Chapter Six

On the crack of dawn when the sun wasn't even up, Gulf was haunting the hallways and the living room. He couldn't sleep a wink last night and the reason behind it were, the butterflies that he felt from kissing the man he was attracted to and whom he met for the first time. 

Thanit climbed down the stairs, heading to the kitchen with slow steps since he was still in his sleep. He was busy rubbing off the sleep from his eyes, when he almost had a heart attack thinking the had encountered a ghost when he had actually bumped into Gulf. 

"Oh fucking Jesus! What the hell Gulf! It's 4:00 am right now. What the hell are you doing here haunting the hallways and living room like Li? It's pitch dark to top the creepiness." Thanit yelled while clasping his chest. 

"Hey! You talk too much you know." Gulf giggled ignoring Thanit's complain and instead, dragged him inside the kitchen.

On entering the kitchen, Gulf pulled out his phone and played a song, tossing his phone on the kitchen counter pulling Thanit by his hand and making him dance along with him. 

He danced around the kitchen gleefully, while Thanit stared at the guy who had been dragging him all over the kitchen dancing at 4 in the morning wearing his idiotic grin. He has officially gone crazy. Thanit thought staring at him.

White they were dancing, Tae came in to check on Thanit since he'd been away for too long and was worried whether something had happened to him. 

Well something did happen to him, but not what he'd been thinking. When he entered the kitchen he froze for a moment before snapping out of it. 

"Ahem! What do you think you're doing with my husband, dancing around at 4 in the morning? Huh?" Tae asked putting on his ever-serious poker face and raised an eyebrow indicating Gulf to take his hands off from his dear husband. 

The two looked towards Tae as soon as they heard the voice. Thanit had this pleading look on his face to be rescued badly from this torture, while Gulf was giggling like a love struck maniac though he let go off Thanit because he doesn't want to be beaten to death by his eldest brother. 

Meanwhile, Pavel and Nine entered the kitchen as well. They got up respectively early. Pavel because he had to train Gulf his ass off and Nine because he wanted to run the tracks and wear off the laziness that had been radiating from him. 

"Oh, you both are here as well? Great! Let's all dance together." Gulf stated excitedly. 

The two stopped and stared at Gulf weirdly. Dance at 4 am? That's what they all were exactly wondering. 

"Oh! I now get it guys. Lover boy has occurred the fever of love probably after kissing his dream boy off on the first day they met." Chortled Nine, but quickly cupped his mouth when he realised he let out confidential information. 

The three just shook their head at their loose mouth brother. Gulf stood there for a while, processing the information he received before opening his mouth to speak. "What?! You guys know? You've been spying on me?" Gulf asked, dramatically cupping his face and getting shocked. 

"Well yeah we did and because of that we need to pay Thanit $5000 as well." Pavel said and slapped his mouth for letting out yet another information. 

Now the other three shook their head at their another loose mouth brother. 

"What the hell! You guys bet on me? On what precisely?" Gulf asked, pulling out a stool and sitting on it, anticipating the answer. 

"Well, Thanit said that you'll be the one approaching him and probably doing something bold. While the rest of us said that it might be Mew or nothing at all." Nine said shrugging. 

"Wow! I cannot believe you guys." Gulf said scoffing. 

"Yeah we know and we are sor-" but before Tae could finish he was cut off by Gulf. 

"I cannot believe you guys have such little faith in me? Being my brothers. Oh my god!" Gulf said pretending to wipe his invisible tears. 

"Thank you Thanit! You're the only one who truly knows me." Gulf added dramatically bowing down to Thanit. 

While the other three looked at each other and bursted out laughing. 

"Wait so you aren't upset that we bet on you?" Tae asked amused. 

"Hell no!" Gulf replied. 

"Then I guess we should be doing it often from now on." Nine said giggling. 

"Wait until I bet your ass on having a boyfriend first." Gulf shot back cockily. 

"Shut up you asshole! I am not gonna have a boyfriend! I'll smack your ass if it turns out that I have a girlfriend instead." Nine said with a huff while crossing his arms.

"Try me bitch!" Gulf smirked, while Nine flipped his finger to Gulf. 

"Enough with the swearing session, Gulf, get ready to get your ass drilled." Pavel said smiling like a Cheshire cat and Gulf shivered at the action as he knew he'd be sweating buckets now. 

Gulf looked at Tae and Thanit with pleading eyes and a pout, while the two just shrugged. 

"That devil of a brother! He's worse than Lucifer himself! This is not your military training ground you devil and I am your cute little brother and not your subordinate!" Gulf yelled at Pavel who was walking out of the kitchen whistling and completely ignoring him.

Pavel was a special force officer, and had been serving in the army since he turned 21 and it already was the 4th year of his service and now he had been serving as a General. He was extremely skilled and excelled in handling almost every type of guns along with his over-the top in hand combat skills along with the excruciating special force training.

