Like The Water That Sustains Me

Flight #016546 (Part II)

"Good evening passengers we are now approaching Railay, Krabi. With the clear weather, it is 11300 hours, earlier than scheduled arrival. Attendants, please prepare for landing. Passengers please go back to your seats and fasten your seatbelts when this sound goes off and the red sign lights. Only take them off once we land and is cleared. Taxi to runway K, we are clear for landing. We will land in ETA 12 Minutes."

"Again, thank you Khun C Siwarokin for having me as your pilot. It is my pleasure to fly you and Khun Jay. This is Oon Atid Chaimongkhon, your captain for this flight. Thank you and have a good rest of the night."

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"Thank you. Have a safe flight back" Jay says to the captain and the attendants who were on the exit. He's carrying their traveling bags, but 3 men approached him and took all of their bags from him.

He pulls his away and says, "I'm fine. Carry Khun Tan's instead."

But nobody listened and took his luggage anyway. He's walking behind Khun Tan feeling a little empty that he's not carrying his messenger bag or their traveling bag with him.

He walks along the landing pad towards the gate when he hears the footsteps behind him, disappearing. He looks back to see the men who took their bags weren't following anymore, and he turns around to look for them, but Khun C is nudging his arm to follow him.

"It's fine. They're taking our bags to our room," C says.

Jay raises his brows in question and asks- "And we aren't going with them?"

C shakes his head, "We're driving separately. I was only able to find small cars for transportation here, and we all won't fit. So we need to be in a separate car."

Jay looks around and sees a van parked just outside and his brow raises in question.

For the first time in his life, he has no idea what's happening. Nada.

But he has no choice but to go along and follows Khun C to an Audi RS5 parked along with the 'normal' people cars. And he's once again flabbergasted.

'This car rental company is amazing. This model hasn't even been out yet,' Jay thinks.

He stands on the driver's seat and is waiting for Khun Tan to hand him the keys, but the older stood beside him, waiting for him to scoot over and go to the other side.

"You're driving?" Jay asks.

"I mean, you're driving, Khun Tan?" Jay corrects himself.

C shrugs and smirks, he goes inside the car and starts the engine, egging Jay to hurry up and get inside the car. 

C is driving out of the car park and drives on the road with ease. Like he's recently been here.

There's a palpable tension in the car and Jay can only blame himself. He's had numerous alone times with the elder, but even then, he was never able to cope with the silence. It wasn't awkward per se. More like he can hear the beating of his chest and the blaring alarm of 'Wii Yoo Wii Yoo. You're alone with him. What do you do about it, Jay? What?'

At least with the other times, it's either they're minding their own business, or he's driving the car where his full attention needs to be on the road.

Which a lot of people are either gonna be mad at him or will congratulate him. No in-between.

So he looks ahead to the road and keeps his calm as best as he can.