I was still in shock. My body wouldn't respond because I wasn't in the mindset to know what was going on. All I could remember was holding Minho's hand and going into a building. The room was extremely large and was covered with boxes and metal cases filled with different contents. A man named Mr. Jansen came in and took us to clean up, but I didn't pay attention to his nonsense. I didn't care.

As I stood under the shower I was relieved. I could feel all the dirt and grime that I had collected over the past three years wash off me. I felt my skin announce that it was brand new again. My hair felt light and fluffy and filled with life and for a second all the pain went away, but as I put my clothes on it all came back.

They laid out a pair of pants that were black and stretchy. I examined the material and it looked and felt familiar, but I wasn't too sure as to what it was called. Beside it was a pair of blue jeans and I chose the jeans to wear – since I knew what it was. They gave me a black polo shirt to wear. I requested for an elastic band to tie my hair up and keep it out of my face and luckily they provided me with it. Afterwards I was escorted down the hall and into a room where everyone else was. A doctor was looking after everyone and running tests on us all. I was placed on the last bed beside Minho – who was running on the treadmill.

"Hello, Jade. Are you ready to get started?" I looked up and noticed a female doctor in front of me. I looked towards Minho and he almost paused for a second. I felt so vulnerable that anything could happen to me and I wouldn't have cared, so Minho felt even more protective over me. I shook my head and mouthed,

"I'm okay." He reluctantly nodded his head and the doctor closed the curtain.

"I need to see Minho." I told the doctor in front of me. She smiled at me as we continued to walk.

"You can see him soon." She said. I shook my head and stopped walking.

"I need to talk to him now!" I raised my voice slightly and that's when I began to hear yelling. I looked to my left and noticed that I was standing in front of a window that showed the inside of a cafeteria room. Many other teenagers were in that room and were eating meals. Minho was up against the glass looking at me. "Minho!"

"You can see him later. We need to finish our tests." The guards began to push me along without my consent. Minho continued to yell as he banged against the window. The room they put me in was with Teresa. I sat down on the bed beside hers and waited for my next instruction.

"What do you think they're going to do to us?" She asked me. She looked at me with scared eyes and I knew that I had to be the strong one again. I gave her a light smile before responding,

"It's okay! They're supposed to help us, right?"

"I guess so…I just wish we could see the others." She looked down at her hands.

"I know, but we'll see them soon, okay? I promise!" She looked up at me and she smiled. As she nodded her head she knew I always kept my promise and I just hoped that I could keep this one.

"Let me go see Minho." I demanded. The doctor stood beside my bed and shook his head.

"We're not done running our tests, especially since we've now learned about what happened in the Maze. We need to make sure your healthy." He explained.

"Then move that stupid curtain and let me talk to Teresa."

"She needs her rest, so we can't do that. I also suggest that you get some rest too." I started to get out of the bed before he stood in front of me,

"Well if you won't let me go see my friends then I'll just leave myself."

"Please cooperate. I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to you." I stood up and right in front of him.

"Is that a threat?" I asked him. I saw him swallow the small ball in his throat.

"I'm sorry, but we have to do this." Then I felt a needle go straight into the side of my neck from behind.

"What the fuck did you put inside of me?" He didn't reply to me. I began to lose consciousness and the last thing I saw was that doctors face.

"You're so perfect." My mother said to me. She had her trademark smile on her face as she pushed my hair out of my face.

"But I fell." I continued to cry as I stood in front of my mother. I fell off my bike and felt like a failure.

"You can't learn things right away sweetheart. Things take time." She explained to me.

"But this is me! I can do anything!" I complained. She giggled as I stomped my foot. I felt my father place his hand on top of my head as he bent down to my level.

"You're just like your mother, Jade." He laughed as he smiled. "You will learn how to ride your bike because you're going to get back on it, right?" As I wiped away my tears I nodded my head before raising my fist.

"I'll be the best bike rider!" I turned around and ran back to my blue bike and hopped on. I saw my father give the love of his life a kiss. I saw them smile to each other and I smiled. I wanted to have something like that when I grew up. I wanted that love.

"So you're saying they're dead?" I asked the red haired lady in front of me. She placed her hand on my shoulder as people continued to go into my home.

"I'm sorry sweetheart, but it's okay because I know a place where you can go." She explained.

"I want to go where they are." I said.

"But they're-"

"Dead. I want to be dead with them." The lady didn't know what to say to me. She looked at me with a face filled with sadness.

"I don't like these games." I protested. A tall man in a white lab coat stood in front of me with his clipboard. They always stood there dressed like that and I hated it! Why couldn't they dress like normal people?

"But you need to play these games or you'll get in trouble." He said to me.

"I don't care! I'm not playing!" I yelled at him.

"I'll give you one more chance." He stood in front of me with a serious face. I looked past him to see one of my friends behind him. His name was Minho and he was the only person I enjoyed talking to in this stupid place. He mouthed the word play to me. I sighed.

"Fine."

"That was pretty extreme." I snuck out of my room to go see Minho, but the doctors were out late tonight. I was listening to their conversation from around the corner.

"Well they said that they really wanted her to come in."

"But to kill her parents?" I felt my heart stop. Whose parents did they kill? Who were they talking about?

"They said it was all because of her intelligence level and if you match that up with her personality they believe that when the time comes she'll succeed in the Maze trial."

"They think she'll be immune?"

"They say she will be immune. She's one of our best candidates."

"That sucks though…poor Jade." My whole body froze in that second. My parents were killed by these monsters. By these stupid people in white coats who always held clipboards. They wanted me for a ridiculous reason. They made me an orphan because they wanted me that badly! I hated them. I wanted them all dead. I would make sure that they all died.