Kongpop's POV
Moon: lost tew
Sun: we know
Moon: how
Sun: we r looking 4 him
Moon: but u were looking for pknott
Sun: found him
Moon: does tew know
Sun: y we r looking 4 him
Moon: help?
Sun: call gang use a chat that doesn't have tew
What does he mean to use a chat without Tew? Shouldn't Tew know we are looking for him? I chew my bottom lip as I check the time on Tew's clock. Nobody should have left for campus yet.
Kong: need help
Aim: ??
May: y
Wad: ik
Maprang: care to share
Oak: wuts up
Kammon: huh
Prae: explain someone
Kong: tew is mia
Jett: wtf
Kammon: is that where bright
has been all weekend?
Kong: no
Kong: Tew went mia this morning
Jett: Bright was busy too?
Kong: xplain l8r
Wad: we need to find tew
Aim: where do we start?
Kong: campus
Kong: cu at canteen
Slipping on my shoes, I look around to Tew's room to see if he took anything. Everything looks pretty much the same as it did after we finished cleaning up last night. First, P'Knott and now Tew. What the hell is going on with these two?
Kammon is the last to arrive. I notice all of the guys sizing him up. He is new to our little gang, and I know some of us are still doubtful about him.
"Stop giving me that look," Kammon snarks brushing the hair out of his eyes. "My dorm is not close. I got here as fast as I could."
"Did we say anything?" Aim asks.
"Yeah, you did," Kammon huffs.
"Are we done seeing who has the biggest dick?" Prae demands, "Or who can act like one?"
All of us turn and blink at Prae. She has never spoken this harshly before to anyone. Even the girls are shocked.
"Ok," I say, breaking the silence. "We need to find Ai'Tew. P'Arthit says he was here. He was last seen on the meeting room floor. I was just at his dorm and looked for him as I came here. So we know he didn't go back to his dorm."
"I came through my faculty," Kammon adds, scratching the back of his head, "I didn't see him."
"He is not at the basketball courts," Wad adds.
"The campus is huge," Oak says, looking around. "Where do we start?"
"Why are we doing this the hard way?" Maprang asks, "Someone use the app."
"I have his phone," I hold it up.
"Why do you have Ai'Tew's phone?" Jett takes it from me.
"I stayed over at his dorm last night and saw it on his desk before I left," I explain.
"Huh?" Aim looks at me, confused.
"After we find Ai'Tew, I will explain everything," I hold up a hand to stop the rest of the questions.
"Do we search on our own or in pairs?" Prae asks. "On our own, we would cover more ground. Since this is the campus, I don't think we need to pair up."
P'Knott comes running up to us. He looks like shit. I still can't believe we are going from looking for him to looking for Tew. I really want to grab him and ask what the fvck he thought he was doing. This all his fault.
"Have you seen him?" He asks when he catches his breath.
"We are just starting, P'," May says, handing him a handkerchief. He smiles and takes it.
"Message if you find him," He calls back as he runs off.
"Ok, I will take the library," Aim tells us. "Anyone want to help out?"
"I will go," Kammon volunteers, "You are right. It is too big for just one person." Aim frowns at May before he nods.
"You heard P'Knott," I say to everyone, "Message once you find him." All of us run off in different directions.
After about thirty minutes of looking, I message P'Arthit.
Moon: any luck
Sun: no u?
Moon: no
Sun: ...
Sun: have every1 meet back in canteen
Moon: k
Sun: Kong
Moon: yes
Sun: lub
Moon: lub
I smile at my message, knowing P'Arthit is probably blushing right now. Before he left for the hazer training, we had come up with this private message. I run my thumb over it. No one but he and I know that lub stands for love you bunches. Arthit said it was too cheesy at the time, and he would never use it, but he still did.
I message everyone and head to the canteen. When I arrive, I am shocked to find Wad standing toe to toe with P'Knott. I quickly run up and step in between them.
"Hey," I say, trying to calm them down, "We are friends." I look at Wad, "He is your senior. Why are you acting like that?"
"He is the reason Ai'Tew is missing," Wad hisses. I look at P'Prem. When P'Prem does nothing, I get in P'Prem's face.
"I know there is more to the story than we know," I hiss, "So call your boyfriend off."
"What the hell is going on?" A familiar voice booms behind us. "This is not helping you four," P'Dear walks over and smacks both Wad and P'Knott on the back of the head. Before he can hit me, I step away from P'Prem, going to stand by P'Arthit.
"Where has everyone checked?" P'Dear asks.
"Library," Aim and Kammon say together.
"I checked the old dorm," Oak adds.
"You what?" P'Dear and the seniors shout and are about to say more when Maprang smacks Oak on the back of the head and then looks at the seniors.
"Yes, it was dumb," Maprang glowers at Oak, "But that building couldn't be ruled out."
All the seniors nod. I don't know whether they think Maprang is right or if they don't want to get smacked by her too. The rest of us tell where we looked, and the seniors list all the places they have been.
P'Bright runs back, panting, "Checked all the dorms. He is not at any of them." All the dorms? How many does that include? Is mine in there, and if so, how does he have keys? I need to ask P'Arthit if P'Bright has a key to my dorm and how he got it.
"All of my replies on my post on IG are negative," Tutah says, looking up. "Should we tell the advisors?"
"It is all my fault," P'Knott says as he sits down at a table. All of us watch as he starts to cry.
