CHAPTER 21
"Have a good day Aroon dear" Kongpob said as he gave his son his lunch kit and smiled to him. But Aroon only looked at him without any expression and walked forward. Kongpob's heart ached seeing his son's reaction. It was just yesterday Aroon had reveled all his doubt to his parents leaving them in shock. Kongpob was really upset with all the things.
After that incident Aroon had not even talked to Kong or even called him Mommy once and this fact hurt him much more than anything. Before Aroon went out from the house to the bus stop Kongpob placed a soft kiss on his forehead and reminded him that he loves him so much. But Aroon didn't reply at all he just looked at his Mommy and went out of the house. Kongpob's tears started to form in his eyes. He quickly closed the door to hide his tears from Aroon. It was a routine for Kong to tell his son that he loved him Every time he goes to school and Aroon would give his dimple smile which Kong like the most as it resembles his husband much a lot and also would give Kong a kiss and wave him goodbye. But the past 2 days he doesn't at all do this. Kongpob's tears fell without any control, leaned against the wall and let the tears fall down from his eyes.
Arthit was standing on the stairs and saw everything that had happened. His heart broke seeing Aroon's actions towards Kongpob. His heart felt in pain seeing his love crying. He couldn't do anything other than comforting him. He walked towards Kongpob and put his hands on his shoulder. Kongpob opened his eyes and looked at Arthit with teary eyes. "P'Arthit..." Kongpob hugged his P and cried on his shoulders. Arthit' hugged him back and caressed his hair "Its okay Kong, everything would be fine. He is still little to understand everything Kong and you know that better than me." Arthit tried to reason to Kongpob. Arthit felt Kongpob nodding to his shoulder. Arthit cupped Kongpob's face and planned a soft kiss on the wet cheeks of his husband. "Kong today I am not going to office. I will be here with you, okay. As we planned yesterday we will go talk to Aroon's teacher, okay?" Kongpob smiled slyly at Arthit. "Thank you P, for being there for me. I have always feared if this would happen and yes it is finally happening. I can handle everything thing P but....but....Aroon have not even speaker to me P after yesterday. He don't have that love in his eyes when I see it. He maybe getting troubled a lot because of me." Kongpob let out a so, Arthit's eyes were already teary, he hugged Kongpob close to his body. "He didn't even call me 'Mommy' since yesterday's incident P. I can't handle that, it breaks my heart P. More over........I gave birth to him" Kongpob cried loud as he said those last words.
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Arthit looked from the corner of eyes to his husband, who was looking out through the window with an expressionless face. Arthit' sighed and looked to the road as he drives the car. They were going to Aroon's school, they had to inform what had happened to their son to the teacher. They didn't want anything to get more troubled so they decided to work on it as soon as possible. Other than that the most important thing that they had to do is to make Aroon, their most precious miracle understand that they are his real parents. They didn't have any idea of how to do it, Aroon is stubborn just like his Mommy in most cases and they knew it very well.
"Kong? Hey!!??" Arthit shook his husband who was not responding to him when he called his name earlier. Kongpob came back from his daze and looked at Arthit. "Are you alright Kong? You seems to have fever" Arthit asked with concern as when he touched Kongpob, his body was hot. Arthit placed his palm on Kongpob's head and yes, indeed he had fever. "Honey, do we have to go to the hospital?? You have temperature" Arthit asked in concern. Kongpob gave him a small smile and shook his head "No P,it is okay. Now let's go it's already late" Kongpob said as he looked in front of him. They were in front of Aroon's school. Arthit sighed and nodded his head.
They got down from the car. Kongpob felt so one holding his hands. He looked up and smiled to his P who assured that everything would be fine. They slowly walked inside the school and sweet all the children running through the corridors, it was break at that hour. Kongpob had already called Aroon's class teacher to inform that they had to talk to her so they directly went to the staff room for meeting the teacher.
"Uncle!!!" they heard a familiar voice , they turned their head and saw Chai and Nai with their friends. Kongpob and Arthit smiled at them. Chai and Nai excused themselves from their friends and rushed to their uncle's. They both waied respectfully at Kongpob and Arthit. "Why are you here uncle?" Chai asked softly. Arthit' looked at Kongpob and then turned to Chai and Nai. "We are here to see Aroon's teacher Chai" replied with a smile. "What happened uncle Arthit?" Nai asked to Arthit. The thing Kongpob and Arthit didn't understand was by seeing fear in Nai's and Chai's eyes. "Its nothing Nai, we will manage it" Kongpob replied, he didn't want to make a fuss on this subject. They saw Chai and Nai looked at each other like talking with their eyes. "Is...is it of....Aroon....Aroon being bullied uncle?" Nai asked carefully and concern. Arthit and Kongpob looked at each other in shock "How did you knew that??" Kongpob asked surprised. Nai and Chai looked at their surrounding "Uncle it is better we talk somewhere else, how about after class uncle. Our class will finish within 3 hours" Chai asked her uncle's mostly like pleading. Arthit and Kongpob looked t each other in confusion but nodded their heads. "We will meet Aroon's teacher by then. We have to report about this to his teacher" Arthit spoke but they saw Nai shooting his head. "Uncle no, don't talk about this to Aroon's teacher yet uncle please" he pleaded. Arthit and Kongpob was both very confused in what was happening. "Why Nai?" was the only question that Kong asked. Nai and Chai looked at each other then sighed. "Uncle we know everything about this scene. It is only because of Aroon that we didn't inform you guys about this, and we are sorry for that. Uncle Kong, first we should make Aroon understand his importance in our family. Before making him understand about his importance don't talk to his teacher. That will lead to more problem, sometimes the bullies will bully him more because you gave complain on them. If he know and understand about himself then if they do like that also he wouldn't feel sad or bad since he know the truth" Kongpob and Arthit was really surprised hearing those matured words from a 12year old child. They looked at each other and then nodded. Chai and Nai waived their hands at their uncles and moved to class as the bell rang.
