Fourth couldn't calm down.  First, observing the whole situation somewhat from the sidelines, sent a short message to Gun, asking him to appear immediately.

Outside, no one was allowed to guess what had happened.  Fans continued to enjoy the performances of the remaining artists, unaware that one of their favorite idols turned out to be a murderer and kidnapper who was behind the kidnapping of another of their favorites.

Fourth sat on the floor with his back against the cool wall.  He was still dizzy and in terrible pain.  He guessed it was from the punch he received from NuNew.

“We will leave what we don't need, it can't harm us.  Nattawat is a coward, he won't even say a word.  He won't know where we went anyway.” — These were the last words Fourth heard before he lost consciousness.

It seemed like an eternity before his twin brother appeared in the dressing room.  This time, all of Gun's tattoos were not very visible under his white tank top and light denim katana covered in graffiti.  He also chose comfortable wide jeans with holes and a necklace resembling a chain with a padlock at the end.  Gun walked up to his brother and hugged him.

“It's okay, I'm with you, everything will be fine” —Gun assured Fourth, but Fourth stopped believing him a long time ago.  He looked at him blankly.  — “Come on, let's go outside and get some fresh air and you'll tell me what happened”.

Fourth allowed himself to be led like a defenseless calf on a rope to the slaughter.  He didn't care anymore.

“So will you finally tell me what happened?”

“I'm bringing him bad luck!  NuNew will kill him.  Because of me!”

“NuNew?  Who is he going to kill?”

“My GemGem, my wonderful artist, my sunshine, my... My everything!... Gun, you probably don't understand this, but Gem means the world to me.  We haven't known each other for long, but we've been through a lot together and I know, I'm absolutely sure, that I would like to spend the rest of our lives with him.  On the other hand, when I look at how many bad things have happened in his life since I came here, I start to doubt whether this is the right decision.  It would be best if we broke up, then my bad luck wouldn't include him.  It's my fault, ai Gun!  Only my!  The guys claimed they found out it was you who killed LiMing.  I didn't want to believe it, but after what Professor Zee, whom we trusted, did... Tell me the truth.  Don't cheat on me, don't lie to make me feel better or to whitewash yourself.  Tell the truth, ai Gun, did you have anything to do with the death of our third brother?”

There was a tense silence between them.  Gun didn't know how to put it into words, and Fourth stared at him, even though he didn't really believe Gun would confess.  He wasn't a wimp.  He wasn't one to lose.  He endured each defeat in silence, and then came back to prove to everyone that he hadn't actually lost.

Gun led them to the parking lot and right to Gemini's car.  Fourth realized that Gem had absent-mindedly left the car unlocked and that it could easily be started.  Fourth got into the driver's seat and Gun stood in front of him.  He finally admitted openly, for the first time accepting the defeat he could no longer prevent.

“It's true, I killed LiMing”.

“Why?!”

“LiMing was our brother, our mother hid him because she also wanted a family.  We were triplets, Fifs”.

“You killed your own brother?  Are you that mean and cruel?”

Gun's words hurt Fourth.  He felt as if someone was cutting off his legs, piece by piece, preventing him from escaping the suffering around him.  He grabbed his hair as if trying to pull it all out of his own head.

“No, you didn't do it.  NO, I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!!”

Fourth screamed loudly, and Gun had only heard so much despair and pain in someone's voice once and that event still haunted his dreams, he couldn't get rid of it.  He was a prisoner of his own wrong decisions and a past that he could no longer change.  That was the main reason he tried so hard to help Fourth.  He wanted to right the wrong he had done, even though deep inside he knew that nothing he did could make up for the deaths of two innocent boys.  Too late he realized that his friend, nicknamed Annabelle, was playing with him, directing him as he pleased, turning him into an obedient puppet on strings that he could move as he pleased.  The remorse never left him.

“I've done worse things than this...” — Gun whispered quietly, hoping that Fourth won't hear it.

Gun crouched down next to Fourth and wanted to hug him like he always did when they were younger and Mile's father was bullying them, but Fourth pushed him away violently.

“You didn't do that.  Say it!  I'm waiting! Tell me it wasn't you, it was someone else. Please, you didn't do it!”

