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...
I wake up the next morning to the bed being empty again. Newt must have gotten up for work and wanted me to sleep a little longer. I get up and change into a T-shirt and some jeans. I then slip on some fingerless gloves and my boots. Last but not least I slipped on a little bit of armor and put a hatched at my side. Ever since what happened with Dave I had been allowed to keep a weapon on me at all times for self defense.
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I step out of the hut blinded by the light. I then head over to the kitchen to grab some food. It was still early in the morning so I thought I could offer some help to Frypan. "Hey Fry, want some help with breakfast?" I ask, this just results in a laugh from Fry. "What?" I am actually confused now. "Oh wait you were serious?" He asks me, stopping laughing now. "Yes silly." I say getting up and heading behind the counter. "Well ya if you're offering willingly, could you help chop some of those vegetables over there." He says pointing to a chopping block with some carrots on it. Soon enough we finnish breakfast. I wasn't the best at cutting vegetables because I kept accidentally cutting myself, so I ended up just doing the dishes. "Ok all done, sorry I couldn't be of better help." I say untying my apron. "Are you kidding me, look even though I wouldn't give you this as a job you were still more help than any of those shanks out there." he says resting his arms against the table. "Well thanks for the compliment." I say taking an apple from a basket. "I'll see you at lunch ok!" I yell as I walk away. "See you then green bean." he replies. I walk around the glade as the sun rises fully from out behind the walls.
"Morning love." Newt says as he comes up from behind me. "Oh, hey blondy." I say a smile creeping its way onto my face. "Hey um we need to talk, sit down." he says motioning for me to sit on a log that's behind me. "What's wrong you're scaring me." I say becoming more and more worried by the second. "No , no love, there's no need for you to worry, ok." he says, placing a hand on my knee. This contact sends shivers down my spine, but I push the feeling away. Now wasn't the time to be thinking about crushes. "It's about Dave." just the sound of his name sent chills down my spine and made my knees weak. "What about him?" I say monotonous looking down at my feet. "We're having a meeting today to decide what's happening to him, I asked if you had to be there and unfortunately you have to, since you were part of the event." he says. "When?" I ask now making eye contact with Newt again. "Now." I just nod as he stands up, offering his hand out to help me up. I take it and we head over to the meeting hall. Without even noticing neither of us let go of each other's hands. The closer we got the more nervous I got I ended up subconsciously squeezing Newts hand. He then stops in his tracks and looks at me. "Hey, i'm not gonna let him hurt you ever again ok." Newt says placing his hand under my chin makes me look up to him. "Thank you." I whisper through the lump that had formed in my throat and my tears that were beginning to form in my eyes. He then pulls me into a hug. My ear is placed against his chest. I can hear the steady beating of his heart which calmed me a bit. "Come on love," he says, pulling away.
We both walk into the meeting hall hands still clasped together. "You have to go and sit over there ok." he whispers in my ear pointing to a chair that was somewhat in the center of the room. There was another chair adjacent to that one that had Dave already sitting in it. he had a black eye and a cut in his lip. His hands and feet were bound together so I wasn't too worried about him being able to do anything. I make my way to my chair to sit down as the rest of the keepers flood into the room. Lastly Alby entered the room and made his way to the center. "Ok let this gathering begin, we are going to start with Dave's side than Elles. Then we'll ask the bystanders point of view. Lastly we will go around, the keepers will vote for what punishment they see fit." Alby says. "Good that." all the boys reply. "Ok dave what was your side of the story?" "Well I was giving the greenie the tour, we were at the last bit where I showed her the dead heads.
