an explanation, and I felt like clarifying things (although this chapter does not really manage to clarify anything either). Anyhoo, I hope this will make it easier to bear with the story for the time being. It'll become clear in the future, I promise. There's a (semi) logical explanation for their behaviour.
4.5
(154 days ago- right after the banishment)
From the boys.
Alby looked over at Minho.
'If we made it seem so convincing…' Minho said, 'Why does it seem so wrong?'
Newt stared at the gates of the maze, silently agreeing to their discussion.
The dark-skinned leader turned away, a sick feeling rising in her stomach. There was an inexplicable thought in his head- that she was going to bring about the doom of everyone here, yet seeing her so cruelly torn from a perfectly peaceful life had shaken him up completely. Right about now, he couldn't really believe what he had done.
'Why did we think it was a good decision?'
Minho shrugged. 'I don't know. It made me mad. Like it was… like the tattoo meant something it wasn't supposed to. Like she knows too much.'
'Like she wasn't supposed to be in the Glade,' Alby agreed. 'Like something horrible was going to happen if she doesn't go.'
Newt scowled. 'She's just a girl stuck in the middle of this mess. I think we were shrouded by our bloody tempers. And for some reason, we didn't wake up the next morning- only could wake up after she's gone.'
They stared out into the maze, three of them with the same thoughts in mind, yet not knowing how to get them across to each other.
It was Minho who opened his mouth first.
'I think we should get her back.'
Alby snapped his head towards him. 'Why?' he asked sharply.
'Because I don't want her blood on my hands,' Minho answered just as harshly, but that obviously wasn't the only reason he had in mind. The regret was strong in his mind. He wished he hadn't acted on his anger- that was always his problem: he was too quick tempered. Someday he knew that it would be the death of him.
Neither of the leaders of the Glade answered. But it was kind of clear that they didn't have to.
'And face it, it was bloody ridiculous, banishing someone just because of a shuckin' tattoo,' Newt added.
