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SEE YOU AGAIN, WIZ KHALIFA, CHARLIE PUTH
" how can we not talk about family when families all that we got, everything i would do you were standing there by my side. "

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-ˏˋ. chapter two, the bonfire ˊˎ-

THE BOYS we're currently starting to throw in the fire sticks, preparing to begin their anual bonfire they usually did every night. they all each threw one in, well, except for thomas, who just stood by watching the gladers socialize with eachother.

newt, minho and gally all stand by eachother, watching as the gladers laugh and talk with eachother. gally looks around in confusion, noticing the absence of the girl that the three were closest to. he turns to newt and minho, " hey, where's b? " he earned silence in return, " still in her psychotic break? " he asks. the other two just simply look at eachother with a knowing look, turning back to gally and giving him a " what do you think? " look.

gally sighs, turning to ask newt to go and get her before rushing off to the other boys who were waiting for him to make his signature drink he always crafted together.

blake, on the other hand, was recruiting to her usual duties around the glade, picking different berries in the green and bright trees that scattered next to her homestead. usually, she would never really attend to these things unless she needed to cool off from an argument or a fight she had that day. and as unfortunate that is, it was the case.

" blake? " a voice called out to her, it was far too dark out to see. although, judging by the australian sounding voice calling out for her, it was most likely to be newt. so despite her still being in the slightest mood, she decided to push it back for the australian boy.

" what? " she called back, turning around to face the blonde boy. she puts the rest of the berries she collected and placed it gently into the stick basket that chuck had made for her.

" come on, its bonfire night. " the boy smiles, waving her over to him so that the two can walk together—the boy slings his arm around her shoulder.

blake and newt start to make their way over to the yellow and orange fire that everyone surrounds. the peaceful environment is filled with laughter and excitement, glazers dancing around and socialising with each other.

although blake doesn't remember much about where she grew up, who and where her family was—she knew that the day she arrived up in that compartment, she realized then who her family was, and she would soon be comfortable enough to call this home. blake also knew that newt, minho, gally, ben and alby were her brothers, she loved them as brothers, and if shit went down— she would go to absolute war as a sister. and of course, she couldn't forget about chuck. the son she never had a chance to have.

finally, noticing their bestfriends arrival, gally waves newt and blake over to him, shoving his concoction that he made in their faces. next takes the jug and sips it, no longer pulling the disgusted look on his face he like he used to do.

" not bad, not saying it's good. but preferably better. " he told the taller boy in front of him before handing the jug off towards the shorter brunette next to him. the girl looks inside the large jug, noticing what appeared to be onions and random greens from the forest put into the liquid.

blake's lip curls up slightly and tilts the container towards her lips. both gally and newt looking at her while she's drinking it, reading her facial expressions as she sips the drink.

she pullls away from the jug, whipping off her lips that still had the liquid on them.

" this is such a vile thing to consume, if you tried hard enough you could end one of our lives with this, gal. " she grimaced at gally.

gally rolled his eyes at her and shoved her back. newt laughs at his best friends as him and blake turn around upon hearing numerous of chanting.

the gladers huddled around the fire pit, each with sticks placed firmly in their hands. most of them stood around and watched while the others aimlessly threw more pieces of wood into the flames. the two looked at gally who passed pieces of bark to each of the gladers.

newt leads blake to get closer to the fire, un aware of the large stick in her hands that she found the time to threaten one of the gladers to give to her. though, she wasn't even allowed to be given one after many violence occurrences.

as much as the brunette tried to stay quite, she was interrupted by the stick being snatched from her grip as she looked up at the unknown man. alby and minhos eyes pierce into hers as they glare at her. newt, who was previously standing next to her watching the bonfire take place, turned his attention to the commotion beside him.

the blonde rolled his blue eyes at her antics, knowing himself he continuously tells her not to interact with the sticks. he watched as blake licks her lips in annoyance. this time, she seriously had no intention of harming any of the gladers ( even if she did threaten one seconds ago, ). she threw her hands up, " give it back. "

