~published on November 29th, 2018~

A/N:

Just to be noted regarding the storms of comments about this Park is the 'step-father' ... thas's because Forth is adopted. Lam has big enough heart to raise Forth himself and when he brings Park to the picture, Park is yet loving Forth enough to fully call him 'son'.

Or we have second option, we know Lam is not touching human, but he once abducted by alien and they gave him Forth to raise. And then he met Park.

Case closed.

*

It's a scrapbook.

Beam completely unwraps the book. He looks at Forth before putting it on his lap and starts opening it.

The first page has the page title, 'The Love Legends'.

There's a picture of Forth in his red jacket on the left page, and Beam's picture in his white SOTUS T-shirt on the right side.

Forth is with his strict face, and Beam has his teasing smile on.

Forth likes the book already. He is not up for such things, but he is up to anything if it is related with Beam, so...

Forth is the one who flips the page.

"Ahh..." Beam blushes seeing his signature book pinned on the second page next to the picture of himself which apparently has been cut from his confession video. It has a cloud above his picture with the caption, "I love you, P'Forth..." while the signature page reads, "I love you too, N'Beam."

"The girls... it must be those annoying brats!" Beam mumbles shyly.

Forth chuckles.

The next page is really something too. Forth is chasing Beam. It was taken during the time when he is trying to get Beam to do the Moon competition. Its caption is 'Moon courting Moon'.

And the next page is the picture of Beam at the dimsum place having breakfast together with a caption, 'The world is ours, the others are only renting it'.

"Wai is creepy," Beam says. "He must be the one who took this picture."

"Ah. So they were telling the truth when they said that they were there all that time." Forth chuckles. "I'm glad Wai is creepy."

Beam looks at Forth.

Forth pecks on Beam's nose.

"Okay, I am glad too." Beam nods and flips the next page.

There is a picture from Beam performing his talent show at the Moon competition.

And then the picture of Forth standing on the stage with a flag, guarded by his four generals.

And then another picture with Beam's Craz-Doc gang and their boyfriends showing up too.

On one page before the last, there is a picture of Beam together with Posh, Wai, Prae and Irin wearing their SOTUS white T-shirt, sitting on the grass, with a cloud above saying, 'Invite us to your wedding'...

Beam's eyes get teary. "Those brats..." He mumbles softly.

Forth pats Beam on his hair and rakes his finger there.

And then on the last page, it's just a screenshot from Forth's IG post on Saturday morning. It's Beam's picture with the caption 'Good morning, N'Beam'.

There is one final last blank page. Just a line is written with a pencil saying, 'Insert your wedding picture here'.

Forth chuckles.

Beam takes the card that falls from within the scrapbook. It's a note from the kids.

"Don't forget us na... You have Engineering gang too...!!!"

Beam cries happy tears. "Shoot! They really are something!"

Forth hugs Beam and kisses his hair. "You're so loved."

Beam laughs and wipes his tears. "You are the best Head Hazer of all, you know. You raised these kids."

Forth chuckles. "So... let's do that."

"Hm?"

Forth taps on the line written with the pencil.

Beam looks at that line and then looks back at Forth. "Hm?"

"Let's work hard and insert our wedding picture there." Forth smiles dearly.

Beam smiles too. "Yeah?"

Forth nods.

"And invite them..."

Forth chuckles. "And invite them." He agrees.

Beam closes the scrapbook and puts it on the coffee table before pulling Forth into warm kisses. "A Nong for my Phi...?" He says softly with a teasing smirk.

Forth grins. He just loves Beam more for his cute way on offering himself randomly.

***

Forth makes up for missing the last party by holding another barbeque party the next weekend. It's in the trio house again. And the nosy freshmen are invited.

Wayo stands awkwardly as suddenly four of the nosy freshmen walk to him... confront him, actually.

"Why are you here?"

"What are you doing here?"

Phana is close to helping him with those freshmen but Wayo raises his palm and smiles to him and says, "I'm okay." And then he looks at Prae.

"Hi, Prae."

Prae just squints her eyes, not minding the greeting from one of the senior Moons even though she is the Campus Star.

"I think you are all misunderstanding me here." Wayo tries to explain.

"Nope." Prae hisses.

