AMY'S POV

"Will you please shut up!" Shawn growls at Lola.

"Don't talk to her that way!" Liam pushes Shawn.

"Don't tell me what to do!" Shawn pushes him back.

"Shut up!" Kylie gets in between them. "We came here to have fun, not for you two to argue the whole time. Lola, please stop singing, my eardrums are going to start bleeding soon."

Liam and Luke glare at Kylie while Lola smiles. "I know my singing is horrible, but I like annoying Shawn."

"Why you little-"

"Don't you dare finish that sentence Shawn!" Kylie interrupts him.

Shawn rolls his eyes.

"Are we gonna be going in the maze anytime soon?" Sophie asks, tugging on my sleeve.

I crouch down to her level. "In a second sweetie, go play with Troy on the big cow for the time being."

She nods and runs for the giant cow which everyone is climbing on.

"How much longer are we going to wait in this line for?" Emily whines.

Alexander shrugs his shoulders. "Kylie had everything planned, everything besides the fact that we need tickets to enter the damn maze."

Kylie rolls her eyes. "Listen, considering I planned this whole day on my own without any help from you guys, I consider this a slight change in plans. Besides, the kids are having fun and that's what matters."

She points towards Troy who is helping Sophie get onto the cow, and Parker and Jordan who are filming the whole thing.

"I'm cold!" Bree whines.

Xavier sighs. "I told you to bring a jacket, not that thin cardigan!"

"But if I had brought a jacket, it would have clashed with my shoes!"

"Here." Liam hands her his jacket. "You can have mine, now stop complaining!"

Bree smiles and takes the jacket. "Thank you!"

I smile at them. "That ship will sail by the end of the week." Emily whispers to me.

I nod. "Wanna play cupid?"

"Oh!" Riley exclaims having heard our conversation. "I'll do it! I'm good at playing cupid!"

I refrain from rolling my eyes at her. I'm still pissed at her.

I force a smile and nod along. I don't want to seem shallow or anything, so I haven't told anyone about my suspicions with Riley.

"Long sail Briam!" Emily whispers.

"Actually, their ship name is Lee." Lola pipes.

"Shut up!" Bree mutters, her cheeks red, but I'm not convinced it's because of the cold air biting our exposed skin.

"Next!" The guy selling the tickets calls out. We walk forward, sighing in relief.

"Two kids, and thirteen teenagers, please." Kylie says.

The guy looks up surprised. "I'm sorry, but adult supervision is required for every ten kids."

Kylie groans. "Liam, how old are you guys?"

"Seventeen."

"Well, we're doomed." Kylie mutters.

"What? No we are not. I'm eighteen." Caleb says.

We look back to the guy who rolls his eyes. "You still need another adult with you."

"I'm twenty three." Kylie says. "Last time I checked, I'm legally an adult."

The guy looks her up and down. He laughs. "You, twenty three? I'm sorry miss, but I'm going to have to see your ID."

Kylie rolls her eyed and takes out her wallet. She takes out a bunch of cards and flips through them. "No, nope, ew!"

She finally finds her ID in the middle of the pile and holds it up in triumph.

She hands it to the guy who looks over it in suspicion.

Not finding anything wrong with it, he hands it back. "Alright, what's the real type of tickets you will be buying?"

Kylie smirks and recounts everyone. "Two adults, two kids, and eleven teenager please."

The guy sighs and rings then up. "That will be ninety six dollars miss."

Alexander groans. "My poor wallet."

Kylie glares at him. "Shut up! You practically breathe money!"

She takes out a different wallet and hands the guys a silver credit card.

He gives it back when he's done and we take the wrist bands from him.

"Troy, Sophie, Parker, Jordan! Come here!" Emily yells to them.

They come running over. "Come on, let's put your wrist bands on."

"Put mine on?" Caleb asks.

I smile up at him. "Of course." Taking a wrist band from him, I wrap it around his wrist. His hand warm against my fingers.

"Done."

He smiles down at me. "Thanks Amy, here, let me put yours on."

He grabs a wrist band on Kylie and takes my wrist. His hands are cold against my skin, they send chills up my arm.

He smiles at me. "There, all done."

"Alright!" Kylie calls out. We all go and crowd around her. "Everyone get into groups of two!"

Caleb turns to me. "Partners?"

I nod and smile at him. "Hmm." Kylie murmurs looking around. "Troy and Sophie, Jordan and Parker, Shawn and Riley, Liam and Bree, Lola and I, Xavier and Luke..." She tails off.

"And Amy and I." Caleb fills in the awkward silence.

"Ya... You see, that's a problem." Kylie says. "Alexander, you can join Amy and Caleb, since we have an odd number of people."

