(ENG - IND) Butterfly's Fate - Completed

(ENG) Chapter Four - Cursed Birthmark

Before return to the police station, Phana stopped his car in front of clothing in the lower floor of his apartment building and bought some shirts in order borrow the fitting room, to check the birthmark on his back with the help of a mirror and a phone camera.

He was surprised to find a red birthmark near his right backbone, although he was not sure whether the shape is similar to a butterfly wing or not.

He tried to touch his birthmark, but looked troubled, and wondered did he really get a curse since birth and have only three months left to live, he thought. Phana then took a deep breath and tried to think positively.

He must either solve the mystery or find his partner and get married, he thought. However Phana immediately get rid the second choice out of his mind when Singto's birthday flashed through his head.

"I don't believe in superstitions! I don't want to get married because of a curse! This is ridiculous!" he told himself.

After finished, he walked out while lit a cigarette and walking towards his car. Unfortunately, he accidentally bumped into a pedestrian for not paying attention to the road, causing the cigarette and shopping bag in his hand to come off and fall to the ground.

Phana immediately turned to the passerby with an annoyed expression and froze immediately when saw the face or the person who appeared in his head few moment ago.

Singto was walking absently towards his apartment on the next building

Phana froze instantly and staring at the man straight for a while before pick up his shopping bag from the floor. At the same time, the person who was hit also crouched down and help him picked up the matches and the cigarette.

"Sorry..." said Pha briefly while glancing at him for a second.

"I was curious, if the police smoked and hit people, would that be called a violation?" asked Singto all of a sudden.

Phana was surprised to hear that and replied. "Then please come to the police station to make a report..."

However, Singto did not let him go that easily, he changed the topic while showing the cigarette in his hand and asking between joking and serious. "I thought that one of the conditions to be a police officer is not smoking...was I wrong?"

Phana immediately reclaims the cigarette and matches from his hands, and retorted. "That is only one of the conditions before doing a medical check-up when registering to become the police, there is no prohibition for the police to smoke..."

Singto respond by laughing and added. "I guess being a cop is definitely not easy, so you have to smoke to relieve stress. Did you ever think about changing professions before you were suffered of lung cancer?"

Phana's expression change instantly, he sighed softly and retorted cassually. "I guess you must be often stressed over the behavior of students at school, so you often drink to relieve stress, I suggest you should change your job before you hit people because of drunkenness..."

Singto clenched his jaw in annoyance at Phana's accusations to him. That night he only drank a little because he felt sad, but he was not drunk at all.

"By the way, are you following me?" Singto asked, changing his tone of speaking. "A policeman should be at the police station or crime scene instead of, in front of..." he pause for a second, turn to his right side, and pointed to the shop in front of him. "A clothes store?"

"Have there been no cases lately, so you're feeling bored and have a lot of time to shopping?" added Singto while glancing add the shopping bag in Pha's hand.