Torn

"First of all, no not at all."

"Ok, Dylan why don't you start us off? Just tell us your side of the story," Alby asks. I nod and walk up to a pedestal right in front of Newt. He gives me a thumbs up and I smile. I tell them almost the exact same thing I told Alby, leaving out the part about crying cause I didn't want them to think I am weak. "Ok, thank you Dylan, now we will hear Gally's side of the story."

I walk back to my seat, my heart pounding in my head. Gally goes to get on the stage when I see his hand was rapped in a bandage. But as soon as he was about to get his word in there was this loud sharp noise, it echoes off the walls of the glade. I look at Newt to see what it was but he looks just as confused. Everyone starts to head out the door so I follow. I see Thomas and Chuck heading towards the box so I went to ask them. "What was that noise?" Thomas shares a look with chuck.

"That there was the greenie alarm." Now I get why everyone was confused, the box only comes up once a month with a new greenie. I was only here for about 2 days. "Wait that doesn't make sense." I respond before we all start running towards the box.

When we finally get there I have to push my way through to the front. I see Newt jump into the box. "There is no one here." Newt says, so I look in and see no one. "Maybe it was a false alarm? I mean that would make sense because I just got here a few days ago." Newt nods than I jump down to grab some crates. As I grab one I see something behind it.

I move the box and see a little girl behind it. She has brown hair with braids, in two buns. She's wearing a light brown shirt and dark brown overalls. She looks around Chucks age. "Hey there, we won't hurt you. I promise. Why don't you just come on out?" I reach my hand out towards her carefully, remembering how scared I was when I got here. She slowly grabs my hand. "Guys look who I found hiding behind a box!" I give the girl a little help up out of the box. "W-Where am I?" she asks as she gets her feet on the ground.

She stumbles backwards, almost falling into the box but Chuck grabs her. "Are you ok?" I hear chuck ask, and I smile. She nods "Do you remember your name?" I hear Newt ask from behind me. Out of the corner of my eye I see his hand go up, like he's gonna put his hand on my shoulder, but he stops and brings it back down. "No.... Wait, why don't I remember anything? Where am I? Why am I here?" The young girl starts freaking out.

The gladers start gathering around her. She spins around looking at her surroundings, then takes off towards the dead-heads. "That little shank is fast," I don't recognize the voice. "Really." I say, getting out of the box to go after her. Once I get out I start running after her, she runs into the trees and I lose her. "Crap." I hear people behind me starting to go in, looking for her. What would I want, if I just came out of the box. I wouldn't want everyone in here, maybe only a few people go in.

"No! Everyone stay out here except me and Chuck. She is scared and chuck can explain, and she already met me. We will have her back before dinner." Chuck nods and we head into the forest. "Wait how are we supposed to call her if we don't know her name?" Chuck asks, he has a good point. I think about it, there isn't much to do.

(A/N: there was a really cringy part here that included singing and I deleted it sooooo if it doesn't make sense and doesn't click I apologize....)

"Hey, little girl? We won't hurt you, we just want to know where you are. I promise no one is gonna do anything." I take a deep breath. Chuck joined in, "She's right, we aren't gonna hurt you. We just want to explain everything." Its at that moment that I hear something from the trees above, and I put my finger on my lips to show chuck and try to listen.

It sounds like she's in a small range, she didn't get that far. I stop Chuck from walking, "She's close. I promise we won't hurt you. I swear on my life." As I'm talking I hear the girl behind me. Me and Chuck spin around to look at her, she looks nervous, afraid . "Hey, can you come with us? We just wanna talk." She nods, "Hannah." I look at chuck and he shrugs. "That's my name, my name is Hannah," She has the biggest smile on her face, probably the biggest I've seen at the glade. "Im Dylan, and this here is my boy Chuck." She nods, the smile still on her face.

As we start walking out she starts humming a song, it sounds familiar. Chuck notices too, "What are you humming?" She shrugs, "I'm not sure. It sounds pretty though." I nod and give her a smile. Putting my arm around Chuck shoulder, then carefully putting it around Hannah's, trying not to scare her. But when I place my arm it feels normal, like something I used to do all the time. Soon both me and Chuck have joined in on the humming, and we were all walking back out into the sun.

