Destined

chapter 16

5 years later.

"Team! Mark's here with his annoying boyfriend!" Manaow, his secretary and friend, shouted as she knocked gently through the door. Her actions contradict her voice.

"Just let them in, Manaow" he puts down his pen as he massages his temple. "and I told you to town down your voice even when you're excited."

The door opens, revealing a frowning Manaow, Vee with his tounge out as he tease the latter, and Mark chiding his boyfriend as he pinch his side.

"Hi Team!" it was Mark who gave up on his boyfriend's childish behavior.

He closed the distance between them and hugged Team, "I miss you."

"Hm. Nice to see you again."
the latter hugged the other back.

The two at the door went to them as well, but didn't intervene at the scene.

"My boyfriend misses you more than me." Vee voiced out, sulking.

"Well deserved." Manaow's smiling again as he teases the other.

Mark ended the hug himself, rolling his eyes, "Should I just live with Team so I could miss you more than him then?"

"You can miss him more than me, love. I'm the one you're going to marry anyway." Vee said, grinning.

"Are you sure he's going to marry you? Didn't he reject your proposal last year?" Manaow continued teasing the older, her brows going up and down.

"Do you hear something, you two? I think there's a bee in your office, Team."

"Tsk, I'm going back to work. Your boyfriend's annoying as ever, Mark. You should say no again if he proposes again."

"Hey!! That's too much!! You're more annoying than me!" Vee retaliates, staring at Manaow's retreating back.

Mark and Team couldn't help but to shake their heads.

Mark indeed rejected Vee's proposal and Vee understand it when Mark told him his reason. He proposes to him with a lot of people watching, and a feeling of pressure comes with it. Mark hates being pressured the most and Vee understands.

"When do you plan to go back in Thailand?" Team asked the lovers in front of him.

"Ouch, Team! We just got here and you want us to leave already?"

"You and your dramatic ass, Vee." he rolled his eyes at his cousin who went to his lover that's already sitting on a single seated sofa and sat on Mark's lap.

"Should we visit your rest house, Team? It's been years since I came here." Vee uttered once again, quickly hopping from one topic to another, "A week of vacation? Us and Manaow?And perhaps her boyfriend?"

His cousin stared at him, dumbfounded,"You speak as if I don't have a job to do, Vee."

"And Pruk is Manaow's boyfriend, right? Isn't he a friend of he-who-shall-not-be-named?" Mark added.

Team rolled his eyes, "Vee's dramatic ass is rubbing off on you. He's Win's friend, yes."

Vee chuckled, "So... a vacation?"

A WEEK LATER

"Vee! Come put on sunscreen first!" As if a mother scolding her child, Mark shouted while looking at his lover skipping his way towards the sea.

A pouting Vee is coming towards him minutes later, "You ruined my moment there, babe."

Mark laughed, handing out the sunscreen to his boyfriend, "Here, put on sunscreen fast and continue your moment there."