A.N.: Here i tis ^^ Hope you like it and thank you for all the support. Maybe tomorrow I'll post more than one chapter ;)
Chapter 10: Punch
That morning Minho had already left for his first day on the maze after his "injury vacation", altough it was still pretty early in the morning.
Emma didn't dream in this second sleep of hers which made her feel quite happy.
When she was ready for the day, nEwt joined her for breakfast. The blonde seemed to be carrying some bad news.
"What's wrong Newt?" she asked. "You look like you smelled something… something klunky."
The boy laughed at how bad the slang sounded when it came from her. Emma smiled back at him taking a bit of her red apple.
"You eat a lot of apples." Newt pointed out.
"Don't talk your way out of telling me what's wrong." She demanded. "Speak."
"You need to know something." The blonde informed with his serious look coming back to his face "The Gladers have been talking."
"About you and Minho." He confessed with a sigh " I don't really believe the rumors. I don't see you as that type of girl, but I feel the need to warn you. Look… hm… I don't think that we are ready to have baby Gladers around here."
Emma confused face expression quickly turned into a frown.
"Baby Gladers?" she asked in a high pitch with anger. "What? Me and Minho… You think that I…? What? Are you out of your mind shank?"
Newt instantly regretted his choice of words and wished that he had ignored every rumor.
"Look. I'm sorry." The blonde apoligized shamefully looking at his knees. "That's just what is being said around the Glade."
"What is exactly being said? And mostly, who said it first?" Emma not abgry at Newt anymore, but still angry at the rumor.
"That you and Minho are sharing the bed and that it's not for bloody sleeping." He confessed "I've heard it from a couple of builders, but they've heard it from Gally."
"Unbelievable!" she cried furious.
"I'm sorry Emma." Newt apoligized once more.
"It's not your fault." Emma forced a small smile on her lips "I have to go now to work now."
That said Emma got up and started walking, but before she went to the Med-jacks cot, she stopped by the builders.
"Gally!" she called the boy.
Gally turned to face her and walked towards the girl.
"What do you want?" he asked in his rude tone.
"I've heard some things that you said about me." Emma blurted out.
"It's not like they are not true." Gally muttered rolling his eyes causing the other bulders around them to laugh.
"What is it that it's true?" the brunette saked raising na eyebrow.
"That you're a shucking whore." Gally said making the laughter go on.
Before Emma could control her instincts, her fist was smacking Gally's jaw causing him to stumble back.
The laughter stopped and a geagly silent filled the hair, Gally's face was filled with shock, anger and confusion but Emma left before he could anything.
Once the girl was on the med-jacks cot her hazel eyes were bloodshot and covered with tears. She has broken the rules. She had hurt another Glader. A keeper.
"Emma?" Clint asked noticing her.
The keeper got close to her noticing the dark bruises on her nuckles.
"What happened?" he asked.
"I- I punched Gally." Emma confessed. "He called me a whore."
Clint wasn't used to deal with girls, espeacially not crying ones, but he grabbed her arm and lead her to a room where he treated her bruised hand.
"The shuck deserved it Emma. I don't believe his hurt enough, but still, he deserved it." Clint said at the sobbing Emma.
She felt stupid. Among so many boys she felt the need to look tough, now she was crying because she was called na whore and because she hit someone.
"But… he's a keeper." She whispered.
"A dumb one." Clint pointed. "He's a slinthead."
Emma slightly smilled at the comment.
"See? Much better." The boy said not only referring to her smile, but to her bandaged hand.