Feel Something (BounPrem FF)

Chapter 46: Up Until This Day

Chan followed Dee to a huge bedroom at the back of the house. “This is probably the biggest house I’ve ever seen.” Chan looked around in awe.
   
Dee smiled at Chan's aloofness and handed him a box. “Here. Take this one.”
   
“You packed beforehand?”
   
Dee stared at the box, and suddenly Chan was sorry for asking. “I packed a few things the other day just in case. I really didn’t think I’d be moving. I wish it didn’t come to this.”
   
“Whatever you do, our family is here for you. I think they like you and Sinn more than Sook and I.” Dee weakly smiled while looking down at the box he held. “Come on, let’s get this over with. Hmm?” Dee nodded and followed Chan to the front door.
   
“Decha!”
   
The boys turned around to find a furious Aawut.
   
“Pho…” Dee thought his father was at work that day. He thought Aawut must’ve taken a day off due to distress.
   
“Where do you think you’re going?” The man walked up to them and looked at the boxes. “You're leaving?”
   
“Yes.” Dee was upset, but he was more angry than anything.
  

****TW: Violence/Gun Violence/Blood****

Aawut grabbed the box from Chan and threw it to the side. The box was only folded closed, so everything inside flew out, shattering picture frames and breaking small football trophies.
   
“You’re leaving over my dead body!”
   
Dee scoffed. “Watch me!”
   
Before he could turn back around, Aawut grabbed his shoulder and pushed him away from the door. It startled Dee, because his father was never physical with him before. Dee was the apple of Aawut's eye, his perfect child, his legacy. That is, up until this day.
   
“I said you’re not leaving! Go to your room! I’m taking you to and from college myself from now on. No friends, no dating, and no boys over. That’s the end of this discussion!”
   
Dee was still in shock, amazed by his father's consistency. “I’m an adult now and I’ll be making my own decisions. If you don’t like them, then you don’t have to be in my life anymore.”
   
Chan commended his classmate for his levelheadedness in such a situation. But Chan's world was rocked quickly by Aawut's hands gripping his shirt. He stared into the eyes of a monster as he tried to push the man's hands off.
   
“Who are you? Are you the scheming leech? What did you do to him?!”
   
“Pho!” Dee grabbed one of Aawut's arms and tried to pull him off at the same time. “He's just a friend! Leave him alone!”
   
Aawut didn’t quit. He assumed Dee was just saying that as a way to spare the boy. “Leave my son alone! Do you hear me?!”

SLAP!
   
Aawut let go, but he had struck Chan across the face when he did.
   
Dee turned to his father with a shocked face. “Pho!!” He had never seen Aawut so angry and physical with anyone. “You've gone too far!”
   
“Chan!” When the boy looked up, he saw Sinn coming to him. Chan was speechless. He had never seen someone so hurt. Sinn held onto the side of Chan's neck, picking him back up slowly from the side that Chan leaned to.
   
The left side of Sinn's face was busted and bloody. Chan almost didn’t recognize him. The boy reached up and held Sinn's face. He was frightened not only by the sight, but that anyone could do such a thing.
   
“P! What happened to you?” Dee looked at Sinn's face as well, not understanding what was happening.
   
“You two need to go.” Sinn turned the door knob, ignoring the attention he was getting from the boys. He wanted them to leave. He knew Aawut was angry but it was worse than he’d ever seen if Aawut put his hands on his own son.

CLICK!

CRACK!

   
Everyone covered their ears from the loud noise. It was so startling that it shook their hearts.
   
All together, all at once, they turned around to find Aawut with a gun pointing up at the ceiling. “No one is leaving.”
   
Dee was closest to the door, so he locked the deadbolt behind his back.
   
“Aawut!” Kaew came running from behind the man and fell to her knees as she held onto his leg. “Please! Don’t do this!”
   
The harsh reality hit Sinn when he saw his mother. She had a black and swollen eye, and bruises everywhere on her face and arms. “Mae…” He beat her, too.
   
Aawut shook her off of his leg and kicked her to the ground. Sinn was right by her side in a split second, helping her sit up. “Sinn…I’m sorry.” She looked like she had been crying for so long, and he knew why.

