"Ok dude I could get Teresa and her general weirdness but this one is..." the Asian boy, Minho drifted off as I could feel him and the rest of the "gladers" follow me with their eyes as I paced once again around the house. After having introduced myself and explained to them that I was for sure not a part of this place called WICKED, I had gone through a quick roll call and back story of the guys now stuck with me.
"And all the doors are locked?" I asked them as I tried them all once again.
"No we've been here about a day and a half and never thought of that, thank goodness you showed up"Thomas answered.

"So she definitely doesn't work for WICKED going off the fact that she's not a genius" Newt added.
"You know I can hear this commentary" I told them from another room pressing my hands against the bricked up windows and found my attempt unsuccessful as they barely budged.

"You don't want to go out there anyways, there's shuck faced cranks out there" Frypan told me as I paused for a minute in the main common room biting my lip and then another thought came to mind as I got on the ground.

"Well finding a way out would explain how I got in, and then things could unfold from there. Come on guys why aren't any of you asking questions?" I answered him finding the walls blank.

"Because they just lead to more" a random kid shouted out. On my arm there was a stray piece of dirty blonde hair that I pulled off to see if there was any sort of venting system that would move it, but it just fell to the ground.
"Like that for example, how are we all able to breath if I can't find a ventilation system" I questioned whilst making a gesture to the fallen hair. I was met with silence and sat down cross legged facing the group of boys. With that I gave a shrug of my shoulders and just reclined into the ground a bit over dramatically.

Why am I so calm? I questioned myself. If I were any normal person I'm definitely sure that I would've been bursting into tears asking for a pillow to cry into, but I was just acting like nothing was insanely wrong.

"I don't have germs you know, you all don't have to sit on the opposite side of the room as me" I assured them.
"You're the second girl some of us have seen in awhile" Minho explained and I saw some of the kids go red which made me chuckle.

Hang don't chuckle we are being serious here Bri I reprimanded myself.
"And the first was Teresa?" I guessed looking at Thomas who seemed to have the most input about her, and he nodded at me before he excused himself and got up and went to one of the bedrooms.

"So what do we do now?" I asked them. There was nothing else to do at the moment and clearly these guys were far more advanced in survival skills than I was. Half of the boys looked between each other with worry as they realized I didn't have any useful information on me now, so things were still bad.
"Look we can't worry to much, this isn't as bad as the maze and if they wanted us dead, we would be dead. So we should just hold out for food and see what happens. For the time being we have water though and that's a plus" Newt put out there taking charge for the moment before following after Thomas. We all nodded in agreement with him.
"And we're all in comfy pjs" I added trying to lighten the mood which definitely didn't work. As if on cue though several stomachs began to growl, mine included.

"I'm regretting not saving the shuckin pizza now" Frypan whispered and we all nodded.
"You're lucky you even got pizza" I complained a bit childishly as my mouth watered at the thought of pizza.
"It won't be that bad" Minho tried to promise all of us, and apparently he spoke to soon because the next 2 day's were the worst thing I could possibly imagine. Most of it involved me hiding out in a room by myself trying to sleep and drink away the hunger. Several times I felt like throwing up but there was nothing in my stomach which just made thing's worse. It also didn't help that I could hear the boys painful moaning and groaning from the other room which gave me a sympathetic pain in my stomach along with the hunger. To top off the stomach pains came nightmares, weird nightmares where nothing even happened but I found myself sitting in a chair staring at a tv, I couldn't recall what I was staring at but I knew that the images were making me cry my eyes out and once the screen had gone black two buttons would appear before me, one green and one red. A large amount of stress weighed down on me as I tried to decide but after my hand would make it's first move I would wake up trying to catch my breath. Whatever I had done to get me here or whoever I had pissed off to be put here, I got the feeling they were enjoying all of this.

On the third day I tried to make myself get up, as I remembered some sort of medical knowledge stating that laying down was the worst thing to do whenever you're ill and it in fact made things worse.

With a grip on my bed I pulled myself forward receiving a slight shiver through my body as my feet touched the cold ground and slowly walked towards the common room. When I took my first steps in I found something that I thought couldn't be real. It was pallets covered with supplies and food. I almost cried at the sight.
"Enjoy" a nasally voice interrupted my quick moment of joy making me jump. I turned to find a greasy looking man in an all white suit sitting at a desk with some food.

Clearly this man doesn't understand the rules of fashion I snidely thought glancing at him.
"Who are you?" I asked cautiously stepping towards him but finding myself pushed back by some sort of..force field? My ungraceful collision barely registered with the man.

"Hey?" I asked feeling annoyed now at the lack of response. Nothing.
"Hey who are you?" I asked again but this time with a much more firm voice. The man looked up at me annoyed and put on a false smile.

