After the Death Cure 2 ( The Maze Runner )

Chapter 33 | Kenzie

I actually had a good dream last night. Maybe my mind is trying to make up for the pain that is to come. I don't get out of bed, although it's already nine. I'm so used to waking up early. From the Glade, to the Scorch, to training in WICKED. You could say I haven't slept in in a while. I had forgotten how good it feels.
But the rest only lasts a moment's time before I am summoned by a knock at my door. I hesitate, but finally get up when the knocking returns. I swing open the door, only to find Lily, with tears running down her cheecks.
"What the-" She cuts off my sentence by pushing me out of the doorway, closing the door behind her. I hear the sound of her hand on the wall in search for the light switch. Once it flickers on, I flinch at the sudden dialation of my pupils. "Lily, what's wrong?"
"I had a dream last night."
"Yeah, me too," I reply, trying to make light of the situation.
"Shut your hole, I'm not in the mood. It wasn't a normal dream. It felt like the ones that WICKED used to give us in the Glade."
"What was it about?"
"I was back in the Maze..."
"Ok, you had a dream about a traumatic section of your life. So what?"
"I know that's not what you think."
I take in a breath so deep, my shoulders shrug. "What do you want from me?"
"I don't know. You always figure out something."
"Not this time. I'm done. I'm done accusing WICKED of things, and I'm done taking stupid actions that have stupid consequences."
"Seriously? Just like that? Only yesterday you were talking about how they're up to something. Our names. They're not here."
I look down at the floor. "I-"
"What, changed your mind?"
"I'm tired of losing people over assumptions."
"You haven't lost anyone!"
"Yeah, well, I'm about to."
"Like who?"
"Newt. He doesn't believe me. If I keep going at this..."
"So you'd let this go on for a boy."
"I'd go back into the Maze for that boy. What will this accomplish? We can't do anything anyway."
"Are you forgetting who we are? We had Group A, a couple of guys, at their knees to the tips of our bows. We escaped WICKED, and stole their ship, we-"
"We never escaped WICKED! All this time, we've never been without them. You really thought we got away? How do you think we got back here? You think they didn't know that Right Arm layed bombs everywhere? Don't be so gullible, Lily!"
"I...So what do we do?" She asks, lowering her voice.
"Nothing."
"That's not the Kenzie I know."
"Apparently I'm not the Kenzie anyone knows..." I say under my breath.
"What are you talking about?"
"Who am I?"
"Oh, come on. You know I don't think that about you. There's a lot of klunk going on in your life. Shuck, you just got out of a coma! I'm not holding your unhappiness against you. Not at a time like this."
I actually kind of smile. She's my friend. She's my true friend. "I'm sorry."
"I know. Because that's who you are. You would never mean to hurt anyone."
"I just...don't want to get into this."
"Maybe I should ask Thomas," she laughs.
"Yeah, he'd probably just storm into the computer room and smash everything, expecting to get a cookie in the end."
"He's all I got to back me up."
"Lily, I know many things about WICKED I can't tell you. Or, at least, I'm not supposed to." I head over to the t.v, and unplug the chord. I do the same to the camera. "Ava spoke of a Plan B," I say quietly.
She walks over to me, and we take a seat on the couch. "And?"
"I don't know what it is. They gave a cure to Newt, but it didn't work. She said it doesn't matter because Plan B is up next."
"So that's all you have?"
"Yeah. But she apparently needs us. Think about it: they already had an army of over one thousand men. Why did they need the Gladers?"
She just stares at me. I pick at my fingernails as I wait for a response. I'm getting myself into something that I can't get out of. "That's true."
"We need to find out what they're planning." That's it. I finally said it. There's no turning back.