Gun hung his head, staring at his shoes.  That was answer enough.

“Why?!  Do you have no feelings at all anymore?  No heart and no conscience?  How could you kill him?!  It was your brother!”

“I wish I could tell you that I didn't do it.  I wish this never happened.  There was someone who hated Heart because Heart had taken something from him, or rather someone, that Annabelle loved”.

Annabelle?

Fourth thought he had heard that name somewhere before.  Or rather a nickname, but where?  He looked at Gun, one eyebrow raised, and suddenly a thought struck him.

Annabelle.

“Is this NuNew?!”

“Yes.  NuNew was in love with LiMing, but Ming didn't pay attention to him, he only saw his Heart.  He cheated me.  He made me believe that Li was the reason our fathers hated me and that he was the reason why P'Mile kicked me out of the house.  He also told me that Li was responsible for our mother's death.  I was shocked to discover that our mother was alive and living with our adoptive sister”.

“Wait, I don't understand something.  Does this mean that First is not our brother?”

“First?  Oh no, he's definitely our brother, but he has a different mother.  If that's what you're asking, you should know that First himself decided to find his mother, but that's something you should talk to him about”.

New questions kept popping up in Fourth's head.  He wanted to know more, to know everything.  Looking at the sad, concerned Gun still sitting on the concrete in the parking lot where Fourth had pushed him, he saw what Gun never talked about: his true colors and his true feelings, and as much as he wanted to hate him, he couldn't.  It was he who crossed the distance between them and pulled him to himself, hugging him very tightly.

“What are you doing?  Do you want to strangle me with kindness?” — Gun asked, half stunned, half scared.

“No, I just thought about how hard it must have been for you.  For the past year, you have been carrying such a secret on your shoulders, a burden that cannot be easy for anyone to bear”.

Fourth moved away, but only a little, and grabbed Gun's left hand and rolled up the sleeve of his light denim graffiti-embellished katana.  Both of them saw scars from cigarette burns and knife cuts.  Some were still clearly pink, indicating that they were quite fresh, others were almost white and seemed old.  Fourth ran his fingers along the inside of his brother's forearm.

“You took every blow for me, took care of me, protected me and Gem.  It's hard for me to see you as a murderer, for me you are first and foremost my brother.  It's also hard for me to truly mourn LiMing's death, even though he was our brother, because I never met him.  I'm sorry that I will never get such a chance again. But what's the most important for me is Gemini's safety”.

“I'm sorry, Fifs, I'm so fucking sorry”.

It was the first sincere apology Gun had ever wanted to give to anyone.

“Come on, don't cry, it doesn't suit you” — Fourth smiled at the corners of his mouth, taking his brother's face in his hands.  He looked at his eyes lined with black eyeliner, at his eyelids covered with brown eye shadow, at the two earrings stuck into the skin just next to his left eyebrow, at the gold earring with a small letter F in his right ear.  Gun actually looked like he was about to cry.  Fourth had never seen him like this.

“Will you forbid me from crying?” — Gun asked, sitting in the passenger seat.  “Take me to Gem's apartment, I have something to show you”.

“To Gem's apartment?  Okay, let's go there.  As for crying... No, no one has the right to forbid you to do that.  You have every right to show your feelings and emotions, I just always saw you so tough and strong, you never showed any weakness, you were always so brave and always fought for some higher goal.  You know you'll have to pay for what you did?  You killed a man, I can't ask Gem to help me hide it...”

“I know, I'm prepared for it.  Don't worry.  Live your life, live for the three of us.  Do everything to simply be happy.  You know that now the most difficult task awaits you, right?”

“Me?  No, I'm too weak for this, I won't make it”.

“You can do it,” — Gun ruffled his twin's hair.  He saw how much it cost him and he wanted to do something for it.

“Well, I don't know…” — Fourth was full of doubts.  He was trying, he just wanted Gemini, Phu, Dunk, Pond, Namtan and the rest to be safe.  He kept thinking that this was a task beyond his capabilities and courage.  He rubbed his hand over his aching neck, trying to stave off the fatigue.

A few minutes later they were in Gemini's room, so painfully familiar and pitifully empty without its owner.  Gun returned to the interrupted conversation.

