The next few weeks, Leo and Guang-Hong spent every moment they could together. When they were walking around school, they would hold hands, and at lunch they always sat right next to each other. They once even shared a chair when their table didn't have enough seats. Guang-Hong would go to Leo's house after school and they would do homework together. On Fridays, he would stay for dinner, and on the weekends, he and Leo would go to the mall or the ice rink or the movies. Or, sometimes they would just stay at Leo's house and watch movies or play video games.

They still hadn't kissed yet, but Guang-Hong was kind of okay with that. It wasn't that he didn't want to kiss Leo, he was just scared to. He had never kissed anyone before and he knew it was ridiculous, but he was afraid he would do it wrong somehow. And, if he was being honest with himself, he was still a little bit confused about his feelings towards Leo. He wasn't entirely sure if he actually liked Leo the way he thought he did, but he did his best to ignore those thoughts. He was happy being with Leo, and that was all that mattered.

It was Dead Week at school, the week where the teachers didn't give them any new material and everyone was studying endlessly for their finals. Leo and Guang-Hong were both just as stressed as everyone else at school. Leo almost more so.

"I have to get a 94% on my calc final to get an A. I am so screwed. Rest in peace, my perfect GPA." They were sitting at lunch with the rest of the hockey team, which they had started doing again after the week of the Thomas Incident. Thomas had seemed to mostly gotten over what had happened and they appeared to be in the clear for now.

"I could help you study. I took calc in China and I still remember most of the material."

"If you did, and I actually managed to get a 94, I would love you forever."

"PDA alert," Nick, one of Leo's teammates, said. The rest of the table laughed as Leo started to blush.

It still amazed Guang-Hong how accepting the whole team was of him and Leo. They all had helped out during the week of the Thomas Incident. Nick was actually the one who had convinced the whole team to make sure nothing happened. He was also the first one to walk Guang-Hong to his next class that Monday.

"We should probably get going, the bell's going to go off soon," Leo said. He and Guang-Hong got up and walked over to Leo's locker.

Leo was rummaging inside, looking for his books for his next class, as he said, "I'm really not looking forward to the break for once in my life."

"Why not?" Guang-Hong was leaning against the locker next to Leo's and waiting for him to finish up.

Leo chuckled. "Because you're going to be gone, silly. I'm gonna miss you."

Guang-Hong laughed. "It's only for a few weeks, and I'll still be in the country so we can still text and Facetime every day."

"All right." The bell rang and Leo gave Guang-Hong a quick kiss on the cheek. "I'll see you after school." Then, he walked away, quickly.

Guang-Hong could feel his face turning red as he walked to class. Leo had never done that before and it had caught him off guard.

For the rest of the day, Guang-Hong couldn't focus on anything. He kept thinking about how Leo had kissed him on the cheek. When the final bell rang, he nervously walked over to Leo's car and saw that Leo was already there waiting for him.

"Hey."

"Hey." Guang-Hong didn't know why, but he couldn't look at Leo. Everytime he did, he felt the blush coming back.

They both got in the car and as Leo was navigating his way out of the busy parking lot, he said, "Guang, are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Okay." They sat quietly for a few moments before Leo said, "I'm sorry for catching you by surprise like that after lunch. I didn't really mean to. I barely even thought about it before I did it."

"You don't have to apologize. It's fine," Guang-Hong said. Then he added, a bit more quietly, "I kind of liked it." He sneaked a peak at Leo to see that he was smiling.

"I'm glad." And, just like that, the awkward atmosphere that Guang-Hong had felt since he had met up with Leo at the car faded away.

They talked in the car about Leo's horrendous history teacher and Guang-Hong told Leo a funny story about something that had happened in English that day. It was nice. Guang-Hong enjoyed being able to just talk with Leo like this. He enjoyed being able to talk about nothing and everything all at the same time.

They were in Leo's room later that day doing homework when Leo brought up winter break again. "Guang, when are you leaving for California?"

"Thursday night." Guang-Hong put down his pen and stretched while he talked to Leo. "My flight leaves at six."

"Oh."

"Why?"

Leo rubbed his neck and said, "I kind of wanted to have dinner with you one last time before you left."

"We could have lunch together. I kind of figured we'd end up doing that anyways."

"I guess." Leo sounded kind of defeated, but Guang-Hong didn't know how to cheer him up. "Hey, can you help me with this calc problem? It doesn't make any sense."

"Yeah, sure."

They spent the rest of the afternoon studying for their finals before Leo brought Guang-Hong home and drove back home. Neither of them were looking forward to next week.