This Time, I'm Not Letting You Go [JOONGDUNK]

Chapter 1: See You Again

"Good morning Mr. Natachai, you have a meeting with Mr. Chaiyaporn at 10am later, a lunch meeting with Miss Jane at noon, a meeting with the management at 3pm and lastly seminar talks in Bangkok University at 5.30pm. You will be free for tonight; do you need me to order dinner straight to your house?"

As Dunk step out of his personal elevator towards his office, his secretary, Jamie immediately walks towards him and update him on his daily schedule.

"Thank you, Jamie, that won't be necessary." Dunk replied before closing his office door. He walks towards his chair and sigh. Another busy day... he thinks to himself before taking a file from the stack of documents pile up on his desk.

After traveling to Singapore for a conference, he had just touch down in Bangkok late last night and now that he's back in his office, the first thing he sees was this pile of documents waiting for him to sign.

"At least there's something for me to look forward to in the afternoon." He said to himself as he looks through the document. He had been looking forward to the seminar talk for weeks. Not that he loves to talk in front of a huge crowd, but because he will finally get a chance to see the man he hasn't seen for years.

For the past two years, the only thing that's kept him going is the photo sitting at the corner of his desk, a photo of himself in his graduation gown. But what no one knows is that he himself was never his real focus. In the background, just slightly out of attention, is a man talking to his friend. That's the only photo he had of him.

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Joong is very excited today. Even his friends can sense his good mood as he walks into the lecture hall.

"Oh ho, seems like someone's in a good mood today. Did you receive lots of flowers and chocolate?" Aou, Joong's best friend said while giving him a fist bump. Today is Valentine's Day and Aou's shirt is covered in cute stickers given to him by his schoolmates.

"You know I don't accept gifts from strangers, and I hate sweet stuff too." Joong said while taking out his tablet to look through today's note. But before he click into his lecture notes, he glances through his mailbox and saw a confirmation email of his attendance for the seminar talk at 5.30pm today.

"Yes! I've got a seat!" Joong exclaimed, shocking Aou and his other friend, Santa.

"Huh?? Who sit on who??" Aou jumped and started looking around, ignoring the line of girls in front of him.

"Oops, sorry, it's just that I've got a seat for the seminar talk this afternoon at Hall Two" Joong clear his throat and posture himself back to normal before going back to his lecture notes.

"Is it the seminar talk with Dunk Natachai? He's one of the successful alumni, right? I heard that he took over his father's company after graduation. I remember seeing him in school two years back while we're playing basketball." Santa said without looking up from his note.

"Why are you so excited Joong? Are you interested in interning at his company?" Aou asked while thanking the girls who are passing chocolates to him. Some of the chocolate was supposed to be given to Joong, but the girls have known Joong for a few years and understand that Joong doesn't accept gifts so they hand it to Aou hoping that Aou would pass it to Joong.

"Navia is a big company, if I could have a chance to internship there, it might be good for my portfolio."

Joong said despite knowing that that is not his intention for going for the seminar talk. He was looking forward to seeing the CEO of Navia, the boy he has been in love with for four years and no one around him knew about it because he's good at hiding his feeling... or so he thought.