nomi and beau

5

Beau is dancing around her room to The Beatles song out loud as she is alone in her house. This girl does not worry if she breaks her ankle again. Her parents have to work overtime shifts so they usually come back home from work late at night. Beau's mother works as a psychiatrist in a hospital in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Beau's father is an accountant. Both of them own jobs that require high responsibilities so they are barely at home. It is hard for Beau to meet them or even see them in a glance everyday.

Sometimes, when she misses her parents so much, she would rather go out to meet her parents at work. Beau usually would see her mother when she is bored at home as her mother is more comfortable to have Beau coming to see her at work. Unlike Beau's father who is usually not very comfortable having her coming to see him at work as he does not want to be disturbed.

Beau's brother, Ben is off to university so of course she is usually alone at home except when Ben is having his semester breaks. For now, Ben is having his semester break from his university, so he is out at his part time job as a cashier in Walmart. He only works there as a part timer if he is having his semester break. Of course, Beau's parents bought the house but as Beau is always alone, she tends to make her house as her own. She would change the house's appearance such as decorating the house or draw on the walls and her parents would not even notice it as they are too tired when get back home from work. She would invite the two of her best friends, Joji and Hannah for a sleepover every once a month and her parents would never know about that. Beau feels like she is free to do anything there. She even feels free to walk around the house naked sometimes, but she barely does that. Meanwhile, his brother would bring his girlfriend every weekends and Beau would hear those noises they make at night when they are in the bed together. Her parents barely have free time to spend at home. They would be off to work very early in the morning and come home from work late at night. In conclusion, it is hard for her to see them in a day.

Luckily for Beau, at least her parents still remember that they still have their children at home. They would constantly call her to check if she is alright, especially her mother. Her mother would ask if she has eaten, if she has done her homework, if she has taken a bath, she would ask how is her day at school. Beau will let her know everything about what she is doing everyday. If there are days that her parents come back home from work early, they would bring home Beau's favourite foods from the store or some presents to let her know that she is still loved. However, Beau is constantly sad and feels like she never got enough attention from them as she has to be alone all the time. Among her family members, she gets the most attention from her brother. Eventually, if Ben is not at home, they would still text each other everyday to check up on each other.

Beau feels so empty so she blast off The Beatles out loud that night. After The Beatles' song is over, Lost In Japan by Shawn Mendes came on. This is Beau's favourite song at the moment, she did a little dance following the song. She lays down onto her bed and she looks up to the ceiling. She came to the one of Piano Boy's videos that she commented on, it feels weird that he has not reply to her comment, 'Pls come back! I miss youuuu!' yet. She noticed Piano Boy has not replied to anyone's comment for a while. She is hoping that Piano Boy is okay, she starts to overthink that Piano Boy does not like to reply to her comment anymore as he used to always reply to her comment everytime she praises his singing. He would reply, 'thank you.' . If Beau is lucky that day, Piano Boy would replied to her comments thanking her with a smiling emoji or the sweetest one, with a love emoji. There is another thought that Beau is overthinking about, even worse she thinks Piano Boy might be leaving YouTube?

"Noooooo!!!! Please don't! He is my life!", Beau yelled accidentally as she thought Piano Boy would not make any videos anymore.

"I don't care if you don't like to reply to my comments anymore but f**k, post something. I'm bored.", Beau said in a low tone to her phone screen that shows Piano Boy's YouTube channel. As she is listening to the Shawn Mendes's song that is playing in her Spotify's playlist, she started to miss Piano Boy. Oh how she wishes to get to hold Piano Boy's beautiful hands and gets lost in Japan with him.

Beau is frustrated at the thought of why Piano Boy never reveals his face. She is dying to know how he looks like. Beau always prays to get to meet Piano Boy someday. She wants to take a picture with him and frame it in her room and hug him as a thank you for making her smile with that beautiful soothing voice. She dreams to ask for his autograph. Or eventually, being her boyfriend or the best, being her husband someday. Ugh, why Piano Boy is such a private person? He never wants to show his face!

After the song is over, Beau suddenly thinks about Nomi. Oh, how she wishes to have his phone number and annoy him. She does think the name 'Nomi' is cute, but why for him? He is too grown to have a baby name like that. She could not wait to go to school tomorrow and ask him for his number, but she knows Nomi hates her. She is thinking how is she going to ask this sensitive boy? Of course, Nomi would not give her his number as he does not want to get annoyed by her.

She took her phone and got out Spotify to FaceTime Joji as she thinks it will help her on how to get Nomi's phone number. Beau rings Joji for a few seconds and he picks it up immediately then the FaceTime begins.

"Yo where ya at?", Beau asked as she is not very familiar with Joji's background surrounding, the background is dark as if he is at outside the house or something. In addition, the background is not really clear.

"I'm at the front yard, sorry the line's not clear here. Imma come to my room now.", Joji said in a very unclear voice.

"You better. You sound like Wall-E.", Beau said and she giggled.

"Hahaha. f**k you!", Beau heard Joji laughed in the unclear FaceTime. Beau waits for a while to have to Joji coming into his room.

"b***h! What takes you so long? C'mon!", Beau joked out loud to annoy Joji as she knows his family is around. Joji who is already taking the stairs places phone in front of his face and showed a finger to Beau with an annoyed face. "Shhh!", he whispered harshly. Beau laughed at Joji's reaction.

"Beau! Why would you curse in the FaceTime before I came to my room? My mum will hear you!", Joji said in feeling panic and annoyed as he already came into his room.

"You're f*****g late!", Beau smiled naughtily.

"I know but f*****g chill, man. I was in the kitchen washing my hands, the fuck." , Joji explained as he lays down onto his bed.

"What the f**k were you doing in the kitchen?", Beau asked and frowned.

"I was washing my hands? Because I just took out the trash motherfucker." , Joji laughed awkwardly as he is still thinking if his parents have heard Beau calling him 'b***h' in the phone.

"Oh s**t! I forgot to take out my trash!", Beau said with a shocked face.

"What?", Joji asked with a confused face.

"It has been three days! s**t!" , Beau puts her hand on her head.

"You dumb b***h. Now tell me, why the f**k are you face timing me?", Joji said with a numb face.

"Bro, what do you think of that Nomi boy?", Beau asked in curiosity.

"Nomi? Hmmm..I don't know. He's okay. What's wrong?", Joji asked, starting to feel interested with what Beau wants to say about him.

"Seriously? He's just okay to you?", Beau asked and frowned.

"Yeah, I mean he's cool and s**t. He's just a little shy I guess. Kind of an introvert, maybe?", Joji describes Nomi's attitude.

"Bro, that b***h sensitive as shit." , Beau said in feeling unsatisfied.

"Yeah, because why not? Your ass keeps whining about his name all the motherfucking time. He's done.", Joji defended Nomi.

"Oh, please. It's just his name. Nothing else.", Beau rolled her eyes.

"I know, but that name is probably special to him. Like your name is Beau. Of course, it sounds special. But if you were to meet someone who doesn't know s**t about French, you are gonna get so dragged down to hell with that name. Like that day, you kicked that new kid in the crotch cause he thinks your name is weird.", Joji smirked.

"Whatever, he makes fun of my real name. 'Nomi' doesn't mean anything. I don't make fun of his real name, uhhh what's his real name again? I forgot. My brain keeps sticking to 'Nomi'.", Beau laughed.

"Najmi Khan.", Joji smiled.

"Ahhh, you see? His real name sounds hotter than his nickname. 'Nomi' is a f*****g baby name.", Beau laughed after she ended her sentence.

"I don't know. My mum called me Joji since I was little. And it sticks to me until I grow up today. Same goes with him, I guess.", Joji explained.

"Hey, I'm not that bad. I do think his name is cute. I just love to annoy the s**t out of him. Making his ass angry. You can literally see how innocent he looks at his face. Hahaha! Do you think he's really mad at me already? Or he just thinks I'm joking.", Beau giggled.

"b***h, of course he is mad but he acts cool with it. I can totally tell. He is probably like that guy in the meme I saw on i********: the other day.", Joji laughs as he suddenly thinks of the funny meme.

