Here is Chapter 7. The following chapters will be more or less like the movie so if you have watched it or maybe read the books than you can roughly guess what will happen and so on. I don't own most of the characters. James Dashner does.
I was in a room, sitting on a bed with a boy. He looked older then me, his sandy blonde hair in the light. He was clad in white clothes. The strange thing was that he looked like Newt, well a younger version of him. "Will you stay with me?" I asked and he held me tight. "Of course I will. Always," he said and the scene warped into me standing in the bathroom. There were shouts coming from outside and I rushed out to see him getting wrestled in between two guards. "What are you doing with him? James!" I screamed and the name rang in my head.
"No!" I screamed as I hurled myself at them and bit one of the in the arm. "You little," he started to say when the man standing at the door drew a gun and shot me. I thought I was going to die but I realized it was a taser gun. Electricity shot through my body and I collapsed onto the bed. "Stay away from my sister!" The boy yelled just before he himself was shot. They lowered him onto a metal table and wheeled him away. As I drifted off, the word sister rang in my head. I have an older brother.
I woke up to the sound of my digital watch being set off. I groaned and turned it off, rubbing my eyes. The remnants of the dream still cling onto me like a shroud and I shivered. I hurried to the Homestead and locked myself in the showers, turning on the water. I quickly got dressed and jogged over to the South wall. On the way there, I realized I forgot to take breakfast. "Shuck food," I muttered to myself and I grinned hearing myself say a word I had just learned two days ago.
Minho was leaning casually against the wall and he lifted a hand in greeting. "Morning shank, glad you could make it," he said and I noticed he had a small bag on the ground. "In case you're wondering, that's breakfast," he said before I could open my mouth and slinging it over his back, he started to make his way up the way, pulling himself up with the thick ivy growing on the walls. "Come on. You're gonna miss it," he said and I started to climb up as well. It was hard work and by the time I reached the top, my arms were aching.
Minho had swung himself on top and was sitting casually on the wall. He patted me to sit near him and he opened the bag and tossed me an apple. He took a pear for himself and as we munched on the fruit, he pointed to an area far off into the north. "Now watch," he said and as the sun rose a sparkle of light caught my eyes. I gasped as it shone like rainbow being reflected on glass and it seemed to spread out throughout the maze. For a while I thought I also saw something moving in the Maze.
"Grievers," Minho said, voicing my thoughts. "They only come out at night,which is why we don't stay out after dark," he said and he smiled. "It's amazing, isn't it,' he said. "It's beautiful," I replied and he smiled again. "That's one of the things I actually enjoy about this place. Even though we're stuck here, at least we get to enjoy some things," he said and I smiled back. "Thanks for showing me this," I said and without warning he leaned in.
I was caught by surprise as we kissed. It's only been three days since I got here and I was kissing a dude. We just sat there doing it for a while and when we pulled back, he grinned a lopsided grin. "I have no shucking idea why I did that. But I enjoyed it," he said and I blushed. "Me too ," I said and I almost clapped my hand over my mouth. "Been wanting to do that for a long time. Ever since I saw you, I don't know. I felt like you were a part of my life before this. But I just can't remember," he said just as a loud boom filled the Glade.
"Well. Better get to work. See you later?" He asked and he helped me down the ivy. He went to the shed to get his stuff and sped off down the West doors with Ben, a tall and skinny Runner who had been waiting for him there. As I stood there grinning like a moron, Alby came up form behind me. "Glad you're awake and enjoying yourself," he said and I hoped he didn't see what had happened just now.
He lead me to the South wall where some writing was inscribed into it. As we came closer, I saw the writing was actually names of boys. I saw his name scrawled onto it and Minho, Newt's and Ben's were written too. But there were others like George and Nick whose names had been crossed off. "What happened to them?" I asked and Alby shook his head. "Times were hard, we lost some kids to fear, pain," he said and he drew out a knife. "Now you can make yourself part of us," he said as he pressed the knife into my hand.
As I stared at the names of the Gladers who were still alive and the ones who had been lost, I gripped the knife tightly in my hand and started to etch my name into the wall next to Minho. When I was done, Alby just smiled and lead me off, chatting a bit before he went to supervise the others.
For the next few months, I started to actually enjoy my new life in the Glade, with or without my memories. I was close to Newt and Minho and got along pretty well with everyone with the exception of Gally, whom I gave a black eye after trying to come near me. As they said, new kids, boys only this time arrived like clockwork every month with new supplies. Once when a kid arrived, a guy by the name of Lewis tried tying himself to the lid of the box and lowered himself down after the Box had gone. After waiting for ten minutes, a blood curling scream filled the air and we pulled up half of what was left of Lewis.
We ended up burying him in a grave with a glass lid on top to show what happens to people who try to be smart shanks. A boy named Chuck came up around five months since I arrived there, looking scared. I couldn't blame him since he was now the youngest kid in the Glade and he klunked in his pants three times before we got him out of the Box. He turned out to be a pretty decent Slopper and along well with everyone. Then everything changed when he showed up.
So chapter 7 is done and The Maze runner starts from here. I decided to put Ben as a Runner so it would be easier to relate him with Minho and Diana and also so I can include him in the Banishing scene without much problem. Thank you for reading and please review!