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The bag at the display window of the high end brand caught his eyes and the whole entourage stopped alongside him. Venice is in his stroller, staring up at the item that caught his father's eyes. The bodyguards, Pro and Ton, standing on each side of Pete and Venice tilted their heads toward the bag. No less than 10 seconds later, a sales associate greets them with a cheery "HELLO!" Like clockworks, all four heads turn to the voice, before quickly narrowing their eyes because of this person's appearance.
This guy has the widest smile, dimples etched deep into his cheeks, twinkles in his eyes, hairclips and braids in his hair and is that.. a care bear shirt? Venice points at him, exclaiming "bear!"
"Oh yes, bears! Do Khun Noo like bears?" The beautiful stranger crouches down to be on the same eye level with the boy and takes off one of his hairclips, intending to clip it to Venice's hair.
"Stop, what do you think you're doing?" Ton instinctively grabs the stranger's hand causing the man to stare up at him, smiling until his eyes are almost gone. The stranger stands up to his full height and with Ton letting go of his hand, he proceeds to put the hairclip in Ton's hair. Pete, honestly quite puzzled by what's been happening can't help but huffs at Ton and the bear hairclip adorning his perfectly gelled hair.
The stranger turns towards Pete, "Khun, please come in, we have something special for everyone today, whether you like bears or not." Right after he said that, he tilts his head towards Ton and gives him a wink. Pete lets out another huffed laughter and make his way into the store.
An hour later, the entourage walks out with the bag Pete was initially drawn to and a bear hairclip each in their hair. Also with the bag, is a small box containing "a complimentary gift, for my special new friend" said the beautiful man, who had introduced himself as, "my name is Biu, but if you find me cute, you could double, or triple up my name. I don't mind Biubiu, or even Biubiubiubiu," causing Ton to rolled his eyes.
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With Venice already fast asleep, Pete sits on his bed, taking out the bag he got earlier. Almost forgetting about the complimentary gift, he opens the box to find a USB drive. "Might be a Care Bear movie or something, I can let Ven watch it later," he dialogues in his head, "but I better check it out first!" With the USB drive in his hand, he makes his way to Macau's room.
Opening the door after knocking and receiving no answer, Pete finds Macau hunched in front of his setup, intently staring at the monitor, fingers actively dancing on his keyboard, headphone steady on his head. Pete makes a move to make himself visible in Macau's limited vision line. Upon noticing Pete's presence, Macau shouts out, almost too loudly, "Phi, hold up! Gimme five mins!" Pete nods and makes himself comfortable on the sofa in the middle of the room.
Soon the boy groans and takes off his headphone, "what's up, Phi?"
"I need the laptop that's not connected to the house's system." The boy makes his way towards his closet, "why Phi? Need to watch porn since Hia will be late today?"
Pete rolls his eyes, "I can watch porn with our tv in the family room okay." Macau snickers as he hands the laptop to Pete. "We went shopping earlier and got this as gift," he flashes the USB drive to Macau, "it should be a Care Bear movie or something, since it's all over the Sales Associate, but I just need to check first," Pete explains.
"A CARE BEAR PORN? Now that's new!" The boy exclaims with the widest shit eating grin on his face. The laptop in his hand, Pete pretends to kick the boy before heading to the door, "don't stay up too late!"
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Back in his bed, Pete powers up the laptop and plug in the USB drive. There's only one video file in it. Leaned into the laptop, Pete clicks play only to be taken aback at the video. The video is taken in a club, and the camera is focused on two men he recognises very well. Vegas, and Kinn. This must be one of those meetings they have been having. Both are visibly tipsy, but nothing alarming, they continued talking to the other people presence, all recognisable by Pete, and drinking.
By the 10 minute mark of the video, both looked like they're having trouble staying awake and what happened next almost gave Pete a heart attack. He lets out a loud gasp and instinctively brings his hand to cover his gaping mouth. Shoving the phone away, he grabs his phone to call Macau over, "Cau, get here. Quick!"
The door flies as Macau rushes "WHAT?" Pete gestures for him to come over, and he replays the video for Macau. Right past the 10 minute mark, Macau grabs the laptop, "HUHH??? What in the actual fuck????" He then turns to Pete, eyes bewildered, "I think I'm going to puke".
Pete rubs the boy's back, "I think we need to let the others know."
"They're all gonna puke, Phi! Let's start with Phi Porsche and Chay!"
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Porsche and Chay drive in right after Vegas left. "Ai Pete, I can't sleep at all last night because of this shit! You can't do this to me!!" Porsche whines. Macau interjects, "brace yourself then, you won't be able to do anything after you watched this!"
The video starts playing at the huge TV they have in the family room. Venice is in Chay's lap as they sit on the floor, while Porsche is in the lounge chair closest to the TV. Though weirded out by the first few minutes, with Porsche constantly going "what is going on?" over and over, asking "where did you get this from?", they moved forward.
