The Whole Nine Yards

Chapter 24

'We raised you better than that...'

Arthit stiffened upon hearing that voice. A voice he never thought he'd hear in the university.

He turned and he was really there. He seems like he aged more but he's still giving out those intimidating looks.

'Are you mute now?' the man snarked.

'Uncle?' Arhit asked as he seemed to have recovered from his shock.
'Who else would it be?' Penn snarked, looking down at his nephew.

Penn smirked at the gawking students. There's nothing more satisfying that getting students ruffled. He missed university life.

' Um...why are you here?'
'The Faculty asked me to substitute Prof Dreganaya. Did I suprise you?'

'More like you stunned me.' Arthit silently snarked at his Uncle. His gaze met Kong's and he was filled with dread.

Kong, on the other hand, saw the shock in PArthit's face. Now, he is staring at him like it was just announced that the world is about to be destroyed or something. Weird.

'Hala, your friends forget to greet Professors now?' Penn addressed the young guys around him.

The five scrambled to stand up and greet him. ' Hah, I still got it!' Penn mused.

'Hala, walk me to the Professors' room' he instructed Arthit.

The five were left gawking at the two.

It spread like wildfire in their faculty. Arthit's Uncle has substituted the Dragon. And on his first day, he sent students out of the classroom after failing to answer a problem set despite the fact it was one of those problems that Prof. Dragon already gave them.

' He really is P'Arthit's Uncle.' lamented one student.
'He is twice as ruthless...' whined another.
' Is coldblood running through their family or something?' added another.
'Will it be a sin if I want the Dragon back?' one student wondered.

Kong was walking home when he received a call from P'Arthit that he will not be able to meet him as he will eat with his Uncle. Unable to do anything, Kongpob just shrugged.

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In the sophomore's class, Prof. Penn called out from list of students.

0078.

M stood up.

He was told to answer a problem set and M couldn't solve it.

'What have you been doing in this university? Gawk at people? Looking for future husbands and wives?' he chided them.

The class just looked down, except for one student.' Interesting.'

' So is there anyone who can help him or you all try to outdo each other here, friendship be damned?' he challenged them.

As expected, that student's hand went up.

' 0062, Permission to speak, Professor.'
'Oh, you're a sophomore? He mocked the student.
'Yes Prof.'
' But you're friends with N'Arthit.'

Kongpob cannot answer.

'I saw you eating with him yesterday.'
'Yes Prof. I went to ask him about something.' Kong evades.

Oak turned to look at him in disbelief and Kong looked back at him.' What do you want me to say Oak?.... 'Prof, actually I was flirting all morning with your nephew. I missed him. By the way, he's my fann. Nice to meet you.' Kong silently ranted to his friend.

' Look at me when I'm talking to you.'
'I apologize, Prof.
'Solve this problem.' he ordered.

Kong did.

' Justify.' So, Kongpob explained.

'You like to make everything hard, 0062?

Kong remained silent.

' There are simpler ways to do things, you know.' He challenged the young student.
' With due respect, hard or simple method, we arrived at the same correct answer.' Kong explained.
' So why are you in my class if you'll insist on doing our own way?' the Professor yelled.

'Prof--'
'Enough.' Penn cut him off.
'Go out and solve next five problem sets on your own. You don't need a teacher.' he demanded

'Now.' he yelled when Kong did not move.

Kong bowed and went out.

_---_

Kongpob was sleeping when urgent knocks awakened him. He went to open the door.

Arthit has been knocking for so long that he was half afraid he will be reprimanded by other tenants.

Then, the door opened revealing a sleepy and a shirtless Kongpob.

'Who's that? A sleepy Kong asked, he was still rubbing his eyes.

Arthit cannot answer. Instead he is wide-eyed staring at Kong's well defined shoulders, the sexy heft of his chest and that abs all covered by gorgeous tanned skin. When did he get so tone---. STOP. What am I thinking? When do I check out guys?

The sophomore is still yawning. He is oblivious to the internal battle he is causing to his boyfriend who can't seem to decide whether to scold the sophomore for opening the door shirtless or for making him want to reach out to check if those abs are as hard as they look.

'Kongpob!' Arthit yelled in an attempt to suppress his own thoughts that is getting nastier every second.
'Oh, P? Why?'
'Cover yourself.' Arthit demanded.
'Why? It's just you.' Kong asked. Darn, why is P'Arthit so hyped? I wanna go back to sleep.' Kong silently whined.

Arthit saw that Kong really does not care about his state of undress. He went in and pushed him inside the bathroom while he proceeded towards Kong's bedroom.

'P?' Kong's brain is too muddled to process what is happening so he just leaned on the bathroom door. 'Darn, my neck aches. Why did I fall asleep like that?'

In the mean time, Arthit was scouring Kong' s room like a madman. While doing this, he was also internally cursing his boyfriend, 'Why open the door looking like that? Is a shirt that hard to put on? What if it wasn't me who knocked? And what did that Kong meant by, 'it was just you?'

Finally, he found him a shirt and shoved it inside the bathroom.

'Make yourself decent.' he demanded.

'Why.is.he.angry.now?' Clueless Kong wondered as he put on his shirt and brushed his teeth.