Blinding Lights: Despite Everything GeminiFourth

*46* Betrayed

Fourth fell to the floor, raised both of his handcuffed hands and hid his face in them.

“GemGem, I didn't do it, I swear I had nothing to do with it.  I'm begging you, don't let me take you away from here.  It was not me!  You have to believe me!”

“I know, I know it's not you.  Come on, quietly, calmly.  I'm with you and I believe you.  I know it's not you,” Gemini embraced Fourth and helped him up, leading him to the couch.  The policemen were still banging on the door.  Gemini quickly realized what a trap they were in.  There was nowhere to escape.  None of them believed in justice and fairness and the reliability of the justice system anymore.  Fourth snuggled trustingly into Gem, as if it would save him.  He was so afraid.  He didn't want to go to prison.  He didn't want this to ruin the future not only for him, but also for Gemini.

“It's my fault.  You'll get in trouble because of me.  The police have been looking for a way to get to our family for a long time.  P'First has been protecting us as best he can, but now they've finally found something on us.  They know I'm the weakest link.  They know I will crack under their pressure.  They're just waiting for it, but I swear to you that since I met you, I haven't done anything wrong.  I swear!”

Fourth's voice was full of pitiful despair, his body shook with sobs, and Gem felt as if his own heart was breaking and his soul was being torn into billions of pieces.  He felt so fucking helpless, powerless, useless.  One sentence worried him the most.

“Since you met me?  And before?”

Fourth didn't dare look him in the eye.  In one breath he said:

“You know, you know where I come from...”.

Gemini knew.  Mafia.  Now everything became clear.  Norawit understood why the police had so easily linked his boyfriend to the case.  Perhaps they knew that Fourth's fathers would not defend him, but would rather let the boy rot in prison, glad to be rid of the problem.  Gemini had the opportunity to meet P'Mile and knew that this man had no scruples, he was willing to sacrifice his own family for the sake of his dirty business.

Gemini clenched his hand into a fist.

Just a week ago they had finished appearing on a hilarious and adventurous live variety show that was very popular, Joong, Phuwin and First found out more information about Heart and LiMing and their mysterious death, it seemed that they were getting closer to  discovering the truth, when suddenly everything fell apart, turned into ruin.

Gemini, still hugging the shaking Fourth, took his phone out of his pocket and wrote a short message in the group chat from which he had previously removed P'First.

“Guys, it's an emergency.  We need help.  The police with P'First are at our door.  They want to arrest Fourth because they think he is behind the order to hijack the plane.  We are in a trap.  I'm begging you, help.”

He knew he sounded very desperate, but he had no other ideas.  The policemen's fists pounding against the door and their loud calls for him to open the door and go with them were still pounding in his head.

“Shhh, Fifs, calm down, I won't hand you over to those bandits, calm down.  They won't take us alive”.

Gem gently wiped the tears from his boyfriend's face with his thumb.

“Come on, Bubu, it'll be fine.  I wrote to our friends, they definitely won't leave us, you'll see, they will think of something”.

“What if it was really me who ordered the plane to be hijacked?”

“No, you didn't.  I don't believe that.  I've known you for a while and I know you wouldn't do that”.

Fourth looked deep into his eyes with a question on the tip of his tongue: "What if it were me?"  But he didn't say that.  Instead, the tech shrugged, smiling sadly.