Cute Boy [PhayuRain] [Love In The Air]

36: DEVOTION

Adrenaline was flowing, making him feel like he could conquer anything, anyone.

His plan was falling into place, the fury and agitation he heard in Phayu's voice was music to his ears.

So why were his friends being chicken shits??

Bas, his best friend, was yelling at him. "Stop, you are going too far!"

His other friend Bank was also freaking out, "When you first called, I thought it was just beating someone up for fun. But this has become a kidnapping!"

Stop was fuming at their weakness, "Do you think he'd stay still and let us beat him up? The way he humiliated me, I'll fucking get back at him for it."

"I won't be a part of this," Bas says and storms out of the building.

Bank tried to reason with Stop, "I don't know if you realized it, but someone like Ai Phayu is scary."

Stop could feel the hate-filled eyes of the boy taking all this in, watching as his friends challenged him. They were starting to make him look like a weak fool.

He spat at Bank, "Are you going to run away with your tail between your legs like Ai Bas?"

He shoved Bank out of the way, went over to the boy, and slapped him hard across the face, hard enough to bust his lip and draw blood.

"What the fuck are you looking at? Oh, yea, you can't talk," he says to Rain, pulling down his gag.

The boy's eyes burn fiendishly as he spits in Stop's face, with nothing but contempt in his glare.

He boldly yells at Stop, "P'Phayu won't lose to someone like you! If you don't use dirty tricks, you'll never be able to do anything to him! Oh, even when you cheated, you couldn't beat him! You loser!"

Rain's words enrage Stop, hitting hard at his tattered vanity. Stop punches Rain in the stomach, making the bound boy double over in pain.

Seeing the look in Stop's eye getting more frenzied, Bank pulls him back, "Hey, watch it before he dies!"

Stop leans inches away from Rain's face, and threatens as the boy stubbornly stares back unflinchingly, "I really want to see the look on your face when I beat you up. But let's keep your pretty face untouched. Once I'm done with Ai Phayu, you'll be next."

He storms away as Rain yells after him, "Do it if you dare! Are you going to cut my face? Do it then! You coward!"

*

One of the other men runs over and tightens the gag painfully across Rain's mouth to shut him up for his own protection since the boy wouldn't back down.

His words were escalating Stop's wrath and things were going to quickly get out of control if he didn't step in. And if he were being honest, the steely, fearlessness in the boy's eyes was sending chills down his spine. Only someone who was one hundred percent confident that he would get the upper hand would have that kind of look. He had a bad feeling about this.