Growing Together

[F] TharnType: Brothers (Part 2)

"It was a hypothetical question, geez!" King had retorted as he pulled out his chair out before he was sitting down at the table the waitress had escorted them too. Although, the look on his brother's face said he wasn't entirely convinced. "Honestly, P', have I ever lied to you?" He asked.

"Many times," Korn had said without hesitation as he picked up the menu instead deciding to look it over for something that appetized him.

King had only huffed and picked up the menu much like his older brother, "Okay, initially I might have not been honest, but I always came clean before you found out on your own." He said truthfully. There had been many times that he had hid things from his brother, because he knew the guy in and out but eventually the guilt overcame him and he would come clean.

"So who is he?" Korn asked looking up from his menu.

King was about to say his name when he noticed the pair sitting a couple seats from him and his smile had dropped even more. "Actually, that's him over there with Intouch." He said feeling the slight tinge of jealousy seeing them being so close and talking so comfortably, something he had yet to manage to do with N'Ram.

"Intouch?" Korn had said, turning his head in the direction his brother was looking at, only to see Intouch smiling a little wider as he raised his hand to call over someone. When he noticed Khlui, Seo and some other young kids, it had him standing up getting his younger brother's attention.

"P'Korn!" Khlui had cheerfully said when he noticed his brother a couple tables over, "and P'King is here too, what a coincidence," Khlui's loudmouth had said rushing over to his brothers and inadvertently making his companions look in that direction.

Even Seo had walked over to them making almost an apologetic look towards his friend. When he was met with somewhat glare from Korn. "I got tricked," Is all he said.

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Thanks to Khlui they had ended up all moving to a longer table and all sitting together. "P' these are mine and Intouch's friends, Sun, Tei, Tee, and Ram." Khlui said motioning to everyone of his friends politely before he was going on, "Friends, these two handsome guys are my brothers, P'Korn and P'King."

He was happy seeing everyone get along and greeting each other kindly.

Although, Korn on the other hand had turned towards his younger brother King when he heard him mumble out that Nong's name again. "Did you not know his name?" He whispered to him only to see King's smile fade as he turned his full attention to him.

"When would I have the chance to ask? "We are in different grades," King had sighed as he turned away from Ram long enough to not make it obvious that he was staring at him. Especially, now that the conversations around the table had broken off into different ones.

Even Seo was joining them, if only to apologize to Korn, "I didn't think I would end up as a designated driver for Khlui today. I honestly, thought he just wanted me to drop him off." He swore.

"You're too soft on Khlui," Korn had said shaking his head. "You need to learn to say no to him, otherwise Khlui will just keep clinging to you."

At that, King had only perked up and smiled knowingly at Seo as he said, "Aw come on P'Korn, how can he say 'no' to our dear little Khlui. Seo, likes him too much." Which only served to make Seo look a little nervous, not that Korn would have picked up on it. When, he too, was denying his own feelings for their brother's best friend.

Seo just couldn't say anything to that. He knew too well that his friend was very protective of his brothers, while the other brother was just a devil who knew too much about his relationship with Khlui. Although, to what extend he knew about their relationship that was something that he didn't quite know for sure and it wasn't something he was particularly keen on giving him anymore hints on.

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"P'Ram you can stay over, too, right?" Intouch had asked Ram, which had gotten the kid a smile and nod from the silent guy. Before it seemed that he had no trouble talking to Intouch, but now that they were all sitting together, it seemed like he didn't want to speak.

"Great! What about Tei and Tee? Did your brother say it was okay?" Khlui asked.

"P' doesn't care, he's on a trip with his friends," Tee said with a huge grin.

"We are free of our curfew, but mom wants us to stop by so we might not stay all night," Tei added to what his twin brother had said.

"We'll that's okay, we can try to get as much done while you guys are there," Khlui said, ever being the optimistic guy.

"What about you, Sun?" Intouch said, turning to the other boy sitting besides Ram.

"I can stay, but my brother said he will drop by to check on me. He said he will buy us snacks," Sun said with a sheepish smile.

"What are you guys' planning?" King had asked Khlui, though his eyes had turned to steal a glance at Ram who had turned away from him the moment their eyes met.

"We have a group project we have to work on, and we have to build a prototype," Khlui said before he was saying, "I asked dad, he gave me the okay and even said he'd help if we needed anything."

"If you need me, I can lend a hand too," King offered, claiming that since he was their senior, he knew what the professor would be looking for. Which in part was true, but in part he wanted to get closer to that Nong that was keeping his mind so occupied throughout the day.

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When they had parted ways, Korn had watched them all get into the car with King, while Seo had decided he would stay behind with him. "That kid, is the one In's been after right?" Korn said turning to his friend just to verify that he wasn't mistaken.

"Yeah, funny how he's so close to In's younger brothers and even your brother but he doesn't seem like he likes In all that much," Seo said shrugging his shoulder.

"He's not the only one, the kid seems to take after his older brother," Korn said.

"Seems like it," Seo said remembering all the fights they'd witness between In and Arthit.

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A/N: "Little Guide" Chapter updated. 

I know everyone is disappointed this isn't a Pete/Kao chap, but the next one will be. I just wanted to get this one out first.