Their Beautiful Secret

18. A New Face

"What can I get you?" The vendor at the stand asked Arthit as the latter approached. She smiled as she stared at her customer. She was a little less older than the omega.

"Pink milk, please."

"Sorry, we ran out."

Arthit almost cursed out loud but didn't seeing the apologetic look from the young woman. He ran all the way to the hangar for nothing. Disappointed, he glared at the menu board Instead hanging on the wall behind the vendor.

With no other choice Arthit decided to thank the vendor and just leave to get his meal from another food stand. As he turned on his heels, someone extended a hand bearing a medium cup of pinkmilk on one hand.

"I bought the wrong drink," the person said. I'll give this to you if you buy me iced coffee."

Arthit eyed the person in front of him including the drink he was holding. He contemplated wether to accept the order or not given the person offering it was a stranger.

"Worried it's poisoned?" The person in front of Arthit smiled handsomely without retreating his arm. His Chinese eyes closed into a beautiful thin line. He stood six feet two inches, towering the omega by a few inches. "The top is still sealed, see?" He said as he extended his hand more.

Arthit looked up to to the other man. He had such a busy morning coupled with disappointment for not getting his favorite twice in a single morning, he was almost desperate.

'Curse this preference of mine,' Arthit thought. He raised a hand and reached for the drink.

"Thanks."

"And my coffee?" The other person asked making the omega groaned internally. He almost forgot. He wanted to just run away with his favorite drink and never look back. Then he heard the vendor ask the other person what he wanted as Arthit stepped forward back to the stand.

"What flavor, Dr. Jung?"

The young omega turned to look at the stranger just as he said, "French Vanilla."

Dr. Jung smiled at Arthit as the latter knitted his brows. Why did the name sound familiar all of a sudden...  'Jung?'

"I'm Stephen Jung," the doctor introduced himself, extending a hand to Arthit. The latter looked at the hand before him but instead of shaking it, he fished his pocket for the money to pay for the coffee.

"Thanks for the pinkmilk," Arthit with a thin smile before turning on his heels and heading to his usual lunch spot with his hazing team. 'That was weird,' Arthit mused. He shook the feeling away and continued walking towards his destination.

Upon reading the table, Arthit found Knott missing. He immediately his friends just as he took his seat. Bright and Toota were back to their usual nonsensical plans about anything while Prem told Arthit where Knott was heading.

"That freshman again? What was his name? Tew?" The omega asked. Prem just shrugged and began to dig back on his meal.

"Anyway, are we getting a new doctor at the infirmary?" Arthit asked after he himself got his lunch. He got the pad thai lunch special. He was the last one to get his lunch whereas the three others were half way done with their food.

"Oh, yeah." Toota interjected, temporarily abandoning his little discussion with Bright about who's going to win the university star and moon competition. "I heard he's very young. And hot!"

"And it's a 'he'?" Bright said, seemingly disappointed.

Toota conked his friend's head and woke him up from what he called Bright stupid fancies. "You're practically taken. Seriously, I'll go tell N'Rome you're cheating on him already."

"No!" Bright's eyes widened. Toota only fueled it by picking up his phone and starting to dial someone's number.

"Yes, N'Rome. It's me! Toota--

Toota and Bright's bickering fell into deaf ears as Prem told Arthit about the new staff at the engineering college. Arthit was unusually curious over a stranger. Prem didn't pay much attention.

***

Classes were half way done later that afternoon when Arthit received a call from Kristine. "Arthit! I'm sorry. I didn't know what else to do. Mom and Dad aren't here and I know your mom has a doctor's appointment but--

"Phi, breathe." Arthit was panicking, feeling the anxiety and worry in Kristine's voice. Even when his phone only vibrated once, Arthit immediately rushed outside the class when he opened the phone and saw that it was from Kongpob's sister. His heartbeat immediately spiked as he thought of his son. "O-Okay, tell me what's going on."

"Wayo is running a really high fever so I'm heading to the hospital now," Kristine was almost crying in worry. "Oh, god--"

"Tell me where you are," Arthit said firmly. His chest was hammering. Rushing back inside the classroom, be grabbed his messenger bag and ran back out, ignoring the professor's advice for him to sit back on class.

Kristine told Arthit where she was headed and hopefully she will arrive at the nearest hospital as soon as possible.

After getting off the phone with Kristine, Arthit called his fiance to tell him what happened. He figured Kristine would have called him first and then Kongpob.

"Damn it. He's not answering," Arthit muttered before dialing again. He was walking briskly ahead without looking. It was too late when he bumped into someone and fell into their chest.

"Funny how we run into each so often in one day," the other person said as Arthit got up quickly and dusted himself.

The omega didn't have a retort. His mind was preoccupied by his son's state and nothing would distract nor stop him from getting to Wayo as soon as so possible.

"I'll let you off the hook if you tell me what's wrong!" The other person yelled as Arthit turned his back on him and  headed for the pathway leading to the main gate.

Arthit suddenly stopped and turned around. "Do you have a car?" He asked without thinking of what might be after getting an no information about what he asked.

"Yeah," the other person said. "Heading somewhere?"

"Yes," Arthit said before walking fast to get to the other person and grabbing his hand. "Drive me to Inotchak Medical. Please."

The other person didn't ask anything anymore seeing the young omega seemed very preoccupied and worried as he dialed a number on his phone.

'My Moon, huh...' the other person thought when he caught the sight of the person's name on Arthit's phone.

"Doc Jung..." Arthit spoke after he entered the car and the doctor began driving.

"Yeah?" Doc Jung glanced at his passenger and saw him grip on his seat belt.

"Drive faster, please. But safely..."

The doctor said no more and drove his sports car faster. They were lucky that the traffic wasn't as heavy. They weren't caught in a rush hour.

"Must be someone very important," the doctor commented.

"Y-Yeah," Arthit said in a broken tone. His eyes welled with tears as he thought of his three year old. "My son..."
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