"Really, what meme?", Beau begins to giggle.

"Wait, I'll send it to you.", Joji immediately sends the meme to Beau.

"Hahaha!", Beau started to laugh out loud. Joji laughed along out loud too.

"Okay..okay! I'll say sorry to him tomorrow! But I wanna ask for his number, but I'm scared.", Beau said after she stopped laughing.

"Uhhh..what did I just hear? You're scared?", Joji tried to hold in laughter after he heard what Beau just said to him.

"No, motherfucker! I'm not like scared scared! I'm shy to face him asking for his number! He probably wants to kill me after I teased him all day today!", Beau pouted her plumpy lips.

"You can tell Mr Haze you wanna sit on his face but you can't ask Nomi for his number? Can't relate. Hahahaha!", Joji laughed at Beau.

"Ughhh! You gotta help me! I can't act desperate to him, I gotta be a deadass to him. I'm interested to be friends with him. I need a guy advice!", Beau said.

"C'mon, he seems like s nice guy. He can't be too mad at you. It was nothing serious. He will give you his number.", Joji smiled as he feels confident about Nomi.

"Okay, you're a guy right? You act like Nomi, and I will come saying sorry to you. Because that guy seems sensitive as s**t. I know he will hate me!", Beau said in feeling regret.

"Okay, I'll be Nomi. 3,2,1, action!", Joji said.

"Yo, hey. Dude, I'm sorry about yesterday. Your name is kinda cute. Bro, I'm sorry. And I wanna be friends with you. Please don't hate me! Please! Please! Please! And I need your number!", Beau started to pout at the end of her sentence.

"Remember, act cute, don't go straight up to him like a gangster. You'll scare him away.", Joji said.

"Is he dead? No, right? What to be scared of? Hey, I might be a gangster but I'm cute. I am two in one. And you motherfucker, I told you to stay in character!", Beau said proudly.

"Why would? Of course he will say "Oh, I forgive you." or some s**t like that.", Joji frowned.

"You know what, Jo? I sound desperate. Ew. How about you go to him and ask him for his number, just act like you're the one who wants it, not me.", Beau suggested.

"Why me? You're the one who wants to be friends with him? I mean, he will think why the f**k do I want his number out of nowhere? We are not gonna meet anymore after the show is over. We're not that close like chill.", Joji said.

"Man, you are not helping me.", Beau pouted.

"Why do you wanna be friends with him? I mean y'all are not going to meet each other anymore after the show is over. He's gonna go back to Malaysia, and you're gonna stay here. It's pointless? I don't know I don't wanna sound like an asshole. I mean he is kind and all that, but he's probably gonna to lose contact with us after the show is over.", Joji explained.

"You know what, maybe I'll ask Mr Greg. I think he has his number. But then, ahhhh s**t! He will ask Nomi that I want his number. He will think I'm desperate.", Beau said in frustration.

"Dude, I'm telling you. Just go ask for his number. I don't think he's gonna be like too mad at you. He's not an asshole, c'mon.", Joji tried to calm Beau.

"Really? He won't hate me, right?", Beau pouted.

"No, just don't be a stupid b***h. That's all.", Joji said.

"You know what, you suck at giving advices. But thanks for that, it kinda helped.", Beau said with a lazy smile.

"Beau, stop overthinking. You're always overthinking over some small stupid s**t. I can tell Nomi is a mature guy. It's ridiculous if he wants to hate you over this. Of course, he seemed annoyed at you today but I'm sure he'll get over that. You're my best friend, I am confident you'll get his number tomorrow. Your ass might be a gangster, but you pretty. Tell me if he's being mean to you, I'll kick his d**k. But I don't think he would. He is kind. I am positive of that.", Joji chuckled while trying to calm Beau who is getting sad.

"I feel so f*****g alone at home.", Beau sighed harshly.

"Wish I was there, your room is more fun than mine.", Joji pouted.

"Please, b***h! You and Hannah, come over here this weekend.", Beau said.

"Dude, do you need to say that? I'm down always.", Joji said excitedly.

"Do we have homework today?", Beau asked in curiosity.

"We have Chemistry homework but I'm not gonna do that.", Joji said lazily.

"Good. My boy's getting brave. Proud of ya.", Beau said and started to laugh. Joji laughed along too.

"Alright. I gotta study. See you tomorrow. Oh, and good luck!", Joji said delightedly.

"Alright. Bye bye!", Beau said and she turned off her phone to study the show's script she got today. She began to focus on the script and it is very interesting. She could imagine how Nomi and her would be like in the show. She imagined how cool they are going to be for the show. The script is so simple but it is amazing. She is grateful to have the brilliant Mr Greg as her teacher. If they still had to stick with Mrs Felicia's script, of course her brain might have exploded. She went to sleep after studying the script for two hours.

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Beau walks towards the dancing hall. She wonders why her heart starts to beat so fast all of the sudden. The thought of having to meet Nomi today made her nervous all morning. She wondered why does Nomi has to make her nervous? She went to school very early this morning as she has never done that before, the script made her feel excited to go to school this morning. Beau started to feel confident to walk without her walking stick so she left them at home although she still could not walk straight.

As Beau went early, she thought she was going to be alone at the dancing hall but she was wrong. As she arrived to the dancing hall, she saw a boy laying down on the dancing hall's clean shiny floor. She started to think who is it.

Beau slowly opened up the dancing hall's door entrance and her heart starts to beat really fast to see who is the boy. She slowly closed the door and slowly walked towards the boy. As she got near to the boy, she realises it is Nomi who seems to be sleeping on floor with putting his bag under his head as his pillow.

Beau came near to Nomi and she quietly sat down beside him. Her jaw dropped a little as she is lost in seeing his beauty. Nomi's sleeping face makes her smile without she even realise. She thought Nomi looks so beautiful while sleeping but in the same she feels a little sad watching him sleeping, she is wondering why his eyes seems so swollen and his face looks kind of pale as if he looks really tired. She is starting to think if Nomi is sick. Nomi's sleeping face does not look peaceful as his face shows that he is struggling to sleep. Despite all those flaws, Beau could see a beauty in it. Beau smiled at how cute he looks while sleeping. Beau wishes to touch his pointed nose and his whole face but she does not want to wake him up.

Nomi could feel something warm getting near to his body as if someone is sitting beside him. He could hear the sound of something moving beside him. His face frowned and he squints his eyes before opening them. Beau noticed the change on Nomi's face and she got shocked. She is worried if Nomi wakes up. Nomi opened his eyes and he sees Beau who has been watching him sleeping.

Nomi looks at her with a confused face although his eyes are not fully opened. His vision are not very clear as he is not wearing glasses but he knows it is Beau. Beau immediately got panic and wanted to get up from the floor but she failed as her ankle has not fully recover yet.

"Wha-What are you doing here?", Nomi asked with his sleepy voice and his face frowning at her. "Uhh..nothing!", Beau said in a panicked tone as she strengthen herself to get up. She started to feel embarrassed. Nomi feels so blurred out from what is going at the moment. Beau finally got up and started to walk away from Nomi. She tried to walk faster but she accidentally tripped over Nomi's leg. "Ahhh!", Beau yelled as she is about to fall down. Nomi got panic as she is almost falling, he quickly got up to his knee and grabbed her with both of his arms tightly. He is worried if Beau breaks her ankle again.

However, Nomi failed to save himself although he has successfully saved Beau. Nomi fell down with Beau who is still being in his arms. He accidentally hit his head to the floor while his head was still pounding after he got up from his short sleep just now. Luckily, the dancing hall's floor is not too hard so Nomi is glad he does not bleed his head although it does feel hurt when his head hit the floor. Beau closed her eyes when she thought she was falling but opened it slowly to see that she is in Nomi's arms. Nomi's skin at his arms area started to feel hurt when Beau's body pressed down his arms. As he has a lot of scars, the pressure of Beau's body made his skin hurts a lot. Nomi could not blame Beau for his hurting skin as she does not know that he harms himself.

Beau feels embarrassed that she is in Nomi's arms, she pushes Nomi away hardly. "Bro, what are you doing man?", Beau said. She tried to stand up although her ankle feels hurt. She could not stand straight. Her heart races so fast and she started to sweat. It is hard for her to catch her breath as she could not believe of what happened. For now, she is very afraid if Nomi would get furious at her.

