Either Way

Want to meet him again

***

Beam awakened in the morning because of the alarm that rang from his cell phone that kept ringing nonstop.

He was in his bed, reaching for his cell phone from the nightstand and turning off the alarm.

It was seven o'clock in the morning and he had a class about an hour later.

'What? Shit! Just one hour' he thought.

Immediately he hurriedly got up from the bed and headed for the bathroom. Beam came out not long after bathing, with a towel still covering his lower body.

He hurriedly dressed in his clothes and prepared an instant breakfast of a bowl of cereal and a cup of warm milk.

Beam moves at every direction in his room to collect his belongings and when he saw the folder on his desk, he paused for a moment.

"Forth" he said absently, recalling the man he had met last night.

It took him a while to get back to focus and realize that he was going to be a little late.

***

"I think I made a mistake in the last two questions." says a voice whose source is from the man sitting on the right side of Beam.

Beam is in the cafeteria with his two best friends, Phana and Kit. They had just finished the quiz in the class, and had only thirty minutes to rest.

Phana - a taller and more handsome young man among the three, just mumbled briefly to respond to Kit's grievances.

Kit squinted at the response of Pha. But he didn't comment because Pha seemed serious, his eyes didn't even switch from the phone screen in his hand.

"Beam, what about yours?"

Kit is now turning to Beam, only to find his other friend sitting idle while stirring the drink in his glass with a straw.

"Beam!" Kit called Beam with a higher tone of voice, making Beam surprised because of it.

"Damn you, Kit! Do you mean to make me deaf?" Beam asked as he stroked his chest, his heart pounding.

"I'm asking you and you're just silent. What are you thinking?" Kit looked at his friend suspiciously.

"Nothing," Beam replied quickly.

"You asked me about the quiz, I thought I did it right as I should."

Beam went on answering Kit's question before his friend made a fuss again because he felt ignored.

"Where's the next class?"

Pha who seemed to have finished with his personal affair now participate in the conversation of his two friends.

"Oh, the same class as yesterday" Kit replied.

Beam doesn't know what's wrong with him but hears Kit's answer, he feels weird. As if there were thousands of butterflies in his stomach, giving him feelings ... Happy?

"Well then, let's just finish it. There's fifteen minutes left before the next class."

Pha tells his friends to finish their lunch before it's too late, without Pha knowing that one of his two friends is not paying attention to him at all.

***

"Beam. Are you sure you do not want to come with me to the gym?" Kit asks Beam after their class is over.

Both Pha and Kit have finished cleaning up their things while Beam hasn't cleaned up his things.

"Hmm ... No. I have other business" Beam refused Kit's invitation.