The Gladers Love Tale

The Unexpected Day

It's early in the morning when Thomas gets woken up early by none other then Alby himself, who was covering Thomas' mouth with his hand.
"Shhh, c'mon" He whispers, trying not to wake anyone else up.
As they walk across the glade Alby explains,
"It wasn't always this way, beleive it or not, this place just used to be an empty field, full of plants and trees, but one by one everyone started coming up, Me, Gally, Minho, Newt, Winston, Frypan, Jeff, i can continue for aslong as i need but i need you to do this." Alby stops right by a stone wall covered in names, Jeff, Clint, Newt, Gally, and more, Alby gives Thomas a small pocket knife shiny and silver, with a dark handle,
"Here, time to make you an official glader," Alby says proudly, Thomas looks at his cheery face, then back at the wall, slowly carving his name with the blade in hand.
A while later he's in the garden,
"Have you tried climbing the wall?" Thomas asks,
"The ladder doesn't reach far enough, plus where would we go from there?"
Newt replies, picking at fruits
"What about the box? Have you tried-"
Thomas is interrupted by Newt,
"Already tried, the box won't go back down with someone in it."
He replies almost laughing
"What about-" Thomas is cut off by Newt and his sudden small outburst,
"Alright! We've tried it! Twice! Listen, anything you can think of we've already tried, now how about you make yourself useful and go fetch us some more fertiliser" Newt says as Zart lets out a small chuckle, the impact of the bucket sending him back a bit, Thomas sighs and walks to the forest, almost tripping over an overgrown garden vine, making Newt and Zart laugh a bit.
"Oh yeah, make your self useful and get us some more fertiliser, stupid pretty boy." Thomas mocks to himself as he walks through the forest, looking for fertiliser. He slows down as he spots a shrine of bones, he takes as step closer until he hears a heavy breathing behind him, he turns around and sees Ben, dark veins on his face.
"Ben right? I don't think we've met properly-" Thomas is cut off by Ben,
"You little shit. IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!!" Ben lunges at Thomas, tackling him down to the floor, Thomas quickly finds an animal skull and bashes it off of Ben's head before quickly getting up and running. But unfortunately Ben's catching up, and quick. Thomas notices a small hill bank and runs down, hoping not to fall, but he trips over a log and goes tumbling down, Ben following quickly behind. As Thomas sees the light of the glade he starts shouting, yelling, screaming for help.
"HELP!! HELP!!!" He screams, people turn to look in his direction, shortly following the two cries for help, were two figures running, Thomas and Ben, as people start running over Ben pins Thomas to the ground.
"I'LL KILL YOU!!" Ben shouts as he attempts to strangle thomas before getting knocked out by Newt, who hit him across the head with a shovel. Newt looks at Thomas, his breathing is heavy and his eyes are still wide with shock, Newt walks over to him placing his hand on Thomas' shoulder before looking down at Ben's infected form.
"Check his chest!" Alby shouts as people pin Ben to the ground,
"No... please.. no... no..." Ben cries, almost begging, as they lift his shirt.
"Hes been stung." Alby says, a stern but sympathetic look on his face.
"Please.. please.." Ben cries as he gets taken to a pit.
Its almost time for the maze doors to close. People are in a semi circle, sticks at the ready as Minho brings Ben over.
Ben is still begging.
"Please..."
Minho lets Ben go as Ben collapses to the ground on all fours, his tears falling onto the dry, rocky surface beneath him, creating small puddles. Throwing a small sack with supplies in the maze, Minho looks at Ben, his face full of sympathy. Ben stands up, still crying.
"Please... Minho...? Alby...?" Ben looks around.
"Close in" Alby says, everyone points the end of their sticks to Ben, slowly closing in on him... Ben backs up, no choice now.. he 𝐇𝐀𝐒 to go. Ben walks into the maze, barely getting through the walls, before the doors close they could see one last glimpse of Ben's teary face.
Everyone looks down, their faces darkening with sorrow.
"He belongs to the maze now.." Alby mumbles quietly. Thomas looks at everyone else, his eyes land on Newt, who looks like his whole world just crumbled. As everyone else walks away, Thomas goes to Newt,
"You ok Newtie..?" He asks, the worry in his voice is more than obvious.
"Yeah.. im fine Tommy..." Newt looks at Thomas one last time and walks away.
It's later in the evening, Thomas and Chuck are sat in their hammocks, chatting,
"Do you think he'll survive..?" Thomas asks.
"Not really.. nobody survives a night in the maze." Chuck says before lieing down and going to sleep. Thomas' gaze lands on Newt and Alby, sat at the fire still looking towards the maze, Thomas goes and sits by them.
"It'll be ok.." Thomas rests his hand ontop of Newts. Alby and Newt look over at Thomas, nodding.
"Yeah.." Newt mumbles softly. Thomas hugs Newt for a while before going back to his hammock and going to sleep for the night.