Chapter 20
959 Words
Tee's POV
I hoped that everything would be ok... I sat alone in the deadheads quietly sobbing, throwing stones into thin air. I was so happy yesterday; I thought everything was changing for the better. It had been really, really bad day so far, I woke up and just felt like crap, and now look at me, sobbing. I suddenly got so angry with myself that I flung a large stone to the side. "Ah f**k!" I heard someone curse. I turned around, to see Gally; rubbing his arm. I immediately calmed down as I ran to him, half way there I felt my vision blurring, my head hurt, my neck, face and back were suddenly soaking with sweat, my legs were weak and I tumbled to the ground. It must be all the stress and having to work in the boiling sun all day. Gally caught me and slumped back against a tree with me in his arms.
"Are you ok?" he asked anxiously... I nodded and he hugged me leaning into my neck planting soft kisses on it. "She will be ok, otherwise I would be freaking out, trust me" he said and chuckled. He turned me around so I was facing him and looked into my eyes. His blue eyes stared into my green ones, his eyes flickered down to my lips and his grip around me tightened. "I can't resist you" he whispered, leaning in to kiss me. I smiled and let him, willingly; my hand stroking his hair. His hand was on my waist and then my butt and then my face, alternating between different pleasure spots. Gally pushed me against the tree as the kiss deepened and got quite fast. It seemed like someone was getting excited. I put my hand on Gally's chest and pulled away. "What?" He asked furrowing his brow. "You need to let me breath a bit" I said laughing. "Oh sorry, guess I was getting too carried away" he said laughing, caressing my neck. I sat down against the tree and Gally joined me. "You alright?" He asked looking at my arm, with the scratches where the stones had scarred my skin. "I'm fine" I smiled and stood up, but again I stood up too quickly and all the blood rushed to my head quickly, making me stumble a little. "Whooa, steady on tiger.." Gally said. "I'm ok" I said smiling weakly at him.
I was about to go back to the hut when something caught my attention, a sea of gladers had crowded around the entrance to the maze. "Gally, what's going on?" I said, puzzled. "Oh Jesus, not again" he cursed and was started running towards them. Gally sprinted past me. God, he was fast! When he got to the gladers I saw him put his hands on his head and I knew it couldn't be good as he looked exasperated. I couldn't see what was happening so I followed him hastily and pushed past the crowd. Gally was dead right to be shocked. I would of done the same but I literally could not move. Minho had gone out running like he did everyday, but this day was obviously very different, for Ben lay in Minho's arms. Dead. "Must of died from starvation" Minho mumbled. "Either that or grievers" Newt said glumly. I gasped and looked back at the hut, Alby had just come out, probably after checking on Rachel. Gally looked at me suddenly. "Rachel" he said quietly, my expression turned to utter horror, if Rachel saw, she would go insane. Gally and I ran to him. "Listen, whatever you do, don't let Rachel out of that hut!" Gally whispered hoarsely.
"What the hells going on? I-" Alby started. "Ben's dead! Minho has found him and has got his body over there" I cut in. "Oh no" he muttered under his breath. Alby gave us the nod to stay guard the hut and ran to Minho. Newt joined us, looking concerned. "Is she ok?" he asked. "Don't know, we are going to see now" I shrugged. We beckoned for Britney to come over and we stood in the doorway. She lay motionless on the bed, her chest slowly rising and falling; like the ocean slowly lapping some rocks. We all started to go in but I stopped dead in my tracks and turned to the others. "Guys, I think its best if Gally went in first, we don't want to crowd her" I said looking at Gally. He nodded and cautiously went in and sat on the bed, his hand came down slowly and stroked her damp hair. Her eyes fluttered open and she awoke. She sat up and came to, her eyes widened when she saw us. "Guys!" she exclaimed, a broad smile appeared on her face, her voice still very hoarse and croaky. We all came in, me and Britney rushed to her and hugged her. "How are you feeling?" I asked gingerly. "Pretty good, and now I feel great, I heard you mention Ben's name, that means he's alive and safe right? He survived!" she said smiling. We paused in silence. This was utterly the worst moment of my entire life. None of us dared to say anything. "Yes, he's fine" Gally said at last, smiling back at his sister. She looked so happy and grabbed my hand, I was about to cry. Not of happiness though, if Rachel really knew that Ben was dead, she would be so different, she would be pasty, dark eyed and on the point of suicide again. Instead she is rosy cheeked, happy and eager to know how Ben was.
I couldn't believe Gally had done this... There was no coming back from this now.
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