♫ She’s Always a Woman ⋆｡°✩₊ °✦ ‧ ‧ ₊ ˚✧₊ °✦

you’ve been in the glade for 3 years. you were third to arrive, naturally getting close with Alby, Minho, and Newt as a result since you’ve been there from the start. being one of the first, you knew the glade more than other gladers.

but being in the maze had its flaws. for one thing, you were the only girl in the glade, meaning you felt lonely a lot. out of place. so everytime the siren went off, indicating a new greenie, you always sprinted to the box to see if it was a new girl.

never any luck, just as expected.

but you stayed, welcoming them with open arms. newt and alby were usually busy running the place so you took on the job of tours. as new greenies arrived, you met more people.

another thing about you was the way you carried yourself. the fierceness of gally, the leadership of alby, the courage of minho, the strength of newt. you’d picked up on all of it. made yourself equal to them. at bonfires? you were in the ring, fighting for fun. you always followed your own rules, you did what you pleased.

but a bunch of teenage boys locked in a maze? with one girl? of course quite a few liked you. innocent crushes? sure. you being in constant misery? yes.

the thing was, not only were you the only girl, but you just happened to be really pretty. so even doing the simplest things would cause attention your way. you hated it.

that’s where Newt comes in!!

he was in the glade before you. he was the one who’d given you the tour, the one who set up everything for you. but the thing was that he didn’t even like you at first. not in a ‘he hated you’ way, rather just acquaintances. as time passed, he realized maybe he felt more.

unlike the other gladers, his feelings weren’t instant. they came over time, over the three years you spent from arriving till now. only now is he realizing how much he really likes you.

but you had priorities. you never really entertained anyone, fearing it would cause unnecessary problems throughout the glade, not to mention the fact that Alby, Minho, and Newt were extremely overprotective of you.

which meant no boys. you were friends with them… what other choice did you have? but when they flirted, you shut them down no matter what. not like it really stopped their advances, but you didn’t want anyone.

or maybe it was just a them problem.

see, newt has been hanging around you more. getting closer to you. it started as a chores thing, until he started sitting next to you during lunch and sneaking around with you at night. would alby kill you guys if he found out? yes.

not like either of you cared.

he was the only boy there who saw you, who genuinely liked you. but you weren’t gonna let him have it easy, where was the fun in that? not like you guys would be able to date anyways.

you guys spent a lot of time together now. one time, he’d managed to sneak you out of the homestead around midnight, once everyone had been asleep. just spent hours outside with you, talking about what you guys would do if you managed to leave the maze.

no one knew. maybe that made it all the more fun. having to sneak around with him? it just made it all the more exciting. no titles, though. no spoken feelings. more of a fun thing, to forget the pain and misery that comes from being trapped within the glade.

now, you were hanging out in the medjack hut since it was empty, cleaning up out of boredom. then you heard the door creak open, closing quietly. a tall boy with blond hair walked in, a smile on his face.

“there you are. i missed you, love. forgot how boring the glade is when you’re bunched up somewhere.” he said, he constantly calls you nicknames just to test the limit between you two.