This request is for n_r_eader!! ❤❤ hope you enjoy it, I'm soooo sorry for being soooooo late forgive me!!

"Run!" Brenda yells as she yanks Thomas by his arm and pulls him. 

"Nicole!" Thomas yells, stopping to grab my wrist. I know now's not the time, but I end up smirking. 

"We need to get away. Far away" Brenda calls our from in front. We run away from the destruction behind us, Minho and Newt the other way. We've been separated, how could something like this happen? 

We continue to run, taking turns, left and right, obviously something Brenda has done many times before.

We have no choice but to trust Brenda with our lives, she knows these underground tunnels and she knows the way out. 

But she doesn't need to cling onto Thomas so much. I think bitterly.

We slowly come to a stop, the tunnels are dark, damp and quiet. The only noises are us, trying to regain our breaths. We take a few seconds -no more- and we're walking again. 

"We need to get to Minho" I say. We've all been together ever since the Glade, I can't lose them now.

"Not down here. it's not safe in these tunnels. We can find them on the surface" Brenda says, monotonous like she's bored of me, bored of all this. 

"Brenda's right, Nicole" Thomas tells me, i know it's dark but I think he saw the angered look on my face. 

I ignore him and walk faster to get in front. 

I hear them follow me, they're talking, almost whispering about the scorch, the safe haven and then Brenda says something that puts Thomas off. 

"If you won't come back with us, fine

 But I'm going" Thomas says, slightly annoyed. (Thomas actually says that in tst. I just swapped the word 'me' to 'us') 

"Wait!" I hear Brenda call out. I hear here footsteps get a bit faster as she tries to catch up with Thomas who must've walked away from her. 

I sigh quietly, ignore the both of them and just keep walking.

After what feels like hours of walking, we finally see light from above.

"Please tell me we can get out now" I groan, leaning against the wall of the tunnel.

"Thomas, help me up" Brenda says, Thomas listens as he kneels down under the source of light. Brenda places on foot on his cupped hands and steps up, grabbing a bar on the ceiling of the tunnel.

She then begins pushing up, it's still too dark to see exactly on what.

Brenda breaks through and she disappears into bright sun light. I'm almost blinded and it takes my eyes a while to adjust. 

"c'mon Nicole, you're next" Thomas says and I do as Brenda did. 

I climb over and feel the familiar scorching heat of the sun pelting down my back.

"Thomas get up here!" 

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"You said we'd find Minho and the others once we we're out of those tunnels" I say, passing another tall building with smashed windows and a broken down front door. All the buildings are like that.

I hear Brenda sigh, as if she can't take anymore of me. Well, I could say the same for her.

"We can't. Jorge is leading them somewhere safe. Stop worrying okay? Is Minho you're boyfriend or something?" She almost snickers. 

wow.

I look at Thomas, who's staring back at me, questioningly.

wow.

"Actually-" I'm about to say something back, something mean but I'm not given the chance.

"Here!" Brenda yells, running into an alleyway.

I grab Thomas's wrist before he can follow. "Are you sure we should trust her?" I ask him quietly.

"Of course we can. She was just joking earlier, don't take it too seriously, okay Nicole?" He smiles. I furrow my eyebrows together and glare at him. I toss his arm and wait for him to follow Brenda into the potentially dangerous alleyway. 

He doesn't go though, he just stands and stares at me.

"Nicole, what's wrong?" He asks me, claiming my hands in his.

"nothing" I answer curtly. 

"No, it's not nothing" Thomas sighs, "Nicole, please. Tell me, is it Brenda? You know we need her, she knows the Scorch better than us. She'll help us get to the safe haven." Thomas tells me.

"We're going to get out of here" he pulls me in, wrapping his arms around me and rests his chin on my head.

"Just promise me well get out here together, even if one of us does become a crank" I say, almost in tears. How could I be so dumb? I got so jealous so easily.

"I promise" Thomas whispers as he plants a gentle kiss on my forehead.

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