nomi and beau

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Nomi woke up from his sleep to see Mr Haze was sleeping beside him with his head tilted to the right side. Nomi realized he was sleeping with his head tilted to the window. He looked out the window and the sky seems dark and he guessed maybe it is night time at the moment but he does not know which country he is at right now. Nomi looked at his watch that shows it is already almost 7pm in Malaysia time but he does not know which country he is at right now so he does not know the exact time.

Nomi looked at Mr Haze's sleeping face and he smirks a little at how he's sleeping. Nomi's feels awkward to see him sleeping with that face. To Nomi, he looks funny while sleeping because Mr Haze is that kind of teacher who would act macho and never smiles to anyone.

Nomi could relate to Mr Haze because Mr Haze is an introvert and does not really like to socialize with people. Nomi can also tell Mr Haze is like a wallflower to anywhere he goes, because when he is with other teachers, he would just sit in the corner and looks at phone all the time. He only talks when it is neccessary.

Mr Haze can make all the girls at Nomi's school go insane as he is a good looking man. He has a tanned skin, cute puppy brown eyes, a pointed nose and a little beard at his chin which makes him even more handsome. He is a short person that some guys at school would make fun of his height but that is never a problem to the girls. His height is just around 170 centimetres. Even Nomi who is younger than him, is taller than him. He is cool with every students but can be cold and really sarcastic sometimes. Maybe not cold but he is just too shy to talk. Nomi once saw a student greeted him a good morning wish but he never replies back instead, he just looked down as he walked past the student.

Nomi became close to Mr Haze when he started teaching in his class since the beginning of January. And they also meet each other everytime they have club meetings. Nomi never tried to ask any questions to him in the class at first because he was scared if he would ignored him like most teachers do to him. Surprisingly, Mr Haze approached him first by coming up to his desk and paid attention to what he was doing with his homework. He broke the ice by praising how cool Nomi's handwriting looks and Nomi just smiled and thanked him then continued doing his homework.

Mr Haze started to notice Nomi when he found out about Nomi's YouTube channel where he loves to do covers of songs. Nomi barely tried to get involved in anything in the Drama and Musical Club because he has a low confidence to face people that make people thinks he is not talented when he secretly is.

•

Flashback of first week of school...

"Hey Najmi..Khan? Right?", Mr Haze approached Nomi when he was packing his things to get back home after the Drama and Musical Club meeting.

"Ye-Yes.", Nomi answered shyly and nodded.

"Do you mind if we walk together until I get to my car? Haha.", Mr Haze chuckled and acted kind of awkward.

"Uh..okay.", Nomi awkwardly answered while scratched his head which was not so itchy. Nomi started to feel scared and started to have thoughts if he had done anything wrong that Mr Haze wanted to talk to him. He felt confused.

"Do you make YouTube videos? Like you do song covers and play pianos?", Nomi stopped walking and felt shocked at Mr Haze's question because he does the videos on YouTube anonymously as he never shows his face in all of his YouTube videos.

Nomi wanted to deny to state that he has never done any videos on YouTube but his shocked face has gave the answer of 'yes' to Mr Haze but he asked Nomi again to make sure.

"So the YouTube channel of the name 'Piano Boy' is you?", Mr Haze's eye lightened up when he asked the question and his smile shows of a hope that it is really Nomi's YouTube channel.

Nomi looked down and felt embarrassed and regretted, 'How the f**k he knows it's me? How annoying.' , his heart spoke.

"Why Najmi? Is there anything wrong?", Mr Haze's started to feel worried at the thought if he had said anything wrong to him. The smile from his face immediately disappeared.

Nomi's body started to shiver and his stomach began to churn at the thought if his teacher wanted to make fun of him. He felt so stupid that he could not lie after he accidentally showed a shocked face to Mr Haze.

"H-h-how do you know?", Nomi's voice shook when he asked the question. The question that he asked sounded really slow but luckily Mr Haze could heard him.

