𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑠- 𝐴 𝑀𝑎𝑧𝑒 𝑅𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑦𝑓𝑖𝑐

Chapter 1: Chloe

"It's Greenie day!" Newt says with a grin. "Do we think it's a boy or a girl?"

"I dunno." I say with a small smile. I've been the only girl in the maze for a month. It's been all boys for around a year and a half now I came. "I hope its a girl."

In my month of being in the maze I've made around four friends. Newt, Minho, Frypan and my work partner Winston. Winston is a slicer meaning he kills the animals for us to eat. I don't kill them I care for them, feed and water them and brush them. I've also made quite a few enemies.. I rejected a gladers advances a few weeks ago and now his whole friend group hates me.

"What time will the greenie come up?" I ask.

"Usually somewhere between 11-4."

"so." I think for a moment. "We have an hour till they could come."

"Yup."

I turn on my heel walking back to the barn. I'm soon welcomes by the sound of animals. I grab my basket and head to the chickens.

"Alright Chickaletta lets see what you got." I place the basket on the ground and quickly scoop the chicken up with one hand and grab the eggs with the other. The chicken angry clucked. "oh shush." I tell it.

I repeat the pattern until I've collected all the eggs. I climb up the ladder to the loft with the egg basket in hand. I make it up and sit down and count the eggs.

"1..2..3.." after awhile I finish counting. "47 eggs in total. That's almost a new record."

I climb down from the loft with the eggs and walk to the kitchen.

I knock on the door. "SPECIAL DELIVERY!"

The door opens and Frypan is there. "Do you have the eggs and milk?"

"... You needed milk...?"

"Yes.." he says slowly. I shove the eggs into his hands and run back to the barn. I grab and the milk bucket I quickly milk the cow then run back to Frypan carefully not to spill.

"Ok." I pause out of breath. "Gosh I hate being asthmatic- anyway here's your milk." I hand him the bucket."

Frypans smiles. "Thanks Chloe."

"No problem." I say. "Do you think the Greenies a girl or boy?"

"I don't know." I say. "I hope it's a girl but who knows."

Frypan nods. "That's valid."

I nod. "I'm going to hopefully finish with the farm stuff before they arrive so I got to go!"

I run to the barn. Just kidding I speed walk to the barn.

WINSTON!" I yell.

"WHAT?!" He screams walking out of the slaughter room. "What do you want?!"

"Do you know where I put my bucket?" I ask.

"Your.. bucket...?" He asks. "Your asking where you put your bucket.."

"Yes."

"Your going to need to be more specific then that. What bucket?"

"The grey one."

"The grey one." He repeats.

"Yes." I say. "My grey bucket. Where is it?"

"I don't shucking know!" He yells.

"The grey bucket used for feeding the animals."

"Oh it's over there." He points over to the corner of the barn where we keep all the animal feed.