"Ouch!", Nomi whispered in a low tone as Beau pushed him away. He could not be mad at Beau for his skin feeling really hurt. Nomi looked up to see Beau standing up in front of him, staring at him in so much worry. Nomi could feel his heart breaking as he wanted to cry but he tries his best to hold it in. His scarred skin feels so painful and he is really tired as he woke up early this morning to do his assignments. He took a deep breath and exhales to calm himself.

"Are-are you okay?", Beau asked as she noticed that Nomi's face looks like he is handling pain as he hold both of his arms tightly with his hands. This time, Beau is ready to accept if Nomi wants to scream at her for doing something stupid. She thought she deserved it.

Nomi does not answer to Beau's question as he does not know what to respond. He is afraid if Beau wants to check his arms as she is worried about him. He immediately stopped rubbing his arms and he looked down to calm himself. Gladly, Beau gives him a space to be silent for a few seconds.

Nomi finally has the courage to look up at Beau. "Are you alright?", Nomi asked in a low tone and he begins to stand up.

"Y-yes, I am..", Beau said with her voice shaking. She looks down in feeling embarrassed.

"Where's your walking stick?", Nomi asked in curiosity.

"I...I left it at home.", Beau said slowly.

"Why?", Nomi's tone started to sound serious that makes Beau even more worried.

"I just don't feel like I need it anymore...", Beau said slowly.

"How in the hell you feel like you don't need it anymore? You can't even walk straight. If you fall down again and hurt your ankle one more time who's gonna be responsible for that? It's not safe, you know?", Nomi frowned as his voice sounded stern. Beau just looks down and not knowing what to say to Nomi.

"What were you doing before? Were you watching me sleeping or something? Why did I saw you staring at me when I opened my eyes just now?", Nomi asked in an annoyed tone.

"Shut the f**k up, Nomi! I came here and I thought someone is dead or something like why the f**k did you lay down on the floor like that!? You f*****g made me worried! I thought you were dead or something so I came to make sure you weren't! Find a proper place to sleep you dumbass !", Beau started to yell at Nomi.

"Okay! Thank you for being worried but you don't have to stare at me like a f*****g creep! I thought what the hell was going on? My God!", Nomi said in irritation.

"No one was f*****g staring at you, b***h! Ew, who the f**k wants to stare at you? Like I said, I just wanna make sure you're okay! You understand?", Beau yelled at Nomi as she stomped her feet to the floor.

"Okay, thank you but do you have to f*****g yell? I'm just right in front of you! I'm not like ten feet apart from you, take a chill pill, please!", Nomi said in feeling annoyed and hurt by what Beau just said to him but he does not want to show it to her.

"f**k you! I'm angry at you!", Beau yelled again.

"Shut the hell up, Beau. Just f*****g leave me alone.", Nomi said harshly as he bends down to take his bag. He decided to leave the dancing hall for a while and come back when the rehearsal starts.

As Nomi wanted to bend down to take his bag, he could feel his head pounding really bad. He feels like he wants to fall down to the floor but he tries his best to strengthen himself. "Ouch...", Nomi's voice cracks as his head is aching. He does feel like he wants to cry. Nomi sat down once again with a hope that his headache will go away. Beau who is still standing at the back watched what happens. She got worried of Nomi.

Beau slowly comes near to Nomi to see if he is alright. "Are you okay?", Beau asked in concern. Nomi does not answer to her question as his head feels too painful for him to talk. "Nomi?", Beau asked him once again but gets ignored by Nomi.

"Nomi, tell me! Are you alright?", Beau sat down beside Nomi and asked him once again.

"Can you shut the f**k up? I said leave me alone! Gosh, stop acting like you f*****g care about me, just leave me alone! Just go!", Nomi said in a high pitched voice.

"You f*****g look like you're dying, tell me how the f**k do I not care about you?", Beau said.

"I'm gonna die anyways so why bother?", Nomi said harshly as he could not stop rubbing his head.

"Please, Nomi...I'm serious, tell me what is going on?", Beau asked as she started to sweat at how scared she is with Nomi. Nomi feels like he wants to scream at her so badly but he tries his best to be patient with her.

"Don't you see? I'm having a f*****g headache, you happy now? Now, go!", Nomi said harshly.

"You have a headache? Do you want my oil? I bring it everyday to school if I have a headache.", Beau said in a rushing tone as she quickly takes off her school bag. She quickly takes out an essential oil of hers to treat headaches and migraines.

Nomi got quite looking at Beau's reaction. "Here, move to lean against the wall.", Beau said. Nomi does what Beau told her. He slowly moves himself to lean against the wall of the dancing hall. Beau could see how pale Nomi's face looks at the moment. She quickly pour a little bit of the oil to her fingers and rubs it softly on Nomi's temple. Nomi looks down as he could not afford to do anything at the moment.

"Rest yourself for a while, you can feel better.", Beau said. Nomi still looks down, not knowing what to say to Beau.

After rubbing the oil on Nomi's temple, she keeps her oil into her bag and she leans beside Nomi. They both goes silent for a while. Beau looks down to see Nomi's hands laying on his knees. Beau takes a moment to watch Nomi's hands. She suddenly has a feeling that something is very familiar with those hands. She starts to focus on Nomi's hands to see if what she sees is true.

"Why are his hands...looks like Piano Boy's?" , Beau started to think. Beau slowly looks up to see Nomi's face and she drops her jaw a little but Nomi does not realise that. She does not know how to react and she does not know if what she thinks is true. She wanted to ask Nomi, but she is afraid Nomi would think that she is weird for asking about some random YouTube channel all of the sudden. She is thinking what if he is not Piano Boy? Of course, it must be weird. She does not know how to react so she chooses to stay silent about it.

"You still wanna join the rehearsal today?", Beau asked.

"I wanna go home.", Nomi said slowly.

"What do you mean?", Beau asked as she does not understand what Nomi means.

"I just wanna go home. I never asked to join some show that makes me have to face a lot of people in front of me.", Nomi said without looking at Beau.

"So you wanna quit?", Beau asked as she is worried.

"I can't.", Nomi whispered.

"I thought you would love this..", Beau said slowly.

"I'm tired.", Nomi said.

"You are.", Beau said as she started to look at Nomi. Nomi looks up to see Beau's face. He could not resist how beautiful the girl is, he could not hide his smile. He gave Beau the sweetest smile that made Beau's heart flutter.

"What?", Beau started to smile.

"Nothing.", Nomi said as he looks down in feeling shy.

"I'm sorry that I yelled at you. I'm such a bitch.", Beau said in feeling pity.

"It's okay.", Nomi whispered while still smiling.

"And uhm...thank you for saving me. Glad I don't have to break my ankle again.", Beau said while giggled a little.

"Bring your walking stick with you next time. It's not safe for you to walk like this.", Nomi said softly and his hand touches one of Beau's legs where her ankle was injured. Nomi's hand feels so warm that Beau actually feels calm. She started to think if Nomi is really Piano Boy, because how heavenly it will feel to have Piano Boy's hand touches her leg like that. Nomi's hands looks so similar to Piano Boy's. Is Nomi really Piano Boy?

Beau started to think if Nomi's hands looks like Piano Boy's, she decides to pay attention to Nomi's voice as Piano Boy always does song covers on YouTube. She wants to make sure if it really is Piano Boy.

"You good now?", Beau asked Nomi.

"I guess if I had a good sleep, my head wouldn't hurt like this.", Nomi said and sighed.

Beau dropped her jaw a little but she tried her best to hide how surprised she is at the moment. She realised, Nomi does sounds similar to Piano Boy, where his voice sounds similar to Tim Curry's. However, she is still not satisfied with it. She refuses to believe that Nomi is Piano Boy yet. She would want to listen to Nomi actually singing to make sure 100% that he is really Piano Boy. She chose to act calm around Nomi so he would not think that she is being weird at the moment.

"What did you do last night?", Beau asked in curiosity.

