THE STORYBOOK

H2: PART 14 (ENGLISH)

Arthit opened his eyes slowly.

His body ached, and the light that came in through the window hurt his eyes causing him to squint. But the worst thing, no doubt, was the headache and dizziness that he was feeling.

"What had happened...?"

It was then when the images began to appear. 

Arthit started to feel the hands of that man still on his body. Trying to reduce him ...

The young man felt the tears begin to run down his cheeks as he remembered how in the end that damn man injected him with something...  and soon after that he had lost consciousness.

But not before he noticed  how the hands of Toptap had started to stroke his body while stripping him, touching him while whispering everything he had planned to do ...

"I'm going to enjoy tasting your skin ... sliding my hands between your legs ..."

A hand then was placed carefully on his face making Arthit almost jump out of bed in the vain attempt to escape from the contact.

- "DON'T!" - he exclaimed, slapping the air - "do not touch me!"

In a matter of minutes, several more hands began to try to keep him on the bed. A few seconds later the young man noticed a pinprick and the darkness returned to dominate his mind making him fall back into the arms of oblivion.

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- "As I had already warned all of you, Arthit has suffered an episode caused by a severe anxiety disorder" - said the doctor as soon as he left the room - "you should not have touched him..."

Baek, his face clouded by tears, collapsed beside Chanyeol who, with an expression of sadness on his face, could only embrace the young man that, at that moment, was feeling that everything had been his fault.

"If only I had not dated that idiot ..."

"If I had not taken the car ..."

The recriminations did not stop happening in his mind, causing Baek to hide his face between his bare hands.

It was then that someone put an arm around his shoulders.

Baek looked up.

"Father..."

- "I just wanted to clean his face.." - murmured Mr. Rojnapat while hugging him. Of course, without looking away from the doctor's face.

- "I know ..." - said the doctor trying to convey tranquility - "but you have to understand that the last thing your child should want now is for someone to touch him.."

Mr. Rojnapat nodded as he looked down at the ground and began to cry.

A FEW HOURS LATER...

Arthit woke up in the same room as before although, this time, with a much more lucid mind.

- "You are at the Hospital" - said a voice from the other side of the room.

The young man looked around with a look of terror on his face until he could see the doctor who, leaning against the wall in front of the bed, was watching him without moving a millimeter from his place.

- "I guess you have some questions to ask me ..." - he continued saying in a soft and calm voice.

- "How..?"

The doctor nodded.

- "The police had been monitoring Toptap for weeks, so when they discovered what was happening thanks to their informant, they intervened before the man could do more damage than he had already done.

Arthit stared at the doctor he had met when Kong's accident occurred with an expression that mixed hope with the desperation of knowing that, most likely, what he feared so much had finally happened.

"Was I...?"

The doctor, understanding what the young man wanted to ask him, smiled as he took a couple of steps towards the bed. 

However, he stopped at the same instant in which he noticed the look of terror that was being thrown at him from the other side of the room.

- "The police arrived before he could carry out his intention" - he answered finally.

Arthit, after a few minutes in which he did not move a muscle, nodded slightly.

- "If it's not a problem, I'd like to be alone. I need to think ...  and clarify my ideas".

Meanwhile, in the Suttiluk mansion, a young man was walking around his bedroom thinking of a thousand ways to escape.

To get out of those four walls and run to the hospital where his Arthit was.

"Damn it ..." mumbled Kongpob as he remembered the face of the person who, until a couple of hours ago, he had considered his accomplice ... the person closest to him within that family of madmen in which he lived.

"And to think that he was trying to kill me...", he thought as he dropped down on one of the armchairs in the room, "and what he has done to Arthit ... he has no shame!"

- "But he's going to pay for everything he has done..." - he murmured while thinking about the lawyers who had gone to the house that afternoon to tell them how the case was going - "nobody is going to save him from spending the rest of his days in jail! "

This time not even his mother was going to intervene ...

Especially after finding out what his beloved brother had planned for his son.

"This time you're alone, Uncle Toptap ... completely alone ..."