The Scorch Trials sneak peak {Thomas love story}

Chapter 6

The sound of a toilet flushing sounds through the room and my eyes widen.
"Kaya?" Minho starts. "Did you by any chance get into that bed at all?" he questions, pointing at the very clearly slept-in bed.
"No..." I trail off and a few other Gladers push their way into the rom waiting for the person to exit bathroom. Thomas steps forward, about to storm into the bathroom when Newt stops him.
"You're used to living with a bunch of boys." He reminds us. "I don't think it's polite to go stomping into the bloody ladies' room. Just wait until she comes out." And so we waited. But it wasn't the woman that helped me yesterday that came out. It was a boy. He was wearing the same clothes that we all were given yesterday - light blue pyjamas with a button-up shirt. Except I was wearing a regular t-shirt that had a couple buttons at the top. The look of surprise on his face was the only thing that seemed to stop people from attacking him.
"Who are you?" Thomas asks, not caring how harsh that came out. I hope.
"Who am I?" the boy replies, sarcastically. "Who are you?"
"Don't bloody mess around." Newt snaps.
"Strategically, I wouldn't mess around." I say. "There's a lot more of them than there are of us." The boy looks at me confused, furrowing his brows.

"Do I know you?" he inquires, surprising me.
"Um, I don't think so." I shrug. "Why?"
"Because you're a girl." The boy says, as if it's obvious.
"Who are you?" Thomas repeats, crossing his arms.
"Fine, I'm Aris." The boy replies, folding his own arms. "What else you wanna know?"
"How'd you get here? Where's the woman that slept here last night?"
"Woman?" Aris furrows his brows again. "What woman? I'm the only one here, and it's been that way since they put me here last night."
"But there's a sign." Thomas stammers. "On the door. It says Kaya Lee. Why would they put you in her room?" Something about this isn't right. The people that rescued us knew that they put me here. How would they know that I wasn't in the room? They might have gone to check on me and seen the vacant room, but why would they put this completely random boy in here?
"Look, man." Aris says. "I don't know what you're talking about. They put me in here last night, I slept in that bed -" he points to the bed with the crumpled sheets. "and I woke up about five minutes ago and went for a pee. Never heard of the name Kaya Lee in my life. Sorry." I frown.
"That's me." I explain after a moment of silence. "I'm Kaya. Do you know who put you here last night?"

"I don't even know!" Aris exclaims, throwing his hands in the air before letting them fall to his sides again. "A bunch of people with guns who rescued us, told us everything would be okay now."
Rescued you from what?" Newt, Thomas and I all chorus. Aris looks at the floor as if there's a terrible memory he's trying to somehow shake off. After sighing, he looks back up at us.
"From the Maze, man. From the Maze."