KIDS. tmr, minho.

Chapter six.

The stranger led the teens out of the crank-ridden room in a single file line.

"How do you catch them?" Thomas asked, not wasting any time for introductions.

"Catch them?" The girl scoffed, "What? Do you think we're stupid? We don't catch them," She turned to look to the boy as she continued walking, "We just take precautions when people start to turn."

Climbing through a hole in a wall of concrete the group encountered other people. Two older men were playing cards, before one of them threw his cards down onto the table, glaring at the teenagers who followed the mystery girl further into the building.

"Wait- those things back there are your friends?" Teresa asked, sticking closely behind Thomas. "You just chained them up?"

The girl raised her eyebrows, turning to look at Teresa, "No worse than cutting them loose to crankland."

"Crankland?" Leo whispered, looking at Frypan who voiced the question louder for the stranger to hear, "What the hell is crankland?"

The girl turned again, stopping outside of a screen door, "You guys aren't from around here, are you?" Throwing the door open she led the group further into the building into a massive open area.

The teens slowed, taking in their surroundings, "Still mad at me?" Minho whispered, leaning down to the girl who was walking beside him, eyes flickering around the room.

"Yes."

Minho raised his eyebrows, lifting their interlocked fingers, "Really?"

"Shut up." AJ hissed, before looking down, "I'm glad you're okay, jackass."

"Yeah, I'm glad too" He whispered, squeezing her hand tightly before the stranger yelled to the group to keep up.

"Jorge wants to meet you." The stranger spoke, leading them through crowds of people who all managed to send glares their way. She then turned, taking them up a staircase.

As Minho was about to walk up the stairs, a man emerged from the shadows, "So now we're taking in strays?" He asked, his voice deep and scratchy. Stopping Minho, he attempted to intimidate the boy by staring him down, but Minho showed no fear, staring the man down as well.

"Back off!" The stranger spoke, walking down a few of the stairs to get closer, "Jorge saw them first."

AJ just watched as the boy she was infatuated with, confidently stood his ground. The stranger then continued walking up the staircase, causing the group to follow. Minho just raised his eyebrows cockily at the man before leading AJ up the stairs with their interlocked hands.

"That was very attractive" AJ whispered, leaning back.

"Thank you very much." 

The pair continued up the stairs as Thomas jogged ahead to catch up the stranger who was leading them to Jorge, whoever that was. "Who's Jorge?" Thomas asked.

The girl didn't reply at first, making AJ glance at Leo, eyebrows raised in suspicion. Leo just shrugged, following closely behind Teresa.

"You'll see" The stranger finally answered, not stopping to look at Thomas when she spoke. "No one's come out of the scorch in a long time, you've got him curious." She continued, glancing back every so often.

Looking back she held her gaze on AJ, "And me too."

AJ glanced down at the ground before she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up to see Newt, looking around at the crowd of people who followed closely behind them, "Is anyone else starting to get a bad feeling about this place?" She nodded her head in agreement, looking over to Minho who still walked with confidence, not letting anything get to him.