Sotus: A short lovestory

One suprise after another

* song: musical Dorian Grey. Park Eun-Tae singing with his amazing voice. Wondering, who is Dorian Grey...
My story will not have a fantasy genre, but the story reminded me a bit of my feelings of how to describe the mystery connection between Kong and Arthit... Enjoy :)

Kongbop Pov

It seemed that P didn't remember him, at all... Kongbop was really sad. He stood at the waterfront, letting small waves run over his feet when he saw him coming to him. No, not to him, but close enough, to initiate contact. Kongbop wanted to rush to his side, and do.. everything... But he held himself at bay and decided to pretend not to know his senior and greeted him properly.

Somehow Kong wasn't sure if the night really happened as he remembered it or did he really had just a good imagination. The first part of the night, he just touched his lips with his fingertips, again and again. As to not believing that somehow his secret love had been answered. Woah.. he got too far ahead of the real situation. P didn't even recognize him, he surely can't storm into the university the next day to holler about his undying love. Kong chuckled under into his pillow. He could even imagine P'Arthits confused and then very irritated face. He can't approach like this. He needed a gameplan. So this night he barely got any sleep. Next morning Kong was all ready to search for his fav group of seniors to start with his advances, but he could find them nowhere, so he surrendered to the situation and went to his first lecture.

His first lecture was Engineering Biology and Chemistry. Introduction to chemical and biological systems. The application of engineering analysis and design techniques to facilitate understanding the multiscale structure, function, and interactions of such systems. Kong red the introduction from the book, he just thought it was uninteresting. The problem wasn't that he could not comprehend the study material or would think the course to be hard or himself not smart enough. But he was not just into Engineering at all. His father had won this battle, one of the few times his father actually took a stance against Kong's wishes. But as was said, he needed to lead the company in the future. Dad didn't want anyone else to lead the company and he had been more and more contemplating to run with a political party.
His dad had been famous in the field of politics. He had been a rich-famous advisor for minister of the industry over 10 years already and it seemed that he had plans to start moving into the political arena. No one in Kongbop family was overly happy about it, but they were a close-knit family, so the probability to denied someone in this family something they really wanted, happened rarely. Just now Kong had his first real experience in this situation. So he tried to think that it was really his own idea because he couldn't hold such tension between himself and his father.

He was sitting quietly, his eyes browsing the book. Though he wasn't in this idea yet, Kong knew that he would probably end studying his heart out, and being good at it too, studying was easy for him. His IQ had somewhat ensured that. So he didn't immediately notice the quiet that came over the lecture hall. He was in the third row, it wasn't a bad view to the big screen and the professor, but suddenly all the lights in the room, except the big digital screen in front of the class, turned off. Some lights from phones being active, Instagram, Facebook, and such account browsing were noticed. The professor in front chuckled and asked for them to be put away.
Kong suddenly felt alert, there wasn't any problem with his hearing and though with a lively mind, he could not imagine that particular voice in front of him, however, he wished, so it had to be real.

Kong raised his eyes and sat straight, and his mouth crept slowly into a smile. He was at this moment, thinking back later, really grateful to his father. P'Arthit didn't of course notice Kongbop right now, the lights were off and he was obviously intent on teaching these juniors.

After a few minutes of listening Kong realized, that he didn't only notice P'Arthit's mouth moving, he did hear the words and they were interesting and he discovered himself even taking notes. But in between one or another topic from their teacher he still felt that his love interest had an amazing face, voice, arms, back... Oh wow, Kong could feel how some kind of interest is sure intended to be felt outside of class, preferably inside one's dorm room. Especially if he wanted to go out of the class later on and not be embarrassed in front of other students.

When the long, but now very interesting lecture ended, Kong held himself back, he wanted to go out with P'Arthit, and he got his chance. Arthit was held up by a pretty junior, who obviously made up some far fetched question about a topic that was so easily explained, that Kong himself felt he could understand it already after Arthit first lecture, but the girl just had one stupid question after another and he really bothered Arthit already. It was seen from his face, and the thought made Kong really happy because at first, he was bursting of intention to go and step between them and ask the girl to find another course that would accept her below average brainpower. (Was I too mean?)

But after seeing P'Arthit's annoyance, he thought of a plan to rescue him. So he stood up, drawing Arthit eyes to him, a slight surprise was on his seniors face. Kongbop stepped almost in between the two and looked only Arthit, totally ignoring the girl, asking if he had any intention on going to lunch with him. Because he had understood last evening that they were gonna do that. Kongbop was holding his breath, he was still not sure how strongly he should advance, because he knew P'Arthit would be surely a scaredy-cat. And it was Kongbop's own happiness at stake. But it seemed either because of Knogbop or because the girl really was annoying and seemed not the smartest of the punch, Arthit grabbed his bag and wished the girl good luck with her studies and pointed to the door with his hand, letting Kongbop know that they would leave together. Kong was walking a few paces behind Arthit, and he had a really smug smile on his face.

As soon they were out of the lecture hall Arthit turned to him and watched carefully at the juniors face. Then totally unexpected he lowered his eyes to Kong's mouth and made a remark. "I would like to have a taste of today's lunch, but I think this situation seems a little too distracting to me. Not sure if I can concentrate on eating right now." Kong's breath hitched in his throat, and he felt that his face got paler.
"Relax, I'm not gonna eat you.. now. Later, who knows. Let's eat now, come quickly." Kong even stumbled a bit before following. He was so sure, that P'Arthit didn't realize who he was, but how was he acting like this then? The serious, easily irritated, shy P'Arthit, where was he?

When Kongbop ran after Arthit, he felt that if his advances weren't necessary and he could just go to the courting part of his plans, he would have his man that much sooner. So he, though still doubtful, felt rather hopeful.

Preview: part 4

Arthit pov
Seriously, watching this beautiful young man, eating beside him, was he out of his mind? At first, he wanted to run, when he saw Kong stand up from his seat and come straight at him. He was so elegant and handsome, that he even could not think, why not to take Kong's help to get away from this irritating girl. And then outside the lecture hall, he heard those words come out of his mouth, but could not believe he said them. What kind of mystery followed this guy, and why had he some nagging feeling in his belly, that he was missing something. Something huge

*you will see a clearer picture of their connection in the next chapter :)