vice versa (Ohmnanon)

19. Brainstorming

Tess had a lot of explanations to do because his mother had a lot of questions. Why did tun look so scared what did he do? Why was tess mad? What happened? Is everything alright or not and many more. Tess tried to answer as much as he could and tun just held her hand trying to convince her that they were okay.

Up and aou called asking what happened and tun explained everything. They scheduled their work again. Tun spent the whole day at Tess's house. He got to know more about his family. His mother was so excited talking to tun about tess.

"When tess was born he used to have curly hair. After a hair cut his hair got straight. Do you think he'll look good with curly hair?"

"Stop mom"

"I don't think he would look good. He already behaves like a gang star he would've looked like a criminal with curly hair."

"Okay, that's it. I'm getting a perm." Tess slapped his thigh and got up. Tun pulled him back down to sit next to him.

"You know tun. Tess was such an amazing kid. He was quiet and athletic but he never got good grades. I don't know how tess got lucky enough to have a friend tutor him in high school. He survived because of that friend" tesstun chuckled knowing exactly what she was talking about. Tun tutored tess in high school. Tess's mother didn't know who he was but she knew what he did for tess.

" mom actually... Tun was the one who tutored me in high school. "

"What? Did you two go to the same high school?"

"And we were inseparable best friends"

"Oh my! Tess! Why didn't you tell me that earlier? Thank you tun. For you, I could at least show my face in front of society." There she goes. Talking about her status in society. Tess's smile faded away. It didn't go unnoticed by tun. She showed them Tess's childhood picture and joked around. Tun was having fun but tess wasn't smiling anymore. Tun kept his hand on Tess's shoulder and tess looked at him with sad eyes.

"Ahm... Aunty, can I take him to my house today?"

"Sure son"

Tun got up and pulled tess up. Tess got up but didn't walk with tun. Tun looked back when he realised tess wasn't following him.

"Mom... Can I move out? I'm gonna live together with tun."

"What? It's too early tess and your father-"

"Yes, I'll talk to him about it. See you." Tess walked out of the house expressionless. He sat on tun's bike waiting for tun. Tun said goodbye to Tess's mother and ran to the bike. He started the bike as soon as possible and drove fast to his house. Tun parked the bike and tess took off his helmet. He didn't wait for tun and went inside the condo.

He went straight to the fridge and took out ice cream. Tun knew something was off but he was too scared to ask tess. He already got mad earlier today. But tun had to know what was making him this sad and bothered.

"Tess. If you want... You can share what's going on with me. " tess looked up at tun and smiled. His smile gave tun assurances that he was okay.

"You remember when I told you I didn't have a good relationship with my family?"

"Yeah but I don't understand what seemed to be the problem. Your mom is so sweet. "

"She is... I'm not saying she isn't but she only does things because she wants to flex on her friends. Dad is not much different. I've always seen my parents pressure my brother and me to have good grades be athletic and be a good children. So they can flex. As I grew up I got tired of that and started doing the opposite of what they told me. Brother is also tired but he doesn't have the nerve to disobey them. Maybe that's why I am like the " bad boy". I love my family but... Dad started to allow me to do everything when he saw me succeeding. Mom started caring more. But is this love and care real?" Tun's eyes watered but he didn't let them fall. He hugged tess. As tess was sitting down his face was pressed onto tun's chest.

"I never knew about these tess. I feel sorry for you. But think about it that way, maybe your dad started allowing everything because you are not acting like a rebel. Your home started caring more because she didn't like how obedient talay was. When you got back she also got her tess back. That's why she shows more care. And blame society not them. I'm sure you'll understand them when you grow older. "
Tess pulled away and stared at tun. Tun got shy and looked down. Tun was always the smarter and more mature one in their relationship. Tess just had a big body.

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Friend's credit group was at it again. Trying to write a screenplay that will surely be a hit. They were having coffee and brainstorming.

"We should write something different this time!" up slammed the table and got up from his seat. He looked like he was ready to win a battle.

"We should write a comedy " tess face palmed himself at up's statement. Tess hated comedy movies.  They acted like kids stuck in an adult bodies. Does that make any sense? No. If It's comedy then it should be at least relatable. 

"We should write an action movie!" aou said and it was now time for tun to face-palm himself. He hated action movies. People do go crazy over it but he just Doesn't know how to write it and what plot to make.

"Maybe we should stick to romantic..." tun commented. All of them sighed but tess was deep in his thoughts.

"Hey... I mean I Don't know how to write but I think we should... You know try to write a movie that has everything.  I mean our latest one was a bit of everything and it was a hit." tess got up from his seat and started presenting his idea.

"Yeah! Let's do it!" up yelled. Then a silence fell between them again. They had no idea of what to write.

"Maybe we can make our male lead an alien and our female lead a kid!" aou said

"ew dude I didn’t know you were a paedophile! "  up's face had disgust written all over it.

"Shut up! Fuse will beat you up if you talk bad about me!" Aou warned.

"Let's make the movie a bl" tess proposed but up and aou seemed confused.

"What is a bl? " up put his hand on tun's shoulder and leaned to hear tess.

"It's boy's love. You know like-" tess tried to explain but aou took his words out of his mouth.

"Homosexual! "

Tun suddenly remembered what was wrong with this conversation and why they Didn't know what bl was. Tun pulled tess by his ears and whispered so the other two had no idea of what they were talking about.

"Did you forget we Don't have a thing called bl here? Same-sex is very common so they never named it specifically. "

Tess bit his tongue when he realised tun was right.

" What are guys whispering?  Tell us about it too!" up said and wiggled his eyes. Tun panicked and said something that made tess laugh his ass off.

"Boyfriend's secret," tun said and immediately hid his face. And friends being friends got a chance to tease.

"Omg. I bet tun said 'daddy I'm horny'"

"Or maybe he said ' my ass still hurts'" aou and up were having way too much fun and tess kept laughing while tun was trying to stop all of them with a red face.

Time waits for none. They kept brainstorming but didn’t get anything done for weeks. Tun was getting frustrated and thought puen was better at this job. He made him successful. Talay was also awesome. Not that tess isn’t.  Tess might have a talent in this industry.  Tess was the one who said the movie should be about everything but focus more on romance.

Tess was still in tun's condo. He never went back to his home after that night. Tun felt like tess was scared of his father's reaction to him asking to officially move out so he unofficially moved in with tun. They both knew that they were living together but none of them uttered a word about this topic. Tun Didn't mind Tess's company at home. Tess being the rich bratty kid didn’t know anything but in this couple of weeks, he learned how to do laundry and make the bed. He learned how to clean the house. He just didn’t know how to cook yet.

Tess was currently watching a movie with tun in the living room. Suddenly he heard his phone ring in the bedroom. He got up and ran to pick it up. Tun was unbothered by it. But tess was taking too long to come back. Tun paused the movie and waited some more but there was no sign of tess.