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Chapter One-Rose and Dimitri…In the Maze?
I woke up to the sound of grinding metal. Groaning, I rolled over and sat up. There are a bunch of supplies around me and as I stand up I feel the box I am in moving. I have noticed by now the box I'm in will have to stop at some point. Looking up I make out an outline of a lid of some sort. I braced myself for impact.
The box stopped and the door opened and a bunch of boys surrounded the opening.
"It's a shucking girl!" one of them shouts.
I glare at him. "If you are not going to open this and let me out then back up so I can get myself out of this box." I tied my long dark brown hair with red highlights.
They looked at me like I was crazy so I jumped on one of the boxes and pushed the doors above me open and jumped out.
"Thanks for the help boys!" I said cheerfully. "I am grateful!" I flipped my hair over my shoulder and took off at a light jog.
Before I got too far, someone grabbed my shoulder and I spun around and punched him and tore off for one of the big doors that are on all four walls. But before I got through the door, someone runs into me. I went flying back, after I gained my ground, I flew back at him and hit him hard in the chest.
"DON'T TOUCH ME!" I screamed at him. Someone snuck up behind me and restrained my arms, the dumb shank didn't even think that I could use that as leverage against him. I let him think I was calming down and right as he was about to loosen his hold, I jumped and vaulted over him. The guy I hit before tried to grab me, but before he could some 6'7" guy comes up to me and just puts a hand on my shoulder.
"What's your name?" he asked very calmly.
"Rosemarie, I think." I said.
"Well Rosemarie, I'm Dimi-" he was cut off because another guy yanked me back.
"Got her!"
"Put her in the Pit!"
Before another could holler something else I yelled at the top of my lungs, "Why don't you just leave a girl alone!"
With that I headed for the woods a corner of the place. Found a large tree and climbed it to hide. I was there for a few minutes when I heard someone looking for me.
"Rosemarie, come on I know you are in here I saw you come in here." It was the guy who had tried to talk to me like a human.
I jumped down in front of him making jump back.
"You called?"
"You know for a girl your size- well for a girl period you are pretty fast, and you put up a good fight."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
He chuckles softly. "Come here" he gently leads me to the edge of the woods, "look over there," he points at something that looks like a big house, "that over there is the Homestead."
As I watch the others, I notice how they all keep looking to the woods, where I had disappeared. I stand up slowly to not draw more attention to myself. Looking at the guy, make a move to leave and he has his arms around me.
"Please don't. I'm not going to hurt you. Dimitri, by the way. That's my name." he looks at me as I brush him off.
"I am just going to find a place to sleep, Dimitri." The shank wouldn't leave me alone.
"Come with me, you can bunk with me for the night."
"Are you sure?" I at him "Cause I don't wanna ruin your reputation or anything." I say skeptically narrowing my eyes at him.
"You won't be doing anything to me or my reputation. I'm kind of in charge here." He chuckles at my concern.
"Well if you are so sure." I sigh starting to get up but lost my balance and landed in his lap.
I feel his arms wrap around me waist instinctively. I take a deep breath and let him up brushing off the not really there dirt. Looking up at him realize that he is really tall. Shoulder length hair a chocolate brown. His build is a solid and muscular one, as if he had been trained in fighting.
Smiling, I look into his face and laugh. "Race ya back!" I say taking off fast. But I made a mistake of that one. His legs are much longer than mine and that pushes me harder to try to beat him. He looks at me through the corner of his eye and I can tell he is really trying to keep up with me. I feel more like I had been trained to run a marathon. Just as we are nearing the big building, I pull ahead. Just enough that I know that I win the race. When we stop, I see that he is breathing hard from the race, where as I was barely out of breath or sweaty for that matter.
"You are fast for someone as small as you are. No offence to you or anything." He says with a grin. "And you could really give all the runners a run for their money."
I look at him with confusion. "Runners?"
"Yeah here in the Glade we have different groups. Runners, Slicers, Builders, Med-Jacks, Cooks, and Track-Hoes." Runners are the only ones that go into the maze. At night the maze doors close. No one has ever survived a night out there." He looks me dead in the eyes before he says "Don't pass through those doors." He glances at the sky and notices that it's nearly dark and looks back at me. "The doors are about to close so we should get some sleep."