25-(minho)

It's been three years since we've escaped WICKED and had finally started to settle down in a new world. It's also been three years since I've last seen Ji-ho. I've been having nightmares for the past three years just seeing her lay there as her shirt was stained with blood.

A lot has changed, Thomas and Brenda decided to get married which then led to others finding their romance. You'd think that after knowing Ji-ho had died I'd be with Sonya, but after witnessing Ji-ho's death with my own eyes I just couldn't bare to love anyone else. Sonya fortunately found someone who could love her with all their heart, rather than being treated like a replacement.

"Hey." I heard Newt say as he walked up towards me. He was his normal self after healing for a year. His hair and skin grew back, but he still had his limp. "Back here again? Is it already that time of the year?" he said stuffing his hands in his pockets.

We were standing at the entrance of where we had entered through the Trans Flat. We had built a building around it so that in the future no one would accidentally stumble across it in the middle of an empty field. We had already advance in technology for when we came here there was already electricity and other things that Earth used to have.

"Yeah...I should of never left her by herself." I said as my mind began to relive what had happened afterwards.

FLASHBACK

I was struggling to pull Thomas through the Trans Flat as he tried to fight to go back towards Teresa. As I finally pushed him through and half my body had already passed as well, my instincts was telling me to turn back. So I did.

I turned around to have one final look just to see Ji-ho's hand reaching out towards me. I was in shock, I could see her mouth moving, but I couldn't understand what she was trying to say. I couldn't even stop my body, for after pushing Thomas into the Trans Flat my body was going in the same direction and couldn't stop.

She vanished from my sight and was replaced by green grass and a blue sky. My body fell harshly to the ground. I tried to get up as quickly as I could, but it seemed as if time had slowed down.

As I got up, I ran back over towards the Trans Flat, but was stopped by Newt who tackled me to the ground. "Are you crazy?!" He shouted.

"I have to go get her!" I yelled as I was now crying and pushed Newt off of me. "She's still back there!" I said and ran through the Trans Flat, but nothing happened. I was still here. She was gone. She was reaching out to me, but I wasn't there to help. She was calling for me, but I was too worried about escaping that I left her there. I left her to die.

I fell to my knees and started to punch the ground. Screaming at the top of my lungs as tears streamed down my face. "She was calling for me!" I shouted as I held my heart that was in pain.

I felt someone come and wrap an arm around me, it was Thomas. I could see that he too was crying, but I didn't know who his tears were for Teresa or Ji-ho. Newt sat beside the both of us and patted my back. All three of us were now crying. We all had just lost two more people that we all truly cared for.

"I'm sorry." Brenda's voice quietly said from behind us. I looked at her in anger and got up and walked towards her.

"Why couldn't you had just waited! I could have gone and saved her!" I shouted. Thomas was now standing between the both of us trying to calm me down and protect her.

"She was just following the instructions. If we hadn't closed it as soon as we all reach over than it would have automatically shut down by itself, locking you out there." Thomas said.

"Well all of us aren't here!" I shouted angry. "Even if I was locked out, at least I would have been there for her. At least she wouldn't have had to die in such a lonely way..." I said and backed away. I walked away from them to try and cool off my anger, but more so I could grieve my pain away.

END FLASHBACK

"Come on. You haven't ate anything the past two days. Ji-ho would have yelled at you if she knew you were acting like this about her death." Newt said smiling.

I smirked as I could imagine Ji-ho acting in the ways Newt always described her. He always did that in order to make me do things. Slinthead was more manipulative than I remembered him being in the maze.

"You're right. Let's go." I said and we both turned to walk off, but just one last time I turned back to look at the empty wall. I was always hoping that one day she'd just magically pop through and surprise me, but nothing has happened the past three years.

Yet this time, I must have been hallucinating as I turned around to see her standing there smiling. "Ji-ho?" I said in shock. I saw Newt turned around to look but confusion swept his face.

"What are you looking at? No one's there." he said, and the image of Ji-ho disappeared. My eyes were once again playing tricks on me, breaking my heart more than it already is. I took a deep breath and turned away and proceeded to walk away with Newt.