meanwhile Minho started to walk to Alex's hut and knocked on the door, "hey newbie that you? come in" Alex responded, "no not the newbie" Minho grunted with a little of anger as he opened the door, Alex stopped what he was doing and glared at Minho, "mate what are you doing here?" he said defensively, "book of anatomy?! that's such bullshit, why did you want her to come round to your hut?" Minho blurts out, Alex stand up and walk towards him confidently, too confident, "that's not you business, remember who you are speaking to" Alex says as he looks at Minho as Minho raises his eyebrow, "I am the keeper of runners if you remember, so let me repeat, it is none of your business," Alex says as he chuckles to himself, Minho realises he has no control of the situation as anger boils over him, as he heads for the door and turns around to say one last thing.
"so Alex if you don't have an anatomy book then what were you going to do?" he says as calmy as possible, Alex chuckled and said in a cunning tone, "I was just going to show her some male anatomy" Alex laughed a little at his own joke which was only met by silence, rage washes over Minho's body as he feels as if he could punch him, he walks towards Alex one last time and grabbed his shirt and pulled him close trying to contain his anger as he whispers "don't..you..dare..touch..her" he lets go realising what he had done and then left, before Alex could retaliate, Alex watched him leave as he chuckled to himself.
I was looking at the celling waiting for Minho to return with the book, as me, chuck and the others had finished up with the card games a few minutes ago, I heard footsteps among the snores of my peers, "hey Minho!" I said as I sat up and looked at him, I realised he was not carrying any books, I look a little confused "hey shank, he didn't end up having the book" Minho grunted, he seems slightly off, "oh..ok that's fine, thanks for going round anyway, everything ok?" I asked him a little disappointed to hear about the book, "yeah, newbie, I am fine" he said while sighing, "just a long day" he added, I responded "that understandable", I stay sitting on my hammock as I was not tired, I can see Minho at the corner of my eye looking around at the others sleeping, I didn't realise how late it was until I notice Minho looking at everyone who were ether fast asleep or snoring, I see Minho look at me at the corner of my eye as he says in a low tone "can we talk, like outside" I look at him confused, I am not sure why but when he said this I could feel my stomach tie in a knot, "ok" I say in a gently tone as I stand up and follow Minho outside.
my stomach grew tighter as I walked closer to him, I crossed my arms trying to stay warm as I was in my pyjama top, I don't know why but I could feel my heart beating ever so slightly faster, as we get outside alone.
Minho continues to walk, we start to walk around the camp, even though it was dark and silent, it was the most comforting I have ever felt here, Minho does not venture too close to me, it was nice, he clearly does not want to make me uncomfortable and respected my boundaries, he finally says after a few minutes "have you spoken to Alex much?" I Shaked my head, "I mean not really, he occasionally starts conversations", I could see Minho was thinking about something, I was unsure of what, while he was deep in thought I asked "what really happened tonight with you and Alex" Minho look at me surprised for a moment then stops walking and looks at me, with his dark caring eyes.
"please keep your distance from him, trust me it is the safest thing to do, I don't want to be controlling, you can do whatever you want but be careful around him" even thought it was only a few seconds, my heart felt like it was flying as I look into his eyes, the fact he cared so much about me, yet was not going to force me to listen to him is one of the reasons I think I feel so safe around him as I know he is genuinely trying to look out for me, "I trust you Minho" I offer him a smile, as I feel some blood rushing to my face, I hope I was not turning red, Minho smiles at me too.
we start to walk again and we turned to head back to the shared bedrooms, "got use to the snoring yet?" Minho jokes, "not in the slightest" I giggle, "honestly me nether" Minho admits, "are you going into the maze tomorrow?" I ask him, "yeah, there is a party tomorrow tonight though, since it is Friday" I achnologed this as I think chuck mentioned this to me earlier, "I guess if I don't see you tomorrow morning I will see you then" I said optimistically, as we reached the entrance to the hut I turned to Minho and stopped walking, I asked him a question that was on my mind for a while, "is Alex going to do anything?" Minho is caught off gard and takes a moment to reply, "he wont, if you feel uncomfortable say near me, I wont let anyone touch you" he says as he keeps eye contact again, this made me feel faint, as if I was in my own little world. after he said this we did not exchange any other words I just noded and give him once last look in the eyes, his beautiful brown eyes and we went to out own hammocks and went to sleep.
