Hannah's POV

I woke up, and all I could see was pure darkness, I could feel I was in a closed box of some kind and it was moving upwards. I was panicking, I couldn't remember who I was or where I was. I was clueless as heck and tears started to flow down my cheeks because of the raging emotions and thoughts that were going in my mind. I passed out.

When I woke up again I could at least remember my first name, I looked above and saw light which felt a bit relieving. After a few seconds the box/lift stopped. I heard some voices, "What in the world! It's a bloody girl!" a voice said, "It can't be, newt what are you talking about?" another voice chimed in.

"hey! I am newt", he said while looking down at me and throwing a rope in the box for me to get out, I grabbed the rope and pushed myself out of the he was tall and thin he had muscles and seemed to be strong , he had a british accent. He had blonde hair with an undertone of orange, and a small face with sharp features.

After I got out from the box I saw a bunch of teenagers surrounding me in a semi circle and were mumbling among themselves, and all of them were boys, I couldn't even see a single girl. After coming out of the buzz I started to notice where I actually was, it was a large area mostly covered with farms and greenery. On the left side was a small shelter kind of thing made out of wood and also a few huts were scattered here and there around the whole area and on the right side was a cluster of trees,the most bizzare thing was that the whole area was confined within four massive grey coloured walls walls which were covered in ivy and grim. It must have been a long time since they were built.

"hello!" newt said while frantically waving his hand in front of my face, "what?, I asked. "you have been standing here still for the past couple of minutes and probably zoned out", he said knitting his eyebrows together. "uh oh, sorry" I said as my face flushed with embarrassment, "but where am I ? why can't I remember anything? , I asked. "this is the glade and we call ourselves the gladers", he said while spreading his arms wide and with a proud smile, "don't worry you will get to know everything very soon" , he said after seeing the puzzled look on my face".

Someone was running in my direction and shouting at the top of his lungs, he was a guy with strong muscles and a serious look on his face, "hi, I am alby, sorry for disappearing suddenly." He said. "what happened?", newt asked him, "well, frypan spilled a bowl of hot steaming pasta on himself, now don't even ask me how he did that, so I had to go check on him", he said. "Is he fine now?" newt asked with concern in his voice, "yeah he is absolutely fine just some minor burns and nothing serious, the med jacks are taking care of him." He said, "good", newt said with a sigh of relief.

"so Hannah now I should take you to show you around the glade and tell you about how everything works here." He said looking at me, "okay" I said.

After walking around a bit and learning more about the glade with newt I was tired, so we sat under a tree to rest for a while. I also noticed that newt walks with a slight limp, I wanted to ask about it but my instinct told me that it isn't going to be a pleasant story so I decided it's better not to

"what are these openings, where do they lead to?" I asked him while pointing at those openings/gates and taking a bite from the apple that he gave me. "these openings lead to the maze, and you are not supposed to go there.", he said with a sad and somewhat angry look on his face, "what do you mean by that?", I asked in utter confusion. " I will tell you later greanbean, first let's go meet minho, he must be about to come", saying that he got up, brushed the dirt off his trousers with his thin and long fingers and started walking towards the opening/gate kind of thing.

The sky was turning dark and the sun had already set. I saw a figure running and emerging from the darkness of, which must be the maze that newt was talking about. it was a guy, he was drenched in sweat and was breathing heavily. He was really out of breath, it seemed like he had been running all day. He was a tall-well built guy, as soon as he came out of the gate he collapsed on the ground.

"so this time the greenie is a chick, well that's incredibly weird ."he said between his breaths. "hello I am Hannah", I said "hi! I am minho, the keeper of the runners" he said getting up. "newt told me what a keeper is, but what are runners though?", I asked him, "you will come to know very soon", he said with a wide grin on his face, and started running again but this time towards the homestead

I don't know why, maybe i am just desperate for information but i started following minho without even realizing. While i was trotting behind him to the homestead, i got a lot of looks probably because i was jogging around without any aim. But minho didn't care, it seemed as if he was used to people randomly running behind him all the time for no apparent reason. When we reached the homestead, he entered a room, and of course i did too. He took a pen and paper and started drawing some lines and scribbling words.

"What is this?", i asked him after he was finished with whatever he was doing. He then continued to tell me all about the maze, the runners and the most terrifying part, the grievers. "So now you understood?", he asked while we were walking to the dining area to have our dinner, "yes i did, and thank you for telling me all this", i thanked him with a smile. "Anytime, shuck face", he said with a smirk.

We then had our dinner which was cooked by frypan who was injured but still insisted he will only cook, as newt and alby told me he was very stubborn and won't let anyone else touch or cook anything in his kitchen.

"Hey hannah, i am frypan"' he said while i was having the last spoon of my soup, which was amazing. "Hi frypan, i heard that you got burned, are you okay now?", i asked, "yep, i am totally okay, accidents like these keep happening in the kitchen"' he said, "yeah, you are right"' i said. "I think you should go to bed now, you look really sleepy and exhausted", he said sweetly. He then proceeded to call newt and asked him to escort me to my bed.

After walking around for sometime and going up and down the stairs for a few times, newt finally stopped in front of a closed door. "Go ahead greenbean, its your room, free feel to call me if you need anything" he said while opening the door, "yes, sure", i said with a cheeky smile. As i entered the room, "good night", he said politely and closed the door.

I saw there were some fresh clothes kept in the washroom for me, i washed my face, took a quick shower and changed into some clean and comfy pyjamas. I crashed into the bed and thought about what a strange day it was. I thought about how all this might be just a dream but i knew it wasn't, everything that happened felt so real. I kept thinking about the people i met today, the things i heard, none of it made sense to me but i still believed every bit of it. I don't know when i got lost in my thoughts and slowly fell asleep after this long and tiring day.