" hell no, you remember what you did last time? " minho questioned, eyes darting between her confused facial expression. albys hand swiped across his face, " you nearly pierced a glader in the shoulder just because he accidentally bumped into your irritational ass. "

blake scoffed underneath her breath, looking at newt for help but she was also met with the same disapproving stare. she threw her hands up once again, " that was months ago! "

alby waved her off as he walked away, taking the stick with him as she sent daggers into his back. minho sarcastically laughed, " yeah, more like last week."

blake crossed her arms over her chest, tierd of being accused to do the same thing again, though she knew deep down it probably would.

minho, newt and blake stand in a line as they watched alby and gally direct the crowd of gladers, taking action into the bonfire and lighting it up.

and suddenly, the slightly cooler air turned into a mixture of the smell of burnt wood and the heat of the fire. everyone raised their hands, including blake. after all, it was her favorite part of the day. having this bonfire meant that they could completely erase that they were trapped and had to build and make shit on their own. they could forget about everything until it was time to hit the pan.

laughing loudly, newt and minho swing their arms around blake and bringing her closer to them. the two shake her in excitement as she groans playfully and placed her hands on their chest, pushing the two boys away.

the crowd of chants continued, ' gladers! gladers! gladers! '.
blake smiles at the happiness that was filling the air, the freedom that she felt when she was with her boys.

though, her wide smile turned into a completely blank face as she noticed the new greenie, studying her from afar. noticing the glare that he was receiving from the rather terrifying girl, he quickly shuffled his gaze to the other gladers around him.

the trio turned around to face the voice that was coming towards them. they looked at frypan who was jogging over with three freshly meat kabobs. the boy bowed down to the three, holding it out to them as they graciously took it with smiles on their faces.

" other than gallys treacherous drink, these are fantastic. " she sinked her teeth into the meat stick, groaning in satisfaction at the taste of it.

behind minho, he noticed the greenie walking over to them, taking slow and hesitant strides as he stared at them. newt pointed behind minho making the pair turn around.

looking directly at the sight, blake rolls her jaw, taking her kabob and patting minho and newt on the shoulders as she turned around to walk over to alby and settled down beside him. following her, minho clicks his tongue and ruffles newts hair earning a glare. he smiles at the boy and walked over to his bestfriend before taking his place beside her.

once the greenie walks up to newt who took notice to the sudden quick reaction, his eyebrows furrowed when he realized the stare blake was giving him.

newt looks over the confusion on his face and sighed, patting his shoulder. " don't mind her, mate. you didn't do anything to her. "

the greenies face twists up, thoughts overloading in his mind about the harsh girl, " why does she hate me, then? "

newt shook his head at his question, taking a bite of his meat stick, " if i were to be honest, she quite literally hates everyone other than the people she openly talks to. " he spoke with his mouth filled.

he nodded in agreement, it was quite obvious that she didn't like anyone other than the boys she talked to, " why? "

" not sure she would be to fond of me telling you. she dislikes any greenie that arrives in that box, especially you. "

the greenie squinted his eyes, " yeah, i couldn't tell, " the brunette haired boy said sarcastically. he looked over at the girl once more who finally stopped death glaring him and instead took a role in a conversation.

his eyes traced over her features, most importantly the large cloth wrap over her waist. his eyes squinted in confusion as newt followed his gaze. he looked at blake who was in a conversation with minho, as well as a few other gladers and he had a idea of where the greenies mind is travelling over.

newt set his eyes on the girls waist, looking at it as it was still healing from her run in the maze three weeks ago. the cloth had dried blood on it, or maybe even wet blood, neither of them could tell.

the greenie grimaced at the sight of her injury, he couldn't imagine the pain she must have felt while going through it because it looked like shit, to be honest.

