Take responsibility

Rome and Bright 2

When the name 'Brian' was questioned by Rome, all of Bright's leaping excitement was abolished, leaving only nervousness and fear residing in his body.

After all, he was just a young man that had been admitted to a university. No matter how much he clawed at it, he was just a child who had not experienced the ways of the world. What's more, whenever he encountered Rome, his mind would overheat and his heart would go into an overrun.

At this moment, Bright could feel the coldness in Rome's tone through the phone such that he could even imagine his cold face. His heart was in a mess and he did not know how to reply to his question at all.

In the past 5 years, he had immersed himself in his studies from his 2nd year of junior high school to his 3rd year of senior high school, just so that he would be able to attain excellent result to be admitted into the university Rome was in. He did well in the university entrance examination and had received spots to different universities. However, he only wrote Bangkok University on his choice and rejected the rest.

At that time, the scores required for the admission of Bangkok University had yet to be released and all the students were still figuring out what to fill in for their choices but Bright didn't bother checking if his scores were sufficient enough and had straightaway filled up his choice. He then nervously waited for the result. He had already decided that if he failed to enter Bangkok University, he would just re-take the examination until he managed to enter Bangkok University.

Just imagine that a person with such a strong mindset, studying hard had already taken his entire being, how would he know how to love and please his sweetheart?

Especially in the case of his sweetheart's wrath, Bright could not even lie.

Perhaps, he would be able to turn the tides if he said he had no connection with that person?
Unfortunately, in Bright's innocent heart, it seemed that as long as he was admitted to the university and be in the same school as his beloved, he would be satisfied.

In fact, he was indeed very satisfied. Every time he sat in the first row and carefully gazed at Rome's face, he thought it was worthwhile for him to bury his head in the books for the past 5 years!

He could spend the 4 years in university and then another 2 years as a research student— which was a total of 6 years — with Rome to slowly soothe the wounds in his heart.

Although, he and Rome had been separated for 5 years, perhaps, in the past 5 years, Rome's wounds have already been healed...

But, was it really healed? Then why did he think back to Brian just because he looked like him? When they first met, Rome was even distracted and it wasn't just a single occurrence.

He couldn't forget Brian, right?

Perhaps the silence lasted for a long time that Rome did not ask any more questions and warned directly, "I am aware even if you don't say anything. Both of you have the same surname so you must have something to do with Brian but I'm not curious about your relationship. I just want to trouble you to tell him not to think that you can test me in such a naive way. Let me tell you plainly that I have forgotten him for a long time. It's no use trying so hard! Also, please disappear from my sight, I do not want my quiet life to be disturbed."

With this, the words he wanted to say choked on his throat, unable to be articulated out.
He really wanted to continue to answer innocently in that rascal tone: "What connection do we have? Except for the surname, there's nothing else! "

It's just that he had been silent for so long. How credible would this reason be? What's more, the busy signal coming from the phone made Bright's heart cold.