Chapter 4: Waiting

After receiving the call, I was frozen for 3 seconds. How the hell did he get my number? This bastard, aside from being brutal, he's playing tricks too. When I regained my composure and started to think, my brain slowly processed. He said ten minutes to show my face...

Just like that, I grabbed my backpack and vanished into the abyss.

The entire class, including the teacher and students, who were focused on Renaissance Art had to turn to me. Ai'Q, himself, was shocked too. I heard him shouting behind me but I didn't have time to answer questions or explain anything - because the pit of hell is waiting to devour me.

"Hah, hah, so tired" I arrived at the engineering building looking as exhausted as a dog panting in the sun. One hand was clutching my stomach, while the other was used as support on my knee. Do you know, everyone, that my art building is very far from here? Like a child of a mistress, you know.

Our building was way at the back, unlike the engineering buildings. The grand and prideful, majestic building of the university. Such a big distance with only 10 minutes to spare, I had to run. Damn it, I think I should sign up for the national marathon tomorrow.

I wiped my sweat and looked for Phum. He didn't specify which part of the faculty he was in, so how am I supposed to find you, asshole?

"How long are you going to stand there looking short?"

"What can I do? I've been short all my life" Huh? Who am I talking to? When I turned around following the sound, I saw Phum standing right behind me. Damn! I was startled. Besides teasing, this guy probably learned transformation to appear and disappear anytime he wanted. Just a while ago, there weren't any dogs around here, but now there's one: Phum. Hahaha.

"Did you lose your consciousness, shorty? What the hell are you smiling for?" I glared at him. Did I accidentally show happiness when cursing Phum in my head? Maybe because I was annoyed. I mean, suddenly some random guy came to control you. If it were, wouldn't you be mad too? Phum is truly evil as people say.

I ignored him and looked around for Thaen instead. He and Phum are in the same group. It'd be in vain if he's here after I tried to hide and tell lies.

"Besides being short and not fully conscious, do you suffer from paranoia too?" I wanted to remind you that I'm like this because of you, you cruel bastard.

"Where's Thaen?"

"Off to study"

"And why don't you study?" It is another form of suffering when we really hate someone but have to stand and talk nicely to them. If I could, I just wanted to jump up and smack him a hundred times.

"What about you, not studying?"

"At first, I was studying, but suddenly there was a damn tick called me" Brave mouth I got here. Phum looked at me with wide eyes, which made me a bit scared. But the reason for my braveness was probably because we were at the university, so he wouldn't dare to do anything to me, hehe.

"Hey, get up!" He ordered a few first-year students to sit so he could take the seat. Just one word: mean. Those underclassmen hurriedly bowed their heads frantically picked up their things and left almost immediately.

The idea that Phum wouldn't dare to do anything is completely wrong. Right now, young master Phum (Khun Chai) is enjoying his 5th bottle of drinks that I had to go get, one at a time. You seriously want to make me angry!

The drinks booth wasn't close by. When he said he was thirsty, he ordered me to buy him a drink. Can I refuse? No, obviously. I can't disobey his order so I just accepted my karma and secretly cursed him on the way. If someone has chili and salt, please donate to me.

The first time, I bought him Crystal spring water because he didn't tell me what he wanted, so I chose water. However, Khun Phum didn't like it because the bottle was round. Great! I almost shoved the bottle up his nose. The second time I had to go buy again, he said to get anything as long as the bottle wasn't round.

What kind of ridiculous reason is this??? ><

This time, I picked Oishi. Okay, the bottle isn't round because I chose the box type instead. I got him a honey lemon-flavored tea to offer to Phum. Maybe I should have bought some incense too. It should be ok this time, but when I offered him, he looked at my face and then the Oishi box.

"The woman on the box looks annoying, I can't stomach it"

His words almost made me faint. What is wrong with your brain? I took a deep breath, trying to control my emotions to not accidentally punch him in the face.

I slammed the Oishi box with the curly-haired woman onto the table and saw him smirking slyly. He was definitely teasing me. (oh yeah, I just realized)

The third time, I decided to buy everything in a square container: Amino, B-ing, Sappe, Puriku, and Red Bull. If he doesn't take one this time, I'll drink all myself. Walking back and forth under the hot sun at noon makes me parched.

Finally, Phum gave in and took Puriku because the name is cute and suits his face. Uh, it suits your face very muchhh!! -_-

Right now, I don't have to walk around and get my skin burned, but I'm currently giving Phum a "massage"!! You heard it right, that is what I have to do right now. Damn it, I'm so mad. I had to try to avoid the curious eyes of passersby, and also watch out for Thaen.

Even though Phum said that Thaen and other friends are studying somewhere else. Nothing can be guaranteed. Better be careful as you never know what might happen. Oh, but I still don't understand why Phum isn't attending classes. Instead, he called me to come and massage his legs. So are you lazy to study or are you just trying to mess with me?

"Oy, easy there. I told you to massage, not crushing my bones" I secretly put extra force on his shoulder to vent my anger. I wanted to soak my hand in poison and let it penetrate the skin while I massage him. Or maybe like those Chinese movies where they use hairpins to pierce the enemy's neck to kill.

