CORNERED | TMR Minho X Reader

Chapter 18 - Together

Y/n could see the sun again. Meet her parents. Did she have siblings? Friends? She could live with Minho somewhere. The world outside would be so peaceful... the nature she remembered there being was striking. The piece of a real forest and no stone walls.

Minho thought all of the same things. He thought of a life with y/n as well. He thought of the sun, the grass, the city. The beauty of it all.

There was hope.

*☆*

When they returned to the glade their hopeful stamina was not forgotten. They turned the corner, arriving just in time for breakfast. The grey sky gloomy but something other than dark, at least.

When the gladers at the entrance saw Minho and a limping y/n step onto the grass their faces lit up. Y/n saw Newt nearly crying, Frypan's arm around his shoulder. She heard her and Minho's names being spoken.

Minho rushed over to Newt and by then everyone was aware of the couple returned from the dead. But there was little celebration due to the horrors of their situation. Newt only clapped them both on the shoulder with relief.

And y/n got straight to the point.

"We found a way out" she said, loud enough for the gathered Gladers to hear.

They scoffed, but when proccesing the truthfulness they heard in her tone they grew excited. Newt looked over at her with hopeful but questioning eyes.

"It's true shanks!" Minho called out.

"There's a hole. Where the grievers go," y/n explained to Newt.

He was silent. Taking in the moment of realization that they could possibly escape.

"Our families..." he whimpered, suddenly overwhelmed.

Y/n nodded. She could see him imagining their life outside. All the happiness. But answers as well. Revenge. The destruction of the creators by the gladers hands.

Newt turned to the boys who were expectantly gazing at their leader.

"We leave in 30 minutes. Pack lightly and eat well. We're entering the maze" He declared, unable to mask the giddiness he was full of.

Minho wrapped his arm around y/n's shoulder and they joined in on the cheering and excited clapping. The boys were running to their hammocks, ransacking the kitchen and saying goodbye to the glade in seconds.

Y/n limped her way over to her bedroom and redid her hair. She grabbed all of the candy from her stash and wolfed almost all of it down. She gave the rest to Minho, Newt and Frypan who came looking for her a while later.

She had been sitting on her bed, staring into the distance. Feeling rushed to remember everything that had happened here. She and Minho had shared their first kiss here. She had learned to walk again here. This was the room that Alby had given her, those few years ago.

Y/n took Minho's outrsetched hand and leaned against his shoulder. They shared a smile, following Newt and Frypan to the one of the maze doors.

The Gladers were all waiting, their eyes gliding slowly over every inch of the Glade. Frypan longingly stared at his beloved kitchen. He had a muffin in his hand, one he had made himself.