~Keeper Of Runners~

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"Wake up shanks! Time for the try-outs to begin!" Alby woke everyone up by shouting, his voice rang through the glade. I heard murmuring and rustling as if people didn't truly want to get up.

Me, on the other hand, shot out of bed to get dressed. I decided that I was going to run barefoot because my boots would only slow me down in the try-outs. I knocked on Newts door
"Wake up shank!" I walked in and saw him shirtless "shuck!" I said, walking back out immediately.
"It's ok greenie! I am half dressed you know!" He told me. I love his thick British accent so shucking much.
"Ok can I come in then?"
"Sure!"
I walked in and couldn't help but stare. It was just... I didn't expect Newt to have muscles that looked like that you know?
"Like to stare don't you greenie?" He said laughing at my face.
I snapped out of it "sorry... let's go!!" I said grabbing his wrist and dragging him outside -by now he had got his light-ish brown tank top thingy on- "come onnnnnn! I wanna be a runner!!" I said still dragging Newt along behind me.
"You would make a great runner greenie!"

"What're you gonna call me when we get our next greenie?" I asked genuinely curious about his answer.
"Well, we'll call you (Y/N), unless you had something else in mind?"
Bub. I thought to myself, "nope!" Oh come on (Y/N)!

Alby explained what we needed to do, run around the entire glade 5 times, and then the fastest 8 would have a sprint race once around the glade. The first 5 will be the runners. We set off, there were a few boys who sprinted right at the beginning and fell behind pretty soon.

"Hey greenie! How you finding this?" Minho caught up to me at the beginning of my fourth lap.
"I'm fine! What about you shank?" I said panting ever so slightly.
"I'm fine too! How about we finish this?" Me and Minho were nearly half way through the last lap, most of the boys nearly three quarters of the way into their third!
"You're on!" I said sprinting off, surprised I had the energy.
"Woah look at our she-bean!" Most of the boys who I passed said to me, Minho was sprinting, but starting to slow down and tire. I blew a kiss at him jokingly, and finished off my run. I looked at Alby who came over to me and said "I think we've found our keeper of the runners." I smiled so much my jaw hurt.
"Depends if I can sprint Alby!"
Next came Minho, then Ben then Newt, then Gally, then Clint, then Jeff, and lastly George.

"Okay! You eight! You have until everyone finishes to catch your breath and then you're doing a sprint around the glade. Once. No more than that, we don't want you to tire yourselves out too much!"
"I don't think we'd want to run more than we have to!" Newt said, he earned himself a few giggles.

Everyone finished and then Alby had us line up against the north wall, we'd finish here and everyone is lined in different spots of the glade, waiting to cheer us on.
"Three! Two! One! GO!" Alby shouted, I started off at a steady sprint, Clint, Jeff, Gally, and George set off a bit to fast, not learning from the first run that pacing yourself helps. I overtook them pretty quickly. I looked back to see Newt and Minho neck-n-neck. Ben just behind Gally, me looking back slowed me down a little but since I was far ahead it didn't matter. I finished and had time to be congratulated by a lot of the boys waiting at the finish for us.

"Woooo!!! Well done greenie!!" Almost all the boys said in unison, others were still really out of breath. Next across the line was Minho and Newt, closely followed by Ben, and then George. Gally got across the finish line and had a tantrum. Typical gally, I thought. Clint and Jeff didn't mind, they said they were fine being med-jacks.
"So! Quiet shanks!!" Alby was making an announcement so everyone walked over. "Since (Y/N) was the fastest in both trials, I think she should be keeper of the runners."
I saw many nodding heads and that filled me with joy. And then I realised.

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