Breathe, Emily thought as she was moving up in the shaky box, It's going to be over soon. It has to end. Emily sat and waited, breathing deeply, but started to feel sick from the jerky movement. She thought she was about to throw up then the box came to a sudden stop and threw her onto her back. Above her, the door started to open. Emily shut her eyes tight, as if something was going to attack her, but instead she heard voices.

What's that?!

It's... it's a girl!

What?! A girl?! Let me see!

Hey! Don't push!

Then a voice with an accent yelled, "Hey! You bloody shanks! Move out of the way! Let her have some space!"

Emily opened her eyes and saw a blonde 16 year-old-looking boy's hand out stretched to help her up. She froze. What the hell is going on?

The boy spoke softly, "Hey, come on, Greenie. I don't bite." Emily snapped out of her trance and then hesitantly took his hand and he pulled her up with ease. Emily looked around and saw something surrounding the area. A huge wall with opened spaces leading into a dark pathway. What was going on?

"Where am I? Who are you people? Why am I here? What's going on?" Emily asked rapidly.

The blonde boy chuckled, "Welcome to the Glade, Greenbean."

Emily looked at the boy with a questioning face when suddenly a dark skinned boy came up from behind him. Emily asked her questions again but to the other boy. He responded, "Okay, okay. One at a time, shank! Geez you're just as curious as Thomas! Anyways, like Newt just said, this is the Glade. We Gladers live and work here. We don't know why we're here, all we know is that the Creators sent us here. I'm Alby, by the way. And this is Newt," he said gesturing to the blonde boy, "my second in command."

Emily nodded, her mind still full of questions. Then Newt spoke up, "What's your name, Greenie?" Emily had to think about it until a name popped up in her mind, "Emily."

Newt smiled, "Okay, Emily, Alby's going to give you a tour now. Okay? You can save all your questions until the end." Emily nodded again but then she thought of something, "Wait. How come I don't remember anything about myself... except for my name?"

Alby replied as soon as she finished asking, "We don't know, greenbean. That's all everyone remembers when they come here. Now come on, let's get on with the tour. We don't have all shucking day."

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"... and that's the Bloodhouse, where the Slicers work." Alby finished.

Emily gave him a questioning look, "Slicers?"

"Don't worry, Greenbean. When you start trying out the jobs that's when the job will be explained. Okay? Now let's go get your sleeping stuff set up. CHUCK! COME OVER HERE!" Alby motioned for a chubby curly haired boy to come over to him. Emily looked at the boy and noticed he couldn't've been older than 12 or 13.

Chuck came over, "Hey Alby. Hey Greenie."

"Find this Greenbean a place to sleep and then bring her over for some food." Alby instructed then he walked away.

Chuck motioned for Emily to follow him and as they were walking to the Homestead Emily had a question, "Hey... Chuck? How old do I look? What do I look like?"

Chuck looked at her, "Hm... I'd say you're 16. And you have light brown hair, green eyes, aaannndd you're kind of short. But not too short. If that makes sense. And I guess you're pretty..."

Emily nodded and continued to follow Chuck. They arrived at the Homestead and they found a place for her to sleep then as Emily was just fixing it up, Chuck yelled, "Thomas! Hey!"

Emily looked over to where Chuck was looking and saw a boy with dark brown hair jogging over to them and an muscular Asian boy jogging over to the Homestead. Chuck walked over to Thomas, "Hey Thomas!" Then Chuck saw Thomas looking at Emily, "Oh, right. Uh, Thomas, this is Emily. The new Greenie."

Emily waved and then Thomas gave returned it with a small smile and a wave. Then he turned to Chuck, "I gotta go. But I'll see you at dinner." Then he turned to Emily, "It was nice meeting you. Uhm.. do you want to maybe sit with us at dinner?" he asked, gesturing to him and Chuck.

Emily smiled, "Sure! Thanks." Thomas smiled back and then ran off.

Emily turned to Chuck, "Let's go eat. I'm starving."

