The Greenie (The Maze Runner)

Chapter 6

"Stacey?" Alby said, waving his hand in front of my face. "I have a lot to do. Let's get going." I followed closely behind him. "We will start you off at the garden." 

"Hey Alby, Greenie," a blonde hair boy greeted us as we walked over. 

"Hey Zart. She is going to be with you today. Please teach her how to do the work in the garden."

"Will do." Alby patted Zart on the back before he walked away, leaving me with yet another stranger. "Start by picking the weeds out." He instructed and got back to his own work. 

"Things seem to run so smoothly around here." I looked up at Zart. 

"Well that is the point of having rules. So things will run as smoothly as this." Zart spoke but didn't stop working to look at me, "without the rules and someone to be there to keep things in order imagine how this place would be."

"I guess you have a good point." I looked up at him. "So whoever it was that sent us up here also  sends us all the supplies we need?"

"Yeah." He sounded like he was getting annoyed. 

"And you all think we were sent up here for a reason?" 

"You ask a lot of questions Greenbean." Zart finally snapped.

"Sorry." I mumbled to myself and went back to pulling weeds. 

"Why don't you make yourself useful and take this and go get some fertilizer." He tossed me an empty bucket. "You'll find it in the woods over there." I walked through the woods and came to what looked like a grave yard and stopped to read something.

Let this half-shank be a warning to all: you can't escape through the box hole

I heard a twig snap behind me, "who's there?" I called out quickly with a shaky voice. 

"Bad." Someone called out, but I couldn't make out anyone. 

"Who the hell are you?" I called out again.

"You don't belong here." A young boy appeared and he looked like he was injured. I had no idea who he was or why he was saying this stuff. "You did this to us. You put us here," he would repeat over and over. 

"What are you talking about?"

"You worked with them." I scrunched my eyebrows together and he lunged towards me. Before I could move he tackled me to the ground and I fought to get out of his grip. He pulled a knife out of the belt around his waist. Before he could do anything I kneed him as hard as I could and he fell over.

I quickly got up and started running out of the woods and towards the others. "Someone help!" I screamed loudly. "Help!" I kept running. I got into the glade and screamed again. I tripped over and the boy was quickly on top of me and was holding the knife towards me. "Help!" I screamed again.

He was knocked off me by someone before he could hurt me and Newt helped me off the ground. "Are you okay?" I nodded, fear taking over me.

"What's wrong with him?" I asked.

"He's been stung." Alby replied. "Jeff take Stacey to the med-jack and get her checked. She looks awful."

"Thanks Alby." I said sarcastically. "Like I chose to look like this."

"When you're done with Jeff come see me Stacey." I nodded and followed Jeff to the Med-Jack building. He quickly examined me and wrapped my cuts.

"Thanks Jeff."

"You're welcome. Alby is probably waiting on you, you should go." He started to clean up as I stood up. 

"Thanks again." I walked out and went to the Homestead, looking for Alby.