Absolutely Yours 54

Arthit’s POV

“I am dating Kongpob “

The ruckus stopped, Bright,  Prem, Knot along with the others had their jaw dropped. No one was able to articulate anything in a while until someone from behind spoke – Kong. 

“They knew. “

They knew what? I couldn’t help but ask myself. 

I pivoted on my heel to give Kong an eyeful. He wore an unfathomable expression, I couldn’t sense if he was poking fun at me. “What did you say? ” creased brows and baffled,  I asked. 

“They knew. ” Kong shrugged as he repeated.

“They knew?” I put him through the wringer. “What? “

“Us, ” never leaving his gaze on me, he answered.

“They knew? “

“Yes, “

“How? “

“You weren’t too subtle about it in the first place, ” Knot butted in. I veered to stare at him, about to say something when.. 

“We knew? ” clueless, Bright asked ludicrously.

Prem nodded. “Yes, we knew. “

“How come I didn’t know we knew? “

“I thought you kne -” Prem countered. 

“One more ‘knew’and I’m going to beat the crap out of you. ” Knot cut in. 

“Wow, that rhymes. ” Prem whistled, Bright applauded – the rest cracked up.

“Ah, yes. I remember we knew.” Bright tauntingly went along.

I snickered loudly which caused the others to turn to me with their lips slightly up – forming an impish grin. They started to hone in on me – I gave them a smirk when they slowly sashayed towards me.

I slowly stepped back, “What?”

“So,” Prem paused and stepped closer to Bright to reenact the scene I did earlier. He took an invisible bag away from Bright and gave it to the grinning Knot, then laced his fingers to Bright who was pretending to be Kong and swayed it. “Very possessive!” his tone full of mischief.

They slow clapped to complete their show. I heave a deep sigh trying to contain my embarrassment and laughter. 

“I always knew there was something between you two from the very beginning,” Ton yakked out, Knot agreed by nodding his head.

“Why do you think so?” Arthit asked back, Kong wasn’t helping me at all. He was just behind me – his hands on his pocket, sporting an amused look so I glowered at him. He drew a thin line on his lips – trying to bite his smile away.

“I don’t know, the tension was real. You acted like you hated each other but you actually look after one another. It’s like all those fighting were just your way of showing your care – odd but yeah, you cared for each other,” Knot answered instead when Ton just shrugged my question off. 

I was surprised to hear it. I didn’t expect all this time, his friends were too mindful of them. It wasn’t that I wasn’t going to tell them. I was just ah – waiting for the right time? Besides, they’ll kill me with the teasing so why subject myself with it sooner if I can have it later? 

Later won’t change a thing nor will it lessen their teasing but nonetheless I wanted it to be later. I knew if we’ll have Kong’s way, it would have been known since day one.

“Arthit has just this unconventional way of showing he cares.” Kong butted in teasingly – adding fuel to the fire. My face turned scarlet, I knew because I felt blood rushes up to my head. “He loves me that much.” he added, continuously taunting me.  

“Kong, how did you manage to capture our captain’s heart especially if it was made of stone. ” Bright, touching his chest.

“Apparently, not hard enough. ” one of their teammate commented – the others laugh.

“I used my charm. ” Kong replied, giving his toothy smile. I wanted to wring his neck if only he wasn’t few steps away. I  was so embarrassed being the subject of their conversation.

I heard everyone cheered.

“Can you stop it already? ” stoically, I warned them.

“I thought he was immune to any kind of charm, ” Prem.

“Not mine, look at him now – so head over heels for me, ” I knew Kong was having a good time taunting me. Judging by his expression, he won’t be stopping anytime soon.

Moreover, me? Head over heels? It’s time to put this conceited boyfriend of his into his place.

“Kong, who chased who? “Bright queried.

“Of course, I did.. ” I felt a sudden rash of proudness only to be crashed seconds after. “the running and he did the chasing. I gave up in the end and thought it wouldn’t be that bad to give him a chance. “

“KONGPOB! “

I turned and gave him a dirty look, Kong raised his hand as if saying he’ll stop his teasing while laughing. 

“You’ve already patch things up, I assume? ” M, who were just in the corner, smiling brightly at them. 

I was baffled, are we really that obvious? As to how much do they knew, I was clueless yet I nodded, pushing the thought at the back of my head. 

“So we can stop the act? ” Bright asked. 

“What act? “

They all had their gaze home in on at Kong so I joined them, “Kong? “

Kong turned around to look at nothing to avoid the question. “Kong, “I repeated.

My heart skipped a beat when he smiled impishly, hand at the back of his head – scratching it. It didn’t help that he had his eyes bore on me, it took a lot of effort for me to raised an eyebrow as if telling him to spill the beans whatever that was and refraining myself from smiling. He looked the cutest and I just wanted to…kiss him.

I sighed, I can’t believe what was going on in my mind. I tried to pay attention to my interrogation at hand, “So? “

I was glad my voice didn’t give away anything I was bottling inside.

“I wasn’t leaving, ” biting his lips so hard that I saw part of it whitened.

Kong, you don’t know how adorable you are trying to search for words – you made me want to pry you more. So I pulled myself together and went on with my act. 

“Explain, ” I ordered, it must have sounded so cold for the others gasped collectively, some whispered an ‘oh oh’ and ‘trouble in paradise again’.

“I wa-wasn’t really go-going to t-transfer, I just wanted you to think so. I,  I told them to te-tell you. “ 

My jaw dropped and I couldn’t help but raised my brow as high as it would allow. Crossing my arms on my chest, “Go on, “

“I told them, ” giving the team a glance, fidgeting”to tell you that I was leaving. “

I bit the inside of my cheek to stop myself from grinning. “Why? “

“Because I want you to come to me, stop me and fight for me. I want to feel wanted for once. I wanted to be chased by you. I wanted to feel that I am important to you. I was eaten by my insecurities when I saw you two-” his voice broke faintly that others weren’t able to notice. “I’m sorry, “

My heart was brimming with happiness. He expected me to fly off the handle but all I felt I was utterly relieved. I actually didn’t give a shit with it anymore. I was just glad to know he wasn’t leaving. Whatever his reasons were doesn’t matter to me anymore. It felt so liberating to have these all out, I felt free. I felt like there will be nothing to hold us back now.

I drew a thin smile on my lips. “Kong, who’s head over heels now? “

“Me, ” dejectedly and willingly he answered – still trying to test the water.

“Who loves whom more? “

“I love you more than you love me. “

“Wrong, ” I smiled at him. “You were right, I love you more. “

The rest of the gang cheered as it was Kong’s turned to yield a small speck of red on his face. Our eyes locked, Kong grinned from ear to ear and I smirked at him.

“Now,  come here and kiss me. “