Hey guys, I'm sorry I haven't posted. I've rewritten this chapter a bunch of times, that I finally decided that this was the one. I hope you guys like it and aren't mad at me for taking too long to update. A lot of emotions go on in this chapter and I hope you guys enjoy it.

Chapter 9

"Hi." My arms are trembling. I'm nervous. I hope he doesn't notice my eyes, which right now are at the verge of crying.

"Hey. I'm glad you came. I didn't think Brenda was going to deliver my message to you. She looked a little cheerful to me, and Brenda never giggles... like ever." He widens his eyes and inhales deeply demonstrating to me what Brenda might have been doing. "I just wonder who she buys it from."

I smile a little.

"Galilea what's wrong?" His eyes look at me with great care. He pouts his lips and nudges at me.

I give him a smirk. "It's nothing. I just woke up from a nap, because I guess whatever you have to say to me is that urgent." I say with sarcasm as I let out a little yawn.

He smiles, and takes a deep breath. "It is. Galilea."

"Well go on." I know exactly what he wants to talk about. He wants to talk about us. What we are exactly, which I don't even know.

"Galilea, um-" He scratches his neck. "-you are very important to me, and these past few days I've realized something."

I place my hands on my hips. "You aren't nervous are you? You don't have to be nervous, it's just me you're talking to."

"Galilea you're different than any other girl I've met. I feel like I can be myself around you. I mean come on who wouldn't want to hang out with you. You're super chill, and very outspoken. You say the first thing that pops into your head, and let me say that's what I like about you. You aren't afraid of anything."

That's not true.

"Minho we just met, you haven't gotten to know the real me yet, and once you have I don't think you would be saying the same things you are right now."

"Then let's get to know each other better. I guess what I want to ask you, is will you go out with me?"

I take a step back from him. Surprised. I mean I guess I knew he wanted to discuss what our relationship is, but I didn't think he'd want anything other than what we are now. Friends. I thought he was just going to set the record straight. That we're just friends. Now he's asking me out, and I don't know how to respond.

He talks again, interrupting my ongoing thoughts.

"Galilea, you don't have to say anything right now, but please consider it. I don't want to force you into anything that you're not okay with. I'll understand if you don't want to be my girlfriend. Also, you probably have heard of what type of guy I was, but that was before you. I promise I wouldn't do anything to cause you any harm. I would be completely devoted to you and only you, because it's just you I want, and no one else. No one can compete with you, because you are unique. You are Galilea."

I take a deep breath. I need to be honest with him, he's been with me. He deserves that.

"Woah, you sure know how to make a girl feel special, but Minho you have to know that the type of girl you think I am, I'm not. You don't know me. I've done things that I'm not proud of. I'm not brave Minho. I'm afraid. Afraid of what life has in store for me. I'm a coward Minho, certaintly not brave."

A small tear runs down my face, and Minho wipes it away. His hand holding my cheek.

"Galilea I'm not interested into who you were in the past. Honestly, you're talking to me Minho, a guys who does or did drugs and cheats and has pretty much given up on life."

I smile a little. "Given up on life? Come on your barely 16."

"Galilea I don't know where life will take me, or what I'm supposed to do after I get out of this shit hole, but I do know I want to be with you right now, which is what all that matters."

"Okay." I say quite timidly. "I accept to be your girlfriend, but on one condition."

He shrieks like a little girl and hugs me tightly, until I basically shake him off to let go of me."

"I am at your command." He salutes.

"Okay. We take things slow, and we won't tell anyone that we're together, well at least not now. It should be our little secret."

"Well, you said on one condition, but I heard two. My lips are sealed, and my hand will be tucked away for now-"

I look at him confused.

"-from your ass." He says.

He sees my seriousness. "Oh come on it's just a joke, plus you do have a nice ass."

"I have to go, before I'm sexually assaulted."

He laughs.

"Where you headed?"

"I'm going to go take a shower."

"Oh if you see anybody on your way let them know the party's off."

"Aw what happened?"

"Thomas is back. He ruined everything."

"Well it is his room."

"Yeah you're right."

"I'll pick you up at your dorm to head for dinner." He says

"See you till then." I kiss him on the cheek.

"Don't miss me too much."

I head towards the stairs. "I'll try not to."

I'm actually heading to Newt's dorm. I need to talk to him and sort this out. I'm scared of what might happen, but I have to hear him out. He wants to talk and I should let him.

I knock on his door. Minho won't be in sight; because I'm pretty sure he headed off to the gym. He always does before dinner.

The door opens.

"Hi."

"Hi."

