Double Trouble [Complete]

The Reborn of the Goddess-like Cheater Girlfriend

A week together with his family is really good for Mark's moods. His mother's dishes are always the best and his father still has his dad's jokes game going strong. Vee is actually actively messaging him and they never stop a day without contacting each other. Mark really needs to be careful with that, he knows, after all Vee only checks on him, just to make sure he's okay, there's no other motives.

All in all, a week feels so short yet so long at the same time and Mark finds himself on the last available day for re-exploring his hometown.
Mark decides to visit Siam Paragon to find something he can bring back for his friends in Khon Kaen, especially Vee, who has been so kind to him even though in his own weird way.

He's bought Vee's gift, a simple looking leather cover for his iPad since, just like Mark, Vee also likes to check his work anywhere he can, and is looking for succulents for Kamphan when his eyes catches someone familiar walking around with a man whose arm is on her slender waist.

"What...?" Mark whispers to himself.

He doesn't trust his eyes so he decides to follow them to get a closer look.

The couple stops in front of a cotton candy booth. Mark can't hear what they're talking about but he can see how the man kisses the lady's cheek until she giggles. Mark takes a few pictures of them in zoom mode so he can look better. There are pictures of them kissing, hugging and laughing together, and his gut is actually right, the lady is Ploy, but the man is not Vee.

An ugly fury runs through his veins.

Vee may be weird and somehow rude, but Mark has seen how he treats Ploy with respect even if it was for a very short time. To think that Ploy dares cheat behind Vee wakes an anger in Mark.

Fed up watching Ploy acting as sweet as she did to Vee with another man, Mark decides to leave the mall, too angry to remember the gifts he's supposed to buy for his other friends in Khon Kaen.

He parks his car in the garage and ruffles his hair once he's inside his home.

"Masa?" His Japanese mother calls him by the name his Japanese grandmother gave him with worries in her tone, "What's wrong, son?"

Mark schools his scowl and forces a smile to his mother, "Nothing, Mae, only thinking how I'm going to miss you and Por when I go back to Khon Kaen."

"You and your sweet tongue," his mother giggles. She pats the space next to her, "Come here, you're going back there tomorrow but we have yet had time to talk about your friends."

So Mark pushes the thoughts about Ploy far to the back of his head first and tells his mother about everyone he's close with at work. He's trying so hard not to show his feelings when he talks about Vee, but a mother is a mother, she always knows her children.

"This Vee, Masa likes him?"

Mark scrunches his face, "Just a phase, it'll go away. He has a girlfriend," he huffs then, "though his girlfriend is a goddess of cheating."

He tells her about his finding earlier then, but he's glad that his mother doesn't suggest that he has to do anything with the information he has about Ploy. He needs to register it first because it's sensitive news.

A night goes and a day comes, and the next evening, Mark finds himself at the airport with his parents sending him off to Khon Kaen.

After landing in Khon Kaen, Mark sends himself straight to bed without unpacking, too tired to do so. It's a very right thing to do because the next morning, he feels so refreshed and energetic to go to work.

"Morning!" He greets Kamphan at the pantry.

"Morning, Mark, how are you?" His best friend asks with a friendly smile.