Kongpob's eyes went wide when a hard punch landed on his face.

"You fucking bastard!! We have been searching for you in the past 5 years!!! Now you're finally infront of me!"The fair man's face turned red with anger.

"How dare you leave our Arthit!?" The man growled.

He launched himself on Kongpob, slapping right on his face.

Kongpob held his cheeks and didn't dare to look up.

"Bright! Enough!" The man beside him tried to pull Bright away from Kongpob.

"Tootah! How can you say me to leave this skunk who made our Arthit's life a hell!?" Bright burned up.

"You are making a scene here, Bright!" Tootah said as he looked around at the hundreds of eyes staring at them.

"Let it be! I won't leave him!" Bright said as he gripped Kongpob's neck with his hands.

"P...P'Bright," Kongpob tried to speak as he coughed because of the suffocation in his throat.

Bright smirked hearing Kongpob call him.

"So, you remember us! You little bastard!"

Kongpob felt suffocated. He couldn't breath properly with the tight hold on his neck. Kongpob closed his eyes as he tried to move Bright's hand from his neck.

Bright pushed Kongpob, making him fall on the floor. Kongpob coughed as he tried to sit up but soon punches landed on his face.

"You little fucker! How dare you break up with my best friend!? You said you loved him! You said you will never leave him! Do you know how much Arthit suffered because of you!? Do you know how much you hurt him!?," Tears started to flow from Bright's eyes as he punched Kongpob on his face and hands.

Kongpob, on the other hand, tried to cover his face from the punches that were thrown to him.

"BRIGHT! ENOUGH!" Tootah shouted at his friend as he pulled Bright away from the junior's body.

Bright looked at Tootah with rage-filled eyes.

"What are you doing, Tootah!? Don't you want to teach a lesson to the person who made our Arthit's life a mess!?" Bright shouted at his friend.

"Bright I want to! But this so not the place! We have to tell Knott and Prem about this!" Tootah talked back in emotion.

"I can't wait until then! I will ki..."

Bright turned around to face Kongpob who was nowhere to be seen.

"Fuck!" Bright cursed under his breath.

Tootah and Bright looked at the bag of two pink milk bottles which laid on the floor, leaking the content of the container.

Tootah looked around at the people who were watching them with curious eyes.

"What the hell are you looking at!?" He shouted at them.

The people got shocked and quickly started to part their ways.

"We have to tell Knott and Prem soon. Come on," Bright said as he massaged his palms which was hurting from punching their junior.

********

Kongpob rushed into his room and closed the door before he broke down crying.

He folded himself like a cocoon on the floor, his face buried in his legs. Soft sobs were heard from the young man.

"Why God!? Why?! Why is my life so complicated!? Is loving a man a crime!? Is loving your family and friends a crime!? Why God? Why? Why did people who I admired the most threatened me for their ego?" Kongpob screamed through his hands which was now covering his face.

"All this wouldn't have happened if they didn't threaten me!" Kongpob cried.

Soon his cries turned to soft sobs. Slowly the tiredness of the day took over him in the form of sleep.

After new hours, Kongpob opened his eyes slowly into the darkness of the night.

Kongpob looked around and found himself in his bed. He rubbed his face but soon hissed in pain.

Kongpob tried to get up from his bed but something held him back. He turned towards the other side to find Lia hugging him tightly and snoring softly in her sleep.

Kongpob's lips stretched up into a smile before he kissed Lia's forehead and walked towards the bathroom.

Kongpob stood in front of the mirror, like a statue.

His face had purple bruises, in the eye and in his left cheek. Kongpob touched the bruise but soon retreated his hands, on feeling pain. He sighed before he walked to the living room where he was expecting a person.

"Aim..."

Kongpob's call was soft and tired but the man who was sleeping on the couch opened his eyes suddenly and sat up straight.

"Oh, you are finally awake. Mind to tell me what that face means?" Aim asked his friend who only sighed at him.

Kongpob walked towards Aim and sat beside him on the couch.

