Roundabout Way to You

5. Finally free

Anwit squeezed a drop of the hand wash to his hands and washed his oily hands. He didn't actually have the habit of eating with his hands but there were no spoons available and he didn't want to miss out on the delicious food his colleague brought back from her hometown.

After having lathered up his hands well like how he was taught to do during the covid pandemic, he placed his hands beneath the sensor taps and washed the foam off.

Just then he saw a man enter the washroom in a hurry and get inside a toilet cubicle.

'Maybe he pooped his pants'  He thought with a chuckle seeing how hurriedly the person had slammed the door of the toilet cubicle.

Anwit was about to unzip his pants to pee when a woman rushed into the washroom. He identified that woman as Kitty who was said to have ambiguous relationships with her superior. Even though he had never interacted with her he clearly disliked her due to her lack of manners.

Kitty checked the toilet cubicles one by one. She was sure that her boyfriend was inside one of them. She finally found the one that was occupied and started banging her fist on the door. "Sarth, I know you are in there. Quickly open the door!"

Sarth couldn't believe how arrogant Kitty sounded. Clearly, she was in the wrong, yet she was treating him like this. As it was her office and he didn't want to create a scene, he opened the door.

"Sarth" Kitty held his hand "Baby, it was a mistake. I didn't mean to cheat on you. I~"

"Excuse me!" Anwit interrupted Kitty.

Kitty was stunned for a second as she looked at Anwit. She hadn't noticed his presence till then.

"Please show some manners and get out of here! This is the gents' washroom! " Anwit felt revolted as he saw how Kitty was trying to make herself look pitiful in front of that man.

"I am sorry. I am sorry!" Kitty immediately apologised. She knew that Anwit was someone who held a superior position to her despite his young age. She didn't want to mess with him.

She grabbed Sarth's wrist and dragged him outside.

Mihit and Bern had seen Sarth rushing to the washroom and had come looking for him. On the way there they heard in whispers that Sarth had caught his girlfriend making out with another guy. 

As they got there, they saw Kitty dragging Sarth out of the gents' washroom.

A lot of people had gathered around to watch the drama unfold.

"Sarth, I am sorry that I cheated on you. But I really didn't have a choice!" Kitty said self-righteously.

Mihit rolled his eyes hearing her. He didn't find it odd that Kitty was being so shameless.

"You are so boring and old. You are no longer as attractive as you used to be. You can't blame me when men who are more attractive interest me more" Kitty started criticizing Sarth.

Sarth remained silent, looking down as Kitty spoke. No one knew what he was thinking.

"You can't even satisfy me in bed!" Kitty claimed.

"Sister, are you sure that it is because he can't satisfy you in bed and not because you are too horny?" Someone standing behind Mihit and Bern muttered.

"Moreover, I got a promotion recently. My salary is even higher than yours. Are you going to tell me that now I have to provide for you?" Kitty found it ridiculous and naive that she had been dating a geek like Sarth.

She had long lost interest in him. She hated even being touched by Sarth, much less being addressed as his girlfriend.

The colleague she had been making out with had brought her to his condo. The condo was much bigger in size than the condo she shared with Sarth. How could she not waver when a younger and richer man was offering himself to her?

It took a lot of effort to stop Mihit from going over and slapping Kitty for spewing nonsense. He himself was having a hard time not punching the woman in the face. He knew well enough that Kitty was the one who emptied Sarth's wallet and had been living off the latter all these years. 

Sarth on the other hand wasn't paying any attention to what Kitty was saying. His focus was on the hole in Kitty's stockings a little beneath her knee. He wondered how aggressively that colleague of hers tugged the stockings that there was a huge hole like that.

"Let's break up, Sarth," Kitty said making Sarth finally come back to reality. "I have moved in with my friend. Please stop coming to look for me. Plea~"

"Ok," Sarth said emotionlessly.

"What?" Kitty hadn't expected Sarth to say yes to the break-up so fast. She was willing to give him an extra chance as long as he was willing to beg her. 

"I said 'ok'. Let's break up" Sarth repeated.

"O- Ok," She was displeased that Sarth didn't react the way she wanted him to. She snorted arrogantly before spinning on her heel and leaving the place.

The crowd too dispersed feeling disappointed as there was no drama like they expected. As others left the scene, Mihit and Bern stayed behind waiting for Sarth to show some reaction.

"YES!" Sarth jumped as he punched the air in excitement. "I AM FREE! I FINALLY GOT RID OF HER!"

Few people who hadn't completely left the area heard Sarth's excited words and turned to him. But nobody judged him as they knew Kitty's character well.

"HIT! DID YOU HEAR THAT SHE FINALLY BROKE UP WITH ME!!!" Sarth excitedly hugged Mihit.

He kept rumbling as he moved to hug Bern.

"Congratulations, man," Bern said, feeling amused by the way Sarth was celebrating his break-up.

Sarth was too happy to think of anything else. He hugged someone else in excitement chanting 'I am free! I am free!'

Anwit was caught off guard when Sarth hugged him all of a sudden. Even though he hadn't witnessed the whole scene, he had heard the part where Kitty asked Sarth for a breakup and the latter readily agreed.

Sarth hadn't realised that he was hugging a complete stranger.

"Excuse me?" Anwit called out making Sarth look at his face with a huge smile. "Khun, I don't remember seeing you wash your hands after you used the toilet."

Kitty had pulled Sarth out of the toilet cubicle directly and the latter didn't get the chance to wash his hands.

Anwit immediately felt disgusted at the thought of the number of germs in Sarth's hand after he used the toilet. He was freaking out.

Sarth who was holding Anwit by his shoulder, came to his senses and instantly removed his hands. He looked at his hands and then at Anwit's face which had a complicated expression.

The silence that filled the area could spell out A-W-K-W-A-R-D