"If you do it gently, how will it be effective? It has to be strong for satisfaction" How satisfied, huh? Huh?

"Sadist" You're the sadist. He turned and glared at me then jerked his shoulders away from my hands as if he was fed up.

"That's enough. I'm hungry, go get some food" He gave me a 1,000 baht bill. Oh my, you rich bastard. Just now he gave me the same bill to go buy drinks, 5 times \= 5 1,000 bills. I took it and walked toward the cafeteria.

Keep going back and forth like this, I'm going to die first. Death from tiredness, have you heard?

"Wait! I changed my mind. Let's go eat outside" Good, go ahead. I can finally go home now.

"Then I'm going home. Bye, good luck" I wanted to go back to sleep.

"What??" He made a face like I was going to assault him.

"I'm going home"

"Who says? You have to go with me." Heck, can I not go? One hour with him is already nerve-wracking, don't make me join his meal, too.

"I'm not going, I'm going back"

"Wanna die or something? You dare defy my orders? What are you looking at?" He snapped at me before turning to curse at the people staring at him. Most people tend to look at Phum with admiration, which I hate (jealous). Tough guys look at him with admiration, while not-so-tough guys or girls looking, they'd give him thirsty looks. Hmph, I want to be looked at like this too, but right now I just want to get away from him more.

The place he brought me to eat is in MBK mall. Haizz, can't you find somewhere else? I'm so fed up with this place already. From the moment I got out of the car, he and I became the target of public attention.

To be accurate, most attention was focused on Phum. Well, he's too handsome and cool, unlike me. Walking with him, I suddenly became a dwarf, but I've gotten used to it. Walking with those Q and Thaen guys wasn't much different. People looked too, but not as much as now.

"Are you a turtle or what? Hurry up!" Why did he have to be so loud? I didn't want to walk next to you. Walking next to him would make me overshadowed, no girls would look at me. But it seemed that Phum didn't care how attractive he was or how many people were looking at him. When I saw he was about to grab me, I rushed to walk beside him.

Bossy, egocentric, hard to please.

After walking around for a while, he finally decided about what to eat. He pulled me into an Italian restaurant.

I've passed by this place many times but never tried it because it seemed too fancy and I won't be able to afford to pay, haha.

"Hello, welcome. Please come inside; how many people?" Oh my, just asking the customers, no need to make those heart eyes, do you?

"Two" This guy didn't seem to notice that he was being given flirty eyes or maybe he knew but ignored. The pretty waitress led us to a table, eyes never leaving Phum's face. Hehe, take him, sis, so I can be free.

"One spaghetti with broccoli and... what do you want to eat?" He glanced through the menu and made a choice quickly, then turned to me. Uhh, a slave is allowed to eat with the boss? Damn, I got too immersed in this role.

"Then one sweet miso pork spaghetti" I gasped. He ordered it without waiting for me to choose. The waitress then repeated the food ordered.

"What would you like to drink?"

"Pepsi"

"Please wait a moment," the staff smiled even sweeter than before while Phum folded his arms and stared at me with a blank face as if he was thinking about something. I didn't want to pay attention to him, so I looked outside. I'd rather look at kids crying over toys than have to face him. Annoying.

Not long after, two glasses of Pepsi were served. I bent down to sip from the glass and suddenly felt awkward because of his stare. I'm not a painting in a gallery, why are you staring at me?

"What's your name?" Pepsi almost came out of my nose. I raised my head to look at him with utter disgust. He ordered food without asking for consent, and here we are, still not knowing my name. Is that even acceptable? Huh!

"Peem"

"Lo"

"Your name will be Songlo" He shrugged.

"You're my slave anyway" Nice looking face, but talking nonsense. He just says whatever comes to mind, huh? Try to elaborate on your words, man. I'm confused.

"Yeah, I know. You don't have to repeat it. I'm the slave, you're the boss." What's the point of repeating that? Just this already makes me crazy.

"From now on, your job is to do whatever I command." And what is it that I am doing now, you shithead? "No need to curse me in your head. Your new duty is to clean my condo, wash clothes, and cook food; everything in the house" I gasped for the nth time of the day. Would it be too much to jump over the table and smack him in the face?

"Isn't that a little too much?" I'm starting to feel frustrated, not that I hate the tasks he assigns, it's just that it's too much. I know everything started because he wanted to revenge for hurting his "nong". Having to play along with his mood should be enough. Moreover, I'm a guy, why am I the one supposed to cook, do the laundry and stuff? Heck, I don't know how to do it.

"Then let me call Thaen," He said with an arrogant face, pulling out a trump card. I forgot to tell you something. It was the day that he kidnapped me (kidnapped?) to an abandoned warehouse. He recorded a clip to blackmail me. Don't be alarmed; it's not that kind of clip. It was just a video of me sitting with my eyes closed, saying:

"I, Mr. Peeranat Rueangsiriwong, will serve and obey Mr. Phumin Charoenkiatwanich for two months, blah blah blah" There were a lot more, but all were from this guy. He said whatever he wanted and I had to repeat after him. Hmph, thinking about it makes me mad!