"I... I...I saw P'Bright and P'Tootah today."

Aim gasped at Kongpob. He turned Kongpob's face towards him whose eyes didn't meet his.

"Don't tell me they saw you?" Aim's voice was filled with hope.

Kongpob nodded his head slightly.

"Shit!" Aim cursed under his breath.

"Did they do this to you? In the name of... P'Arthit?" Aim asked.

He was not a fool to not understand what the bruise on his best friend's face has related to his two seniors. He knew that his seniors were mad when it comes to the members of their circle. And he knew how much they cared for Arthit.

"We can't blame them, Aim. I'm the one at fault here. I'm the one. I made P'Arthit suffer, Aim. I made everyone suffer, I including you!" Kongpob pulled his hair in frustration.

"Really Kong!? This is not your fault! It will never be! You did this for keeping our friends safe, P'Arthit safe. How can you tell this is your fault! And don't tell me this sick dialogue that you made me suffer!" Aim raised his voice.

"Who was the one lying in the hospital bed for 3 months because of Osteoporosis?!" Aim shouted making Kongpob jump at how his friend reacted to him.

"You were also diagnosed with panic disorder, Kong! That too when you were pregnant! Even after your pregnancy, you suffered a lot! I have seen you suffer in front of my own eyes, Kong!" Aim scolded at Kongpob who only looked at him in amazement.

"Do you know how it's hurts me to see my friend like a living dead infront of my eyes!?" Aim's face turned red with anger and sadness.

"Do you know how much worried May and I was when you were pregnant? Because, the doctor told me with Osteoporosis it's hard that you can even give birth since your mental state is not stable! Do you know how much worried we were?"

"I'm sorry, Aim," Kongpob's trembled voice reasoning the whole room.

He didn't knew about anything the doctor had told. He was never told about this complications.

Aim sighed and hugged his best friend.

"Please don't blame yourself Kong. Please."

Kongpob nodded his head before he hugged his friend back.

"I may have to take two days to leave, Aim. I hope you can convince them for a good reason." Kongpob asked his friend.

Aim chuckled before he nodded his head.

********

"Where is Knott!?" Bright asked restlessly.

"Wait for a minute, Bright. He saw his relative on the way. He will come soon." Prem said to his friend as he gulped down his glass of beer.

Bright and Tootah had called their best friends, Knott and Prem to come to meet up at Bright's bar after their work.

"I'm sorry guys!" Knott said as he rushed to his friends and sat on the table with them.

The bar had already closed and the bar was deserted at the moment.

"Why did you call us, Bright? Why did you tell us to not bring Arthit?" Knott asked his friend.

"I have been asking him the same question for the past few minutes. He just keeps his mouth shut about it." Prem scoffed.

Bright and Tootah looked at each other and debated through their eyes whether they want to change their current decision.

Bright turned towards his friends who were sipping up their beers.

"We saw Kongpob."

Prem and Knott spat their drinks as they heard the news. They started coughing as the drink went down on the wrong path.

"What the heck, Bright!? Are you sure!?" Prem shouted.

"Yes, Prem. Bright is right. He even punched Kongpob to death." Tootah spoke as he looked at Bright who rolled his eyes.

"How is he? Do you know where he lives?" Knott asked after he gathered his thoughts from the sudden news.

"We don't know and that is the problem! After I punched him Tootah pulled me away from him. In that gap, he ran away! We couldn't catch him!" Bright said in anger.

Prem, Tootah, and Knott looked at Bright not so amused at his anger.

Bright had always been the joker of their group. He had always been the source of laughter even though they would blame him for his stupid talks.

But after Arthit had gone through his breakup with the person who he thought would be with him till the end of his life, Bright changed.

Bright acted funny and playful in front of Arthit, but when he is out of sight Bright becomes angry. Angry on Kongpob for making his best friend's life hell. And the other three of them had seen this more than once these 5 years.

"You should have killed him, Bright! If I get him in my hands I will cut him into pieces and throw him to the stray dogs!" Prem's aggressive voice filled the silence of the room.

