Chapter 2
Walking a few steps behind Kao, the hallway we walked in seemed to get darker and darker as we walked all the way to the end. He stopped in front of a door, and I glanced over to see the sign.
Mortuary---
P’Noey, why did you have to leave us like this?
Kao was about to walk in when I stopped him.
“Give me a minute, I don’t think I can go in just yet.”
Taking a few deeps breaths, I could feel my breathing getting caught in my throat. Once I thought I was strong enough to go in, I turned to Kao. Grabbing his hand I motioned for him to lead me in.
When the door was open, the room was dark only softly lit by a lamp that hung over a stretcher with a long white cloth over it. Walking closer I could see the cloth outlining the figure of a person. My heart started thumping louder and louder as we got closer. The smell of frozen corpse started creeping into my nostrils.
The nurse pulled the covers from her face. I could feel the lump in my throat starting to cause me to dry heave. I had to get out of that room, I ran outside the door and fell beside the door. Curling up my knees to my face, my small whimpers became loud sobs.
“P’Noey is gone, P’Poppy is really hurt! What else could go wrong?”
As I sat crying in the hallway something caught my attenion.Out of the corner of my eye I could see a dark shadow moving from one end of the hallway to the other. Wiping my tears, I started making my way down in that direction. When I made it down to that area I didn’t see anyone. I swear I saw someone so I kept walking towards that way.
The shadow was far down the hallway. I quicken up my pace, but it seemed the shadow was moving further away from me. My pace turned into a sprint as I wanted to know who or what that shadow is.
“Hey wait!”
I started running as fast as I could but the shadow was just as fast if not faster by a few steps. Just as I was about to be only a few steps away from the shadow----
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
“P’Tomo don’t scare me like that!”
Looking pass him the shadow was no longer there.
“Darnit!”
“What? What were you running after?”
“I don’t know----
Trying to catch my breath why explaining myself is a hard thing to do.
“If you didn’t get in the way I almost had that stupid shadow or whatever it was.”
“You’re a dork. Come on Poppy is out of surgery we can see him now.”
“Really?!”
We made our way up to the sixth floor this time. Walking into the room, I saw Kenta at the side of his bed while Kao stood by the sliding door.
“P’Kenta how is he?”
“The doctors said they need a few more days to monitor how he’s doing. They took out all the bullets but they said the fragments did more damage then the actual bullets.”
“Bullets as in plural. P’Poppy what were you doing to get yourself this hurt?”
Grabbing hold of his hand, I held it tightly in my own. Caressing his hand, praying in my heart he would soon wake up.
“Can you tell me what the hell happened now?”
Turning to Tomo who stood beside me along side the bed.
“Poppy, Noey and I were driving to go out to eat. While Poppy was driving he lost control of his car and crashed into the side of the road. We were all fine after the crash, then Poppy and I got out of the car to see what was wrong, when about six people came out of nowhere and started beating us up. They grabbed Noey out of the car and started dragging her into the woods. Poppy and I tried to fight them off as best we can but we were out numbered. A few seconds later we heard gunshots, then a lot of screaming as they ran pass us. One of the guys turned around and shot a few rounds towards Poppy saying something like---
She was never yours to begin with.
That’s what makes me think it’s Mak and his people. No one really knows the beef between them two besides Poppy, Noey, Kenta and me.”
“Who is this Mak guy! Why is he such a bastard!?”
The anger inside of me kept building every time I heard the mention of his name. Mak Parin, your going to pay for this dumb mistake of yours.
“Pichy, take Kao down to the food court and get him something to eat. Since he’s been here he hasn’t eaten anything.”
Tomo looked towards Kao who stood cemented in front of the sliding door.
“Nong Kao let’s go.”
I knew Kao wasn’t hungry but they were trying to get me out of the room so they could talk about what they were going to do about that bastard.
“Kao, do you know who this Mak guy is?”
“Hmmmm---I’ve heard of P’Noey mentioning him before. She said he used to be good friends with her and P’Poppy.”
“I wonder what happened. If Tomo and Kenta aren’t going to tell me what’s going on we can find out on our own.”
I closed the door behind but making sure it wasn’t closed all the way.
“What are you doing?”
“Sshhh---”
I leaned in closer, trying to hear what Tomo and Kenta were talking about.
“This has gotten out of hand. Mak has taken his anger to another level, and the big boss just ordered Poppy to take out their gang to gain more territory. This just gives Poppy more incentive to accomplish that goal. What’s going to happen when he wakes up and finds out that Noey is dead, he’s gonna go out looking for blood. This situation isn’t a win win for us, we’ll just lose and lose more.”
Tomo was always the more reasonable one of the three, he thought out everything before jumping into anything.
“What are we going to do? Wait till they come and kill us too? You know they only killed Noey to send a message to us. What if they come back and try to get Pichy?”
“That will never happen! I won’t allow it.”
“Tomo, your only one person. Mak has way more people than we do. We’ll be out numbered again. He also has his father’s backing, his father is one of Thailand’s richest businessmen. He has friends all over. Poppy should have never gotten us into this mess.”
Good going Kenta, always blaming it on my brother. Poppy was a little hot headed and never backed down from anything though. It’s a trait we got from our father.
“We need Poppy to wake up soon. I don’t want to do anything before we’ve all talked it out.”
I heard enough. I closed the door all the way and grabbed Kao’s hand to walk downstairs to the cafeteria.
Once everything got settled with Noey’s funeral I was going to find out a way to make Mak Parin pay for all of this.