A/N: I am writing this story with my best friend who is an awesome angel! this story will be skipping in and out of Madline and Leo's POV. My best friend is writing Madline's POV and I am writing Leo's POV. We would love reviews and accept any story ideas! Please follow and favourite! hope you enjoy!
Madline POV
Fear. It's a four letter word but such a powerful one... I feel it every night. I live in the glade which is kinda like a safe haven in the middle of a bizarre, dangerous and mysterious maze. I live here with about 30 or 40 other girls, no boys. We were all put there by the creators, no one knows who these people are or why they put us here. We all came from the box which is in the glade. And the one thing that all of us girls want, is to find a way out. Every day we send the runners out of the glade (when the doors open) to the maze. I have always wanted to go out there to join then, Sonya doesn't want me to because she says I'm still new in the glade. All I remember, is my name. It's the same for all the girls... Well that's how it was until I started having these visions... My name is Madline and my life is just getting started...
I woke up early, just like every morning, well earlier than the other gladers, well except perhaps for the runners who have to leave early to map the maze before the doors shut. They are also the only girls who are allowed out there. I have always wanted to be a runner. I don't know why but I feel like I'm meant to.
I stood up and stretched, letting out an enormous yawn. I drowsily walked over to my favourite spot in the glade, a lush, grassy spot next to a flagpole from which hung a flag painted red. I sat down in time to see the last runner run into the maze when a young girl with soft, wavy, platinum blonde hair and sparkling, bright blue eyes which dazzled with spirit and life, approached me. Marie. My best friend. She sat down next to me without a word, studying me intently as I studied and wondered about the maze. Marie was the first to break the peaceful silence.
"When are you going to stop wondering about the maze?"
I slowly forced my gaze away from the maze and stared into her intelligent eyes that seemed to read my soul.
"I will stop talking about it when I finally go out there," I reply angrily, pulling out a tuft of grass by its roots and throwing it.
She just gives me a small smile in return.
"Come on," she says after a while, standing up and brushing off grass and dirt, "I know what will take your mind off that maze, archery practice."
"You know me two well Mar!" I exclaim with a smile that didn't fully reach my eyes (hardly anyone could possible fully smile in a place as terrible as the glade). She is right though, we both know each other so well. Marie is the closest thing I got to family (since I can't remember who they are)
We go to where the weapons are, Marie walking with light graceful strides. She was as beautiful and as delicate as a butterfly. It hurt me so much knowing that someone put her here in this awful, miserable place. Marie and I stop in front of a girl guarding the weapons store. Her name is Athena. She is a fairly nuggety girl with flawless, pale skin and ginger hair that was pulled back in a tight ponytail. She beams brightly when Mar and I come to a halt in front of her. "Hi Maddy, hi Mar!" She practically shouts.
Athena did not have a whispering voice nor an inside voice. Just a loud voice that could be heard from miles away.
"Let me guess a bow and quiver full of arrows for u Maddy!"
"Not just any bow," I say with a devilish grin, "Hope."
Mar giggle's her angelic giggle as Athena shakes her head.
"I still don't get why you named a bow? I especially don't get why you named it Hope?"
My devilish grin turns into a sad sigh. Marie knows why. It's to remind me that I will survive and escape this treacherous maze...
A/N: next chapter is in Leo's POV! hope you enjoyed this chapter so much that you will leave a review and follow and favourite.