"Haha, I slept for three hours then I forced myself to wake up. I have to complete my assignments and my homeworks.", Nomi chuckled a little.

"What? Bro, it's just homework. And assignments are s**t. Chill.", Beau started to nag.

"Nah..I don't really care about home works. It's my assignments, they're important...it's for my exam.", Nomi said slowly.

"Hm..I'm not at your place so I can't be a b***h about it. But I gotta say, if I were you, I won't do it.", Beau said.

"Hahaha, I don't wanna fail, Beau.", Nomi said softly.

"Good luck on that. If you need my help on your assignments, I can help.", Beau offered.

"Hahaha, what can you help?", Nomi laughed a little.

"I don't know, you tell me.", Beau said delightedly.

"It's okay, Beau. I can manage. Besides, it's not in English. You wouldn't understand.", Nomi said while smiling at Beau.

"Then, what language y'all using?", Beau asked as she is confused.

"Malay language.", Nomi said simply.

"You know how to speak that language?", Beau asked in curiosity.

"Hahaha, I can't live in the country if I don't. It's the main language.", Nomi laughed.

"Oh...how many languages can you speak actually?", Beau said as she begins to understand Nomi.

"English, Malay, Malayalam.", Nomi said slowly.

"Wow...I don't know s**t about those languages.", Beau said slowly and Nomi chuckled.

"But it's okay, if you need my help you can ask me about whatever it is.", Beau said delightedly.

"I don't even have your number. How is that possible?", Nomi said with his weak voice. Beau takes out her phone from her bag and gave it to Nomi. She seems very excited to get Nomi's number.

"Here, dial your number.", she said happily. Nomi dialled his number on Beau's phone and calls himself to get Beau's number. "Here.", he said as he gave Beau's phone to her. He takes out his ringing phone from his pocket to see Beau's phone number on the screen.

"This is your number?", Nomi asked and Beau nodded quickly. Nomi smiled at her as he started to save her number. Beau smiled at Nomi in feeling excited.

"This feels hopeless...you really wanna save my number?", Nomi asked.

"Bro, yes. Don't worry. I won't lose contact with you even if you have gone to Malaysia.", Beau said delightedly.

"Hahaha, okay.", Nomi asked.

"What's wrong with your eyes? Did you cry?", Beau pouted.

"Nah, I'm okay. My eyes are just a little swollen. I'm fine.", Nomi said to calm Beau.

"But..you look like, you just cried.", Beau said in concern.

"Haha, no. Really. I'm okay.", Nomi said calmly.

"Okay, you know what? If you have a problem or if you need someone to talk..I'm going to be there, okay?", Beau said while doing a peace sign that made Nomi smiled at her. Nomi just nodded at Beau as he feels too tired to talk. He just wishes he could sleep for now. However, Nomi still could give Beau a sweet smile that made Beau feels warm at her heart.

"Why you look so pale? Are you sick?", Beau asked in concern.

"I'm fine, Beau. Can you not talk to me for a moment? My head feels so dizzy. I'm too tired to talk.", Nomi said softly.

"Oh, okay..I'll shut up.", Beau said as she started to feel bad towards Nomi.

"You stay here, I'll go out for a while. If you need anything, just call me, okay? And I'm sorry for talking again. I'm so annoying.", Beau said in worry.

Nomi nodded and he giggled a little at what Beau just said. He wanted to tell her that she is not annoying but he could not as he feels like he wants to throw up. He does feel bad for her. Nomi just lets Beau walks away from the dancing hall.

As Beau got out of the dancing hall, she took out her phone and she called Mr Greg.

"Hello?", Mr Greg said as he picked up the phone.

"Mr Greg, we have a problem here, bro.", Beau said as she is walking at the school hallway.

"What's the matter?", Mr Greg asked and started to sound a little panicked.

"It's Nomi. I don't think he is feeling well.", Beau said.

"What's wrong with him?", Mr Greg asked.

"I don't know. He has a headache. And I think he's having a horrible headache. You won't believe this, I talked to him just now and he was like almost passing out because of the headache. But homeboy keeps telling me that he is fine and s**t when his face literally looks like he's dying!", Beau explained.

"Oh no, what's wrong with his face?",  Mr Greg asked while sounding worried.

"He's f*****g pale, man. He's a mess! And his eyes looks like he has been crying for hours! But when I asked, his stupid ass keeps convincing me that he is okay!", Beau told Mr Greg.

"Where is he? Wait...are you in school?", Mr Greg asked in confusion.

"Yeah, why? He's at the dancing hall.", Beau said.

"How did you get to school so early? You've never done this before? Like, I'm literally still at home now, getting ready.", Mr Greg said.

"Bro, you should be proud of me. It's rare for me to come to school this early. Appreciate that.", Beau said proudly.

"Now, that's my student! Proud of you! Aight, Imma head out. See you later.", Mr Greg said then he hung up the phone call.

There a few students who has already came to school. Suddenly, Beau saw Mrs Felicia has arrived to school. Beau feels like she has got electric shock to her body. She immediately thinks about Nomi. She knows Mrs Felicia will be ready at the dancing hall for the rehearsal early in the morning. She got really scared if Mrs Felicia came to the dancing hall and be mean to Nomi as she always does that to new students. She knows Nomi is sick, of course Nomi would be more ill if he meets Mrs Felicia.

Beau straight away walked faster towards the dancing hall. She would have run if her ankle has recovered. She came to the dancing hall, she saw Nomi looked up to see her. Nomi started to feel worried looking at how rushed she is.

Beau came to Nomi and grabbed his hand to get him up from his seat. "Hey, what are you doing?", Nomi asked with his eyebrows raised.

"Look, we gotta go.", Beau said simply.

"What? Where?", Nomi asked as he started to feel worried.

"Don't say anything, just follow me if you don't wanna get more ill!", Beau said harshly and she pulled Nomi hands to get him to follow her to where she wants to go. Nomi does not say a word as he still feels dizzy, he just kind of follow where Beau wants to bring him. Nomi and Beau left their belongings at the dancing hall as Beau feels like there is no time to think of anything but to run away from Mrs Felicia. Beau wants to save Nomi from the evil Mrs Felicia.

Beau quickly brought him to the school field. They sat there at one of the seats around the field. The morning feels so cold but calm to Nomi. The grass at the field is so green and the air feels fresh. Nomi feels fascinated by the beauty of the school field. Gladly, Nomi is wearing his favourite black polyster We Bare Bears hoodie, so he does not feel so cold. He puts his hands inside his pocket and looked around.

Nomi begins to stare at Beau as he is feeling confused with her actions. "Why did you bring me here?", Nomi asked.

"You're sick, right? I don't want you to face Mrs Felicia...she'll make you feel like s**t for being sick. She'll assume you're just being 'lazy' for the rehearsal. Trust me, you don't wanna see her now.", Beau explained.

From Beau's explanation, Nomi can guess who is Mrs Felicia even more. He is guessing maybe she was the woman who came to him at the dancing hall the other day and made him feel down by her words and her actions.

"I think I know Mrs Felicia.", Nomi guessed.

"You know? You ever met her before?", Beau asked as she raised her eyebrows in feeling curious.

"I think so...she's a woman with...long black hair and dark blue eyes right?", Nomi tried to describe her.

"And she's skinny right? And has wrinkles on her face?", Beau continued to describe after Nomi.

"Yes, yes.", Nomi nodded quickly as he agreed with Beau.

"And she's ugly right?", Beau started to hold in her laughter.

"Hmm..I don't know..kinda..I don't really like seeing her face. Hahaha.", Nomi laughed a little.

"Bro, she is ugly.", Beau laughed and Nomi just smiled.

"How do you know it's her?", Beau asked in feeling curious.

"I guess she was the one who talked to me the other day when I was alone at the dancing hall..she said something that made me feel like a useless piece of s**t. Like, I'm new and just replaced someone who just quit the show and she expected me to know everything and be updated. It was when before Mr Greg changed the scripts.", Nomi told Beau what happened.

