The Variable

Little Brother

"Race ya to the Glade greenie!", Rakau glanced at Minho and smirked. She had been a part of the Glade for about two weeks now and everyday Minho had challenged her to a race. He still could not beat her, which annoyed him to no end.

"You think you stand a chance?". He turned to Rakau with a straight face.

"Today is the day greenie, I am finally gonna beat you." Rakau grinned then pointed to the next corner.

"Fine, we start as soon as we pass that corner." The instant they turned the corner they could see the doors into the Galde. Both teens lengthened their strides, their arms pumping like crazy and their eyes fixed ahead. For a second Minho pulled ahead, but suddenly Rakau put on a burst of speed and bolted forward, crossing into the maze seconds before Minho. He stumbled across the entrance and collapsed in the grass.

"Whew... One day greenie, one day I will beat you." Rakau smiled and yanked him up.

"Sure, geezer but mabe we should finish our job before you go making promises you can't keep."

"Hey! Who says I won't beat you? ". Rakau smirked as they started walking to the map room. Newt walked up and joined them at the door.

"Wow Minho, you must be losing your touch. That was what? the twelfth race the greenie kicked your butt?".

"Thirteen, but who's counting?", Newt and Rakau smiled at each other and Minho scowled. 

"Just because the greenie is some kind of superhuman does not mean I won't beat her eventually!". 

"Oh sure, you will magically get super speed the you might have a fair chance".

"Wow, Minho was that far behind me, let's not take away all of this greeters hope!". Minho smirked and pushed his way into the map room. Newt andRakau followed him to the map table and the runners immediately started scratching out their path and writing all the turns down.

"Did you see anything today?". Minho looked at Newt with a spark of annoyance in his eyes.

"Sure did, there was a grieved in a top hat that offered to show us the next magic door outta this place."

"You know what I mean". For an instant both runners were silent. They glared down at the map, both of their eyes told Newt everything he needed to know. Finally Rakau spoke.

"There is something out there, we just have to realize what we are seeing. When we see it we are going to look back and wonder what took us so long." She finished with her map and stored it with the pile in the trunk. The boys watched in silence as she stepped out of the room and closed the door. Almost everyone was done with their jobs, so Rakau walked off to find Chuck. As she neared the homestead she could hear the shouting. She scowled and stole towards it quickly. Gally was chewing out Chuck and another tiny dark haired boy.

"You literally have one job, are ya to stupid to even clean up after the rest of us? You two are utterly useless, you may as well run into the Maze and get eaten by the Grievers." Rakau stormed up to Gally and pulled him away from the younger boys.

"Hey what the shuck is going on here?". Chuck glared at Gally, but the other boy looked like he was trying to become part of the wall. Finally Gally spoke.

"I'll tell you what happened. These two slintheads are to stupid to even scrub the walls right. I left an hour ago and when I come back I find these two standing over a huge puddle of cleaning spay because Chucky over there was to clumsy and stupid to watch were he was going." Rakau stared at him in disbelief for so long that Gally looked away uncomfortably. 

"Are you serious? You are telling them to kill themselves because of an accident? That is the most riddiculose thing I have ever heard! Chuck did not mean to spill the cleaner and if it really means that much to you I will clean it up." As she chewed out Gally a crowd was gathering behind her. The bored boys noticed what was happening and gathered around to see the show.Gally glared and sulked against the wall, but Chuck looked like a little kid on Christmas. Rakau did not even seem to notice the crowd, she was to busy guilt tripping Gally.

"How would you feel if these two actually went into the Maze? And seriously spilled cleaning fluid? That is the dumbest reason to yell at someone. You are older you should be the bigger person, no one needs a shuck head like you breathing down their necks 24.7!". By then Gally actually looked pretty scared, but she simply shoved him aside and picked up a rag. Then she got down and started to clean up the puddle. Gally stormed off and slowly the crowd started to dissappear. Rakau finally glanced up and noticed Minho, Newt and Alby standing together laughing about Something.(I wonder what that could be?😜) Chuck and the short little boy kneeled and started to help her.

"That was awesome! No one has ever yelled at Gally like that before!".

"Well he definitely deserves it." Rakau glanced at the dark haired boy, "I don't think we have met, I am Rakau. What is your name?" He looked up before dropping his eyes again.

"I'm Nico, I came two months ago." He stopped talking but then he opened his mouth like he was about to say something. Rakau stopped scrubbing and looked at him with a slight smile. Finally he spoke.

"Why... Why did you help us? All the other Gladers just ignored it."  Rakau was quiet for a heartbeat, but then she looked up at Chuck and Nico.

"Because you guys are all like my family, and I may not remember my old life but I hope I would never leave my little brother behind like that. So even though I don't know you that well I knew that I couldn't let Gally walk all over you." Both guys looked at her with wide eyes, Chuck looked totally confused, but Nico simply nodded. When they were done the teens stood up and started walking towards the kitchen. Just as they turned into the building Rakau turned to see someone watching the three of them. The glare from the sun kept her from seeing who it was. Only after she went inside did the person move, someone with a limp, someone who had heard everything she had said.

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