4 Walls

Chapter 1: Boxed

I woke up coughing out water and breathing heavily. I looked around freaking out and yelling for help like any other person would. It was pitch black and all I could see were the faint outlines of crates around me. Suddenly, I remember my name. Valerie. I continue screaming for help. My heart was pounding!
I finally got up on my feet, just as it came to a holt. The doors on top of me started creaking open slowly, revealing the broad daylight. The doors stopped creaking and I found myself staring into the eyes of at least fifty teenage boys.
One boy with brown eyes and jet black hair jumped into the box and looked and me, obviously shocked. "It's a girl!" He announces. Everyone stares down at me in shock. Are they serious right now? I'm just a girl! I get uncomfortable and unknowingly slap the boy right across his face. A few others start giggling. Others quite and most horrified. He looks back at me and asks me, "What the hell was that for?" He looks puzzled, I really had no clue what to answer so I just blurted out the first thing that came to me.
"Leave me alone you douche!"
"What in the world did I do? You know what, I think it's best someone else get you," The boy answers, he climbs out of the box and another boy jumps in. He has beautiful brown eyes and dirty, messy blonde hair. So cute. He introduces himself in a strong British accent.
"Name's Newt Greenie," he says holding out his hand. I shake it and he helps me on my feet. I give him a weak smile and he helps me out of the box. A few other boys jump in and lift up the crates I was with.
"So Greenie, let me-"
I cut him off. "My name is not 'Greenie' Newt, it's Valerie,"
"That's a nice name Valerie," he jokes treating me like a princess. I can't help but let out a soft giggle.
"Now, before you cut me off, I was going to say, let me introduce the Glade to you," I look up at him hoping he would explain what in the world the 'Glade' is. Instead, he just continues with the introduction.
"So, the jobs here are Baggers, Slicers, Track-Hoes, Sloppers, Med-Jacks, Cooks and finally, Runners," he blabbers on more about the society here and how things work. He then later explains that the next morning I will be trying out for each one of them.
We finally come to a stop in front of two cement walls which don't meet ends with a wide gap between them.
"What's that?" I ask looking into the gap. Newt looks into the gap as well.
"That's the maze," he answers.
"The Runners run around inside of it trying to find a way out. So far, they haven't," he continues. He ends his sentence sounding a bit up set and hopeless. I look up at him and he looks depressed.
"How long have they been looking?" I question him. He looks at me and into the maze again, not saying anything for a bit. Then he looks to his left tilting his head down.
" Three years," He mumbles, ashamed of himself. I feel bad for asking and pretty awkward for a moment then try to brighten him up.
" We'll find a way out soon, trust me," I pat him on the back and look into his hazel eyes. I can see him grin just a bit. Then he looks up at me,
"Wether you're hungry or not, it's time to have lunch. I want you to meet my mates," he says a bit brighter. He turns around and leads me to a small gathering area where I can smell delicious food.
"That's Frypan's food you smell, like it?" Newt asks me.
"Love it," I answer with a wide grin we both walk up to the long line of boys and wait for our turn. When I finally get my plate of rice and pieces of pork, I smile at him and thank him.
"The food smells amazing Frypan! Well done!"
He smiles gratefully.
"Thank you Greenie, here is one extra piece of pork for being so nice," he jokes placing one more pork on my plate. I wait for Newt to get his food and he leads me to a young boy, about maybe thirteen and the boy whom I had slapped earlier. I feel so awkward and just smile at them.
"Valerie, I want you to meet my good friends, Chuck, and Thomas," He introduces them. Chuck is a bit chubby but all around, he looks like a nice guy. Thomas was the boy whom I had slapped, oops. Thomas looks up for a bit and waves up at me, them he looks down again. Chuck holds out his hand and smiles warmly.
"Welcome to the Glade!" He exclaims loudly. I can't help but giggle at his fun personality.
After eating quickly, Thomas gets up and runs off into the nearest maze gate. Along with around 6 other boys. I quickly get up and run after them in incredible speed, just as I was making it to the entrance, a tall boy with barely any hair and intimidating eyebrows shoved me away. I fall to the floor and get back up swiftly. I take the opportunity and shove him back for doing that.
"Don't touch me!" I yell at him. He gets closer to me and looks me in the eye.
"You shouldn't enter there Greenie,"
"You shouldn't shove me, eyebrows!" I yell back without thought. I roll my eyes and storm off.
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