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"Your fingertips brushed in mine that day,
I felt like I'm still alive for a moment…"
Chay saw Kim's retreating figure as he walked out the door of khun's room , painting the path he walked on, in crimson . He turned to see Macau, who had an amused expression adorning his face, he muttered a quick apology to Tankhun about pending assignments and dragged Macau to his room along with him. As soon as he was in, he shut the door behind him and shouted, " What the fuck was that Mac, this shouldn't have happened, he was hurt!" A tear escaped his eyes as he sat on the bed to stabilise himself.
" It's nothing, he's had worse Chay! At Least now you know he cares, he's been hell bent on trying to find our imaginary p'Bear. He looked so consumed in jealousy." Macau said and sat down beside Chay, laughing. " So what? I had to move on, not play with him Mac! He was sad and he got himself hurt!" Chay harshly nudged Macau.
"Hey! No violence okay? He played with you, it's just a little payback. And you were chatting with me anyway, it's his fault to make assumptions and react to them." Macau shrugged.
" We manipulated him into assuming Mac! Changing up my closet using makeup, laughing unnecessarily and damn you for sending me jokes during the movie night! And what if he cares ,Mac? It's wrong!"
"Then, go to him and tell him to not be a cry baby! Think about the positive part Chay, you weren't alone in your relationship , Kim cared too. Maybe he had his reasons to not show." Chay sat down, *Kim cared? Kim loved him?* Maybe Chay was taking too much liberty of thoughts but it felt better, he wasn't gonna admit it but it did. "Whatever…" Chay said as he excused himself.
The next day in the university was more boring than ever, Chay felt the urge to bunk and go to sleep in a comfortable setting rather than sitting and dozing off in class. His sleep was distributed by a panting Macau shaking up his roots ," what the fuck, Macau? Why're you here?"
"We need to leave right now, some shit went down at the house, Vegas just called me, someone's waiting outside to pick us up!" He said catching his breath, in less than a minute , Chay gathered his stuff and followed Macau out.
They spotted a black Maserati , the one with bulletproof glass standing on the gate, Chay rushed to get to the passenger seat while Macau climbed behind. He always took the passenger seat because he felt weird sitting at the back while someone considered him as their duty, he'd rather talk to the guard who drove him.
The car engine revved even before they were completely settled in. Chay looked down the gear box, the driver had a bandage on, he looked up only to see…
"Kim?" Macau shouted. "Stop shouting!" Said Kim without sparing both the people even a single glance.
"But why are you driving us?" Asked Macau, a lot more calmer this time. "Kinn and Porsche are out to settle some business and most of the guards went with them. Vegas asked me to get you both while he took care of…stuff. " Kim replied. Chay sat still, he had an idea of what 'stuff' Vegas would be taking care of but he didn't need elaboration for now, especially from Kim.
"So we're going to the main house Macau?" Chay asked while looking back, he was not gonna ask Kim anything, no matter how much he wanted to. "I don't think so, where are we going Kim?"
"My hidden safe house for the next couple of hours." Kim's reply came.
Chay's phone rang, he immediately took it out in hope of getting a text from Porsche, that he's safe and he would come back, only to find Macau texting him from his alternate number that Macau himself had saved in Chay's phone by the name of "p'bear" with a heart fucking emoji. At this point every person present in the car knew that Kim would take a sneak peek in Chay's phone.
[P'bear❤️: why did you leave early , love♥️?"]
[Chay: no! Not now, not here, I'll kill you!]
[ P'bear❤️: you're no fun ChayChay!]
[Chay: I'm blocking you man, you're an asshole! ]
Chay silenced the notifications and kept the phone in his pocket, the giggling sound of Macau can be heard from the backseat. Kim's jaw was clenched and the hard grip he had on the steering wheels made his knuckles turn white. He abruptly turned the car and by the law of inertia, Chay's hand landed on something soft, he was sure he would have crushed Kim between himself and the car window had he not worn the seat belt.
Chay tightened his hold only to hear a soft hiss sound coming from him, he suddenly realised he had ended up squeezing Kim's injured hand, Kim didn't even flinch. He jerked off his hand and took a hold of his belongings resting on his lap. The remaining ride was completed in utter silence with Chay looking out of the window, Kim driving and Macau ended up dozing off in the back seat.
They were led to a well furnished house that looked absolutely normal and merged with the surrounding and surely didn't look lavish or big enough to be owned by a theerapanyakun.
"Oh, I never knew the family owned a house in this locality .." Macau said while walking in. "Because the family does not own it, it's mine." Said Kim as he locked the door behind them. " The doors are time locked for the next two hours, there are enough snacks and food for you people to survive, I've some work , you can call me up if you need anything else." Kim said and started walking towards one of the book shelves, he pulled a book to which opened a hidden entrance to what looked like an office. " There's wifi too, so that you can chat with your partners." Kim said in a harsh voice before disappearing into the room. Chay and Macau looked at each other, unable to fathom what just happened.
Macau settled in bed to play games on the gaming console in the living area, Chay walked around the house to find it deprived of anything personal at all. He did find Kim's favourite snacks in the kitchen cupboards along with that one particular seaweed snack that Chay loved , some packets of the slightly cheap ramen that Chay used to cook when Kim was still his innocent guitar tutor. He also found Kim's favourite black ivory coffee that Kim loved stocked in the kitchen, what caught his attention was that one jar of coffee that he and Porsche used when they lived in their parents house, this coffee had more chicory than coffee, Chay really liked it, though Kim said it tasted like wood during one of their guitar lessons. He got out of the kitchen and lay down on the couch to sleep, unable to understand why Kim would stock up on things he liked in a safe house nobody knew of.
Exactly two hours later, Kim came out of whatever room he was in, he announced that it was safe to leave now, Macau led Chay out of the place while Kim locked it and wordlessly sat in the car. Macau took the front seat this time, Kim didn't utter a single syllable during the whole ride despite Macau trying to crack jokes that had Chay laughing in fits.
When they reached the main house, Kim simply unlocked the car for them to get down and threw the car keys to one of the guards at the gate as he went in. Porsche came out of the entrance after a minute, followed by Vegas and pulled in Chay for a hug ," thank God, you're safe Chay , hia is sorry, I'll tell you the next time."
Chay scoffed,"it's okay hia, I'm habitual now" Chay said detaching himself from Porsche and made his way inside.
Porsche looked hurt, he was about to follow Chay back inside when he was stopped by a hand on his wrist. "Porsche, do you mind if we talk for a minute?" Asked Vegas. The past year had changed the dynamic of Vegas and Porsche relationship as well, they were kind of friends now with no bad blood, thanks to Pete. They had also bonded over the fact that they raised their younger brothers and shielded them from the shit of the world, they understood the emo and rebel phases of their brothers , shared immense love for riding bikes and sometimes cracked jokes with each other as well.
"Just a minute Vegas, I think I need to go to Chay."
"No Porsche, you need to leave him alone for a minute and listen to me, it's about him." Porsche looked at Vegas, he found whatever he was looking for and nodded for him to continue.
"Let's talk over a drink, we both need one." Vegas said and made way to the bar inside the manor.