[67. What's going on ?]
After lunch, Oak was standing in the study hall of industrial Engineering block, talking to a group of four guys from his class. First year students were introducing themselves to seniors in groups and were writing down their names. Oak saw Phet with a group of girls and boys writing down the names of seniors on a piece of paper. He felt like calling him and he called.
" Hey...19026"Phet at first didn't realize Oak was calling him but then Oak again called the number and Phet remembered ' 19026' is his ID number. He turned and looked at Oak." Come here.", Oak motioned. Phet immediately walked to him." Why are you writing the names in a piece of paper. Don't you have the money to buy a book or diary. Are you that poor ?"" No..I don't have an extra book with me now. I will write the names to a book evening."" Hmm..You are again proving yourself stupid. You are wasting dou[68. Chance]Phet took his clothes out of the washing machine and went to the back parlour of their room to hang them on the railing. He moved Art's shirts a little to make space for his clothes. Then he saw someone on the opposite building, the third year dorm, picking their shirts which were kept for drying. He looked carefully and soon he realized it was none else than Oak. Phet was more than surprised. ' God ! The opposite dorm is Oak's ? Oh why ? I am already tired of him at college ? Here too ? Shit ! I was thinking to sit here and study. Now I can't.'Oak then went inside with his clothes and Phet started to hang his clothes. But soon Oak came back with a bucket and started hanging wet shirts on a hanger. Phet moved back and stood hiding behind one of Art's shirt. He peeked from behind and watched the older hanging his shirts.Oak was doing the task very neatly. Phet found it funny that Oak was search
[69. Stalking me ?]Dae left home first. As soon as he reached the bus Stop, Chau's Brezza approached him. He hopped in with a smile. Chau smiled back happily." There's a good news. Let me tell you first ?", Chau asked." Oh..what ?", Dae asked confused." Nothing much. I am throwing out a small party at my house tomorrow, as we won the match. My parents gave me permission."" Oh..wow ! So I am the first person to be invited to the party ?"" Yeah..", Chau nodded smiling. " You will come, right ?"" Yeah..I will. At what time tomorrow ?"" 7 Pm.", Chau said. " Don't know when it will end. Dae, have you ever been to night parties.", he asked curiously." Ahmm..actually no. But I will come. Our whole team will be there, right ?"" Yeah...everyone will be there. And there will be people from my class and some other friends. Anyway I made a list and I am inviting only 85 people. A
[70. Smelly Popcorn]Aroon quickly walked to their mini theatre room and Dae followed. The older switched on the projector and then turned on the laptop. He connected it to Wi-Fi and then went to Netflix and searched for a good movie. "You choose a movie.", he said to Dae. Dae nodded and went to the laptop. He picked a random movie in which he found the actor handsome. Aroon switched off the lights and then went and sat on the big couch. He expected Dae to come and sit near him. But After playing the movie which was apparently ‘I fine..Thank you..Love you’, Dae went and sat on the other couch.Aroon felt a bit disappointed. He stood up. "We got some snacks. I will go and get them.", he went out and soon came back with two packets of potato chips and a popcorn buckets. He also had two Pepsi cans in his hands. He was struggling to carry everything. He walked to Dae and stretched it to him. The younger took a Pepsi can and a chips packet from his hands.
[71. Video Games]Aroon came back home with Oak in less than half an hour. The other three also arrived shortly. They sat huddled up on the couches and chatted while Aroon went to the kitchen."Hey..where is your little brother?", Atid finally asked."Hmm..he is in his room. Phet is also there." Aroon answered coming out of the kitchen with two glasses of grape juice." oh..our junior is here ?", Kris exclaimed. "Oak...your favourite junior is here."" What ? My favourite junior ?", Oak rolled his eyes. " He is my least favourite junior."" Then why did you make him their class leader ? I think you even know his admission number by heart.", Preed teased.“ I thought he had a leadership quality. But I was wrong. I just asked him to write the list of his classmates to give the professors and he already complained to Dae. He don’t have the quality to become a prefect. I regret making him the prefect. Now I am the one
[72. I'm not a kid]After playing over watch and some other video games for sometime, the boys felt bored. Dae suggested they go and sit in the balcony watching the older boys swim. Strangely enough Phet agreed. As soon as they reached the balcony, they could hear the sounds of water and merry whistling. Down, the boys were swimming much enthusiastically in the pool.The younger boys looked down amusedly. Preed and Kris were now having a competition between each other and Atid was cheering them. Aroon was simply sitting on the edge, dangling his legs in the water, as if lost in some thoughts. And lastly, Oak was lying on the sun launcher, fully dressed in warm clothes, looking up at the sky, not at all bothering about what his friends were doing." He is such a spiritless, grumpy old guy.", Phet said looking at Oak." He is a very responsible guy. He is the rep of your whole department, right ?", Dae contradicted.Phet chuckled. " I don't
