The Beginning

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My eyes open. Everything is dark. I try to stand up but gravity is pulling me to the ground, I am in elevator and it is going so fast. The elevator stops with a big impact making my body come of the floor and crash back down. A light then shines to brightly that I can't open my eyes, after a few seconds I squint my eyes and there above me standing are a load of people staring at me, one jumps down to talk to me, his hair was blond, he had beautiful hazel eyes and he was tall. I push my body to the the back of the box I am in, scared of what he is going to do. He then looked so shocked. He then starts speaking.

"It's a girl" he said turning back to look at the rest of the people standing above us.

"WHERE AM I? WHO AM I?" I started shouting.

"Calm down, we're in the glade. And no one knows who they are, all that we remember are our names, my name is Newt. Do you remember your name?" He tries to calm me down.

"Yes...m-my name is...actually I can't remember. WHY CANT I REMEMBER MY NAME?" I shout again.

"It's ok you will probably remember it in a few days, will you come out now so I can explain everything we know about this place?" Newt asks reassuringly.

I get up, legs trembling. Newt lifts my up from the box and connects eye contact with me. I couldn't stop staring into his beautiful eyes and his hazelnut hair shined bright in the sun, I wanted to touch it but I knew that would be weird so I didn't. After a few seconds I shifted eye contact to look at the people around me.
I didn't realise until now that everyone here were boys. So I ask Newt, "Am I the only girl?" Newt looked at me and smirked "Yes your the only girl that we have ever had" a boy interrupts "yes and I don't like this, she could be behind all of this" I shout, "Hey! SHE has a name" he then replies with "then what is it?" I didn't say a word after that because I knew what I said was stupid...I don't know who I am let alone my name. Newt gave me a tour around the glade and told me that the boy that we talked to was Gally, he can be scary sometimes but he's only trying to protect us all in the end. I guess I can't blame him, he's probably as scared as I am.

Everyone sits by the fire at dinner and I sit next to Newt, I haven't left his side since I got here a few hours ago, I don't know what it is about him but I feel safe when I am with him. Suddenly I hear a loud metal scraping noise and I don't know where it's coming from, I stand up scared and trembling. Newt grabs my hand, "hey it's ok darling, it's just the maze changing" his hands were soft and warm. They made me feel safe and I didn't want to let go.

Newt explained the maze to me earlier, he told me that there are only three rules here, one, everyone does there part so no slackers, two, never hurt another player so that we can trust each other and lastly, never go inside the maze.

"Sorry I guess I'm just not used to this yet" I then look at Newt and my eye catches attention to him holding my hand still, our eyes lock and I blush a little and so does he, we then let go of each others hand and look away, embarrassed.

After a long pause I break the silence, "So if no one can go into the maze then how do we find our way out?" I ask trying to escape the awkwardness.

Newt turns around and points and a few people, "those people are the runners, when the gate opens in the mornings they go straight out and try to map it, but it's pretty hard since it changes every nig-" Newts gets cut of by a loud screaming animal sort of noise coming from the maze.

"Wha- what is that?" I ask in horror.

"We call them the greivers, no one has ever lived to tell us what they are or look like. They run around the maze at night, after the door shuts at night and your not back by then, you can never come out, no one has every survived a night." He takes a sip from his drink.

"Want some" handing me the bottle.

I take a sip and spit it out. "What is that? It's disgusting!"

Newt laughs, "It's Gally's secret recipe" Trying to contain his laugh.

"One last question, how long have you been here?" I ask with raised eyebrows.

"Almost 3 years" he turns his head and I realise that obviously upsets him so I change the subject and talk about that discussing drink I just tried.

We both laugh and talk for hours until we got tired, once everyone went to sleep he showed me my bed, next to his, an old blanket hanging from two trees. He said tomorrow he's going to talk to Alby about getting the builders to build me a room for tomorrow night because I'm a girl and he thought I would need some privacy.

I slept like a baby that night, Newt and I stayed up talking for a while but I was so tired I fell asleep.

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