"The b***h is always like that. Like she even ever gave us degree level of Chemistry questions from Oxford for a quiz, f*****g expected us to know everything when we never study s**t about it. Like, we only know our level of Chemistry. Then, when we all, the whole class failed, she got mad and fuckin threw all of our papers to our faces in the class. She said that we are never prepared and s**t. Like, I don't remember my mum ever sends me to Oxford to take Bachelor of Chemistry there? f*****g stupid.", Beau told Nomi.

"What? That's f****d up! Y'all are just in high school! What was she thinking?", Nomi frowned as he is shocked with what Beau just told him.

"Yeah, she is that kind of person who wants everything to be perfect. She expects perfection from all of us. We have to be prepared for everything even if we don't know in something, we have to know. If we don't, then we're dumb. Or long story short, we have to be God. Because God knows everything.", Beau said in frustration.

"I hate those kind of teachers.", Nomi sighed in regret.

"Let's forget about her. I don't even care about her. This is my last year in high school. I don't have to see her anymore next year.", Beau said.

"How old are you?", Nomi asked.

"Seventeen.", Beau answered simply.

"You?", Beau asked as she looked up to see Nomi.

"Eighteen. But I'm turning nineteen this year.", Nomi said as he looked down.

"When?", Beau asked.

"This July.", Nomi said.

"Wait...what's your zodiac sign?", Beau asked.

"Cancer.", Nomi answered.

"Hahahahahahaha!!!", Beau cracked out her laughter.

"What?", Nomi frowned.

"Hahahaha! You're a fuckin cancer? Hahahaha! I knew it!", Beau said as she is still laughing.

"What? What's wrong with my zodiac sign? What's wrong this time?", Nomi said as he started to feel annoyed with Beau once again.

"That's why you're being all sensitive and s**t! You're a cancer! You emo as f**k!" , Beau teased.

"Ahhh s**t here we go again..", Nomi sighed and started to hold his head with his hand.

"Hahaha! Yeah because you get all sensitive when I teased your name 'Nomi'! Hahahaha!", Beau laughed so hard.

"Okay? And?", Nomi asked with a confused face.

"That's it! You cancers are a bunch of emos! You probably went back home yesterday and cried because of me! Hahaha!", Beau keeps laughing.

"Why in the hell I have to cry because a five year old child teased my name? That s**t is nothing to me.", Nomi said in being sarcastic towards Beau. Beau stopped laughed and pouted her plumpy lips immediately while looking at him.

"You're lying! You must be crying yesterday, even your eyes said 'yes'!", Beau said as she pointed her finger to Nomi's eyes.

"Oh...my eyes?", Nomi started to act awkwardly as he started to remember how he cried after talking to his mother last night.

"Yes, they're obviously swollen. I'm sorry, bro.", Beau looked down as she started to feel regret of what she did to Nomi.

"Haha, sorry? Why?", Nomi chuckled.

"You...cried because of me right?", Beau pouted.

"No, Beau. Why would?", Nomi smiled at her.

"Because I am a bully!", Beau admitted and Nomi laughed.

"You? A bully? Try to bully me again, I can do better at that.", Nomi laughed after he pointed his finger to Beau.

"What? You wanna bully me? Boy, don't you try!", Beau got closer to Nomi and her hand made a punch sign to him. Nomi just smirked at Beau and tried to act cool although he is afraid if the girl punches his painful skin.

"I love it here.", Nomi said as he inhaled the fresh air at the school field. In addition, he decided to change the topic so he would get rid of the bullying conversation with Beau. He is afraid if the girl would actually punch him after she made the punching hand sign.

"Why?", Beau asked.

"This place feels so fresh to me. I don't feel the headache anymore.", Nomi said with a smile on his face.

"Yeah because there's no guys who thinks they're hot while playing the baseball game and thinking all the girls are in love with them. There's no one here, it feels good not to see those fuckboys here.", Beau said.

"Hahaha.", Nomi laughed and Beau just gave Nomi a smirk and then she giggled a little.

Nomi's phone rings all of the sudden, so he took his phone out of his jeans pocket to see Mr Haze is calling him. "Oh no!", Nomi said as he forgot to tell Mr Haze that he was leaving for the rehearsal before him.

"Why?", Beau asked in a panicked tone.

"I forgot to tell my teacher that I was leaving first before him. He must be worried. Oh shit." , Nomi chuckled a little after ending his sentence. He answered Mr Haze's call in feeling nervous.

"Hello?", Nomi said slowly.

"Nomi, you ready? Where are you?", Mr Haze asked, sounding a little rushed.

"Oh, shoot...I'm sorry, teacher. I forgot to tell you that I was leaving early. Hahaha.", Nomi said as he cracked out a nervous laughter.

"Leaving early? You mean, you're at the school now?", Mr Haze sounded a little shocked.

"Yes. I'm sorry that I forgot to tell you.", Nomi said in feeling regret.

"Oh, it's okay. But next time, please inform me if you're leaving earlier than me.", Mr Haze advised Nomi.

"Okay. See you later.", Nomi said as he hung up the phone call.

"Wait..what did you call Mr Haze?", Beau said as she started to hold in her laughter.

"Teacher. Why?", Nomi asked as he raised his eyebrows to Beau.

"Hahahaha! Why the f**k you call him 'teacher' ?", Beau laughed.

"Why? That's what he is!", Nomi tried to defend himself.

"Bro, you sound like a kindergarten kid. Be cool, please. Call his name. I never heard someone call a teacher 'teacher'.", Beau started to make fun of Nomi again.

"Yeah, at least I don't tell my teacher that I wanna sit on his face. Can't relate.", Nomi rolled his eyes from Beau and she laughed.

"Hey, c'mon. He's hot.", Beau stated out her opinion after she is done laughing.

"Really?", Nomi asked.

"Yeah, I mean he's too hot for a teacher. What kind of a gene he has?", Beau stated.

"I don't know what is so hot about him but I'm not surprised if you think he is hot. I mean he is a pretty good looking man but I don't know what you girls see in him. Haha.", Nomi chuckled.

"You would if you were gay.", Beau said simply. Nomi frowned at her response in feeling weird about it.

"Trust me, man. Is he single? Please tell me he is single.", Beau asked.

"I don't know. But what I know is that, he is not married yet..but is he really single or taken? I don't know, you gotta ask him.", Nomi told Beau.

"You dumbass. That's your teacher. How can you not know?", Beau frowned.

"There's two reasons. One, he is a private person. Two, I just don't feel interested to give a f**k about it, alright?", Nomi smirked.

"Why not? You guys seem close.", Beau confronted.

"Beau, I just known him for like almost a month. He just started teaching me this year. My God, why don't you go ask him? We should go to the dancing hall now. Our teachers are gonna wait for us.", Nomi sighed.

"No...I don't want to.", Beau said and her face started to look worried.

"Why not?", Nomi asked.

"What if that b***h is there? No, please.", Beau begged as she referred to Mrs Felicia.

"Okay, you try to call Mr Greg and ask him about it. Because I kinda heard he wanted to ask your principal to get her out of the Drama and Musical Club.", Nomi tried to calm Beau.

"What are you guys doing here?", a familiar voice came from the back that shocked Nomi and Beau for a few seconds. They turned around and saw Mr Haze walking towards them. They both immediately stood up as they saw him.

"Oh my God, oh my God...pray for my p***y to not be wet.", Beau whispered to Nomi that made Nomi faked punching her leg so Beau can be quite.

"Hi!!! Mr Haze! How are you?", Beau asked excitedly.

"Uhh...hi? Beau?", Mr Haze asked awkwardly.

"Yeah, hi.", Beau said delightedly with a cheeky smile.

"How did you find us here?", Nomi chuckled awkwardly.

"I don't know. I went to the dancing hall and y'all weren't there but your bags are. But I don't really care about that haha. So I just kinda walk around the school until I came here and saw you guys.", Mr Haze explained with a little laugh.

"Where's Mr Greg?", Beau asked.

"He told me he is stucked in a traffic jam cause there is a car accident happened at the road. So he told me he might going to be late.", Mr Haze explained.

"Oh....is Mrs Felicia there?", Beau asked slowly in fear.

"No, I don't see her. We should go to the dancing hall and start the rehearsal. We don't have much time, Nomi.", Mr Haze said while looking at Nomi.

