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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀʀᴋ ᴛʀᴜᴛʜ

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I walked over to Minho, Gally, Alby, Newt, and Thomas, hoping they would let me be a part of their conversation about what had happened to Ben. It had been maybe a week since Ben was put into the maze and Teresa had come up in the box, and nothing has changed, it's been the same the whole week.

Although, the only change there is that Teresa and Thomas have grown closer together quite quickly, and I never got a chance to apologize to thomas because the two of them were always together.

For the whole week I haven't been able to go to sleep, I just lay there in bed all night, thinking. Thinking about Teresa and Thomas, thinking about the glade, thinking about Ben and what he meant by me doing this to everyone.

I was exhausted from lack of sleep, but I didnt want to go to sleep now cause if I go to sleep Im going to start having those dreams that I've been seeing this whole time, and I really wasn't in the mood to have another thing to overthink about.

"What's going on guys?" I asked, peering my head around the corner, and stepped toward the group of boys who looked up curiously at my sudden presence.

"We were just talking about something Teresa had told Thomas." Gally explained vaguely, leaving me confused and a little paranoid. I raised my eyebrow in confusion, hoping someone would quickly explain what he meant by what he said.

"She came up with these in her pockets." Newt took out two small tubes with blue liquid in them, holding his hand out to show me. I frowned, taking them out of his hands and studied every little detail they had. I flipped them over, seeing the branding name had said W.C.K.D.

"It says W.C.K.D." I muttered the comment under my breath as I flipped it over again, making sure there weren't any more clues or helpful hints to tell us anything about them besides where they had come from.

Thomas snatched it from my hands, looking at the branding symbol, clearly they hadn't noticed it before I had told them. I glanced up at Thomas, his eyebrows knitted together in confusion as he handed the tubes to Newt for him to examine them.

"This is the same brand that is written all over the supplies we get." Newt mumbled loudly, glancing between all of us. I glanced at Thomas, wondering if I should talk to him right now about the other night.

Once everyone started to walk away, including Thomas, it was just me and Newt left standing there. I smiled at him awkwardly, me and him haven't really hung out as much as me and Thomas grew a bit closer together, and the tensions within the glade kept Newt busy.

"Want to walk around?" I asked him softly, hoping he would say yes. I missed being close with Newt, and I hoped we could go back to how it was before anything had ever happened. My heart was pounding quickly, I felt I was starting to sweat with nerves, I wasn't sure why I was so nervous, but I didn't want him to say no.

"Yeah alright." We started to walk around the glade, though staying clear of the forest due to what had happened with me and Ben. Things haven't really been the same since Ben was banished into the maze. Ever since he had attacked me I felt a little on alert with everything that was around me, things were starting to change here, and it was becoming dangerous.

"Things are changing..." I blurted out under my breath, looking down at the ground as we walked side by side along the walls of the glade. Newt had glanced at me questionably, though understanding where I was coming from. He just sighed, and didn't say anything for a few moments.

"I know..."

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Because Teresa's appearance was so sudden, we decided to have a Bonfire night for her tonight. Bonfires were a great way for people to forget about our problems and just have fun and chill. Though, this bonfire felt different, people were overthinking, and worried about what has happened for the past few weeks.

Everyone tried their best to have fun, but their thoughts wouldn't leave anyone alone. However, I thought that this would be a perfect time to apologize to Thomas about what happened a few nights ago. I looked around the glade, trying to spot him, he wouldn't be that far away.

I froze in my place, seeing Thomas and Teresa up in the tower looking over at the glade. I watched them closely, seeing them sitting pretty close to each other with their legs hanging off the wood, swinging around. Teresa's hair was blowing in the wind, once again I wished I was as pretty as her, or maybe even prettier than her.

I wasn't sure why or how I just randomly started thinking of Thomas in these situations, but ever since Teresa had said his name first thing, I couldn't stop thinking about Thomas, and no one else.

I continue to watch them, planning on taking my gaze away any moment now, though once I noticed Thomas started to lean in towards her I couldn't look away. I felt frozen in place once I saw her lips softly touching his lips, grazing them gently.

I felt the blood in my body begin to boil in anger, and without even thinking clearly I picked up a pebble off the ground and chucked it in their direction, hitting the post they sat beside. Without even seeing if they had noticed it, I spun around and walked away, not wanting to see them together for the rest of the night.

I groaned in anger as I slumped onto a log, zoning out on the fire, peering at the red and yellow flames that danced around in the air. Newt had sat beside me, sighing in a way that he knew exactly how I was feeling, without even having to ask what was wrong.

I felt dreary as I slightly fell forward from dozing off, though I quickly regained consciousness and caught myself before I was able to fall face first into the fire.

"Are you okay Y/N?" Newt asked, leaning in towards me considerably. I turned to look at him, forcing out a smile and I leaned my head onto his shoulder as I slowly started to fall asleep.

"Im okay..." I muttered under my breath as I slowly fell into darkness that night.

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