"Enjoy, bring the other's out. Everything will be explained soon give it 30 minutes" he said in a monotone voice. I was about to make a comeback but he held a finger up stopping me and directed me to turn around. With a sigh of annoyance I grabbed a granola bar, that was quickly gone within two bites, and made my way to the guys dormitory. At first I softly knocked one the door not knowing what to expect, but my knock was met with the sound of snores so I quietly opened the door cringing as it squeaked, but none of them cared. I was absolutely unsure about what to do, did I wake up one and make sure a domino effect happened or wake up whoever was in charge and see if they listened to him better, I choose the latter and quickly decided to wake up Newt due to the fact that he did have a good leadership standpoint with the group and I didn't have to stand on my toes to wake him on a top bunk, where Minho was.

"Psst" I tried poking him wanting to once again be polite. It turns out being polite though doesn't get you anything when you're trying to wake up someone.
"Hey" I said in a normal voice now shaking his shoulder which made me receive an annoyed groan from him.
"The girl named after cheese decides to grace us with her bloody presence then does she?" he yawned rubbing his eyes.
"Shut your stupid face and follow me" I told him smacking him on the arm.
"Why?" he asked burrowing back into the covers.
"Because I said so and there is food in the common room, now out" I told him leaving the room now hoping he would follow after.
"You are a wee bloody control freak you are" he said following me now with more of a hop in his step, well as much as you can hop with having a limp and no food in your stomach after 2 days.
"I am not a control freak" I snapped at him.
"Yes mum" he jokingly backed off and I stopped him before we reached the room.
"Only peer in, there's something weird that came along with our food" I whispered and he gave me a confused look.

"There's a weird man in there, and he surrounded by some sort of force field and he won't explain anything. It's absolutely annoying!" I told him.
"But there's food" he said taking a step forward to get a full view.
"There's also clothes and other supplies" the man added from his invisible box.

"I'll be back" Newt told me as he went to go get the others up. Within minutes you would've thought it was Christmas day as everyone ran out and got there food with huge eyes dazzled by the sight.

"Hold yourself back now shanks" , we don't want the floor littered with your barf" Minho warned them.

"What's this?" One of the boys asked as he held up a pink box from the pallet, that I immediately recognized.
"That's mine you can't have it, pretend you never saw it" I quickly shouted as I snatched the box out of the kids hand with amazing speed and shoved it under my sheet as if that would make it all disappear.

"You can't claim that as yours. We share" another kid jumped in.
"Trust me you don't want these" I assured them blushing now.
"I want one" this kid Frankie exclaimed.
"You know what you can get one when you have a nosebleed, it'll fix it right up" I told them with a nod of my head and I heard Newt and Minho let out a stifled chuckle behind me. I turned around saw them practically containing their laughter, clearly they knew what I was hiding.
"What?" Before I could say anything else I quickly tossed it in my room and slammed the door shut.

"You ok?" Thomas asked as I found in front of weird guys force field now inspecting it.
"Awesome" I told him sarcastically.
"You?" I asked. He gave me a shrug which I answered with a nod. Once everyone had calmed down from the food showing up 30 minutes had passed and we were all sitting in front of the guy in the suit like it was some sort of class. Out of anticipation I began tapping my fingernails on the ground, which made me recieve an annoyed look from Minho so I sat on my hands. Finally though the man looked up from his book and let out a sigh as he placed it down.
"Good you're all here" he said giving us all that fake smile again. He then proceeded to go into a talk about how basically the world sucks right now and that we were "the lucky ones" these days to survive everything and now we were being put through the variables to help save the world. I had to resist the urge to roll my eyes at this guy.

"Excuse me, but did we volunteer for this or did you take us from somewhere?" I stupidly asked interrupting him and I felt all eyes on me but all he did was give me a look and then he ignored me. My face got red at being ignored. Did he seriously expect me to just go along with with all of this.

"As we move into phase two I want you all to realize one thing and that is to not trust what you see. An example of this is the simulation we performed on all of you last night with the corpses"he explained. I suddenly felt myself be poked by a couple of the guys surrounding me.
"She's real you bloody shucks" Newt snapped at them.
"Thank you" I whispered to him and saw a small smirk on his face.

"Everything we have done has been completed for a reason. We have decided to up the ante now by doing something that we know will motivate all of you. You have all been infected with the Flare virus"

"What?!" I could us all whisper in astonishment.

"Our incentive for you to complete phase two is that we will give you the cure, once you're finished. It's all quite simple actually tomorrow you all leave at 6 am through the flat trans, it will be open for five minutes, anyone who decides not to leave will suffer a slow and painful death. After having left, make your way to open air, head one hundred miles north within two weeks ,and get to the safe haven. Understand?" he asked us as if we were idiots. We all gladly met him with silence just piss him off.
"Can you hear?" he asked.
"Yes" I told him annoyed now as if things couldn't get worse. I now have a deadly virus, I have no clue why the hell I'm here in the first place, and I'm being spoken too like I'm an idiot. Just then questions filled the room and the man, like he had before, ignored them all. As he glanced around at the chaos he had started his eyes landed on me and he gave me a terrifying look. It was a look that reminded me of one you give to an annoying child that's finally getting what they deserve when they get punished.

I am being punished I realized.