Together With Me (Thai Novel Fan Translation)

Chapter 9B

02/24/19 Editor's Note: It was brought to my attention that we'd somehow skipped chapter 9B. It had gotten missed when my translator was pasting everything into our working document. You can probably blame the insanity of Lunar New Year for that one. Thankfully she'd already translated it, but had just forgotten to give it to me. I rushed through it this morning in two hours, so it's not going to be as cleanly edited as the other chapters, but I wanted to get it up as soon as possible to correct our mistake. 

Without any warning, I realized Knock had bitten down on my lower lip. "Ouch!" I immediately backed off and growled, "Why the hell did you bite me?" 

"Get your hands away from my pants! Your hands are so itchy, as impatient as a child!" I glanced at my wayward hand and smiled. Oh... so I really did go after his pants. I didn't even realize I had done it until he called me on it.

I removed my hands as instructed, and Knock shifted his position from where he'd been sitting straddling my knees to sit next to me on the couch.

"Lay down." I pressed his shoulder backwards.

"Not now! I would kick you if I weren't injured!"

"I really want to kiss you, how could you get up?" I leaned my head down again to kiss him again, but Knock raised one fist threateningly, lashing out as quickly as a snake. Luckily, I managed to dodge the poorly aimed blow, or else he would have clocked me squarely in the eye.

"Hey, aren't you going a little overboard here?" I whined, "if I hadn't been able to dodge that, you'd have given me a black eye. Are you gonna take responsibility for that?" 

"Responsibility my ass! I've got my eye on you, asshole! It's your eyes, not mine! And I only allowed it because you threatened me. Once was already enough, too much in fact, over my imagination, out the acceptable range, and outside the definition of friends." Knock retorted. He stood up and pushed me away with all his might. I intentionally kicked his splint lightly as he was trying to escape.

"Ouch, damn it Korn!!!" Knock yelled, toppling back onto the couch. I caught him as he lost his balance, guiding his fall so he landed squarely back in my lap again. Knock wrinkled his nose in pain, lifting his splinted ankle and massaging it gently through the thick binding. "That hurts! What the fuck do you think you're doing!!"

"Why are you trying to escape? Lay down and I'll take care of you." I chuckled, and Knock smacked my head again hard.

"Ouch!!!" I yelled, "Hng, Damn it Knock, you want me to be all bandaged up like you?"

"You deserved that, now we're even." He laughed at me mercilessly, and sat up slowly. I held his hands, and Knock turned to look at me, his eyes narrowed suspiciously.

"Don't you dare touch my leg again!!" He warned me ominously as though I was his enemy. I nodded obediently, planting a kiss on the furrowed skin between his eyebrows. Knock was in fight or flight mode; even my gentle action nearly earned me another swift punch. His sudden blows had become predictable so I was able to duck out of the way at the last second. I chuckled to myself in amusement.

"Korn, you bastard, you're so irritating." Knock pouted sullenly.

I couldn't stop myself from teasing him, it was so fun to push his buttons! "Kissing alone is not enough, I want to fill every centimeter of your apartment with memories of "loving you"."

"Knock it off, Korn!! Asshole!!"

Knock's face turned pale with rage, and he started throwing anything he could reach at me. Every couch cushion, the open bag of chips and the remote control all became handy projectiles to be lobbed brutally at my head.