"Well I'm always on YouTube haha. One day I was scrolling on YouTube to see what Disney movie should I watch then I saw your video recommended to me. I didn't know it was you at first but when I heard your voice I had a thought maybe it was you hahaha. So I asked.", Mr Haze laughed a little awkwardly and smiled.

Nomi felt embarressed but he hid it with a smile as he looked up to him. Then he continued to look down.

"So it is really you?", Mr Haze asked with a hope on his face.

Nomi took a few seconds to nod slowly as he felt regret and embarressed. He felt like he wanted to take down his YouTube channel but he could not because that is where he makes his money from.

"Oh my God! I can't believe you're that talented!", praised Mr Haze delightedly. His began to smile with his neat white teeth showing which he barely ever does.

Nomi felt confused when he heard Mr Haze's praise. He had a thought if Mr Haze really meant it or just being sarcastic as he always does. He was confused that he looked up and widened his eyes with his jaw dropped a bit.

"What?", Nomi asked in disbelief. He really could not understand what Mr Haze actually meant.

"No, really. That video of where you covered Mercy by Shawn Mendes...I was like man...you did so great! That video got millions of views. I didn't know you have like almost one million subscribers! Good job bro!", Mr Haze explained that made Nomi dropped his jaw a little more. He does not know what to respond to Mr Haze.

"I felt like you were in pain when you sang the song. I was like bro I could feel your pain.", Mr Haze shook his head to expressed how he felt.

Nomi immediately remembered when he made the cover back in 2016. He remembered how he used to listen to that song everyday because he was missing his ex-girlfriend so much. When he started singing the song for the YouTube video, Mr Haze was right, he was really in pain of missing someone he loved. He sang the song with all of his heart. He was really sad when he made the cover. He covered the song acoustically with playing with his piano which is why his YouTube channel is named 'Piano Boy'. He covers almost every songs by playing his piano.

"Really?", Nomi asked Mr Haze, acting cool and did not want to show how surprised he was at the time.

"Yes, Najmi. You are very talented Nomi. You should get involved with the club more. Show yourself out there, shine yourself to the world that you are great. Your shine could inspire people one day, bro.", Mr Haze looked into Nomi's eyes as he could noticed Nomi keeps a lot of secrets and pain in his deeply tired brown eyes. Mr Haze felt a little sad to see Nomi that way. Nomi has always looks like he is in fear.

Nomi just gave Mr Haze a smile as he felt really happy when he heard his teacher's motivation. He can feel that Mr Haze's words are just genuine and honest because he had never had a teacher who would genuinely say those words to him. He felt in awe. He actually could felt that he is still matter in this world because he constantly feels like no one needs him in this world.

"Just call me Nomi, teacher.", Nomi tried to correct Mr Haze on how to call him for the first time as he had never asked a teacher to call him that.

"Nomi?", Mr Haze felt confused.

"Yes. Nomi.", Nomi smiled.

"Najmi..Nomi. Oh okay. Now I know why your friends always call you Nomi. Cool nickname. Hahaha.", Mr Haze chuckled.

"Thank you, my mum created that when I was little.", Nomi explained briefly.

"Oh okay. My mum calls me Hazelnut! Hahaha.", Mr Haze laughed a little and made Nomi laughed too.

"Hahaha why?", Nomi laughed.

"She said cause I have hazelnut-like coloured eyes.", Mr Haze explained and still laughing.

"Oh, that's sweet.", Nomi praised in an awe.

"Could you promise me something?", Nomi asked Mr Haze.

"What is it?", Mr Haze asked curiously.

"Keep my YouTube channel as a secret? I don't want anyone knows about this.", Nomi said fearfully.

"Is it because you're embarrassed to let anyone know?", Mr Haze asked. Nomi took a few seconds to nod slowly.

"It's okay. I respect that. Don't worry. I won't tell anyone.", Mr Haze promised with a smile.

