Into The Maze Runner

Time to work!

She was peacefully resting on the ground as the sun started to hit her face with its warm. The animals from the barn started making sounds and murmurs from gladers were heard around the area. And the nice atmosphere made her more cuddly, wanting to sleep even more.
"Y/n?" She heard someone pushing lightly her leg to wake up. It was Newt.
She didn't want to face the reality of the events they were in just yet, so she kept her eyes closed for a bit more.
"I know you're awake" he laughed. "Come on get up before Gally or Alby find you still sleeping!".
She immediately opened her eyes. She wouldn't handle more angry screaming from one of those two irritating guys.
"I don't want to" she said slowly sitting up and rubbing her eyes in order to wake up.
And then the guy she didn't want to see interrupted both. "But you have to. It's survival, we have work to do to keep order in The Glade. So get up" Alby said and then left.
"Jesus" she said and laid down again.
"Just leave him alright? It's been hard. He's the one who has spent the most time in the glade" Newt said.
She sighed, pulled together the sleeping bag and stood up. "What now?" She said.
"Let's get you new clothes and I'll show you where to shower".
They went to the Homestead where they kept all the necessities. Newt opened a drawer full of shirts and pants. "The box has only brought men's clothes, sorry" he said.
Y/n smiled. If there's one thing she remembered, she loved baggy clothes. They were pretty comfortable for her so she didn't hesitate. After taking a few clothing she went to shower in the new improvised women's bathroom.
She saw her reflection on the glassy water that was left thanks to the shower. She felt overwhelmed. It's like she already knew what she looked like but it also felt like the first time. Her hair was messy since she didn't have a brush to untangle it and her eyes were puffy. She immediately got embarrassed. How could she be walking around looking like that? Specially in a place full of boys? How did Teresa manage to look perfect? While she...
A tear came down her face. Her morning wasn't off to a great start and it was barely 6:30am. It may seem stupid to be thinking about such things in a place where the only thing that matters is survival. But she hated looking at her reflection. She quickly cleaned her tears, got changed into the baggy clothes and started untangling her hair with her fingers while looking for Newt.
She didn't find him. He was probably helping someone with work or talking to the main leaders. She didn't decide to look for anyone else since she was already embarrassed of her appearance. The gardens were the closest corner to where she was so she decided to check out the crops on her own. She walked there and stopped when she saw a tomato bush. She got on her knees and passed her fingers through the plants. It was incredible to her how nature worked. It felt weird appreciating such thing in such a horrible claustrophobic place (The glade), but she smiled when she saw the rest of the planting making a full mini beautiful garden landscape. She saw dead leaves on the tomato bush so she decided to take them out carefully so the tomatoes could remain healthy. She kept removing most of them until she noticed the gates started to open, and saw Minho, Thomas and the rest of the runners about to leave into the maze. Thomas noticed her too and waved her. She smiled and waved back. Then they got lost into the walls.
"Finally doing something useful" Gally said in an irritating tone breaking her out of the state where she was taking out all the dying leaves. Y/n didn't really have energy to argue with that arrogant glader since it was too early, so she decided to take him down another way.
"Hey, I wanted to thank you for building the women's shower. The builder group finished it so quickly so Teresa and I could clean ourselves. That was nice of you guys" she said smiling to Gally.
The boy fell in a shock state for a few seconds and cleared his throat. "Well of course we are quick! We do what it takes to maintain order here" he said.
Y/n bit her lip trying not to scream in Gally's face. She took a deep breath and said "Well your effort means a lot, so thanks" she smiled once again and returned to the tomatoes. Y/n could feel Gally's confusion for her nice treatment so he stood quiet, frowned, and then left.
After a while she kept changing bushes to remove dying leaves that could harm the fresh vegetables around.
"Y/n!" Newt shouted a few meters away from her and started running to where she was. "I apologize for hanging you back there. The bloody Sloppers group were lazying around and I couldn't find their Keeper so they could get to work" he said.
She cleaned the few dirt she had in her hands said "It's okay, seriously" she laughed trying to calm Newt down. "But um... what do you mean with sloppers and keeper?" She said confusingly.
"Shuck. Right, sorry. As I've mentioned before, we systematized the area in groups so order could be kept. There's the Runners, the Builders, the Cooks, the Slicers, the Gardeners, MedJacks, Baggers, and Sloppers. Every time a new greenie comes in we make them go through every stage so we see what they're good at" he said looking around the area as y/n followed his view. "In every group there's a leader and we call them Keepers".
"Which group do you belong to?" She said out of curiosity.
He laughed "Well uh to none, but I'm the second one in command". Y/n blushed. She was embarrassed for asking that. How couldn't she have realized that by then?
"Oh yeah of course sorry" she smiled shyly.
"Anyway, I see you got to work without my help. That's impressive. I guess you'll do gardens today" he said. "I saw you a few minutes ago looking impressed at the crops... it was funny" he said without hesitation.
"Yeah I just- I think it's really cool how nature works" she smiled.
Before Newt could speak again they were interrupted by a taller, black haired, broody guy. "Hello" he said. "Just in time!" Newt replied. "Y/n, this is Zart, and he's the keeper of the gardens" he said patting on the shoulder of the other guy. "Why don't you guide her around and give her a few tasks? To see how she works".
"Okay" the long face droopy eyes Keeper responded.
"I'll be back later and Zart will tell me how you worked. Good luck!" He said and walked away again.
Zart thanked her for starting with taking out the dead leaves and then explained to her what crop every plant grew. Then he made her dig a various spaces to plant more food. She watered the whole garden with the help of other guys. Finally he took her to the fruits crops and made her check if they were growing alright or if they had any humus that had to be cut. It had been hours and the day was starting to end. She kneeled down next to the strawberry plant and admired it.
"So? How was your day nature girl" Newt joked. She rolled her eyes. "What do you have against the gardens?" She responded back, joking too. "Here, sit with me" she pointed to the ground and Newt did so. She started looking around the strawberry plant and chose two perfect strawberries. She removed them and turned to Newt. "Open your mouth" she said. "This is stupid" Newt laughed and opened his mouth. Y/n gave him a strawberry and then he started eating. "Don't tell me that's not the most delicious thing you've ever had" she said, eating hers too.
"I'd rather have a delicious steak from Frypan right now" he responded.
"Hey!" She hit him lightly with her elbow and laughed.
"Alright I'm joking. It was good." He said finally. She smiled and nodded in approvement. She was about to tell something to Newt but shouting that came from the walls broke the moment. "What the-" Newt heard the screaming too and ran to the gates where the voices were coming from. Y/n followed him. It was Minho holding some other guy she didn't know running to the Glade. "Minho! What's going on?" Newt shouted. More gladers started to gather around the gates. He didn't respond and kept coming as fast as he could while the weight of the other guy made the come back real slow. From another pathway Thomas appeared and grabbed the guy from the other arm so that Minho and him were now carrying the runner to the area. After a few seconds the gates started making the irritable noise, meaning that it was closing. The gladers started to motivate the three of them so they could make it to the area. Y/n thought about going to help them, but then Newt put his arm in front of her. "Don't." He said in a serious tone without making eye contact since he was looking into the maze.
Grunting and shouting kept coming from the three guys but before the walls could close they threw themselves into the glade. Gasping for air, they laid down on the grass to recover from that run. The walls closed behind them moments later. Alby came running from the Homestead "What is it shanks? What the hell happened to Ben? Why are you late?!" He screamed. Gally helped the unknown guy get up and the whole crowd went silent. He looked dead, exhausted, and pale. Something must've happened to him.
"A griever... stunged him" Thomas said between breaths.