Save Me - A ForthBeam Fanfic

Chapter 15

'Sometimes, you imagine that everything could have been different for you. That if only you had gone right when you choose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times, you think that there was no other times, there was no other way forward, that you were always bound to end up exactly were you have.'

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[Three Years Ago]

"Arranged marriage?!" He blurted out. His parents talked to him about this after he heard what his Mae said. It broke his heart to listen to them but he has to know everything right now. He can't stand being left clueless about the things around him, especially when it concerns him.

The weird thing about us is, sometimes we want what we want even if we know it's going to kill us.

"So, nobody ever bothered to tell me that i am a result of a business deal? And now everybody expects me to understand everything just like that?!" He complained in an agitated tone.

His parents didn't say anything after that.

He locked himself in his room. He didn't open up no matter how many times his Pa and Mae knocked and offered to talk about it. He didn't eat or answer calls from anyone, even from Pha and Kit. Those two would worry since they know everything, except for what he just found out some hours ago.

He stayed like that for almost three days until his father forced to unlock his door because he knows he wasn't eating or drinking. He starved himself until he was weak and then got hospitalized for dehydration and was admitted for three days.

Pha and Kit would visit every afternoon before they head home from school. He tried to appear fine to his friends even if he knows he can't fool them.

His mother never left his side during his stay at the hospital even if he wouldn't talk to her. His father would come by from work. He didn't talk to both of them and just looked away when they try to talk to him.

After he got discharged, he stayed in his room most of the time keeping himself busy. He went to school again after being gone for almost two weeks. He stopped flirting and dating with different girls. He avoided every girl he used to talk to before, maybe because it reminded him of his mother.