Sotus: For One Last Time

I Like Them All

Tuesday 6:45pm

Arthit POV

After spending the afternoon half making out with Kong and the other half talking about everything and nothing all at once, I finally know what heaven feels like. Yes, at this moment, there's so much that we'll have to fucking overcome and so much shit that we'll have to go through, but if I ever need motivation, all I will have to do from now on is to just think about today. Me and him cuddling, my new idea of luxury indeed.

With us lying on his bed, on our sides, facing each other while Kong plays with my hair, he says "P...are you going to tell your friends about us?"

After a minute of thinking it over slowly, I sigh "I honestly haven't though about it. But yeah, I will have to tell them eventually, sooner than later most likely." I tell him.

"As Crown Prince, there's a lot of stuff I can't share with them, but the core of my relationship with them is honesty. So this one thing, I can't really keep from them"

"I understand P" he answers, "I feel the same way about my friends. I only have the four of them anyways. I am sure they won't blame me if we keep it to ourselves for a while, but as you know, having real friends in our kind of world is a privelege, one I do not take for granted and do not want to jeapordize"

Caressing his cheek, I nod. Then after a moment of hesitation, "what about your parents?"

After another minute of hesitation,  he sighs "Yeah..."

"Are you worried about...how they're gonna react?"

"Yeah...not really about my mom and her side of the family but dad and his side...."

Staying quiet, I reach out and hold his hand, urging him to continue sharing if that's what he wishes to do.

After sighing he says, "my dad and mom fell in love when they were our age" he continues telling a story that probably no outsider knows "but his family didn't approve of them. Especially his parents because of my mom's poor background as my maternal grandmother's business was just starting up back then and they weren't doing so well."

After pausing he continues, "so his family split them up and he got married to someone else. But it was too late, she was already pregnant with me. However, my mom didn't tell him and he didn't find out until I was four. He then divorced his wife and secretly married my mom. But five years later, dad ran into some troubles that he blamed mom for and so he divorced her and went back together with his first wife to help save the company".

After closing his eyes, Kong continues, trying to sound unaffected despite the sadness that I can sense in him, "so you can imagine that they're really not fond of me. Especially since I decided to stay with mom when they got divorced and 'took her side' and all that jazz" he air quotes.

"If they could have, they would have probably disowned me, but I am dad's only heir. However, me being with you might just make the impossible possible and they'll probably cut me off now" he says

Incredulous, I say "they can't do that. Your dad-"

"Although my dad is really strong willed, and feared among all, there's two people in this world he would never cross, and those are my grandparents. They're still very powerful and each respectively hold a lot of shares in many companies...whatever they say goes" he interrupts.

Pulling him close to my body, hugging him tightly, I say "I am not letting you go. I have done that for the past twelve years and we're not going to move backwards"

Nodding against my chest, I feel him smile.

"It won't be anything new P. So don't worry about it. And hey who knows, maybe they'll be ecstatic that I snatched the Crown Prince" he says smirking, lightning the mood.

"You!" I say incredulous, crushing him against my chest as punishment "you're taking too much advantage of the fact that I am a crown prince." I mumble.

"Who do you like better, Arthit or the crown prince?" I say completely serious.

"Ai P, you're one of the same" he answers starting to smile slowly.

"I'm serious. Just answer me. Either way, I won't be mad" I say, not even knowing what answer I'm looking for.

After a secondary pause, he carefully but firmly says while looking in my eyes  "I like them all the same...Arthit, Oon, and the Crown prince. They're all you, so although I don't know them all that well, because they're you, I like them all"

Feeling overwhelmed, I haul him against me, where he snuggles up and after a few minutes filled with love and understanding, we peacefully fall asleep.

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