The Greenie

She was waiting with everyone else. Newt to her right and Alby to her left. The crowd gathered around as they heard that all too familiar sound of the box coming up. More supplies, a new greenie, and more blue liquid for her to drink. She glanced up at the group waiting for the box. She was the only girl in the bunch. She clenched her fists. It was cruel what they were doing to them. Finally, the box opened up, inside, among all the new supplies, was a teenager in a blue long sleeve shirt with dark brown hair and brown eyes. She recognized him immediately. Gally jumped down to help the greenie up.

"Day one greenie!" Gally said as he helped the greenie out of the metal box. The greenie fell on the ground. He looked scared and confused. The other Gladers crowded around him. She had a funny feeling in her stomach. They were poking fun at him as he was lying at the ground.

"He is going to run" She finally spoke up.

No one heard her over their screams and taunts

"He is going to run" She repeated.

Sti,ll no one heard her

"He is going to -" She couldn't finish this time because the greenie got up and bolted away from the crowd.

"We got a runner" Frypan yelled as the greenie ran away.

The group looked at the girl

"Oh, I'm suppose to go after him" She looked at the group as she turned to run after the greenie.

Her strawberry blonde curly hair bouncing as she ran. It didn't take her very long to catch up to the greenie.

"You are going to fall" She yelled at the greenie.

The greenie kept running.

"You are going to -" she tried to repeat herself but the grennie fell down flat on his face. She ran over and helped him up.

"Welcome to the Glade." She said as he stood up. Some of the Gladers took the greenie and threw him to the Pit, a three cell makeshift mud jail used to protect the Gladers from a Glader who are going through the changing.

A few minutes later Alby went to get the greenie. She went with him.

"Hey, there green bean." The girl spoke looking down at the greenie. She remember his brown hair and brown eyes.

"You are not going to run away again are you?" Alby asked as he stared at the greenie.

The greenie shook his head. Alby let him out.

"We grow our own food, we build are our shelter. The box provides some things, but everything else is up to us." Alby stated.

"The box?" The greenie asked

"Every month the box arrives with fresh supplies and a new greenie. This month that is you." The girl stated.

"Hey, Alby" Newt stated as he walked, with a slight limp, toward Alby, the greenie and the teenage girl.

"Greenie this is Newt, he is in charge when I am not around." Alby put his hand on Newt's shoulder.

"I'm Lyra," the girl stated as she stood next to Newt, "I am in charge when these two are acting like idiots, which seems to be all the time." She joked.

"Can you two go find Chuck?" Alby asked looking at Newt and Lyra. Lyra and Newt walked away from Alby and the greenie.

Newt and Lyra walked by the Gladers who were taking inventory of the box's supplies.

"Hey, Lyra" one of them shouted, "Catch." He threw a plastic bottle full of a shimmery blue liquid.

Lyra caught it, opened it and started drinking it.

"You still have to drink that stuff" Newt looked at her concerned, his voice oozed with a British accent.

"Yeah. And don't look at me like that. What if someone saw" Lyra said as she wiped some liquid from her mouth.

"Sometimes I don't care" Newt snapped back at her lovingly.

"No one is supposed to know" Lyra replied through more sips of the blue drink.

"No one will know. Remember Alby's rules." Newt replied.

Lyra stuck her tongue out at him. Her tongue had a hint of blue on it. They walked a little bit in silence.

"Look who I found?" Newt stopped walking. Standing a few feet from them was a young teen with curly short red hair, Chuck.

"Chuck, Alby is looking for you. You are no longer the new greenie. A new one came up today. He will need help settling in. That's your job now" Lyra said pointing at the platform in the tree in the middle of the Glade.

Chuck walked off toward the tree where Alby was probably telling the greenie about the rules of the Glade. Alby a while ago told her the special rules that applied only to her: Don't let the others see, who don't already know and don't spill a drop of her blood to prevent the changing.

"You ready for tonight?" Newt asked Lyra as Chuck walked away.

"Yeah. I could do without the additional noise" Lyra said looking at the large stone walls that surrounded the lush, green Glade.

"Nightmares again?" Newt looked at Lyra with a mix of concern and understanding

Lyra looked at him. She opened the bottle with the blue liquid and started drinking it again. It tasted like nothing, but it looked like her blood when she was stressed or scared.

He can't know that they returned. He would not let her in the maze again. She had to find the way out.

She saw Chuck help the greenie get his hammock made. The doors would be closing soon. She would have to talk to Minho and Ben about what they found. She waited by the entrance of the maze. The tall stone walls loomed over her. She saw the greenie followed by Chuck walk up to her. Chuck was talking about the rules of the Glade. Minho and Ben slowly ran out of the entrance.

"Chuck, I see there is a new greenie, how does it feel to be promoted" Ben stated as he ran by.

"Minho…" Lyra ran after the two teens.

She finally caught up with them a little ways off from the maze entrance.

"Minho-" Lyra started but was cut off by Minho.

"Lyra there is nothing new. No change...no progress." Minho looked into her bright blue eyes.

"I am running tomorrow. I am finding a way out." Lyra said looking back into his brown eyes.

"Suits me." Ben remarked with a laugh.

Lyra smiled, but just kept looking at Minho.

Something drew her attention away from Minho. It was the greenie. A crowd had formed around him and the entrance of the maze.

"Why won't you tell me what is going on?" The greenie looked at Alby and Newt.

Lyra ran towards the crowd and parted it as she made her way towards the greenie.

"You want to know the truth." Lyra started as she neared the greenie

"Lyra" Alby spoke in a stern voice.

Lyra just ignored it "In a few seconds this doors will close. If you are stuck in the maze when the door closes, there are things in the maze that kill you. They killed my friends. You want to risk your life go ahead. I don't know you, I don't care. But you will die. And right now we need to stick together, even if you don't want to. " She shouted at him.

As she talked the large stone doors started to close behind her. There was a thud as the doors slammed shut. The Gladers just stared at her.

She stared at Alby, then glanced at the greenie. She glanced at her palms, her veins glowed a glittery blue. She closed her hands, hoping no one saw. She walked toward her sleeping quarters; a tent, a little ways away from the rest of the sleeping tents, that the Gladers made just for her. She laid on her swinging hammock, tears rolled down her cheeks.