Chapter 11 A: Love that was never lost.
Krati tried her best to avoid eye contact with Lom as she entered the hotel lobby. Lom with his eyes focused on her slowly followed her as she made her way towards the elevators. Krati looked at Lom once before walking into the elevators. Lom let out a mild smirk before following her into the elevator. Krati took a deep breath before turning to face Lom as the elevator door closed.
“Khun Wayupak, what is it that you want from me? Why are you harassing me?”
“You can end the harassment with one answer, but you refuse to answer it so I assume that you like being harassed by me.” Lom replied snidely
“Who in their right mind would like being harassed by you?” Krati responded condescendingly.
“Now, we need to finish our conversation from earlier. Are you going to tell me or not?”
“I…I… I…” Before Krati could finish her statement there was a slight ring before the elevator doors slid open. Krati immediately walked out attempting to avoid the awkward conversation. Before she could reach her hotel room Lom grabbed her by the elbows and dragged her back to the elevator.
“Hey! What are you doing?!” Krati asked trying to pry his hands from her elbows. Out of desperation Krati began to hit Lom on his chest to pressure him to let go. “Let go! Wayupak let go!”
“Stop it!” Lom exclaimed glaring at her before proceeding to drag her down the hallway as the elevator doors opened. The two reached Lom’s private floor where his room stood alone with a few extra rooms for his guests if he ever had any.
“Khun Wayupak, what are you doing? What are we doing here?” Krati asked alarmed. She realized where they were and became afraid of what would happen if she went into that room with him. “Please, don’t do this. Please just let me go and we can go talk about this downstairs in the lobby.” Krati pleaded.
“I want to talk to you alone, I don’t want any disturbances.” Lom said opening his room door and pulling Krati in. Krati struggled to get loose, but Lom was much stronger than she was. He shoved her aggressively on the sofa in the guest area of the hotel room. “Now talk, what is there that you need to tell me before I start making my own assumptions of why you left me without saying one word.”
“I…. I …. I can’t tell you.” Krati reiterated.
“You can’t tell me, but you will tell me. You have no choice. If you ever want to leave this room you have to tell me.” Lom said taking a seat beside her. Krati looked deep into his eyes with anger.
“You think that just because you force me to I am obligated to tell you? You think just because you put me in a position where I can’t run I have to tell you? Have you ever considered my reasons? Have you considered that maybe I had a reason to do what I did? Have you ever considered that you weren’t the only one that was hurt by what happened? Have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe you are selfish?” Krati said as tears began to make way towards her eyes.
“Me? Selfish? I did nothing but love you Ticha. I did nothing but dedicate my entirely youth to being one hearted. I did nothing but dedicate whatever was left of my heart to you. I did nothing but cry when you left me. I did nothing but tell myself you were coming back, but after 10 years I realized you weren’t going to. I realized that the love I had for you was stronger than the love you had for me. I did nothing but love you remember that.” Lom responded beginning to get teary also.
“Can we please not talk about this? I have my reasons can we leave it at that? Can you please consider this one final favor for someone you use to love?” Krati pleaded.
“Use to? I still love you and that is why I am doing something this stupid. I am asking for something that could possibly hurt me. Don’t you think you have tortured me long enough? I had to suffer a decade without knowing why the person who promised to be there with me through everything would leave me the way you did.” Lom responded.
“P’ Wayu…. I’m so sorry for hurting you. I am so sorry for being so heartless towards your heart, but please; please don’t make me tell you. I am afraid that if I tell you…if I tell you any chance I have at you forgiving me will be over instantly.” Krati said in tears. Lom was shocked by her statement. He didn’t quite know how to respond to that. All he knew was that in front of him was the love of his life. He was angry with her for breaking his heart. He was angry with her for hurting him, but at the same time the fear of losing her again was greater than any question he had in his heart.
“Ticha, if I promise not to ask you again about why you left will you answer one question for me?” Lom asked with his heart on his sleeves.
“As long as I can answer it I promise I will.” Krati responded.
“Do you still love me?” Lom asked hesitantly. Krati’s face filled with confusion and shock as the question repeated itself in her head. She took hold of his hands and raised it to where she could caress it against her own face.
“As long as my heart still beats you will always be the person who owns it.” She responded. Lom reached his other hand to caress the other side of her face.
“You know I want so badly to know why you’ve hurt me, but I am more afraid of losing you again than to hear what it is you have to say. Call me stupid, crazy, idiotic, or anything, but I can’t lose you again. My heart died 10 years ago and it was resuscitated the day I saw you again in that stupid restaurant. I tried to tell myself that the person in that restaurant wasn’t my Ticha, but when I got home my conscience told me that it was you. There was no way in the world I could forget anything about your beautiful face, your beautiful eyes, and your beautiful scent.” Lom said passionately. Krati smiled in joy. She hated that she had to hurt him the way she did for 10 years, she hated having to keep the secret from him, and she hated the idea that she could possibly lose him forever if he found out.
