I looked around, examining my surroundings, trying to take it all in. We stood in a giant courtyard, surrounded by enormous walls. The walls had to be more than hundreds of feet high, each side split in the exact middle, I was curious where it would let me to. "What is this place?" I heard Thomas asked.

"This is the glade." Alby stated. Well, that's very helpful.

"Everyone get back to work! We'll deal with this privately." I heard the blond guy order and everyone walked off in different directions, casting a glance on me.

Alby and the other boy were still with us, and they gathered us into a small group. "What's going on? I'm not leaving until I get some answers!" I demanded.

"Well then, you'll be here all day and all night because you're not getting any." I tensed at his answer.

"For now, you won't be getting any. I'm Newt." The blond guy said.

"What's the glade?" Thomas immediately asked.

"No questions. I'm here to explain what riled up everyone just a few minutes ago," Alby coldly said, squinting of me. "Every month the box comes up, brings us fresh supplies and a new greenie." He started, I was about to open my mouth, but Alby cold glare prevented me. "We got two people this time; which has never happened since I came here, and we got a girl, which also never been seen here, in the glade."

So I was right, I was the first girl here. Alby stopped talking, so I'm assuming that's all he had to say. "That's all?" I raised my eyebrows, "We could be using that time we just wasted to find the way out!"

"You greenie listen! You have a lot to learn about this place before you go shucking—"

"If you all came from the box, you must understand how confused we are right now!" Thomas stepped into the conversation.

I became defensive, why was no one explaining anything. I was so confused, I didn't know my own name, what I looked like, how old I was, I was so lost that I didn't remember anything about my own damn self. "Newt, go find Chuck." Alby ordered and Newt left. "Look greenbeans, we only have three rules here: First, do your part. Second, never harm another glader, and third, the most importantly, never go beyond those walls. You understand me greenie?"

I nodded my head, and so did Thomas. "Hey Alby!" I looked to the source of the sound. There was a boy, looked younger than I am, probably around twelve or thirteen. That must be Chuck.

"Hey Chuck!" He answered, smiled. "Chuck meet the new greenbeans. Greenies, Chuck here will show you where you'll sleep. Thanks Chuck."

"Hey! Finally I won't be the greenie anymore." He smiled. He was adorable, he was going to be one of the person I liked here, I just knew it. "Follow me."

I was wondering where I would be sleeping. There only boys here, "Chuck, Where will I sleep?"

"You'll be sleeping in the homestead until the shanks start to control themselves. You can choose to sleep with Newt, Minho, or Alby." Who the hell is Minho, and fuck, I didn't want to share with any of them.

"I'll just sleep outside, with you, Thomas, and the other gladers."

He tied a rope to a tree, his back facing us. I looked at Thomas, and started walking towards the Maze, I was curious. I saw two guys running out from the maze, they ran past us, "Hey Chuck, new greenies, huh?" He said, looking at us. "How does it feel being promoted?" The same guy asked again, the other boy that looked Asian said nothing, just looking at us.

"Feels great, Ben." Chuck grinned.

We watched them go back to the homestead.

"I thought no one was supposed to go inside." I said, glancing at Thomas, and then to Chuck.

"I said we're not allowed to go inside." Chuck watched their back before continuing, "They are different. They are runners. They know more about the maze than anyone," We, three, took a glimpse at the wall. Maze? Did it mean that we stuck here?

"Wait, what?" Thomas said, speaking what's on my mind, "You just said maze." He simply stated.

"I…I-did?" Chuck stuttered,

I started walk towards the maze, trying to get a closer look, Thomas followed me, "Hey-hey, what are you doing?"

"I just want to take a look," Thomas said, not even glancing at Chuck. His eyes stared into the maze.

I started to walk inside the maze, "No one leaves. Especially now, it's not safe." Chuck informed us, his eyes wondered to the wall, and to us.

"Okay, I'm not gonna go." Me and Thomas said, I pushed Chuck softly to the side, and my feet moved little by little towards the maze.

"HEY!" I heard someone yelled, before I could look at the source, Thomas was on top of me. We were pushed by someone, he had a dirty blond hair and angry face.

"Get off me," Thomas said, scooting him away. He didn't realize that he was on top of me until he got up, "Oh my God, are you okay?" I nodded. Thomas was moving around frantically, "What the hell is wrong with you guys?" I could see the other gladers were around us.

"Just calm down, alright." Newt ordered, trying to reach Thomas.

"No. Why won't you tell me what's out there?"

"We just trying to protect you two." Alby said, "For your own good,"

"You guys can't just keep us here!" I finally opened my mouth, I was sick of this. Protecting me and Thomas for our own good bullshit, protecting us would be finding the way out of this fucking place, not keeping us here.

