13 Reasons Why...

Chapter 9: Audition from Hell

Chapter 9
Audition from Hell

Forth stood in the balcony while Beam took bath trying to understand what just happened between him and Beam...

For the first time since long...he felt...he felt happy...he felt alive...

Being a celebrity there was a certain rules and regulations he had put on himself...
But for the first time he had ignored all i
of them and gotten close with somebody...

He had never felt like this ever with anyone before...

He had never really cared so deeply about anyone other than his family...Even with them he had always kept his distance...

But with Beam...It felt like his feelings were getting stronger every second...

Everything was completely different...

He couldn't remember the last time he had smiled so much, the last time he had been so happy...
It had been years...
And this happiness was addictive...

So much that it made him want to grab onto this forever...

And it made him guilty...
He wasn't supposed to be happy...
He didn't deserve to be...
Not after what happened to Her...

He had kept himself miserable for years...
A punishment for surviving...

But he let himself taste this happiness and now he was craving for more...
Craving for normalcy...
Knowing fully well that he can't have that...

This was mistake...

*RING RING*
"Hello..."
He answered without looking who was calling...

"Soo...shall I speak to the director and say you are not interested in his good-for-nothing wallpaper role...?"
Supot asked...

Forth sighed at the displeasure about the role seeping through his manager's words...
He realized that it was already 4:45 pm and he should already have left long time ago if he had to reach the location of audition at 5...

"I'm glad you saw the error of your ways kiddo..."
He said to Forth...

"Thank you Pe..."
Forth said to his manager...
"Thank you for looking after me..."

"It's my pleasure kiddo..."
Supot said...

"Sorry to disappoint you Pe...But I'll be there soon..."
Forth added as he walked out of the room closing the door...

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Beam sat down on the balcony...
He dialed his mother's number but couldn't connect...

They had range issues...So he knew it would take her some time to call him back...
He placed the phone on the side and closed his eyes...

He sure felt something off about how Forth left...
But Forth did say he had an audition in the evening...

And even if Beam wanted to he couldn't contact Forth...
He didn't even have Forth's number...
Infact he knew nothing about Forth...
Beam thought to himself...

He acknowledged the fact that Forth didn't have any obligation towards him...
They had some sort of connection with each other...
And that was it...

Besides Beam didn't have overrated notions about love and all that rubbish...
Not anymore...

That was something people told children to misguide them...
Some were lucky enough to escape the tragedy of love while some learn about it the hard way...
Was it any wonder that most of the romantic classics ended in tragedies...?