3 hours later........
Kongpob, Arthit, Chai and Nai are now in a Café. They were sitting in perfect silence for almost 9 minutes. Arthit had already called Bright and Pream to inform that their children are with them and for Aroon. Kongpob called his Mae to be with Aroon when he reached home, asked why was Kong not there so he said he will talk about it later.
"So, what really happened?" Kongpob was the first one to broke the silence. Chai and Nai looked at each other and sighed. "Uncle, Aroon is one of the best students in the school. Even if he is just in 4th standard almost everyone knows him because of his participation in everything. These much years he had no problem at all uncle. We always used to be there whenever Aroon wanted us, even if we are in different classes we meet each other every break." Nai paused and looked at Chai like asking her to continue. "Uncle, after he reached 4th standard some of his class students don't like him being all popular, you know. So they try to find something that they could blame upon him. Even if they are too young for this kind of mischief they just does it. They knew about the fact that both Aroon's parents are men.............they started bullying him saying that he is not the real child of his parents , he is just adopted. Saying he have gay parents, his mother is not a woman like other and...." Chai keep on saying what all the children talked about. Kongpob's Arthit's heart was like breaking into pieces hearing all what their son had went through. "Uncle, we have talked about this Aroon once. We told him that we should tell this to you both so they will help you. We even offered that we will come with him to talk to you but.....but he refused. He said that he will tell to you guys and he needed no help. He even made us promise to him that would not tell this to anyone even you uncle's or our parents. We are really sorry uncle" Nai apologized to Kong and Arthit. Both shook their head and smiled at them "No Nai. Don't say sorry to us, it is not your guys fault this all had happened. These are challenges that we should face in our life." Kongpob spoke biting back his tears.
"We will talk to Aroon uncle Kong" Nai said after a few minutes of silence. Kongpob and Arthit looked at them. "But Nai he still believes that we are not his real parents, how can we say that he is our real child? He is too young to understand" Kongpob said the last sentence in a low voice. Arthit' held Kongpob's hand under the table and caressed it. "Uncle Kong, Uncle Arthit. We know that Aroon is your real child unlike us who are adopted. No offence but can we ask how was it possible? We know that men cannot get pregnant" Chai asked shyly, this question had been in her mind since the past but she never had a chance to ask. Nai also nodded as he also wanted to know. Arthit and Kongpob looked at each other and nodded their heads. They don't know if Chai and Nai will understand or not but they decided to tell them.
Chai and Nai carefully listened to what all their uncles were saying. They were more like happy and surprised to hear it. At last Kongpob ended the story saying "Like that your little naughty brother was born", they all laughed at the statement. They really know how naughty is Aroon really was. He always liked to prank and scare others. Kongpob really missed that Aroon of his. "Uncle no need to worry. Tomorrow is Saturday and it is a holiday, we will come and talk with Aroon in your house if it is okay with you" Nai spoke, Arthit and Kongpob smiled seeing how polite Nai was. "We are more than happy to welcome you. You are also like our children Nai and Chai. We are very happy that Aroon have such loving and caring brother and sister like you" Kongpob said as he caressed both of their heads. "Its not a problem at all uncle. We're a family" Chai said enthusiastically.
They dropped Chai and Nai at their houses and returned to go to their house. They saw the house was very quite. Kongpob and Arthit went to Aroon's room and found that he was already asleep. They saw Mrs. Suthilak sitting beside him caressing his head. "Mae..." Kongpob called softly without jerking the lady. Mrs. Suthilak turned and smiled at his son and son-in-law. She placed a kiss on her grandchild and walked towards her son and hugged him. "How are you son? You seems you are not well" she asked her son concerned, she saw that his son was looking weak and had dark circles under his eyes. Kongpob looked t her and smiled "I am okay Mae, just that I didn't get enough sleep" he replied. Mrs.Suthilak raised an eyebrow "Why? Why you didn't get that much sleep your eyes to have dark circles" she questioned. She know that her son is a person who always get enough sleep and always take care of himself. Kongpob looked at Arthit and nodded. "Mae I want to tell you something" Kongpob started. He didn't want to hide anything from his mother. He knows that his Mae can help them most in this kind of conditions. Mrs. Suthilak got worried hearing it but she told that they will sit in the living room and she will bring them something to drink.
Kongpob was crying in his Mae's embrace. He couldn't hold back his tears after saying all of the incidents. Arthit could only look at him and she'd his part of tears. Mrs. Suthilak caressed his son's back and comforted him even when she is trying to bite back her tears. "Kong it is not your fault, it is not Arthit's fault, it is no one's fault at all. Aroon is still a child, he is not old enough to understand how the big miracle had happened to you both. He will understand you Kong, he is your son" Mrs. Suthilak comforted her son. Kongpob nodded and took his P'Arthit's hands in his. They both arranged the guest room for Kongpob's Mae since it was already late and there was no point in going back home since Mr. Suthilak had went to a meeting and would only return on tomorrow evening.
Arthit and Kongpob both fell asleep in each other's arms thinking tomorrow would be a long day for them.........
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