"I was never in the way between your P'Forth and P'Beam, see..." Wayo says carefully. "It was all just a misunderstanding."

"Nope." Irin hisses too.

Posh just stand there, more likely standing guard to prevent the girls from killing Wayo and mostly just because Wai is there.

Wai just blinks. He is so done with Wayo.

Wayo gulps. "See... P'Forth has loved P'Beam since the first day they have met. But he thought P'Beam is not interested in him because he is straight." He tries his best to explain. "And he was... at least before he met P'Forth. But the two made no moves since they decided to remain as friends than spoil what's between them."

The girls fold their arms on their chest.

Wai is still waiting.

Posh is still guarding.

Wayo gulps.

The other guests of the barbeque party love what they see.

The kids are really resisting Wayo's cuteness. They don't care. They just love Beam too much, nothing else matters.

"P'Forth was actually trying to move on... he thought he likes me."

Prae glares.

"Correction!" Wayo hurriedly adds. "He tried to keep his friendship with P'Beam going on and thought of me as a replacement for that!" he chooses another phrase.

Seems like the kids like it better.

"But I am not even close to being a replacement to your P'Beam, see...?"

"Indeed." – Prae.

"Clearly." –Irin.

"Of course." –Wai.

Posh just sighs.

Wayo smiles. He knows he is on the right track.

"P'Forth let everyone think that he likes me and can't move on because he tried to get P'Beam to befriend him again after P'Pha made the Doc gang not drink together with Eng gang again. That's it. Okay...? I am not in the way. Was never. I am just a dust on the side," Wayo says.

All of them just blink.

"I am the one who knows first that P'Forth only loves P'Beam and no one else because he only shares his food and drinks with P'Beam," Wayo adds. "F'Forth never shared anything with me."

Enough silence.

"Okay, you are cool." Wai decides.

Prae nods even though she is not satisfied enough.

Irin nods. She is satisfied enough.

Posh finally can take a relieved breath. No war, good.

"So..." Wai looks at Wayo. "It's P'Pha who's made P'Beam stop drinking together again with P'Forth all this time, huh...?"

Wayo gulps. "Oops."

Prae, Irin and Wai walk to Phana instantly.

Posh growls and follows those three troubled friends of his.

Phana is holding a glass of lemon squash. He gulps confusedly.

Kit who is originally sitting with him hurriedly gets up and leaves.

Wayo wais at Phana from afar, saying 'sorry'.

"So, you were the one who made the Doc gang stop drinking with Eng gang and made everything postpone for so long enough, huh, Mr. Campus Moon...?" Prae hisses coldly.

Phana gulps. "Hey, I already asked for forgiveness from Forth during SOTUS and invited him myself to the closing night, didn't I...?"

Prae is not satisfied.

So are Irin and Wai.

Posh sighs. He looks at Phana and asks, "Please just let them smack you once and we can get this over with. I want to enjoy the party."

"You sure they are gonna just smack me once? They look like they want to throw me into the grill!" Phana not buying it.

"Just... please." Posh says. He is tired of this shit.

Phana sighs. He looks at the other three. Well... as long as they don't hurt his precious baby Yo. "Okay, maybe I deserve a smack in additional to my apology."

SMACK.

SMACK.

SMACK.

Prae, Irin, and Wai smack his shoulder instantly as soon as Phana gives permission. And then they glare at Posh.

Posh looks back at them. "Why are you looking at me?"

"Smack him in the name of the entire first year!"

"Yeah!"

"You're the leader!"

Posh looks at them un-amused and the looks at Phana. "Excuse me, P'..."

SMACK!

Posh smacks on Phana's shoulder too and then pulls his friends from the scene.

Phana cringes in pain. He glares at Kit who left him alone to die.

Kit just grins.

And then Phana turns to Wayo.

Wayo keeps closing his palm on his chest, gives him a proper wai from afar to him and says 'sorry' over and over again.

The third-year Engineering students are proud of their juniors. So much.

The barbeques are lively.

Everyone is laughing at the end of the day.

***

A/N:

I am not ready to say this... but the goodbye is near.

Like I often say, I do not always make the story as a full package like in 'Addicted' where I show how they are during their relationship, meeting with the parents, work life, marriage, and all.

So... buckle up!

Thanks as always, @Darzls . You are a big help in making this story better.