Blinding Lights: Despite Everything GeminiFourth

*36* Finally the truth...

Gemini knew perfectly well that it couldn't be put off any longer. It's time for them to talk honestly to each other. After a quick breakfast, he invited Joong and Pond to the room he shared with Fourth. He called Phuwin on the tablet and when he finally greeted him, he got straight to the point.

"We saw you two yesterday". Gemini pointed first at Joong and then at Pond.

"Of course you saw us, we spent the whole day together, I guess that's normal?" Joong tried to play dumb, but Pond, seeing on the tablet screen that Phuwin looked down and was nervously playing with the pencil in his hand, placed his hand on Joong's knee.

"Come on, Phu knows".

"Did you tell him?!" Chen looked at his lover with fury in his eyes.

"I didn't want to lie to him, I love him and we agreed to be friends with benefits, didn't we?"

"You love him?" Gemini couldn't stand it. "Pond, I think you've got something wrong. A person who loves someone does not sleep on the side with others!"

"You don't understand... We..."

"Then fucking explain it to me! I considered you my friend. I knew I shouldn't trust you with my brother, but I helped you two be together anyway. I gave you the opportunity to be a couple, I believed that you loved my brother, and what did you do? The trust you once broke you won't get it back, dude! You should know better!"

Gemini couldn't sit still, he would have liked to get up, but Fourth's strong hands on his shoulders effectively stopped him. Pond also stood up. He was only slightly taller than Gemini, and when Gem sat down the difference seemed even more obvious, but he still felt like the young Tangsakyuen had the advantage over him. Phuwin felt compelled to stop it before it came to blows. Gem, remembering his mother's suffering because of love, had great reservations about believing that love could be beautiful and happy, Pond and Phuwin only seemed to confirm his hypothesis.

"I came up with it," Phuwin interjected. Gemini, Fourth, and Joong looked at the tablet placed in the middle of the desk under the TV in disbelief. Gem was surprised that Joong looked genuinely surprised too.

"Why did you do that?" Gemini couldn't resist asking this question.

"Because of P'Mile and Gun, Fourth's brother".

"WHAT?!" All four of them shouted it at the same time.

"Okay, enough of these lies. Only truth can save us from more misunderstandings. Let's talk about everything. What does my Fourth's family have to do with you and Pond?"

Gemini didn't even notice how easily he called Fourth his. Fourth glanced at him briefly, but said nothing.

"I work for Gun's gang. I'm learning programming, but I'm actually a hacker. About a year ago, your twin, Fourth Gun, found me at the university, found out that I was the best in my year and asked me to work for him, but warned that it could be dangerous, that if someone find out what I was doing secretly, I could get killed. I realized that I loved Pond and that I didn't want him to suffer if something happened to me, I didn't want him to be left alone. It was you, Gem, and Fourth who convinced me to do this. You're both in love with each other and you pretend like you're not. Gem, Fourth ran away from you because he was afraid P'Mile would hurt you, but you almost wasted it by going to him".

"Did you go to my father?"

"Eeee? Maybe?"

"Gem!" Fourth said with warning.

The room fell silent, with only the typical sounds of the morning in Japan being heard. There was a gentle snowfall outside the window, the surroundings looked fairy-tale and magical, but the atmosphere in the room became heavy with the emotions hanging inside. Fourth glared at Gem. Gem, still nervous, felt no pain thanks to the adrenaline. He got up from his wheelchair and approached Fourth. He grabbed his hand and looked into his eyes. His heart was beating like crazy in his chest. He was afraid of this moment, afraid that Fourth would hate him for what he had done, but he knew he had to tell the truth.