MIDNIGHT DAYDREAM

Alternative Ending: 30

Chay doesn't know what the fuck is he thinking about, but he is now standing outside the luxurious apartment complex. He gets the address from what Macau told him before, that the guy and Kai live in the same apartment complex.

In hesitation, yes, but still he picks up the phone that he secretly brought with him. There is only one phone number in that phone.

The phone is being picked up after just two dial tones.

"Chay," the other person says. His voice is between happily surprised and alerted.

"Help me, please," Chay replies, with a voice that is on the edge of tears.

His tone changes again, this time more alert and hurried. "Where are you?"

"I'm outside your apartment complex," Chay pauses for a moment. "Phi, I need to disappear for a while, maybe more than a while."

There is a silence for a moment, but then the other party says, "Got it. Go wait for me somewhere safe first. Turn on the location on the phone."

Chay agrees and decides that somewhere safe is on the abandoned kiosk just a couple hundred meters from where he stands.

In ten minutes, there is a sound of roaring of a big bike coming near where he is. His phone lit up seconds after that. "Come out." That's all he says. Chay wonders how a warm person like this guy can have a spine-chilled voice like that.

He comes out and Ash is taking his time to look at him from the top of his head to his shoes, lingering longer on the duffle bag in his hand. While Chay can't seem to take his eyes away from the black machine horse in front of him. He thought Ash would bring a car.

Ash seems to know what's on his mind as he smiles and says, "I figure since Kim is on our tail, we can use something fast and more ... mobile."

"You don't want to ask what this is all about, Phi?"

"We'll have time for that later. If you don't want to tell me that's ok too. I'm yours either way. At your service."

Chay can feel his ears are getting warm, but says nothing in return. He only takes the helmet from Ash's hand and gets on the bike.

"Hold on tight. This is going to be a long ride."

And this is a long ride. It takes more than three hours and a stop at a gas station, where Ash is not allowing Chay to take his helmet off, to be where he is right now: in a gorgeous wooden house near a rain forest somewhere far away from Bangkok.

"Make yourself at home," Ash says. "I will be busy for an hour ahead. I have to arrange logistics for us and inform my family and Kai that I have an urgent flight I have to catch."

Chay scrunched up his forehead. "Where?" With the family vast-web of information, they are bound to find out whether Ash is really on a flight or not. Give Kim a few hours, he'll know.

"Somewhere," then, seeing how worry Chay is, he adds, "Kim is not the only one with resources, Chay. Don't worry, Baby, we'll be alright. Just take a bath and rest. You had a long ride."

So he does like Ash told him, prolonging his time in the bathroom, as he worries sick that he has dragged Ash to something horrific. If Kim knows ... It is a no brainer what he will do to Ash. What he can do.

But maybe, just maybe, Ash will be alright even in a worst case scenario as he comes from an influential old family with immense political power.

Chay thinks he better worry about himself, rather than worrying about Ash.

Kim is unpredictable and relentless. He will be looking for Chay and finds him even if he has to flip the earth upside down for it.

Chay knows his time to hide is limited, but he rather gambles on it now. He doesn't want to see Kim, his brother, or Kinn. As for the rest of the Theerapanyakuls, he can't see them without getting caught by the three.