Me After You

The Fools

It had been a week since Phana gave himself a time to clear his mind, and the fourth day since he heard from Forth. After the last conversation he had with Forth, Phana never once got a text or single call from him.

Phana felt more and more pitiful as the days went by. Instead of a clear mind and heart he dreamed of, he had been depressed for the whole week. He was missing Forth so much that his heart stung whenever Forth crossed his mind.

He would go to have lunch out of his faculty so he could smoke. He was that depressed. Beam and Kit was confused. They had asked Phana about his unusual behaviour, but Phana would not tell a word and kept all to himself.

The eighth day without hearing from Forth was Phana's limit. He was torturing himself by not seeing Forth thinking he could erase his feelings. But the thing was, his feelings was rooted in his heart too deep and so strong, it couldn't just be gone in instant. Or maybe, Phana was not capable to forget at all.

He decided to visit Engineering when his class had just ended. He hurriedly bolted out without waiting for his two best friends.

"Hey, where are you going???" Kit asked Phana but it was too late. Phana had gone. Kit looked at Beam to find an answer instead.

"Don't look at me, Kitty, I am as clueless as you." Beam said while stashing his books in his backpack without returning Kit's gaze.

"I think your friend is crazy he needs to see doctor!" Kit was worried that Phana had lost his mind.

"Sure, he is crazy. But whom he needs to see is not the doctor, though." Beam snickered.

"What do you mean?"

"He needs to see Forth," Beam shrugged as he toted his backpack on one of his shoulder.

"Huh?" Kit frowned upon hearing Beam while catching on Beam's steps.

Beam abruptly stopped his walk and turned around, "He is not crazy, Ai'Kitty! He is love sick!"

"Huh?!?!"

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Phana walked fast to the canteen of Engineering. He was going to check if Forth was there. He prayed to the deities that Forth was having lunch or anything so he could say sorry and fix all of this.

It didn't matter anymore if he was trapped in a one sided love and only the closest he could get was by being Forth's friend. If he had to love alone, so be it. As long as he could stay by Forth's side.

But Phana didn't see Forth anywhere he look at the canteen. His hope was crashed once again. People in the canteen was eyeing the Moon of Med who had dark circles under his eyes and seemed paler than the last time he visited Med's canteen. Still, Phana was able to catch anyone's attention even though he was not in his best condition.

"You're here for Forth's again?" A voice talked to him from behind.

Phana turned around and saw P' Kongpop was talking to him. Right now, he was alone without his scary friends.

"Have you seen him, P'?" Phana asked with a clear expectance in his voice.

Kongpop chuckled while saying, "So it's really him that made you came here, huh?"

Phana heaved a sigh, he didn't have a time to joke around, he was going to leave Kongpop without giving him the respect wai. His mind was too occupied with Forth as if his mind was reserved specifically for Forth.

But Kongpop was fast enough to grab Phana's hand. "Hold on, I have something to propose."

Phana didn't say any word. He just let himself dragged by Kongpop.