เพียงเสี้ยวสัมผัส | Just A Fraction of Touch (Eng Trans.)

03: Perfect Mask and Perfect Fool

The taste of your kiss,

Soaking up the stain of my tears.

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It was during high school when we were still together.

'P' Suea's* Nong Lioon,' the dragged speech sounded along with Tiger leaping for a hug that made the one being called 'Nong Lion' staggered, followed by a kiss on the fair cheek, 'P' Suea missed Nong so much!'

*Suea (เสือ) means tiger.

Nobody knew... how fast his heart was beating.

Lion smiled, wriggled and spoke cheekily.

'P' Sueaaa! What are you doing to Nong Lion? So embarrassing,' he said as he tried to push the other away, yet the person who was called Suea still persisted. He retaliated by rubbing his face against his cheek and teased, 'Nyaw~'

'Acting cutely... What! What are you looking at, Ai' Krot*!' he spoke gently for the first sentence, before turning to the person who was looking at them with a disgusted face, 'You're jealous of me, huh, since you don't have anyone cute to hug. Let me give you an offer. Go hug your rival over there.' Tiger laughed loudly before Lion suddenly chimed in.

*Ai' is a derogatory title used before the names of men or when referring to men.

'Ah, wait a minute, P' Ty! Wouldn't it be nice to hug your rival like this?' The smaller one exclaimed. He was back to using their real nicknames, Ty and Ly, instead.

Tiger turned his head and his face sweetened. He held the pretty boy's cheek, before landing a heavy kiss on it.

'Let's hug each other... Do it often and soon we'll love each other.'

'Phweee~,' the person who was called Krot opened his mouth and shouted noisily as usual. As for the one who got teased the most, he then yelled the loudest.

'Bastards, shut up you all!!!'

Lion's eyes fluttered open, awakened from the dream of his high school days.

The sensation of a distant sex and the soreness caused by the hips of the man who was sleeping by his side had roused him. The young man smiled wryly at the dream of his high school days. He was fun, had a lot of friends, all because of a close friend like 'Tiger'. His silliness and mischievousness certainly affected the old him as well. If he wasn't with Tiger, he probably wouldn't be that way.

And when he thought about the time before entering college...

He thought... of the days without Tiger.

Before Tiger dated 'that woman', every day we would be together.

That woman... I envied her.

"Mmh...," the groan from the person beside him pulled him back from his thoughts. When he was thinking about Tiger, he would always get drowned in his thoughts without meaning to, space out, and clench his palm tightly in resentment.

That moment was also like that.

Lion turned his attention to the person next to him instead. In high school, he once talked to the guy named Namkrot who was New's close friend, and that person told him that... New was someone whose pheromones attracted the same gender.