Wicked Hot

Chapter 11

A/N: The image above does not belong to me. It belongs to the person who uploaded it on the internet.

Third Person POV

Peat and Fourth eagerly led Thanawat inside the house and straight up to the second floor of the house where Peat's bedroom was, not even giving Thanawat a chance to say hello to Peat's father or mother.

"They're already asleep in their bedroom," Peat explained. "We don't want to wake them up just because you wanted to say hello to them."

Peat gave Fourth a secret wink to which Fourth responded in kind.

"Oh dear," Thanawat said upon seeing Gemini all sprawled up on the bed, snoring away. "The alcohol really did him in."

"He's a lightweight," Peat said with a chuckle. "Fourth and I can hold our alcohol well."

Thanawat raised an eyebrow at Peat and Fourth.

"Wait a minute ..." Thanawat started to say,

"No, no, no, we have never touched alcohol," Fourth denied. "Peat here is just making an empty boast. Don't listen to a word that he says."

"You both better not let me catch you holding a beer can or bottle in your hands,"Thanawat warned the two friends sternly.

"Are you hungry?" Peat wanted to change the topic. "There's still lots of food from our beach outing."

"And lots of beer cans still unopened ... oops ..." Fourth clapped a hand over his own mouth.

"He meant to say soda cans," Peat quickly said while at the same time stomping on Fourth's foot.

"Oww!" Fourth complained quickly stepping away from Peat.

"Stay right here," Fourth and Peat instructed Thanawat. "We'll be right back."

When they were out of earshot of Thanawat, Peat quickly said to Fourth, "Let's ply him with lots of beer until he gets drunk."

"How will you get him to do that?" Fourth sounded skeptical.

"I will let him talk about his tragic love affair first," Peat replied.

"Tragic love affair??? How did you know about that?" Fourth widened his eyes at Peat.

"Trust me, I know," Peat winked at Fourth.

With Fourth's help, Peat gathered a platterful of grilled beef strips and cut up giant squid rings and several packs of potato crisps and roasted peanuts.

Thanawat looked wide eyed at all the food stuff that Peat and Fourth brought inside the room.

"Stay right here, we'll be right back," Peat said once more, quickly heading out the bedroom door with Fourth.

Between Peat and Fourth, they managed to bring in sixteen ice cold beer cans into the room.

"I'm not allowing you to touch those beer cans," Thanawat said sternly.

"Oh no, no," Fourth said quickly. "We will be drinking soda instead. See?"

And with that Fourth picked up a can of Seven-Up and lifted the tab, setting off a loud fizz and quickly sipping up the sweet liquid that flowed out from the side of the can.

Peat extended the platter of grilled beef strips and squid rings to Thanawat.

Thanawat picked up the fork that lay on the side of the platter and pierced a strip of grilled beef.

"Thank you, Peat," said Thanawat before taking a bite out of the beef strip.

"I know you're not married," Peat started his planned strategy. "But do you have a special someone?"

"No," Thanawat said simply, nothing more.

Fourth picked up a can of beer, lifted off the tab before handing it over to Thanawat.

"Do you ever plan to have one?" Peat asked.

"I don't have any plans at all," Thanawat replied. "I'm too busy with work. I have no time to date anyone."

"Are you sure it's not because you still can't get over your ex boyfriend?" Peat asked boldly.

'No guts, no glory' Peat said to himself under his breath.

Thanawat's eyes widened at Peat.

"Who told you that I have an ex boyfriend?" Peat asked.

"You," Peat replied. "Don't you remember telling me about your high school sweetheart?"

Thanawat sighed. Dammit, he had come over to try to forget Apo and now here he was being grilled over the very same subject that he so wanted to drive out of his mind.

"Can you tell us all about him and how you eventually lost him?" Fourth asked.

Thanawat took a big swig out of the beer can.

"We were competing with each other in academics and athletics," Thanawat began his story. "We were each other's fiercest rivals."

Thanawat took another big swig out of his beer can.

"Our resentment of each other eventually turned into admiration for each other's capabilities," Thanawat said before drinking the last few drops of beer and reaching over to open a new one.

"Then you fell in love with each other," Fourth supplied the rest of the story.

Thanawat nodded sadly before violently ripping off the tab from the beer can.

He brought the beer can to his lips and guzzled down the whole content.

"Tell us what happened next," Peat prompted Thanawat.

Thanawat did not reply. Instead he reached out for another can of beer.

"During our summer vacation, he went with his parents to New York," Thanawat said, looking more and more unhappy, his speech getting more and more slurred. "And that's where he met his current boyfriend. They have been together for so many years now, so I'm guessing they're really serious with each other. I won't be surprised if one of these days they announce their wedding plans."

Peat moved over quickly to Thanawat's side to keep him from keeling over to the floor.

With Fourth's help, Peat carried him over to the large bed.

Then again with Fourth's help. he carried Gemini down to the large floor cushion.

Fourth lay down beside Gemini while Peat lay down beside Thanawat on the bed.

"Good night," Peat said to Fourth. "And I mean GOOD night."

Fourth smiled and winked at him.

Peat got up from the bed and turned off the lights and climbed back up the bed. He leaned over to Thanawat and whispered to him, "You will be mine tonight."

"I don't think so," Thanawat said.

Peat gasped loudly.

"I'm not drunk, I'm not a lightweight, I'm just very sleepy right now," said Thanawat. "Now go to sleep and keep your hands to yourself."

"Yes sir," Peat said in a sarcastic voice.

'Just wait until you're sound asleep,' Peat said softly to himself under his breath.