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Chapter 4: Confrontation?

The two boys stood in front of her frowning in silence while she sat in the bed trying to recover. She had only been up for a few minutes and she was already exhausted.

"Look" the one with brown hair and lighter skin talked with tired eyes "We need you to answer some questions. Can you talk without throwing up?" he raised an eyebrow. He was being sincere in that aspect.

"…Who are you?" she dared to ask as she looked at both of them insecure, they were kind of intimidating.

Their frowns didn't decrease "I'm Nick, first in command and this guy is Alby, second in command" he pointed with his head to him "The real question here is, who are you?"

"Oh, uh…" she nodded and looked at the floor.

Alby closed his eyes. He was going to snap if he didn't force himself to keep calm. Honestly, If he thought about it, the girl seemed disoriented and harmless but he wanted to be as cautious with her as possible. She looked at them trying to concentrate on the question. If they hadn't done anything to her by now, maybe they would help her but…

"I am sorry but I… I cannot recall anything…"

"Are you kidding me?" Alby stepped closer to her.

"You don't remember anything?" Nick grunted. He didn't seem to believe her. She shook her head "We're shucked then. Why were you put out in the maze then?"

"There's a maze out there…?" she looked at the door "That means you didn't do that to me? You did not left me inside those huge walls? Then why was I…?"

Alby rolled his eyes "Tonight we are asking the questions, greenie, so shut it for now."

Nick also got closer to her "Just tell us anything you remember."

She really didn't feel comfortable right now "But-" he was cut again.

"Stuck with answering the shucking questions."

"Alby here forgot to say please."

She stood in silence a few seconds, considering her options. She didn't have anything interesting to say. She told them all she knew in hope to get information back, and so, minutes passed. The faces of the boys didn't really change that much over her narration.

" …I tried to hide but I bumped into someone… that is when I think I fainted. The next thing I do remember is waking up here… " truly speaking, them being silent while looking at her like that gave her a bad feeling.

After finishing, Alby looked at Nick "Maybe they will be sending them through the maze now, her story isn't that different."

Nick looked at her while standing up and sighed tiredly "We need to talk to the others about this" he looked at Alby "Ok, green bean, I was going to send you the slammer but lucky for you, you'll be sleeping here for tonight, we'll keep talking tomorrow about this. Maybe you'll remember something in the morning."

"But…"

"Look" he kept talking "I don't shucking trust you yet. But even I know how to differentiate lying from exhaustion so you are sleeping here until we wake you up tomorrow, good that?" he turned to the door with Alby "You are also the first girl to come here to the Glade so make sure you don't go out" and like that, both had gone.

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"…And yeah, well, that's it" Nick had finished telling the others keepers about the conversation with the girl. None of them were happy about what they had just heard.

Minho rolled his eyes. He was tired and this was the last thing he wanted to do when coming from the maze "Perfect, just what we needed to hear."

"Well, obviously she's lying" said Gally crossing his arms and frowning.

"What if she works for the creators? I say we leave in the maze to see if she survives" proposed Dimitri, the keepers of the baggers.

"Shank, you got problems"

"Look who's talking"

"Talking about mazes, you guys saw anything in there after you left her here?" asked Alby to Minho who had been silent since he came.

He shook his head "Not a shucking thing. Tomorrow Martin and Aidan will keep searching around that zone anyway but don't count too much on discovering anything."

"If we think about it positively, maybe chicks will come from now on from the maze" said Winston.

"Ok" Nick stood up "Seeing as we are not deciding anything, here's what we are gonna do" he looked at them "Maybe they are planning something. Maybe from now on girls we'll be arriving, I don't shucking know or care. But we've been trying to survive here for 6 months and working on a way out and will keep doing it. So that chick, whether she likes it or not, is going to stay here as a glader."

"What?"

"That's bullshit."

"I don't know man…"

He kept talking "Everybody is going to keep an eye on her. If those shanks think about using her on us…"

"`Could have got us a better one"

Nick sighed defeated, seeing they weren't really paying attention "I don't even know why I try" he glanced at Alby, silently asking for help.

The boy looked at the rest equally done with the situation "You heard. You shanks keep it for some weeks. And stay alert in and out the Glade" he especially looked at Minho. Some of them exited themselves while others walked to talk to Nick. Meanwhile, Alby took the asian teen to the door.

"You know I'm being serious, right?" Alby stared at Minho.

Him, of course, had to roll his eyes "Could you tell me a time of the day when you're not being serious?"

"Minho…"

"Yeah, yeah. I know. Keep running, don't die" he turned towards the center of the Glade where almost everybody was sleeping by now. After that. Alby and Nick stayed in silence. Processing everything that had happened.

