"I'm burning and it's because of you."
Three years ago one decision tore them apart before they even could be together. Now they meet again. With memories of the past and sweet promises of the future the world doesn't seem so bad. But the greed and...
"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of resurrection."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Three years ago
"Are you so poor you can't afford new pants? Where are those from? Trashcan?"
Mix swallowed down the last bite of his lunch and got up, leaving behind Earth and his brainless gang.
"Looooser!"
He could hear Benn yelling at him as he rolled his eyes and walked away. The brainless gang as Mix liked to call them, with Earth as their leader —the almighty brainless of them all—had been doing nothing but bullying Mix almost all his time at the Siam University in Bangkok.
They might have been his seniors but that didn't give them any rights to treat Mix like that. The funny thing was that they were thinking how hell of a time they were giving to Mix when truth be told, Mix saw them as nothing more than pathetic rich kids not worthy of his precious time.
Dealing with a bunch of brainless boys seemed too shallow compared to everything he needed to deal with at home. So every time they tried to provoke him Mix just rolled his eyes and walked away.
And every time an annoying dog magically appeared behind him.
"What do you want?" Mix turned around and glared at Earth.
"Today my father is sending his men to collect the rent," Earth said, spinning a plastic cup in his hands, with something that Mix suspected wasn't water.
"And?" Mix raised an eyebrow.
"I just thought you should know."
"What?" Mix scoffed, "you suddenly care? Well, you don't look like it every time your brainless gang is picking on me."
"Brainless, huh?" Earth smirked.
"Do you have anything else you wanna waste my time with?" Mix asked, ready to leave the conversation.
Earth's face turned serious, the smirk that was there only seconds ago was gone, "you know that every time they pick on you I'm not part of it, right?"
Mix raised his head and looked straight at Earth, "you doing nothing is even worse than what they are doing." He didn't wait for Earth's answer, turning on his heels Mix threw one last annoyed glance at the brainless gang and ran to his biology class. He couldn't be late when they were about to take the midterm test.
.....
"Mom? I'm back," Mix said with a slightly louder voice as he walked into their small wontons shop.
"Sahaphap," Mix's mother said with a tired expression and took his hand, walking him to sit in the corner of the shop—his favourite place to sit.