“Ticha…” Lom mumbled as he slowly leaned in to kiss her. Their lips met and this time Krati didn’t struggle to get away from his grasp on her. She let her body follow the directions from her heart and responded to his kisses. She slowly placed her hands against his chest to stop him as soon as she realized that she was now laying down on the sofa.
“Khun Lom don’t.” she said.
“Khun Lom? When did I become Khun Lom to you?” Lom asked raising himself off her to sit straight up in the sofa. He crossed his arms and pouted as Krati tried to pull herself up into a sitting position.
“I’m sorry, Khun Way..”
“No.”
“P’ Wayu?” Krati said tilting her head to look him in the eyes as he continued to pout.
“Come here you little hummingbird.” Lom said pulling her into his arms again. He looked into her eyes again and smiled. “Ticha, I am trying to believe that this is real, but I am afraid that something will happen and I’ll wake up. I am trying to believe that you are sitting here with me, but I am afraid that I will be abruptly awoken. Tell me this is real.”
“P’ Wayu, if this were a dream then you wouldn’t be able to feel this.” Krati said slowly moving her head towards his. Before their lips could meet Lom screamed in excruciating pain.
“OUCH!”
“Now do you believe it’s real?” Krati joked jumping off the sofa.
“Why you little humming bird. How dare you pinch me!” Lom exclaimed chasing her across the room. Before Krati could go any further she was stopped by the dining room table. Lom quickly wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her close. “Now let me punish you and maybe your punishment wouldn’t be so severe.” Lom said engulfing her lips with his. As he kissed her Lom lifted Krati onto the dining room table all the while pinning his body tightly against hers.
“P’ Wayu Ka..”
“Yes?” Lom mumbled as he continued to kiss her.
“We can’t do this… what will our families think?”
“Who cares what they think, right now let’s talk about us.” Lom said continuing to kiss her. He slowly made his way down her neck.
“Hey! What are you doing?” She said putting her hands against his chest to stop him.
“Don’t be shy; you act like this is the furthest we’ve ever gone.” Lom said with a mischievous smirk.
“P’ Wayu…” Krati scolded.
“Ok, ok. I’m sorry, it’s just that I can’t help it. I’ve been waiting for you for ten years and I’ve been … wait… before we do anything, I need to ask. When you left you left a note saying that I will forever be alone. Explain that to me.”
“I thought you weren’t going to ask about that?”
“Ok, I won’t, but you have to give me something in exchange.” Lom whispered in her ears. Krati smiled before jumping off the table.
“You’re such a pervert you know that. I don’t understand how I could be so in love with such a pervert.” Krati joked as she made her way towards the front door of the hotel room. Lom ran over and grabbed her hands before she could leave the room.
“Hey, hey where do you think you’re going?”
“P’ Wayu ka, it’ll look suspicious if we are gone for so long like this.”
“Ok, if I listen to you this one time then when we go back to Krung Thep, The very first day we get back you promise to meet me at our secret nest my hummingbird?”
“P’ Wayu, right now we’re both older and the society keeps a closer eyes on our families we have to be .. you still have that place?”
“Of course, I was hoping one day I would walk into it and see you sitting on the sofa waiting for me and telling me why you left…. “ Lom said looking into Krati’s eyes. Krati smiled as she wrapped her arms around him.
“I don’t know how I could ever..”
“But preferably with your clothes off.”
“Pervert.” Krati said pulling away from him.
“Ok, ok we’ll wait awhile before we start meeting there again. How about the last night before we leave back to Krung Thep you come with me up here and we you know do what we use to do and of course I want to hold you all night.”
“I can’…”
“Don’t say can’t. You don’t feel sorry for me? I’ve been heartbroken for 10 years and now I have you back and you are going to deny me love?”
“Since when did sex equal love?”
“Sex doesn’t equal love, but making love equals love.” |
“Silly. Ok, I promise the last night before we leave, but I’ll have to tell them that I ran into a friend and I am going to stay the night with her, but won’t your family be suspicious that we’re all missing at the same time?”
“I sleep up here anyways they won’t suspect a thing.”
“No se… love making ok?”
“Wh..wh..what?”
“Say you promise first.”
“Ok then sex?”
“NO. Promise you won’t try anything funny.”
“Ok, I promise, but if you hit on me first don’t blame me because you know I am pretty irresistible.” Lom joked.
I had to speed things between this couple up a bit because their story is going somewhere pretty big too. Debating on if I should do a love scene what do you girls think? I don't want to write something that might offend anyone in anyway.