Tharn did not have to leave

Lhong

Before putting the plan in place, Type needed to know whether Tar wanted to call the police. If so, they would send all the evidence collected so far to the police, plus a video with Lhong's confession. This option would punish not only Lhong, but also the three people he had paid to commit the foul act.

If Tar didn't want the police involved, Type understood him very well. In his case, the police had got involved, and he was on all the surrounding newspapers. He and his family would have been fine without it. After Bangkok is a big city, normally if the police get involved it shouldn't make the headlines. If Tar opted for this option, Type would just send the video of the confession to Tharn via the same email address he used to send the audio file. He would, of course, take care to blur himself. Tharn didn't need to know that he was involved in any way.

Tar asked Type for a day or two to think about it. On the one hand, he wanted all these bastards to pay, but on the other hand, he preferred not to have to deal with the police. To have to tell them his story, how stupid it was to have that drink.

Type took Tar home once again, coming back from the support group. Tum was already at home doing his homework. It was already eight o'clock, Tar decided to make some food, lasagne. Tum watched his brother move around the house with the corner of his eye. These days he felt as if Tar was getting a new taste for life. Was it thanked to that boy on the motorbike? Were they dating? This assumption hurt Tum a little, but if this boy was doing his brother good, who was he to get in between the two of them? The feelings he had for his brother were unnatural and would never be returned to him anyway.

Once the meal was ready, the two brothers settled down around the table to eat. Tum glanced at his brother several times before he started:

"The person on the bike who just picked you up and brought you back. What is your relationship with him? Are you two dating?"

"Am I dating... Type? No! He's a friend... He understands me in a way", Tar was really surprised, he didn't think his brother imagined that.

"You seem happier now. I thought you had forgotten... Tharn... and had moved on". Just saying the name Tharn irritated Tum, but at the same time it reminded him of something. A few months ago, now, Tharn's roommate had been in a scandal and if he remembers correctly, the roommate's name was Type.

"Does he understand you because he knows Tharn?"

"I don't know if he knows him, he's on the same campus as you, but not in the same field, why?", Tar wondered why his brother was so curious. Was he afraid that he would try to get close to Tharn through his entourage?

"The... The former roommate in Tharn was called Type. I know this because he was caught in a scandal with LGBT+ seniors".

Tar did not answer his brother and changed the subject. Could it be that the Type of support group is his ex's former roommate? Several things matched: Type and Tharn was no longer a roommate, his Type's roommate had left; Tharn's Type had been caught in a scandal with LGBT+ seniors as his Type. This would also explain why his Type had never pronounced the name of his former roommate, and why he had difficulty pronouncing the name of Tar's former boyfriend. However, he did not know whether Type had understood that there was one person in common in both their stories?

Tar realized something, if it was true, Type must have known about it. At least, he would necessarily have understood it with the episode of the bar, he had seen Tharn next to the person he had to flirt with. Type would thus be in love with his ex... Why didn't he feel any pain in his heart? He had just realized that his ex, whom he was supposed to love forever, had said "I love you" to someone else. Someone else who had screwed up, but who finally returned his feelings to him.