"Okay.", Nomi said and started to walk. Beau started to walk along too.

"Where's your walking stick?", Mr Haze asked with a confused face as he is feeling weird about the way Beau is walking.

"Uhhh...hahaha. I left it at home.", Beau laughed nervously.

"You're so confident to leave it at home when you're literally still walk like Pingu, huh?", Mr Haze giggled and Nomi laughed as he agreed with Mr Haze.

"Hey! So rude!", Beau laughed.

"C'mon. Let's go.", Mr Haze said as he started to walk away.

Nomi felt bad so he stopped walking to wait for Beau who still does not walk properly. He walked slowly to accompany Beau who is trying to walk.

"I forgot to ask you, what's your zodiac sign?", Nomi asked.

"Sagittarius.", Beau answered.

"Your birthday?", Nomi asked.

"December 18.", Beau answered.

"Hmm..how boring.", Nomi sighed.

"At least, we're not crybabies like cancers.", Beau made fun of Nomi again.

"We don't cry all the time, okay?", Nomi giggled.

"Said someone with the obviously swollen eyes.", Beau teased.

"Shut up!", Nomi said.

"What are y'all fighting about?", Mr Haze asked with his confused face.

"You know her, she's whiny. She whines everything about me all the time.", Nomi sighed.

"Mr Haze, what's your zodiac sign?", Beau asked.

"Mine? I'm libra.", Mr Haze answered.

"Really? Ew, when's your birthday?", Beau asked that made Mr Haze raised his eyebrows a little.

"Why 'ew'?", Nomi asked and frowned at Beau. Beau just ignored Nomi's question.

"Don't tell me you wanna sit on my face as my birthday gift.", Mr Haze made a blurred out face to Beau.

"Bro, I wish I could. But I just wanna know when?", Beau asked.

"October 3rd.", Mr Haze answered.

"What year you were born?", Beau asked.

"1991.", Mr Haze replied.

"Bro, we're like 10 years apart! How do you look so young? Tell me your secret.", Beau asked delightedly.

"I look young? How?", Mr Haze asked simply.

"I don't know, I'm just so jealous of your skin. Your skin is so clear, and you're like very hot. Man, I wish you were my sugar daddy.", Beau flirted Mr Haze.

"No. I don't date underage girls.", Mr Haze teased.

"Oh please, you look underage. Don't talk about me. Now tell me how do you look so young? Drop that skincare routine.", Beau teased and she giggled at Mr Haze's tease. Mr Haze raised his eyebrows as he is feeling speechless with Beau's response. He thought that this girl is something else. He just sighed at her.

"Simple. I don't let people to sit on my face.", Mr Haze smirked in being sarcastic. Nomi suddenly bursted a loud laughter and Beau shook her head slowly and blushed. She looked down in embarrassment while smiling.

"Man, you guys are a bunch of dickheads. I'm done. Let's go to the dancing hall.", Beau smirked at both Mr Haze and Nomi and started to try walking faster.

"Alright, Pingu.", Mr Haze giggled at how Beau is walking.

"Shut up, I'm gonna tell Mr Greg that you guys bullied me!", Beau said jokingly.

"No! No! You are the bully!", Mr Haze and Nomi shouted at Beau and laughed.

"Wow, you guys ganging up on me now, huh? It's okay. I ain't scared shit.", Beau smirked and walked away to the dancing hall.

"Mr Greg!!! Nomi and Mr Haze tried to bully me!", Beau shouted as she came to the dancing hall. She giggled when she said that.

"What? What did they do?", Mr Greg's face turned panicked. Mr Haze and Nomi came into the dancing hall trying to hold in their laughter seeing Mr Greg's response.

"They made fun of the way I walk! They called me 'Pingu'. f**k you, Mr Haze!", Beau smirked and giggled.

"I never called you that, okay? It's just Mr Haze.", Nomi defended himself with a smile.

"No, no! You are ganging up with him on me! You're to blame too!", Beau said.

"Shut up, Pingu.", Nomi teased.

"Pi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi- Pingu, Pingu!", Mr Haze sang the Pingu show's theme song.

"Oh, dear Lord. Pingu? That's all?", Mr Greg giggled and shook his head.

"Relax, girl. That's what you get for not bringing your walking stick with you.", Mr Haze said calmly with a smirk.

"Oh my God! Beau! You don't bring your walking stick? What are you trying to get your ankle injured again?", Mr Greg got panicked again.

"Hey! My ankle doesen't feel hurt anymore, okay? So I walk like a penguin, what's the harm? Walking stick is annoying.", Beau told Mr Greg.

"Yes, Greg. Look at your stubborn student here. She thinks her ankle has gotten better when she still walks like a penguin. Very stubborn. So I scolded her by calling her 'Pingu'. She deserves that.", Mr Haze jokingly complained to Mr Greg.

"Brilliant, Mr Haze. Today, your name is Pingu. I'm gonna have everyone, calling you Pingu today. You deserve that for making fun of Nomi's name and not bringing your walking stick with you. That's not safe, you know that right?", Mr Greg smirked.

"And also, for telling me that she wants to sit on my face.", Mr Haze added and they all laughed.

"It was a joke. Get over that.", Beau crossed her arms and rolled her eyes from Mr Haze.

"Okay, Pingu.", Mr Haze teased and walked away from Beau, leaving her feeling annoyed with him.

The rehearsal starts, and Nomi begins to learn the dancing and acting steps for the show by Mr Greg. Nomi feels a little happy learning with Mr Greg, he could understand everything Mr Greg taught him that day. Mr Greg is a cool, humble and a down to Earth person. He feels safe to be with Mr Greg, although he hopes Mrs Felicia does not come in.

Nomi learns that he has to act like he is possessed by Beau as she will be the ghost. Nomi has to study about how to do the acts by watching horror movies. Nomi does love horror movies so he would want to watch it again to get into the character. Meanwhile, Beau has to sit at the corner as Mr Greg does not allow her to do the rehearsal. Beau's face frowned the whole time. She started to pout her lips and faked throwing a tantrum like a little child. Beau even threw some of her Chemistry books that she hates from her school bag to Nomi in order to annoy him when Mr Greg does not see her doing so. She would end up laughing at how awkward and scared Nomi is with her. She feels jealous that Nomi got to do the rehearsal without her.

Nomi had enough with Beau. He picked up her books and threw it to her back. Beau laughed at Nomi when the books did not catch her which makes Nomi's blood boil a little but he tries to stay cool about it. He ignored Beau and tried to focus on the rehearsal.

Beau took the one of her books that Nomi tried to throw at her and planned to throw at him again. "You know what, Nomi? You're like Chemistry. I hate you.", Beau said and she threw the book to Nomi.

Nomi stopped for a while and stare sharply at Beau. He took a deep breath and tried to be patient because their teachers are around. "What are you doing, Beau?", Nomi whispered harshly as he came near Beau.

"I'm just bored. I hate to sit here and you're the only one doing the rehearsal.", Beau pouted.

"Being bored isn't an excuse to be a b***h. Now don't annoy me.", Nomi said and walked away from Beau.

"Fine! I'll just sleep!", Beau shouted and Nomi ignored what she said.

Mr Haze came to sit down beside her while eating Doritos chips. The crispy sound of the chips that Mr Haze's mouth made as he eats the chips annoyed Beau a little. Beau looked at him with a serious face and began to stare at him.

"What?", Mr Haze asked simply.

"Could you be any more annoying?", Beau asked in being sarcastic and glared at him.

"Want some?", Mr Haze asked simply as he lent the bag of the chips to Beau.

"Bro, thanks. You really know my taste, I'm touched.", Beau said as she touched her chest to fake acting like she is touched by Mr Haze.

"You welcome.", Mr Haze said as he let Beau took some of the chips for herself to eat.

"Why the hell I saw you were throwing some books to Nomi?", Mr Haze asked.

"Hmmm...I hate him.", Beau said simply.

"Why?", Mr Haze asked.

"I don't know. I just do.", Beau said.

"You...always bully people?", Mr Haze asked with a confused face.

"Hmm..here's the thing. No.", Beau smirked at Mr Haze.

