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Gemini has the bestest friend ever. Front . She is so pretty, funny, top of her class, and she is captain of the cheer team. They have been friends since 10th grade when they got into the same class at the intentional school they both attended. They were so close that people thought that they were dating, as if girls and boys couldn't just be friends.
He does understand why people would assume they were dating. The two of them were attached to the hip. They would spend almost every single day together and even sometimes have sleepovers at each other's homes. His parents also adored Front, which is fair because everyone adored Front.
His other best friend asked him if he was interested in Front, and he was honest with him. He loved Front but more like a sibling than a love interest.
"Why? Isn't she your type?" Prom had asked.
"No. It's not like that. Front is a great girl, but I think we too much of friends to be anything else you know." Gemini had shrugged.
"I understand, I guess." Prom had replied even though he gave him a sceptical look.
It's not like Gemini hadn't thought of Front in a romantic way before, Front was exactly the type of person he would go for if he were to date someone. She was pretty. She had fair skin, honey brown doe eyes, long brown hair, and pink pouty lips. Aside from her appearance, she was incredibly smart and funny that conversation between them just flowed. However, something was missing between them, a certain spark.
Or maybe he was asexual since he hadn't dated anyone before, never had his first kiss, and honestly never had the desire to kiss anyone. Gemini was just as popular as Front. He was a lead singer of his band and captain of the football team. He was also aware that he was attractive, which comes as no surprise because he was after all the son of Keerati Ning of course, he was attractive and wasn't shy about it. If the amount of proposals he got from both the girls and boys at their uni was any indication of his attractiveness.
So maybe he was asexual or aromantic, ace or whatever they call it. He was content with it. Less distractions to achieve his goals, nothing to hold him back.
At least he was content with it until he met Front's older brother. The moment he laid his eyes on Fourth, his heart did that funny thing as if it stopped beating, then started hammering vigorously in his chest. Fourth, the man who was 5 years his senior made him feel things.
He always knew Front had an older brother but never got the privilege to meet him. Fourth studied overseas and apparently came back this year after his graduation to join the family business.
Fourth was sinfully beautiful, rosy pink cheeks, golden brown eyes, and cherry blossom pink lips with long eyelashes and beautiful ebony hair that pooled beautifully across his shoulders. The smile, his smile, could be compared to the bloom of the morning.
"Hia Fot! This is my best friend. Gemini. Gem, this is my older brother Fourth." Front had introduced them.
Fourth smiled at him, that smile that could rival the moonlight. The very same smile that would drive Gemini into cardiac arrest.
"Oh, so this is the 'Gem' you always talk about." Fourth had said with that mischievous smile that older siblings had when they teased their little siblings.
Gemini could feel himself blush as his ears burned. Fourth's golden eyes bored into him as his pearly white teeth sparkled as he smiled.
It should be against the law to be this attractive.
"Hia!!" Front had whined, making Fourth laugh, and by God, it sounded beautiful in Gemini's ears.
Fourth laughed like a happy fountain in a cave, brightening the gloomy rocks.
"Nice to meet you nong'Gem." Fourth said, and his name coming out of Fourth's lips sounded so good to Gemini that he wanted to hear it over and over again.
Gemini saw Fourth a couple of times during the last couple of weeks when he would come pick Front up from uni. Each time Fourth would look at him, his heart would skip a beat. When Fourth would smile at him, he would be nearing a heart attack.
Gemini knew he was fucked! Utterly fucked! He had a crush of his best friend's brother.
Over the months Gemini would ache to see Fourth, to have Fourth's intense gaze directed at him. To have Fourth's smile all to himself and to have Fourth all to himself.
"So Fonfon." Gemini beamed at his best friend.
"What do you want?" Front narrowed her eyes suspiciously at him.
"Fonfon! You wound me. Can't I just be happy to see my best friend?" Gemini pouted.
"Spit it out Norawit." Front said with her eyes still suspiciously narrowed at him.
"Fine. I just wanted you to have a study session with you at your place tonight." Gemini replied giving Front his best doe puppy-like pleading eyes.
"Oh. Okay. Sure you can come over by. Are you planning to sleep over?" Front asked, her demeanor much more relaxed.
"Yeah. Do you mind?" Gemini replied, hoping Front doesn't see right through his alterior motives.
"Of course not. I think mama would be happy to see you. She has been asking about you." Front said with a smile, a beautiful smile but not as beautiful and blinding as Fourth's.
"I miss Mae Pui and her cooking." Gemini replied with a fond smile he really did miss Front's mom because the woman treated him just like his mom treated him. Showering with love and affection, Mae Pui was really great.
"I knew you had alterior motives Norawit. And here I was thinking you miss our study sessions." Front teased.
"You know me so well." Gemini chuckled.
