Love Between You & Me

Black Van

The night sky is absent of any twinkling stars, black clouds hovering over them, ready to quench the overheated city. The streets are well illuminated with lamp posts erecting on the sidelines chasing away the darkness surrounding the environment. Roads are not that crowded, Traffic is not much as it is way past the regular hours.  Every now and then you can see a car or bike racing away on the almost deserted road.  A lone figure is sitting on the bench at the bus stop which is empty except him and two other patrons waiting for their bus.

Kongpob peeks at his wrist watch and sighs....looks like am spending the night at the bus stop. It's been hours since the meeting has finished. After Phoenix's abrupt departure, Bright and Prem also left as soon as the meeting wrapped up while Knott followed Kim out. Which left Damon, Ryan, him and Arthit to search through the whole archive looking for all drug peddling case files and illegal organ transplant cases which came into light in last 10 or so years. After a while, his seniors ordered him to leave seeing it was getting very late.  He was going to wait around for Arthit to know about team ALPHA and Arthit's role in it. But when later just gave him a goodbye wave from where he was hunched over the stock of folders, Kongpob left with no choice but leave. 

And it has been close to an hour or more since he had left the building and walked up to the bus stop. Earlier in his hurry to come to the meeting, he forgot to refill the fuel tank and used the last drop of it in reaching here. Hence, he is now stuck to use public transport or wait for his cab and with the luck he is having recently, neither of the two has arrived.

Ringgggg!!!!! Ringgggg!!!!!

The young officer pulls out his phone from jeans pocket feeling the buzz of the device and winces seeing Park's name on the screen.

Today is weekened and he had promised Park to visit him but he had to immediately rush to headquarters for the urgent meeting Kim had held where officer Knott disclosed all his findings. Now it is close to midnight. It slipped off his mind to give a heads up to other.

Glancing at the clouds which are getting more and more darker, Kongpob debates whether it is worth to hear an earful from Park or not. Making up his mind, Kongpob cancels the call and instead sends a text stating that he is sorry for ditching him as he got caught up in some work. After that he put his phone on switch off. No eager to hear an earful from him any soon. His mind goes back to Jae and now he is regretting not asking if former has contacted Park.

He fishes out his cellphone intending to do same when a familiar bike stops in front of him making a screeching noise.

The blue baby is a latest Yamaha YZF - R1, with speed of 298 km/h. Owner of the bike is dressed in a leather black jacket, blue levis and sports shoes. A helmet with dark base, white silver criss cross pattern drawn all over it. It didn't took long for Kongpob to recognise why the helmet seems familiar. It is because the same identical one is with him back at his apartment. The thing Arthit had to retrieve from his locker last night.

The rider slids up the glass, a pair of doe shaped eyes stares back to Kongpob. The younger one can never fail to point out those black abyss anywhere. Kongpob jumps up from his seat and approaches Arthit.

" You are still here??? Where is your motorcycle?", Kongpob understood the muffled words.

"Actually, I forgot to refill the fuel tank", Arthit shakes his head, his eyes gleaming as he lets out a melodic chuckle," but the time for last bus to your area has passed ages ago. You should call for a cab"

" I did phi and it already has been an hour since then and I was going to Park's house not mine.", Kongpob explained fully ignoring the way Arthit tensed hearing Park's name. The younger one glances up in curiosity when his senior didn't said anything and the silence stretched too long.