What the heart wants

The Dream

Rain

The last race was about to start when Rain decided he had to go to the bathroom. He had drank way too much soda despite P'Phayu warning him not to. Both Sky and P'Phayu offered to go with him but he told them to stay and enjoy the last race.

"I'm not a baby, I will go then meet you guys at the front entrance since the race will be over before I get back." He said.

Rain had just come out of the bathroom and started heading towards the entrance to wait when he heard a voice behind him that made his blood run cold, "Well, well if it isn't Rain cloud."

Rain turned slowly, hoping that he was wrong. His eyes widened at the two people standing there.

"Nothing to say to old friends, Rain cloud?"

"When were we ever friends, Stop?" Rain spat out.

"Oh, come in don't be like that." Stop moved forward and grabbed Rain's chin forcing him to look up. He squeezed so hard Rain was sure he would have a bruise there.

"Yeah, you have no idea how much we missed you and Sky." Stop's brother Gun said laughing mockingly.

Stop pushed Rain back until his back was against the wall behind him and said, "As I remember we still owe one you for getting us kicked out of school."

"You got yourselves kicked out." Rain said with more bravery than he felt. "Gun was harassing Sky and you hit me."

"He did what?!?" Came the angry roar from behind them. Rain couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he recognized P'Phayu's voice.

Phayu

Phayu was already quickly moving on the two people obviously menacing Rain but he stopped dead when he heard Rain's words. Rage boiled inside him. No one touched his Rain, even if it had been years ago.

Pai stopped him before he could attack the one that had been holding Rain. He nodded at the guards headed their way. "Let P'Chai handle them, you know P'Pakin doesn't like troublemakers at his events."

After Rain told his side of the story (backed up by the video cameras in the lobby) Gun and Stop were escorted out and banned from coming back.

Phayu examined Rain's face where Stop had grabbed him. He could already see bruises starting to form. He still wanted to go find Stop and punch him at least once but Rain was smiling sweetly at him.

"I'm okay, P'Phayu please calm down." Rain said. "They didn't hurt me."

Sky had been standing back slightly behind Pai, but now he spoke up in an angry voice. "Dammit I hoped we had seen the last of those guys."

"Who are they?" Pai asked.

"Stop and Gun, they are brothers and were our seniors in high school." Sky said. "Gun tried to get me to go out with him, but Rain had already warned me that he had a terrible reputation as a bully. His dates also tended to show up to school with bruises. So I basically told him to take a long walk off a short bridge. He didn't like that and started harassing me every chance he got. Rain, being Rain would defend me and mouth off to both Gun and Stop so that they both began to bully him as well. For almost two months we had to make sure we went every with a group of people. It was hell. One day they caught us by ourselves. Gun started in on harassing me again, Rain came between us but Stop hit him. Rain was half his size. Luckily a teacher saw what happened and they were kicked out of school. After that things became much better."

Phayu knew that Stop better not ever show his face in front of him again and even Pai looked like he was sorry he had stopped Phayu from punching Stop.