Hide and Seek | GeminiFourth

Chapter 12: Epilogue

Norawit's POV

There he was again. Looking in my direction, eyes sparkling, with a smile wide enough to show his perfect teeth.

My boyfriend. My world.

I went down the stairs of the hospital and started walking towards the gates, where he was waiting and waving at me. I quickened my steps because I wanted to reach him as soon as possible. How was this even possible? How could someone be so pretty just standing there? I knew he didn't even put effort into his looks today. He just combed his hair and went to work but look at him! Always so gorgeous! And his white shirt? I needed to have a firm talk with him about wearing shirts outside of the school. They looked too good on him. He was making me crazy!

When I was finally a few steps ahead of him I opened my arms, without giving it a second thought. I just wanted to have him close. I always wanted to touch him, it wasn't even weird anymore. But he took a step back right away, putting a hand between us.

I dropped my arms and pouted. "Why?"

He looked to his right and then his left. "There are people around."

I took another step closer but thankfully he didn't move away this time. "It's okay! They think you are my close friend. Friends hug each other, don't they?"

"Drop it, Romeo," he warned. "I'll let you hug me all you want at home. My students bug me all day every time you come close to me in public."

"They ship us."

"They really do."

"But I ship us more."

"Like I don't know that!" He sighed before turning around. "Let's go home first."

I stepped next to him and put an arm around his shoulders, with a mischievous grin on my face, of course, and started walking with him. He just shook his head but smiled nevertheless. We turned the corner and made our way back home through the dirt road.

We were in this village for a year and a half now. After the whole shabang with the mafia group and the police and after everything had pretty much settled down, I only had a couple of months left in my internship. Then I had to leave for my mandatory rural service. Our initial plan was that I would leave and P'Wat would stay in Bangkok and find a job there. We were planning to do a long distance relationship for two years, meet each other as often as possible, until I'm done with my service and start living together after I'm back. But as I was getting ready to leave, I started feeling restless. I was impossibly clingy and was literally spending my days stuck to his side. I was like a parasite. But a very loving one, okay? I finally realized there was no way I could be apart from him for that long. Not anymore. Especially not after our break that lasted for a whole month.

So I gathered my courage and one day, I told him all that. I told him I couldn't imagine not seeing him everyday. I couldn't even go to sleep before kissing him, how would I survive there all alone? I said I would take care of him. I would take care of everything, just come with me.

He didn't say anything at first. But the next day he did some research and called some numbers. Then he came to me with a gorgeous smile and said he actually was able to secure an interview at the elementary school in the village I was going to work at. He said they were happy that he called because they were already short on teachers and were in dire need for them.

"I don't want to live apart from you, too," he said. "I was losing sleep just thinking about it."

So we moved here together and rented a tiny house. It was a really small village. Everybody knew each other and any small rumor would spread faster than a wildfire. So we decided not to tell anyone that we were together. We were only going to be here for two years, so it didn't matter. It actually gave us a thrill, like we had a big secret only the two of us knew and had to hide it from everyone. It made things spicier at home. And at my office when he visited. But I still loved touching him in public, when nobody looked; because why not? He was mine and nobody could take him away from me. He would sometimes get pissy about it and curse me out under his breath but it was okay. I would kiss his worries away later, no problem.