Mini-ones! :)

Gestures

Sarawat and Tine, have been each other's secret love interest, for the past 2 years. Though they are from the same neighborhood, they went to different schools. Tine lived with his grandma, after losing his parents at a very young age. Wat lived with his parents, and his elder sister.

They were mere acquaintances, since the day Sarawat had once helped Tine's grandma, when she met with an accident, while Tine was away making a delivery.

Initially, Wat being the gentleman he is, frequented grandma's bakery, with the pretext to buy snacks, but actually wanted to make sure she was fine. The more he frequented, the more he met Tine. And the more they met, the more they fell in love, with each other. Though Wat fell in love the moment he met Tine, he did not make any move, since Tine was an introvert. He wanted Tine to be comfortable around him first, before making a move.

But Tine being Tine, always missed the obvious signs and remained clueless. One day, when Wat found Tine alone in the bakery, he gathered all his courage and spoke to him, trying to get to know him as much as possible. When the topic of future and collage came, they were surprised that they both wanted to get into the same college and the same department. That was when things started to work out, for Wat.

Joining the same college gave Wat an unimaginable advantage. He always showed subtle gestures of love and care. He would pat Tine's head, with all the love in the world, and give him the most genuine smile, filled with warmth. He made sure Tine was well fed and had all his favourite snacks and drinks, whenever they were together. He planned plenty of 'coincidental' opportunities, to go everywhere together, preferably by walk, to spend as much time as possible.

When group projects were assigned, Wat bribed the representative to put him and Tine together. This gave him the chance to stay at Tine's house once in a while, to complete the projects together. They became a lot closer since joining college, and Sarawat was very happy about it.

Tine was extremely happy too, to spend a lot of time with Wat. He loved how Wat pampered him and the fact that he did it out of genuine care. But what Tine wasn't sure was, if he was special to Wat, or if Wat treated everyone this way.

Though Tine was a shy introvert, Wat was somewhat the opposite. He was a social butterfly, and was always the centre of attraction, irrespective of whether he liked it or not. He was always surrounded by people and everyone always spoke about what a gentleman he was. This made Tine hold back on his feelings, since he didn't know what Wat felt.

Tine wondered if Wat really liked him or was just showing his empathy. He wanted to confirm that Wat liked him as much as he liked Wat, before confessing. But he was confused because he didn't know what held Wat back, from asking him out.

As days passed by, Time started noticing the differences in the way Wat treated him and others. He smiled from his heart, that radiated to his eyes, only when he looked at Tine. To others, it was always a formality smile. When Tine finally started paying attention to Wat's gestures, he became more and more confident about their love.

On a Friday evening, Tine was waiting for Wat, to ask him out on a movie date, when he saw Wat walking with a girl, laughing to his hearts content. This laughter, he noticed, was a very different one, something he hasn't seen before. Though he was confident about their love, Wat not asking Tine out always bothered him and a 1,000 different unnecessary scenarios started playing on his mind.

Who is she? Why is Sarawat laughing like that with her? Is this jealousy? He started questioning himself.

Finally, Wat noticed Tine and hopped towards him, leaving a confused girl behind.

"Hey Tine! Do you mind accompanying us to the mall, before we head to our dinner?" Wat asked, without minding the stern look the girl gave him.

"Huh? Y-yeah s-sure. No problem!" Tine managed to say, though he couldn't really grasp the situation in hand.