"Newt. I'm sorry, for shutting you out. It's just this is all so overwhelming. I got scared and ran away from you, not taking your feelings into consideration."

"Why don't you come on in so we can talk in private?" He takes my hand and takes me inside.

"Wow. You room is very neat, neater than mine actually."

He climbs on top of his bed, and pats the space next to him. "Please, sit."

I nod at him and climb on top as well.

"I want to say thank you for taking care of me earlier. I don't know what would of happen to me without your help." I smile at him to try to relief the tension between us.

"You're welcome."

We sit in silence for a moment.

"Galilea." "Newt." We both say in unison.

"You go first." I tell him.

"I had no idea you had feelings for me."

My stomach tightens. I don't think coming here was such a good idea.

"You assumed that I would reject you, but honestly I'm just as overwhelmed as you are. I didn't know you liked me. I barely see you in class and in the hallway. This is all new to me."

"Newt, you were never supposed to find out."

"Why?"

"Because- I didn't think you'd like me. You probably don't, and I get it."

"There you go, putting words in my mouth that I haven't said. Galilea I can't say I like you, but I'm not saying I don't. I'm actually flattered you find interest in me." He smiles.

I smile too.

"I would really like for us to be friends. I want to get to know you better."

"I agree. I'm glad we were able to discuss this." I extend my hand. "Friends?"

"Friends." He shakes my hand.

We shake hands for a while, until we both get locked into each other's eyes.

We're both so close to each other. He slowly leans in. I think he's going to kiss me. His lips look tender and smooth. Wait what? He actually might kiss me.

I put my finger on his lips to stop him.

"Friends don't kiss." I say.

"Right, sorry. I guess I got caught up in the moment."

"Newt. I like you a lot, and trust me my old self really would have kissed you, but I'm seeing someone."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"Well that shank's lucky to be with you."

I climbed off his bed and Newt escorts me to the door.

"I'll see you at dinner." I tell him.

He smiles at me kind of forced, he's upset. "I'll see you until then."

Two weeks later...

"Hold up..."

I stop kissing Minho. "What?"

"Galilea you have to let me breathe." He slowly breathes in and out. I hit him on his shoulder. "We've only been kissing for like 3 minutes."

"Galilea you literally take my breath away."

"So, I guess no more kissing then, because as your girlfriend I need to stop anything that might damage your health."

"Well I guess I'll just have to die kissing you."

I pull him towards me. "Is that what you really want?"

He nods at me, and leans forward, for yet another heated passionate kiss.

Minho and I have been getting pretty close lately. No sex though. We've only been going out for two weeks. I mean I kind of think about it from time to time, how our... well my first time would be, but then I freak out and stop. We still haven't told anyone about us yet, I don't even know if I want to. It's kind of fun just keeping this to ourselves.

Minho starts kissing my neck.

"Minho?"

"Yeah?"

"Have you told anyone about us yet?"

He stops kissing me... well my neck.

"No."

"You wouldn't mind keeping this secret a little longer right? It's just I like smiling at you in the hallway, and then secretly making out with you in my dorm room."

He smiles. "I'm okay with that."

I pull him towards me and we lay down on my bed. We start kissing again. I really like kissing. I think my crush for Newt is slowly fading away. To be honest, I guess the only reason I accepted going out with Minho, was so that I could forget about ever liking Newt. Right now it's pretty successful, after all, all I want to do now is keep kissing Minho. Aw my Minho. I move my mouth to his neck. His neck is soft.

"Galilea?"

"Hmhm?"

"I want to talk about something with you?"

I stop kissing him, noticing his serious tone.

He's lying right on top of me.

"Well? What is it?"

"I've been thinking. I don't want to force you into anything, but whenever you think you're ready to have sex, well I'm all yours."

"You're telling me, we could have sex right now if I wanted too."

"If only you're ready for it."

He's being serious right now.

"Come on, Minho cut it out. Of course I want to have sex with you, but right now is not a good time."

"I get it. I'm willing to wait until you're ready."

"You're such a gentleman." I say in exaggeration.

"I try to be for my girl."

"Oh that reminds me I won't be coming down to dinner today. I have to work on a project for AP Bio with Newt. We're lab partners."

"Okay. Do you want me to bring you back some food?"

"Only if that isn't too much of a bother for you."

"It's not a bother if it's you."

I kiss him softly.

"Come on we have to get to class."

He gets off of me and helps me down.

"I'll see you next block."

"See you there."

We kiss goodbye.

"Hey you guys." I greet my group as I sit down at our table. Sonya, Newt, and Thomas."

"Hey." They all say in unison.

