Second chance

Chapter 2: Cruel fate (Part 1)

"Ai Yo! Yo! Stop! Why are you running?" He could hear Ming  behind him but he kept running till his dorm. 

"I know you are worried but not right now please," Yo panted as he put his hands on his knees and bent forward. Ming appeared completely normal except for his accelerated breath, as for Yo? He was panting like he just ran a marathon. He was not a sport person, he rather play the piano while Ming practiced Muay Thai.

As for seeing that person earlier on, he wondered why fate was so cruel. He knew it was naive of him to think that he was never going to meet someone from his past but he was kind of hoping that it would happened in some 10 to 15 years time. Only then he would not have felt so broken and scared like now. Tears were streaming down his face, he ran quickly to his room and shut the door before Ming could barge in.

"Oh god why?" All his efforts in forgetting the past was wasted. Seeing that person broke the bridge and now all the memories came gushing out. His heart felt like it was being ripped into two. He fell on the floor hugging his knees tightly and allowed his head to rest on top. He let the memories engulfed him.

Flashback to one year ago

"I accept your confession nong!". Those were the magic words, the words that he never thought he ever could hear from the person in front of him. Pha, Phana Kongthanin were saying those unbelievable words to him.

In fact he never expected anything from him, just admiring him from afar was enough. Phana was drop dead handsome. The autocratic posture of his tall and sculpted frame attracts girls like bees to honey.   He was the heart-throb of the school. All the girls were crazy about him and knowing this, he took fair advantage by sleeping around with the most beautiful of them. Not only school girls, but he was also popular among university girls and by senior year he was seen only with the older ones. Woya was just an admirer, a fan, and a lovesick fool like all those girls around him. He used to stalk him on social media and kept following him just to get a glimpse of him. He knew all about him, his favorite food, his best-friends, his likes and dislikes. Pha was a very reserved person and used to get very disturbed whenever the girls would surround him screaming like he was a kpop star. He hangs out only with his two best-friends; Kit and Beam and he excludes a certain dangerous aura that people would get very hesitant to approach him, however, he was also very kind-hearted and could rarely say no to people. Maybe that's why he accepted Yo's confession?However, Yo remembered clearly that he used to kindly reject proposals on a daily basis.

 "Meet me in front of the school at 10 am," P'Pha said as he carelessly throw the confession card and gift in his bag and turned to leave.  Kit waved at him and Beam gave him a small salute before disappearing behind their boss. Phana just walked out without looking back. Yo couldn't determine whether he was joking or not because he was wearing his habitual cold face.

His knees gave out and he sat heavily on the chair behind him. He kept replaying his last words. Was he really serious or did he imagined the whole thing? Ming rushed into the classroom and immediately started bombarding him with questions, " So what did you say to him? What did he say? Did he replied? He accepted your gift? Why do you looked like you have seen a ghost? Come on! Give me some details, i'm dying here!" After a long pause, Yo finally turned to him.

"He accepted Ming! He told me to meet him tomorrow," Yo started to sniff but it soon turned to loud sobs. " It.. it seems too good to be true..is is ttthis a dddreamm?"

Yo started to cry more earnestly, " W Why m...me? I am not good looking. I am too thin and have a face full of pimples. Do you think he is playing a joke on me? I will die if all of this turns out to be a joke!".

"Yo! Yo look at me," Ming squatted in front of him and he placed his hands on Yo's cheeks. He forced Yo to look at him and said, "You should believe in yourself. You are such a cute boy. No one will be able to resist you. Go, meet him tomorrow and make him fall for your adorableness. I didn't encourage you in vain. You saw he accepted so that means hee finally noticed you after all these years.

"If you wouldn't have confessed, he would have gone to university without knowing about your existence. Now he knows you, he knows you love him! For whatever reason he accepted, go and win him. Understand?"

Yo finally calmed down and shakily nodded.

 "Oh Ming you are the best friend anyone would want to have," Yo huged him tightly and promised himself that he would win over P'Pha whatever happens!

The next day

Yo could hardly sleep the whole night. Random thought about what he's going to wear for his 1st date, whether P'Pha would laughed at him and told him that it was all a joke, where they would go and whether Pha would get bored of him or would he be ever be able to place his mark on P'Pha's heart. Excitement, fear, anxious and curiosity about their date kept him awake till dawn.

He arrived 40 mins earlier at the meeting point the next day and patiently started to wait. 

10:35 am, Where is he? 

Yo was no longer patient now. All kind of thoughts were running through his mind. He was distracting himself by talking to a stray cat when he saw P'Pha looking at him. Realising that he has been spotted him, he walked towards Yo and said, "sorry nong, the traffic was really bad".

"Ohh it's ok P'Pha, i understand," Yo said sweetly and smiled brightly at him.

Pha seemed transfixed for a moment.  He shaked his head as if to clear his mind and said," Let's watch a movie, have lunch, play at the arcade and then we'll meet again tomorrow. What say?"

Yo was speechless, but quickly agreed. It seemed like P'Pha has already planned the entire date by himself. However, Yo was so happy that he would readily agreed to anything Pha would have suggested. 

And so their date began.

Author's note: Too long? Too short? Too boring? Too much details? Please let me know in the comments. The next one will be longer and sad! Very sad.

Next update tomorrow morning.

Regards,

Nami