Love Sick - New Horizons

Chapter 10

Love Sick – New Horizons

Chapter 10

Ohm hurried along the corridor to Noh's room. As he reached the door he looked through the small window, and smiled when he realised how true Phun's statement had been about how many people were in the room.

After tapping on the door, he entered, still smiling. Everyone in the room looked around as the door opened, and they were all pleased to see it was Ohm. After greeting the adults, he made his way towards Noh in his bed. Noh could see Ohm was looking cheerful and grinned at his friend.

"Someone's looking happy!" Noh exclaimed. Ohm bent down to his friend and gently hugged him.

"I have great news to tell you all! I can't believe it's happened like this, but I've found out who the bullies are who attacked us!" Ohm looked around at the shocked faces in the room. Inspector Anuwat came around to the side of Noh's bed.

"This is important news N'Ohm. Would you care to explain?"

Dr. Apibal cleared his throat. "I think I'll leave you all too it now, I've other patients to see and this news is between you all. If there's anything else I can do to help, please let me know." Everyone thanked Dr. Apibal for his time, and he took his leave.

Ohm spoke to Mr. Juntasa. "I've just seen Tam with Phun in the coffee shop Mr. Juntasa, I think Tam should be here for this, what do you think?" He agreed with Ohm. Inspector Anuwat added his thoughts.

"Yes he should, but it may be better if N'Phun isn't involved at this stage, there may be legal reasons why he shouldn't be privy to details at the moment." He turned to Noh. "I hope you don't mind N'Noh, I'd hate there to be legal clauses causing problems further down the line and spoil our chances of prosecuting these thugs."

Noh understood perfectly. "I agree Inspector, Phun doesn't need to be here just now. Mr. Juntasa, please will you explain to Phun for me? I'm sure he'll understand." Tam's father nodded and hurried out of the room to get his son.

While they waited for Mr. Juntasa and Tam to arrive, Ohm took out his phone and after scrolling through it he found what he was looking for and passed it to Noh. It took a couple of seconds for the picture to register with him, but the look of shock on Noh's face as he looked at the photo was all Ohm needed to confirm he had been right. These were the bullies who attacked them.

The Inspector was keen to see what had shocked Noh so much, but Tam and his father came back just as he was about to ask for an explanation. Ohm spoke to Tam. "I need you to look at this picture Tam, and tell us what you think." He retrieved the phone from Noh and passed it to Tam. His reaction was the same as Noh's, his hand went to cover his mouth and he gasped.

"Ohm, that's them! They're the ones who attacked us! How did you get this? Do you know who they are?" The questions tumbled out of Tam's mouth, and the Inspector came round to where the boys were standing. "Can I see it please Ohm?" Ohm nodded and passed his phone to him.

After studying the picture for a few moments he turned to the boys, Ohm and Tam were now standing next to Noh. "Well, all three of you have confirmed to me that these are the culprits we're looking for. I recognise the one in the middle, we've had our eye on him for a while now, we believe he's responsible for many attacks like this, but we can never get any evidence to stick! Ohm, tell me how you got hold of this!"

Mr. Juntasa asked to see the picture as well, and after looking at it he sadly nodded his head. "I recognise the one in the middle and the one to the left as well. Not sure about the third, but they only stayed around for seconds once they saw my wife and I running towards them. Cowards, damn cowards the three of them!" Tam moved to his father and wrapped his arms around his waist. His dad engulfed him in a hug as well, neither spoke, but the warmth from each other was just what they needed.