And then the 10 minute mark comes, Chay quickly covers Venice's eyes while Porsche lost it, "THAT BASTARD! THIS IS ALL THAT LATE NIGHT MEETINGS???? I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!!! HE'S FUCKING CHEATING ON ME????"
Trying to calm him down, Pete walks over towards, "Porsche, I don't think that's.." before noticing Chay has his phone out, "what are you doing, Chay?"
"I'm calling Phi Tankhun over!"
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With a horrified expression on his face, Khun wails, "I KNOW EVERYTHING IS WRONG WITH THE DEMON VEGAS, BUT MY BELOVED YOUNGER BROTHER, MY PERFECT, HANDSOME, SMART YOUNGER BROTHER, HE'S FUCKED UP TOO????? WHAT THE FUCK, KINN????"
He runs to Pete and Porsche, hugging, and half strangling them, "oh my goodness, aren't you two dealt with the short sticks in this life????"
Dramatically falling on the floor, he instructs Macau to get the two subjects in the video to be present here.
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Across the city, Vegas receives a text from Macau asking him to come home now, with Kinn. And seconds later, Kinn receives a text from Chay, asking him to follow Vegas home. Annoyed, but both recognises the urgentness of the texts because those two never acted like this unless something is going on.
They walk into the family room with scowls on Porsche and Khun's face. Pete is sitting on the sofa with Chay and Macau on his sides while Venice is sprawled on the floor.
"Sit on the floor with Venice," Pete told the men who just arrived. Kinn tries to reason, "Pete, this suit isn't for sitting on the floor," prompting Porsche to yell out, "JUST SIT, KINN!!"
Kinn holds up his hands in defeat, "okay okay, I'm sitting down. What's wrong, Porsche?" He tries to reach out to Porsche before the other man takes a step back, scowl still evident on his face, "play it, Macau!"
Vegas is quiet the whole time the video starts to play while Kinn, every now and then asking "where did you get this?" And then it's here, the 10 minute mark. In the video, as clear as day, the drunk Kinn leans in to give the drunk Vegas a peck on his cheek. Vegas, caught by suprise, turned his head to face Kinn and Kinn gave him a peck on his lips. Giggling now, Vegas returned the kiss. Soon, both (very drunk men who have no idea what their lives will turn out to be) began to hug each other. "Vegas, thanks!" Kinn said and kissed his cheek before tightening his hug on Vegas. "I can't breathe, Kinn. But thanks."
This went on for a couple more minutes as the cousins continued to hug each other and words of gratitude flew from their mouths. Macau pauses the video right on the frame where Kinn was getting teary-eyed, still hugging Vegas tightly.
"Fucking explain yourself, Anakinn Therapanyakul! You were totally trying to get it on with your own cousin!!" Porsche points at the two alternately, accusing.
"I can't even look at the two of you now," Macau quips.
Vegas scoffed, "GET FUCKED KINN!!!"
"YOU GET FUCKED, VEGAS!!"
"YOU KISSED ME FIRST!!"
"YOU KISSED ME BACK!!"
"AHH FUCK OFF! YOU HUGGED ME SO TIGHTLY I CAN'T BREATHE!!"
"YOU FUCK OFF! YOU LIKED IT!!!"
Quiet the whole time, Pete suddenly voices out, "language! Venice is here!" Vegas quickly scoots over to Pete, "I didn't do anything, Pete. It's all Kinn!! Please baby!" Pete nods at him, "I know, it's okay. I'm not angry. Just shocked at first but I know. I think those kisses are very innocent, you were totally giggling at each other"
Horrified at what he hears from Pete, Vegas calls out, "Wait baby, are you implying I like it? I DON'T!"
Kinn, feeling victorious, "HAH! EVEN PETE KNOWS YOU LIKED IT!" Not for long though because he's totally folded forward by the force of Porsche smacking his head from behind, "why are you so happy at Vegas liking your kisses???"
At the sight of Kinn sprawled on the floor, Venice sits up, giggling and clapping his hands. From the corner of the room, Khun massages his temple, "God, what have I done in my previous lifetime that I got this family in this one."
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"The shop is gone, Khun Pete," is the first line Pro reports when he walks in the family room, "along with Biu or whatever his name was."
"What do you mean it's gone?"
Ton nods, "gone. No trace of the shop we went. We asked around and no one seems to remember, or know him.
Kinn paces around the room, "could it be one of those smaller gangs? They're always looking for OII!" He stops in track as he holds up his foot, evidently hurt by something on the floor. He bends down to grab the hairclip that he accidentally stepped on.
"Oh! We got that hairclip from him!"
Vegas scoffed, "ah, then this Biu guy must be my guardian angel! Revealing to the world of how I was wronged by my own cousin and then finishing his job by hurting the bastard!" At that, Kinn throws the hairclip to Vegas hitting him on the forehead. Vegas, not intending to lose this game, throws the hairclip back to Kinn, aiming for his eyes.
"ENOUGH!!" Khun yells out as he stands in between the two men. "I am going to find my only sane brother now and tell him of how ridiculous this family is now, KIMMMM HELP MEE!!"