Unplanned Marriage

Chapter 16

Damn, I'm getting nervous. Arthit thought as they drove into the richest district of the town, fancy and huge houses surrounding them.

"We're almost there." Kong answered as he noticed his husband looking around. He must have been guessing which house is Kong's.

It wasn't that difficult to guess though. As they made a right turn, many cars and people on both sides of the road could be seen. Kongpop had hard time trying to drive further until he eventually gave up, backed off and pulled over at the next street.

"I guess it was foolish to think we will park at the private parking lot." Kong sighed as they got out of the car.

"It's better this way. They don't know about us yet." Arthit sweated, feeing a light shiver all over his body. The weight of the upcoming matters has started to fall on his shoulders. And as if it wasn't enough, his jaw still hurt from the yesterdays fight. Kong tried his best to cover the dark bruise with his BB cream, but it was still visible. It hurt when he talked or chewed but it was just bearable for Arthit to put up with it for the next few hours.

"Here, hold onto me." Kongpop offered him his shoulder, making an elegant pose.

"Idiot, do you think it's suitable? Just look at me, I portrait a straight up gangster, trying to dress properly for once." Arthit shoved him off gently, feeling embarrassed. He would never do such a thing as hold man's arm. Hand-holding wasn't as serious and formal as an arm one and Arthit wasn't a girl. Everything has its limits.

"But P'... we have to touch somehow as we enter the house. Everyone is going to watch us from the moment we go in. This marriage was sudden and unexpected, you don't know the media. People are not as nice as you might think, they will look for mistakes. Mistakes that cannot be made to make them doubt us, okay?" Kong explained, feeling a bit uneasy for a change. Arthit didn't seem to cooperate as he needed.

"But nobody knows about the marriage yet. They may assume something or have a hunch, but only few people know the truth. Acting close before announcing it might occur only as weird and... gay." Arthit couldn't believe he said the last word.

"P'Arthit... we're supposed to be gay. I understand your point though about gaining attention too early." Kongpop answered, drifting into his thoughts for a moment. It didn't cross his mind that nobody knows about it just yet.

"Okay!" He snapped his fingers. "New plan. We're going to sneak in separately, pretending we don't know each other. It's going to have bigger wow-effect, making it more remarkable and believable."

"You really want to give them all that drama, right?" Arthit smirked.

"We will avoid all the questions this way before the huge announcement. Will you be alright though?" Kongpop asked concerned, noticing Arthit's frowning expression.

"I will, but let's stop the talk for now. The more we plan, the more uneasy I am. Don't worry, I've been on formal parties before and had no one to talk to. Just give me some signal or come up to me when the time is ready."

"Okay, I'll do that. Let me go first, I'm going to draw all attention to myself and you follow me in few minutes. See you." Kong patted Arthit's shoulder gently before walking off.

Well, this escalated quickly. Arthit thought, being glad he was able to postpone the act for a bit.

It was just as Kongpop said, as soon as he was spotted by people standing-by who were slowly entering the huge mansion, he was surrounded. Arthit, peeking from behind the corner, waited for the crowd to disappear in the building to sneak in, had followed him in few minutes.

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"Kong!" one of his older sisters came up to him as he entered the huge hall, built for the event purposes.

"Malie, hey. How're you doing?" They hugged as they haven't seen themselves in ages.

"It's been lonely without you around, but you tell me. Where is he?" She asked, looking around impatiently.

"Not yet, it's a surprise. But you can try to guess meanwhile, although I don't think you'll know." Kongpop smirked, wondering what is going to be Malie's reaction. She liked good-looking, gangster type of guys. "Where are mom and dad?" He asked for a change, knowing he has to explain the situation beforehand.

"I've seen them somewhere, they were just talking to our uncle." She explained and shrugged her shoulders.

"I'm going to look for them." Kong excused himself and started making his way through the guests, casually stopping by and talking to some of them.

He was able to found his parents pretty quickly. They were standing in the middle of the hall, surrounded by group of people, all enjoying themselves.

"Mother, father." Kongpop approached them, feeling little tense. His mindset has changed, realizing how much lie is going to surround them from now on. How his whole year is going to be rather unpleasant and he won't be able to delete this from his life and memory. Stop being so pathetic. Kong shook his head, remembering how he was telling Arthit to feel at ease since he was there for him.

Where is P'Arthit, come to think of it? Is he already inside or not yet? Kong's insecurity and worries developed right after he left him.

"My son!" Mother approached him and they hugged. Arthit, already standing nearby was watching his husband's every move, ignoring everyone else around him. He didn't even bother to acknowledge faces around him, knowing he won't know anyone.

Kongpop has much closer and warmer relationship with his parents... Arthit thought to himself and he watched them being so cheerful.

Suddenly, a girl creeped from behind and patted Kong's back, making him flinch as he turned around. She hugged him happily. Kong short of hugged her back, having too neutral expression the whole time. The woman then proceed to greet his parents and relatives, smoothly joining the conversation.

Arthit wasn't fooled though. He could sense something was up, the slight and quick change in Kongpop's behavior was a red flag for him. Red flag he couldn't ignore and the sudden urge to rush there and stand between Kong the woman currently hugging his arm was very hard to resist. 

Who the hell is she?

I'm going to update tomorrow another chapter, although it's shorter! Take it as a small compensation for updating so slowly lately...

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