“Fortunately, I know.  Listen to me carefully: you will do it.  No matter how hard it seems, I know you can do it, and you know why?”

“No?”

“Because you love him.  Love is the answer you are looking for”.

“I thought you didn't believe in love”.

“Oh little brother!  How little you know about life yet!  There are situations in which feelings such as jealousy, love, hatred can force us to behave in ways that we had not previously suspected ourselves of.  You love him and you will do anything for him, even if it means returning to our fathers and taking over their business”.

“Why can't you do it?  We are identical after all”.

“No, Fotfot, we are not identical.  We are different and if anyone can tell the difference, it is our fathers.  I'd love to do this task for you, but then they'll know.  It must be you”.

These words did little to give him courage or confidence.  Gun realized that his speech had no effect, so he went to the desk, turned on the laptop (he knew the password perfectly, Fourth had no secrets from him), found a hidden folder with photos that were important to his twin brother.  He took the laptop and sat down with it on the couch next to Fourth.

“Look at these photos.  There are people on them whose future or even life is in your hands.  No matter how much you don't want to do it, I have to tell you that you have no other choice”.

Fourth looked at the screen.  Slowly flashing before his eyes were photos of people who had recently become very close to him, who had become his new family: Joong, Pond, Dunk, Gemini, Phuwin, P'Off, P'Erin, First, Khaotung and even Professor Zee  Pruk, with whom he established close contact behind Gem's back.  P'Zee became the confidant of all of Fourth's secrets that he didn't have the courage to tell anyone else.  After all, he owed his freedom to the professor.  The professor played a huge, perhaps the most important, role in unmasking the perpetrator, starting an affair with a star with millions of fans around the world, NuNew, whom Fourth and Gun also knew under another nickname: Annabelle.

“Well, I have to protect them”.

And although he was still afraid, he didn't let that fear overwhelm him.  For the first time in his life he felt good enough to do this, to beat his fathers.  He was furious with them.  He realized that they were the ones supporting NuNew all this time.

Fourth left Gem's apartment, still clutching in his hand a photo of NuNew's latest victim, a twenty-year-old girl, a young and promising actress nicknamed Love.

“You can't beat us this time, Annabelle.  Not this time.  You messed with the wrong people.  You hide behind the mask of a horror movie character, but in reality you are nothing more than an ordinary, cowardly murderer and psychopath.  You no longer have power over us."

And Fourth remembered all the suspicious situations he had seen NuNew in when he worked with him.  Suddenly it dawned on him that Gemini's jealousy also had other, deeper grounds.  He realized that Gem had been terribly worried about him all this time, but he couldn't show it.

Suddenly Gun's phone rang.  Gun hesitated a bit before answering.

“P'First... Yes, yes, he's with me.  We're at Gemini's apartment.  Yes, I told him.  We'll be ready soon.  Of course, I'll take him with me.  Wait for us there.  Remember that Annabelle is a true psychopath, and extremely intelligent, one false step and Gem will be the first to die.  Yes, I saw this coming.  I know the address.  Give us time until dawn, it will make NuNew think he has an advantage over us and that we don't know where he is.  All right.  See you”.

Gun hung up.  Fourth sat on the bed, running his hand over the soft sheets.  It seemed to him that the whole room almost smelled like Gemini and had his personality.

Gun knew what a difficult task awaited them.  And he was willing to sacrifice himself this once in the name of brotherly love, but in reality he was aware that he would never erase the feeling of guilt that tormented him.

Fourth was impatient, he wanted to run to his boyfriend's rescue as quickly as possible.  Joong and Pond came to Gem's apartment after the performance.  Later, P'First with P'Singto also appeared.  To Fourth's surprise, two security guards working for the twins' fathers, Billy and Babe, got out of P'Singto's car.

The plan seemed simple, but Fourth still couldn't shake the bad feeling that gripped his heart.

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Hey everyone(if there's at least one person... I hope there is...) ❤️

I'm sorry for so low activity here, many things happened and I had to deal with them. It's okay now.

I'm sad because I don't like this book at the end and I think you could notice it. I'm sorry for it.

Only few chapters left but I don't feel like finishing this book. It wasn't worth it at the end.

~M(agical)