What if Teresa wasn't the first girl in the glade? A girl named Elle finds herself getting thrown into the maze with only boys. Elle isn't the kind of girl to let anyone inside her walls, but some how a blond breaks his way through them. Come along...
Newt leads me to a place that they call the mess hall. When I got in the building everyone went silent, and turned their heads to glue their eyes on me. I felt extremely uncomfortable, and I think Newt could tell because he places his hand at the small of my back and pushes me forward towards this kid that was cooking food. "Hey Fry, I know we're a bit late but we were getting the greenie. Got any leftovers?" Newt asks. The boy slides out a couple of trays and we grab our food. "Thank you." I say quietly to the boy. All he does is nod in response. "Here greenie we'll sit over here." Newt says. The four of us sit down at the table. Me and Newt on one side, Gally and Minho on the other. They all began to dig into their food but I was too nervous to eat. I mean what if they poisoned it or something. As I played with my food I looked around the room, there were probably about twentie boys. But no girls, where were all the girls? "You not hungry greenie?" Newt asks. "Um, no I am I guess..." "It's not poisoned you know, you'll be fine if you eat it." Minho says as if reading my mind. I just nod and begin to eat. It was actually pretty good. "Um, I'm sorry about earlier. With the whole knife to your throat thing." I say to Minho. "It's alright, you were just scared." he replies, giving me a little smile. After we all finish eating Gally gets up and leaves the table. "Where's he going?" I ask "oh he's making his special brew for the bonfire tonight." Newt replies. "Bonfire?" "Oh ya we have one every month to celebrate the new greenie's arrival." "oh." I replied I wasn't one to want attention. "Would you mind if I washed up first, maybe changed my clothes?" "No, not at all, we found a crate with some things in it that we assumed were for you, so we put them in your hut. Don't worry I didn't let the boys snoop through it." Newt says with a chuckle. We get up and discard our trays thanking Frypan once again for the dinner.
Newt leads me over to a small hut close to the woods. "This is my hut but you're gonna be sleeping here until we can finnish getting one built for you." I just nod as he leads me inside. There was a single bed as well as crate at the foot of it, I assume it was to hold his belongings. "Here" Newt says, handing me a bag of clothes. "I'll meet you at the bonfire when you're done." he says while stepping out. After the door closes I look through the bag of clothes. There were some shirts, pants, undergarments, as well as a dress. I decided that I wanted to put on the dress so I strip off my old and dirty clothes, to then pull the dress on over my head. I use my fingers to brush through my hair before putting it into a simple braid on the side of my head. I still kept on my black combat boots though, as well as a knife that I kept in a sheath that was strapped around my thigh. I know they didn't want me to have the knife but I'm the only girl here amongst twenty something hormonal teenage boys. I needed something to protect myself.
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After I'm dressed I walk back to the large field to see a large fire has started right in the middle of it. As I got closer to the boys I began to feel uncomfortable, maybe I shouldn't have chosen the dress. All I wanted to do was find Newt or Minho so that I wouldn't have to be alone anymore. Soon enough I catch Minhos eye and he waves me over. "Hi." I say timidly while sitting myself next to him. "Hello, you look, um, great greenie." he said, stumbling over his words. Which I couldn't help but laugh at. "Thank you." I say. "So what do you even do at these things?" I ask. "Well we drink, dance, and once everyones a little tipsy Gally ends up starting some sort of fighting ring so that they can let loose some steam." he says. "Alright then, where's my drink?" I ask. "Oh you don't want this it tastes like klunck and is strong as hell." "oh come on let me try." I beg. "Alright, but don't say I didn't warn you." he says, handing me the glass. I take a quick gulp eager to show him that I could handle myself, at first it burned but it actually wasn't that bad. "Man y'all must be babies if you think that's bad." I say handing it back to Minho. "Nice one greenie, I've never seen a greenie be able to take a sip of this let alone keep it down." he says. "Well then I guess I'm a bit more badass than you thought." I say back with a giggle. All the sudden Boys started to bang on containers making some sort of music and others began to sing.
"Come on Minho, come dance with me." I say standing up stretching out my hand for him to hold. He shakes his head but still takes my hand and joins me by the fire. We dance around and joke along as we go. Minho twirls me allowing my dress to spin elegantly along with me. "May I cut in?" I turn around to see Newt extending his hand out to me. I look back to Minho who gives us a little nod, so I look back to Newt taking his hand and giving him a little curtsy. He just giggles and smirks in return. "Come on love" Newt places his left hand on the small of my waist while his other is holding one of my hands. "You look beautiful." Newt whispered into my ear, sending chills down my spin. "I know." I whisper back. Which earns another laugh from Newt. We danced and drank for what felt like hours before my feet hurt too much to continue. "Come on love lets go sit down by the fire." Newt says. I just nod in reply, taking his hand as he leads me over to a log by the fire. I was quite tired at this point but I was having so much fun I never wanted it to end. "Newt?" "yes darlin?" "Why are you being so nice to me?" I ask. "Why wouldn't I be?" "I don't know, I mean I don't think I can be the easiest person to deal with." With this Newt turns his head to face mine. For a moment he says nothing, he just looks at me. "Well if i'm being honest, ever since the first time I saw you those couple days ago I knew that I wanted to protect you." he replies plainly, not breaking eye contact with me.
"Couple days ago? How long was I out for?" I ask "You were out for about three days." he replies "oh." I say lowering my head looking into my lap. Newt puts his hand under my chin raising me to look at him. He then tucked a piece of hair that had fallen out of my braid behind my ear. Our eye contact never broke. Looking into his deep brown eyes I felt lost, but also extremely safe. They sparkled from the fire light but danced with an underlying layer of depth. I find myself looking down at his lips, which were small but looked ever so inviting and soft. 'God what am I doing, I must be drunk.' I think to myself breaking eye contact with Newt. "hey guys." Minho says as he comes and sits over by us. "Why are you guys over here and not watching the fight?" he asks. "Sorry not sorry but seeing a bunch of boys beat each other senseless for the fun of it isn't quite my thing." I say leaning back onto the log. Minho just nods. The two boys talk for a while while I just sit there and listen. My eyes slowly became droopy and I found myself falling asleep.
Newt's POV
Me and Minho were talking about random things when I felt a weight on my shoulder. It was the greenie. She had fallen asleep on me. I didn't mind, she looked quite pretty when she was sleeping. As if she had no cares in the world. I continued to admire her while I pushed a piece of hair that had fallen over her face out of the way. "Ok, what's going on?" Minho asks me. "Shhh, you'll wake her. and what do you mean?" I whisper back to try and not wake her up. "I mean the way you're looking at her mate. I think you got a thing for the greenie" he says smirking at me. "I don't know what you're talking about." I say back truthfully. "What ever." Minho replies sarcastically while rolling his eyes. "I'll just take her to bed then." Minho says. "No!" I say a little too fast. "I mean, I'll take her. She's sleeping in my hut and I wanna turn in any ways so it just makes more sense if I do it." I say as I move to pick her up bridal style. "Whatever you say loverboy." Minho replies. I just roll my eyes at him as I walk away with her in my arms. In her sleep she found herself nuzzling into my chest which I really didn't mind, it was cute. She's cute... wait god what am I thinking, I just met her today. I can't be having feelings for her already, could I?
I make it back to the hut and lie her down on the bed. While I pull the covers over her she stirs a little. And mumbles something. "Thanks blondie" she says with a little smile on her face. I then slip onto the other side of the bed, staying on top of the covers as to give her her space. "Goodnight love" I say to her, giving her a kiss on the forehead.