"Then why do you always annoy Nomi?", Mr Haze confronted Beau in a relaxing way.

"I'm just kinda bored. So I need to do something fun.", Beau said.

"Annoying people is fun to you, huh?", Mr Haze frowned a bit.

"I don't care. You see him? Look at him, look at his face.", Beau asked Mr Haze to pay attention on Nomi who is busy with the rehearsal.

"Why?", Mr Haze asked while looking at Nomi.

"He's sad.", Beau said simply.

"What do you mean?", Mr Haze said and trying to understand what Beau wants to say.

"He looks like he needs a friend. So I'm here to be one.", Beau said as she smiled softly.

"How do you know he's sad? He told you?", Mr Haze asked.

"No. But I know he is.", Beau said.

"But how?", Mr Haze asked.

"His eyes, his face. Tells everything.", Beau said.

"My mum's a psychiatrist. She ever told me if a person doesn't look peaceful when they sleep, means they are not happy. I saw Nomi was sleeping here this morning, I looked at his face. I immediately felt sad looking at him. I saw sadness, anger, frustration, tiredness, confusion all at once at his face. He looks sleepless. And his eyes? Damn, those eyes are sore, looks like he has been crying for too long. I don't know how to read people's minds, but I can tell he is not happy. He does not look healthy, I hope he is okay.", Beau explained to Mr Haze. Mr Haze's jaw dropped a little at how Beau talked to him about Nomi.

"One question, why were you watching him sleeping?", Mr Haze asked.

"Oh man, you don't dare to tell me I'm a creep, okay? I came here this morning and I thought someone is dead like why the f**k would he lay down here like that, bruh I was scared so I came to check who was it and it was him. Done!", Beau said in feeling annoyed.

"So, your mum's a psychiatrist but she never does a check up on her daughter on why she is always acting like a crackhead all the time?", Mr Haze said in being sarcastic but he did not expect Beau was going to be serious about it.

"She did, for some reasons. Can't tell you about it.", Beau said slowly without looking at Mr Haze.

"Are you serious?", Mr Haze raised his eyebrows a bit.

"Yes.", Beau said. Mr Haze respects that Beau does not seem to be interested to talk about it. He does not want to force her.

"You're okay, now?", Mr Haze asked in concern.

"Yeah, I guess. I hope so. But I'm still gonna be a crackhead that I am now. Ain't gonna change that.", Beau smirked. Mr Haze chuckled at Beau.

Meanwhile, Mr Greg is teaching Nomi how to do the possessed acts and it is hard for Nomi to be confident enough to do that. He thinks that he might look weird doing that.

"C'mon, try do it.", Mr Greg said delightedly. Nomi got blurred out all of the sudden.

"Nomi?", Mr Greg called him as he realises Nomi is acting differently at the moment.

Nomi looked around the dancing hall to see if there are other people there but it is just Mr Greg, Mr Haze and Beau but still, he feels scared to do the acts. He gave an awkward smile to Mr Greg as he is feeling nervous.

"Don't worry, it's just simple, Nomi.", Mr Greg tried to calm Nomi.

At the point, Nomi started to feel like he wants to faint. He started to feel regret of being apart of the show. He is feeling nervous at the thought of how is he going to survive at the show and how he has to face a lot of students while performing. Nomi is worried if people do not like his performance. He started to shiver and his face got pale.

Mr Haze realise what is going on with Nomi as he knows that Nomi has a low self esteem. He got up from where he sat and came towards Nomi.

"Nomi, are you okay?", Mr Haze asked.

"He's shivering. Are you alright?", Mr Greg started to feel concern.

Nomi nodded and looked down. He does not feel good. Beau paid attention to what is going at the moment. She feels like something is wrong when Mr Greg and Mr Haze seems like they are trying to calm Nomi by trying to pat his back. Beau tried to get up from her seat and came to them. As she came, she stood in front of Nomi touch both of his shoulders and look straight into his face.

"Nomi, look at me.", Beau said strictly. Nomi just looked down and could not focus on what she said.

"Nomi.", Beau said sternly. Nomi slowly looks up to see her.

"Breath.", Beau said in trying to calm Nomi down. Nomi slowly took a deep breath. Nomi's anxiety attack feels horrible at the moment as his breath sounds shaking when he was trying to inhale.

"Yo, he's having anxiety attack.", Beau said strictly to Mr Greg.

"Nomi, are you too nervous about this?", Mr Greg asked in concern. Nomi could not reply as he is not in a mood to talk to anyone as the moment. He failed to talk as his breath feels shaking.

"Mr Greg, listen to me. He is not feeling well. He's sleepless and he had a horrible headache this morning. Which that effected him. You need to give him some rest.", Beau told Mr Greg.

"You're not feeling well, Nomi?", Mr Greg asked Nomi but he failed to receive a single answer from Nomi.

"You guys, please don't talk to him. If you guys keep asking him questions, his anxiety will get worse. Let him chill out for a second. My God!", Beau said strictly.

"Alright, alright. Sorry, I'm feeling bad. What should we do now?", Mr Greg asked Beau.

"Give him a rest! Anything! It's been two hours that he has been memorising the scripts.", Beau said in a stern tone.

"Alright, Nomi. If you're not feeling well. I'll let you go home and have a rest. I can't push you like this. I'm sorry.", Mr Greg said in regret. Nomi knew Mr Greg did not push him to do anything at all. He started to feel bad.

"Let's go home, Nomi.", Mr Haze said softly.

"Bye, Mr Haze! I had a great day with you talking about how you don't want me to sit on your face.", Beau said in being sarcastic as she watches Mr Haze started to leave. Mr Haze rolled his eyes away from Beau in feeling annoyed by seeing her smirk.

"Bye, Nomi! Take care!", Beau shouted at Nomi with a cheeky smile. Nomi turned around to look at her. Nomi could feel that smile would cure his anxiety a little. He could not afford to say anything at the moment as he is not feeling good. He could not even afford to smile at her. Nomi started to take his bag and went to the hotel.

•

"What's up, Beau? We still down for the sleepover?", Hannah asked delightedly as Joji and her approached Beau at the school cafe.

"Always.", Beau smirked.

"Yanno, I'm thinkin of inviting another friend to our sleepover.", Beau smirked and winked.

"Oh my God...Mr Haze, right?", Joji tried to annoy Beau with a smirk.

"No, motherfucker !", Beau yelled and kicked Joji's knee.

"Ouch!", Joji screamed in pain that made some students in the school cafe started to look at him.

"Why the f**k you wanna think I wanna invite that short beard elf to our sleepover? That guy thinks he is Chandler Bing, but he's not. He's just an asshole.", Beau laughed.

"What do you mean?", Hannah asked with her eyebrows raised a bit.

"Ugh, you know boys. Girls flirt with them as a joke once, and their stupid ass be thinking it's real and can't get over that one flirt.", Beau rolled her eyes, thinking about Mr Haze.

"C'mon, you told a teacher that you wanna sit on his face. That's probably the first time a student told him that. He's still surprised. It's a culture shock to him.", Joji explained to correct Beau's assumption towards Mr Haze.

"Boy, he is hot. He is 'hot' hot! But trust me, I was just playing around.", Beau told Joji.

"I mean, you wouldn't say that if you didn't think he is right?", Joji smirked.

"I accidentally said that to him because he is way too hot for me to control my words. But, I did feel embarrassed after saying that. Y'all shut up, please?", Beau's cheeks turned red as she started to blush in embarrassment. Joji laughed at her.

"Okay, fine, fine. Now, tell me who you wanna invite?", Hannah asked.

"I'm thinking of inviting Nomi. What do you think?", Beau asked.

"Nomi? Hmmm...he seems antisocial, are you sure?", Joji asked in concern.

"Doesn't he hates you?", Hannah teased and laughed.

"He does. But I don't care, cause you know what? Something like tells me about him.", Beau said slowly.

"What is it?", Hannah asked curiously.

"What do you mean?", Joji asked in starting to feel interested.

"Something tells me he is Piano Boy.", Beau looked down.

"Ah s**t here we go again.", Joji sighed.

