Sweetness

Chapter 24

Kit could be observant, and very attentive, if he wanted to. He only put this setting on for those he deemed worthy (like his best friends and family). That's how he knew something were bothering Beam, big time. But with Beam, one's better wait until he's ready. Nagging him only made Beam clamped out and tada, you'll get a sulky Beam for a while. And sulky Beam were not fun to be around.

Kit kept running on his treadmill, trying to burn his curiousity so he could be patient with Beam and kept his nosy level to minimum. A sharp jabbing sound got his attention. Kit sought out the source and saw a tall guy on the boxing area, practicing at the sand bag.

He didn't wear any shirt so Kit could get a good view of his back. The muscle movement were fascinating. When the guy stopped boxing and reached the towel to wipe his face, Kit felt doomed. Why the hell he had to meet him here?!

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People may never see it coming but Mingkwan could be very, very, patient when it's count. A charming tiger were ones of his setting. A loyal best friend were another. And now, he activated the most unusual, the puppy. Ming kept throwing pitiful eyes toward Kit, who were trying to inhale his noddle like first grade vacuum cleaner.

"God dammit, stop it! I can't eat peacefully if you stare at me that way! What do you expect me to do? Haish, weird guy.."

Ming leveled up by pouting, made Kit choked on his food.

"P'Kit, I only asked for your like at Facebook. Promise me you'll give it to me, na? Na? Na? Na?"

Kit clucked his tounge after his cough stopped.

"Why do I have to? You are Sutee's competitor and I want my junior to win. Besides you already got enough likes. I'd rather support N'Yo rather than you."

If possible, Ming's pout got more prominent. And he chose to play it dirty.

Kit almost didn't believed that Ming's eyes got teary! This kid seriously gave him teary eyes? While pouting? But why seeing the wet eyes made his heart hurt?! Oh, fuck it!

"Stop it! Alright, alright. I'll support you. Mingkwan, you bastard, stop it!"

Ming's eyes light up, the tears vanished and replaced by hundred watts of glee. Kit really wanted to smack his head, really really hard. Ming smiled triumphantly and ordered another serving of noddle, saying loudly that he'll need extra energy so he could win the title.

Kit only watched him eat with amazement and a little fondness. Yo picked a very weird one as a best friend.

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Being onsite engineer got its perks. Unconciously, Forth acquired acute sense to read people and tonight, something definitely bothered Beam.

Forth roamed his eyes towards the guests at the banquet. It's another detestable social function that he had to attend (read: can't escape bevause P'Tee literally haunted him to come) and of course he brought Beam along once again. They were clad in blue suits, a matched pair. Jane's bank account already got a pretty sum of money to wipe it out at lightning speed.

Forth turned his attention to Beam. Tonight, his company seemed tense. Beam still smile and being his charming self but he felt something were off. He tried to remember what happened this week.

Forth had a business trip to Chiang Mai and only got back on Friday night. Beam had a short gateaway to the beach with his best friends and got back at Thursday because he said he had labworks on Friday. Because guessing never gave him a correct answer, Forth will ask Beam directly.

"Khun Nam, Khun Lin. I believed I saw someone waving at us from the other side of the room. It's a pleasure to meet you tonight. Please excuse us."

Forth steered both of them toward the other side of the room just like he said but truthfully? There's no one waving at him.

Forth walked until he passed the window and step out to the balcony. Beam followed him and released a sigh when they got outside. While Beam sat down at the bench near the railing, Forth chose to stand beside him. Time to throw the million dollar question.

"N'Beam, did something happen to you?"

Beam stilled on the bench. He knew P'Forth were attentive but he never knew he could get this acute. Beam licked his dry lips. With Kit and Pha, he could blamed the trip and labworks but P'Forth seemed to see further than that. Beam knew he couldn't mask how tense he were when P'Forth were being with him all day long. Even seeing P'Jane and played a lot with Nate didn't help much.

A soft carress at his nape startled him. Forth fingers applied firmer pressure and Beam felt his tention starting to melt. God, he's not a good company tonight. And he almost lied to his patron.

"Something.. did happened, P'Forth. It's something that bothered me a lot because I can't do anything about it at the moment."

Forth only hummed, his fingers keep applied firmed pressure at Beam's nape.

"If you couldn't do anything about it at the moment, don't think about it too much. Take the best precautions you can and done with it. You'll waste your energy to worry about problems that didn't happen yet. Put it aside and worry about it when it's really happen. If something did happened, do tell me about it."

Beam smiled at hearing Forth's words. "What? Did you want to be my knight in shining armor? I'm not a damsel in distress, P'Forth. I'm not a damsel, full stop."

Forth gave Beam a chuckles. "You are prettier than some damsels I've ever seen anyway and you are in distress. Beside I won't be a knight in shining armor. I'll be a ruthless businessman with contacts all over the world. That suits me just fine, right?"

The laugh that bubbled out from Beam tonight were the most sincere Forth had heard today.