A.N.: I know, I know. I'm writing this really fast. But I'm so into it. I can't wait. Hope you guys like it :D

Chapter 5: Stay with me

Once Emma was fully dressed with her clean clothes and left the others to wash she met Newt and Minho outsider the Homestead to go and meet Alby.

"What's the problem?" Alby asked facing the three of them with arms crossed.

"Emma was bathing." Newt started explaining. " And some blody kids were watching her."

The leader took a deap breath. It was obvious that being the leader wasn't always easy and altough Alby had Newt to help him, he always had the final saying.

"Do you remember who they were?" he asked the girl.

"I don't really know them. But I know their faces." she started. "They were at the party yesterday on Gally's group."

Alby noded while his eyes wandered with no direction.

"Well, tonight you will tell me if you see them at dinner and I'll take care of the rest. Now Jeff is waiting for you. Me and these two shucks are going to talk about what to do."

Emma turned away from the boys with a small polite smile and walked towards the med-jacks cot where a dark skinned boy was waiting for her. He smiled when he saw her.

"Emma. I'm so happy you chose to be one of us." He said welcoming her. "Well today we are pretty calm. If things go the right way what you'll be doing regularly are some patching ups and cleaning wounds. So I'm going to show where everything is and what does it do."

"Do the boys injure themselves that much?" she asked.

"Well, runners come here daily. Sometimes they're muscles don't handle all the running to well and they need rest. Sometimes they fall too and need some stitches." He explained " Builders sometimes injure themselves since their work is pretty much physical."

"And Minho? What's wrong with him?" she asked causing Jeff to smile.

"He's a tough one. I fel and a rock cut open most of his thigh." The boy explained.

"That doesn't seem like only a scratch, like he said."Emma stated.

"Like I said, he's a tough one. But he'll be good to go in two more days." Concluded Jeff before he started to explain eveything that Emma needed to know.

Emma was surprised how much fun she had knowing about all the meds. Most of them were creams made by Jeff and the rest came with the supplies. She felt like she had done the right decision.

At dinner she met Alby and Newt, like requested, and searched for the two who were spying on her that morning.

"Those two." She said taking a bite of her sandwich and pointing at two boys.

Alby sighed.

"Well. A night in the slammer will do." Newt said.

"That's not enough." Minho said sitting next to Emma. "I've heard the boys talking about her. It's disgusting. I was tempted to punch one of those clunks."

"So what do you suggest?" Newt asked " To throw them into the bloody Maze?"

"No. They are stupid shucks. But not tha much they they need to… " Minho didn't finished his sentence, but he didn't need to. "Anyway, she can't sleep out in the open or bath alone. They're peeking now, but someone might remember the birds and the bees."

Emma didn't know how she knew what that meant, but she frowned. Everyone was silent and they knew that Minho was right.

"We'll decide what to do after I take care of those two." Alby said getting up from the table and walking towards the two boys and Newt followed him leaving Minho and Emma.

"Look Emma." Minho said locking eyes with her. "I promised you I wouldn't let anything happen to you and I won't."

"Why are you so concerned?" the brunette asked blinking away from his gaze for a few seconds but coming back to eye contact.

"I don't know. " the asain answered "But I can't leave you sleepingamong everyone. We, the gladers, are a family, but a family always has its problems."

"I talked to Alby. There's no rooms free or available to take a rommate at the homestead."Emma pointed out.

"There's one. Mine." Minho stated.

"What are you suggesting Minho?." She asked though she didn't needed to.

"Stay with me. Please." Minho asked as if he was begging. "I'll protect you."

Emma couldn't help but smile and blush at this offer.

"Thank you." She whispered with a warm smile that was returned by her new guardian.