Pavel had trained Gulf ever since he himself started learning them and sometimes Nine and ther twin's bestfriend tagged along with them as well. The three youngsters with Pavel's help could fight to some extent to protect themselves though Gulf was a better fighter.

Gulf sighed dramatically and dragged his ass off the stool heading towards the door. "Guess I have a very sad life." 

"Baby, ever wonder how and where did he learn to be so damn dramatic?" Tae asked hugging Thanit. 

"You'll get your answers from various Asian Dramas, honey." Thanit said while chugging down his water. 

"I should start watching them then." Tae said teasingly. 

"Don't you dare!" Thanit said sternly with wide eyes, shooting daggers at his husband. 

"Why? I think it will be fun teasing you, since you hate me being all so dramatic." Tae said grinning and wiggling his brows.

"Well, your choice then." Thanit shrugged. "Do it and no sex for two weeks." Thanit said smirking at Tae and eying him from the corner of his eye. 

His husband was horrified at the thought, while Thanit smiled in victory and walked out of the door humming. 

"Oh no! You've got to be kidding me. Say that it isn't true. Babe! Babe!!!....baby!!?" Tae called out to Thanit while chasing behind him.

"Oh you do know very well that I ain't joking, honey. Now, if you are really sorry for what you said, reach the room before me and receive the reward or not." Thanit said biting his lower lip. 

Tae immediately wore a huge grin and lifted Thanit up on his arms dashing towards the bedroom, while Thanit giggled at his husband's eagerness. 

While the two married couples were blowing off their steam early in the morning, Gulf was already sweating buckets. 

"Phoomie! I am not going for a war you know." Gulf said panting hard as he was already on his 6th set for workout and Pavel had no intension of stopping him anytime soon.

"I know, but you should be fit and always ready for anything and everything. See, with the training I have you, you're already a pretty good fighter and can take down 6 men all alone." Pavel announced proudly. 

"Yes, all thanks to you. Now if you train me more, then I bet I could even smash inkstones with bare hands." Gulf said rolling his eyes.

"Yeah whatever, now get your ass up and follow me to the shooting range." Pavel said heading out the room, while Gulf followed behind slowly.

Their private shooting range that has practically become his home ever since he told the family about his match and ever since Pavel had come back for his break. 

Their shooting range was at the basement of the house and was quite wide with soundproof walls, proper lightings, props and various types of guns belonging to their family. Gulf head towards the changing room as soon as he entered the range inorder to not waste anymore time.

Gulf wore a breathable black range polo shirt, black jeans with a brown holster on the belt and a pair of sneakers that he used specifically while shooting since the feet pick up plenty of lead particles on the range. 

He quickly wore a Howard leight as ear protection and an amber coloured shooting glass and positioned himself infront of the counter, pointing his TX22 .22 LR semi-automatic rimfire pistol towards the target accurately and without waisting time pulled the trigger shooting six continuous shots before reviewing his shots. 

He had hit bullseye all the six times, causing a large hole at the centre he expected it since that's what Pavel had been training him so hard about. Hitting the bullseye everytime he shot bullets.

Pavel was very impressed at his skills since he was almost as a good as a professional. People might even mistake him as a professional shooter or something for his incredible skills at hitting the target directly at the desired point. He never once missed his target ever since he started shooting at the age of 11. 

"That was awesome pumpkin." Pavel said proudly as he walked towards Gulf. 

"Thanks Phoomie." Gulf said smiling at his brother. 

"You know I trained your ass off today since you missed the last shot yesterday and it didn't hit the center, but you covered it up today. I'm proud of you, my fighter." Pavel stated proudly. 

"I know Phoomie. Thanks for training me so hard. I'm confident enough to do good in the nationals." Gulf said beaming.

"Well then, continue your training until you're drained. I have to go drop princess to school since Tae's going to the office today. See you soon pumpkin." Pavel said before heading out, while Gulf continued with his shooting. 

"Morning princess! Ready to go and have fun in school?" Asked Pavel while scooping Lia in his arms. 

The little girl just nodded her head and smiled at her uncle. 

"Bye bye Papa, bye bye Dadda." Lia said while waiving her hand and giving flying kisses to her daddies. 

"No, I want real kisses. Please." Thanit said with his pleading eyes and a cute pout. 

Lia giggled and kissed her Papa goodbye while doing the same to his Dadda before leaving for school. 

Tae turned to Thanit and grabbed him by his waist, looking at him lovingly. "I love you so much, baby." He said kissing his husband's forehead. 

"I love you too much, much, much more, my lovely husband." Thanit responded while kissing his husband's lips softly. 

"Now, go and get ready since you would be going to the office, right?" Thanit asked while Tae nodded in response. 

"Oh! Mew said he'll be coming here, for signing off the deal officially. I told him not to and that I'd meet him later, but he said he had work around here and would stop by." Tae said shrugging.

"Is it so? He won't be coming here because he wants to see Gulf?" Thanit said smirking and wiggling his eyebrows at his husband. 

