Hide and Seek | GeminiFourth

Chapter 7: Addiction

"Tell me more about it," I insisted while we went inside the living room and took seats.

It was a nice room, well decorated. There was one sofa, one loveseat and one chair and all of them had different colors. But with the rug and the curtains, they kind of completed each other. There were browns and greens all around. There was a huge bookcase, full of books, that took up a whole wall on the left. There was no TV but there was a big aquarium next to the windows on the right. I could see dozens of clownfish swimming in it.

"Don't you dare tell him anything," Norawit said while sitting very close to me on the sofa. "I will tell him myself later."

"Oh, hell no," Pansa objected. "Where is the fun in that? We already told him anyway."

Win agreed loudly after he took the chair. "You've been torturing us, fanboying over him for so long, you gave us the right to talk about it all we want!"

Norawit was now trying to cover my ears. "Don't listen to them. They are stupid."

I slapped his hands away with a fake frown and signaled Win to continue.

He complied happily. "He's been watching you for a long time. He kept going on about how there was this stranger who jogged around the park everyday. How he looked so perfect, how he looked like an angel-"

"Please shut up," Norawit pleaded, burying his face in his hands.

"He would literally sulk all day if you skipped a day," Pansa added.

"You had a crush on me before you met me?" I was looking at Norawit in shock. Was it even possible?

"Do you have any idea how handsome you are?" He asked between his hands.

He knew me before I got to know him. He knew me way before. That day at the hospital was only me meeting him, and it was just him introducing himself to me officially.

"So just imagine how ecstatic he was when he found out you started working at the hospital," Win continued.

Hearing someone having a crush on you was already a little overwhelming, but imagine hearing them having a crush on you for a whole year. I felt like I was coming from a different dimension. I felt like it wasn't even about me but someone entirely different. Who would've known my way of relieving stress was this attractive to some random person. Maybe I should have been weirded out but I just felt my heart melting a little. He was already really cute in my eyes but imagining him standing in front of that window, waiting for me to show up for a jog was too much to handle. It was scary how endearing I found all of this.

Then I felt a light bulb going on in my head. "That's why you called me Phi when we met. Did you check my employee information?"

"Of course he did. That little Sherlock," Pansa said while laughing.

Norawit stood up from where he was sitting. "I can't take it anymore. If I can't stop you, I'll run away. I'm going to smoke." He leaned in to kiss my cheek and walked out of the room with fast steps. Pansa followed him with her packet of cigarettes in her hand, she was still laughing.

I was still trying to process the information that was dumped on me, looking at nothing, blinking.

"Phi," Win called me after a few seconds. He leaned back to check if the other two could hear us or not. When he was sure they weren't near he turned back to me. "Look. Norawit is a great guy."

I turned my eyes to him and nodded. "He is."

"But he is also a ride or die kind of person. He gives his all in his relationships. He got his heart broken a few times because of this before." He scooted closer on the chair. "I'm telling you this because he could be intense. Also, because I don't want him to get hurt."