Nomi bowed down to Mr Haze when they arrived at the teacher's parking lot at school. Mr Haze waved at him as a goodbye sign and he waved back at Mr Haze. Nomi did felt a little happy talking to Mr Haze. Mr Haze is actually kind but he barely shows it. Nomi has always thought that Mr Haze is just cold and antisocial with everyone but he is wrong.

•

The flight to Los Angeles takes about 18 hours to the destination, which means Nomi will arrive there around 9 a.m of Malaysia time. His heartbeat raced a little when he thinks about it. He took a deep breath to calm down. He put both of his hand on the left side of his chest where his heart located. He could feel his heartbeat and he suddenly feels sad that he wants to cry but he controls it. He looks up and his heart silently recites a prayer to God that everything will be alright. He is scared to do the show. He is not ready for the show. He does not know what to do. He feels depressed that he has so much to do all at once.

'Allah..help me.' , Nomi closed his eyes and he prayed in silence. He could feel his heart is breaking into pieces. He feels like he wants to cry so bad but he does not want people to see him. He unbuckled his seatbelt of his passenger seat and got up and slowly walked to the restroom of the plane.

As he walks to the restroom he saw his mother who is sitting at the back, sleeping soundly with her head tilted to the window area. His heart broke even more to see her. Ever since his sister died, he feels sad everytime he sees his mother's sleeping. She looks sad everytime she sleeps. He can see how tired she is. Only Nomi sees, how much she has struggled alone to prevent everything from falling apart. She works hard to take care of him although he convinced her so many times that he could be independant to take care of himself.

"I only have you left, my love. You are my first baby. You are my everything. Please don't leave me. I love you so much and always have been." , the words that his mother said to him will be kept in his heart and his mind forever. He could still feel how tight she held his hands and sobbed the night after his sister's funeral. Nomi remembers how he hugged her so tightly and cried so loud at the thought that he never wants to lose her too.

Nomi got into the plane's restroom and he immediately started to have suicidal thoughts running around in his head. He feels like he wants to jump off this plane. He feels like this is too much for him to handle. He feels useless and stupid. Tears started to run down his cheeks and he started crying. He took off his glasses so he can let his tears out comfortably. He closes his mouth so hard and tight so nobody could hear him crying. He wanted to scream but he has to force himself to hold it in. He feels like there is a lump in his throat that he feels like he could not breath. Nomi started to feel furious that he does not have his scissors with him. He remembers that the scissors is in his school's pencil case. He started to feel disatisfied that he could not be able to hurt himself. He began to mess up his hair that he keeps pulling it. He wants his scissors.

"f**k!" , he whispered harshly. He lifted up his sleeves and he scratched his arms which already has scars as hard he can. He feels frustrated because that it is not enough for him. He wants his scissors. He pulled his hair again in frustration. This is not satisfying for him. He punched the restroom's wall and his legs started to kick it. He feels like he wants to break this whole restroom.

After about 20 minutes of having a breakdown in the restroom, he suddenly heard a knock on the restroom door that distracted him from his anger.

"Is someone in there?", Nomi heard a man asked the question after he heard the knock.

His jaw dropped and he is in panic. He looks at himself in the mirror and he looks like a mess with hair looking like he just got electric shock and his eyes are horribly red and sore from all the crying.

He quickly washed his face and ripped off a few tissues in the restroom to wipe his face but his face still looks the same. He tried to correct his hair but his hair failed to be back to normal.

He heard a knock again with the same voice asking politely, "Hello? Is someone in there?"

'If no one's here, then why is it locked b***h? Motherfucker.' , Nomi's heart spoke irritatedly. He feels so annoyed by the person who knocks the door. He does not have time to make his face goes back to normal that he had to go out with that messed up looking face.

Nomi unlocked the restroom door and looked down. He got out of the restroom without looking at the person who knocked the door as he walks so fast away from the restroom.

