Kengkla - the wolf in the closet

Chapter 3

a/n: MarkGun getting an actual spin-off series will be the best news if it happens.

Kengkla, during the school break between the two academic years, leaves for Germany to 'train' with his cousins and learn how the family business runs. He meets that distant relative of his during that time. Said person hits on him again and Kengkla takes in the oblivious wife's reaction. Satisfied, he sleeps with him again. When he is leaving the city, he makes sure the wife is aware of her husband's not only closeted but also his infidel side. He comes back at the end of April. Technic invites him to his house for dinner which he accepts graciously. 

Kengkla turns up at their doorstep with a bouquet and a box of sweets. He would have given a wine bottle (which is lying in the back of his car) but he doesn't know if it would be received coming from an underage boy. After all, Techno's family didn't have the same social practices. He pockets his car keys (which he had parked far from their home) and rings the bell. The white door opens and it is Techno.

"Hey,"

He is wearing an orange muscle top and shorts. 

"P'No, can you wear something decent when I have f- hey, Ai'Kengkla," Technic looks at him, looks back at his brother and smirks, "guess what, never mind. Do you want to get in, my friend?" Technic asks sweetly.

"Y-Yeah. Yes. Here," he hands the bouquet to Techno who takes it, confused. "Sawatdee khrab, P'Techno." Kengkla wais.

"Sawatdee khrab, nong. Please get inside." Techno takes a step to the side and lets Kengkla enter the house who feels a little overly dressed. Just for a second. He is in a metallic blue t-shirt that his butler's wife assured him that looked good on him and a pair of  black cotton trousers with it. It is the simplest look he could come up with. Techno doesn't seem like he would like to be impressed with money and brands. (Otherwise he would have shown the Tech family exactly how expensive an item he could afford.) Their mother enters the living space then with a tray full of snacks and asks if he would like more. He wonders if it would be polite to inform them that they can never afford to get what he likes so she should save the effort. He reserves the comment and just says 'thank you'. Techno laughs at that and puts his legs up on the black sofa and crosses them. He switches on the TV and flicks through different channels. Kengkla has hard time to not keep looking back. He has never seen so less clothes on Techno and it keeps distracting Kengkla. Techno doesn't have a muscular build like his cousin. He is, in fact, on the skinnier side, laughing carelessly all the time. Techno is like an innocent being waiting to be preyed on. He is very alluring to Kengkla which the latter doesn't understand. It is as if the former is something ... pure and Kengkla wants to corrupt him. 

That day when they had danced in the party, Techno clearly doesn't remember it but Kengkla does. Even if 'No does, he won't know who that person was with all the glitter having covered Kengkla's face. Since then there's a new realisation in him and that is he wants Techno. He wants to own him - mind and body.

Technic leaves the room  to  talk on his phone, probably to trick some other girl now. Kengkla offers to help his mother in setting the table up. She laughs, refusing but he insists. She acquiesces. Techno mutes the volume and lends them a hand. It is less helpful than it should have been as they keep bumbling into each other and at one point, Kengkla almost dropped all the plates he was holding. Techno laughs at him sweet-naturedly and takes the plates away from his hand. Their fingers brushed for a second and he freezes. He cringes mentally at his own behaviour. Techno doesn't even register that and sets the plates down. Something happens on the TV screen and Techno rushes back to the sofa and turns the volume back on. Some goal was scored. Techno cheers loudly. Both mother and son discuss rapidly about the Live football match. He zones out mostly. He zeroes on to the animated expressions on the older boy.