The Maze Runner: A Short Story

A young boy named Thomas wakes up in a metal cage, then realizes it's an elevator. Thomas has no clue where he is or what's happening, all he remembers is his name. Thomas quickly starts to worry and starts banging on the walls and yelling for help, but there was nobody there. The elevator comes to stop and swings open, Thomas sees a bunch of boys surrounding him called gladers. The leader of the group is Alby, he gave Thomas a tour of the glade and told him everything. As time goes by Thomas learns the purpose of the glades and why it's there. The glade is a perfect square forming box around the gladers, outside the glade is a maze. There are keepers, who are in charge of certain things around the glade. Then their are runners, who are the most important they go running though the maze.
There is one thing stopping from them doing this, The grievers, giant bug creatures. If you get stung by one, you go through a process called changing. Thomas gets stung and wants to be a runner, and things start to change. The next day a girl Comes to the glades, she was in a coma at first then but woke up. Her name is Theresa, and has a special gift. She can talk to Thomas in his mind, things started to fall apart, on that night the gates didn't close. The grievers had access to the glade and attacked it. The grievers would kill one glader every