Sotus: The Gear of My Heart [completed]

Chapter 31

Max's POV

I was driving home from work with my bike as usual then i felt the need to buy some goodies like soaps and whatnot. I dismount from my bike as i arrive the convenient store and head straight to the soap section because i dont like to go to these type of store unplanned or i'll might end up with 3 carts of products that i wouldn't even know the purpose of it.

I reach out my hands for my fav brand of body wash but there is also a small hand seizing the same bottle as mine. I turn my face to the person next to me and there's a small guy around 170cm and probably younger than me with a pale skin tone and fluffy side bangs. He looks like a girl, a beautiful one.

"Ow,..p'Max!?!!" The guy exclaimed. He knows me? But He kinda looks very familiar to me.

I make a curios face when he calls my name

"Do you remember me?" He points to himself as i start contemplating. "I'm Nai, khap!"

Nai. The name is awfully familiar. OH! Nai! He was one of the many guys i hooked up with after P'Arthit's rejection. He was still in high school back then. Probably in M-5 or M-6 (11th grade or 12th grade). Havent seen him in two years, he sure changed

"Oh, Nai!" I grin at him.

Somehow he doesnt seem awkward about our pasts.

Nai and I met two years go. when i first encountered him at the bar, he was devastating and so drunk as he kept chugging shots alone at the lounge. I approached him and attempting to flirt with him for my own satisfactory. At first i was planning to drink with him only but then he got so drunk that he kept clinging onto me. I took him out of the bar asking where his home was but he refused to go back home as he was crying his eyes out so i had no other choice but to drop him at my apartment first.

I carried him to my room and laid him in my bed then he snatched my arm and insisted me on having sex with him because he just broke up with his boyfriend and he felt lost. So I slept with him as a mutual decision of a one night stand when he was heartbroken because of his boyfriend's break up along with my depressions. But when the morning came, i never saw his face again. No notes, no messages and I never bothered to search for him because he wasn't anything special but a typical one night stand.

"How have you been, khap!" He says

"Well, as usual.." I respond

"Still fooling around?" Nai chuckles to himself. He knew back then that i was fooling around with guys and girls before his turn to come.

I dont know how to respond to this question so I awkwardly scratch the back of my head.

"P! Can i have your number? We can go drink again sometimes..i might need your company" "not like last time..just a normal drinking or hanging out..stuff like that. Dont be so tense" he laughs. His dimples are showing and it's kinda cute, I might say.

I give him my number and grab my own bottle of shampoo

"Then...see ya!" I wave my hand subtly at him and head back to the cashier.

I go to my apartment, undress to take a nice soothing bath after long day at work. I get out of my bathroom with towel on my hips and i hear my phone vibrates in notification. I walk to my bed for my phone

Nai Thiti added you as friend in line.

Must've been the automatic contact syncing but I accept his request anyway then i shut my phone and start to do my homework.

The next day, i go to the company as per usual. I see P'Arthit through the glass wall of the office. He's with my sister and his team working on a new project i assume. I can tell how hard working and how seriously he takes his job. Every word he utters fill with wisdom and pride. That's what makes me more attach to him now than before. Even if i dont have a chance to make him mine, at least i can stay by his side and that's more than enough for me...for now.