"Where's Mr. Hunt?"

"All the teachers today are at a conference. So I guess we're by ourselves today. Oh and let's not get started on all this work he left us." Sonya says.

"Well how about we divide the work between us, that way we'll be able to finish faster."

"That's sounds good." Thomas says.

"Yeah okay." Newt says. He isn't looking at me, which is weird. Sure the first week of trying to be friends was a little weird, but I thought at least we were at that point where we could at least say hi in the hallway without it being weird.

"So Newt, you're hot and single. So am I. What's taking you so long?" Sonya interrupts the silence all of a sudden.

"Excuse me?" Newt says. He looks at me and Thomas and we both shrug. We don't know what she's talking about either.

"When are you going to ask me out?"

"I wasn't"

"Oh don't be such a downer. We should hang out tonight."

"Newt I think Sonya is showing some interest in you, you should take her up on her offer."

"Thomas butt out."

"Oh come on Newt. You don't seem to like anybody, might as well give Sonya a chance. Lea help me out."

"Hey it's Newt's call."

"Newt come on, maybe if you're super nice to meet, you'll get a reward at the end of the night." She winks at him.

"I have a project to finish with Galilea."

"Galilea what's up with you? There's no interesting man in your life? Do I need to hook you up too?"

"What? No."

"What about a double date?" Thomas says all of a sudden.

"That's a great idea." Sonya shrieks. "I can go with Newt, and Galilea can go with... oh with Minho. I don't think Minho's screwing anyone right now right?" Sonya says chuckling.

Thomas laughs too.

"I guess we won't be working on our project today Newt." I tell him.

"I guess not."

"Let's say my dorm at 8?" Sonya asks. "I'll let Minho know."

"Who says we're going?" I tell her.

"I'll go if you go Galilea." Newt says while looking at me. Stop it Galilea. You're with Minho now. Right, I'm with Minho.

"Okay, but I'll tell Minho."

"Alright, Galilea is already ahead of the game."

I roll my eyes at her.

"Newton is looking good." Minho says as we approach him at Sonya's door. I'm guessing he just got here too. Newt doesn't pay much attention to what Minho said; he just keeps looking at me. I'm not familiar with that look. He's planning something.

"Hey Newt." I say as I flash a smile to him. Just friends- only friends.

"Hey Galilea."

The door opens as Sonya receives us with a red mini dress.

"Come on in."

We enter and see two rows of 6 tequila shots.

"What's this?" Minho asks all too happy.

"Oh well I thought as an ice breaker we could all take a drink at a time and say something about ourselves."

"That's 3 shots for each of us. I think we'll all be relieving too much of ourselves before this is over."

"It'll be fun. Galilea." Sonya says.

"Come on Galilea it won't be that bad. Three shots aren't anything." Minho says.

"Let's do this."

We all sit down on the floor. Sonya has laid a carpet for us. It's pretty soft. I like it.

"I'll go first." She grabs a drink. "Hi my name is Sonya, I'm 16 years old, and I cheat on every test." She drinks her tequila.

"Amen to that." Minho says.

"Who's next?"

"I'll go." I pick up my drink, and promise myself I'll loosen up. "My name is Galilea, I'm 16 years old, and I like math."

"Uh nerd." Newt says smiling.

I give him a nudge. "I'm a geek." I drink my tequila, and it burns my throat a little, but makes me feel good about myself. That's a first.

"I'm Minho, I'm 17 years old, and I like tequila."

He drinks his fast, like he's done it before, which he probably has, and says "Aw good."

"My name is Newt, I'm 16 years old, and I also like math."

I cough a little and say "super geek."

He laughs, "Not as much as you honey."

He takes a swig.

"I like brownies."

"Yeah I can tell."

"Do you want some? I have some right now?"

"No thank you." I tell her.

I look at Newt and he nods his head.

"I like popcorn."

"Oh I have popcorn, do you guys want some?"

"That'll be nice."

"Okay Newt, Galilea? Minho?"

"I'd love some." I say with a shriek. This second tequila shot is already getting to me. I need to be strong.

"Okay I'll go heat it up, want to come with me Minho?"

"Sure."

He gets up.

"We'll be back."

Sonya looks through her drawers and get the pack of popcorn out. They both leave. Me and Newt are by ourselves again.

"You know this tequila is really good." I tell him as I scoot next to him.

"You know I won't allow you to get wasted-."

"No you won't." I say in a happy tone.

"I'll just have to get wasted with you." He picks up another and drinks.

"You know Galilea I like you. I actually do like you."

"I like you too." I smile up at him.

