Stellar Spectrum Book IV: Thoto Island

The End?

It was night time, and Gussie was relaxing in his room. He was staring up to his ceiling as he looked back at the incident then all of a sudden, there was knock on the door. "Come in," he said.

It was Ram, he let himself inside with a folder in his hand. "Hey, son."

"Dad? hey." The young man got up.

"You okay?"

"Yeah, yeah, Dad. Do you need anything?"

"Not really, just checking up on you," Ram replied then sat beside him on the bed then released a heavy sigh, and gave him the folder. "You might want to check this out."

"What's this?" Gussie asked.

"Open it."

The young man pulled out a booklet of a school, "Ares City College of Business," he read the cover.

"I thought maybe you're interested in going to a school in the city. They offer M.B.A too."

Gussie began browsing the booklet, and he looked impressed. "It's stellar. Thanks, Dad. I'll look into this."

"Anyway, I came here to talk to you," Ram added.

"Let me guess, Mom sent you here?" Gussie snickered.

"Yes," the father admitted reluctantly. "But I really want to do this, and I should have done it a long time too."

"Dad, Dad, it's okay... you don't have..."

"No, son. Just let me do this. I've been horrible to you, and you don't deserve it," Ram voiced his flaws while Gussie listened, and could see his sincerity as he spoke. "You know, Archie didn't get along with his son, and the sad part about it, they could never fix anything between them. That's not gonna happen with us."

"I don't want that too."

Lexi was in the room with them, and watched the father and son finally reconciled. She was smiling that her boyfriend could live a happier life moving forward even if it meant living without her.

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Meanwhile, in the boys' room. Leyo was in the bathroom to shower, and the other two were just going about their business. Vance was on his phone to message his boyfriend, and March just lying on his bed.

Their beds were few feet about from each other. They subtly took a glance at one another, and looked away. However after a five second of awkward silence, Vance had enough, that he stood up from his bed then sat on March's bedside, "okay, what's up?" he confronted.

"Excuse me?" March's brow furrowed.

"You've been acting weird lately."

"What are you talking about? Weird how?"

"Oh, just drop it. You've been avoiding me, and the only time we talk if Leyo, Perfida, Gussie, or Koru were around, so... what's up with that?" Vance questioned him.

March got tongue tied, and felt that he was trapped since he could not talk his way out it, "I'm sorry," he apologized.

"I'm not mad, I just wanna know if I did something wrong or...?"

"No... it's not like that..."

"Then what?"

"I'm just having problems, that's all."

"Like what?" Vance urged him to get to the point. "Just tell me."

"It's..." March gazed at his crush's worried yet annoyed face. "It's about my Dad."

"Your Dad?"

"He's just so... infuriating. He comments everytime he sees something that's... not 'masculine'." March began explaining. "Whenever I see you, and your family... and your... relationship with your... boyfriend, I get jealous. I wish I have parents who's at least are half as supportive as yours. And now, Mr. French is starting to be a father than mine."