"Ah, fine!" I wanted to get up and cry until my tears turned into a stream of alcohol. It's good that the staff brought the food to serve first so I could only suppress my emotions. I don't have any appetite for the spaghetti anymore, just staring at it. But do you think I could do as I please?

Of course not! Whatever I want, Phum will be there to snatch it away immediately, just like this meal. This meal was like the last meal of a prisoner preparing to go to death row, but to me, it was even worse. T_T

After finishing the meal, Phum wanted to go shopping. Because he just remembered that today is the birthday of his twin nephews. So, I had to tag along, and even then, people still paid attention to Phum as usual.

Especially this one group of high school girls standing nearby, one of them was brave enough to approach Phum to ask for a picture. He allowed them to take a photo, but his face didn't show much emotion, but not too bad. So that was how I learned something new:

That darn guy is so fucking annoying.

After taking the photo, he walked away without waiting for me, so I had to quickly grab my short legs and run after him. He said he was going to buy a model car for his nephew, but what is this? Clothes, shoes, bags, and millions of other accessories.

Are you going to buy the whole mall? I know you're rich; can buy anything you want, but please have mercy on me. I have to carry everything for him. A'Phum walked in and out of every store possible, with me running after him like a desperate ghost. I'm so fucking tired.

"Oh Phum, what are you doing here?" A sweet voice rang out while Phum stood, choosing jewelry. I turned and saw a beautiful girl in a tightly fitted university uniform with buttons almost popping out. She wasn't wearing the same university pin as us, it was another institution.

"Came to buy some things. And Mew?"

"Mew came to eat. Haven't seen Phum for a long time. How have you been?"

"Good, and Mew?"

"Good, and who did you come with?" Huh? No, no. Don't get me involved. Phum was quiet for a while. What's he going to say? A friend, slave, acquaintance? Oh but if we don't know each other, how are we walking together? I'm thinking something crazy here, hehe.

"And Mew? Who are you with?" Man, can you say other words than "and Mew?". But the way you dodged the question was excellent; didn't answer but counter-question instead. However, judging this girl's behavior, she probably didn't want to know if Phum was with anyone. She just wanted to make sure he came alone. From what I can see, Mew has certainly had something with Phum before. I'm sure.

"Mew was with a friend, but we just parted ways. So, would you like to walk together? It's been a while since I've seen Phum." Oh, I can see her friend waiting outside the store. I think Phum will definitely refuse.

"Sure, let's go" o_O Wow, wow, wow, you got it wrong Peem. So do I have to go with both of them now? But my situation is quite tricky here. Walking more is impossible for me, I might have to call an ambulance. Hah, I'm out of breath.

"Who is this, Phum?" The beautiful girl named Mew seemed surprised when she saw me appearing beside Phum. Earlier, I was hiding and pretending to look at the jewelry.

"My nong (younger brother/junior)" Huh??? What again? A junior? Since when did I become your nong? So confusing.

"My nong in the university" he explained because she looked confused. It's still good that he found a status that seems okay compared to using the word "slave". Sure, if you want it to be a junior, then I'll be a junior.

"Hi, Phi's name is Mew. Nice to meet you. What's your name?" you're fucked Peem. Suddenly I was downgraded from the same year student to a junior of this guy. I used the corner of my eyes to look at Phum, who was standing there smiling in satisfaction. You bastard.

"Um, my name is Peem" I wondered if this girl was honest or stupid that she couldn't tell I was the same age as her or maybe I had a young face. Haha, yes, I probably have a young face. ^^

After that, Mew didn't care much about me, except for complaining that she was jealous that I was so lucky to be Phum's nong. Heh heh, more like bad luck. If I was truly his nong, I would be dead a hundred times.

Mew walking side by side with Phum is an image that sparks envy among the general public. Everyone looks at them, handsome and beautiful. The two of them enter this store and leave that store, just like Phum did earlier. I followed them, running around to catch up with a bunch of shopping bags that I could barely hold onto. It's been two hours, if they're going to sweet-talk each other, please let me go back.

"Shorty, wait here. I'm going to take Mew home," Phum walked up to me - who was exhausted and panting hard.

"Why do I have to wait? I'll go back too." He made a reluctant face. Why should I wait? We're all going back separately anyway.

"You still have to go clean my room"

"Today?" Isn't that too soon? Let me go back and get some rest first. He shrugged his shoulders as if my words were worthless farts.

"Wait right here," He repeated the command, then walked off with Mew. I was left sitting there, stunned by his arrogance. Geez, what can I do now? Besides sitting and waiting as he instructed, I had nothing else to do, just staring at the mountain of bags piled up.

One hour passed since I sat and watched people passing by.

Two hours have passed. I moved to a new seat.

Three hours later, I went to buy something to drink while carrying all the bags because I was afraid that someone might steal the gifts.

Four hours passed and I found myself dozing off due to exhaustion though my hands still tightly gripped every bag. Now there were few people left, only employees left. I glanced at my watch.

It's 10 pm. I've been waiting for Phum since 7 pm until now, I waited for almost 4 hours.

I'm not the type to shed tears easily, nor am I a desperate man. I'm just confused about why Phum hasn't returned.

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