Once a glader always a glader.

Enjoy the little things.

Maggie's pov.

I sat next to the box as the alarms went off like they did last month when I came up. The alarms stopped as the box came to a halt. I opened the doors only to reveal a darker skinned teenager curled up in the corner of the metal crate.

"Get up newbie we have to unload these boxes." He just looked at me like I was crazy. I jumped down into the box and started to lift out the supply and food crates up on to the cement platform.

"Wh-who are you? Where am I?" The newbie asked.

"Well if you help me with these crates then I will explain to you what I know. Ok?" The boy looked about sixteen, he just nodded and put his strength to use.

After we took everything out of the box we sat in the grass next to my favorite tree. "So here's what I know my name is Maggie and this place is what I call the glade. I don't know what's out Beyond these wAlls but I sure as hell don't want to find out. Ok let's see I was placed here just a month ago with enough supplies now your here and more supplies have arrived. So I suggest we get a move on and build some type of sleep arrangement. Agreed?" I asked while I dusted myself from the ground.

The boy stood up and smiled at me. "I may be very confused and lost but I can tell when someone is bossing me around." He stated in a friendly tone.

"Your saying I'm bossy? Oh shucks I never would have thought." I joked with the newbie smiling down at me.

"Shucks... I like it. It's different." I laughed as he complemented my word.

Shuck I guess it is a fun word.

Months passed then years I was the first glader and I was the only girl to be placed in the glade. All of the other gladers were boys in their teens.

3 years later.

"Hey mom will you clean this up for me?" Gally asked as he sat on the hospital cot with a crimson covered hand.

I cleaned gallys cut with some antiseptic and then wrapped it the best I could. Gallys watched me intently as I calmly wrapped his hand.

"I think a kiss would make me feel better." Gally joked as he leaned closer in holding my hands in his.

I leaned in looking like I was about to kiss him but instead of kissing him I licked his cheek. "That is a puppy kiss." He made a distinct disgusted sound and I fell to the ground holding my sides laughing my ass off.

I stood up and heard the deep laughter of the one and only alby "oh man that was hilarious. Gally stop flirting with 'Mags your not her type." Alby joked.

Gally chuckled a bit then gave me a hug and left my office. "You ready for tomorrow? New greenie arrival." My best friend, almost like brother asked reminding me that tomorrow was the first of the month. The day we get the new arrival.

"Yeah remember when you first arrived? A lot more tamed and calm then the other boys. Man when Minho came up that was shucking hilarious. And chuck that poor boy clunked himself so many times. Still you and I were the two best to take being stuck in the glade." He smiled and pulled me into a side hug and we walked out into the glade.

We looked out onto the glade as our glader brotheren worked about the glade. "So how's being mom working for you." I laughed at the nickname the boys had given me.

"Well you boys cry at the simplest splinter or cut. When I was a runner I got cuts and scrapes all the time you act like babies." I laughed as the thought of each boy gathered with splintered fingers crying flittered into my thoughts I laughed histarically.

"How can you do that? We literally are trapped in this prison and you just break out in laughter." Alby questioned my strange laughter.

"I don't know it's just small things make me laugh and I don't know I guess just enjoy the little things." Alby looked at me with a straight face and then nodded in agreement.