Chapter 14

"You don't have to prepare breakfast for me anymore. I have forgiven you. You can leave whenever you want." Pok sounded heavy.

"Okay but sit and have it with me now. I already prepared it." Tong was confused.

Pok sat down for breakfast, silent.

"What is up with you suddenly? Before forgiving me, you were so...you know, lively. After forgiving me, you have wilted like a dead plant." Tong asserted.

"You can live with me until you find your own place." Pok stated with a straight face, thinking Tong wouldn't want to live with him anymore.

"Okay, thanks." Tong answered, thinking Pok was getting annoyed by him living here now.

"Meet me at the front." Pok said before grabbing the car key.

"I don't want to be a burden on you anymore. I'll manage my ride." Tong suggested, taking Pok's mood into mind.

"Okay." Pok shut the door behind him.

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"What happened to you, Tong?" Bank asked after a teacher's meeting.

"Nothing, just didn't get enough sleep last night."

"Busy with your roommate?" Bank laughed.

"I am moving out. He doesn't want me living there anymore." Tong said with a dim face.

"Hey, let's go out for lunch. Tell me what happened."

Tong just nodded.

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"I can see how you two behave with each other - the playful banter and care you two show for each other. He drops you and picks you up everyday. He buys food and comes to the academy directly. You guys live together and  sleep on the same bed. I am sure that text the other day was sent by him too." Bank pointed out.

"Yes but he doesn't like me back." Pong sighed.

"How do you know that?"

"The other day I tried to kiss him but he didn't want to. That's how." Tong felt deserted.

Pok was outside, watching them having lunch together and then left in his car.

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"So what did you guys have for lunch?" Sandee asked.

"He was having lunch with his boyfriend." Pok blurt out, almost like a loud cry out of anger.

"Boyfriend?" Sandee interrupted.

"Now that he has the freedom of doing whatever he wants, he can openly date Bank. I am not there to be an obstacle on his way. His path is clear now. They will date, have their effing first kiss and then marry and live together." Pok cursed. He hasn't felt so disheartened and enraged in a long time.

"Has he not shown any sign that he likes you in the past one year?" Sandee enquired.

"The other day he tried to kiss me on the lips but that was because I was teasing him and he was very angry at me and he wanted to prove a point. So that doesn't count." Pok answered.

"So you were his first kiss."

"No, I didn't let him kiss me. I shoved him down on the bed and..." He remembered how he then tantalized every part of Tong's body except for touching the lips.

"And...?" Sandee interrupted his thoughts.

"And asked him to go to sleep." Pok surely wouldn't discuss their private sexual activity with a friend.