The Maze

Chapter 11

Harry's p.o.v

I sit on the edge of my bed with my head in my hands. Stress has finally gotten to me at the thought of tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the day..

The day that decides my fate.

I take a look at the clock and realize it's about time for training.

My mind wanders to the dream I had last night.. it was about Arieth.

Sadly it wasn't the happiest dream, made me wonder if I should really trust her. I sigh and rub my face with my hands.

I get up and grab some black shorts and a steel grey sleeveless shirt. I ruffle my hair and push it to the side to get it out of my face.

My usual bright green eyes are lifeless and dark. Dark circles lie under my eyes from lack of sleep last night.

I walk to my door and to my surprise it's unlocked.

I jump slightly when I open it to find Adam. I roll my eyes, annoyed with someone breathing down my neck every second of the day.

"Are you stalking me or something." I snap. He laughs making me even more annoyed.

"Good morning to you too, curly." He said reaching to touch my hair but my hand flies up grabbing it and pushing it away.

"Jeeze Styles, you need to save that strength for the Maze" he says with a smirk.

"Get to the gym." He says moving out of my way. I huff and stop towards the gym.

I walk in to the gym to find Arieth throwing knives at the dummy about 20 feet in front of her hitting it right in the middle.

Looking at her brings a sad and uneasy feeling. That dream last night made me question my trust towards her.

She turned around and waved me over, I look around the room to find Adam standing by the door with his arms crossed.

I shake my head and walk towards her, she hands me a knife and smiles.

Gosh she's so freaking bipolar I don't know what to do.

"Morning sunshine, how'd you sleep?" She says all cheery.

I continue to look at her like she's grown two heads. Why this random act of kindness towards me?

Maybe this can work, she's going to have to gain my trust that's for sure.

"Good" I replied taking the knife slowly from her.

She gives me a confused look at my sudden change in mood. Before shaking it off

"Good. Now let's get down to business sleeping beauty. If we are going to have any chance of surviving the Maze then we need to work out our weaknesses."

Maybe I'm just being delusional from that dream, I need to get over my fear.

"I'm not good at shooting." I admit looking down at the knife, my dad taught me to fight and shoot a gun, but of course we aren't allowed to use guns.

"I don't think that'll be a problem because we aren't allowed guns, but I wouldn't be surprised if they threw that in the Maze." She says sarcastically before throwing another knife getting it right in the head.

I look back down at my hands kinda embarrassed. "I mean shooting in general, like bows and crossbows."

She's not very lucky.. she got stuck with the worst person possible to be in the Maze with.

"I can teach you that, and I need you to teach me to fight rough. Like you do." She says with a smile playfully punching me in the arm.

I chuckled and nodded, looking in those beautiful blue eyes that I dreamt about last night.
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The rest of the day we worked on what we planned on, she taught me how to shoot and I taught her to fight.

To my surprise I can actually shoot accurately now. By the time the bell rang I found myself just looking at her.

Her innocent smile finding its way onto her face as she finds me looking at her.

I knew than that I wanted to keep her safe, that If there was only one person getting out of the Maze I wanted it to be her.

I wanted her to get out of this and live her life, be able to get married and have kids.

Hopefully we can both make it out.. I want to see my family again.

I promised Jeramy. My promise to Jeramy creeps back into my mind and my fist clench getting a sudden feeling of anger at the thought of them taking me away from them.

"Goodnight Harry." She breaks me out of my stare.

Heat rises to my cheeks as I realized I was staring at her the entire time.

She walks out leaving me with Adam standing by the door.

"I saw that Styles." He says laughing at me.

"Shut up." I say shaking my head and walking back to my room.

I catch Arieth walking into her room, her eyes meet mine and she smirks at me making me furrow my eyebrows before she shuts her door.

"Goodnight Ari." I whisper before walking into my room.

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