" what happened to her? " he questioned.

newt frowned at the memory that practically left him scarred for life. it was the only time he had ever seen the girl cry ever since he came up in the box. it was also the first ever time he himself ever cried in the glade. he inhaled sharply through his mouth, " she almost died in there, " he nodded his head toward the maze, " if it weren't minho and ben, none of us would ever see her again. "

the greenies shoulders slouched slightly, frowning about how quickly the boys demeanour changed. " she's a runner? "

" that she is. though she forced it upon herself. " newt replied, looking down for a breif moment before meeting the boys confused gaze.

he deeply sighed, fiddling with the kebab stick in his hands, " alby, gally, minho and i yelled at her after she recovered and stated she wanted to run again. we told her it would be best to work with fry. gally ended up with a black eye that night. " he laughed to himself, covering his mouth.

once his silent laughter died down, he looked back at the greenie who seemed invested into knowing about blake.

the blue eyed boy cleared his throat, " alby eventually let blake continue as a runner, despite her not being a hundred percent healed. none of us wanted her to run again, but she was too stubborn to agree. " he bit his lip, glancing over his shoulder to look at his best friend.

" for someone as stubborn as her, she's scary. "

newt nodded in agreement and laughed at the boys comment, turning back to face him, " trust me, i've known her for three years and im still scared of her. "

he watches as the greenie looked passed him, looking at the shadows peering through the gaps of the maze.

" hell of a first day, greenie. " the greenie looked down at his lap, fiddling with his hands as he felt the eyes of the boy next to him. " here. put some hair on your chest. "

newt offered him the jar he was holding, filled of the liquid gally concurred up. the greenie took it hesitantly and sipped it.

it wasn't even a full swallow before he spit the drink out of his mouth and in between his legs. newt watched the boy as he gagged with a amusing smile on his face.

" oh, what is that? "

newt shrugged and took the jar back from the greenie, swirling it around, " not too sure. it's gallys recipe. it's a trade secret. blake couldn't be more disgusted by it. "

" she's still a dick, so is he. im surprised they aren't related. " the greenie scoffed underneath his breath. he looked back once more, noticing blake and minho standing beside eachother watching as gally was fighting some gladers.

" you know, for someone who saved your life today you sure have a lot to say about her. " despite the girl not being beside him, he found himself still sticking up for her.

" she shoved me to the ground in a way of saving me? " the greenie furrowed his eyebrows.

" well she wasn't gonna do it any other way, that's for sure. consider yourself lucky mate, your the first greenie she saved. " he licked his lips, looking back over to the maze, " trust me, the maze is a dangerous place. "

" we're trapped here, aren't we? " the greenie spoke softly, glancing back at newts frown forming on his face.

" for the moment but. but, " newt turned his body around, causing the greenie to do the same. newt pointed over to the bonfire and the gladers around it, " you see those guys here there? by the fire? "

the greenie watched as blake harshly shoved one of the gladers that bumped into her and watched as gally pointed in her direction. he heard the tall boy shout, " do that again your spending a night in the pit. " and watched as she waved him off.

" those are the runners. and that guy in the middle who's helping the glader b just shoved, that's minho. he's the keeper of the runners, just don't tell blake i said such thing. now, every morning when those doors open—they run the maze. mapping it, memorizing it, trying to find a way out. "

the greenies forehead creased, " how long have they been looking? "

newt sighed, " three years. "

" and they haven't found anything? "

newt bit his lip, looking at the bonfire in front of them, " it's a lot easier said than done. although, they stopped for a few weeks when blake got hurt. "

" well if blake spent a night in the maze, why didn't she find a way out? " it was clear to newt that the boy still didn't understand things thoroughly, or at least didn't know much about blake.

" she wasn't exactly in healthy condition, mate. "

the blue eyed boy paused in his sentence when he heard the rather familiar sound of the maze changing. newt raised a finger, " listen. hear that? that's the maze changing. changes every night. "

the greenie shakes his head in disbelief, " how is that even possible? "

newts lips quirked up, " you can ask the people who put us in here, if you ever meet the bastards. "

newt took another sip of the drink, grimacing at the taste, " the truth is, the runners are the only ones who know what's really out there. they're the strongest and fastest of us all, and it's a good thing too because if they don't make it back before those doors close, then there stuck out there for the night. aside from blake, no one's ever survived a night in the maze.  " he rolled his eyes and laughed to himself.

