Glade Girl

Danger

Ara's POV

I wake up on a soft bed. I glance around the room and see it's lit up by candles. There are medical tools cluttered on the desks. There is a large door across the room from me. I try to stand up, but feel something tug on my ankle. I pull the blanket back and see rope tied around my foot connecting it to the bed leg. "Newt" I call out. A moment later, the door opens and Alby comes in. "Hey Ara, I need to ask you a few questions." he says sitting down on a chair away from me. "you can come closer, I'm not going to harm you." I tell him. Newt comes in with Gally following. "We should just kill her." Gally snears at me. "you touch her and I'll banish you to the maze" Alby snaps. Maze? "Newt, where am I?" I ask. "You're in the glade, how do you know me?" he replies. A loud noise startles me yet seems to calm the others.

Newt sits down next to me and looks in my eyes. "Ara, you need to tell us how you remember anything."
"What do you mean? It's not like I did anything to keep my memories."
"Well obviously you did something cause every other person here doesn't remember a thing except their name. But then you show up.  You remember a whole lot.  And what's with the fainting thing?" Gally bursts out.
"I can't handle pain so I pass out." I calmly answer.

Newt looks at the cut on my arm then speaks ups.  "What does 'Property of Wicked' mean?" he asks.   "I don't know." I lie.  The memory is too painful to think of.  "That's nothing but crap" Gally yells.  Alby drags Gally out of the room.  It's just me and Newt.  "Wicked is our school." I say.  "When you got cut, the words appeared on your arm.  Indented in your skin.  Why?" he asks.  I'm about to respond with a cheap lie when I remember what happened.  The memory brings tears to my eyes and I burst out crying.  Newt pulls me into a hug while I cry.  I feel safe in his arms, even after everything that happened at Wicked.

"Ara, how do you know me?"Newt asks.  "We went to school together.  We were great friends"  Another lie.   We weren't friends at all.   I hear a howl causing me to jump and burry my face in Newt's shoulder.  "Don't worry, the grievers can't get in here." he assures me.  I nod my head and start to fall asleep.

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I wake up to Gally shaking me. "Lets go" he says. I shake my head no and close my eyes again. He holds a knife to my throat. "Let's go" he says again. "Go where?" I ask. "The Maze. You're meeting a griever" he says. "Why do you hate me so much?" I ask sitting up. "I'm trying to be safe. You know so much so you must be a spy for however put us here."
"Unless they have cameras in my eyes or something, I'm not a spy."

Newt comes into the room and glares at Gally. "Why are you in here?" He yells. Gally holds up his hand in surrender and leaves the room.  I look at Newt remembering what he did to me.  "are you going to hurt me?" I ask him.  "why would I ever hurt you?"  "cause Gally tried to."  "he's an idiot.  No one's going to hurt you."