Untamed Hearts

Confession

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Arthit ran punches on the wall surprising his friends, Knot and Bright, a blue file in his other hand. The medical reports, X-rays, CT Scans along with those photos all are  floating in front of him. Rage has flooded his system after learning the extent of pain Kongpob has suffered.

" FUCKKKKK!!!!!"

" ARTHITTTT!!!!!"

Knot and Bright pulls Arthit back from the wall where he has pummeled his fist minutes ago. They drag him out of the room into the hallway. A worried Neol runs to them when sees an angry Arthit holding his injured hand in other, pressed against his chest.

" What happened?? How did.. let me brings the first aid kit.", Neol runs to the kitchen, kneeling in front of the lower cabinet, opened it's latches, pulling out the kit. Rushing back he finds all of them sitting on the sofa, all three have pissed off expression on their face.

" Thank you Uncle!!"

Knot takes the box from Kongpob's father and cleans the blood using antiseptic solution with the cotton.

Neol looks at Arthit, the person who has come into his son's life like a wave and changed the pattern of Kongpob's living. Arthit's son Asnee is like an angel for his Kongpob. His son has started smiling a little more, talking a little more and also started to trust others. His nightmares are still lurking there but the little angel is Kongpob's personal dreamcatcher.

He was doing some accounts work earlier  when Arthit and his friends, Knot and Bright came, surprising him as it was a weekday and Kongpob was in college.

But when Arthit asked about Kongpob's rapist, he knew that Arthit has managed to crack the wall around Kongob. He could not decide if he should be relieved that finally his son trusted someone enough to share about his assault or worry that old wounds of Kongpob have opened again.

 In the last 4 years, Kongpob has never said or even breathed a word about his assault to anyone. He behaved his stoic and aloof self keeping people away from him. Except him and Aim only Atid know about it and that too accidently. Kongpob never purposely shared his grief or pain or trauma as his phsycologist phrase to any person.

Neol doesn't have any reply to the Arthit's question which confused the later, only then awareness dawned on him that his son has not told anything to Arthit beyond the fact that he was physically assaulted in his junior high, which leads to him asking the one question circling in his mind since the first time he met Arthit.

" Why do you want to know??? Is it pity or sympathy??? If it is then you don't need to do this favour to us. My Kong doesn't need any body's sympathy or-

" It is not sympathy or pity. I...I like him, admire him...I want to protect him. It pains me to see him getting hurt by something happened to him years ago. Neither I nor my friends, none of us pity him because he is the most bravest person I have ever met. I want him to smile more, laugh more and enjoy his life to the fullest and it can only happen when he breaks free from the shackles of his past. And I want to help him achieve it. It can not be possible if i don't know how deep the scars are.......

" Why??? Why didn't you filed against that monster??? He..the reports.. How??? How can someone be this cruel ????", Bright cried out, Kongpob's case file in his hand. Arthit didn't said or asked anything, just kept his head down.

Neol sighed," I was helpless. My only son was going through such a difficult phase of his life and that time all I need and wanted was to bring my shell of a son back. Me, Aim's father, Kongpob's doctor - we all tried to ask the name of that dirtbag but Kongpob-