All Strings Attached

Chapter 12

Win gritted his teeth but gave up and slowly muttered "Ofcourse at night! And sometimes afternoon.."

Bright finally looked at him with a smirk. Win turned his face towards water, embarrassed. He underestimated Bright.

"Now answer to my question" Win asked, raising his voice in frustration.

"13"  Bright replied.

"That's young!" Win looked at him, shocked " Have you always had it in you? Did you use to steal your classmates's lunch in kindergarten?"

Bright looked at him, amused. Win realised and whispered helplessly "I'll have to answer one of your question to know more about you. Ugh alright go ahead"

"What kink do you prefer?" Bright asked calmly. Win groaned and put his head on his knees, hopeless. An idea popped into his mind and he decided to lie. What harm could be done by few lies?

"I have a daddy kink" Win replied proudly. Bright glanced at him from head to toe, his pupil dilated.

"We'll see" Bright whispered and for some unknown reasons, it sent chills down Win's spine. He shook his head, pushing any kind of scary idea out of his mind and asked "Who was your father? Was he a criminal too?"

Bright who was still trying to poke stick into that leaf, jerked his stick down in water so hard that water splashed onto Win's face. He got startled and looked at Bright who had dark expressions on his face.

Win's heart skipped a beat. Did he ask the wrong question? He saw Bright taking long breaths, as if trying to calm himself.

"No" He muttered after a while, his voice under control "He used to sell fruits on the street like a normal vendor"

Win frowned and tried to put the pieces together but it made no sense. Bright seemed to grow up in a pretty normal household then why?

"That sounds poor. Is it why you went down the wrong path and started stealing?" Win asked but didn't get any reply. Maybe he didn't listen or maybe he decided to ignore Win.

He glanced at Bright who was desperately trying to reach a hanging leaf with a stick. Win bent forward and held Bright's hand softly. Bright looked at Win who shook his head "Don't. It'll fall in water"

"What's the point? It's barely hanging from the branch. Sooner or later it will fall in water" Bright replied, sounding somewhat frustrated and struggling "Might as well make it easy for it to end its life"

"But its not giving up despite your constant poking " Win replied "Let it hang in there. Infact-" Win said and stood up, bending forward towards the leaf.

Bright monitored his moment and saw him griping the trunk of tree strongly, his legs shaking due to fear of falling in water but he still leaned forward and lifted the branch a little bit, wrapping the leaves around the weak leaf, preventing it from falling in water.

And sat back down with Bright, smiling, looking at the rescued leaf. Bright looked at him with frown and extreme confusion. And suddenly his urge to jump in water and drown himself until his pain washes away, lowered.

"What size is your underwear?"  Bright asked, his voice gentle unlike his words.

"Pardon?" Win asked, taken back but he soon realised Bright was back to asking his question.