anemoia || a maze runner fanfiction (Newt x reader // Minho x reader)

chapter nine | ?????

You slowly looked up and gave him a cracked smile "Yeah, you know I was just thinking about...", "Minho?" Hank now also joined the conversation, "Yes. I- I just don't get it. What have I done wrong? If it weren't for me, he would be in the maze, probably dead - So why on earth is he angry with me? Why does he need to torture me by disregarding me. I just don't get it, I'm sorry" You said and your voice grew more desperate with every word you spoke. You were tired of always having the same questions on your mind and it felt like it might explode.

"You don't need to be sorry, love" Newt said with a calming voice and put his hand over yours, which laid on the table. "Maybe he is embarrassed? It might have been uncomfortable for Minho that he needed to be saved" Leo thought out loud and joined the conversation with his theory. "That might be true. He's always so self-assured, maybe the need to be saved offended him" Hank took up Leos theory. "But we're friends, he shouldn't be offended because someone saved him from getting killed. Why would anyone be so sensitive and completely ignore the other person?"

"Y/n is right, that might be a little bit too unreasonable. Maybe you get the chance to speak to him during bonfire night?" Newt suggested after sharing his thoughts about the theory. "Bonfire night? Isn't it only celebrated when a new Glader arrives?" you asked and looked confused into the faces of your friends "Right, Greenbean... well today is the last day I get to call you that'' Hank grinned in your direction, you just sighted "I don't get it", but Leo came to your rescue from your cluelessness "Well, today a newbie will arrive" he explained and looked between you and Hank.

"What?" you asked with a gasp. You've been in the Glade for one month? How is this even possible? It felt like you arrived last week, you were not ready to leave your status as "the greenie", you felt like you weren't ready to be a 'real' Glader. "Is everything okay?" Newt asked while still resting his hand on yours, but because of Leo and Hank you just nodded. You would have told Newt your thoughts and concerns, but not Hank nor Leo even if you would call them your best friends, you did feel even more comfortable around Newt.

"Wow, most Greenies are happy when they're not 'the new one' anymore" Hank said while gesturing quotation marks and Leo nodded to Hanks remark, "Is there something wrong with-", but before Leo could continue his question, there was a piercing alarm all around the Glade. Everyone put their hands over their ears, even Newt and after he took his hand from yours, the back of your hand was greeted with the cool air - only now you realized the comfort you've gained from Newt's touch, which now was gone and you longed for it back.

But for now your priority was to protect your ears as the alarm did not seem to stop any time soon. "What is that?" you screamed over the loud alert, "That's the signal that a new Greenie will arrive" Newt yelled back and tried to explain, but you barely were able to understand a word. The alarm seemed to go on for forever and your hands grew tired from resting on your ears, Hank seemed to be the most annoyed by the alarm as he would not stop rolling his eyes and groaning - but maybe he was just his exaggerating-self.

After about two minutes the alarm abruptly stopped. You sighed in relief and took your hands from your ears, everyone on the table did the same. As soon as the alarm had stopped every Glader ran or jogged towards the metal doors in the ground, where the box was apparently about to arrive. "I don't know about you shanks, but I wanna see the new Greenie" Hank said in excitement and sprinted towards the box, "I'll also go and see the arrival, will I see you guys there?" Leo asked and looked between you and Newt, but somehow his gaze always seemed to shift towards you with a hopeful look in his green eyes. His eyes were so piercing green, yet so deep that it reminded you of fresh fern in the evening of a hot summer day.

"Yeah, we will see you there" you assured him and gave him a smile, as you had the feeling that Leo somehow expected an answer rather from you than from Newt. After your answer he gave both of you a bright smile and jogged after Hank. You looked after them, smiling, they were such different characters, yet you needed both of them in your life - both kinds of moments in your life: The quiet and the loud ones. "Shouldn't we also get going?" you asked as you turned back towards Newt.