He got back to his seat and Mr Haze is still sleeping beside him and he felt relieved by that. At least, his face would have time to go back to normal while Mr Haze is sleeping.

Nomi could still feel his heart crying and he can feel his heart keeps breaking and breaking. He wants to cry so badly but it is not the right time. He feels so frustrated that he could not have his breakdown in peace. He feels so annoyed that he wants to punch someone in the face.

Nomi's head suddenly felt dizzy after all the crying. He put his hand to his head and he felt so tired and sleepy again. The plane does not make him comfortable all of the sudden and he could not feel at peace. He leaned againts his seat as he feels so vunerable at the time. He wishes to be on his bed and covers his body with his blanket to feel the comfort. The air in the plane makes him feel cold.

He could feel his tears wanting to come out but he is trying his best to control it. He took a few deep breaths to stop the tears from coming out. His throat feels a little hurt as he could still feel a lump in his throat. He hates it when he wants to cry but he could not. It does not feel satisfying to him.

His eyes feels sleepy as he keeps leaning against his chair. He closes his eyes and he decided to sleep to forget about the negative thoughts that are stucked in his mind.

•

"C'mon Beau! What are you doing?", yelled Beau's dance teacher, Mrs Felicia that made her feels so irritated but she tries her best to hide it from her. Beau does not like her ever since she got into highschool. She does not understand how could someone so annoying like Mrs Felicia could be one of the teachers in the Drama and Musical Club in her school. She wishes Mr Greg, the other teacher who is also responsible for the club is there with her everytime.

Beau's dancing got slowed as she feels tired and the more she practice her dancing, the more difficult for her to catch her breath. She has been practicing the moves for the past two weeks and it has been exhausting. She does not get enough rest since she has to get involved in the show at her school. She stopped dancing and asked Mrs Felicia if she could let her have a break for five minutes. Mrs Felicia's face frowned when Beau stopped her dancing.

"Can I...take a break for while?", Beau asked while breathing heavily.

"Are you kidding? A break? We have five days left for the show, we don't have time for this!", Mrs Felicia said in a stern tone.

"A five minutes break won't make me forget the whole dance moves. God damn it, chill.", Beau said in an irritated tone while crossing her arms and rolled her eyes from her.

"Mind your language young lady.", said Mrs Felicia still with the stern tone and widen her blue eyes.

"Whatever.", Beau said simply, not feeling satisfied with her teacher's actions. She almost wanted to call her 'b***h' but Mrs Felicia should be glad she still has 10% of patience left.

"Okay. Don't waste your time. Ready? One..two..three..go!", Mrs Felicia started the music again and Beau started dancing.

This time, Beau gets a horrible headache that made her eyes kind of feeling like it is spinning around. She could not be able to focus properly. She feels like she wants to pass out. As she dances around, she accidentally tripped over her bag and she fell down the floor. She sprained her right ankle and screams in pain.

"Ahhhhh!", Beau screamedly loudly and starts to cry.

"Oh my God!", Mrs Felicia sighed when she saw that happened and ran to her.

Mr Greg came into the dancing hall feeling stressed out as he just received a bad news and he has something important to tell Beau about it but when he came in he straight away ran towards Beau and Mrs Felicia when he heard Beau's crying. He has no idea what is happening.

"Hey, what's going on?", Mr Greg asked when he ran to both of them. When he came near to the incident, he suddenly got panicked when Beau injured her ankle.

"Oh my God! What happened?", Mr Greg's head turned to Mrs Felicia when he asked the question.

"She was dancing around and she tripped over her bag and bam! She sprained her ankle!", Mrs Felicia sighed in feeling regret.

Mr Greg is concerned of what happened and tries to calm Beau but failed. Beau keeps crying in pain.

"It's okay, it's okay. We'll get you to the clinic, alright?", Mr Greg called a few of his colleagues in order to help carrying Beau to his car as she could not walk. Mr Greg decides to bring to the clinic right away.

