Chapter 9: Things Anew.

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"I think its beautiful, the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love"

-Atticus-

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| K I R U N |

So kissing her might have been an irrational idea.

Why?

I have a five finger hand print on my right cheek where she slapped me.

I don't know why I did it. I mean I am not that kind of a person in the first place. But then again; with Indah, things are different. Very Different.

"Arrgghh!" I pulled my hair with my fingers.

"You will go bald soon"

I sighed deeply and looked up to my best friend staring me down.

"She slapped you. Why?"

"I kissed her"

"And?"

"She called off the servant deal."

"And?"

"She said she doesn't want to see me again"

"And?"

"And nothing else! It was a complete instinctive and insensitive move. I didn't even know I was thinking of it until I was kissing her!" I muttered and he nodded, taking a seat on the couch beside me.

"It was your conscious doing what has been at the back of your mind for a long time. Tell me Kirun, you like the girl?" he asked me, looking at me with those scrutinizing green eyes.

I thought about it. I like Indah? Huh. I chugged the bottle of beer down and set the empty one on the table.

"No. I don't think I like her. But I think I may be....falling for her?" I replied, unsure of my feelings at the moment. Everything was hazy. Maybe it was the beer taking over? Did I mix my beer with something else? I think I had a martini too.

"So you like her." He said and I shrugged again.

"Let me tell you something Cayden told me once. People fall in love once in a lifetime. And that love is enough to last them forever. Whether they get the same love back or not is not up to them. Fate is a dramatic Bitch. It would play you and then give you what it wants. Don't fall in its trap. If you love her, go for her. There is no room for doubt in love. Unquote"

I looked at him, searching for any emotion. But I only found his masked face. Carwayn was a pessimistic creature. He would never say such words. Of course Cayden was different. Cayden was his older brother who was a lawyer now and is a total charmer. So I believed it when he said it was Cay who said it.

It was right though. But am I ready to take chances with her? I mean she is pretty much important to me.

"I don't know!!" I whined and picked up the other bottle of beer. Is it even beer? Opening it, I drank before having it taken away from me.

"You are going to kill yourself at this rate"

"Sure" I muttered, taking it back and drinking straight from the bottle.

"I heard you got slapped for kissing Indah" I groaned and looked up to see my best friends grinning at me like fools. Why am I even friends with them?! Oh right. Because we all went to the same school since we were 12? I think.

"Does the entire campus know?!" I muttered and the fools just laughed at me. Peasants.

"No, not really. I heard Daw cursing the life out of you" said Aqua and I barely let out a chuckle.

"So what's the deal anyway?" questioned Ahren. I think it was. Why is everything so hazy right now?

Oh right. Alcohol. Stupid Alcohol.

"It was an irrational move" I replied, running my hand through my hair and shaking my head to get rid of the haziness.

"I think its okay" I looked up to Kwan and he smiled slightly.

"How so Turtle?" Ahren questioned and Kwan chuckled while I looked up to him for explanation.

"From tomorrow is the Songran Holiday. Which means you have 5 days to think it through before we return to IUST and you face her" he said and I checked my watch for the date.

"Crap it is" I muttered and then realized that dad might be heading to Thailand right now.

"Oh double crap!" I muttered, pulling out my phone.

"What happened?" questioned Kwan.

"Its Songran. And like every year, dad and Crys might be heading to Thailand!" I yelled and winced in pain when there was a bolt of headache.

"That's it, Romeo. You are drunk. How many beer did you have anyway?" I have no idea who was that.

But who cares? I am sulking right now! I ruined my one chance with the girl I loved!

"Lets go"

"Nooooooo!" I whined before leaning on the couch and sulking more.

"He won't move?"

"No"

"Then I am sorry"

And I felt a throbbing pain in my head before my mind went dizzy.

Oh great.

| Snippet. |

"You think he will be fine?" Questioned the black haired and gray eyed boy and the other one rolled his green eyes.

"Ay Ahren. Tell you what? You go, I'll stay with him tonight" said the green eyed one and Ahren nodded. The other two boys, Kwan and Arlo had left to their dorms while Ahren was with Carwayn, helping Kirun to his room.

"Okay" With the Ahren was gone and Carwayn set on the table by the wall as Kirun lay on his bed, muttering illegible things.

Carwayn flipped through his things until he came across a fictional book. Being a curious person he is, he opened it and began browsing through. It was a poetry book. But not just any book, it was one written with pen and the ink had dried from long. Carwayn's fingers grazed the lines as he read through it. It was a mixture of poetry by famous poets to the ones that were written by Kirun himself. All of them had something in common, a girl. And from the reads of the first few pages, Carwayn knew it was Indah.

For who else would write:

Eyes such as hers,

So bright and hazel

And hair as outcast as hers

Silver and gray in contrast

To her olive skin and her Indo Accent

She is what I'd say perfect

With a hint of anger and sadness

and a lot of happiness

She is the one I guess.

And Carwayn knew the only Indonesian they all knew with silver and gray hair was Indah. He knew it was written in a rush because some of the lines made no rhyme or whatsoever but he also knew it was Kirun's feelings out there on paper and it was best he let the two deal with it. But above all, the book made Carwayn question the time since his best friend has been in love with this girl?

And suddenly everything made sense. Kirun being skeptical about telling Indah, getting drunk after he kissed and when he kissed her, he said it was instinct. This was why! His feelings were bottled up for probably years!

Carwayn sighed deeply and opened group chat that he had with the boys.

Ahren: 'Check Instagram dudes!'

Carwayn opened his Instagram and immediately he was hit with notifications. He sighed before declining them all until he came across the account he never thought would request to follow him. Mis_Ayaka had decided to follow him. Huh. He accepted her request and smiled when he saw a message pop up. He opened it and his smile fell.

"Tell Kirun to get his game up else he will have hell to pay"

Oh great.

He went back to group chat and saw a screenshot of the messages come through. So they all received it. But not from Ayaka though, they were the other girls. And it all said the same thing. Kirun was so dead.

He watched as his best friends flooded his inbox with plans to save their asses as well as Kirun's.

"We have to help him" wrote Carwayn and the inbox went silent.

Aqua: 'Out of a thousand girls on IUST campus who are crazy over him, he chose her to kiss. Why?!

Ahren: 'Lets just say he has a death wish'

Ahren: 'That Daw chica is going to rip him apart'

Aqua: 'Not really. We just need to try to save his butt in time'

Kwan: 'And this can't wait till tomorrow? I am sleepy'

Ahren: 'NO!'

Aqua: 'NO!'

Carwayn: 'Guysss. I think there is much more to Kirun's action than just kissing her for fun.'

Kwan: 'Which is?'

Kwan: 'Don't tell me he actually likes her!'

Kwan: 'He does, doesn't he'

Carwayn sighed and switched the backlight of his phone off. This was going to be messy.

But he can't leave his best friend in distress, now can he?

He looked over to the sleeping form of Kirun.

With a sigh, he stood up. He had to make amends and if not now then it may be never.

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