[73. I love you]Aroon's POVI can't sleep. When I close my eyes, what I could see is Dae's face, his red cheeks stained with dry tears, his watery eyes, his messy hair. I can't stop thinking about him.Ahh..why can't I just sleep? After all nothing happened to him. I closed my eyes tightly and pressed my face into the pillow. Still my mind was rewinding the scene of Dae crying silently, sitting beside me in the car.He was literally broken after the incident but I didn't even try to console him. Instead, I shouted at him. I was angry, angry as hell. I had the anger to kill that Kiet. I was angry at Dae too. First of all I had asked him to be careful but he ignored me. And then why couldn't he push him off and punch him. Don't he even have that much strength? And God ! why is everyone behind him ? Why the hell is he this much beautiful ?I was snapped out of my thoughts as I heard sobs from Dae's room. I immediately kicked the sh
[74. I will be there with you.]Dae woke up in the morning remembering the things from the previous night. He was hugging the teddy bear. He looked around for Aroon and realized the older was not in the room. He gotup, went to the bathroom and brushed his teeth. Then he walked out of the room to hear a spoon falling in the kitchen. He walked downstairs to the kitchen and saw Aroon doing something. It was only 7 Am on a Sunday morning and Aroon already got up and was in the kitchen. Dae was surprised. "Aru...what are you doing?", he asked."Cooking noodles.", Aroon turned smiling." Why can't you just call servants ? Why actually did you give them leave ?", Dae asked but didn't get any reply. Aroon just turned and continued stirring in the pot. Dae went closer and looked at the noodles boiling in the stove. He bent a little to smell it. "chicken noodles?", he asked."Yeah..don't you like it?""Uhmm..I like it."Aro
[75. Be a good boy and obey me]" So explain, why you didn't tell me about your step brother? why did you lie ? Why you said you were going to your cousin's house ? ", asked Aom, glaring at Aroon who was sitting in front of her, staring down at his feet." I wanted to spend time with Dae.", Aroon said." What ? What ridiculous replay ? He is your brother, right ? He is always with you. Why you ignore me to spend time with him. And Why you always say something when I ask you about going out for a date ? "" Aom, I was not in good terms with him till last day. I was hurting him since a long time. You won't understand. I don't know how to explain you. "" Why can't you explain me ? Why were you hurting him ? And you guys became good now ?", Aom asked.Aroon sighed. " Yeah. We are good now. I hurt him a lot due to some misunderstanding. Now everything's okay. He forgave me. And I need to be a good brother to him. I need to take care of
[167. I will be with you.]The drive to Sky Park is only 20 minutes. The boys sits in the back seat of a cab, peering out of the windows at the bright lit malls and shops on either sides of the highway. It's almost 7 Pm and all the shops has been brightly lit with colourful lights.'Fake Love, BTS' is playing on the radio in the background and Dae tries humming along with the song whilst carefully observing the Seoul city. The driver, who is probably a guy in his late twenties also sings along with the song in a low voice whilst vigorously shaking his head. Aroon just sits and enjoys the cool wind whipping through his cheeks from the taxi's open window." Are you two a couple ?", the driver suddenly asks stopping his singing and glancing at them through the mirror. Both Aroon and Dae is surprised. Not because the driver asked them that question but because he asked in English." Yeah..", Aroon replies. The driver just smiles in response and starts
[166. Ice rink]Dae sits in one of the side seats of a bus to Seoul with the older's phone in his hands, his eyes glued on the phone screen, his lips curved upward and his dimples visible as he reads the rest of the comments under their post. There had been a lot of new comments, the morning and new comments are appearing every minute. Most of them are supportive and Dae can’t help but feel extremely happy. Whenever he comes across a negative comment, he quickly skips it. He doesn’t let his mind get affected by the negative remarks.Aroon sits beside the younger, carefully watching his expression, smiling slightly whenever the younger’s smile widens a bit more. The boys had left Min's apartment only half an hour ago, after having the breakfast Granny min prepared for them. “ Enough Bun.”, Aroon says after sometime. “ You will get a head ache if you read while traveling.”“ Oh..really?”, Dae tilts his head and asks. “ Yeah I think I am s
[ 165. Overcame Fear]It had past midnight. Dae lied awake looking at the dark ceiling above him, his eyebrows scrunched together as he tried to make some important decision regarding his relationship with Aroon. The older was sound asleep beside him, still one of his strong arms caging him protectively from one side." Aru..", he suddenly called shaking the older. He needs to tell the older something urgently. Out of nowhere, he has suddenly got some strange yet strong courage, a courage to do something, something daring. He needs to do it right now or what if he loses the courage tomorrow morning?Aroon groaned in discomfort as Dae called him again. Dae reached his hands to the nearby switch board and soon the lights were turned on. Aroon's eyelashes fluttered in irritation at the sudden lightening that filled the room along with the younger calling his name whilst shaking him. " What bun ?", he asked slowly opening his eyes." Aru, I have took one impo
