Sotus: A short lovestory

A path to memory

*song: SHINee's Tell me what to do. It's an amusing recording in a radio show after their song release. I would suggest you all look at the video with subs, the lyrics are good and should go pretty well with the story.
*Some would say, that remembering is a good thing, but what if the harsh memories make living unbearable.

Arthit POV

Somehow the lunch just seemed to stretch into a day or more. The time wasn't very meaningful when they ate together. Arthit did seem to realise he was more and more enthralled with Kongbop's every word. One thing, he understood, that Kong was really smart, he could not talk fluently many languages, but he also talked like Arthit had only heard some intellectuals speak. Maybe he had seen too few people, but Arthit felt, that he knew only a couple of people who could talk like this. And the weird thing was, that Kong reminded him, someone, he had really close relations with. He got this uncanny feeling, that when these two would get together and had a conversation just about anything, he would be at awe of those two. At some point, they needed to part ways, but he was sure, that because they got a course they would be attending together as a lecturer and a student, they would surely meet again, of course, there was the undeniable chemistry between them, that would surely pull them towards each other. Also because Arthit had such a strong desire to see him again, even when just parting, that he was quiet and withdrawn most of the next lecture. Arthit didn't wake from this stupor before he understood that his friends were talking about something, and had lots of fun with it. Even Knott was laughing. "What? What did I miss?"
Oh, you didn't miss anything, but Knott here tells us that we have seen the impossible. Honestly, Arthit, if you had to choose your first crush, did it have to be the most handsome guy of the first years? I was totally preparing to hit that one myself!" Bright said jokingly. Arthit gave him a punch to the stomach and then as not believing what he had just done, looked down on his hands. "I'm sorry Bright, I don't know what came over me. Are you all right."
"Yeah, all ok, but you should have seen your face buddy.. it was almost frightening. Shiit, you really like him, don't you?"

Arthit started blushing and moved on quickly, his friends with a bit more quietly discussed if this was the real thing or not. Though Arthit did hear them, he was still mortified with his own actions and reasoned, that he should not have been acted so, but remembering something he felt when he had attacked Bright made him suddenly stop. Where ever this came, he didn't know, but a sudden thought or rather, was it an image of Kong's muscular back? He shook his head, how can this be. it couldn't be Kong's back, it could not have been anyone's back. He had never seen anybody except his friends naked and it definitely wasn't one of them. But he suddenly could see Kong naked back, his smile when he looked back at him over his shoulder, and then throwing a shirt over his head... Woah, where was this all coming from? He never knew he had this good of an imagination. Arthit didn't explain his friends anything and just continued on his way.

Arthit had such vivid dreams that night. He was sure he could sleep for another day without waking. When he finally got up from the bed he was so tired, that the only thing he wanted was to fall asleep again. But the thought about seeing someone also made his mind from scattered thoughts and weird images clear up. When lunchtime came and he really could see this beautiful face coming in the engineering cafeteria, only then the tension from these weird dreams let go a little. He still felt that as he had never been in a relationship before, imagining someone's back was a bit bizarre, but he tried to push all this to the back of his mind because right now he just wanted to concentrate on falling in love with this enticing man. That was what he had to admit to himself, there wasn't definitely no other possibility in his feelings. Probably some kind of freakish chemistry that no one could have guessed, but Arthit had a suspicious thought, that as he had no love interests till this day, it would probably last a lot longer then a normal first love would. This small truth made him concede to the situation.