So that is why he found himself sitting next to Fourth this evening at the dinner table. They sat so close to each other that their knees were almost touching. To be honest, he doesn't remember what he and Front were studying, whether it was chemistry or calculus he couldn't tell. He was too busy looking at Fourth, who looked absolutely gorgeous sitting there reading. Fourth had shorts on that ran up his thighs as he crossed his legs and a short sleeved T-shirt that showed off his deliciously gorgeous biceps. The thing that distracted Gemini the most was Fourth's long hair that was done in a messy bun that Gemini wanted to tug on.
"Oh mama! Gem will be sleeping over tonight. He can crash with me in my room since hia Fourth has the other room occupied." Front said during dinner.
"Absolutely not!" Fourth was the one to respond.
"Hia! Don't be mean! You can't expect my best friend to drive home at night on this pouring rain." Front pouted.
"Of course not! But he will not be sleeping in the same room as you. I forbid it." Fourth replied.
"Well where is he supposed to sleep? You can't expect him to sleep on the couch do you?" Front sounded offended on her best friend's behalf. Gemini admired that about her and maybe that's why she was his best friend.
"Of course not! What do you take me for? He will sleep in my room with me." Fourth replied nonchalantly like his request just did not threaten to give Gemini a heart attack.
"You don't mind, do you nong'Gem?" Fourth asked looking at him.
"No." Gemini squealed.
That evening when Gemini was dreading to leave the shower to join Fourth in his bedroom. How is he supposed to stay composed in front of the most beautiful man he has ever seen? The word "beautiful" doesn't even begin to describe how wonderful Fourth looks. It's like describing Niagra falls as a waterfall. It felt woefully inadequate.
Walking into Fourth's room with his hair slightly damp he noticed Fourth sitting on his desk wearing shorts that were honestly too short and a tank top. He not only looked breathtaking but he looked mouth watering and Gemini was definetly drooling.
"Are you going to stand there the whole night or are you going to come in?" Fourth asked not looking up from the book he was reading.
"I- uhm. I am going to come in obviously." Gemini replied, he didn't like how his voice sounded in his ears.
"Then do come in then." Fourth said standing up and goodness gracious those shorts are really short and Gemini could see the outline of Fourth's-
"Are you coming in?" Fourth asked arching a brow.
"Yeah... of course I am coming in." Gemini said after clearing his throat.
"You look nervous. Do I make you anxious in a way nong'Gem?" Fourth asked, standing closer than Gemini remembered, and he smells so good like vanilla and lotus flowers. Gemini wants to lick him.
"No. Why would you make me nervous?" Gemini denies, but even he can tell it's a weak excuse with how his voice is coming out.
"Let me rephrase my question then. Do I make you uncomfortable nong'Gem?" Fourth asked again, standing closer than what Gemini remembered, so close that Gemini had to clench his fists tight so that he didn't do something stupid like run his hair through Fourth's ridiculously silky hair that just accentuates his pretty facial features.
"No." Gemini breathes.
"Good. Because I would hate to make you feel uncomfortable." Fourth whispers in his ear, making his whole body shiver.
Gemini made an embarrassingly audible noise that kind of sounded like a squeak, he is not sure because Fourth is so close to him and he smells so good and he isn't sure if he wants to bite him or lick him. Maybe both.
"You know I noticed how you look at me nong'Gem." Fourth says in a very low voice that sounded so sensual, so sexy that the only functioning brain cells left in Gemini's head immediately went on vacation.
"I- I..."
"It's okay. I don't mind because I been looking at you too. So innocent, so gorgeous." Fourth's voice is low and sensual. Gemini is not going to survive the night, not when Fourth talks to him like that.
"P'Fot-" Gemini tries but words fail him.
"Call me hia." Fourth says tilting his head so he makes eye contact.
"Hia..." Gemini says softly, just him calling Fourth that does things to him, it makes him feel all hot and bothered.
"Fuck! I am going to kiss you now."Fourth says and the only thing Gemini can do is nod because he isn't sure if he is capable of coherent speech at the moment.
Gemini’s eyes were half closed, and so were Fourth’s and his lips only looked small from afar, he realized, because of their doll-like pucker. They were perfectly big, really, now that he had a good look at them. Perfectly something. Fourth nudged his nose against his, and their mouths fell sleepily together, already soft and open. When Gemini’s eyes closed, his eyelids stuck. He wanted to open them. He wanted to get a better look at Fourth’s too-dark eyebrows, he wanted to admire his crazy golden brown eyes—he had a feeling this was never going to happen again and that it might even ruin what was left of his life, so he wanted to open his eyes and bear some witness.
But he was so tired. And Fourth's mouth was so soft.And nobody had ever kissed Gemini like this before.
Fourth's kisses were all taking. Like he was drawing something out of him with soft little jabs of his chin. Gemini brought his fingers up to Fourth's hair, and he couldn’t open his eyes.
That night Gemini slept snuggled up in Fourth's unsurprisingly strong arms. Gemini felt warm and safe with his arms wrapped around Fourth's torso. He didn't know what that kiss meant or what sleeping like this meant but he couldn't help but feel hopeful, giddy and just happy.
This has to mean something right? At least to him it meant something.
He was in love with Front's brother.
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