Everybody in the restaurant looked at me for a long moment. Then I found my senses and sprinted out. When I barged out the door she was already gone. I slumped down on the sidewalk and looked at the small box containing the ring in my hands. I yelled and threw it across the road. Then I just started sobbing.

'Minho?'

I looked up and saw a blurry face looking down at me. I blinked the tears out of my eyes and looked again. Long golden curls, worried brown eyes. Lizzy was standing there. She sat down on the pavement next to me, which looked like a bit of a challenge for her in her pale blue skinny jeans. She pushed my hair away from my face softly.

'Minho, what happened? I just bumped into Lindsay and she looked on the verge of tears,' Lizzy said quietly.

I wiped my eyes hastily.

'We, uh, might have broken up? I don't know… she said she needed time to breathe,' I heard my voice crack on the last word, and I willed myself not so start crying again.

'Oh, Minho,' Lizzy whispered.

She gave me a light kiss on the cheek, then looked straight into my eyes. Before I knew what I was doing, I was kissing her. Softly at first, then harder. I put my hands in her hair and she put hers in mine. I put all my emotions into that one kiss. But then she broke away. We both gasped for air.

'No, Minho this is wrong. You just broke - I mean, Lindsay just left. You're just vulnerable. I'm sorry, I can't do this,' Lizzy muttered as she got to her feet. 'You don't know how long I've been dying to do that. But I can't. It's not right,' she patted me awkwardly on my head, then headed off down the street. I thought I saw her wipe her eyes as she walked away.

I was in a daze. So many things had just happened in such a short period of time. I counted them off on my fingers. 1. I had proposed to Lindsay and she'd rejected me. 2. Lindsay had said she needed time to breathe and left me alone. 3. I had ended up crying on the sidewalk outside our favourite restaurant. 4. Lizzy and I had kissed. 5. Lizzy had said she'd wanted to kiss me for a long time, then walked off.

I stood up shakily and started walking in no particular direction.

'I'm so messed up,' I mumbled to myself as I walked.

After lots of moping around the streets I found myself back in Newt and Emma's apartment. I grabbed a tissue and blew my nose with it. I went to throw it in the bin.

'Minho, if you care about me at all, you will not open that bin.'
I jumped when I saw Emma standing right next to me. Her hair was messier than usual. Her blue eyes wide with fear. Her face pale. She looked on the verge of tears. I could practically feel all my thoughts of Lindsay and Lizzy fly out of my brain. Emma needed me.
'Where's Newt?' I asked.

'He went out for groceries. Minho please - promise me you will not open that bin,' her voice cracked.

'Okay, okay, I won't open the bin,' I said.

'Good,' she whispered, then walked away.

I just had to do it. I opened the bin.

There was a pregnancy test in there.

And it was positive.