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~Few days later~
"Alright now that the other girls awake, we need you to go talk to her and hang out with her so no guys will try anything funny." Newt told me. Just yesterday the other girl, who's name is Teresa, woke up, and the sky turned gray and the gates won't close, so Newt wants me to watch Teresa so no guy would try anything funny. "Newt, I know that I should keep an eye on her, but as the new Keeper of the Builders, I need to help the others build barriers and fix the Homestead for tonight." I said, I know he wants the other girl safe from being attacked or some klunk, but I knew that I needed to help the other builders. "Come on Ashley. It's only until Tommy gets back, she seems to like him." Newt said and I sighed. "Fine." I said and Newt nodded. "She'll be over at the Slammer, she was let out but I asked her to stay there until you showed up." Newt said and I nodded and went to the slammer. I see her leaning against the building and I walked over. "So you're Ashley?" Teresa asked and I nodded. "Yep, I was the only girl here before you showed up." I said. "Must've been weird." Teresa said and I shrugged. "I got used to it after a while." I said and an awkward silence broke out. "So uhhh, you remember Thomas?" I asked. "Kind of, just some stuff." Teresa said and we walked around. "Well I'm letting you know right now, most guys here might go crazy and try to get you. Maybe not considering some think you're here just to kill us all." I said and Teresa looks around the Glade. "What do you guys do here for fun, or anything to do when you're all done working?" Teresa asked. "Well all the Builders like to arm wrestle after we're done with the jobs, sometimes we all just gather and play some games. And sometimes, just dating." I said and Teresa looks over. "Dates?" she asked. "Yeah, some Gladers go on dates, myself included." I responded. Teresa and I started chatting more, we sometimes laughed about somethings, and I told her most of the things that happened when I got to the Glade.
~Later on that night~
The builders were able to build new barriers and when I was able to help, we just worked on the Homestead. "Who do you think will get taken tonight?" one of the builders, Tyler asked. "They'll probably choose randomly." I replied while hammering boards to the windows. "Still can't believe Gally did that." Tyler said as he started hammering the windows next to the one I was hammering boards to. "Yeah, but he's gone crazy." I said and Tyler nodded to agree. "Alright everyone! Get into the homestead!" I hear Alby yelling and then everyone started filing into the homestead and went to all the rooms. I was in the same room as Minho, Thomas, Teresa, and Newt. We all sat in the room with the other Gladers, waiting to hear the Grievers to show up to choose who dies tonight. It felt like hours until we hear a Griever ripping the windows down and a scream was heard in the other room. "It's got Dave!" one Glader screams and then all the sudden, Thomas gets up and runs out of the room. We all get up and run outside to see Thomas was fighting the Griever's and then he got stung. "Oh klunk." I muttered and the Griever's rolled away with Dave and left a half conscious Thomas on the ground and we all ran up to him. "What the klunk were you thinking?!" Minho yells at him and Thomas only smiles. "Don't worry. I did it all on purpose." Thomas said before passing out. "Get the Grief serum. Hurry!" Newt yells at one of the kids that were still at the Homestead. "Well great, we've got one guy going through the changing." I said, Newt and Minho pick up Thomas and carry him back to the Homestead. He just had to go and play superman to save the kid, he may have survived a night out in the maze but that doesn't make him shucking invincible.
During the days that Thomas was going through the changing, we lost Adam, Tyler, and Zart. I've never seen Zart so terrified in the time I spent here, but I could see just when he was being dragged away from us that even he has fears. Thomas woke up and said that we needed to have a gathering, so this might be interesting. He told us all about how we were test subjects because we were all intelligent and how our names aren't actually our real names. "So cut to the chase, how do we get out of here?" Newt asked and Thomas looks around a bit. "You guys aren't gonna like it." Thomas said and I leaned forward in my seat, wanting to hear what the shucking idea is. "So where do we escape?" I asked and Thomas looks down at the ground before answering. "There's a computer that unlocks the doors out of here, and it's over the cliff. That means we have to go into the Griever's nest." Thomas said and that's when we all thought the world stopped. "You've gotta be shucking kidding me." I said putting my head in my hands. We've spent so much time running away from Grievers and now we have to go to their nest, great.
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