ℝ𝕌ℕℕ𝔼ℝ: 𝔸 ℕ𝕖𝕨𝕥 𝔽𝕒𝕟𝕗𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟

𝟎𝟏. 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐬

I woke up with a start in a big cage like thing. It was almost pitch black but the cage was moving so fast upwards all I saw was short bursts of light. I tried thinking about anything that could have led me to being here but I couldn't remember anything. I tried to think of anything that could have happened at any point in my life but I drew a complete blank. I started hyperventilating due to the situation and thought that I was going to die or something when the cage stopped moving.

It started to open above me and I looked up to see a bright light before someone jumped down. Once the light was somewhat dimmer I focused on who had come down into the box and noticed he was a boy around my age hopefully with blonde hair and a slightly boyish face. He knelt down beside me and asked me if I was doing okay. I could hear an accent in his voice so I assumed that he was British. I nodded and he held out his hand to help me stand up. Someone else called out and asked him what was taking so long and he shouted up to them that a girl had appeared in the box. I looked up as I heard a few gasps to see over 50 boys looking down and trying to see me so I tried to hide behind the boy so that there wouldn't be so many people staring at me. Someone else jumped down and I looked over the boy's shoulder to see who had come down. It was a boy who was around the same age as the one that I stood behind and seemed Asian with dark hair and was slightly muscular. He walked over to me and the other boy slightly moved away. The Asian one asked me if I knew anything before I had come into the maze and I was very confused by what he had said. Why would I have been sent up into a maze of all things. I told him that I couldn't and he nodded before introducing himself and then the British boy.   He was Minho and the boy that I had been hiding behind before was Newt. Newt then asked me if I could remember my name. I tried to think of my name but no matter what I did I couldn't think of my name. I started to hyperventilate again over the whole situation and Minho decided to leave the box as Newt helped me to sit down and calm me down. He kept saying that I was okay and calling me "love" and I looked into his eyes for the first time. His eyes were a beautiful dark brown and they looked soft but at the same time intense. Looking into them had seemed to calm me down because I suddenly noticed that I was breathing normally again. Newt helped me to stand up again and helped me climb out of the box as he told everyone to back up and give me space. Once him and I were fully up I looked around. The place I was in was absolutely beautiful. It was sunny and I was surrounded by green grass and numerous buildings. I turned around in a circle as I realized that there was a big wall surrounding all of it and it intrigued me and I started to hopefully understand what they had meant about being in a maze. I assumed that the maze they were talking about was outside of the walls due to there being no other place for the maze to be. I turned back to Newt and he laughed lightly before asking me if I liked the place already. I told him how beautiful I thought it was and he said that I was the first person to say that ever when they first arrived. We both laughed a bit before a bunch of the guys started to surround the two of us asking a bunch of questions and shouting over one another. I lost Newt in the crowd and so I got onto my hands and knees and started to crawl out of the group going completely unnoticed although a lot of people did step on my hands a few times. Once I had gotten out of the group of boys I made sure none of them had noticed me and jogged over to a tree. I started to climb up it nimbly as if I had done that before and I had gotten pretty high before I heard footsteps below me. Right as the voice registered in my brain I stepped on a weak branch and started to fall. I braced myself for my imminent death when I felt someone's strong arms wrap around me and broke my fall. I opened my eyes and noticed that Newt had caught me. He laughed and set me down on the ground making sure I was able to stand before he let go. He then told me that someone named Alby that was the leader of the boys here wanted to talk to me so Newt lead the way as I followed silently wondering what Alby would have to say to me.