Alex rolls his eyes. "Whatever."

"Troy, you have a phone right?" Kylie asks him.

He nods and Kylie smiles. "Great, first one to the other side of the maze, make sure to text the others, that way we can know who's out and who's still in. Also, turn your phone location on!"

We nod and Kylie grins. "LAST ONE OUT BUYS LUNCH!"

She grabs Lola and starts sprinting towards the maze. The rest of us spring into action as well.

I grab hold of Caleb and Alexander, dragging them behind since they are both incredibly slow.

"Hurry!" I grumble. "I don't feel like buying them lunch!"

I feel a tug on my right arm and I'm pulled back. "Hey!" I glare at Alexander.

"We need to make a plan. We can't split up, but we need to be smart about this."

I nod, he's making sense. "Alright, I sat we go right, right, left, straight, left, and repeat."

"I say we go left, right, left, straight, right, straight, left and repeat." Alexabder says.

I roll my eyes. "Fine."

"Wait!" Caleb exclaims. "Don't I get a say?"

Alexander shrugs his shoulders. "Too late."

We turn left at the first fork we see and continue forward.

"This is one long path." Caleb murmurs.

We turn right at the next fork and left right afterwards, only to run into a dead end.

"Great job Alex, you got us lost already." Caleb grumbles.

"Shut up Caleb!" He grunts out and turns around.

I loose track of the pattern after the third turn right. "Are we not just going in circles?" I mutter.

"Nope." Alexander shrugs.

I hear a muffled 'ding!' and take out my phone.

Troy
Me and Sophie are out of the maze.

I send back an 'okay' and pocket my phone. "Sophie and Troy are out."

Caleb groans. "Alexander, I swear we are lost!"

"How can we get lost in a maze genius?" He mutters.

"We need to get to higher ground." I pipe in before Caleb and throw another insult. "That way we can figure out which direction to go to."

Alexander nods his head at the idea. "Great idea, best one I've heard."

I roll my eyes at his sarcasm and go take the lead.

We walk for a few minutes before I realize something. I stop and smack my head. "We aren't gonna find any higher ground in this maze, we're going to have to make ourselves taller."

Alexander sighs and crouches down. "Get on my shoulders."

"What, no! I'm taller than you!" Caleb pipes in.

Alexander glares at him. "Yes, but I'm stronger than her, therefore I can support her weight!"

"Hey! I don't weigh that much!"

They ignore me and continue to argue. I sigh and look around.

I stand there for a few second before touching the corn. It looks pretty strong.

I put some of my weight on it and it falls to the ground.

Nevermind then.

I roll my eyes when I notice the boys are still arguing. "Shut up! How about Caleb gets on Alexander's shoulders? That way you won't argue about who I stand on."

They grumble in protest. "You can either do that, or you can find the way out of the maze on your own, because I will ditch you!"

Alexander mumbles something that I can't hear and crouched down to let Caleb get on his shoulders.

I secretly take out my phone and snap a picture of them. Haha. Blackmail.

"I can't see anything! Quite moving!" Caleb growls to Alexander.

"Well if you weren't too heavy, I would be able to hold you!"

I tune them out as my phone beeps again.

Bree
Liam and I are out.

I groan. "Guys, Liam and Bree are out! If we don't finish this maze soon, I will not be paying lunch!"

"Shut up!" They growl at me.

I sigh and begin to wander about. How did Sophie and Troy get out of the maze so quickly?

They are the perfect pair, but I would not have thought that they would be out in five minutes.

"Ahhh!" A slight yell fills the air and then a 'thump' as something hits the ground.

I spin around and laugh. "H-how did that happen?"

Caleb pushes himself off of Alexander, wiping off the dirt.

"Ask this idiot."

Alexander glared up at him from the ground. "If you had just done your job quickly, we wouldn't have fallen off!"

I groan. "Alright, since we are getting nowhere like this, how about we just wander about?"

They nod and we go down random paths to find the exit.

My phobe rings. I pick it up. "Hello?"

"Seriously?!" Emily yells, almost blasting my ear drums.

"What?" I ask her confused.

"I leave for one second to go to the bathroom, and when I come back, you guys are already gone!" She growls.

My eyes widen. "Oops?"

"Seriously?! That's all you have to say?! Some best friend I have." She mutters.

I roll my eyes. "Just enter the maze and try to get back out, last one out has to buy lunch though."

She grumbles something before hanging up.

"Who was that?" Alexander asks me.

"Emily, apparently we had ditched her."

Caleb snorts. "So, how many people are out of the maze?"

"So far two groups, four people. Bree and Liam, Sophie and Troy."

