Chapter 19
The next morning when people woke up they started to remember the events of last night, I remembered them as if it were a foggy dream, but I knew it was real.
"Are the bodies still there?" Someone asked.
"Well of course they are, how would've they moved? Unless you got up and moved them during the night."
"The same way they got there..."
Minho stood up and walked to the door, the rest of us gathering around.
He opened the door, the room was dull, but you could still see, there seemed to be no evidence the bodies had been there in the first place, they were gone, and no marks were evident on the roof where they hung from.
"But they were hanging here! Their lifeless bodies hung here! Their feet strapped to the ceiling!" Frypan said in shock and disbelief.
"Well they're not now." Minho blankly said, he headed to the tables.
"Food? How's there food?"
Whoever asked this was right, the table was laid out with food, all breakfast foods.
Other gladers made their way to a seat and started serving up their breakfast.
I looked around at Newt and Thomas, only Thomas wasn't there, he was standing at a door... Teresa's door.
"Tom?" I asked as I walked over to him.
"Her names gone, from the door... and now it says 'Aris'..." his voice was monotone.
"His doesn't say 'Betrayer'? Like hers did..." I state.
"She wasn't.... she isn't a betrayer!" He says, his voice raising whit each word.
I step back, a bit worried. He notices
and his face drops "I'm sorry.." he says and slumps.
I walk up to him, his face doesn't change, I wrap my arms around him and hold him close.
"Maybe it's just the label, she should still be in there." I suggest.
I let go of the hug and we turn to the door, he turns the nob and swings it open.
There's a body in the bed, small body, like Teresa's.
Thomas runs to the bed "Teresa?!" He says as he pulls off the covers. But it's not her, it's a boy, a small freckle covered boy.
We look at him in shock.
"And who are you?!" He looks up at Thomas, fear filling his eyes.
"Hey, hey it's ok, we won't hurt you. We're looking for our friend, she was in this room, have you seen her?" I say in a nice voice, trying to calm him.
He shakes his head "I-I was-am the only one in here."
I frown and look at Thomas, he's still glaring at the kid.
'Thomas' I scowl him in my head, but he doesn't seem to have heard it.
"Oh, well what's your name then?" I ask.
"Aris." I look at Thomas, that's the name on the door, "who are you?"
"I'm Sophie, this is Thomas." I gesture to me then Tom as I say the names.
"Where is she?" Thomas scowls.
"I-I don't know!" Aris says in a scared tone.
"Tom, leave him alone! It's alright Aris, we can talk over breakfast, come on." I lead him out the door and to the table, we're greeted but stares and questions.
"Guys, this is Aris. He was put in Teresa's room." I introduce.
"Where's Teresa?" Newt asks.
"She's gone." Thomas replies gloomily and takes a seat. I feel hurt, I know Teresa and him were friends, but he's my boyfriend, he's acting like she's the one he loves.
I sit opposite Thomas and next to Newt, Aris beside me.
Everyone starts questioning him and trying to figure out why he's here and where Teresa went.
He of course didn't know why he was there, or who Teresa was let alone where she is.
"Guys, he knows as much as we do." I suggest to stop the questions. "Why not try to get to know him? So Aris, where do you come from? If you remember..."
.......
After a while of talking we start rearranging the furniture so that we can try and figure out a way of escaping this place.
We looked in every room, under every bed and piece of furniture we could find, but we didn't find anything.
No trapdoors or secret buttons, nothing.
And the door has a lock that can only be activated with a key card thing.
We all gather around together on the beds in the 'boys' room and discuss what information we have.
"So, we escaped the maze, got 'rescued' by people who aren't WICKED, WICKED were the people who put us in the maze, the Flare is a disease that turns people into cranks, and we've been locked in a building that has strange events occurring each night. Anything else?" Minho lists.
"We're not all immune." I say, blank faced and staring at the floor.
"The people who brought us here said there were other mazes." Frypan noted.
"I was from another maze." Aris stated.
"Yeah, and it was the opposite of ours, all girls and one boy." Newt added.
"Well, ours had two girls..." I say, a little offended.
Newt gives a sheepish grin.
"Maybe that's where she went," Thomas starts to say, everyone turns to him. "Maybe they swapped Teresa for Aris so the girls were together and the boys were together.."
The other gladers start agreeing with him that that sounds logical, and is probably what happened.
"Then what about me?!" I yell over them, "Why am I still here? Why was Teresa in her own room for 'Ladies' and I in the boy room? Why aren't I with the other girls?"
No one answers for a while, then Thomas speaks up.
"Maybe you were a mistake."
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