The Longest Dayz

Chapter 12: Kittichai Shinawatra

He sat quietly in the passenger seat of the police car as they rode towards the police station. If Kitt had something planned for his day this definitely wasn't what he would've had in mind. They drove into town in silence, the kind of silence that made him feel uncomfortable.

Detective Kim's phone rang abruptly, breaking the silence. Kitt could see the concern written on the detective's face as he reached for the phone, "hello, police department, state your emergency."

Kitt examined the detective's facial expression closely. After a few seconds his face visibly softened. "Of course, can you tell me your name?" Detective Kim questioned, "now what is your friend's name?" He kindly asked the person on the other end. "Kittichai? Hold on a second." When Kitt heard his name in the conversation he straightened his back. Detective Kim then leaned over to him, "Hey do you happen to know Kim Jiwon? If so, he is worried about you." Kitt nodded his head. He was surprised when the detective passed him the phone.

"Hello? Jiwon-ah?" He answered the phone. He heard his friend let out a long sigh which was quickly followed by Jiwon bombarding Kitt with questions.

"Where are you? Why aren't you at your apartment? Why aren't you getting my messages? Why are you with a police officer?"

"Well I am at a café. My phone broke because I dropped it, clumsy me. I decided to hang out with my friend who I happened to run into when I was shopping earlier, he happens to be a police officer." He spilled lies from out of his mouth. Kittichai didn't want his friend to worry anymore than he already was.

"You have another friend other than me?" Jiwon queried.

"Yes. I have a few friends, you just don't know about them." Kitt responded. It wasn't a complete lie, he does happen to have one other friend, whom he met while he was participating in a community service scholarship.

"Oh yeah, what are their names? Where did you meet them?" Jiwon asked, obviously suspicious of Kitt's words. Jiwon reminded him of an overly clingy girlfriend at that moment. Of course, Jiwon was also right to be suspicious, since Kitt was spouting quite a few lies in order to not worry Jiwon. "I mean you never talked about them before."

"Well there is Kim Seojun, Kang Hanwoo and Jeon Yeongsu." Kitt said the first names that popped into his head, all the while the officer kept side glancing at him during the conversation. "I met Seojun and Hanwoo both at an event outside of my apartment building, and I met Yeongsu when I had to do that community service scholarship at the firehouse." He wasn't fond of lying, especially to his friend, but if it meant his friend would worry less, he could do it.

"Oh I see." His friend let out another audible sigh.

He was silent for a minute, before it dawned on him. "How do you know I am not at my apartment? Are you in Busan?" He questioned Jiwon, his turn to feel worried. He waited for an answer, the response taking longer than he had wanted.

"I-I am in Busan, I had a photo-shoot here for the past two weeks." His friend stuttered, "but I am leaving, I am even on the train right now. It is going to be leaving at eight thirty." He said in an almost innocent tone.

"Why didn't you tell me that you were in Busan? Where were you staying? You could have stayed with me." Kitt wasn't even mad that his friend had hid it from him. He looked at the detective, and put his hand over the phone as he whispered a question. "Before you bring me in. Do you think we could see my friend off at the station?"

The detective glanced at him as he responded, "of course, it'll be quick right?"

"Yes, the train leaves at eight thirty. So it'll be quick." He answered, which earned a nod from the detective as he changed their course of direction.