"We won't get anything from killing him, Prem! We won't get our Arthit back from it! If he is the same we will have to get them back together. But I don't think Arthit will agree to it after what he had gone through," Knott tried to reason his friends.

Bright, Tootah and Prem looked at each other. Their mind was filled with confusion and anger.

"But that won't be possible. Sometimes Kongpob will be married or something? What if he is already having a family? He might be in a great position now by inheriting his father's company." Tootah tried to relate to the situation.

Knott looked at his friend and tried to think.

"I don't think so he has inherited his father's company," Prem's statement made them look at him with question in their eyes.

"You know his company is really a famous one in Thailand. I don't think there would be anything happening without the interference of the media. You know I watch the news every now and then. I would have noticed his face if it comes in the news as the heir of the company", Prem explained to his friends.

"Are you really sure? He is the only heir right?" Bright asked Prem.

Prem sighed and drank the beer in his front in one gulp.

"I heard the company was inherited by Noel Suttilak 4 years ago, I think so it is Kongpob's brother. There is no news about Kongpob at all. According to what I have known, Noel is 5 years older than Kongpob, then why did he not take over the company earlier? Why did it happen only one year after Kongpob's graduation?" Prem questioned himself about the news he heard

"I also heard the rumor that the Suttilak's youngest child, which might be Kong, ran away from their house or something. But the rumor ended soon. They told it was false."

"I'm not sure though," Pream said.

The group of friends looked at each other in confusion. They didn't know what to do.

"I think there is something behind Kongpob breaking up with Arthit. Why did we see Kongpob today? That too after 5 whole years! Where was he for the past years? If he was here we would be seeing him in any of the public places, but no. There is something," Tootah said as he took a sip from his beer.

"I think we are wasting our time with this nonsense! We better talk about the present," Knott told to his friends who looked at him with arguments ready to speak but they soon retreated themselves from it.

"Hey, I got an idea! Why don't we pair Arthit with Krisia?" Prem asked suddenly, trying to change the gloomy atmosphere surrounding them.

Bright and Tootah's ears pierced up at the words from Prem.

"That Krisia who is in your company along with Aim?" Tootah asked excitedly.

"Yeah! Even though she is already having a daughter she is two years younger than Arthit. You should see her! She is soo beautiful, you know? And Arthit has some spark around her. But he won't admit it", Knott said with a smile playing on his lips.

"Arthit!? Him!? Are you sure!?", Bright asked in disbelief.

Knott and Prem looked at each other and smiled.

"Yeah. He said he had seen Krisia somewhere earlier. He is saying there is something that reminds him of Kongpob when he sees her.", Prem said to his friends who looked at him in disbelief except for Knott who sighed.

"Did Arthit tell so?" Tootah asked in a low voice.

"No, he didn't. But he did indirectly. But after he talked with us about it he didn't say anything more about her or did he try to communicate with her or even look at her. But today we saw her daughter, Liane," Knott spoke as he remembered how Arthit's face became to life when the little girl laughed and played in front of him.

"Even I feel as if I have seen somewhere Knott, didn't you feel so?" Pream asked his friend.

Knott sighed as he stared at his drink.

"I don't know, Pream," Knott mumbled as he gulped down his drink. It was not like he didn't notice it, he clearly saw how familiar Krisia looked to him but he couldn't grasp from where.

"Hey! Let's hook him up with Krisia!" Bright said in his most enthusiastic voice. His face glowing.

His friends laughed at their friend's excited face.

"Let's look. I don't think Arthit will cope up with this. But let's try. If we could get back our Arthit back through this. Then...why not!" Prem said.

The four friends smiled widely, they had plans for their cold-hearted friend.

******

Finally Bright and Tootah have met Kongpob!
What will happen next!?

Do you think Kongpob's break-up with Arthit was just based on a normal insecurity feeling?

Will the gang set Arthit up with Krisia?

Stay tuned till next update!
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