chapter eighteen

CT: http://kitkatminho.tumblr.com/post/119251172521/the-maze-runner-a-summary

chapter eighteen:
Mysterious Newcomer

She kneeled next to the pale body while waiting waiting for Alby and Newt to get out of the Box. Even if the new girl basically looked dead. Elizabeth still had to check to see if the girl was alive since most of the Med-jacks were in the Homestead keeping an eye on Ben and the others.

Elizabeth rested her head against the pale girls chest and started to listen. Sure enough there was a small and slow heartbeat sound. Next Elizabeth straighten up and put two fingers on the girls neck. She needed to double check for a pulse, in case she was listening to her own heartbeat. Elizabeth looked up to see Newt, Alby and suprisingly Thomas around her.

“You know this girl, shank?” Alby asked, sounding ticked off. Elizabeth held her breath for a second before she thought things over. This morning she was making bacon, the next she was in the Homestead, and finally she ended up checking the pulse of a-possibly-dead-person-who-is-very-much-alive girl.

The blonde girl examined Thomas face to see he had a shocked expression on his face. As if he couldn't believe he was getting accused.

“Know her? Of course I don’t know her. I don’t know anyone. Except for you guys.” Thomas spoke at a slightly fast pace.

“That’s not …,” Alby began, then stopped with a frustrated sigh. “I meant does she look familiar at all? Any kind of feelin’ you’ve seen her before?”

“No. Nothing.” Thomas shifted, looked down at his feet, then back at the very much alive girl. Elizabeth let out a sigh before she stood up. She didn't want to admit it to anyone but ever since Thomas and the very much alive girl came, she felt like she knew them. As if she knew so much more than she recently knew. The problem of telling some of the Gladers is the chance of getting Banished.

“You’re sure?” Alby asked. He looked like he didn’t believe a word Thomas said, it almost seemed like he was angry.

Thomas met Alby’s glare evenly and answered the question. “Yes. Why?”

Elizabeth nudged Newt. When he turned to look at her, she motioned to the motionless girl. "Unconscious," She mouthed.

“Shuck it,” Alby muttered, looking back down at the girl. “Can’t be a coincidence. Two days, two Greenies, one alive, one dead.”

“You don’t think I …” Thomas tried to ask in a panicked tone. He couldn’t even finish his sentence because Newt cut him off.

“Slim it, Greenie,” Newt said. “We’re not sayin’ you bloody killed the girl.”

"She is just unconscious," Elizabeth spoke up for the first time since she checked for a pulse.

“I swear she doesn’t look familiar at all,” Thomas said anyway.

“Are you—” Newt was cut off.

The girl shot up into a sitting position. As she sucked in a huge breath, her eyes snapped open and she blinked, looking around at the crowd surrounding her. Alby cried out and fell backward. Newt gasped and jumped up, stumbling away from her. Thomas didn’t move, his gaze locked on the girl, frozen in fear. Elizabeth had took a few frighten steps back from the sudden movement.

Burning blue eyes darted back and forth as the girl took deep breaths. Her pink lips trembled as she mumbled something over and over, indecipherable. Then she spoke one sentence—her voice hollow and haunted, but clear.

“Everything is going to change.” Her eyes rolled up into her head and she fell back to the ground. Her right fist shot into the air as she landed, staying rigid after she grew still, pointing toward the sky. Clutched in her hand was a wadded piece of paper.

Newt ran forward and pulled her fingers apart, grabbing the paper. With shaking hands he unfolded it, then dropped to his knees, spreading out the note on the ground. From where Elizabeth was standing, she could see the five bold words.

She’s the last one.

Ever.

"Klunk."

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I finally updated!

My house also got wifi so guess who should be updating more!  But High School still had me on a leash. Like I have Algebra 1 extra credit to complete. To Kill A Mockingbird Essay with a poster. But I should be doing that in class. :-) sorry for disappearing!

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