Caught Up

In the care of their older brothers- who stepped into the shape of parents they'd lost, long before they were ready, but never once looked back. The younger boys' worlds were built from quiet sacrifices, and the unspoken understanding that family came first. Always.

Chokun and Aston were never meant to meet.

Yet fate, careless and curious, crossed their paths anyway.

Between a boy raised in Chonburi and the other recently shifting in, bloomed a soft liking. Innocent in ways only first love can be.

For a while, it felt like forever was possible.

Until the day Perth and Santa met.

What was meant to be a simple, well-wished encounter between the two older brothers, a polite meeting between two guardians, brought in rules.

Chokun and Aston were told they could no longer meet. No explanations offered-only firm voices and eyes that carried too much knowing.

The boys were left confused, aching, but quietly obedient.

They sensed it, though. In the way their brothers avoided certain names. In the pauses that lingered after unanswered questions. In the unmistakable feeling that something fragile had been carefully placed out of reach-not to punish them, but to protect.

And while Chokun and Aston are left to wonder what history binds Perth and Santa so tightly-and why that history had the power to decide their future-some love stories simply choose to stay silent.