The unseen love

Chapter XLV -> I am still your son

Arthit Pov

His mother had opened the door, she had a sharp voice. Not very friendly to be honest and very different from Kongpob's. It struck me how formal Kongpob addressed her, how bad must the relation with ones parents be to address them in this formal and cold manner. After they had exchanged their greetings she turned to me,
and who are you?
I am Arthit Rojnapat mam,
He can't see mom so extending your hand without saying you want to shake hands is useless, remember what I told you
Ouch, that was a bad point on her side, I remembered him talking to his mom, he is blind so keep that in mind. He sure wasn't happy she had forgot. When I awkwardly extended my hand she grabbed it and shook it. Her hand felt cold and it was a weak gesture, she applied no real strength, it was as if I was holding a fish in my hands. I had a picture of her like these girls and women that always donned these fake smiles and these fake laughs. I didn't trust her at all, a cold and icy businesswoman with no regard for feelings whatsoever. I wondered though how his father was, if his mom was like this how would his father be?

His father turned out to be as cold and formal as his mother when it was towards Kongpob, but then his siblings has come in and the change in his parents' attitude was striking,  they suddenly became friendly and caring. How much must this hurt Kong to see his siblings being showered with love and care while the only thing he gets is this cold stare. In all these eighteen years that he has lived he never experienced real love from the side of his parents. I thought I had a miserable home but at I had an improving relation with my father and a mother who, even though she died, loved me with all her heart.

We had lunch with the whole family. The difference in attitude between Kong's siblings and parents was noticeable. He was really nice to them as were they to him. I wondered if his parents never noticed the difference in behavior. His siblings were really great to be around with. They had these witty jokes and showed great care.

Especially his younger sister Mariah was a great girl. An introvert who was very silent yet who also had a great sense of humor and who had this amazing intuition for how to act around my blindness.

Kongpob Pov

My parents weren't really fond of Arthit, the fact that he was blind didn't really do much to make their view more positive. My siblings on the other hand were all over and around him, he was surely enjoying himself with them and he was great in handling them. I had seen from the first moment that they had really liked him, it was in contrast with my mother, her attitude had been really cold towards Arthit whereas my father had been neutral yet relatively friendly.

During lunch my parents had been asking all sorts of questions to me regarding the study, how we had become friends and so on.

When lunch was finished and my siblings had gone my father suddenly spoke up,
What do you have to talk about? You aren't really yourself and inviting yourself for a visit is also really out of character for you.

I have indeed something to tell you,
The thing is, my friend Arthit is eh, well, ehm,
He is my boyfriend, my lover and I am his'.

I had just blurted it out, everything I had thought of to say to them to sort of massage the message had fallen away, I had become so nervous that I just blurted it out. I took Arthit's hand in mine, it was sweaty and so was mine.

Arthit Pov

Oh boy, now we will have some real fireworks. What will his parents say now? Is he crazy to blurt it out like this?

(Father bold italics, mother bold underlined)

So you are a Fag? What do you want bring shame over our family? Have you no sense of duty about the company? What if the press finds out that you are with a boy? Why must you do this disgusting thing to us? I should have had an abortion all along, you aren't my child anymore if you go and stay with this blind piece of junk. Neither will I allow you to leave this house. You and him are over, finished done. Your love isn't love, it is an abomination, a dead end of the evolution and absolutely unnatural and disgusting. What can he give you, trouble, no child, a lot of problems cause he can't see, who says he isn't a gold digger trying to get control of the family business. Choose between us and him, go with him and you aren't our son anymore, we'll strip the family name off you. Disgusting fag you are, really disgusting.