A Tale Of Thousand Stars – Novel BoyLove – Chapter 3.1
A few days later, Tian had dark circles under his eyes. He looked at his knees and looked at the house. An uninvited guest came and was sitting in his living room. They all sat on the couch, but their style is so different like a distant sky.
His outfit, he was wearing was a white shirt and black pants very seriously and politely. He smiled as he watched Tian yawn and creeping towards the couch.
“Didn’t you sleep well yesterday?”
“Good morning P’Tay” He nodded to Tay, but deliberately ignored his question. Those dark circles he had were because he stayed up all night just because he read Thorfun’s sad and tearful diary, each word was no different from a fascinating novel.
Then, when he looked the other way, he saw that a young man dressed in hip-hop style was no different from rappers, with an ear piercing and nose piercing.
“Idiot bastard! what are you doing at my house?”
Tul replied with a smile, “my father just gave me the hummer. And i came to visit you too.”
Naturally, Tian felt uncomfortable, went to sit next to Tay “Why didn’t you call me and tell me that you were coming here?”
Tul smirked as he looked at Tay, “If I didn’t come here, how would I know that you change your taste?”
This guy is really pissing he off, so without hesitation, Tian immediately jumped up, trying to kick him but Tay promptly stopped him.
“Come one, Tian, I don’t mind.”
“hey Tul, if i really change my taste, i’ll stab your ass first, Asshole!”
Tul stopped laughing to the point of shaking his shoulders. Even though the two of them had known each other for a long time, they were just friends in racing society, they were not close enough to care about each other’s personal lives, and this is Tul’s first visit to Tian’s home.
“Okay, I’m sorry.” Tul raised his hands to surrender, because he didn’t want his friend’s newly operated heart to operate at full capacity. “Today I was lucky to be free, so I came to visit you for a while, but if you have a guest, then I will come the other day”
“Wait a minute,” Tian saw Tul approach the door, Tul turned his head to look at him without understanding what was going on. Tian’s eyes changed slightly as if he was calculating something.
“You stayed at the door waiting for me for a while, I have something to ask you. for you to help me.” After saying this, he turned to Tay.
“P’Tay ~” He called out to him with pleading eyes.
“Do you want to go out with your friend?” Tay asked, as if he could see what he was thinking. “I didn’t say anything to you, but what are you going to do is something I forbid?”
“I’m just going to eat.” He said the reason so Tay not be suspicion and he didn’t want to let Tay go with him.
“Okay, but promise me you won’t be too late. So when your mom calls me to ask you, i won’t have to lie like always.”
Tian hurriedly took Tay’s hand and said, “I promise I will be back immediately in the afternoon. Sorry for wasting your time picking me up.”
Hearing what Tian said, it looks like his younger brother from the previous day is coming back. he gradually returning to the cute boy from before. Tay couldn’t help but rub his head, saying hurriedly, ” Go quickly. When you’re done, call and let me take you home. If you go first, then you will not have to justify.”
Tian nodded firmly, then quickly went out. Outside the door, he saw his friend waiting in his huge jeep. Tian got in the car and sat in the seat, so Tul couldn’t help but open his mouth.
“What are you planning? where do you want me to take you?” He grunted when he started the car.
“Can you take me to Phraraam Song Street?”
“What do you want to go there? Why do you want to go to Phraraamsong Street? why not choose anywhere else near the house? Sukunwit also has many delicious restaurants.”
“Please don’t ask me anything, just drive away!” Tian smiled weakly at his friend. Finally, the car passed the luxurious mansions.
There are a few places that he wants to go, but if he left with Tay, he will certainly ask many questions. To be honest, Tian doesn’t know how to respond to these problems.
But luckily, Tul came to visit him today. This guy has the main advantage, he will not ask many related questions. that is very consistent with what Tian plans to do.
..but it looks like Tul won’t be like that, he wanted to ask like Tay. After crossing the traffic jam on the bridge, Tul stopped the car and looked at the person next to him, who was watching the GPS on his phone closely and showing him directions. Tul had no idea what his friend was planning to do, but he was definitely not looking for a restaurant.
“turn left.” Tian pointed to the spot with a red light ahead.
Under Tian’s instructions, the two went deep into an alley, where the house is filled with lots of trees, big and small, in front of a small alley. Looked like a green garden.
Seeing Tian’s satisfied nod seems like he found something he wanted. Even though Tul was not a person who liked to talk to many people, he couldn’t help but open his mouth and ask, “Who are you looking for?”
Tian was a little scared, his expression was slightly startled, “Let’s eat, somewhere else”.
“Cute boy, I’m not an idiot”.
The “adorable boy” looked annoyed, he avoiding Tul’s question. when he saw the LED panel, he quickly told Tul, “Hey Tul, stop it. I need to stop here for a while.”
