Forth was taping his foot, restlessly standing on the aisle waiting for his to be husband to come. The boy was standing in all his glory, wearing a silk black tuxedo, looking as breathtaking as he could manage, lips adorned with a nervous smile.
It wasn't the exactly the normal wedding for forth,being the groom he has a lot to fear apart from pre-wedding jitters. But biggest fear for forth is now that when the priest will ask for any objection then there are many people who would love to, for starters lets take his family, pha is still giving him stares, his parents are still looking him with pity as if he is going to some suicidal mission clearly not the looks that a groom will expectedly get.
There is another person whom he fears could object is his soon to be husband, the last time when forth talked to him was the day he accepted, after that the boy has lost in thin air. Many times forth tried to contact but the boy didn't wanted to meet him, leaving him to do all the wedding shopping on his own yay!
Forth even bought their wedding outfits, a lilliac tuxedo for ming & just imagining the boy in it gives him tingles all over the body. No matter what this day will be his best day, forth sighed thinking it & in a que, the murmurs in the room quietened.
Forth gingerly raised his eyes, pink tint on his tan cheeks brightening, the hypothetical images of the boy in tuxedo overpowered his mind enabling him to see, he shook his clouded brain & look up with heated cheeks only to have a beat dropped.
Disappointment that's what he felt when he saw him coming in another suit, his eyes moved to his mother giving him sympathetical looks clearly understood her son's past excitement & in reply forth gave her a comforting smile.
Forth again turned to the boy, well he is still looking an angel. Ming's small cautious steps slowly took him closer to his future, waiting for him wearing a black tuxedo. He was scared, his hands were cold since day before, the boy was clenching poor samantha's hand so bad in fear that she keeps hissing in pain but like a good friend she never complained.
Once they reached to forth their steps halted, ming was still giving his solely focus to his shoes like nothing mattered more to him. His all the tokens of courage were spent in dragging himself to this point now.
Samantha looked at forth & smiled, she was quick to notice the sadness in other's eyes, so she ought better to,
"Hii I am Samantha, ming's friend. I would like to apologise that in the morning my son decided to piss on his ready to go uncle & ruin that beautiful tuxedo" she wasn't lying either her son has actually showered her uncle with some natural holy water.
"Ohh that's okay, you don't have to apologise" forth waved off along with a sigh of relief as his many assumptions got contraindicated.
"By the way, your colour choice was good, he was really looking like a prince in that tuxedo" she cheered & before forth could hold his heart a beautiful crimson dust climbed all the way from neck to his mate's cheeks & the boy was muddled.
"Thanks, I hope I would have caught a glimpse" well he can flirt right? With his minutes apart to be husband forth thought.
"Oh you wanted to, I have some snaps I will send it over to you" she winked at the end, to which forth laughed, he was finally glad that ming has such a good friend.
Priest waiting for them to end the conversation decided to interrupt giving them signal,
"Umm we can catch up later" forth told Samantha, his eyes moved to his mate who is still yet to look up,
"Take care of him from me brother in law" Samantha said giving ming's hand to forth, who held it as delicately & as firmly he could "I will with my life".
Coldness of ming's palm was dissipating in the warmth of other, as they walked hand in hand to stand in front of the priest. Forth looked at ming with dreamy eyes but the other still failed to made eye contact. Priest asked everyone to stand on their place & started the ceremony,
"Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here to this evening to witness the eldest son of Jathurapoom family, Mr. Forth Jathurapoom to Late......... Ms. Anong Daichingpaya's son Mingkwan Daichingpaya join together in holy matrimony"
Ming's eyes shot up to priest as he heard his mother's name, then the two globes moved to scan the people present there, he briefly looked at the people present there but no one seemed to protest, or maybe they don't know about her.
H
is eyes then moved to the hand engulfing his in warmth & tenderness.
"If anyone objects to the marriage speak now or forever hold the silence" he spoke & forth looked at his family especially at pha who looked rather determinant, but it all took one pleading look.
"Now I would like for Mr. jathurapoom to repeat wedding vows after me"
"I Forth Jathurapoom, take you mingkwan daichingpaya to be my husband, to have & to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness & in health, to love to cherish, till death do us apart, according to God's holy law in the presence of god I make this vow" forth pledged looking at the boy's hiding eyes, trying to show his sincerity.
"Now you may take the vow" priest told ming, he courageously moved his eyes above, but his courage died as he reached to forth's chest as the boy was proudly showing the head of the soulmark, as a result he took oath looking at forth's belly.
"I mingkwan daichingpaya son of anong daichingpaya take you forth jathurapoom to be my husband, to have & to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness & in health, to love to cherish , till death do us apart, according to God's holy law in the presence of god I make this vow" ming swore, the weight in the words made his palm sweaty.
