After the Death Cure 2 ( The Maze Runner )

Chapter 27

I head down to level 2, the cafeteria, where most of the Gladers are already eating. I grab a tray, and take a seat next to Newt. He always saves me a seat. I get a sick feeling when he looks at me.
A piece of me feels like all of this is fake. Like...only the thought of dying made me love him. It wasn't until then that I actually felt anything. Or, this could be paranoia. Maybe I do love him, and Ava is just trying to mess with me. But why?
"Hey," he says. It snaps me out of my trance, although I didn't realize I had been staring at his chest. "Find what you're looking for?"
I raise my eyebrows as I process what he's implying. "Shuck you," I mumble as I turn to my food.
"Slim it, I'm only joking," I see a smirk planted on his face out of my peripheral vision.
I look up at Lily when I hear her yell Minho's name. He's sliding her tray over to him while reaching over Thomas to do so. Thomas scoots back in his chair, and raises his hands, as Lily practically lies across him while attempting to retrieve her food from Minho, who immediately gives in at the sight of her determination. "Why are you so stingy?" Minho hollers at her.
"Why are you such a slinthead?" She snaps back. "Besides, I'll be worse if I'm hungry." She bites into her sandwich, and Minho laughs at how sloppy she does it.
Thomas's face is still red from when Lily sprawled all over him. I smile at him when he looks up at me, but he sets his glance back down at his lap, trying to avoid any more humiliation.
At times, I think that Lily is just his rebound...then again, she does make him happy. She's lighthearted, and crazy. Maybe that's just what he needs.

"You think too much," I hear Newt say, his accent stronger than usual. It does that when he's worried about me. Or angry. I don't mind, though. It's cute.
"Maybe I'm too scared to talk about it out loud," Stupid. Shuck face. Idiot. Why would you say that?
"Can't be that bad."
Oh hear we go. Great job, Kenzie. "It's not."
"Then what is it?" He asks, and bites into his sandwich, locking eyes with me.
"I- was just worried about the battles and stuff...like Melissa fighting out there, where I wish I could be."
Before Newt can reply, I hear Minho spit out, "Shuck! I forgot about that!" He drops his sandwich, and stares straight at me.
"She's a trained soldier. Besides, you barely know each other."
"It's love, Kenzie. You wouldn't understand." He gives me "the hand", and picks back up his sandwich, scarfing into it.
Newt raises an eyebrow at him, and I know what he's thinking. Somehow, it makes me blush.
"Minho, your sass level is on a new high. Slim it down." Newt says as he rolls his eyes.
"Sass? I'm not a girl."
"Then quit acting like it. I swear your like the brattiest one ever."
"Ha. Ha." Minho sarcastically motions his head right to left. It makes me laugh. One minute, he's all serious, the next, he's...well, a teenage girl.