*Newts POV*
Dylan and chuck just went into the dead-heads to find the girl. The boys were walking back to get to work when I hear something, it sounded like people humming. "Wait, guys do you hear that?" I look at Minho and he nods, "It sounds like humming." Thomas comes up behind us, agreeing. "Ya, but if it's chuck I'm so making fun of him," Minho starts humming in a girly voice and all the boys start laughing. We all just decide to sit there until they come out. After about 10 minutes of waiting they decide to come out.

*Dylans POV*
As we are walking through the land me and Chuck start to tell Hannah about the glade. Like, how there are only three girls, how I came up just a few days ago, we didn't tell her a lot, saving that for the tour. The silence sits for a minute before Hannah asks us the question we all wanna know, "Why can't I remember anything?" I don't answer Hannah, but quickly look at Chuck. Hannah looks like she is about to ask again so I change the subject, "We should probably get back to the others." I tell the kids to dust themselves off and I would be right behind them.

After the kids were out of sight I sit down to think. Blegh. The song Hannah was humming is now stuck in my head, and I keep humming it. I decided to go out there, and just as I stand up I hear him, "Dylan? You out here?" It was Newt, I dust myself off. "Hey Newt. What are you doing out here?" Relief washes over his face when he sees me. "Well the greenie.." I correct him, calling people greenie is stupid. It just shows they are new, "Hannah. Her name is Hannah." He nods "Well when Chuck and Hannah came out but you didn't I kinda got nervous. But your here and your fine so ya."

I laugh, "Well I'm fine. Let's get back to the others." We walk out of the forest and everyone is staring at me. "Umm, why are they staring?" I look at Newt but he looks just as confused. Minho comes up to you, "Hey nice saving, shank." I'm kinda shocked but I try not to show it. I didn't even save her, I just went into the forest and found her, "Hey look even when Minho is trying to give a complement he throws in some sassiness." We all laugh.

Thomas comes up and gives me a high five. "Usually it would have taken us a couple hours. What made it so easy?" I shrug, "Not really sure. I guess she just believed me." Thomas nods and Newt puts his hands on my shoulders from behind, "Well good job Dylan." I blush but see Minho smirking so I just roll my eyes. "Oh yeah thanks," I say nervously.

I fake smile until they all walk away. I just wanna go find Hannah and Chuck. Talk to them. Maybe find Teresa too. "Ok everyone, get back to work we don't have all day." Alby loudly shouted over everything, now I need to find something to do. I need a job. "Hey, Minho wait up!" I had to jog to catch up to him, seems like I've been jogging a lot lately.

"So I don't have a job yet. Can you help with that?" He signals to follow him, "yea let's find Alby. Alby!" He shouts, Alby walks over to us. "What do you need?"
"Well I don't have a job yet, so can I get some help with that?" He nods, "What do you want to try out first?" I scratch the back of my neck. "I was actually hoping that I could uh.. well be a runner?"

"Wait, first of all: no not at all. But second: how do you know about the runners? No one has ever said anything about them in front of you," Minho protests. You chuckle. "For one, why? I can take care of myself, I think I've proven clever enough and I can protect myself. Second of all, I'm not stupid just because I'm zoned out doesn't mean I can't hear you. And please?" I playfully use puppy dog eyes.

"I think Minho has a very reasonable response, but than you have been proven to protect yourself in the past few days. And you also have taken care of other gladers as well." Alby hints to Hannah and Chuck. "Well how about this, I will try out the other jobs and you can think about this, but before you say no can I at least have a chance?" Alby sighs "Fine." I smile. "Wait really? We are really going to let Dylan try out to be a runner?" Minho is still going at it, and my smile fades.

I put my hands on my hips as to say really? But he isn't looking so I speak up , "What? Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I can't take care of myself?" I ask very annoyed. "No.... Dylan that's not what I mean." But I can see it flash across his eyes so I turn around and walk off, "Whatever."