The First Person in the Maze

4. Another Girl?!

Y/n POV
Currently, all of us were celebrating in the hut for Tommy killing a griever and, as usual, Gally was annoyed with it all. It was all talk and a lot of jealousy. Fortunately for us, he didn't get far with it as the floor began to slightly shake and the deep sound of an alarm echoed throughout the glade. The box was coming back up.

But that's impossible.

"Okay. Wait, wait. I know that sound," Tommy rushed out as we made our way out of the hut.

"The box. It's coming back up," Chuck explained.

"It shouldn't be," Minho and I both say.

Us four quickly rushed over to the box to see what, or who, could have possibly come up in the box. Somehow, I was the first one at the box before the other three. "Newt, what do you see?" I asked as I saw Newt jump into the box.

He looked up at me completely speechless and dumbfounded. "It's anotha girl," he finally says, then proceeds to look back at her body. "I think she's dead."

No one knew what to say. This was the first time in YEARS a girl came up into the box besides me. Not gonna lie, it's kind of ironic. I mean, first it started out with a girl, and now it ends with a girl. Looking down at her, I see something in her hands. "What's in her hand?" I question.

Newt examined her hands and found, what looks to be a piece of paper, wrapped up inside of her palm. He carefully reached over and pulled it out of her hands, unfolding its contents.

"She's the last one..... eva," he read aloud. "What the hell does that mean?"

"Maybe... all the other girls died?" I gave out a guess as everyone looked at me like I was a crazy person to think that. "What, it's just a thought."

"Yeah, okay. The death of every girl on the planet can definitely be passed as 'just a thought,'" Minho sarcastically remarked.

"Well, I don't see you coming up with anything better," I fired back with.

"I-" he started to say before getting interrupted by the gasps of the girl that was still in the box.

She looked around confused until her eyes rested on my brother's. I scrunched up my eyebrows in confusion as to why she's all of a sudden interested in him when she just got here.

"Thomas..." she says before falling unconscious again.

Eyes wide and mouth agape, I looked between Tommy and this random ass girl, trying to decipher what the actual hell could be the relationship amongst them that has her remembering him. After awhile, I decided to say something.

"Okay, how does this bitch know my brother?"

Later that day, Tommy, Newt, Minho, and I went to the medjacks' hut to check up on our new arrival only to find her still unconscious.

"Jeff," Newt says. "What's going on? Come on, what's the matter? Why won't she wake up?"

"Hey, man," Jeff responds with. "I got my job the same way you did." I'm assuming that was his way of saying, 'I don't fucking know.'

"Well, once she does wake up, I would like to be the first one to speak with her because I would like to know how she knows Tommy," I explain as I turn to look at my brother. "I mean, do you recognize her at all?"

"No... I don't."
"Huh... Weird," I say as I turn back to look at the girl.
"What about the note?" he asks.

"I will worry about the note later," Newt says.

"I think you should worry about it now."
"We've got enough to deal with, at the moment."

"He's right, Newt," Jeff chimes in with as we all look at him. "The box isn't coming back. How long do you think we can last?"

"No one said that," Newt answers with. "Let's not jump to any conclusions."

"Even..."
"Yes, even your concluding thought that every other girl died," Newt interrupts as I tried to explain my thoughts on it. "We just... we just wait until she wakes up and see what she knows. Somebody has got to have some answers around here."

All of a sudden, Tommy turns around and walks out of the hut.

"Where the hell are you going?" I ask.
"Back into the maze."
"Oh. Great. Just great."

"I'll go talk to him," Minho reassures me as he runs after my brother.

"Okay, as Minho goes and deals with Thomas, I think now's a good time to talk," Newt says once Minho was completely gone.

"What is there to talk about?" I question.

"About us."

Well, shit.