Midnight Rain

Chapter 12

                 I'll turn the world upside down just to have you in my arms

"What do you mean you can't find any records! Look properly! Aren't you guys ashamed to report me something like this!" Tin threw the paper at his employees. They all hung their head down low as Tin scolded them endlessly

"No international airport has any record of them. So the only conclusion can be, they haven't left the country. But where could they possibly be?" Por said as he looked through the reports again and again. His eyes indicated the sleepless nights he has spent

Tiwson who was no better than Por nodded tiredly "I knew Mr Karn was an extremely capable man, but didn't think this much. How did they completely disappear from the face of earth! Why don't we just put it up in the news! It'd be more easier!" He said as he massaged his temples.

"No, it will make Mr Karn even more alert!" Immediately, Tin countered Tiwson's suggestion. They all know Mr Karn very well. There's a reason why he was Mrs Potjanee's most trusted man. His capabilities and intelligence was unmatched for and his skills were the best.

It has been two weeks since Gun had gone away. The only thing they could get of him was the letter that was left on Mrs Ratchanee's door step. In the letter supposedly sent by Gun, he reassured that he was completely fine and told his mother not to worry too much. He assured her that he will come back one day and for her to not look for him. However, the letter was not delivered by any mailman. It was left either by Gun himself or some one else making it hard to track down his whereabouts.

Mrs Ratchanee tried to console Tin multiple times. Seeing how Tin was frantically searching for Gun as if he was a lost treasure made her feel extremely sorry. However, she knew Gun needed his time off as well. Away from all the suffering he was subjected to all these years without her knowing.  And he had promised to return one day as well. She chose to trust Gun and take care of Tin for the time being

Tin understood it as well. Finally after a month, the search for Gun subsided. Tiwson and Por were allowed to rest. However Tin, he forgot how to rest. Everyday, he would come to the company even before the sun had risen and stay until late. After that he would go home and indulge himself in alcoholic beverages. Nothing he did. No matter how much he drank, no matter how much he worked, nothing could tire him to rest. He spent those sleepless nights lying down awake in Gun's bed, reminiscing his warmth that always lulled him to the most comfortable sleep until the alcohol in his blood made his head ache, and his tears flowed  overwhelmingly as his heart craved for him

"How long are you going to live like this Tin? What if Gun never returns? Are you going to live like this forever? You know, my friend Mr Han's daughter just came back from the US. She said she would like to know you, how about you go on a dat-"

"Shut it!" Tin raised his voice at his mother who had come to see him after a month since their last meet. Even now she didn't stop spouting completely nonsense. "If you don't leave now, I'll forget that you're the woman who gave birth to me!" Clutching the bottle of wine that had shattered by his firm grip, Tin glared at Mrs Potjanee fiercely.

Mrs Potjanee watched as the blood dripped out of her son's hands, her eyes terrified at the sight. "Tin! Let go of that!" She screamed as she tried to approach him.

"I said go away!" Tin frantically shouted as he banged his fist on the wall, making his mother flinch. "Aren't you satisfied! Didn't you have enough! Why are you still here! What's left of me that you can possibly destroy! Are you going to kill me know? That'd be better! Because I can't live like this anymore!" In utter despair, Tin crouched down. His lean and firm build now completely weak as he shivered in pain.

Mrs Potjanee looked around the room. It wasn't her son's room. And the way it was decorated, she knew exactly whose room it was. Gun's room. Even if the whole house was destroyed, glasses broken, vases broken, table and chairs upturned as a symbol of her son's violent retrieval, this room was the only one in place. But not anymore. Broken pieces of glasses lay on the floor drenched with blood as her son had crushed them as soon as he caught her sight. His eyes filled with complete hatred.

"Get lost! Why aren't you going away? Do you want to see more of this? You're enjoying this very much aren't you? Then don't go! Stay here and watch until the day I completely destroy myself! Aren't you happy! I'm doing what you want to do to me myself!" Tin laughed like a madman as he met his mother's eyes. Potjanee couldn't help but shiver. Her feet immediately turned around as she ran out of the house.

As she entered the car and started the engine, frantic sobs broke out of her. She drove back to her own mansion. The servants panicked when they saw their master in complete distress, however Potjanee paid no mind to any of their concerns and ran straight to her room. There she found her husband packing up his things.

"Wha-What are you doing?" Mrs Potjanee asked her husband who hadn't been home for nearly a month. "Honey! Where are you going?" She shouted at the man who ignored her entire being. She broke down in the door and wailed on the floor.

Mr Tul finally looked at her with a grim face. "I'm going to move in with my father. He's sick and living all alone." He said as he headed out carrying the suitcase. Finally able to leave his wife who had always been holding him back behind. Mrs Potjanee was left on the floor, without any support or consolation, weeping by herself.

It had been a month already, and when her son halted his search for Gun, she was hopeful he had finally forgotten about him. So she approached him with an enticing offer.

However she never knew how stupid she was. And now when she had finally realized, things had already taken turn for the worse. Her son, her husband, she had no one by her side anymore. With her own two hands, she completely destroyed them. And now she could only regretfully weep alone.

"Where did I go so wrong? How could I be so stupid? I-I made my son miserable! I took away everything that he ever wished for! It's all my fault! It's all because of me!" Her cries were inexplicably painful. She was hit with great sorrow that came with realization of her foolishness. Her son in such a maniac state was the last blow to her senses until she finally opened to her own selfish actions.

All she ever did was think for herself. She betrayed her best friend. She manipulated her husband. Ever since she gave birth, she always viewed Tin as a trophy of her great achievements and forced him to live like a prize. Everything she did was solely to satisfy her own self and she failed to realize her son's own needs. How stupid was she? But now all she could do was weep. No apologies could suffice the pain she put her loved ones through.
All she could do now was cry and suffer in pain