The pain felt unbearable, burned through my veins, felt like hammers in my skull.
But the memories were worse.

I saw the same two kids, over and over. A boy and a girl. The two traitors. They helped the creators build the maze and put us here. They are the reason we are here in the first place.

But neither are in the Glade, and I don't know the names of either of them.

But the earth, it wasn't green anymore, no more fiery forests in the fall, no more deep blue waters in the summer. Just long endless mountains of sand and heat.

I suddenly wasn't sure if I wanted to escape. I didn't want to go back to our messed up earth.

The good thing about the changing? I remembered Grace was my sister.

"He's awake! Go get Nick and-," one of the med jacks started, but the door slammed open and cut him off.

"Med jacks! Nick got hurt in the maze. He's losing a lot of blood." Minho shouted.

The med jacks came rushing out and took Nick from Minho. The set him down on the bed next to me. I looked over and saw deep, large cuts all over Nick. Each were oozing thick blood.
But then Gally saw Nicks head. There was a large gash across his forehead. The blood was leaking into his eyes.

"Nick! Don't close your eyes on me!" Minho shouted as Nick struggled to keep his eyes open.

But Nick had failed. He closed his eyes.

And he died later that week.

. . .

I walked out of the homestead, looking for Grace. I saw her on the lookout tower admiring the sunset as she usually does. Minho and Newt were at the bottom of the tower chatting and continuously glancing up at Grace. As I got closer, I saw that their expressions were angry. I started listening to their argument.

"Since when did you ever care for her?" Newt whisper-yelled so Grace couldn't hear him.

"Since the second she came up in the box!" Minho argued back.

"Certainly didn't seem like it! You hardly even talk to her"

"That's because I'm stuck running the maze, or you are making googly eyes at her"

"She Happens to be bloody beautiful, that's why. Now if you don't mind me-" Newt grabbed into the ladder leading up to where Grace was.

"You are going to go back the homestead to let me and Gray have a chat" Minho pushed Newt off the ladder and started climbing.

Newt grabbed Minhos shoulders and pulled him down. Minho fell to the ground, but grabbed Newts ankle and tripped him. Newt got into his knees and gave Minho a few punches.

Minho kicked Newt off of him and gave him a punch in the jaw. Minho scrambled to his feet and grabbed the ladder, but Newt grabbed his shoulders and yanked him away.

"What is wrong with you?" Minho pushed Newt pack.

"You should be asking that to yourself" Newt spat.

Minho reared back his fist and punched Newt in the gut. Newt stumbled backwards and fell to the floor. Minho then jumped on top of him and pinned his arms to the floor.

"You don't understand how much I love her Newt" Minho states, "you can't take that away from me"

"all I know is that she means more to me than she'll ever mean to you" Newt growled back.

Minho released Newt and gave him a few more hard kicks before turning climbing up the ladder.

I decided to act now before it was too late. I ran over to the duo and pulled Minho down, then pulled newt off the ground and lead them to the deadheads.

Newt slumped to the floor and groaned in pain. Minho only snickered, but stopped when I gave him a look. I saw a flash of guilt across his face.

"Newt are you okay?" I asked.

"What do you think? Just got my butt kicked by Minho." Newt grumbled.

"Ah so you admit it" Minho smirked

"Admit what?" Newt mumbled

"That I'm better than you" Minho answered

"I never said that" Newt countered.

"I should be climbing up that ladder right now"

"You don't know a thing about her. What makes you think she loves you?"

"What makes you think she loves you"

That shut Newt up really fast. And I immediately saw the regret on Minhos face.

"You both really do love her" I said.

Newt leaned over and coughed, a few droplets of blood coming with "How could you not?" Newt grumbled.

"Oh shuck it's worse than I thought" Minho gestured to the blood next to Newt.

"She is pretty amazing isn't she?" I asked, and I pulled Newt up to start heading to the med hut.

"Don't tell me you like her too" Minho mumbled.

"Oh Don't worry, I love Grace, but not the way you do."

Newt nodded. "It should be me climbing up that ladder. Minho doesn't know what he's talking about"

"Slim it shank. It should be me and you know it" Minho remarked

"Of all the people in the glade, it was you two who chose to fight"

"What's that supposed to mean?" Minho came over to help me carry Newt, but Newt only pushed him away while giving him a death glare. Minho tried to cover it, but I saw the hurt and the regret behind his eyes.

"You two are like two peas in a pod. Inseparable. I never wouldn't thought you guys would fight. Maybe disagree but nothing like what you two did. I just didn't realize a girl could change that"

"Yeah I guess youre right" Minho admitted

I helped Newt into the med hut and lowered him onto the bed.

"Clint!" I called, "Newt needs help"

"Thanks Gally" Newt sighed.

I nodded and head out the med hut. I was met by Grace running towards me with concern written on her face.

"Gally, why did Newt and Minho go into the med hut?" She asked.

"Oh umm" I tried to think of a good lie.

"And why were you half carrying Newt?" She asked worriedly

"Oh umm because they were messing around and uhh, Newt did something to his foot. Twisted it or something. Not as bad as before but it still hurt, you know?" I attempted at a convincing lie.

Gracy nodded, but she didn't seem fully convinced.

"I'll check on them" I said, "you should go get our table and food ready for us"

Grace nodded again and headed towards the kitchen.

Minho walked out behind me. "You didn't tell her, right?"

I shook my head, "how's Newt? You got him pretty good"

Minho sighed, "yeah I guess I did-broken rib. I feel bad"

"I still don't understand how you two managed to get in a fight"

" I wasn't even thinking when we did. Well I guess I was, I was thinking bout Gray. But I wasn't- oh Nevermind you know what I mean" he walked into the hut and went straight to Newt.  I followed in after.

"Newt" he breathed. "Are you okay?"

"No I'm not, genius. I just got a broken rib thanks to you. Now go, I don't want to see your ugly face anymore" Newt snapped.

Minho took a step backwards, more taken by surprise than hurt. "I'm sorry" he whispered, then walked out of the hut.