── .✦ thomas expressing his love with flower crowns! ✦. ──

for weeks, thomas had been begging a certain track-hoe (you) to teach him how to make flower crowns. so, you did. he was a fast learner, thankfully.

and for the next two weeks, he kept trying to perfect his flower crowns to give to you. he kept asking newt and minho if the flower crowns were good enough. call it cheesy, but you deserved the best in his opinion.

so, after he was satisfied with the result - and after getting scolded by zart, the keeper of the track-hoes, for the ridiculous amount of flowers missing because of him - he asked newt if he knew what your favourite flowers were. you and newt were basically best friends, after all, not to mention that you both worked in the garden together - he had to know. and he did.

with the newfound information, he made you a flower crown with your favourite flowers. when you received the flower crown during dinner, he had a proud smile on his face, minho behind him groaning.

in minho's opinion, thomas was lowkey being pathetic. thomas was gorgeous, you were gorgeous - why not just confess already? you two would be perfect together. he didn't say anything about that, though, but he did make him sit with you, tired of having to listen to his rambling each dinner.

now that the brunet was sitting next to you, he looked way less confident than he did when he gave you the flower crown not even five minutes ago.

"so, um.." he cleared his throat and tilted his head to the side, resembling a puppy. his words came out way more quiet than he intended them to. "do you like it?"

meanwhile, minho was mentally facepalming at how he was acting. not that he was experienced in this stuff, but he was sure that being all flustered just from having to sit next to their crush was not how people impressed their crushes. and, apparently, a few of the other gladers thought the same thing - including thomas' sworn enemy, gally.