But until the owner of the car stopped, it was quite distance from the sign. So Tul turned around and asked who was staring back, “Do you need me to step back a little? Which house do you want to go to?”
Tian saw the house with a small old green fence, the yard covered with big trees. The roof of the two – story house protruded from a brick wall. He turned his head, then slowly lowered his face down in silence, his eyes filled with chaotic emotions. He wanted to come and look a little, but thinking about it would make that different from what he had just seen.
Hey, what do you want to do? ” Tul couldn’t help asking.
“Nothing, just keep driving.”
“What’s wrong with you?” The Hiphop guy frowned and worried, then quickly sped up the car impudently.
In the end, the two looked for a place to find something to eat to keep their stomach warm. The large hummer was parked right by the road in front of a rad na shop.
(*) rad na or also known as rad na kuay tiew, soft fried noodles, it’s a dish of chinese in thailand.
Tul took a coca cola and drank it, finished drinking, he left the glass on the stainless steel table, and asked Tian seriously.
“Honestly, I don’t really want to get involved in your business, but you have to tell me honestly, why do you want me to drive through this neighborhood?”
“Don’t be angry, i’m hungry. I’ll take you to a delicious meal later, ok?” Tian hit him quickly. He was no different than children when they are hiding from their mother after doing something wrong.
“You didn’t answer my question straight.”
“Why are you doing this suddenly? Just talk like a man.” Tul resented it, frustrated by wanting to know more.
“If you don’t want to say it, then I give up. forget what i just said, and then let’s eat.”
Tul turned to the waitress, “Phi, bring twenty more parts to me, please!”
Tian breathed a sigh of relief, even if Tul asked for hundreds of Rad, he will be willing to pay, as long as he stopped interrogating him.
Without having to wait long, rad na seafood was brought to the table of these two people, Tul looks like he’s been starving for centuries, eating like a hungry man.
“Bro, do you want to buy a keychain?” Suddenly there was a small voice interrupting their ‘eating marathon’
Tian looked at the boy’s dirty face,his body is thin, worn clothes, his lips also darkened, but he smiled and showed his beautiful teeth. In his hand, he had many keychains shaped like dolls made from cheap wool.
“One for 20 baht, three for 50 baht, can you help me and buy it?” He pleaded, the voice was very soft, but the eyes were a little tired, as if there was no hope of anything. those eyes shouldn’t have been in a child less than ten years old like this.
“We don’t want to buy it, go to another table.” Tul said while waving his hand.
“Please help me! You can buy one just for me.”
“I already said that I won’t buy it! Did you don’t understand?!” Tul shouted, he felt annoyed when the child begged him to buy it.
Tian felt that Tul was getting upset, so he turned to look at the dirty boy and told him to sell to another table. the two didn’t buy it and the boy also didn’t try to insist more on them to buy.
Finally, he chased the boy away.
When Tian’s eyes followed the departing boy, it was a little difficult to describe. he wanted to give the boy money for help, but he was afraid that his friend will thought he was crazy. Because before, he shouted and despised them.
In his eyes, those poor people were not on the same level as him.
But now, he can only sit there and see.
Tian put down his spoon and told Tul that he was full, even though there was still more than half a plate of Rad na. He took a breath and waited for his friend to finish the food. At the same time, he looking out of the restaurant, he saw something unusual.
The boy who sold the keychains was dragged by a fat woman, her big, rough hand pointed directly at him, but his thin body did not avoid it.
Suddenly, he remembered Thorfun’s diary,
“If I do something that will leave her unsatisfied, my aunt will hit me with a hanger. When I was 7, my father was a drank, but every time he drunk, he beat my mother. Later, when unable to continue to endure this, my parent also left, leaving me alone to face the sequence of days living in nightmares.”
Suddenly, Tian stood up and threw the stainless steel chair on the floor with a loud noise. Apparently, the words in that diary was crying out sympathy for those who have read it. Tian ran away, make people in the restaurant suprised and including his friend sitting there.
“Tian!!” Tul hurriedly got up, his brain reloading the situation before him, until he regained consciousness and left 1000 baht on the table.
“What? Are you crazy?!” Tul shouted like crazy, then quickly ran after his friend.
The image of a mother who brutally beating her child at this time is normal, everyone can see and ignore him as if he had not seen anything, no one would want to help him. Even for a little. Only people living in other world like Tian who would dare to jump in to stop it. His crazy actions make people think he was an alien.
“That’s enough! The boy hurts all over his body!” Tian used both hands to separate them.
The woman who looked older than him a few years, glared at him with unfriendly eyes, “You intervene in what others do. I gave him life, if i want, i can take it now!”
The boy who heard that phrase immediately started to cry, and the mother still trying to pull her son’s bruised arms. But the people around still didn’t care.
“what did he do wrong?! why did you hit him like this?!” Tian raised his voice while questioning aloud. He asked because he didn’t understand what happened. And the boy still suffered from his mother’s previous beatings.
