Chapter 15

Synopsis
I’ve come to the conclusion that Rae’s got issues.

Just a little while ago, he went absolutely ballistic and smashed his Gemini against the wall. Thing broke into a dozen little pieces.

He tried to play it off like it was nothing, but everyone was, understandably, a little concerned.

Beth put some pressure on him and tried to get him to reveal who was on the other end of his Gemini. Nobody knew who Rae’s Contact was, after all, and Beth thought that the fact that he was withholding their identity was suspicious. I was inclined to agree.

After some persuasion, Rae finally agreed to tell me and only me. If I heard something fishy, I’d report back to the others, but otherwise I’d have to agree to keep my mouth shut.

I thought this was kinda strange, but everyone seemed to be okay with it, so I didn’t fight it.

So then Rae told me about his Contact; an ex-girlfriend of his.

Her name is Tiana. The two of them were high school sweethearts. They ended up both going to Bellbridge University for computer science so they could stay together.

But at some point during their university career things took a turn for the worse. I’m not exactly sure what happened between them, but it culminated in Tiana stealing something from Rae - an algorithm he’d worked on known as RN.

She plagiarized his work and Rae didn’t get a lick of credit for what he’d been working on. There was a big fight. They broke up and Rae ended up dropping out.

And that was pretty much it. Rae’s just too embarrassed or prideful to bring it up with the others. I assured the remaining Contestants that there was nothing to worry about.

We almost died trying to complete the puzzle, but we didn’t, so that’s good, I guess.

Anyway, after the puzzle, I caught Sent in the middle of a lie. He was being all misogynistic when BAM - I reminded him that he told me that he wasn’t a man. I asked him what his or her deal was.

But instead of owning up to slip-up, je just spouted a crappy cop-out, called me “Kim”, and ran away.

And now all eyes are on me...

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Puzzle
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