" what happens to them? the ones that don't survive? "

newts adam's apple bobed, " well, we call them grievers. of course, no one's ever seen one and lived to tell about it, " newt paused in his sentence, " blake has, she's mentioned it before. she just refuses to talk about it. as much as us five asked her to open up about it, she doesn't. we just know that it's out there in those walls. "

minho, blake, fry and alby watched with amused smiles on their faces as gally and the gladers fought eachother. blake sighed in boredom, " i'm bored. "

minho turned to look at her, " your never bored at bonfires, lighten up you shank. "

blake clicked her tongue, " i wanna fight someone. " somehow gally heard her and held his hand out to stop his opponent and pointed toward the girl, " no, no, anybody but you blake. "

she rolled her dark brown eyes, stepping forward, " come on, it'll be fun. "

fry shook his head stepping up next to her as well, " yeah, good luck trying to get anyone as your opponent. their all scared of you, b. "

gally watched as she raised her middle finger to the boys who were giving her cocky smiles, more specifically gally as she harshly glared at him, " you want another black eye, dick? " she gritted.

" y'sure you can even reach me? " gally responded with a shit eating grin she so desperately wanted to slap off.

she shoved the blonde hair boy backwards, leaving him to stumble slightly, " watch your mouth. "

the boys laughed at gallys offended expression as he regained his balance and he rolled his eyes at her, going back to fighting the gladers.

as the laughter dialed down, blake gave up on trying to convince gally to let her play their games as she and the rest of her friends erupted into a conversation about the greenie. of course, the boys tried to reason with her to trust and be mutual with the greenie but she strongly refused.

as blake was about to retort back at minho for something he said, their heads whipped towards shouts in front of the fire. blake narrowed her eyes and straightened her back to get a better view of the commotion but was met with gladers huddling around eachother.

just as blake and minho where about to barge their way through the crowd, they heard cheers coming from the others, " greenie! greenie! greenie! " the pair shoulders slouched in relief.

blake and minho stand up when they heard gallys teasing shouts. she rolls her eyes as her and minho begin to walk forward, " good, was just about to stab myself in boredom. "

" you know, you should do it anyways. " minho muttered and shortly after winced as a sharp needle-like pinch erupted on his arm.

he took the lead, shoving his way through the crowd as blake followed closely behind him.

the two managed to get closer spots in the front, coming to stand next to newt and fry.

as gally prepares to fight the greenie, the crowd goes silence as he begins to say his usual speech he always did. if blake didn't want to die before, she surely does now. " the rules are simple, greenie. i try and push you out of the circle. you try and last more than five seconds. ready? " he explained.

" hopefully he does manage because i can't stand to put up with this shit head any longer. " she managed to speak loud enough for the gladers to hear her, including gally. the crowd found it funny, but gally didn't and he glared at her before raising his middle finger.

the gladers watched as the greenie unsurely stands in his position, clear that he didn't understand what to do. he hated the fact he was center of attention, and it didn't help that the only girl in the glade was watching him the entire time. just as he turned to gally to ask him something, he already charged at him and with full force—shoved his shoulders and he stumbled into the crowd.

the gladers threw him back in the ring, supposedly giving him a chance to fight back because it was all too entertaining to watch. but, when the greenie re-entered, gally immediately pushed him back, hard enough to make him face plant onto the ground below them.

blake's face twists up. she hated to admit it, but she wanted the greenie to win against gally for many reasons. number one, gally can finally shut up about none of the gladers achievements of beating him, well, except from herself. number two, the greenie did have pretty large biceps, he looked to be in shape. maybe even bigger than gally. number three, despite her absolutely despising the boy, something gut twisting about him made her want him to win.

at this point, dust and dirt was already coating on top of the greenies head as he frantically whipped it off.

