Vanilla Boy

Chapter 5

"A famous casanova who can beat girls without moving, crying in terror because of a monster under the bed? Wow, that must be a very interesting story."

Beam looked at me with laser-like eyes. However, a few moments later he sighed and pulled the blanket up to his head. He lay on the right side of the bed and turned his back on me.

I chuckled at his attitude and unpacked the backpack. Our first activity, namely a meeting with village officials, presentation of the program just finished two hours ago and was followed by a late dinner.

Everyone decided to go back to their rooms after dinner, because tomorrow we have to get up very early to start our activities.

During the time, I saw the country girls and even some of the girls in our group, busy attracting the attention of Beam who was looking very cutely handsome in a black t-shirt with a plaid shirt over it and knee-high cargo pants.

Beam didn't gel his hair and left his bangs to his forehead down, after the previous incident with the cockroaches. It made Beam look so cute and adorable and the girls went crazy for it. I'm so annoyed.

"Why are you angry, Forth?" asked Beam suddenly. He was still under the blanket in the same position.

I turned and looked at his back covered in the blanket. "I'm not mad," I replied with a smile and remained as I pulled my clothes out of my backpack.

"You're mad," Beam insisted. "You're not just teasing me with the cockroach incident. You are mad."

I grabbed a pair of new shorts and panties from my backpack and went to the bathroom.

I splashed my head with cold water and thought as I did. Why am I being mean to Beam? A lot of my friends are afraid of cockroaches. Even my eldest brother--Phi Torn, once nearly fainted because of that ugly bug.

Why am I treating Beam like that? He was scared enough and I took advantage of his fear instead. Beam looked stunning, but he always look like that entire time, why it irritated me now? Because I fallin love with him? And I know he is not feel the same. I feel like loser now.

I came out of the shower when I was done and dried my hair with a towel. I climbed onto the bed and lay facing Beam's back. The bed is narrow, but I try to keep my distance from Beam as wide as possible. I didn't want him to feel any more uncomfortable if I was being too obvious.

I touched his head gently and stroked his hair. "Are you asleep?" I heard him sigh. Beam hasn't slept yet. I leaned closer to him and kissed his hair that was outside the blanket. "I'm sorry, Beam. I promise I won't bring it up again and you'll be fine. Forget everything I said earlier. I just teased you.  Good night."

I turned and slept on my left side so it wouldn't be cramped. I was almost asleep when I felt a hand touch my bare back. I do have a habit of sleeping wearing only shorts.

The hand felt warm against my skin. "Forth...." I pretended not to hear and slept.

Beam moved closer and something touched my back again. I think it's his forehead. "Forth, don't be mad at me. I don't know why I was being silly just now, but that creature was really scary because of what I experienced as a child. It was my mother who locked me up in that dark, dirty, bug-infested barn. I still have nightmares about it. I never told anyone, but now you know because of what happened this afternoon. So don't be angry, I didn't mean to bother you."

I smiled and turned around, surprising Beam and quickly pulling his body away from me. I grabbed his waist and brought him closer to me so he wouldn't fall. He looked embarrassed and his cheeks were red.

I bent down, kissed the tip of his nose. "I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at those girls. They are so shameless and try to tease you very aggressively. You should stop being cute and charming, Beam."

Beam looked up and looked at me in confusion. "Huh? I'm not. Why are those girls trying to get my attention when you're there?"

"Me? What ... Me? What do you mean?" I asked confused.

"Yes. You!" Beam hit my shoulder lightly and pouted. "You . . . looked very handsome, eh, hot, ah, whatever, in the meeting earlier, of course the girls were attracted to you. Next time, don't wear that leather jacket again."

My eyebrows are raised high. The leather jacket Beam was referring to was an old leather jacket that I rarely wore.

"Do you think I'm handsome and hot?" I asked teasing Beam.

Beam looked away and struggled a little, but I tightened the grip on his waist.

"Why did you do that, Forth?" asked Beam at last, having failed to get away from me.

"Huh? Doing what? Looking handsome and hot?"

"Kissing me, idiot! Why did you kiss me?"

I was stunned, remembering our kiss before. I wanted to do a lot of things with Beam, not just kiss him, after my lips touched his sweet lips and he moaned inside my mouth, but I didn't want to make him feel taken advantage of even though I think he liked the kiss too.

Well, I think it's just the adrenaline. I know that Beam is straight like a pole. He is a casanova.

"Sorry," I mumbled, loosening the grip on his waist. "I was just teasing you and honestly you do look really cute after crying."

Suddenly Beam pushed me so that I fell hard from the bed. He sat on the bed with wide eyes. "You're just teasing me? Flirting you say?"

I rubbed my ass which felt hot after hitting the floor. Beam stood up and grabbed the blanket before walking towards the door.

I was surprised to see him. "Beam, where are you going? It's getting late."

Beam stopped walking. "What do you care? You're just teasing me, right? I'm just a joke to you? You're nothing to me either. Just a friend of Phana that I happened to have a crush on since I first saw you at the campus moon event, practicing dancing clumsily because of your burly body. You were too handsome and hot, of course everybody like you. Who am I, trying to catch your attention."

Blood was rushing all over my body. Beam's voice was hoarse and his shoulders shook. Beam has a crush on me since the campus moon event? But, that was one year ago.

Well, I also had a crush on Beam. Whose not? He is the brightest in the entire medical campus. If it wasn't for him being too laid back and playful, I'm sure he would have been chosen to be campus moon instead of Phana.

Beam is way beyond my reach. I'm bi, but Beam is straight and I decided to bury my admiration for him, for the sake of my friendship with Phana too, until last month when Beam treated me in his room.

I got up from the floor and walked over to Beam who was still standing in the middle of the room.

I hugged him from behind. Beam is not small. He's tall and has some muscle too, but still smaller than me and now I feel him getting so tiny in my arms.

"So, you ever had a crush on me?" I whispered in his ear.

"No!"

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