"No not as friends. I like you more than that, way more than that." He leans his face towards me.

I don't stop him. His face still looks gorgeous as ever.

He kisses me.

"Your kisses are delicious."

"You're not so bad yourself." He says.

"Newt I like you, but I... I like Minho too. I'm going out with him."

His face saddens. "You and Minho?"

I nod. "He beat you to it."

"No he hasn't because I know who your heart truly belongs to. It belongs to me."

He puts my hand over his heart.

"Newt please-"

"Galilea I like you back, and yes it might be already too late, but I'm not giving up on you."

"I..."

The door opens, "Whose hungry?" Minho shouts.

He sees me and Newt sitting beside each other. "What I missed?" He asks us.

Before I have a chance to say anything, Newt speaks for me. "Galilea mentioned you to are going out. Why didn't you tell me?"

"Woah you two?" Sonya says as she open the bag of popcorn while her and Minho both sit back down.

"It was a secret, or at least I thought it was apparently." He says while flashing me a smile. "Well at least I can do this now in front of others." He kisses me.

"Aww, you guys are so adorable." Sonya says while scooting closer to Newt.

"If you say so." I respond back, while reaching over to get the bottle of tequila. Newt looks rather pissed off. I hand him the bottle of tequila. "Drink up; you're going to need it."

45 minutes later...

"Minho." I whisper. "Minho."

Sonya and Newt are in the corner getting high, while I lay on Minho lap.

"You have such a nice smile." I tell him, why caressing his face.

He's also caressing my face.

"You know, I feel weird being the only one sober here."

I smile at him. "Well why aren't you drinking? I recommend tequila. I just love tequila. Don't you?"

"I do, but there isn't anymore, thanks to someone drinking it all." He lets out a small laugh.

"We should go get some more. Who do you think keeps tequila in their in room? Thomas seems like he might."

"Oh Galilea, the only thing Thomas drinks is water."

We both laugh then.

"I think Newt got pretty upset I didn't tell him about you and us."

"Why would he be upset?"

"I don't know, I guess because we're supposed to be best friends and I didn't tell him this, but I wasn't going to unless it was okay with you first. I mean I total respect why you wanted to keep it a secret. It just it seemed to bother him a lot. It's like he liked you first or something."

He turns to look at Newt.

"Hey." I move his face back to mine's "You can talk to him about it later, but right now you have to kiss me, or I'll dump you right now."

"Well isn't someone impatient."

I sit up and sit next to him. As we're about to kiss, Newt gets up.

"Oh shit we have a meeting tonight."

"Oh fuck." Minho sees me and picks me up urgently.

"What time is it?"

"9"

By now Sonya and I are both standing up. I look at her and we both start giggling.

"I thought you were high." I ask him.

"I just smoked one; princess here took it all to herself."

"What can I say?" Sonya says with a slur. "I love weed."

"We have to shower them."

"I'll take a shower with you Newt." Sonya blurts out as she starts hugging Newt tightly.

"Sonya-"

"Wait. She has a bathroom in her room." Minho points at black door.

"We can't shower them Minho, there girls."

"Minho can shower me." I say out of nowhere.

"Newt can shower me." Sonya says.

"They gave us their permission. I'll shower Gali first and you-"

"Minho they aren't conscious enough to decide on their own."

"Conscious is a funny word." I tell Newt as I start to giggle.

"This is the only available solution there is right now. Stop wasting time. Let's just-"

"I can't let you do that."

"What the hell is your problem? She's my girl; I think she wouldn't mind me undressing her."

"You're a manwhore; you don't deserve to even look at her like that without her letting you too."

"Where is this coming from?"

"I think I should be the one to shower Gali, at least I won't be tempted to actually take her bra and underwear off."

"To hell if you think I'm letting you shower her."

"I promise I won't take her undergarments off. I'll look at her face the whole time."

"Why are you doing this?"

"I can't let what happened freshman year happen again. I don't trust you."

"What happened freshman year?" I ask Minho.

"Why are you bringing that up, that was years ago."

"You almost got kicked out."

"You know what? Go ahead and do it. You can shower her, I'll stay out here and watch over Sonya, but you better goddamn look at her face and only her face."

"I will."

As Newt takes my hand and leads me to the bathroom Minho calls out, "I thought you had forgiven me."

"I haven't."

I really hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, the next is already being written so expect that soon. Next time we'll find out what Minho actually did freshman year, and finally (drum roll) who Teresa is cheating on Thomas with. As always I appreciate all you guys' comments. They really motivate me to keep the story going. So feel free to leave any comments or suggestions. I'm open to ideas.