"Wait, how do you know it's him?", Hannah asked with her eyebrows raised.

"I don't know. I just have the feeling.", Beau sighed.

"Oh please, Piano Boy is a nobody, okay? I'm tired of you rooting for that guy. He never shows anything about himself. I don't even know if he's a human. He might just be a robot who acts like a human. C'mon Beau, it's been 4 years. What are you doing?", Joji rolled his eyes away from Beau.

"No, Jo! I do feel he is Nomi! I just do! Maybe my dumbass is wrong. But my instincts are strong. Something really tells me it's him.", Beau defended herself.

"What is that 'something' ? I mean, you don't just get the feeling out of nowhere.", Hannah asked.

"Okay, look.", Beau took out her phone from her pocket and went to YouTube to go to Piano Boy's channel and played his last video that he uploaded.

"You guys, I'm gonna play this video. You pay attention carefully. Pay attention more than you do in those stupid classes.", Beau gave Hannah and Joji to take a look at the video that Beau is playing.

"Aight, I'm down.", Joji said in feeling eager and nervous as if Beau wanted to show a paranormal video to him.

"What are you doing? I'm feeling a little scared.", Hannah giggled nervously. Beau paused the video and look at both of them.

"You see his hands?", Beau showed Piano Boy's hands that was playing the piano to Joji and Hannah. Both of them squinted their eyes to pay attention carefully.

"What's wrong with his hands? They look like Nomi's?", Hannah looked up to Beau as she asked that.

"Exactly!", Beau exclaimed.

"How are you so sure? I mean, all hands look the same.", Joji still does not understand Beau's thoughts on Piano Boy.

"Bro, that opinion is just the same as that white kid who told you that all Asians look the same. Dumb.", Beau looked at Joji in feeling annoyed.

"No, I mean how are you so sure that this is Nomi?", Joji asked.

"Bro, I looked at his hands and I felt something so f*****g familiar with those hands. It's like as if I'm used to seeing them.", Beau said.

"Seriously? I thought Piano Boy might be Spanish or something.", Hannah said.

"Maybe. Maybe it is Nomi, or maybe he is just anonymous Spanish guy that we think. I don't know. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong.", Beau said.

"But I do think, it is really him. I'm confident that it is him.", Beau said in feeling so sure.

"How?", Joji asked.

"After I saw his hands. I tried to pay attention to his voice, to see if it is really him. Bro, I gotta tell you. He kinda sounds like him. He sounds like Tim Curry. But I gotta make sure about that 100% when I really hear him actually singing. Because when he talks in usual tone, I couldn't really make sure. I won't feel satisfied until I hear him singing!", Beau exclaimed.

"Hmm, we can recognise him by his voice. Who knows if he is the second Dr. Frank and Further they were talking about?", Joji smirked.

"Did you asked him about the YouTube channel?", Hannah asked curiously.

"No..not yet. I can't just blindly asked him that. I kinda feel a little shy to ask him. What if he thinks I'm creepy or weird. I don't really know if it is really really him. The guy never reveals anything about his ass. And plus, he's not feeling well today. So he has been horrible all morning.", Beau sighed.

"Oh, where is he now?", Hannah asked.

"Oh, Mr Haze sent him to the hotel.", Beau answered simply.

"Are you sure he is a YouTuber? I mean he's like really really quite. Plus, if he really has a YouTube channel, he might be promoting his channel for us to watch like "Hey, I have a YouTube channel! Go check them out!", or some s**t like that.", Joji stated his opinion.

"He's not quite. He's just an introvert. I fought with him a lot, bro. Homeboy can be a little too loud when he's pissed off! Hahaha!", Beau laughed.

"You always piss him off. Poor Nomi! Hahaha!", Hannah laughed.

"Well, he's having a hard time to accept how much of  a b***h Beau is!", Joji teased and they all laughed.

"By the way, he seems like a sad person. So that's why I wanna invite him over.", Beau smiled sadly.

"Why is he sad?", Hannah asked.

"No, girl. He looks depressed to me. I don't know.", Joji stated out his opinion and sighed.

"Exactly.", Beau replied.

"Well, for me, he looks like he's scared. Like as if he's in fear of something. He always looks anxious.", Hannah stated out her opinion.

"That's right. Just now, he got anxiety attack in front of Mr Greg while in rehearsal which was why Mr Haze had to send him to the hotel.", Beau told both of them.

"Gosh, that's horrible!", Joji said in feeling sympathy.

"Well, maybe we all gotta cheer him up. We gotta give him a good time being here before he goes back to Malaysia. So, he can have something to remember us although it's just for a while. He looks like he needs a friend to be with him, he looks like he is long for a happiness, so I'll invite him. Even if he refuses to accept my invitation, at least I hope he knows that he is still matter in this world that we remember to invite him, so he won't feel left out and lonely in this world.", Beau said with a smile on her face.

"Oh, you're so sweet.", Hannah said.

"Well, I really hope he comes. I'm tired of being the only guy in the group. Hahahaha!", Joji laughed then Beau and Hannah laughed along too.

•

'Heyyyy!', Beau sent a text to Nomi while she is laying down on her bed. She waited for Nomi's reply for about a minute and she started to feel a little impatient. She decided to spam Nomi with her text.

'Nomi!'

'Nomi!'

'Nomiiiiiiiiii!'

Beau sent 'Nomi' texts for 10 times but she still has not gotten a reply from Nomi.

"Ugh! What the hell is he doing?" , Beau thought.

"Is he not interested with me?", Beau's thought started to make feel sad and embarrassed. She started to feel as if she is desperate to Nomi.

"Gosh! Why would I spammed him like that? So embarrassing!", Beau thought again.

Then, Beau started to think positive for Nomi into thinking all the probabilities of why Nomi has not replied to her texts for about 15 minutes at the moment. Maybe, Nomi is busy. Maybe, Nomi is sleeping. Maybe, does not like to text her. Maybe, Nomi is trying to ignore her. However, those last two thoughts stated are not positive thinking but it is for Beau.

Meanwhile, Nomi laid down onto his bed to take a break from looking at his laptop's screen as he has been busy hustling to complete his assignment's drafts. He took his phone then he saw about 11 text messages sent from Beau about 30 minutes ago. He was a little shocked to receive text messages from her.

Nomi checked to read all the text messages that Beau sent where she kept calling his name. He smiled a little as he has never received text messages like that for a long time. He has no idea why would Beau texted him that way as if she is clingy at the very first time of texting. He began to type to reply her messages.

'hi beau :).'

After about 30 minutes of overthinking at why Nomi had not replied to Beau's texts, she finally received a text from him. Beau quickly checked her phone to see Nomi sent her just one single text.

'heyy do you wanna come over to my house this Friday? We're having a sleepover.' , Beau replied. Nomi received the text and started to smile as he reads it but too sad he does not feel like coming as he feels too shy. In addition, he knows his mother would not allow him to do that.

'aww, thank you, beau. i would love to. but my mum won't allow me to sleep at a girl's house.' , Nomi replied.

'bro...tf. what the hell are you thinking? XD joji's gonna be there. hannah too. ur not the only one, chill. and dont worry, we ain't gonna have a foursome or sumthin. XD' , Beau replied back as she laughed at Nomi's response.

'ohh...sorry sorry. i don't mean that way. XD. my bad, i'm sorry. i'll try to ask my mum. i hope she can let me go. but do you think, theyre gonna be okay with me? i'm so new here..i'm shy to go.' , Nomi replied.

'i asked them, and they said theyre totally okay with you. they like you tho. they would love it if you come.' , Beau replied with a winked emoji.

'do you have to ask ur mom? ur frickin 18. ur mum needs to chill.' , Beau replied again.

'i have to tell her, she has to know. :)' , Nomi replied.

'well she better let you go. but if she doesen't, i understand. i wont force. but we gonna be lit. so u better come. hahaha XD.' , Beau replied.

'haha okay. i'll try. thank you. :)' , Nomi replied.

'ur welcome. lmk if u could come. we're all down for you here.' , Beau replied.

The conversation between Nomi and Beau ended and Nomi continued doing his assignments. Nomi still feels nervous for tomorrow.