Together With Me (Thai Novel Fan Translation)

Chapter 1A

Knock's POV

Do you know how many ridiculous situations we encounter in our lives? I don't know either, but this is definitely one of them; I had woken up to find a naked man in bed next to me. To make matters worse, that naked man was my best friend! It was so humiliating, I wanted to die.

"Your clothes are all tangled around my feet, what are they doing down there?", Korn complained rudely.

He's my best friend and we've known each other since we were kids. However, we only reconnected again recently during university because we happened to hang out in the same group of friends. I snatched up my boxers off the floor and clumsily stuffed my legs into them, avoiding eye contact. Korn was bitching about something, and I deliberately kept my back to him as I pulled my shirt over my head, hoping he wouldn't notice anything was wrong.

My mind was a mess and I was nearly on the verge of mental collapse. Since we had just woken up and my brain was still fogged with sleep and booze, the full shock of waking up naked and hungover in bed with my best friend hadn't quite set in yet. The sheets stained from what was likely our combined bodily fluids were clear evidence that SOMETHING had happened last night, there was no arguing that.

"You go take a shower first." I mumbled to him sleepily, and flopped back down on the rumpled bed, trying to nonchalantly take a nap like nothing had happened. Korn didn't seem to be acknowledging the obvious evidence presented by the stained bed sheets, and he left to take a shower without saying another word. I closed my eyes and tried to rest, but I just laid there in a daze until Korn finished his shower.

When the toilet door slammed opened abruptly with a loud thud, I sat bolt upright. Korn sauntered out of the bathroom and stopped short; we stared at each other blankly for what felt like ages. I laughed somewhat awkwardly, before saying lamely "Hey, you startled me."

"Hey, my ass! Shut up! Do you know how much I hate this feeling?" he growled at me while roughly rubbing his wet hair with a towel. Man, could this get ANY more awkward?

"How did we end up naked, anyway?" I couldn't help but wonder aloud. To be honest, the previous night was all a drunken blur.

"I don't know! Anyway, I'm not sore at all! It definitely wasn't me who was the bottom!" Korn's masculine posturing would have been hilarious if the 'bottom' he was referring to hadn't been me.

"Oh, well it wasn't me!" I retaliated.

"Like hell you weren't!" Korn growled again.

One of us was lying through our teeth.

And the unmentionable soreness from the lower half of my body clearly told me that I was the one who's lying. I'd never hear the end of this if our friends found out. I'd be a laughingstock.

"I'm gonna go take a shower." I mumbled. I got up from the bed and tried to walk away with a calculatedly steadily stride, but Korn grabbed my arm and spun me back around.

"Look at you, trying to act all tough."

"Wha-... what?" I sputtered, bewildered.

"Your ability to walk so steadily after I fucked you senseless, who are you trying to fool right now?" Korn waggled his eyebrows suggestively at me.

"Oh shut up, nobody got fucked, you think too much! Nothing. Fucking. Happened!"

There was a long, uncomfortable silence as we eyeballed each other.

"It's like this." Seeing Korn calm down, I grabbed his neck. "It was hot last night, we just took off our clothes to sleep.

"Knock, I'm not an idiot. Open your eyes and look at the state of the bedsheets before you talk." Korn's voice was low and serious.

"Alright fine, have it your way, we were drunk and we fucked." In the end I surrendered, and then quickly mumbled, "But can you please stop making so much noise? I have a headache."

Korn laughed and rubbed my hair, managing to somehow further worsen my already rumpled bed-head hair.

"Hey you tanned idiot, since when did you worry about your reputation? Getting shagged by hot guy like me isn't something to be embarrassed about", Korn said with a smirk.

"How is it not embarrassing when I was the the bottom? Fuck you, Korn! My pride is ruined." I yelled while laughing, teasingly punching his shoulder, trying to lighten the serious mood.

"Why the fuck are you shouting?" Korn yelled back, and I couldn't help laughing even harder.

"I'm gonna go take a shower." Korn pulled me back, twisting my shirt collar before I could escape. I wasn't phased by the sudden tug, because there wasn't much difference between us in terms of strength. Our sizes are similar, but he's a little stronger and taller than me. Even though we pretty much look like equals when we stand next to each other, I was somehow the one that ended up taking it in the ass. That was a secret I intended to take to my grave. I could never let such an embarrassing scandal get out.

"What are you doing? Let me go. I'm all sticky and gross right now." I took a deep breath and twisted free from his grasp.

"Are you still gonna pretend like nothing happened? Damn it, Knock!"

"Hey! You already had your way with me. Fuck...why are you're so damned rude?"

"I didn't mean it like that." Korn seemed annoyed too. "Look, I'm sorry. I was drunk and I don't really remember what happened, do you want me to take responsibility or something?" Korn asked, and I burst out laughing at his overly serious question.

"What kind of responsibility are you planning to take? I already have a beautiful girlfriend, and it's not like you can get me pregnant! If you want to settle everything right now, then never tell another living soul about last night, that's all."

"Hey now! I'm very proud of the fact I got to fuck you senseless, someone with such beautiful dark honey skin like yours. Ho, ''twas a dream come true. Or was it a nightmare?" Korn shook his head in wry amusement, and I picked up the pillow and threw it at his face. He leaned back slightly, artfully dodging it.

"You shut your fucking mouth, this is a healthy tan!" Damn, as if he's better than me for having a fairer skin.

"Dark," Korn repeated again.

I didn't have any pride left at this point, so I just took off my shirt to show off my abs.

"My tan is sexy, see how smooth and golden my skin is? Girls don't want a pasty-skinned rookie like you."

I went to the washroom, and behind me Korn growled in annoyance. "Yeah, so sexy that you got yourself a husband."

"I told you to shut your fucking face about that!!" I shouted before I slammed the door behind me. I was so angry, it took me a while to calm back down again. I leaned over the washbasin, willing the temperature of my blood to cool. I whispered dejectedly to my own reflection in the mirror, "You're such an asshole Korn, why are you being like this to me?"

That fucking HURT!

End Knock's POV