"With the power invested in me by the holy spirit, I now pronounce you as husband & husband. You may kiss each other"
Ming's heart thundered millionth time, with every step forth took, his breaths ragged, eyes started to water he was trying his best to brace whatever that is coming his way.
Forth noticed the obvious signals of oppose, he took a careful step to the other & raised the boy's hand to his lips & kissed them.
"I have promised" ming let out a breathy sigh hearing other's words, he nodded acknowledging & thanking him at the same time.
After that everything went blurry to both of them, they both were overwhelmed by known & unknown emotions, both felt relieved & burdened at the same time.
Forth along with ming & his family came home, the house was decorated to welcome the new addition of the family, but ming knew he wasn't clearly welcome there as apart from his mother & singto's courteous 'welcome to the family' no one has spoken a single word to him. It's not like ming could blame anyone for it.
Forth guided ming to his room, and as soon as forth closed the door an akward silence wrapped around them, well according to ming it was, but forth was internally chuckling seeing the other awkwardly clenching & unclenching his hands in the pants of the suit. He indeed was looking cute.
Forth moved to his walk in closet & opened the door,
"Here are your clothes" forth began but seeing ming jump at his sudden unexpected call he couldn't help but chuckle, "you can take shower I am sure these clothes must not be comfortable to sleep in" forth ended & walked out of the room to take shower.
When he came back to the room he witnessed ming standing next to the bed frowning cutely as if contemplating something.
"What is it?" forth couldn't help but ask,
"There is only one bed" he muttered, under his breath but forth heard,
"Well every room has one bed" forth stated the obvious, & for the first time in the day, ming looked up at forth just to shoot him a glare. And it won't be wrong to say that the glare took away forth's breath. His heartbeats went on ballistic mode, obviously not due to fear. After a minute when his heart calmed,
Forth marched towards the boy but stopped near the head of the bed, picked the cushion & looked deep in caramel eyes,
"I was just kidding, sorry. You can sleep on here, actually not gonna lie I would have given you another room, so you could be comfortable but Mrs. konganithan has told me that you still have nightmares sometimes, as much as cheesy it sounds if I can't take your pain away then I would like for your tears to fall only on my shoulders" the words shouldn't have any impact on ming, atleast that's what he thought but they made his heart beat erratically a pink tint creeped all the way up to his cheeks.
"And you don't have to cover yourself like this, it's not like that I will jump on you the second I will see a bit of your skin, I have that much control over my self little lover" forth teased the boy, he was itching to say these words from the moment he saw the other in full sleeves turtle neck & full length pyjama pants, in the mid of may.
The boy flushed more either due to embarrassment or over the new name or both. Forth decided to stop tormenting the poor soul as he feared getting his ass kicked out of the room so he just started to set his bed on the couch & decreased the temperature of a.c to aid the boy’s night costume.
Forth has just managed to sleep as it wasn’t like always he sleeps with his mate just steps away, who himself is fidgeting & rustling with his body hugging clothes.
“No……n…nooo leave her” forth’s eyes snapped open as soon as the voices fell on his ears, he jerked his face up to see ming trashing on the bed.
“ple………please not herr” the boy on bed was sweating profusely, his body was shaking like leaf stuck in cyclone. Forth is not sure if he should go near ming or not, his rational part was denying but decided otherwise,
“Ming, ming are you hearing me, try to fight it, I am here with you” forth spoke as soon as he was near the boy on the bed but it didn’t seemed to have any effect except ming’s body started to shake even more,
“No please don’t, don’t touch me……… no please leave mee………” the boy seemed to have a panic attack in his dream, his body distinctively paled so forth having no other way started shaking the boy violently to bring him out of the nightmare,
“MING………. MING, get up…….. it’s just a dream”
“NOOOOO DON’T TOUCH ME” ming’s bloodied eyes shot open only to find forth’s face leaning on him, & before he could realise the situation his hand flung in reflex, & a loud slap echoed in the room.
Ming’s crimson eyes were looking at forth’s with accusation & fear,
“It’s me…………… I am your mate………… not him” forth softly mumbled, slowly the fear & hatred subsided & guilt made its place in his eyes, as he noticed the reddish print on other’s cheeks. Hot tears prickled down his cheeks.
“It’s okay it’s not your fault” forth’s words were targeting to calm the boy but these words had opposite effect on the other.
His tears became more furious & unstoppable, forth didn’t knew what to say as he feared if he would trigger the boy, no word seemed effective enough as everytime he tried to speak the boy would either flinch or wail even louder having no way to stop the boy he just settled next to him.
Forth’s hands were itching to take the boy in his arms, his heart ached seeing the boy curling on the bed, crying his eyes out. Ming was clenching the sheets in order to seek comfort. And eventually due to heavy exertion the boy slept, leaving two eyes open wide with concern & pain.