LOVE AND TEARS/AMOR Y LAGRIMAS

5 (ENGLISH)

SOME DAYS LATER...

Mrs. Ruangroj, after a couple of hours talking with her son, sat on the sofa while observing Singto.

- "You .. Are you really telling me that you love that Krist? That you want to marry him?" - she asked after a few seconds of silence - "not Ohm?".

"I cannot believe  this..." Singto told himself as he looked towards the clock that was in one of the walls and then at his mother's face, a bit pale but at the same time with a slight gleam of hope.

Two hours...

It have been already two hours and... she was still asking that.

Singto sighed, not knowing very well what to do now... specially with his own mother acting like this.

Through his mind were already passing every one of the conversations he had had with the woman regarding Ohm and, above all, the numerous and incredible reasons that, over the past few years, she had been giving him in order to make him stop from dating another person. 

All for the sole purpose of him forgiving the man and waiting for the return of a person who - according to her - was his other half.

His true love.

Singto smiled wryly.

"As if I wouldn't know that she is only worried about what people would say ... and how it would affect the two families".

After all, he knew how much she and Ohm's mother had wanted that wedding. How they had even thought about joining their companies into one after the ceremony.

"But, of course, that won't be at my expense", he promised himself as he fixed his gaze on the face of the two people who were waiting for his response.

Ohm, having stayed quietly since the arrival of his mother, was sitting in one of the armchairs as he looked at Singto without saying anything.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Ruangroj was waiting patiently for her son - her beloved and only son - to say something. To say that...that everything had been a mistake ... that she hadn't understood correctly ...

However, with a determined gesture, Singto nodded.

- "I love him, mom"

- "But ... why didn't you say anything ?!"

Singto sighed and, looking down at the floor, whispered a couple of words that they barely managed to hear.

- "What have you said?"

- "I was waiting for the family reunion" - repeated the young man in a louder voice - "I wanted to reunite the whole family and formally introduce him ... as my boyfriend".

Singto said nothing more, however, everyone understood what he was implying with his words... After all, when he had said family reunion, he was referring to the one that was held at the end of the year and with the members of both families and closest friends.

"Why don't we celebrate the new year all together?" - Her mother had proposed to her friend, when Singto and Ohm were barely newborns - "After all, we've practically grown up together ... you're the sister I never had."

To which Mara, with joy, had immediately accepted.

Since then they had not missed any of the parties ... not even when he and Ohm had broken up before the man left to study abroad.

A meeting that, that year, was going to take place in a few weeks and that, for months, he had been preparing by himself with special dedication. Even at the expense of the little free time he had ... and some of his dates with Krist.