Beau stopped screaming after she finally got to Mr Greg's car because she realized she has been seeming dramatic to everyone. She decides to be quite in handling the pain but her nose still sniffs as she is still crying. Beau did not want to cry out loud so she choose to cry quitely. Tears could not stop running down her cheeks. Mr Greg felt pity and regret, he tried to calm her down by trying to massage her bruised pale-skinned knee. He knows how Beau is active in the dancing classes and is also in gymnastics ever since she was a freshman. He has seen Beau sometimes got injured from dancing or doing gymnastics.

Mr Greg quickly drove to a clinic nearby on high speed. When they arrive, he asked for some help from some nurses in the clinic to carry Beau inside. Beau immediately got carried into the emergency room. Mr Greg is asked to wait outside of the room as they are about to give Beau a treatment to her ankle.

Mr Greg is hoping Beau's ankle would get well soon. He is also very stressed out that he got a bad news from his Malaysian penpal, Mr Haze that the student, James that will be doing the show with Beau has just got replaced by a new student which is Nomi. The reason is because James decided to quit in the last minute and has never really cooperate for the show's practice. He is so worried that his heart is pounding. He leans againts his seat infront of the emergency room and his green eyes looked up to the clinic's ceiling and his mind begins to think about what does he have to do to solve all of this.

The show is in five days, Beau just sprained her ankle from doing too much practice, plus, Mr Haze just replaced the student named James with a new student named Najmi Khan. Mr Greg's heart feels so heavy that he feels like he wants to cancel this show but he could not bare to do that. This show is held anually and it is very important just like other events held in the Los Angeles High School. He could not just simply cancel the show and plus Mr Haze and his student is currently on the plane, flying to Los Angeles all the way from Malaysia, he feels bad about that too. Mr Greg rubs his head and sighed as he could feel he can get a major headache just to think about this messed up situation.

After a while, Mrs Felicia came into the clinic looking rushed. As she came in she looks around as she trying to find something. Mr Greg is guessing maybe she is looking for him. Mr Greg feels too tired to stand up and approaching her so he just chose to sit there and let her find him by herself.

"There you are!", Mrs Felicia said in relieved and sighed. Mr Greg begins to correct his sitting position in order to sit straight and looking professional from leaning againts the seat. Mrs Felicia sat beside him. Mr Greg realized she looks scared and sweating.

"I have a bad news.", Mr Greg said slowly.

"What?", Mrs Felicia looked straight to Mr Greg's face.

"My friend said he had to replace the student, James with someone new.", Mr Greg said in disappointment and the news straight away shocked Mrs Felicia that she widened her eyes as wide as she can.

"What?", Mrs Felicia said in a high pitched tone. Mr Greg started to feel panic hearing her tone.

"Right. Calm down and listen to me.", Mr Greg said trying to sound as calm as possible as he knows Mrs Felicia very well when she is frustrated.

"Greg how in the hell do you expect me to calm down? Is your friend dumb or something? Or is he feeling like he has been living in this world for too long? Cause I'm ready to kill him.", Mrs Felicia said while loosing her chill slowly.

"Look, please don't blame him, okay. Let me explain. Just know that this is not something easy for him to do. I know how he feels.", Mr Greg said sadly.

"But why?", Mrs Felicia asked, still in shock after hearing the news.

"Well apparently because James quit all of the sudden and he has never really work hard for this so Mr Haze had to quickly replace him with a student named...", Mr Greg explains and stopped his sentence for a while trying to remember the student's name who replaced James. He quickly took out his phone to check his conversation with Mr Haze on w******p to check on the new student's name.

"With who?", Mrs Felicia asked impatiently.

"Umm...Naj...Najmi...Khan. Yes, Najmi Khan.", Mr Greg said slowly as he tries to read the name. He thinks the name is too hard to pronounce.

"Najmi who?", Mrs Felicia asked, feeling curious.

"Najmi Khan if I'm not mistaken. I don't know if I pronounce his name right.", Mr Greg rolled his eyes and sighed thinking about Nomi's full name.