Chuck grinned and nodded and then the two started to walk towards a building which was giving off the aroma of steak and potatoes as they got closer. Emily was thinking about her new life here and the people she's met today. Then one popped up in her head and stuck out, Newt. Emily smiled at the thought of him. Then she realized she was probably looking like an idiot just smiling all of a sudden. But she couldn't stop. Newt... he just... she just felt as if she clicked with him as soon as she saw him but she didn't know why. He probably doesn't feel the same way, she thought. Emily was looking down and didn't realize where she was going and then she bumped into someone.

"Oh! I'm sorry." Emily apologized then she looked up and saw that it was Newt.

Newt smiled softly, "It's alright, greenbean. Come on, let's go get you some food. You must be bloody starving."

Emily felt a blush creeping up on her cheeks and all she could respond with was a smile. The two walked up to get some food and Chuck trailed behind. Emily swore she could hear Chuck giggling. I wonder why? I'll ask him when we sit down and eat, I guess.

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The trio got their food and headed towards the table where Thomas and the Asian boy were sitting. Thomas waved at her and the Asian boy looked up at her and the first thing he said to her was, "You're a shucking girl."

Emily was slightly offended, "Uh, yeah. I am."

The Asian boy repeated his statement and then he started asking a bunch of, what Emily thought, were rude questions.

"Why is there a shucking girl here? Why the shuck did those Creators send her up?" Minho muttered.

Emily felt annoyed and spoke up with a sassy tone, "Does it matter..." A slang word she heard during the tour popped in her head, "shuckface? What's wrong with me being a girl? And do you think I have any shucking idea why I'm here? I came up just like the rest of you. I don't know anything else besides my name. Alright? So stop judging me and asking all these stupid questions. It's already hard enough on me that I ended up here all of a sudden and that I'm the only girl."

The boys at the table and surrounding ones were taken aback when her tone became a soft, shy one to a sassy one. The Asian boy took a second to process everything then he looked at Emily as if he was impressed. "Sorry, Greenie. But it's not like a girl has ever came here before. How else do you think someone would react?" Then he continued to eat his food. He muttered something about 'three shucking grievers' and a runner who got lost in the maze and decided that it would be 'super helpful' to sit down and wait until someone found him.

Thomas gave her an apologetic look, "Uh.. this is Minho."

Emily ignored Thomas and slowly began to eat. After a few bites, she lost her appetite. After what happened between her and Minho, she was too annoyed to eat. Emily got up and proceeded to walk over to a big tree near the Homestead. As she was approaching the tree, she heard someone's footsteps behind her. She turned around and saw Newt.

"Hey Greenie." He said.

"Hi Newt." Emily mumbled.

Newt started scratching the back of his neck, "I'm uh.. sorry for how Minho acted back there. He can be a bloody jerk sometimes. Just... give him some time."

Emily sat down under the tree and Newt sat down beside her. She turned to Newt, "Thanks, Newt. It's just... hard. Being the only girl and all. Thanks for coming after me and being here, by the way. It means a lot." She smiled.

Newt smiled back, "No problem. You'll get used to everything soon, Greenie."

"Hey why do you keep on calling me 'Greenie'?" Emily asked, "I have a name, you know."

"Sorry, it's what everyone calls the new kid that comes up The Box. I'm just used to it. But I'll call you by your bloody name.... okay, Emily?" He smirked.

"Haha thank you." She replied before lying down and looking up at the star filled sky. Newt smiled and started to get up.

"Whoa! Where are you going?"

"I just thought that you might want some alone time."

"Could... could you stay? Please?"

"Sure, shank."

Newt lay down beside Emily and they looked up at the stars together. After a few minutes, Newt looked over at Emily and saw her sound asleep. He smiled, carefully picked her up, and brought her to her bed in the Homestead. Newt looked at her and smiled. She's bloody beautiful, he thought. And with that, he kissed her on her forehead.

"Goodnight... Emily."

Author's Note:
I hope you liked it!