Everything is going to change.

It's her voice again, the one that came up in the box yesterday. She's talking about her being the trigger and everything changing and Wicked.

I open my eyes to see that everyone else was awake and not in their hammocks. Why didn't anyone wake me?

I slip on my shoes and walk over to Frypan's shack to see Newt, Alby, and Gally arguing.

"What's going on?" I ask as I approach the group.

"These shanks here want to just wait until the greenie wakes up and see if she's dangerous rather than throw her in the slammer now and not have to worry about it." Gally said nodding towards Alby and Newt.

"She needs the medjacks watching her Gally, we can't just throw her in the slammer because we think she might do something." Alby said.

"Right, my bad, you're the leader Alby, do what you want." With that Gally stormed off.

"We let you sleep in today (Y/N), since it's Minho and Tommy's day to run the maze." Newt told me.

I nodded and looked around the glade.

It looked beautiful, people were everywhere talking and laughing while they worked, the sun was just coming over the maze wall, and the vines seemed to stretch on forever.

"(Y/N)?" I heard Newt's voice.

"Sorry what?"

Newt chuckled, "you can help me in the garden if you'd like."

I nodded and followed him to where he usually works in the garden.

He showed me how to tell if certain things were ripe or not and how to tie the vine around the pole.

"Shuck we're out of fertilizer, do you mind running to the dead heads real quick and getting some for me?" Newt asked, handing me a bucket.

"No I don't mind." I smiled as I took the bucket and headed towards the large group of trees in one of the corners of the glade.

Wow

As I was walking I looked up at the trees that towered over me. The sunlight shone through the leaves and the branches of the tall green trees. It looked so beautiful and it made me feel like I wasn't actually trapped in a maze.

Oh...

I reached the back of the forest and saw the maze walls that ruined the beauty and made me feel trapped again.

Crack!

I turned around to look behind me. "Hello?"

No response

Crack!

This time the noise was somewhere else, "Who's there?"

I turned to my left and ended up face to face with a glader I haven't really spoken to before.

I jumped back a bit, "Holy shit you scared me... uhh... Ben right?"

He didn't say anything he just stood there staring at me with bloodshot eyes while he was breathing heavily.

"Hey, Ben are you okay?"

"It's all your fault!" He yelled and lunged at me.

I was on the ground and he was on top of me trying to... bite me???

It's like he's a rabid dog all of a sudden.

I managed to grab the bucket I had carried into the forest with me and slammed it against the side of his head and got up and ran out of the forest as fast as I could.

Ben caught up with me at the forest edge and lunged onto my back knocking me to the ground again, I screamed which hopefully alerted someone.

I was able to turn around and face Ben so I could use my arms to push him back.

Suddenly something hit Ben in the head, hard.

I scrambled to my feet and saw Newt holding a shovel.

"You alright?" He asked me.

"I think so..." I said panting.

Two other gladers held Ben down to the floor while Alby came over to see what was happening.

"Lift his shirt." Alby commanded.

There was a black hole in the side of his stomach with purpleish black veins coming out and spreading over his torso.

"What is that?!" I asked starting to feel scared.

"Throw him in the slammer." Alby commanded again.

"That greenie, is a griever sting." Newt answered.

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Newt had explained what a griever was and how they came out in the maze at night so the walls keep us safe.

Thanks for telling me after I've already been in the maze.

Later that evening after they had something called a keepers meeting, Chuck told me that Ben was being banished.

"Why?"

"Because even after the changing he was still dangerous." Chuck said.

"The changing?"

"It's what you go through when you get stung, you get some of your memories back when it happens."

All the gladers gathered around one of the maze's openings with the keepers holding poles and sticks and things.

I saw Alby walking over with Ben behind him being held by Minho.

"Hey Alby?" I asked.

"Yeah?"

"Did Ben say anything... about me?"

"He's just been mumbling... why?" He asked.

"Because when he attacked me... he was yelling about how this is all my fault..."

Alby stopped for a second and looked to Ben.

I got worried for a second because since Ben got his memories back... he's probably right...

But no... me being the reason for this maze?

I mean... I would never do something this terrible to anyone...

Right?

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wow I uploaded this later than I said I was going to

good job me

sorry about thaaaaat ~megan