Chapter 2

Bam!

"Shhh, I told you to watch out."

"Sorry, its just really dark in here."

It had been a few minutes since Brenda had broken me out of "the white room" so it 'd been a while since id seen light. We were in some sort of tunnel and I had no idea if we were actually still in the building or out. My only choice was to follow her. It seemed I had been in the dark quite too often since the maze whether meaning it literally or hypothetically. I guessed that I should have been used to moving around easily in dark spaces by then but at the speed that Brenda was going it was nearly impossible to not trip and fall every once in a while. Suddenly she put her hand to my chest and I stopped abruptly.

"Why'd we stop?" I said a little too loudly.

"Oh god Thomas would you please not talk so loud." She hissed.

"Sorry."

"We're here." She said finally answering my question.

"What is here exactly?"

"Where the rest of the Gladers are."

The light difference was truly great because as soon as we had opened the door that happened to be at the other end of that tunnel, I went right back in. Brenda didn't blame me so we both stood there in the doorway until our eyes had adjusted. We walked out and now that I could actually see our surrounding I noticed that we were back in the room that I had been in not too long before they put me in that jail cell. I saw Minho at the other side of the room along with Newt and Teresa.

Ugh, Teresa. Having dreams of her was bad enough. He wasn't ready to face her now.

When Minho saw me he walked over. "Thomas! Are you okay? What'd they do to you back there you look terrible?"

"They didn't do anything besides leave me in that shuck room all day. What's been going on over here?" I couldn't help notice Teresa staring at me. No not again, I'm not going to let her betray me again.

"It's the best we slept in the most comfortable beds and when we woke up they gave us eggs, bacon-"

Brenda cut him off. "But we missed you so it wasn't really all that good." She said giving Minho a ''don't tell him that" look.

I turned to Teresa who seemed to have been bothered by that comment by the way she was looking at Brenda.

"It's okay if you had a good time, because I doubt it's going to last very long. They said that we still have a 3rd trial and apparently this one's going to be harder than the others."

As if on cue a woman walked in through the door. "Hello Thomas, nice of you to join us. We're just about ready to begin the 3rd trial." And with that she slammed the door shut and the lights went out.