[Yeah, definitely. When he is with someone else, he prefers to laugh or, at least, smile. It's when he is alone (or alone in his thoughts, anyway) that things darken considerably. He tries to keep it under wraps to the best of his ability, though.

Thomas wouldn't really have given it time to feel jealous, because he would protest until he couldn't protest anymore. But well, yeah, he wasn't the only one in there. If he managed to do the things he had managed to do was because he had support. Minho, Newt and Chuck's support, mostly. He knew who he could go to, he knew how to make things work. The people they had been with, Thomas thinks, and how they related to them, are what really made a difference.

As she answers him, Thomas has a clear call back to the first time they made it to the WICKED facilities and that boy, sitting at the table with them, mentioned that Aris was the only boy in a maze of girls and how "some guys were just lucky". He blinks.

Oh boy. Was he wrong.

Uh.]

... No? We only banished people who had been stung. [A pause.] ... And even then, not always. [Not after he had been around for a while.] When you misbehaved, you were sentenced to nights in the pit. Sometimes without food. [Even if people were (sort of) free to bring you food if they wanted to.]