"I think we should be going to sleep too Nick" Alby yawned "See you tomorrow."

"Yeah" he waved at him "Oh, wait, about that…"

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When the boys left her, she thought she wasn't going to be able to sleep but the moment she laid in the bed sleepiness enter in her body. Screw that, her body felt like bricks. She needed to rest.

"…enie"

She felt someone's voice from afar. That was until pain came to her body "…Greenie! Come on, girl. Shuck, do you snore always like this?" Nick palmed her arm making her stand up. She didn't remember when did she sleep "Eat this and rise and shine and all that crap. Alby is waiting outside to showing you the shuckin' place in five minutes."

After eating she followed him closely behind. The boy had his arms crossed in his chest moving his foot clearly angry. Nevertheless, Nick didn't seem affected and kept talking to him normally "After the tour just take her to the Bloody house, I'm going to see the runners off and then talk to Gally and Henry about making a place for her in the hut, apart from the others shanks."

Alby didn't look pleased with all with that information "I really can't deal with greenies Nick and you know it" the boy shrugged.

"Guess you can now" he waved at them before jogging to a group of people in front of a pair of openings.

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"Is that the girl?" asked Justin, looking at Nick coming to them.

"Well, she's not a shucking boy so yeah."

"I was expecting someone hot" said another runner "what a bummer."

Newt stepped in "Did she tell you anything?" he looked at Alby and the girl talking and walking away "Why was she…?"

"…in the maze?" Nick snorted "She didn't even know this is a shucking maze."

"What…?"

"Let's get going guys!" Minho's voice echoed through the Glade.

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The two watched in silence as Nick walked far from them. After a few seconds, the girl turned to Alby.

"May I-?" She wanted to talk but she got shot down with a glare.

"We're leaving the questions to the end" he started walking "If not I'll not ear the end of it and I still have lots of things to do."

Alby took her around the Glade. He told her the same things Nick he always heard Nick tell the greenies. He talked about jobs, the maze and the grievers "...And so" he continued "Each month we get a new Greenie from the box" he pointed down to the box that laid in the middle of the place "beside you, of course, you came from outside… anyway, each week we also get supplies and whatever we may ask for." He was running out of time "So that's the Glade. Because you actually surprised me with no asking stupid question I'll give you the opportunity to answer 2 of them so; what questions do you have burning inside that slinthead mind of yours?" He looked at her expecting the same questions as always, mentally betting with himself.

Truth is. Seeing Alby this frustrated with her was like a punch in the face, maybe because he seemed capable or because he as well as Nick looked like having too much going on for them... and they just carried now her too. It really felt like she was doomed wherever she went "Mmm..."

She didn't really know why,

"Where am I going to sleep?"

The boy rolled his eyes. Maybe girls were different in terms of "important things" "Didn't you hear? Nick is in charge of that. That's why I'm shukin' in charge of you today. Look for him, although I think you'll be sleeping in the med-jack's hut beds for a while."

She nodded. Looking around the other question that had popped into her mind before insisted her to be asked "You said I'm going to go through all the jobs but… what if… none of them fits me?"

"For now I'll be passing you to Winston."

"…Winston?"

"Yeah, we usually send all greenies there first, since you will be here, there won't be exceptions."

She slightly nodded, still scared inside about all this.

Watching her, Alby rolled his eyes in annoyance but a part of him opted to calm her anyway. If she had any plan to carry, she was an amazing actor "No one's not good at nothing, meaning, everyone is gonna find something they're good at. Some of us work more than one job, like switching them or helping others" he paused and started looking around the Glade still in calm, the only sounds coming from the farm where animals were already up. If he thought about it, it wasn't that bad, what they had. Even more when he thought how they had built everything from nothing.

"Um… Alby?" he turned to the girl. It sounded weird to hear his name coming from a female voice.

"We are a family, greenie. We help each other out and no one gets left behind, keep that in mind." for the first time since meeting her, he was being honest with her.

After that sentence, her face turned into a sad one "Even if they're a girl?" she didn't know what to expect from such a huge group of boys.

He looked at her for a long time "Two questions, greenie" he looked away towards a house near a forest "Now go there and meet Winston, as I told you, you are starting to work today."

She nodded still in thought "I will... try to help as much as I can" she attempted a smile and with that, she headed to the bloody house "Oh, and thank you for taking the time to explain everything around here when you don't feel comfortable with it."

Alby didn't expect that "…you were okay at least. Anyway, just go" he shoved her. Looking at her from afar, he wondered how a girl like that would fit around here.


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