Echoes And A Maze

Chapter 1

Darkness, darkness is all I can see. I don't know where I am but I'm sweaty. I try to stand up but I bump my head into the ceiling of sort of a box. I'm the only person in this thing, I think there's some animal in here too cause I hear something bumping to the wood of a closed box.

The even weirder thing is that I can't remember my freaking name... Why can't I remember my name?? When I think about it I can't remember my age, my surname. Things like that, how do I know then that I'm in a box?? I try so hard to remember my name but I can't... I just can't...

My head hurts a bit. After I think 20 minutes the box thing I'm in is still rising. After another 10 minutes it stops, then it takes another 5 before someone opens it. I can't see who it is cause of the brightness of the light. The sun blinds me, quote logical after being more than half an hour (probably even more) in a dark box.

When my hands are in front of the sun to make the light less bright I hear everywhere voices, boy voices. They're too low to be from girls. When I'm a bit more used to the light I see boys from I think the ages between the 12-17. 'It's a girl' says one of the boys, he's blonde and has a strong British accent. All of them whisper 'a girl?' 'why is she the only girl' 'if she's okay she's mine' 'no dude, she's too old for you, she's probably 16, you're 12...' . At the moment I'm just hoping their lying and that I'm not the only girl...

When the blonde boy wanted to help me stand up I stood up myself and said:' no thanks, I can stand up myself.' I was pretty confused that I just said the first thing that came into my head. I could see what I was wearing, it sounds weird but I knew I was wearing beige pants and a light blue short sleeve shirt.

' Take her to the pit, she's probably still confused ' a boy with dark blonde hair and just too long hair for having a buzz cut. Wait what is 'the pit'? Before I could asked I got lifted up by 2 other boys. Before I knew they threw me in a literal sort of pit. The boy with the sort of buzz cut was right, I was confused but did I have to be captured right away?

I think an hour passed when a smaller boy, I think from the age of 12 came to me and was the first one who was acting normal to me. He said:' Hi, I'm Chuck. I figured you maybe wanted some food' ' Thanks Chuck, that's nice from you. I am...' I wanted to say my name but I didn't know it. He saw my confusion and said ' No problem, no one knew they're name when they came here. I figured out mine after a day or 2, you'll remember yours sold enough' Chuck handed me a plate with a hamburger on it and some salad. 'Welcome to the glade by the way. I think no one said it to you yet cause you were thrown in here right away, otherwise another welcome ' Chuck is a really nice kid 'Thanks again Chuck. But what is the Glade?' 'The place where you are right now! It's like our home.' ' our home?' ' yep ' Chuck answered. ' I think you gotta be for tonight in the pit too, you'll get your tour tomorrow ' he said ' uhm okay, well thanks for the food. I'm pretty exhausted so well.. goodnight then.' ' night!'

The little boy walked away and went to a small group of boys that looked like his age. So I would be here for the full night? Okay but why couldn't they just let me out? I ate my food on the ground cause the only chair that was in here looked not strong enough to sit on. So I wouldn't give it a try. When most of the boys went to their beds (dunno what they looked like but I think it is something easy like an hammock.)  I went to sleep too. No idea how late it could be, I think something like 22:00PM but again, no idea.