Wad starts to say something but stops and walks over to lean against P'Prem.
What the hell happened, and where the fvck has Tew gotten to? I can't think of any place we haven't looked.
Tew's POV
Why is this happening? How could P'Knott have done this to me? I sag against the wall beside the door. My head is a mess. How? Why? Sliding down, I run my hands through my hair. Don't cry, Tew.
I slept with P'Boon!
To hear that and then have that smug bastard ask me if I was ok? OK! How the fvck would I be ok? Was he mocking me? Trying to rub it in that he did my boyfriend? I hate him!
Even when Ai'West dumped me, I didn't feel like this. Hearing those words shook me to the core. To believe I worried myself sick for days about him. How could he have slept with someone?
"Nong," I look up to find P'Boon standing in the doorway. I get up and look around for a way to escape. I start to run to the edge of the roof.
"Stop!" P'Boon screams.
It must be conditioning. That is the only thing that can explain it because the last thing I wanted to do was stop, but the second he said that word, I did. Glancing back at him, I debate my options. Could I make it past him? Is there another way off the roof? Could I fvcking learn to fly?
"It is not what you think," P'Boon takes a step toward me, and I take a few steps back. "I said, stop!"
"Funny," I snark. "Tell me another lie."
"Why the hell would I lie to you?" P'Boon glares at me. "I get nothing out of lying to you."
"I don't want to hear your excuses," I fume, "I already know."
"God! You two are made for each other!" P'Boon shouts. "Both of you get one thought in your head, and you run with it! Neither of you even verified if it was the fvcking truth! You both just assume and go into freaking flight mode!"
"Why the hell would it not be what I think?" I scream, "I heard him! He admitted it. It is not like I am making this shit up! Or believe you would tell me the truth?" I shuffle closer to the edge of the roof.
"Nong," P'Boon warns, "Do not fvcking move again. There is a reason the roof is off-limits."
"There is nothing wrong with the roof! They held the senior thank you party up here," I throw at him. "You just want to find me so you can make P'Knott feel better."
"The damn roof is not off-limits because of structure! It is out of bounds because a student at another university decided to fvcking see if he could learn to fly!" P'Boon rants, "And you are right I do want to find you to make N'Knott feel better! Because this shit has gotten completely out of hand!"
"It got out of hand last week!" I scream. "You fvcked up my life!"
"I did no such thing!" P'Boon shouts.
"You slept with P'Knott!" I yell at him, "How the hell do you think that makes me feel?"
"I didn't fvck your boyfriend, and he didn't fvck me!" P'Boon snaps.
"You're lying," I accuse.
"Nobody fvcked anybody!" P'Boon sighs, running his hand through his hair. "Had I known N'Knott thought that I would have told him when we woke up that morning!" P'Boon holds up his hand to stop me when I start to talk. "Let me finish. Yes, we slept together as in sleep. Yes, we were completely naked."
"What?" I choke.
"I said let me finish," P'Boon orders, "We got drunk. Embarrassingly drunk, and I still plan to kill N'Bright for coming up with that damn game. When we finished drinking, we went to my room. Even now, I don't know why N'Knott and I went together instead of him going with his friends. Shit is fuzzy from that night. But I do know what happened in my room. I went to take a shower when we got to my room. I left N'Knott in the room while I went into the bathroom to shower."
P'Boon stops to see if I am following the story. I motion for him to continue. He still has yet to explain how both of them ended up naked in bed. Why would P'Knott undress? I get why P'Boon would be if he took a shower, but not my boyfriend.
"While I was in the shower," P'Boon turns away from me, muttering to himself.
"I can't hear you," I taunt.
"I said this is fvcking embarrassing," P'Boon retorts, "I lost my balance in the shower and landed on my ass hard. Like really hard. I am surprised I didn't break something."
"That still doesn't explain how you ended up in bed naked with my boyfriend," I point out. "Did you take advantage of him while he was drunk?"
"If you would let me finish, I would," P'Boon snarls. "And I would fvcking never do that to anyone! What the hell kind of guy do you take me for?"
"Then tell me," I demand. "And you know what kind of guy."
"That is enough, nong. Remember I am your senior," P'Boon warns, "When I came out of the shower, N'Knott was lying half on the bed with an empty water bottle. My guess is he tried to drink it, but there was water everywhere. His clothes were soaked. The bed was soaked." P'Boon runs his hand through his hair. "I woke him up, and I told him to take his shirt off." I snort at that. "Listen, you little shit. A good senior takes care of his nongs. He would have gotten sick going to bed in wet clothes. I sat down on the other side of the bed to get dressed."
"And?" I push.
"That is it!" P'Boon screams, "I passed out! I was naked because I passed out before I could get dressed. I don't know why N'Knott didn't stop at his shirt." He runs his hands down his face, "I didn't sleep with your boyfriend, nong. He took a ton of things out of context and made himself believe he did the deed."
"He didn't sleep with you?" I ask.
"No," P'Boon answers, "For the record, I am straight and have a girlfriend. And if I did swing that way, there is no way I would be the receiver, even if my partner were N'Knott." He looks at me and smiles. "Besides, I ship you two big time. Why would I sink my favorite ship?"
I stagger backward. Do I believe him or P'Knott? Could my boyfriend have connected all the dots wrong?
"Nong!" P'Boon screams.
2236 9-12-19
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