Mail and Gadgets

Chapter Twenty Eight - If Only

Chapter Twenty Eight - If Only

Hi Readers,
Hope you enjoy it.
Dedicated to T.
Picture taken off Google so not mine.
Enjoy.

'So many words to say and no ways to say them.'
- QuoteGram

A small breeze had been blowing through Kongpob's hair when he had first seen Arthit. Sitting at a wooden table outside Blue Sky Cafe, a blue parasol over his head and sunshine reflecting off a bottle of water in front of him. Arthit looked like something out an Edward Hopper* and just as bright as his name. It was like looking at something from a gallery. Some well known artist had come along and painted a picture all exquisitely sketched and coloured. Where the brush strokes are almost invisible and the detail of the colours so impressive that it almost felt like your looking at a photograph.

A photograph Kongpob had wanted to put into a frame and hang onto his wall so he could look at it every day.

Arthit had one leg crossed over the other staring down at his phone. He was in stone washed jeans that looked like they fitted his shape well and a Guns'n'Roses T-shirt that looked well worn but not scruffy, more well loved. Like it was his favourite and he had already worn it quite often already. Something about it just felt totally endearing to Kong.

He'd dressed casual that morning and not in his normal suit attire. A dark, blue top with a white collar, white sleeves and white strips and pair of black jeans with a leather belt embossed with tiny silver studs. Sort of how he would for a date because this felt like a date, even though deep down he knew it wasn't. Well, at least he didn't think so.

But who was he kidding? Kong wanted this to be a date.

With a large smile on his face, he had left the boat that morning, feeling like this day was going to work out great. Date or not, he was meeting Arthit again and that alone made him feel as light as a feather. When the dog sitter had arrived, (Pring, a young girl in her early twenties who was a student at the local University.), and after the knowing smile and look she was throwing his way, he had left a very playful Berkerley with his morning meal and had jumped in the back of one of his families black estate cars.

The only thought that was in his mind, that entire morning, was coming clean to Arthit and telling him who he was. He had even planned something. Just an open market that he had gotten Pete to get information about but as every idea or thought came into his mind, it was being rejected and pushed out just as quickly and as he had gotten closer to the cafe, the large smile had slowly decreased into more of a worried grimace.

He knows telling Arthit the truth of when he first found out who he was would be a great start and the idea of saying something like; 'I didn't know you were Gadgetboy until we met at the cafe. I wanted to tell you who I was then but you seemed so disappointed when I walked through the door that I didn't think telling you would make a huge difference seeing as how you felt about me already and I wanted to carry on pretending so I could find out exactly what you felt about me'. ;Yes, that would go down well.

Note the sarcasm.

Telling his driver to drop him a few blocks away, he jumps out of the back and starts his short walk to Blue Sky. The sky was a pale blue and there was a small breeze blowing, making it a lot cooler then it had been the day before and as Kongpob had turned the corner onto Khao San Road it was quiet as he approached the cafe.

And Arthit was sat there with his phone out and a very cute pout on his face as he frowned down at the screen.

What was going through his mind at that moment? Was he thinking of him? Or was his mind preoccupied with thoughts of Kong's alias?. It was all so ironic if you really thought of it. Whatever it was, Arthit seemed so lost that he didn't even notice that Kong was stood near him until.........