LOVE AND TEARS/AMOR Y LAGRIMAS

7 (ENGLISH)

A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER...

Singto opened the door of his room with a tired expression and, with a sad sigh, left his coat and briefcase in one of the nearby chairs.

His eyes, flushed and without light, landed on the photograph that occupied the main table of the big room. A photograph in which he appeared hugging a young man with dark hair who was looking towards the camera with a shy expression but full of joy.

A boy who ... who had been, several weeks already, not showing any signs of life.

"Krist..."

The truth was that no one had news of him and ... no doubt he was going to be the last one to be told if they knew anything about the young man. To be honest, he was beginning to lose the little hope he had left for Krist to appear ... to allow him to explain all that damn situation.

Especially after the words of his friend.

That same day, once again, he had gone to see Toptap and implored his help but ... just like in the previous days ... the boy had refused completely. He had even told him that what Krist needed now was to be far away from him .. Away from everything and everyone in order to think about him and his life.

Singto shook his head, rejecting any possibility of Toptap being right.

"I just need to find him and explain what happened ... I'm not going to lose him. I can't lose him!"

- "Where are you, Krist?" - he murmured as he dropped into one of the chairs - "Why don't you show up?"

The young man sighed sadly to immediately take out his mobile phone and check the inbox.

It was empty except for Ohm's mails.

"Is he never going to get tired of this?!" he asked himself as he began to erase them without even opening one of them.

Finally, when he deleted the last one, he took a deep breath and closed the device.

His eyes then slid down the hotel room where he had been living since the day he had left his own apartment.

"If only I had told Krist ..." he thought as he hid his head in his arms, "I should have told him the truth."

FLASHBACK ...

- "I'm not going back to you, Ohm"

- "But ..." - muttered the young man who, with a desolate expression, dropped the flowers that he had in his hands on the floor of the apartment - "I though... our parents told me ...".

Singto shook his head.

- "I don't know what they had told you, but I have a lover" - he said in a determined voice while taking a picture from the table and showing it to the man.

In the pic, smiling shyly, was Krist who, as on many other occasions, had reluctantly posed for him.

- "He does not like to be taken photos .. but, despite that, he always lets me take as much as I want" - Singto whispered while stroking the young man's face with a finger - "and only because he knows it is one of my favorite hobbies".

Ohm growled.

- "Your mother has not told me anything about this ... moreover, she has assured me that you have been waiting for me all these years" - he said without looking away from Singto's face.

Singto, however, began to laugh slightly.

- "Ohm ... I have not written to you once in all these years" - commented the young man as he left the picture on the table - "and, as far as I know, our last conversation was quite clear ..." .

- "I know but ..."

Singto shook his head.

- "There are no buts, Ohm" - he said with a final gesture - "I don't feel anything for you anymore and I'm very serious about Krist. I'm not goint to return to you"

END OF FLASHBACK ...

Singto sighed remembering how Ohm had begged him to let him stay in the apartment for a few days ... at least until his parents returned from their business trip.

- "I don't have the key to the house, Singto" - he had said imploringly - "I was supposed to stay with you ...".

The young man sighed once again, this time while taking small blows to his own head.

"And I, like an idiot, let him stay at home..," he told himself, "How could I have been so deluded!"

But no...

Now was not the time to recriminate himself for being an idiot ...

He had to find Krist and tell him the whole truth .. THAT was the only important thing now.

- "I will not let a misunderstanding like this separate us" - he murmured as he raised his face from his arms - "I will find you, Krist. I swear"

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Mrs. Ruangroj sighed while, waiting expectantly, she listened to her husband finish reading the report that the family detective had just given them.

However, her husband's words and expression, far from being what she expected, were causing her to sink even more into the concern she had been feeling since she had learned the truth.

- "So you see ... it seems that this Krist is a good boy ... very hardworking" - said Mr. Ruangroj finally, with a slight smile, while leaving the papers on his desk.

- "But ... and Ohm?"

Her husband, however, shook his head.

- "There is no point in continuing with that, woman ... Singto has been quite clear"

- "But ..." - she began saying while she was squeezing the handkerchief she had in her hands and with which, since her last conversation by the phone with Singto, had used to prevent her makeup from being destroyed because of tears.

- "My love ... you have to talk to Mara, you can't keep putting it off any longer ..." - continued her husband while pointing a finger towards the papers - "Krist is a perfect young man for our Singto ... besides he is the man he loves ... ".

Mrs. Ruangroj, however, shook her head as she gave him a pleading look.

- "You can not be serious!" - she exclaimed as she leaned forward - "I'm sure it's just a tantrum from Sing ... I know he still loves Ohm and ...".

- "Enough is enough!" - exclaimed, to her surprise, her husband while taking the report with one hand and spinning it through the air - "Singto has been very clear about Ohm ... for years now. He never thought of returning to him and, honestly, it's time for you to accept it ... for both of you to do it! "

After which, and with an angry gesture, he got up from his seat and, opening the door, left the room while leaving his wife inside.

Now, completely alone except for her thoughts and with an increasingly short list of reasons of why she needed to reject the young man who had chosen his son, the woman sighed. Seconds later she dropped her face on one of the arms of the chair, feeling again that she was the loneliest and most misunderstood person in her family.

After all she knew her son and he was not going to rest until he found the place where Krist was living now.

And after that... all the plans she and Mara had devised for years would end up destroyed.

- "Damn..."