He hates me NOT

XIX. Pour up. Drink

"Hey, Doc."

Beam stopped from his swinging and nearly dropped his phone when he looked up at the person who called.

"HOLY! SHIT!!" Beam screamed. " WHAT THE FUCK, LAM!!"

"HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!" Lam howled as he approached the balcony railings.

"Why the hell are you skirting behind the trees looking like that?" Beam asked incredulously.

Lam, against his better judgement of prowling outside the medic team cottage is covered with coal markings all over his face and arms, Beam almost didn't recognized him. If it wasn't for his voice, Beam might think that there's a mad man on the loose.

The beach resort that the Engineering department rented for two days has 2 large pavilions and 20 cabin rooms. It was a large beach so travelling in between cabins are lengthy. Each cabins have their own mini garden at the rear balcony so it brings a little sense of privacy.

"We were playing uno with some of the first years. I lost one game and all of them ganged up against me." Lam explained.

Beam raised his eyebrows to Lam because that doesn't explain what he is doing outside the Medics team cabin.

"Oh, I went to buy ice." Lam added as he raised the ice pack he is carrying, answering the unsaid question. "I saw you when I was returning and I thought why don't I invite the doc. I'm sure someone will be happy when you come by."

Beam think for a while. There's nothing wrong with a couple of uno game right? He's pretty sure that he'll be fine. "Sure. Why don't I come with you." He said.

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Pavilion 1

"I thought you lot were only playing card games?!" Beam asked when he saw the beer cans and alcohol bottle inside the pavilion from afar.

"I was buying ice, Beam. How could you not know that?" Lam countered, "And you didn't even ask."

Beam huffed at that and proceed walking with Lam towards the drinking engineering students. He saw Forth laughing with some of the first years when he dropped a couple of cards. The Forth right now is not the hazing leader but the reliable engineering senior to his juniors. 

"Lam, you brought the doc with you?" Another hazer asked.

Forth whipped his head towards the approaching hazer, so fast that he almost sprained it. Some hazers chuckled behind Forth. 

"Why don't you sit here beside me?" A hazer besides Forth suggested.

He scooted away from Forth so he can make a space between him and Forth. The Hazing leader was wide eye at the suggestion and he saw his fellow hazers have a scheming grins on their faces. Beam dropped down beside Forth, making the hazer giddy.

"You want a can?" The hazer who invited Beam offered him a can of Asahi dry but Beam politely declined, saying he never drinks, "If you change your mind, there's plenty in the cooler."

"What are you playing?" Beam turned to Forth.

"Ah um...black jack?" Forth stuttered.

"Are you drunk?" Beam asked, seeing Forth's reddening ears.

"Me? Drunk? As if." Forth denied, "I never ever get drunk!"

"Who said you never get drunk?"Lam interjected.

"Remember the time when you failed winning the Moon pageant? That was funny as hell." Another hazer added.

Beam stiffened at hearing the past Moon pageant.

"What?! I don't remember any of those?" Forth defended himself.

"You got so plastered the night after you lose because you knew what will happen to you when you face P'Kong." Lam laughed.

" You even said that you'll get your candy first before the whip. Then the next day you forgot everything happened." All hazers laughed at that including the first years, not believing the past version of their hazer.

All engineers laughed, except for one doctor. One doctor who had gone still, remembering everything what happened that night. It left a bitter taste to Beam's mouth, making him want to erase the flavor from his tongue. He got up and headed to the cooler, ignoring the puzzled look from the hazer.

Beam picked up the can and guzzled the content as soon as he opened it. Sure it was bitter but somehow it taste bland. He finished the first one and grabbed another, making Forth worried. 

"Whoahhh! I know you're thirsty and all, Doc but your drinking it so fast. " Lam joked, "You gotta savor it"

What a fucking irony, Beam thought. He can't taste shit at all. The bitter feeling is still overwhelming that it makes the beer taste like sand. Perfect, there's an actual sand in beach, he should go there.

"Ha ha ha. It will still end up in my stomach no matter what I do." Beam forced a smile.

"Not sure about that, it might go up in your head instead." Lam warned.

"Im fine. Im not going to drink it all, don't worry about not getting some." Beam assured.

Lam laughed but one hazer aren't convinced at all. Everyone's attention went back to the cards, resulting for a new round of black jack. Forth still played but he keep most of his attention to the Doctor, confused why he is drinking alcohol of all things. 

It went like that for an hour, playing cards and making the loser do his penalty. As Forth went on his 4th set of game, Beam had already drunk 6th cans of beer. Beam just stood near the cooler, watching the crowd below him. No one noticed when Beam slipped away from the pavilion but Forth did. Forth is always aware of Beam even when Beam's attention is far from him. The engineer stood up, making a flimsy excuse of going to the bathroom.

Forth saw Beam go towards the beach front and he immediately followed him. The shore is lit with wood torches and it makes a good ambiance if he's not worrying about the doctor. He spot Beam facing the waves, Forth suddenly got scared that Beam might go in the sea if no one noticed him.

"BEAM!!" Forth shouted.

Beam flinched at the sound of Forth's yelling. The last person he want to see is running towards him. A tear drop made way across Beam's pale cheeks.

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to be continued.

A/n:
I'm sorry for the wrong grammar, vocabulary, and typo errors. Please correct me.

Hello people! I hope you all are still shipping ForthBeam. Here's a second update for this week. I just switch writing to my PC from my phone and it's more easy writing and checking my draft in PC than in my phone. So there you go, the reason why I don't update that much is because I hate typing in a phone. Anyway, I start working again as a temp worker and I'm really thankful to all well wishers. I hope you all are doing better in this time of uncertainty. Stay home, Stay safe and always wash your hands.

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