" come on, greenie, " the taller boy taunted, " we're not done yet. "

the boy quickly pushed himself back up, spitting out sand and dusting his hands off into his clothes. the gladers were surprised when he retorted back at gally, " stop calling me greenie. "

" stop calling you that? what do you want to be called? shank? "

the crowd immediately started to erupt into laughter at gallys response. blake and her friends shook their heads as they raised their hands to cover their smirks.

gally raised his hand towards the greenie, facing the audience around him, " does he look like a shank? " at this, the boy ran towards gally and took him by the waist, throwing him down in the sand just as gally did to him moments prior.

blake bit her lip as she felt a presence by her side nudge her with his arm, " are you annoyed there? " newt asked.

" when is she ever not annoyed? " frypan engaged in as minho nodded in agreement, watching the scene before him.

" fuck off, " newt raised a finger, silently telling her to watch her language, " shuck off. "

newt smiled at the correction as he looked at her, wanting her to explain as to why she was so agitated. " just want that shank to be put in his place. "

at her comment, minho smirked down at her, " is this you saying you preferred the greenie to win? " blake punched his arm harshly at his accusation.

" i never said that, dick face. "

just as newt and minho were about to respond, they looked up from her to gally who stood back up and threw the greenie once more, " you know what? " the greenie got back up from his spot on the ground, " i think im settled on this shank. "

just as gally says that, the greenie sprinted over to him and wrapped his arms around his waist once more and pushed against each other, trying to attempt to push each other out as the the crowd around them was chanting their names.

gally overpowered him easily, pushing him back as the greenie tried to still in his spot but was failing as his body was moving with each push gally let out. the greenie finally managed to get the upper hand, shoving gally back onto the floor as he stood over him.

gally lets out a small grunt as he fell down stomach first, knocking the wind out of him slightly.

blake laughed at gallys position as he placed his hands onto the ground, attempting to push himself up when he saw two black boots in front of his face.

blake crouched down next to him as the gladers, as well as gallys opponent was watching their interaction, " so you can beat everyone here, but not a greenie? losing your touch there, gall. " she chuckled.

he clenched his jaw, and stood up as she stood up with him. the taller boy glared down at his best friend and shoved her back, sending her back to their other friends, not harshly, just enough for her to stumble back into them so she wouldn't be hit.

gally turned back around and kicked the back of the greenies legs, making him fall to the ground completely. at his achievement of taking the greenie down, he turned back to blake and gave her a grin, " what did you say just now? "

the audience looks back at the greenie who still hasn't moved from his position, although, they heard small whispers coming from him. he quickly got up, stumbling in the process.

" thomas! i remember my name! i'm thomas! "

after a moment of silence and smiles rising up everyone's faces, blake stands back as her friends leave her side, as well as everyone else that was around her and cheer on thomas.

blake doesn't make a attempt or effort to move from her position, thoughts gathering in her head.

weeks ago when she got injured and she spent most of her days recovering in the med hut, she dreamed about a lot. it was a major blur and still very difficult to uncover. but she remembered certain words that were said, ' wicked ', ' ava ' , ' teresa ' , ' thomas. ' she couldn't help but think he was placed here for a reason. but, she decided to not let her curiosity get the better of her and shake herself out of her thoughts.

as the crowd engulfed thomas into hugs and handshakes and what not, they were all cut off by the sound of screeches inside the maze, despite the walls being closed, it was still loud enough to be heard. the gladers all fall into a uncomfortable silence.

blake's eyes narrowed as she looked down breifly at the blooded cloth wrapped around her waist, touching it slightly as she remembers the sounds that she heard when she spent a night in the maze, all the things she saw and had to do in order to escape.

thomas stands still in shock, " what the hell was that? " he asked the group.

blake steps up slightly, staring at the maze and letting her eyes trace over it, she didn't want to speak to the greenie, but after noticing everyone was staring up at the maze she was the one who informed him, " a griever. "

she doesn't meet any of the boys gazes on her because she didn't want to show them her emotions on how she felt about those sounds, but they knew.

