WICKED is not Good

Runners

"Sierra I know you don't like the Glade. I want to show you what happens when we try to escape. The only way out is the Maze. Do not go in there unless you're a Runner!" Thomas told me strictly.

I nod, afraid to speak.

"Everything you can think of we've already tried. The maze is our only hope and way out. Only Runners can go inside the maze." Thomas warns.

"Runners?"

He nods, "Yes I am a Runner. It's a scary place. There's Grievers and it'll give you night terrors."

"What is a Runner?! And a Griever? Thomas are you sure your okay?"

"A Runner is someone who can run as fast as Minho and can defend themselves. A Runner goes into the maze looking for a way out. A Griever is made from the creators. It's a huge spider looking thing. It makes a lot of noise, and is mostly metal. If you get stung by one you go through the Changing."

My eyes go wide, "What's a Changing?"

Thomas sighs. "I was like this?" He mutters under his breath. "I'll tell you later. I answered enough questions tonight."

I pout my lip. "Who's Minho? Can I meet him?"

Thomas nods. "Yup sure can."

We walk back to the Glade, where the bonfire is still going on.

An Asian dude comes up to us. He gives me a cheesy smile and says, "Your the Greenie. Well shuck my ass, you're cute."

Thomas glares at him.

"My name is Sierra. Not Greenie, or Greenbean!" I shout.

"Hmm. And feisty too."

I roll my eyes. "So Minho. What does it take to be a Runner?"

Minho stares at me like I spoke a foreign language. Which living in the Glade, half the words they use are foreign; at least to me. "Sierra, I don't think you should be a Runner. Tommy here only became a Runner cause he broke the rules and saved Alby's life.
You Sierra will not be a Runner. Well not yet. I have to see what you can do and stuff. But right now, you're a Slopper."

Thomas speaks up. "Sierra, if I must is a girl, so she will not be a Slopper!"

"Dude, take a chill pill. She won't have to be a Slopper. But since she's a lady, she can be where she's supposed to be. In the kitchen."

That's when I lose it. "You know what? Go back to your Asian country and speak your language there! I don't want to be here. Nobody does! It's a jail, with Grievers and the Changing!! Damn I'd rather be dead! So don't be the king of this hell, Minho! Because I don't follow anybody!"

With that I turned and stormed off into the forest.

I sat across the cemetery the Gladers made.

Maybe it would be better to be dead. Go into the maze, die in there. Or just kill myself. Who gives a damn about me anyway? Obviously Minho thinks I'm feisty and should be a cook.

I put my head in my hands and feel the tears falling endlessly down my face.

I hear the crunching of the leaves as someone nears me.

"You're Sierra?"

I look up and find a dark man looking at me.

I nod. "Yes I am. You are?"

He chuckles softly. "I'm Alby. What's wrong?"

He walks to me and sits right beside me.

"Just Minho. I'm terrified to be here, I don't wanna be here. And nobody gives a shuck about me!" Using the Glade speak.

Alby puts his hand on my back and rubs small circles.

I put my head on his shoulder and soon fall asleep.

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I wake up in my hammock.

I sit up and stretch. Alby probably put me here. I smile at the thought.

Thomas walks up to me.

"Sierra, I'm sorry about last night."

I shrug, "It's whatever. I'm ready to cook!"

He laughs at me. "Come on." He pulls me out of my hammock into his arms. We walk to the kitchen. Thomas and I find Frypan there getting food ready.

"Oh good Sierra. You're working with me today! Okay scramble the eggs and put on this apron and hat."

Smiling I do. When Minho sees this, it'll show him.

I do as I'm told. When all the other Gladers wake up, Minho sees me cooking.

"Looks like the racist Greenies cooking today. Glad you're taking my advice."

I hold up an unused frypan, "I'll slap that smug look right off that Asian face of yours!"

Frypan yelps. "Don't use Eggy!" Frypan takes the frypan out of my hand and hugs it. Whispering to it he says, "Its okay Eggy."

Minho takes his eggs and strides away with a smartass look on his face.

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