Guilty

Chapter 12

Sky looks up from his manga and sighs when there is a knock at the door. He does check the peephole before opening the door, as Rain always instructed him to do, but he already knows what he will see.

As he expected, P'Pai is standing there, complete with a charming grin on his handsome face, holding up bags of food. Sky doesn't know if P'Phayu tips him off or if P'Pai has somehow managed to bribe Rain, but the alpha shows up everytime P'Phayu takes Rain out for a date.

Sky rolls his eyes and opens the door. "Why are you here?" he asks.

"Is that anyway to greet the person who stood in line for an hour at one of the most famous restaurants in Bangkok?" P'Pai sulks.

"I didn't ask you to," Sky says.

"I wanted to; in case it made a certain cold boy sympathize with me." P'Pai says honestly. "Are you really not going to let me in after that feat?"

Sky gives him a cold look but stands aside.

Sky gets drinks and dishes while P'Pai pours the bags of food into bowls. While they eat, P'Pai fills the silence talking about his brother and sister, parents and uncle. Sky puts an uninterested expression on his face, but he's thinking how obvious it is P'Pai cares for his family.

"What about Sky? Do you have any siblings?" P'Pai asks.

Sky shakes his head, "It's just me and my dad, my parents divorced, and I haven't seen my mother in years. She calls to talk every once in a while."

"I'll introduce you to my family, then you won't have to be lonely." P'Pai tells him.

"I'm not lonely," Sky lies. Well, he hasn't been as lonely since meeting Rain and the others.

P'Pai gives him a look like he knows Sky is lying.

"Shouldn't you get home before it's late?" Sky asks pointedly after he washes the dishes. P'Pai had offered to help, but Sky had just waved him off. If he were honest it just felt a little too domestic to do dishes together.

P'Pai is scrolling through his phone and for a moment Sky feels a stab of jealousy wondering if he is checking on someone. "Woah, I buy you dinner and you want to chase me out right afterwards." P'Pai says. "I like this outfit; you should wear it more often."

Sky looks down at P'Pai's phone and sees his own picture. It makes him feel oddly warm "Are you stalking my socials?" he asks.

Instead of answering, P'Pai hits the like button on several pictures and Sky hears the answering notifications on his own phone.

"This one, though, I like it, but you should only wear it for me." P'Pai says.

Sky's eyes jerk back to the phone wondering what he could be looking at. Sky doesn't have anything he would consider seductive.

The picture is one Rain took when they were goofing around playing video games. It's Sky in a pair of shorts and an oversized ratty t-shirt. His hair is sticking up in messy spikes. Sky blushes thinking he will kill Rain for posting that picture.

"My Sky is too cute for words in this picture." P'Pai says.

Yes Sky will definitely kill Rain for posting that picture.

Rain slips in the apartment quietly, not wanting to wake Sky up. He and P'Phayu had just finished dinner and a late movie when Rain realized he had forgotten his assignment that the alpha is going to help him with tomorrow. One of the conditions for going on a date tonight was that Rain finish his assignment tomorrow at the garage. P'Phayu would help between working on vehicles.