Summary: Khai meets Black and White.
"If you don't start walking faster you're going to be late." Khai said as he looked back at his cousin's son who he was walking to school.
"It's not fair! Your legs are longer!" Sean yelled as he ran to catch up with Khai.
"We wouldn’t be running late if you hadn't made us stop at the store to buy snacks. Didn't your mom pack you snacks? Why did you have to buy more? Are you running some snack selling business in your preschool or something?" Khai looked at the bag filled with snacks that Sean was carrying.
"I'm not running a snack selling business!" Sean exclaimed looking outraged. "Yok is."
"Oh, okay then. Sorry." Khai said knowing Sean’s friend Yok is the type of kid to do that. "Then what's with all the different snacks?"
Sean blushed and Khai was surprised by the kid looking shy. He wasn't someone to get shy. Something was up.
"There's this boy who doesn't like the snacks the teacher gives out so he never has snacks. I offered him some of mine but his brother didn't let him try it because it was opened and he said I could've poisoned it." Sean explained.
Khai was surprised by the dramatics of preschoolers. Some four year old really thought Sean had poisoned his snacks?
"Okay." Khai said. "So you bought him some snacks?"
Sean nodded.
"Why so many?" Khai asked.
"I don't know which one he likes and I can use the ones he doesn't like to bribe his brother in case he doesn't let me give him the snacks." Sean explained.
"Sounds reasonable." Khai said even though he didn't think it was reasonable that Sean had to bribe a kid's brother so he could give the kid a snack.
"Thank you." Sean said proudly.
They reached the school and Khai opened the gate and let Sean walk inside before him. He followed him inside and saw Sean’s friends Yok and Gram running over when they spotted them.
"Sean! Sean! Sean!" Yok was yelling as he reached them.
"What?" Sean asked.
Khai stood behind them and watched, curious as to what could have Yok so out of breath.
"The twins big brother came to talk to the teacher about what happened yesterday during recess and the teacher said Todd never took White’s glasses so their brother and the teacher are arguing!" Yok said extremely fast that it was hard to keep up but Khai saw Sean, Yok, and Gram run off and quickly followed them.
"If my brothers say their classmate was bullying them then I believe them." Khai heard a familiar voice say and soon saw it indeed was Third talking with one of the assistant teachers.
"Well I didn't see anything and Black has a history of having a bad temper. I'm sure Todd was just playing with White and Black misinterpreted things and lashed out. I really think I should be having this talk with your parents though." Milk, the assistant teacher, said.
"I'm their guardian and therefore if you have anything to talk about you'll be talking to me. I can't believe if a child comes to you and tells you they are being bullied you don't believe them just because you didn't see it. You should at least make sure it isn't true before accusing the child of lying." Third said.
Milk pursed her lips and glances around noticing the parents who were watching what was going on. It definitely wasn't a good look for her and Khai could hear some of the parents agreeing with Third.
"Where are their parents?" Milk pressed Third.
Khai saw one of the kids hugging Third's leg was crying while the other looked extremely angry.
"I discussed their home life situation with the principal and their teacher when I signed them up to this school but if you must know our parents have passed and I'm their guardian so stop upsetting my brothers by asking about our parents." Third hissed.
Khai was frozen hearing what Third had just said. His parents were dead? How? When?
Milk looked actually taken back by Third's response.
"Todd was bullying White!" Sean ran over yelling stopping next to Third. "He told White that his daddy knew a lot of scary monsters and if White told on him he'd tell his daddy to send the monsters after him. I heard and saw it!"
"Me too!" Gram yelled, joining Sean.
"Me too!" Yok exclaimed.
"Me too!" Namo, another of their classmates said.
"Me too!" Eugene, another classmate, raised her hand.
"Me too!"
"Me too!"
"Me too!"
A few more of their classmates raised their hands and parents looked around surprised.
"Do you believe them now?" Third asked.
Khai walked over and stood behind Sean, Gram, and Yok.
"Milk, it seems you should get the teacher." Khai said.
Third turned and saw Khai standing there for the first time.
"I'll be right back." Milk said before heading inside the building.
"Here." Khai watched as Sean offered the boy who had been crying a tissue from his pocket.
"Thank you." The boy said shyly as he took it and wiped his nose.
"You shouldn't take tissues from strangers." The other boy scolded him.
Third rolled his eyes. "Does this kid look like a stranger? He's your classmate. Stop being mean to your classmate or I'll take out the cookie I put in your lunch today and eat it." Third said.
Black huffed and crossed his arms.
"Sean got your favorite candy too." Gram told him and dug his hand into Sean’s snack bag and took out a small box. "Here."
Khai watched Third's little brother Black glance at the box of candy Gram was offering him and try to restrain himself from taking it. He ended up taking it anyway.
"Thanks." Black mumbled.
"Louder and thank him." Third pointed at Sean.
"Thank you Sean." Black said.
"No problem." Sean said and then walked over the shy one. "Want to look through the candy under that tree? You can pick your favorites and save them for later."
"Go ahead." Third told him when he looked up at him.
Khai watched all five kids run off to the tree nearby.
"So those are your brothers." Khai said.
Third nodded and glanced after them.
"Black is the grouchy one. White is the shy one. Black is protective of White. Sorry about his attitude towards your…" Third waited for Khai to fill in the rest.
"Cousin." Khai said. "The kid with the bag of candy is my cousin, well my cousin's son but whatever. His name is Sean and those are his friends Gram and Yok."
Third nodded looking at them and the crowd they were attracting when the other kids noticed all the snacks and candies Sean had in the bag.
"Nice kids." Third said.
"Yeah." Khai said. "Um, I'm sorry about your parents."
"Oh, um, it happened over four years ago. You didn't know. It's fine. You don't have to say anything." Third said.
Khai could tell Third was not fine but didn't press. It was becoming really obvious that he had no idea what had happened in Third's life during the past five years.
"They look just like you when you were four." Khai said, looking at the twins.
White looked like he was getting overwhelmed by all the kids that had suddenly surrounded them asking if they could have some snacks and candies too. Black was standing by White’s side glaring at anyone who got too close to his brother.
"Sean looks like you." Third said.
That Khai could agree with. His entire family was surprised by how much Sean looked like Khai when he was younger. They could be brothers. Some people thought Khai was Sean’s father whenever they walked down the street together.
"Mr. Pothiyakorn?" The teacher came out of the building followed by Milk. "I've been told there's something you need to talk to me about."
"Yes." Third said and followed the teacher inside.
Khai looked over at the kids one last time before leaving. He could tell from Sean’s actions that he might have a crush on White but even Khai knew getting past Black would be a hard job.
It kind of reminded him of when Khai had met Third when they were four. Although Third didn't have a protective brother so Kahi was able to befriend Third pretty quickly.
He wished good luck to Sean in his head. The kid was going to need it.
ﾟ°☆𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞. 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭. 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐬 𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞.☆° ﾟ
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