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Chapter 4

2 months later.

Ming's pov:

I stretched my back and arms as I went out of my classroom.

"That professor really knows how to give the most boring lectures." Lemon sighed.

I chuckled and nodded in agreement.

"You going straight home today as well?" She looked at me.

I nodded. "Yup."

She groaned. "Ming, you need to live a little. You only go to university then back home."

"I am living. I am very satisfied with my life right now. Trust me." I smiled as I made my way to the parking lot.

I got in my car and drove out of the university and back home.

I hummed to myself and taped on the steering wheel as I drove.

It's been two months since I came back from America.

Forth, Beam and I have been living with auntie for the last 2 months.
(Yeah, they said I could just drop the honorifics with them and call them by their names.)

It's been hard. I won't lie.

Forth's nightmares, night terrors, and panic attacks have been happening really frequently.

But we've been managing somehow with auntie and p'Kong's help.

He's been going to therapy for the last month and a half.

It took 2 weeks to convince him and coax him into agreeing to go to the sessions.

He was terrified of the thought of being alone in a room with a stranger.

So we decided that either Beam or I would accompany him in every session.

The therapist said it was ok as long as Forth was comfortable with it.

He's been getting better little by little.

He's started talking even.

It's only a few words at a time but it's progress.

He's still far from being completely recovered but he's getting there with baby steps.

And as for my classes, I started going to another university near auntie's house.

I cut off contact with everyone I knew in my previous university.

Phana, Wayo, and Kittinan have tried contacting me but of course, I don't answer any of their calls.

I blocked their numbers after they kept calling me nonstop.

I have no doubt they could find me if they tried but I had threatened them saying if I see any of their faces, I would break their bones.

So thankfully, they haven't shown their faces.

Auntie said Phana and his dad tried calling her but she cut the call without picking up and blocked them.

Beam has also been going to classes in the same university as me.

But he changed his major to business.

He said it would be easier to manage and he's lost interest in medicine after studying it for a year.

I decided to go into architecture instead of engineering as well.

It's really interesting and I'm liking it a lot more than I initially thought I would.