"Does this Najmi boy knows what is going on? The show is in five damn days.", Mrs Felicia said.

"Of course not. Poor boy..it must be so hard for him right now.", Mr Greg shook his head. Mrs Felicia looked down to the clinic's floor and feels speechless about what happened.

"You know, I think I'm gonna have to discuss with Mrs Margaret tomorrow about this. I'm thinking of postponing the show to at least the next two weeks. I'm thinking of making a change for this. This has been a messed up.", Mr Greg said in a stern tone.

Mrs Felicia turned her head to look at Mr Greg, "What changes do you wanna make?", she asked.

"Well, since I see no hope in Beau's ankle could get well in just a few days and James have quit and I know for sure that the new boy must be crying right now looking at the scripts. I think I wanna change the scripts. Let it just be a musical show where they both do the acting but no talking but just includes a few simple dancing steps as Beau's ankle is not okay for now, she wouldn't have to move a lot. Ugh, I know what I wanna do. I have the ideas in my head. Let me do the work this time, I have ever been a student, I have ever struggled like them so I know what I am doing.", Mr Greg said strictly to Mrs Felicia.

"Alright. It's my fault for doing such long ass scripts.", Mrs Felicia said as she started to feel stupid.

"I don't say it is your fault. I never said that. Right now, it's no one's fault here. I'm just feeling sympathy to those two. Beau is like dying in there because of her ankle and she is restless, you can totally tell. And the new boy probably has no idea what is going on and all the sudden he has to memorize the scripts in the very last minute. Can you imagine how painfully stressful that feels for the both of them? I'm gonna have to discuss this with Mr Haze when he arrives.", Mr Greg expressed his sympathy to both, Beau and Nomi.

"The one to blame here is James. He literally have f****d up all of us. Stupid asshole.", Mrs Felicia said while anger is building up in her.

"Now don't say those words. There are kids here.", Mr Greg said while pointing slowly to the parents who bring their children to the clinic.

"f**k it Greg. I don't say it out loud. I'm f*****g pissed right now. Shut up.", Mrs Felicia rolled her eyes from Mr Greg. Mr Greg sighed and did not respond to her.

"I have to pick up my son and go home. I can't stay here longer. Tell me about Beau if she's alright and tell her I'm sorry.", Mrs Felicia got up and leaves the clinic. Mr Greg just nodded at what she said and leaned againts his seat as she left. He took a deep breath and exhales. He looked up to the ceiling and thinks about Beau. He is worried about her condition.

He suddenly heard a door opens and he turned his head to the door. He saw a nurse coming out from the doctor's room and called his name.

"Mr Greg Thomas, you may come in.", the nurse said politely. Mr Greg got up immediately and went into the room to see the doctor. In the doctor's room, Mr Greg learns that Beau could not be able to walk for about a week but her ankle will get better. Gladly, her injury is not that serious. Beau will not be able to go to school until her ankle gets better. The doctor wrote a medical certificate letter that Beau will not be attending school for a week in order to get her ankle recover from the injury.

After talking to the doctor, he is then finally allowed to see Beau. She is sleeping and is looking tired. Her face looks pale and sweaty. Mr Greg came to sit beside her. Beau may have heard the sound of him pulling the chair beside her bed so she is awake. She slowly opened up her eyes and her head slowly turned to Mr Greg. Mr Greg looks at her with concern, "Hey..You're awake.", Mr Greg said softly with a little smile on his face.

Beau did not say anything or even smile to Mr Greg. She feels so exhausted to do anything.

"Are you alright now?", Mr Greg asked. Beau shakes her head as a 'no' sign.

"You can go home after this. I'll send you.", Mr Greg said. He took out the doctor's medical certification letter from his pocket and gave it to Beau.

Beau slowly took the letter from his hand and read it. She learns that she could not be attending school for a week. She turned to Mr Greg with a confused look.

