Paint Me A Love Story Chapter 9
Minho ran all the way to the dining hall trying to understand and make sense of what he was feeling.
He loved Georgia, he knew that for sure.
But it felt strange being attracted to, and falling in love at first sight with someone he had just met.
He had never been the touchy-feely type of guy due to how long the trials were and all the horrible things he had seen.
His mind flashed back to the day that they had first made it to Paradise.
They had lost Teresa moments before they jumped through the flat trans and he remembered holding Thomas as he cried for her.
It had taken months for Thomas to even begin to function after her death.
Brenda had tried to take his attention away from the fallen girl, but it only made the situation worse.
Brenda had taken their breakup badly and had hid herself away in the woods.
She had resided there ever since.
Everyone was trying to smooth things over between the two, but they had given up a few months ago when she and Thomas had another fall out.
Jorge had contracted a bad case of pneumonia when they first had arrived in Paradise and had passed away a week after he had fallen ill.
Everyone knew that although Brenda was obsessed with loving Thomas, she was much closer to the middle aged Jorge who had become a father figure to her.
Thomas had tried to comfort and help her through her grief but she had balked at his offer and had essentially told him to fuck off.
Thomas had fallen into a deep depression after that and both Newt and Minho were concerned for his safety.
But as soon as Georgia had arrived, it was as if Brenda and Teresa had never existed.
Minho found it strange how Thomas had eagerly given his heart to another woman after all the pain he had been through.
It was no secret that Minho had also had his share of heartbreaks, but was still a little cautious about how hard he was falling for his new bride.
She was beautiful and he definitely was attracted to her, but there was still so much that they didn't know about her.
Call him crazy, but after years of having to lead the others through the trails, he couldn't help but be a little more careful about falling for her.
He had watched his best friend come alive these past couple of days and he hoped and prayed that Georgia would begin to show signs of affection for them soon or else they risked the danger of Thomas falling back into his old ways.
Shaking the sweat off his forehead, he looked around and realized that he had run right past the dining hall and was now on the outskirts of camp.
He rarely came out here anymore and within seconds her remembered why.
Sonya stalked towards him with an angry look as he internally kicked himself for not being more careful.
It had been two months since they had broken up after they had a steamy weekend affair.
Sonya had married one of the immunes named Daniel and had begun to have a rocky marriage soon after they were married.
Minho and Sonya had found themselves alone back at camp while Thomas and Gally had led the other men on a hunting expedition out towards the mountains.
It was then when he had made his fatal mistake.
He had slept with Sonya while her husband had been away and right before the hunting party came back, she had begged him to take her as his wife and annul the marriage between her and Daniel.
But he had realized his mistake and had walked out on her a day before Daniel and the others had returned home.
To say that she was angry was an understatement.
She was so furious that she convinced Daniel to move out to the outskirts of camp away from him and everyone else.
It had been months since he had seen her face to face, and he found that he barely recognized her.
She looked nothing like he remembered with her long blonde hair cut short and wearing dirty clothes that hung off her frail form.
His heart froze in his chest when he saw that she was pregnant but she slapped him hard and sneered when he his eyes had fallen to her bump.
"Fuck no it isn't yours! I would never have kept your fucking spawn." She growled as hurt momentarily flashed across his face.
He steeled himself and looked down at her with an unreadable expression.
"I never said it was. Calm down, Ya-Ya." He whispered as her eyes widened and filled with tears.
"Don't you fucking call me that! You have no right to act like you care when we both know you don't. You could've stopped all of this from happening but you didn't. You just fucking left me here!" She sobbed as he tried to take a step forward to comfort her but was stopped when a voice that was all too familiar to both of them came from behind them.
"Sunny, you okay darlin?" Daniel called out as he stepped out of their house with a smile.
He waved happily to her and Minho as both of them forced a smile and waved back.
"Yes, love I'm okay. Minho just came by to say hi." She said as her voice became sickly sweet.
"Oh hey, Min! You wanna join us for breakfast? I've got your favorite type of oatmeal on the stove!" Daniel called making Minho's heart clench painfully in his chest.
That was truth. The cold, hard, painful truth.
Daniel wasn't a bad guy and he had never done anything wrong to anyone in his entire life.
And Minho and he had always gotten along just fine and had even become good friends before all of this happened.
Only Minho had to go slap his friend in the face and sleep with his wife who he loved more than anything.
Tears began to fill his eyes as he smiled and called over to him.
"Nah, that's okay Dan! Gotta get back to camp. I promised Thomas I'd meet him for breakfast." He laughed as Daniel nodded with a smile.
"Hey I heart you and Thomas finally got a bride! Congratulations on finding her!" Daniel called as Sonya's widened in shock.
Minho forced himself to call a thanks over to the man before dragging himself away from the girl who he had once thought meant the world to him.
"Don't come back, Minho…" He heard Sonya whisper as he turned and ran away from his problems and pain once again.
