Just Like Yesterday

Chapter Four

Chapter Four
Author's Note: Thanks so much for the votes and the comments. Here's a longer chapter.

Someone closed the door behind me and I could have sworn I heard chuckling. I tried the handle and found that there was none. Don’t tell me this door only opens from the outside. The light, a blue blub, flickered off and on with a ten to twenty seconds interval and it was a little difficult to see. I felt P’Arthit come near me; his milky scent filled my nose. The space wasn’t small but filled with as it was with goods it seemed so.
“What’s wrong? Did the door close?”
The light flickered on and once again I could clearly see the handless door. Damn P’Bright and P’Pem. Those two were quickly losing my respect, I swear.
“What’s wrong?”
“We are locked in,” I said angrily and felt him stare at me. I met his gaze and tried to hold onto my anger but with his purpling nose and wide eyed innocence I lost. I sighed and said, “We are going to have to call for help.”

“Right, I’ll call Nott.” He brought out his phone and started dialing the number. It rang for a long time but Nott didn’t pick up. I knew P’bright and P’Pem have probably made sure we couldn’t reach our friends easily. My own phone, I remembered Prae asking me to lend it to her so she could go to the bathroom. She never did bring it back. Were my whole friends really that sick enough to plan a whole trip just to get us together? I wondered what P’Arthit would think when he finds out.

I let him call two others while  I took a circle around and discovered  that this was a store room.  Good thing it was not very cold now but something told me that it would later in the night. By then P’Pem and P’Bright would be back to let us out. Still, I didn’t know what they thought they were doing. Like a few hours in a locked space was all we needed to sort out things between us. To be perfectly honest I was really okay where I stood with P’Arthit, any more would be too much and bound to come with pain.
“No one is answering Kongpob.”

I turned and regarded him silently for a moment. He looked serious and ready to solve our present predicament. “No one at all? Isn’t that strange?” I was half hoping to make him think about possible explanations why that is.

“Very. What’s weirder is why someone locked us here in the first place.”

I froze. I hadn’t said that someone locked us, how did P’Arthit know already. “Why do you think that?”

“What else could have happened, did you plan to lock us in here?”

“No, “I said defensively, “why would I? It could have been a mistake though, why didn’t you think of that?”

“Cause I saw someone in here with us”
I stepped closer surprised,”P’Bright?”

P’Arthit blinked. “No. I don’t know. I didn’t see their face very clearly. Why do you think it was Ai’Bright?”

Here was a good time to tell him that I thought his friends, well apparently my friends too, were insane and this was all a plot to get us back together. Picturing P’Arthit’s angry expression I added: break us. Maybe they wanted us to either get back together or break up for good. That was funny because then it sounded like I had been trying to stay faithful to P’Arthit all these years somehow hoping he’d wake up and realize that I was the love of his life as he was mine.

I shook my head, “I don’t know. You know how he is, he is the most likely person I can think of that would do this to us.”

“Him and Ai”Tota. You’ve got a point.”
He turned, walked back to the door and started to hammer it with his fist and call for help. The door wasn’t very strong, it was made of wood and I could break it if I wanted. It wouldn’t be easy but it was possible and then I could pay for it later. I wasn’t the wealthiest man in the world but I had money, more than enough of it. Paying for the damage and some wouldn’t make a dice in my bank account. But I didn’t do it.
“If someone had heard you they’d be here by now P’Arthit.”