"We can't let you leave,"

"Why not?!" Me and Thomas demanded answer. I heard a grumbling sound from behind me, they sounded sinister. Everyone was looking at the walls now, including me and Thomas. There were sounds of rocks falling down, and a gust of wind. I watched it all with my own eyes. What the hell? I muttered. I looked at the doors screeched their ways shut as there was no way out beyond this area.

"Next time, I'm gonna let you leave." The guy who pushed us earlier said. Rude, much?

I was still in state of shock, I couldn't believe what just happened in front of me. That's why they didn't want us to leave, because we could be trapped inside the maze. But what was so bad inside the maze that they couldn't let us leave?

"Are you okay?" I heard Newt's voice questioned me.

"Yeah, just a scratch." I smiled.

"Tomorrow, I'll give you a tour. Don't ask to much question,"

"I'll try not to," I said, staring at his eyes. He had gorgeous eyes.

"Good that."

There were music, the fire surrounded as light, as night had shone with the moon. I sat with Thomas and Newt, Newt was eating something, Thomas just stared at something. "Hell of a first day greenies," Newt said, looking at Thomas and at me. Thomas just looked down. "Here," He offered something to drink to us. Thomas took it, hesitantly, before spitting it all out. Was it really horrible? I heard Newt chuckled.

Thomas coughed, "Oh my…" He paused, "Oh my god, what is that?" Handing the jar back to Newt.

"I don't even know," He said, glancing back, "It's Gally's recipe. You want some?"

Gally was the one that pushed me and Thomas earlier, I smiled a little, "No, thanks."

"It's a trade secret."

"Well yeah, he's still an asshole." I couldn't agree more with Thomas.

"He saved your life today," Newt stated. "Trust me, the place is a dangerous place."

"Give me one good reason to trust you." I simply said.

"We haven't kill you yet." Good enough for me.

"We're trapped here, aren't we?" Thomas asked—more like stated.

Newt nodded at him, "at the moment." He looked back, "See those guys there, by the fire?" Newt asked us, we nodded. "Those are runners, see that guy in the middle? That's Minho, he's the keeper of the runners."

"That's enough question for the day," He started to got up, dragging me and Thomas, "You two were supposed to be guests of honor,"

"Wow, no…no," Thomas said, I already got up. I watched the gladers, they were in circles, there were two people fighting, I could see Gally, but I couldn't make out who was the other guy.

"Who's next?" Gally said.

"Me." I shouted. The circle had fallen quiet after I volunteered.

"I'm not fighting you," Gally told me, my eyes laid still on him. Was it because I'm a girl? Did he think that I'll lose and cry? He would be the one that cried tonight.

"Why not? I could be as good as you are." He scoffed, I could feel Newt and Thomas eyes on me, they probably thought I was crazy, but maybe they were right, I didn't know much about myself though. "Is there a rule that a girl can't participate?" My lips pursued, and my eyebrows raised as I waited for an answer.

"No."

"Well then, let's fight." I said, smirking.

"Come on Gally, you can take her down."

"Yeah, don't be a wimp."

"Okay, alright," Gally said, "The rules are simple greenie, I try to push you out the circle, you try to last longer than 5 seconds." I rolled my eyes at his comment.

"Go easy on the girl," I heard someone said, I rolled my eyes again.

He pushed me to the ground and I couldn't get up for a second. The crowd was shouting 'ooh'. Then Gally moved to his feet again and watched me like a prey. I got up fast, then kicked him at his ankle, the guy with angry eyebrows didn't even see it coming, there were few cheers and boos from the audience. Served him right for thinking that I was weak. He got up really fast, I was ready to fight him more. "That's all you got greenie?"

"Stop calling me that," I said

"Stop calling you that?" He asked in a mocking tone, "What you wanna be called? Shank?" Everyone laughed to that, I heard yeahs from the gladers. I charged at him, but he was ready. He caught me, and tried to push me but I hold on tight to his t-shirt, but he finally got to push me into the ground for second time.

"You know what?" He questioned me as I got up, I looked at him, "I think I'm gonna settle on shank." I charged at him again, he talked too much. He pushed me but I didn't let him go, I hit his back, and he fell on his face. There were cheers around, I smirked.

"Not bad for a greenie huh?" I heard someone stated.

His back still facing me, I stared at him when suddenly he kicked my leg, causing me to fell down, my head hit the ground hard. "Urg! Shucking shuck," I cursed, but I remember something, "Liv," I got up, "Hey," I chuckled, "I remember my name!" I grinned,

"I'm Liv."