Engineering Moon and the Crazy Doctor [Completed]

39. Trust me

A/N

Because the 6moons have arrived at NAIA, and I'm #teambahay, as usual, here's my comeback chapter! Yey!! I've been gone for way too longggggg time. Sorry for holding you up...This chapter is dedicated to all #teambahay and #teamabangngpostsainstagramandfb... Let us all just read so we won't be depressed. Char! 

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(Beam)

There are several ways and methods in torturing a person. And all of it are now running through my mind. One that is excruciating painful, and yet will not end the meager life of the person who happens to be the so called childhood friend of my boyfriend and who is also sitting opposite to me in a restaurant near the parking lot where we ended up after his death-wish claim.

I am giving this bastard Pete the sharpest gaze I have, yet he's only shrugging his shoulders off as if he didn't do anything. (The nerve of this bastard!)

"Hey," I began. "Just what the hell are you thinking? Forth as your new boyfriend?? Do you want to lose your head?"

He glances at the two men seated at the other table with troubled eyes. We already clarified what Pete had blurted out a while ago, otherwise his body would be feasted by the flies and maggots. We wanted them to sort their problem out on their own; however Pete was acting as a sullen and hard-to-get-bitch, then started clinging to Forth and demanding to help him get rid of the man, though his eyes were saying the opposite.

I objected, of course. It's already a miracle I didn't strangle him right there and then. I don't need another reason to be pushed out of my sanity, hanging by a thread, and let loose the Pennywise within me.

Nonetheless, seeing how desperate Pete was, Forth agreed to help him as he also did him a favor for taking care of me back then. (Actually, if not because of it, I would have skinned this bastard Pete alive) But Forth wanted to talk with Earn first before he could decide whether he'll drive him away, or give him a second chance.

Pete turns back at me, and quickly masks himself with nonchalance.

"It was only an act. I said it so Earn would leave me alone. But you busted me. Didn't know you're so possessive af."

Hell?! "And what do you expect me to do when someone declared my boyfriend to be his? Jump in glee? Throw a party? I would rather throw this table on your fucking face." I am really trying hard not to toss the table between us on him.

He snorts. "Geez, Doc Beam. I gave you a signal before I did it."

"Signal?"

"I glanced at you two." He even widened his eyes to make his point.

I remember him giving us a glimpse before he cried that nonsense. But he looked so apprehensive rather than sending his so-called pathetic signal of his distorted plan. And who, in the right mind, would even think of it? It's so preposterous!

I roll my eyes on him. "Yeah, right. As if it's a usual chitchat over a tea party... You know what, instead of having your tail tucked between your legs, why don't you face your ex and talk to him? It spares us all of the time and energy." Forth and I should have been at home by now, enjoying the night together. Yet, here we are, being the middlemen of this couple.

Pete suddenly scratches his ear and shifts his gaze to the other table for a moment before looking back at me. His indifference is replaced with something I cannot name of.

"It's not that simple..." he said. "I told you before, he was offered to work abroad and I extremely disagree with it. I don't want to be selfish. I want him to pursue his dreams. It's just that..." He's hesitating to tell it. But, seeing my how exasperated I am right now with his antics, he continues. "Well, I'm afraid... I'm afraid he'll find someone better, and have a change of heart. For instance, my sister and her husband. They divorced after Phi went to other country and found someone better than my sister... I couldn't let it happen to us, so when he insisted on taking the offer; I told him there would be no Pete waiting for him.