“Why is he so stupid?! He couldn’t sell anything! so what would the whole family have to eat today?! Argh!!” She screamed at the top of her voice, then slammed her hand into the chest of the boy standing in front of her.
Tian took a few steps back to feel a little pain and in his handsome face that was sweating a little, he also felt that his breathing was a little unsteady.
“Hey! what are you doing to my friend?!” Tul hurriedly helped Tian, he held his friend’s shoulder, “Are you okay?” Tul asked because he was worried about him.
“I am fine.” Tian stabilized slowly, then walked towards the mother and her son.
Tian looked at his opponent firmly, he used all the strenght to ask, “Do you want the money?”
“why did you ask? Do you want to give us money?”
“If I give you money, will you stop beating him?”
“As long as I don’t have any money, i won’t stop it.” She answered then slammed her son’s skinny shoulder with his hand as if it were a lifeless object causing the child to sobbed again.
“Today if he makes money, I will stop it and if tomorrow he returns empty-handed, I will win.”…then when will he get out of this cruel life? Tian took a deep breath, pulled out a brand wallet, he took all the thousands of bath and held it in his hand. His hands clenched with valuable papers that could even redeem the person’s heart.
And then he threw the money down in front of her.
“Take it! and don’t force your kids to make money!” If you know how to spend correctly, that money can generate even more.
Whatever, it looks like she will never understand. the mother quickly picked up all the money in her pockets as if she were afraid someone might take it before her.
She thought this kind-hearted guy might have a mental problem, asking stupid questions all the time while the truth was extremely easy to understand. She want to saying thank you, but her stomach full of embarrassment. She think that if any boy shows a pitiful appearance, in the future there will be more and more soft-hearted people, and at those hours she will make a fortune.
At that moment, a disguting smile appeared on her face, making the high-class guy feel nauseous. the two boys feel extremely uncomfortable. She quickly dragged her son, scolded him when he refused to follow and didn’t even bother to look back or say thank you to the person who gave her money.
Tul, who stood watching the crazy scene in daze, slowly looked at his friend, who was clenching his fists, gritting his teeth to make it look like he could explode at any moment. When he was about to open his mouth, Tian already spoken first.
“Is money so important?”
“Oh yes,” Tul didn’t know how to say it properly, he scratched his hair in a relaxed response to him, “Of course, without money we would’t be standing here, then you and I would not be different from this boy.”
“..Is that so?” Tian murmured to himself.
Even if we can’t choose where we’re born, but we can choose the way we live.
It’s true, somebody once said that, but now he found out that, not everyone had a chance to choose their own way to live.
Is this it? Where the world “no chance” came from?
In fact, Thorfun was very lucky, she chose to teach in the mountains, leaving Bangkok’s hectic life, except for the necessary expenses in life. In addition to teaching, she can also see a large world outside.
This is probably the reason why Thorfun wants to bring these “little opportunities” to mountain children.
His lips moved a little as if he were determined to make an extremely important decision, his brown almond-shaped eyes staring at Tul.
“Take me back.”
Tul rolled his eyes, wondering what the hell Tian was saying “Huh?”
“Take me back to the alley that you just drove through.” Tian repeated calmly, “..Now I know where I want to go.”
The hummer car turned into the small alley — just now, but this time Tian knew what his goal was. Tul parked the car in front of the green gate, but most notably, the sign hung solemnly in front.
“Saengthong Foundation”
Tul immediately turned to look at his friend, this is a place for “charity”, a place that doesn’t suit with car racing rider like them. Do you think the doctor had surgery on Tian’s heart on brain?
“Go back first, I have something to do here.” Tian opened his mouth to chase people, because he didn’t want his friend to be more suspicious than this.
But when he was about to open the door, Tul spoke, “This is probably where Thorfun worked as a volunteer teacher, right?”
Tian immediately stopped walking, turned to looked to look at his friend with a stern expression, “What did you say?”
“Well, I mentioned the girl who got hit by the car you asked me to investigate, but I was always thinking, what does this girl have to do with tall nobles like you, unless…” Tul smiled with his eyes like a fox and turned his face closer to Tian.
“..Thorfun is your girlfriend.”
Tian frowned and glared at his friend, showing his disapproving attitude to the point that the person who just said the teasing earlier would feel it. The high-class guy slammed his hand on the HipHop guy’s left chest before answering.
“She is my life.”
He didn’t care if Tul could understand what he was saying, so he pushed the road gate and stepped inside, leaving his friend standing there dumbfounded outside as if being hit by container truck.
The two sides of the walkway are concreted with rows of green trees, on the braches are colorful decorative strings made from plastic bottles. In addition, the bells are hung around them, and whenever the wind passes, they will make jingle sounds.
Although it’s said to be a foundation, but it’s actually a house whose the owner is the manager of the foundation.
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