Losing Game

Chapter 26 - Finals Week

The white walls of the bathroom seemed brighter than usual to his eyes. The truth was that it was the only room with any lights on since he did not want to wake the others. At first he was looking at his reflection in the mirror but then turned around when he started to look at the new pill bottle that was dropped off in the morning. With him having to be on campus early, that meant that poor Mew was either going to have to wake up at six in the morning on his day off to try and catch Saint or wake up on his own free will and drop them off to an empty apartment. Luckily for him he did not have to choose since his nonexistent alarm clock took the day off for him. Mew was shocked to see the apartment not in its usual neat appearance when he went in but assumed Orn, Billy or Opp had something to do with it being dirty.

"Take one tablet at night with water" is the sentence Saint reread over and over. His thumb would hover over each word and reveal the next after he got done saying one of them. Now leaning fully on the bathroom sink counter, he wondered if this was a good idea. For the past nineteen and soon to be twenty years, a full night of sleep was unknown to him. It also did not help that it was already three in the morning so would it be wise to start them now or wait until he could get a functioning schedule figured out?

The sound of running water was stopped and the lights to the bathroom were turned off as he came out of it. Saint then walked into the living room to see one of the two sleepy heads clearly passed out on the couch. Looking towards the guest room that had its door opened, he saw the second sleepy head all comfortable in bed. They all had made it seven episodes in before little snores were heard from the youngest that sat himself in the bean bag chair. Once noticing that Benz was fully asleep, Saint and Zee helped each other with moving him to the guest room so he wouldn't get a stiff neck with the way he was sleeping previously. Zee was able to go three more episodes before claiming he was just resting his head on Saint's shoulder before another set of tiny snores were heard. "So much for a drama binge watching session" he thought to himself.

Saint stood in front of the couch trying to see how he could move Zee into the guest room with his brother. He could pick him up and drag him but did not want him to bump into anything or get hurt along the way. Zee looked too peaceful to try and wake up so in the end Saint let him stay on the couch but made sure to put a blanket on him. 

Saint sat down on the other end of the couch and turned the volume of the tv back up a little. He exited the show all three were watching to find himself a new one to pass the time. The tossing and turning of Zee made him stop in his tracks and turn off the tv quickly. As he waited out for Zee to get comfortable again he thought about how their Friday went. It was a great day for him - actually the whole week had been amazing.

Zee and Saint had facetimed not even an hour after he left with Benz that Monday evening. They went over all the things that his brother might try to do, what he was allergic to, some food items he likes so a grocery trip was in order, the homework he needed to do as well and just other general information about Benz. It had to be the most information he ever got on someone but Saint did type out a good amount of it on his phone but there were some details that were hand written. Before the facetime ended, Benz made an appearance again and told his so-called "brother-in-law" that he is looking forward to the week with him.

Tuesday morning was filled with another final and his foreign language oral exam. English may be required for all university students, but the international school is the only one that does not have the students under it do some type of oral exam because they have to speak English in most of their classes. This then leads to the students picking another language they would need to learn. Saint decided on Spanish, Billy and Orn did Korean and Opp chose Chinese. They all picked languages that at least one person in the friend group knew so tutoring would be easier. Their review session happened before any of them had their first final of the day, but even as they helped each other Saint and Opp couldn't help but gloat. Unlike Billy and Orn, they do not need to take up a third foreign language next school year since being born in a foreign country or studying/living abroad had its advantages. The rule of thumb went "if said student happened to live outside of Thailand for more than three to five years and can test out of the spoken language where they resided (most common one spoken due to some countries having more than one), only one extracurricular foreign language is required." Sometime next semester they would meet with the board of their school and do the required test. After doing both of the finals, Saint sent Zee a text that he was on the way to go pick up Benz from the apartment and take him along to shop again. The energetic and hyper younger brother that Zee told him about was ready to jump into the car the minute he arrived.