To debate between hatred, friendship, love - with a foe, a friend, or a lover.

In order to avoid another summer at home of being interegated about his future and non-existent love life, Aris agrees to spend the months away from his friends and back with his aunt in Texas. While he expects nothing extraordinary about his time there, he meets a girl who may just change all the answers he gives to those questions he hates with a burning passion.

She was practically cursed to be someone to look out for since birth. Having lived her entire life in the Scorch, she was on edge, paranoid, and was always prepared to kill. Even if it made her enemies, she did what she had to to survive. Aris knew nothing about that sort of lifestyle. His Maze and two weeks out there didn't make him cold. It didn't make him so dangerous that getting close to someone would risk their lives. She did though. She was like that, so when this random boy she had a terrible first impression with told her to stay in the Safe Haven, she wasn't eager to take it. Not at all. Even if it was her only chance of normalcy. Even if it was her only chance of falling in love.

Y/N's life is simple seeing as there aren't any emotions to complicate it. As a child WCKD ripped her away from her family. From there they did every new experiment imaginable. She was the ultimate test subject. All because she didn't seem to react when they shot her mother. The truth is as a child in a cruel world who just didn't know how. They didn't see it that way though. She was nothing more than an experiment. Now she's unable to feel emotions. Or so she was convinced. Then, she's made to interview him. Aris seemed to pull her in. For some reason her heart didn't seem completely frozen when he was around. Is it enough to listen to his advice and make it out though?