" you should be safe in here, nothing gets through those walls. " without sparing a glance at any of the boys, she retreats back to her hut as her head lowered down, chewing on her bottom lip.

knowing that bonfire night was over, each of the boys love themselves to their own homesteads as thomas turns to watch blake.

" you know, if she were to ever catch you staring at her, you wouldn't have a head and set of eyes to stare at her with. " alby interrupted the new boy and tore his gaze from her.

alby grasped thomas's shoulder in his hand and pulling him towards the homestead chuck fetched up for him.

still not used to being in the glade, he got ready for bed anyways. blake, who had before hand brought alby and gally aside to scold them for placing his hammock next to hers, was sharping the knives chuck made for her given that he finished them that night.

he watched the girl as he settled into his hammock and glanced around at the people surrounding them, noticing that they were all sound asleep.

he turned back to blake, who was sitting in her own hammock and sharping her knives. oblivious as to why she wasn't sleeping like the rest of the gladers were, he spoke up, " you gonna catch some sleep soon? "

he couldn't see her clenched jaw and the roll of her eyes since her back was turned and it was extremely dark out, " i don't. "

" you, you don't sleep? " he questioned unsurely as he watched her nod her head ever so slightly, " why? "

" why are you talking to me, greenie? " she asked bluntly, clearly not in the mood to disclose the littlest information to him. quite frankly, she didn't think she would ever be in the mood to.

because i care. is what he wanted to say. even though the girl isn't too fond of him, shuts everyone out, everyone that hinted about her disturbing back story, and more so the fact he remembers her, he knew he cared about her deeply before he arrived.

but he didn't, he didn't say what he remembered or anything of the such.

" because i know— " thomas got cut off when blake turned to face him, " no, you don't know anything, greenie. you don't know shit about me, alright? "

thomas frowned slightly, " i know you've been through hell, you should talk to someone about it, you know? " he spoke and watched as her face softened slightly.

before he had a chance to open his mouth, her face regained the tough expression she had, " go to sleep thomas, you need it. "

" you do too. " thomas argued but had a smirk on his face, thank god she didn't see it because she probably would've smacked him into another dimension.

" not sure you understand what i'm saying, greenie, " she ran her tongue over he teeth, " last time i slept, i had a nightmare. minho, newt and gally woke me up when i started screaming. "

thomas shut his mouth at her confession, now getting a idea as to why the girl wasn't sleeping, or hasn't been sleeping. because it was true, her nightmare was so bad it prevented her from ever laying her eyes shut again, in fear of waking up in the maze again, all alone. it was true that as unfortunate as it is, she was the most traumatised person in the glade. and everyone knew it.

after moments of silence and thomas staring at her in shock, she sighed and rolled her eyes, laying back in her hammock beside the boy. " go to sleep, greenie. you need it. "

the boy silently watched her as she laid back in her hammock, running her fingers over the blade of her knife. he licked his lips and turned his back away from her, closing his eyes.

as thomas's soft snores were heard, blake slowly turned her head to watch the boy as he slept. she couldn't lie to herself, for someone who is incredibly annoying and nosey, he wasn't ugly at all, that's for fucking sure.

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hi guysssss, long time no see but i wanted to update this book because a lot of you seemed to enjoy it and since im working on my other books atm why not give this one a update.

oh how i missed my babies and YES i know blake is bitchy rn but trust me she's gonna have the best character development ever 🔥🔥

and i think now's a good time to say that the reason i haven't been posting as much is because i recently just lost my dad so i've been literally in a depression state for this past week so that's always fun

n i js have a lot of school shit rn that i have to deal w but i managed to gather some free time to write n stuff bc i know all of you love my books :))

lmk what you guys want to see w this book moving forward and the different relationships you guys want blake to have with others n ill try my best to make it happen

i love u guys so much n i hope u enjoyed this chapter as much as i did, kissesssss