4. Soaring, Flying

We had gotten all but two down when his favorite song blasted through the speakers.

"Shit," I said and worked faster. I pulled the blond boy to the edge and untied him. I reached my hand out to help him up and he took it without a second thought.

I jumped slightly at the sudden warmth that flowed through my body from the slight contact of his hand.

"Newt," he said.

I looked at him in confusion. Maybe he had a screw loose. "Salamander," I said back. His brow furrowed.

Now wasn't the time to be naming off amphibians.

"We gotta go!" I yelled over the sound. "Its a bomb."

They looked at me confused but I didn't have time to explain.

Jorge had a bomb system hooked up to his record and once the song was over, the whole building will explode.

I turned to run when I came face to face with one of the men.

We all froze and Thomas tried to reassure him that we weren't trying to cause trouble.

The man pulled up a walkie talkie and talked to a man he addressed as Janson. "Come on, lets go," he instructed.

Thomas quickly tired to take the mans gun, causing him to fire directly by my left ear.

The blonde boy grabbed my arm and yanked me back.

My ears rang as they began to fight. The man pulled the gun back up and I gasped.

Then a gun echoed and I closed my eyes. Who was shot? It definitely wasn't me, the boy was in the way.

When the man dropped, I let out the breath I was holding. Then Brenda came into view, and she looked mad at me.

"We will talk about this later," she snapped, glaring at me. "Let's go," she ran.

We all ran in suit except the girl. She stood for a moment, then began to follow apprehensively.

Jorge song rang throughout the warehouse as we caught up to Jorge. "Brenda, Beth," he said glancing between us. "Hurry, we don't have much time."

We reached the zip lines quickly.

"You are gonna owe me," Jorge told the kids, implying that him saving the group was not out of the kindness of his heart. He wanted something from them.

He yelled as he jumped off the building and the zipline bounced with his weight, but I wasn't paying much attention to that.

"What's your name?" I quickly asked the blond boy as Brenda helped the others across.

"Newt," he said again and I realized my mistake. He smirked as he grabbed the rope hanging from the zipline and swung out. I followed him. As I jumped, I saw Brenda running back.

Shit. What the hell was she doing? It was to late to turn back now, I was already almost across.

I landed with a roll, but quickly got up, looking back as the girl came across.

"Where is Brenda?" Jorge asked.

"She was going back for something," I shot back and looked back to the line, hoping that she would come flying across any moment.

Jorge growled in frustration. "We have to go, the song is almost over."

"But," I began to protest when Newt cut me off.

"Thomas stayed with her," he stared across the zip line. "They will be okay."

How could he know that. She was my last living relative and she just took off back into a building that was going to explode at any moment.

I looked back once before I nodded. He squeezed my elbow and turned, taking off after the others.

Warmth spread through my arm from his contact and my cheeks turned red.

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Oooo the first moment between Newt and Beth... more to come.

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