"You don't have to go to school for a week. Just stay at home, take a rest.", he said as he saw the confused look on her face.

"But the show...", Beau begins to talk about the show in a very weak tone but Mr Greg cuts her words off, "I will talk to the principal to postpone it. You don't have to worry.", Mr Greg said with a smile.

Beau is still confused but she chooses to stay quite as she feels too tired to talk. Mr Greg could tell Beau is feeling worried by the look on her face.

"You don't have to worry about it. I know what to do. You just take a rest at home.", Mr Greg calms her down.

The nurses helped Beau to get up from the clinic's bed to get to Mr Greg's car. The doctor gave Beau a walking stick so it can help her to walk until her ankle gets better.

Mr Greg drove to Beau's house to get her home. As they arrived, Mr Greg helped Beau to get out of his car and rang the house's doorbell. Beau's brother, Ben, opened the door with a sleepy face. Beau is guessing maybe her brother may have been sleeping as he always takes a nap in the evening. Ben's face changed from sleepy to shocked as he saw Beau's ankle is injured and she is walking with a stick. His jaw drops dramatically.

"Oh my God! What happened?", Ben asked after he turned to Mr Greg, expecting for an explanation.

"She sprained her ankle while doing the dancing practice at school. But don't you worry..the doctor said she's gonna be fine. It's not that serious, she is going to be okay.", Mr Greg tries to calm Ben down.

"What the hell? You broke your ankle? Oh no..", Ben said as he feels regret of what happened. He turned to Mr Greg and thanked him for sending Beau home.

"Anyways, thank you, Mr...", Ben stopped as he does not know Mr Greg's name.

"Greg. Mr Greg.", Mr Greg said with a smile.

"Oh, yes. Thank you, Mr Greg for your kindness. It's a pleasure to meet you.", Ben said with a smile.

"You're welcome. I'm gonna go home. Here's some meds that the doctor gave for Beau. Make sure she takes it until her ankle gets better. Take care of your sister. Goodbye.", Mr Greg said while giving the medicines that he got from the doctor to Ben.

Ben took the medicines and thanked Mr Greg. Mr Greg walked out of Beau's house area and headed towards his car. Beau waved at her teacher with a weak smile as she is too vulnerable to say anything. Mr Greg did the same to Beau and got into his car and left.

After Mr Greg's car has disappeared from their visions, Ben started to nag at Beau for what happened while helping her to get into their house.

"What the hell happened? How did you sprained your ankle?", Ben asked, looking worried.

"Just help me get to my room. I'm too depressed to talk right now.", Beau said slowly with a numb face.

"How are you gonna take a shower like this? You need my help?", Ben offered to help Beau taking her bath.

"Ew no. Where's mom?", Beau made a disgusted face at the thought of her brother helping her taking a bath.

"Mom's still at work. She has to do overtime shift today. So she's gonna be home late.", Ben sighed.

"Just let me help you, okay?", Ben rolled his eyes from Beau.

"No. I'll do it myself. I'll call you if I need anything. Now please help me get to upstairs.", Beau said as she feels uncomfortable that her body is sweating.

"Fine.", Ben said simply and straight away helped Beau to get to upstairs.

Beau took off her clothes although it was a little bit hard for her to take off her pants but she still managed to do it herself as she feels embarrassed to have her brother helping her taking a bath.

In the shower, she took a bath with hot water and she took her bath carefully to take care of her ankle. She can feel all the tension is released from her body after taking the hot bath. She feels a little happy that she won't have to go to school for a week. She could not wait to sleep to cover all the sleeps she had missed a few nights before. However, in the same time she still feels worry that Mr Greg wants to postpone the show. She blames herself that if she did not hurt her ankle, the show will still go on. She started to overthink about everything. Whatever it is, she feels so exhausted to think about right now. Right now, she just wants to go to bed and sleep. That is the most important one for her now. She is hoping that everything about the show will be alright.