Save Me - A ForthBeam Fanfic

Chapter 34

A/N: This may or may not be the last chapter. Let's go find out.

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The words escaped his mouth before he can think. 'Forth?'

'So that's his name..Forth..' his Pa sounded like he was told something he didn't already know, and in all fairness, it was pretty convincing.

Beam snapped his head so fast he could have given himself a whiplash. 'Wha — Oh..Umm..'

He swallowed hard and blinked several times, he couldn't find the right words to say especially when his mind was making so much talking..

This is it. He's going to tell me to transfer to another school in another city in another country maybe in another planet and tell me to never contact any of my friends again..he's going to make me marry for business purposes too and oh shit! What about Forth?!  I'm going to break his heart again and —

'Why don't you bring him here sometime..' His Pa said but it sounded like he was telling — no scratch that — commanding him. 'Your friends, i mean.'

'What?' Beam blinked dumbly again.

His Pa sipped coffee and stood up. Beam didn't notice he was dressed for a meeting.

'I would like to meet your new friends..' he sipped coffee one last time and glanced at his wrist watch. 'I'm sorry Beam, I can't stay with you all day today..' he sighed. '..Some meetings can't be rescheduled..' Beam flinched in the slightest when his Pa kissed the top of his head. 'Rest well. I'll see you later.'

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'When are you coming back to the Uni?' His Dad asks without looking up, flipping through a thick folder on his table at the study room. He came home a little earlier than usual but still had work brought in with him.

Beam, who was sprawled on a swivel chair was using the tip of his toes to move the chair aimlessly, looked at his Dad.

Now there was something to talk about.

'Tomorrow afternoon i guess. We have advanced lab works.' He said as he pushed his toes to the floor hard enough that his chair was sent swiveling two complete rotations. (If Forth was here, he would have spun the chair harder and faster just to annoy him and would repeat it countless time until he can't stand properly anymore.) He's thinking of Forth again.

His Pa looked at him from the top rim of his glasses that rested at tip of his nose and smirked. Beam was always fidgety when something is on his mind and don't know how to make it into words.

Pa set down the pen, rested both his elbows on the table and interlocked his fingers, the way he always did when he's on a meeting or thinking hard. He looked at Beam and pursed his lips.

'Something is on your mind.' He removed the spectacles perched on his nose and placed it on the table. 'What is it?'

Beam sighed. 'I went to Mom's grave this morning after you left and..' he trailed off, debating in his mind if his Pa knows something he didn't know yet.

'So i was told..' Pa said nonchalantly. 'Did you see her? She always visited your Mae after her grave was built there.' Maybe this is no longer the time to be secretive to Beam.

So his Pa knows.

Now there's one more thing Beam wanted to know about her. But..would he really wanna know?

'Is she...my sister?' He bit his lip.

His Pa smiled. 'Your Mae treated her as her own. But she's not your sister. Not by blood at least.'