fame

Forty-two

"Bro,why aren't you sleeping?" Archen stood beside Naravit as he was smoking on the balkoni.

"I just can't"

"Same here"
"by the way,would you love to have your own motorbike?" Archen was engrossed to hear the answer.

"Obviously,but I don't know how to ride yet." Naravit looked at Archen with anticipation in his eyes.

"You know what,I'm thinking of giving my bike to you." Said Archen as he smiled and nodded.

"Bro,why would you?" Naravit snickered as he offered Archen his cigarette.

"That's alright,I quit" Archen refused as he changed his sight to the bustling city view from their condo.

"Really? Since when?" Naravit was puzzled,that was unforeseen from someone like Archen.

"I've been wanting to tell you this." Archen turned his body to look at him.
"I'm sick,like really sick because of that shit dude.I don't know what to do."

"What do you mean?"

"I have stage 3 lung cancer."

"W-what?" Naravit's jaw dropped open.he was damn well speechless.

Naravit looked deeply into Archen's eyes,one eye to another,desperately trying to search for the truth.His pupils dilated as tears were forming.

"W-when did you find out?"

"Back in Italy" Archen gulped trying to suppress the lump forming in his throat.

"fucking hell,and y-you just decided to tell me now." Naravit took a couple steps back away from Archen as his body tragically trembling.

"Naravit,listen.I just want to spend time with you more,like back in the days,like normal.Not when you know that I'm going to." Archen gulped down his words in as he took a deep breath.

"Not when I'm fucking dying." He uttered under his breath as he walked closer to Naravit trying to get a grip of him.

"y-you" Naravit bursted into tears as his body awfully shaking,his knees gave out but Archen caught him.

"H-hey bro,hey Naravit." Archen hugged him tight,trying to comfort him.

"Naravit hugged him as tight as he could."
He bawled his eyes out like it was the end of the world.his voice became hoarse as he cried out,desperately clinging to Archen.

"H-hey I love you,Naravit.To my first love my love goes." Archen rubbed Naravit's back,rocking him back and forth.

"My love for you is out of this world,even when i'm out of this world." Archen hugged Naravit tightly,shushing him quiet.

That cloudy night these loud wide streets and dense urban skyscrapers of central bangkok became the witness of their inaudible love.