[164. Baby..patience ]Aroon sat on the bed, staring at the younger, sitting huddled up on the couch watching some cartoon on TV after having the ramen noodles cooked by granny min, his plump lips curved upward at the end and his dimples visible as he peered at the television screen. The younger looked so cute and hot in his new light blue shirt and cream short shorts.Aroon looked at his watch. It was almost 9 Pm. Dae isn't getting bored watching the damn cartoon. At last Aroon sat up from the bed, ruffling his hair and walked to the younger, the sweet smell of strawberries encasing him as he reaches near him.He slumps down beside the younger inhaling his sweet smell deep into his nostrils. But the younger is so immersed in the cartoon he is watching that he doesn't give him the attention he needed.Losing patience, Aroon grabs the younger's chin and turns his face to him, making him look at his eyes. Dae's heart rate suddenly speeds up at the way the o
[ 163. The old couple. ]Dae walks holding Aroon's hands, a smile sits on his face as he amusedly watches the infinite number of shops and stalls on either side of the road. A heavy plastic bag hangs on Aroon's free hand and it swings back and forth as they walks quickly through the street market of Cheonan. Inside it are the little stuff they bought from that market." Aru, walk slow.", Dae whines." Dae, it's going to rain soon. I think we need to walk 15 more minutes to reach the bus stop."" It's going to rain? How do you know ?", Dae asks confused." Look up at the sky."Dae looks up and sees the greying clouds above him rumbling with warning. Out of nowhere an ice cool wind blows and whips through their hair. A drop of water falls on Dae's nose tip." Aru..yeah..it's raining."Soon fat droplets of rain hits both of their forehead and Aroon runs holding Dae's hands to a nearby tiny restaurant. Standing there under the leak
[162. Baby goats]After almost an hour, Dae wakes up feeling hungry. He blinks his eyes thrice before slowly lifting his heavy eyelids, adjusting his dreary eyes to the morning sun rays rushing in through the open window. He slowly sits up straight, lifting his head from the older's shoulders." Why you woke up quickly ?", Aroon asks, his gaze on his phone, his fingers dancing rapidly over the screen. "There's one more hour to reach there. Sleep a little more.", he says slightly turning his head. Dae just hums in replay but looks out of the window deciding to watch the sights outside for sometime. The bus is now going through a city and tall buildings array on both sides of the road. Soon Dae notices the board of a restaurant and instantly his mouth waters seeing the variety food items on the banner. He feels extremely hungry after seeing the photo of the food items. He hadn't eaten dinner last night. But he feels reluctant to tell Aroon that
[ 161. Bus ride ]Dae squirmed on the bed, left and right trying to meet the familiar warmth. But he didn’t hit Aroon's body even after rolling about a lot. So he finally opened his eyes to figure out where the older actually was. He turned his face to his right and he was shocked. Abruptly he turned around to the left and there too was no one. Dae sat up on the bed in panic with a fast thudding heart. " Aru..", He called out frightened gazing around in the room. He looked over at the window and it's still dark outside. Dae started getting more nervous by the instant. "A..Aru..", He again called and this time it came out muffled because of fear. He was about to cry as no reply came.He only remember both of them running into a hotel, actually a motel at midnight after walking through the empty roads for almost an hour. He was really sleepy then and as soon he saw a bed, he fell on it and drifted into sleep, hugging the older. But now where is the olde
[ 160. Eloped ]It was really dark when Aroon landed at Seoul airport. He had changed the time in his phone from 5: 52 Pm to 7:52 Pm. And it had past 8:20 when he finally got out of the airport and got a taxi. Somehow he was able to tell the driver that we wanted to go to Daegu and fortunately the man understood him.Aroon took his phone and called Oak as soon as he hopped into the taxi.“ Aroon..be really careful. We will call you if there’s anything. And if your Dad calls you, pick the call. Or he will get suspicions. Bye then, take care.”, Oak said before ending the call.Aroon then placed the phone in his pocket and leaned back in his seat.The taxi driver, who was an young man, not looking anything more than 25 tried to converse with him in a English mixed Korean. And Aroon was able to comprehend something. His one week stay with Kim family had taught him a little bit Korean. He also tried to converse a little with the driver in an attempt to
[159. Let’s bring back Dae.]Aroon didn't have dinner. He sat on his desk chair thinking what to do next. An hour ago, he had texted Dae ' Are you okay ?' just to see whether he has his phone with him. The message was marked ‘seen’ after sometime but no reply came. So he understood the phone was either in Mr Kim’s custody or with his own Dad.' Dae isn't alright. Right now, he might be crying, lying in that room where we stayed. Or they might be questioning him. He is definitely not okay. He needs me.', Aroon suddenly took his phone in his hands and started searching for the next flight to Korea.There was a flight at 5 Am. The booking was about to close and he hastily went to book ticket. But soon he found that there was not enough money in his card. It was strange as the ticket doesn't coast that much. He checked the balance and found the whole money in his account has been withdrawn a few hours ago. Aroon felt totally helpless. He called O