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I watched as Newt jumped into the lift that brings us food and supplies into the Glade. Every so often, it brings up a new person. When someone is brought up, they don't remember their previous lives, only their names. So far I'm the only girl that's come up through the lift. All the guys here have helped me feel like I am at home with them. Feeling something nudge my leg, I looked down.
"Can you help me take these food boxes to the kitchen so it'll be easier for Fry Pan, so he doesn't have to walk all the way out here? I heard that something happened out in the Maze when you and Minho were scouting around. Would you mind telling me what happened?."
Oh and we all are very helpful to one another but each of us have our own jobs that we have to do, for example I am the keeper of runners (along with Minho), Newt is in charge of everything, and Fry Pan is the cook. With Newt being in charge, everyone has to go to him if anything goes wrong or to do a daily check up on whatever needs one.
Looking down, I heard him jump out of the lift. A couple seconds later, I felt a finger under my chin, making me look up at Newt.
"You okay, Valentina?"
I looked up into his bright blue eyes before giving him a small little nod. After a couple of seconds he said,
"Okay. Let's go take these to him before he starts freaking out."
Fry Pan has a reputation to freak out if nothing is brought to him on time. Newt bent down, grabbed a box, and handed it to me. I stood there for a second, wincing in pain as he grabbed the other box. Once he got it, I turned around and walked toward the kitchen, knowing he was behind me and going to catch up. Newt is used to this whenever we do stuff like this together. As I walked, I tried to hide the pain as Newt walked up to the same walking speed as me.
"I don't want to pry or anything but what happened in the Maze that sent you to go get bandaged up?"
I looked down at my feet before looking up at Newt. I found him looking at me with a worried expression. I took a shaky breath and looked ahead of us to the kitchen, which was coming into view. Right when I was about to tell Newt about what happened, Fry Pan came jogging out to meet us.
"I heard what happened Tina. Are you okay?"
I nodded and right when I was about to speak, Newt practically yelled,
"Will someone please tell me what in the bloody heck is going on?!"
I took a long, shaky breath before saying,
"Minho and I ran into a greaver. Like literally into the big, loud, gooey machine looking thing. Neither of us knew that they came out that early. They normally come out of the caves I guess they go in during the daylight or the shadows right as we are coming back in and just as the wall closes them in the Maze. I was the one closest to the thing and so right before we were going to run the heck away from it, the greaver took a swipe at me. It hit me right along my left side of my body."
Taking another breath, trying to really remember what happened afterwards, I continued,
"I don't really remember what happened next because I kinda blacked out for a couple of seconds or minutes. I don't really remember much after that. The only thing that I remember before I blacked out again was Minho picking me up off the ground. I woke up about an hour ago. We left about four in the morning and it was about seven when I got swiped by that thing, blacked out about ten minutes later, and I woke up at one ish. So I was probably out for five and a half hours. I am pretty sure that it'll leave a scar."
Tensing, I turned to look at Newt. His hands were in balls, eyes closed shut, and seemed to be shaking. He looked like he was about to blow up and punch a wall, or do something crazy. Fry Pan took a step forward but I stretched out my arm to stop him. I knew Newt really well. I knew that whenever he got like this when I would talk about something that would seem fun to us runners in the Maze, it didn't seem as fun to him and that he needed a couple minutes to calm down.
After about ten minutes, Newt finally took a deep breath and opened his eyes. He took a couple deep breaths to calm himself down.
"H-how…..Did you make it out alive?"
He stammered out.
"I have no idea. I guess the idea of not wanting to leave anyone brought me back. All y'all shanks are my best friends."
For a second I thought I saw some hurt flash through Newt's eyes.
"Good that"
Fry Pan retorted, which made me smile. Fry Pan looked through the boxes to make sure they were the right ones before saying,
"Well thanks guys. I'll see you guys at dinner then."
He then picked up the boxes and walked into the kitchen. Newt and I walked back and started dropping off boxes to the right people. Every month, everyone gets things they are in need of. And if someone works with the animals, for example, they get two boxes, one with the stuff they need for themselves and one for the animals. And that also applies to anyone who do things like that.
After about a good solid hour of taking the boxes to everyone, I walked over to little hut that they built for the doctors place. Walking in, Jt stood up.
"How are you doing Tina? Do you want to check up on your bandage?"
Nodding, I walked over to the chair so he could check up on the bandage.
"Did you lift anything in the last two hours since you've been up?"
"Um, ya I was helping Newt taking the boxes to everyone."
He nodded his head as he started taking off the bandage to see the scratch. Not wanting to see it, I turned my head.
"Okay. Everything looks pretty normal but I would suggest to not lift anything over a couple pounds or so so you don't do anything to hurt it. I think you'll be fine to go out to the Maze tomorrow but before you do, come here in the morning so I can do a check up. I don't think you will be able to run a whole lot for a couple days. So I'd advise you to run only when you need to. And rest whenever you get the chance. I'll go talk to Minho and Newt about it so they are informed. Oh and before I forget, here are some pills if your side is hurting you at all during the day or in the middle of the night. Got it?"
I looked into his eyes before nodding.
"Okay. I think that's it then. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Thanks Jt!"
I said as I walked out. Hearing noises coming from the mess hall, I slowly made my way over to it as I watched the sun go down and the Maze's gigantic doors close.
