Choices

Parents' Decision

'OMG! That is so cute!' Pa'Tu gushed as she clapped her hands.

'I agree with you, Khun Tee and Khun Cha's story is very beautiful.' Khun Tip wiped a tear from her eye.

'I am happy and contented with my life with Tee right now and I will never change anything from my past because it brought me to her.' Khun Cha said proudly while looking at his wife.

'Oh, Khun!' She said while blushing fierily.

'So, out of curiousity, Khun Tee,' Pa'Tu started, 'Do you still practice taekwondo? I mean the children never mentioned you doing it or even you knowing it.'

'They don't know. I mean, they know about their uncles did it when they were young and that we have a dojo where they used to teach it to kids.' Khun Tee said, 'But no one among the children had expressed an interest or else I could have trained them or my brothers would have.'

'There were a lot of things that had happened over the years between us, I even thought that we would eventually break up and part ways as friends.' Khun Tee added.

'What do you mean, Khun?' Khun Cha asked. 'Surely, you didn't think I would let you get away from me after all the effort I did just to get you. No ma'am! That ain't happening.' He added as he smirked.

The elder girls tittered like teenagers when they say Khun Tee blush a fiery red. 'Ahh!! OMG! That is so sweet, Khun Cha!' Pa'Tu said. 'Now, why can't you be like that, Khun Soon?'

Khun Soon looked at his wife with disbelief while Khun Det laughed heartily.

'So, let us go back to the engagement and the party.' Khun Tee started to say, 'What is exactly the plan for it, Khun Tip?'

Khun Tip looked at Pa'Tu who shrugged her shoulders and said, 'That is precisely it, I have no idea what the plan is. I mean, Siri hadn't even come to visit us after the engagement as she should because that would be respectful. I mean I know that they have been friends for a long time and they have a relationship now but an engagement is an entirely different matter.'

'I agree with you, Khun! But what can we do, I was asking Khun Soon if this was how the children are normally these days. I hope not because I find it very rude for them not to acknowledge the elders of the family that they are marrying into.' Pa'Tu added.

Khun Cha made a Tsk sound, 'Have you even met at least her parents? I mean, did the children even make an effort to make the elders meet each other yet?

Both Khun Tip and Khun Soon shook their heads no.

'What?' Khun Tee exclaimed. 'Never?'

Khun Det sighed. 'It was very strange for a relationship that after the engagement, they hardly see each other. Tam had been so occupied with work the past few weeks and for someone who had just recently got engaged he seems to be not very excited to get married at all.'

'That is true. I mean, I distinctly remember Khun Soon falling off Pa'Tu's window, trying to get a glimpse of her after just two days of not seeing each other after they got engaged.' Khun Tip recalled. The rest of the elders laughed. 'I asked Tam what the plans were, he said, I and Pa'Tu make plans and just ask Siri to confirm with whatever plans were made for the engagement party.'

Pa'Tu nodded and said, 'Khun Tip and I were flabbergasted. 'I mean if I were the fiancée, I would really be on top of the events surrounding my engagement party, right?' The rest of the adults nodded. 'But as it is, I have not heard anything from her at all and it is out of the ordinary.'