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12 (a) - Brothers 2gether

Blackmailed by my own brother.

"What do you want?" I asked.

"Nothing right now. I will let you know as and when needed", he said, smiling sweetly up at me again.

*

Tine walked in, checking the letters from the mailbox downstairs. He held a bright pink card in his hand.

"Hey Wat, I have a postcard here for you from a Mel G. Wasn't she a Spice Girl?" said Tine, smiling. "It says "Phukong Friday" and nothing else."

"So mom did post the letter", said Phukong brightly.

Tine looked at Phukong, "Hello. I didn't realize we had company."

"You mean family. I'm P'Wat's brother, Phukong", he said, extending his hand.

Tine shook it, surprised but delighted.

"Hi! Nice to meet you, Phukong. I'm Tine, your brother's roommate. You're clearly the one with the looks and the personality in the family" said Tine charmingly.

Great. My boyfriend and my brother could team up to tease me.

Phukong laughed. "I like you already, P'Tine. And you don't have to bother hiding anything from me. I know you're my brother's boyfriend. I wish I had a boyfriend like you."

"Watch it", I said, in a warning tone.

Both of them rolled their eyes.

"Ignore him, please. I wish I had a Nong like you. Look how cute you are. And a lot of fun too. I hope you're here to stay for a while", said Tine happily.

"I'm here till Monday, Pi. I'm here to attend the open house at your University. I wanted to explore my options before I apply for uni next year. But now I'm sure I want to enrol here and be near you, Pi", replied Phukong, starstruck.

"Wonderful. Let's go out in the evening. Your brother is playing at the bar. And you can meet the rest of the gang, too", said Tine, a little too enthusiastically for my liking.

"Ahem", I cleared my throat. They'd forgotten all about me.

"Do you need water, P'Wat?" asked Phukong, solicitously.

"Aren't you both getting a little too friendly given that you've just met?", I asked with a frown.

"So you don't want your brother to like me?" asked Tine, coldly.

The temperature in the room dropped by a few degrees.

"No, I didn't mean that at all. Of course, I want him to. Who wouldn't like you, you're perfect. It's so great to see you getting along so well", I backtracked immediately.

"Whoa! You've got to teach me how you did that", said Phukong, suitably impressed.

Tine smiled at him and patted his shoulder. "All in good time, Nong".

I'd be dead in three days.

Phukong's POV

P'Tine was awesome and his friends were so much fun.

I didn't know P'Phuak was one of his closest friends. I'd been a huge fan of his vlog since he started it.

P'Man and P'Boss were as nice and brotherly as always, although P'Man did seem unusually quiet and low-spirited.

"He fell in love at a seminar, while on a date with someone else. But he doesn't know anything about the guy and hasn't been able to find him since then. He tried to follow Wat and attended every seminar, lecture and workshop in the university for two weeks. But I think his brain couldn't process all that knowledge that he was exposed to, and is starting to shut down", explained P'Boss patiently.

I looked at my brother as he played onstage at LCoHol. His eyes were constantly on P'Tine and he laughed as P'Tine made a heart out of his fingers for him.

My brother had changed. He used to be so quiet and introverted, hardly ever smiling or joking around. Now he seemed happy, laughed easily, and openly expressed his love for P'Tine.

P'Tine had improved my brother beyond all recognition. And I was grateful to him for that.

As I sat enjoying my lemon soda (P'Tine refused to let me drink alcohol), I heard some guys talking at the table beside ours.

"Mil, come on. Forget about him. You know he's already taken", said a calm voice.

"I know, Chat. But I can't seem to get him out of my mind. I'm trying, I really am", said a deep voice.

"How are you trying to get over him if you keep coming to this bar on the days he's here?" said Calm Voice.

Deep Voice sighed, "The heart wants what it wants. I will stop coming when it stops wanting".

Deep Voice seemed to have gotten the feels pretty badly.

"Look at him. He's happy and committed. And in all honesty, his boyfriend is a keeper. You can make out from the way they look at each other that they're soulmates" said Calm Voice.

Calm Voice was doing a really bad job of comforting Deep Voice.

I suddenly put two and two together. The guy that Deep Voice liked came to the bar every Friday, was happily committed, and had a great boyfriend.

Deep Voice liked P'Wat!!!!

I turned around to look at the guy who had a crush on my brother. And was blown away.

The guy before me was tall and ruggedly handsome. He had "bad boy" written all over him.

But he had a lost look in his eyes and a sad smile on his lips.

His large, dark, slightly crinkled eyes, and his moist, plump, luscious lips.

I wondered how those lips would taste. Probably like whiskey and smoke.

What on earth was I thinking?

I shook my head. Stop it, Phukong.

P'Wat had finished his set and came to join us at our table.

He eyed Deep Voice with disdain. P'Tine placed his hand on my brother's and P'Wat looked away.

"Mil, you're up next. Do you want to do a quick sound check?" said a technician who was fitting him with a collar mike.

Deep Voice, aka Mil, nodded. He downed his drink in one go, patted his friend Calm Voice on the back and went onstage.

The next thirty minutes went by like a dream. P'Mil had a deep voice that you felt reverberating inside you.

His fingers strummed the guitar expertly and it seemed to take a voice of its own.

He sang a series of love songs that ranged from mildly moody to deeply depressed. A fun set.

P'Man became gloomier with every song.
P'Boss patted him comfortingly on the back.
P'Wat had a frown on his face throughout.

P'Tine and his friends were the only ones who looked unaffected.

As for me, I felt myself strangely attracted to P'Mil.

I seemed to have a thing for sad, bad boys.

Maybe one brother could make up for another? Things were about to get interesting around here.