"How are the others doing?" I shrug my shoulders.

"We haven't run into any of them, so I have yet to know."

"How long have we been in here?" Alexander asks while turning a corner.

"Around ten minutes."

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"I need water!" I mutter.

"Will you please shut up!" Alexander growls at me.

"I'm not the one who got us stuck in thid place for three hours!"

He stays silent at that.

Ring! Ring!

I pick up the phone. "Hello?"

"Amy, where are you guys? Everyone is waiting for you guys!" Emily questions.

I groan. "I don't know, but buy me a water for when I get out of this dreaded maze!"

"Do we need to send a search party yet?"

I look at Caleb and Alexander who look as though they are about to rip each others heads off.

"Um no, but I think we're going to need an ambulance, or at least a Kylie to stop them from killing each other."

Emily snorts. "That bad, huh?"

I nod even though she can't see me. "I swear they act like an old married couple."

"Do not!" Alexander shouts.

I roll my eyes. "Want us to send someone in there to save you from third wheeling?"

"No, I'm good, but could y-" I get cut off. I look at the blank screen on my phone.

"What?" I mutter and try to turn it on. "Shit!" I kick the ground in frustration.

"What's up with you Grocery Girl?" Alexander asks without looking back.

"My phone died, do you guys have yours on you?" They shake their head.

"No, Kylie confiscated them before we came in, saying it was supposed to be bonding tine between us." Alexander says using quotation marks.

"So what? She just made sure every group had someone with a phone?"

They nod and I groan. "How are they supposed to find us now?!"

"Well maybe if you hadn't been looking at the screen this whole time, the phone would have still had battery!"

"Oh! So now it's my fault?!" I growl at him.

"Alright!" Caleb intervenes. "Calm down, let's get out of here first before we start killing each other."

"And how exactly are we supposed to do that? This idiot," I jerk my thumb towards Alex. "Got us lost in a corn maze."

"It's not my fault!" Alex chirps in. "If anything, it's you and Caleb's fault!"

"How exactly is it mine?!" Caleb intervenes.

"Because none of you gave a good enough suggestion on how we could figure out a way out!"

"Oh! I gave a suggestion!" I exclaim. "But someone didn't want to do it, so he went his own way!"

"You just made up random directions!"

"Oh! And what did you do? Calculate the best ways of getting out of here? I'm certain you made up random suggestions as well!"

"STOP YELLING!" Caleb yells. "We need to get out of here, but with you two at each others throats, we won't last another hour out here, so I suggest you calm down and figure out a plan!"

"Why don't you figure out the plan, Mr. I'm going to play peace maker." Alexander retorts.

That's gets the two of them into another argument and I just slide to the floor in frustration. We are never going to leave here, I'm going to die with an idiot of a gang leader, and my crush from six years ago.

Actually, the later doesn't sound as bad.

"Shut up!" A new voice rings out.

We turn to see a worker dressed in blue and black walking towards us, her name tag reading 'Jenny'.

"Hey pretty lady." Alexander sends her a flirty wink.

She rolls his eyed towards him and turns to me. "Are you okay sweetie?"

She looks around her late twenties and has dark blue eyes and platinum blond hair.

"I'm fine, but could you please show us the way out? We have been stuck in here for- actually, I don't even know, what time is it?"

She glances at her watch before looking back up. "It's three in the afternoon."

"We have been in here for five hours!" I exclaim.

She gives me a pittying look. "Come on, let's get you kids out of here."

She hands me her arm and I gratefully take it.

"Come on guys!" I yell towards them before starting to follow Jenny.

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I sigh in relief once I see the exit. I thank Jenny before running out and embracing the fresh air with open arms.

"I think I developed claustrophobia in there!" I mutter.

Kylie shakes her head and glares at the boys. "Did you behave?"

"Well, we almost murdered each other if it weren't for Jenny finding us." Caleb answers.

The look on Kylie's face immediately tells him it was the wrong answer.

"Anyways..." Lola intervenes. "I'm hungry, and you guys get to buy food!" She smirks at that.

"Actually," Alexander says. "You said loser has to buy lunch. Lunch is over, it's dinner time."

Everyone glares at him. "Nevermind. Where to eat? Any suggestions?" He gives a sheepish smile.

Hey! 👋

I finished the chapter, yay!

It's the longest I have written in a long time.

Next chapter will be Monday, when they go back to school after the fight.

There will be a lot of drama, hopefully making up for the lack of drama in this chapter.

Anyways...

Ya, I have nothing.

For those who live in America, happy fourth of July! :)

Till next time!

Bye! 👋

*Next update Saturday, July 7th*