Chapter 21:
Avery heard the commotion coming from the Homestead. She decided to check out what was going on. She was just about to walk in when something heavy landed on her. She looked up and saw the coma girl on top of her looking confused.
"Francesca? What are you doing here?" Avery looked at this girl confused.
"ummm, my name is Avery. And I should be asking why are you here?" Avery replied. This girl was crazy.
"Oh, Avery. Nice. And you don't know who I am. Teresa. And do you know where Thomas is?" Teresa asked her.
"I might have a feeling of where he could be. Follow me, I am pretty sure you don't want a pile of boys following you." Avery said and took off into a run. Teresa followed her. They both ran into Deadheads. Avery running towards the wal at the end. That's where Thomas slept these past nights. When they got there, he was sitting against the stone. His eyes closed.
"Thomas." Avery said shaking him. He nearly smacked her.
"Shuck Avery. Don't scare me like..." Thomas trailed off when he seen who was behind her. Avery looked back at Teresa. Teresa looked at Avery.
"Okay enough with the staring contests, Thomas this is Teresa, Teresa this is Thomas. And Thomas I only brought her in here because she wanted to see you."Avery said, a little annoyed. Thomas nodded.
"Okay." Avery and Thomas both looked towards Teresa waiting for her to start talking.
"So, Teresa. You, um, want to start talking before Alby shows up?" Teresa nodded.
"I remember a little bit from my life outside the maze." She started. "Not much. Only enough to know that the three of us are important to W.I.C.K.E.D. Francesca they are running tests on you right now." Avery gasped. How did she know this. "And Thomas they are keeping a secret from both you and Francesca."
"Oh really." Thomas looked at her. Teresa looked like she was about to say something else but Newt broke through the clearly with Clint and a few others.
"There she is. What's your name? Do you remember anything?" Newt asked her, coming right up in her face. Teresa shook her head.
"No, I don't remember anything. If I did, I would only speak to Francesca, or Avery or whatever you called her." Teresa mumbled. Anger was growing more and more on Clint's face.
"Alright smart mouth. A few days in the slammer, should get something out of you." he stated. "Avery you will visit her everyday to tell us if she has said anything. Got it?" He look towards the first girl Glader. Avery nodded.
"Got it." she said.
"Good, Newt bring.." he stopped, "What's your name Shuckface?" he said looking at Teresa.
"Teresa." She responded.
"Newt bring Teresa to the slammer. I will call a gathering, on what to do with her." Clint said as he started walking away.
An hour later Avery was sitting next to Minho again in the gathering. The last time she was in here was when they had a gathering about Thomas.
"So, another girl shows up in the Glade with a note, saying that she's the last one every. What are the thoughts on this?" Newt asked. Winston stood up. About to speak when Gally jumped up.
"I'll tell ya what. This girl is just going to cause us trouble. That's what my thoughts are about it. Is W.I.C.K.E.D. Thinks that this is funny messing around with our minds, then they got another thing..." Gally was cut off by Newt.
"Alright Gally I hear ya. Shut your bloody mouth." Newt said and wrote something down. Newt then looked up and looked at Avery.
"Avery you a girl, tell us what you think?" He said. Avery cleared her throat.
"Well, did you guys through me out when I came up?" She asked them. A lot of the said no, two said that they wanted to but wouldn't now.
"Exactly. We shouldn't punish her. She is going through the same thing that we are. We can do anything to her. And W.I.C.K.E.D. Is probably messing with our minds. It can't be true, maybe they wanted to play a joke on us." Avery continued. " Plus it's nice to have another girl around, instead of all you smelly boys." Avery sat down. "But you love us anyways." Frypan joked. Some of them laughed. Avery rolled her eyes. That's when she started to feeling like punching him. Acutally she felt like punching everyone. Angry was rolling off her for no reason what so every. It was only a joke. Why am I so worked up. Wait a minute, W.I.C.K.E.D. Must had heard me talking about them. This is one of their tests. Think about Minho. So Avery did. It was really hard. She started tapping her foot on the floor. She slumped down in her chair. Nothing was working. She was only thinking about Minho. Then she noticed his hand, just sitting there on his knee. Hold it. It will calm you. She sat up again this time she held his hand. He looked at her and smiled. And held her hand back. Avery could feel the anger slip away, almost as if it was never there. n