That time on Spaces (Completed)

That time on Spaces

Twelve months arrive and they have still managed to keep it a secret, but they've talked about how they might reveal their love.

It happens at a concert. Kongpob's sell out tour that ends in the largest stadium in Bangkok. He's almost finished when he confers with his band and asks the audience for silence.

Then he walks into the wings and calls for Arthit who comes willingly.

"Will you come on stage?" He asks, not for the first time, and this time.. it feels right. So Arthit nods and then Kongpob nods and a microphone is attached at his hip and an earpiece slid in.

They walk out hand in hand to rapturous applause.

"A long time ago," Kongpob begins, hand tightening around Arthit's, "I met a man on Twitter. He didn't know, when we first met, who I was. But he cared for me - both Kongpob the actor and the nobody I was online."

Arthit ducks his head as the crowd go wild, screaming and yelling for them. But then Kong raises a hand and the noise falls away, leaving a buzz of excitement only.

"Today, I want to share with you something special, because, even though we've spent a lot of time together this year, we have never stopped exchanging messages and Arthit writes the most amazing ones!"

Suddenly, the hall plunges into darkness and one of Kongpob's biggest hits begins to play as a video starts on the big screen - messages from him to Kong and back.

They are the sweetest ones, the ones where they praise each other, long before they knew each other's names. Throughout the tweets are snippets of story, explaining when they were shared and the context behind them.

The audience is calm, listening and watching and waiting.. The excitement can almost be touched in the stadium as they wait.

And then it happens, Kongpob's short interview when he'd mentioned Arthit and their subsequent messages pop up. Arthit tries to hide in Kongpob's shoulder but his boyfriend makes him look.

There are hundreds of tweets between them from Kongpob's time on the road and away from him, reminders to eat dinner, check ins about their day, a lot of messages about Kong's cats and the precise amount of food they need to be fed since they had looked 'tubby' in the video call the night before.

It goes on and on and Arthit is amazed by how many gorgeous messages that scream their love they have exchanged.

But then it stops and the hall is in darkness once more, the roar of the crowd growing louder.

In the dark, he loses track of Kongpob, until a spotlight appears and rests on the star, in the centre of the stage, resting on one knee.

"Arthit? Will you come here? I have something to ask you.."

It feels impossible but the roar of the crowd increases as Arthit picks his way across the stage to Kongpob.

And then another spotlight hits the stage and he sees his family and Kongpob's family mingled at the edge and the tears start to fall. He looks down at his boyfriend and he knows what he wants and he knows what he wants to say in reply.

He waits, anticipation making his toes curl as Kongpob merely stares at him.

Arthit breathes hard and then whispers, forgetting his mic, "Are you going to ask?" And the crowd roars afresh.

Kongpob laughs, "That's my man." And there are titters of laughter from their families who are waiting too.

"Is this going to be like the time I had to watch you typing for almost an hour on Twitter and then it just said, Love you?" Arthit manages to say through the lump in his throat making the crowd laugh again and making Kongpob smile at his feet.

"No, no. I just, wanted to wait for the right second."

Arthit raises an eyebrow as his boyfriend looks down at his watch, "Arthit. I love you, baby. More than I knew I could love someone else. You make me so happy every second of our time together, and now," he looks at his watch again, "That it's legal to marry in Thailand," the crowd's roar is louder than his microphone and he has to say it again.

"Now that it's legal to marry in Thailand, my love. Please will you be my husband? And can I be yours?"

They kiss in front of a thousand cameras and their parents, up on the big screen. And Arthit doesn't care.

He's so happy that he feels like it's oozing out of his pores as they kiss and kiss and kiss and their families join them and congratulate them and Kongpob's manager and his band and the crew.

And then, when it's just them in the space and Kong's thousands of fans watching, he says, "I'm glad I met you @JKS."

And Kongpob replies, "I'm glad you decided to be sociable that day."

And Arthit hits him on the chest and then kisses him again.

The End.