We Were Too Young For This

The beginning.

Let me tell you a story. It is kind of long and kind of boring, but the end is a whirl. It's about a boy and a boy. They were best friends with each other but they always wished they were more because they loved one another but they never discovered because they were too afraid what the other would say. They were only kids when the world was mean to them, so they ended up not loving themselves, as unfortunate as it was. That's just how the world worked. It wasn't pretty. It wasn't sweet. Now they lived worlds apart never having admitted to each other how they felt toward each other.

However, just wait and see. It's not the end of their story yet.

It started with Gemini Norawit Titicharoenrak. Gemini was an only child of very successful wealthy parents, the story of how he was conceived he has heard many times, and it was practically engraved in his head. Apparently, it took over 10 years and multiple tries on IVF before he was brought into this world. He became everyone's favorite, the favorite nephew, the favorite grandchild, the miracle child. You name them all. Gemini has heard them referred to him.

Gemini's parents provided for him, the latest toys, the trendiest clothes, and he went to the most expensive schools from kindergarten. He traveled the world during vacation time. From the outside perspective, you would think that Gemini had it all. He was living every child's dream, and perhaps in some way, he was.

However, what the world didn't see was the pressure that weighed the weight of the earth on his lanky, skinny shoulders. The pressure to be the best in whatever he did, the pressure to be the best of the best, and to always be brilliant. He needed to be the top of his class in each and every subject, whatever sport he played he needed to master it and he played a lot of sports, ranging from soccer, basketball, tennis, badminton and if rugby was available at his private school he would've probably played that too.

He held on to that pressure, kept it to himself, and sometimes cried himself to sleep, but he had to bear it. He was the son of a brilliant doctor and businessman and a woman who owned luxurious boutiques all over Thailand. He was a product of brilliance, and he couldn't disappoint his parents by being mediocre. After all those years of suffering and trying to bring him into existence only for him to disappoint them, he couldn't risk that.

It wasn't like his life was all depressing and sad. He had wonderful parents who loved him and were willing to give him the world. Granted, his parents were almost never home, and he saw more of his nanny than his actual mother, but he knew his parents loved him. They just had to work hard for him, and maybe for themselves too. Gemini understood that, but it didn't make things less lonely. He always thought if he had an older sibling, maybe an older sister who would dote upon him life would be less empty and perhaps just a little less lonely.

As he grew older, he got used to his insane schedule and extracurricular activities. He made a lot of friends, or at least he considered those people to be his friends. He was known as the handsome but weird guy at his school. He was known for his outgoing personality and his daredevil ways of trying whatever new thing that was happening. He was the extroverted guy who was easy to talk to and easy to make friends with, and that sort of became his personality.

Gemini didn't know if he was really extroverted or if he forced himself to be like that, so his life was less empty and lonely. Gemini knew a lot of things, he read a lot, not that he liked it but he just felt like he had to so that he knew about a lot of different topics. That way, it will be easier to converse with anyone he came into contact with. Gemini hated silence. It reminded him of the giant empty mansion he called home.

He was 12 when he started learning the guitar, then the piano, then the drums. He was 14 when he formed his high school band with his friends. They mostly played pop covers, Gemini's favorite artist to cover being Bruno Mars. When his parents, well more like his mother, noticed his new interest in music, she hired him the best vocal teacher money could buy.