   
*~*Outside*~*

Sook heard one loud pop as he waited by the car. It sounded like a single firecracker. But how ridiculous would that be at such a time and place?
   
Not thinking anything of it, he walked up the large steps to the house and tried to open the front door.
   
“Hmmm…locked?” An eerie feeling came across him.
   
Sook walked to the nearest window and looked through to see if anyone was there. The sight shook him to his core. He witnessed Aawut, with a gun, kicking down a woman and Sinn rushing to her side.
   
The boy quickly ducked from the glass as he covered his mouth. He wanted to yell, but his instincts stopped him and made him pull out his phone.
   

*~*Inside*~*

Inside, Dee was coming to a horrifying conclusion; his father was not the person he thought he was.
  
Sinn, on the other hand, was only growing angrier. He was done taking shit. The sight of his mother's wounds made his adrenaline rush. He wanted to fight Aawut. For the first time ever he let his emotions take over and lash out.
   
Sinn stood up in front of his hurt mother and stared at the man. “This wasn’t part of our deal!”
   
Aawut chuckled at his stepson. It wasn’t a sight the man was used to, Sinn sticking up for himself. “You and your mother got yourselves into this. You’ve both fucked things up. If you would just listen to me and do as I say then none of this would be happening!”
   
“Pho…its not their fault…” Dee was having a hard time facing Aawut, but did with pain in his voice. “I did this. All on my own. Me.”
   
“No. No you didn’t.” Aawut shook his head and the gun, denying that his son was imperfect to him. “I didn’t everything to give you a good life-a great life! I was born with nothing and I scraped by to get here to give you the best. As soon as I let these…” The man looked at his family by marriage with disgust. “As soon as I trust them, they let me down.”
   
“No. I let you down all on my own. It’s exhausting. Being your son is exhausting and they helped me!”
   
“They've brainwashed you! My son wouldn’t think like this!”
   
“Brainwashed?!” Sinn scoffed. “We never lied to him! Tell him about his mother. Tell him about Chirawan!”
   
Aawut stared at Sinn with hate. “She's mentally unstable! Don’t speak of what you don’t know!”
   
“You told him she was afraid of herself, when she's really afraid of you!” Sinn stared Aawut dead in the eyes as Aawut rushed to him.
   
The man lifted his gun and aimed directly at Sinn's chest. “Lies!”
   
“Aawut no!” Kaew got back up to her knees and pleaded at Aawut's feet. “Please, kill me instead!”
   
“Mae!” Sinn let tears fall for his mother. He didn’t want her to sacrifice so much. She had already been through too much to lose right there.
   
“Pho! Please!” Dee was in disbelief, but he wanted to try to stop things from escalating. “I’ll stay. Let them go, and I’ll stay with you. I’ll be the perfect son. Hmm?” Dee stepped closer with his hands up, trying not to pose a threat to his father's rampage. “I’ll stay here. At home with you.”
   
Chan watched from the door, but slowly inched forward the more Dee moved. He watched Aawut and the man's hands closely.
   
“Let them go? It’s too late. Everything is ruined now.”
   
“No, its not. Just let them go. It’ll all be okay.”
   
The sounds of sirens startled everyone. They were so close, and suddenly the man began to panic. Aawut lost his mind for a split second, long enough for Dee to try and grab the gun. Sinn followed in doing the same, and Chan pulled Kaew away.
   
“Pho! Let go!” Dee held Aawut's right arm while Sinn held the left and they tried to point the gun up. Aawut's strength was surprising, and he managed to keep the weapon in his hands turned down.
   
“No!”
   
Sinn decided to get Aawut from behind and hold onto the man's neck, but Aawut reversed into the wall once, twice, and a third time causing Sinn to let go and fall to the ground.
  
That was Chan's queue. He ran to his boyfriend, but Sinn's reaction wasn’t paying attention to Chan. Sinn's eyes were watching Aawut shake Dee off, and point his gun down at himself. Chan's face suddenly blocked the barrel.


CRACK!

   
Sinn held Chan's face in his hands as their expressions dropped. “Chan…”