"Will see that only when he gets here, let's go now." Tae said hugging his husband tight and dragging him to their bedroom. 

While Tae was getting dressed, Thanit was on the phone with a client, whom he had a scheduled appointment with today. 

Thanit was one of the most famous architechtural designers in Thailand and his exceptional skills and model designs attracted a number of clients specially the elites. He had a number of clients waiting for him to design their buildings and he was thankful to his team and his employees for handling his work smoothly. Thanit had opted to work from home for Lia and occassionally visited his office to basically finalize projects and attend important meetings. His company TL designers were doing quite well nationally as well as internationally and he couldn't have been more proud as his hard work paid off.

"Baby, want me to drop you there?" Tae asked pecking Thanit's lips once the call ended.

Thanit just shook his head cutely. "Nah! I'll ask Li to drop me off or someone else. You should focus on your work now and not worry about me so much." Thanit said, while fixing his husband's necktie. 

"Move your ass out of the room now, or else you'll be late." Thanit said pushing his husband out of the door. 

Once they were out, Mew had already reached there and was smiling at Tae and Thanit. 

They then greeted each other and headed towards Tae's office for signing off the deal officially. Thanit had his appointment scheduled at noon, so he had enough time to kill until then, so he decided to go and see what Gulf was up to. 

Thanit walked through the spiral wooden stairs and stood before the metal door. He unlocked it once his fingerprint and iris were scanned and entered the room but there was no trace of Gulf though his clothes were still there. He decided to leave when he heard noises coming from the backyard. The basement was connected to the backyard with an escape door, leading to a narrow hallway and then to the backyard.

He quickly rushed towards the escape door and reached the backyard where Gulf was bickering with Li. 

"Mr. Lili!" 

"Stop calling me by that name Gulf!" Li said with gritted teeth. 

"No! Gimme back my gun then I'll stop calling you Lili, Mr. Lili." Gulf said sticking out his tongue. 

"Gosh Gulf! Stop fooling around with them. It's real and not fake for god's sake. I know you know how to handle them better than almost everyone out there, but it's still dangerou-" Li was cut off by Gulf. 

"Oh god! You're such a nag! You nag more than Tha. Now I understand why you two are best friends." Gulf complained. 

Thanit who had been witnessing everything had been nearing them stealthily which caught Li's attention, but Thanit told him to hush when Li was about to call him. Li understood what Thanit was upto and played along. 

"You're calling Thanit a nag?" Li asked wanting to get the younger fall in trouble for his choice of words. 

"I cannot say this infront of Tha or Tae because they will roast me alive and serve me for dinner. I am one innocent little child and they torture me." Gulf said fake crying.

Thanit then reached out and pulled Gulf's ear tightly. "I nag, huh? Me and Tae will roast you alive huh?" Thanit said huffing. 

"Ahhhh...ahhh...oooiiiii Tha! Are you trying to make me a one eared creature or what? Ooooiiiiii...Tha I'm sorry I won't do that again. Please... please... it hurts." Gulf pleaded while rubbing his palms together. 

"No! I'll take you to Tae wait!" Thanit retorted. 

"Tha, if you love Tae you'll not do that and if you love Lia, you'll stop torturing my ear." Gulf said with a smirk.

"You little devil. Always using them to get away from me huh?" Thanit said releasing his grip. 

While Gulf stealthily snatched his gun from Li Xian and ran toward the front of the house. He stopped for a moment and turned back to the two, sticking out his tongue and showing his gun to Li. "Now catch me if you can! Tortoises!" Gulf said while giggling and running away. 

"You...you!!! Wait till I catch you. You're dead!" Thanit said running towards Gulf followed by Li. 

Gulf however bumped into Nine who immediately snapped at him.

"Do you have buttons for eyes? You bloody moron!" He scowled at Gulf. 

"Shut up shorty or I'll blow your head up!" Gulf said smirking at his twin, knowing he's dead scared of guns. 

"This is domestic abuse! I'll report you to the police you asshole! And the fuck you carrying a Gun and roaming around the house?!" Yelled Nine. 

Meanwhile Li and Thanit reached and walked towards Nine and Gulf. 

Before they could catch him, Gulf was hiding behind Nine and dragging him in all directions. 

Nine just sighed. What a bad day it is indeed and such an asshole of a twin I got. He thought face palming himself and letting his giant twin drag his small body almost everywhere around the front of the house. 

Li finally caught Gulf after all the chase. He felt like he was getting younger his age and 10 times healthier just by running after Gulf alone. 

Gulf was still in his shooting costume, with his shooting glasses and all, except for the ear protections. 

Li was of Gulf's height, but that naughty kid had been covering Li's eyes and holding the gun in his hand up higher so that it couldn't be reached. 

Meanwhile, Tae and Mew came out of the front door and saw the whole scene Infront of them. Gulf suddenly froze in his spot seeing Mew and Vice versa. Mew was actually drooling over the visual Infront of him. Gulf looked too hot in his shooting outfit. It radiated a dominating and strong aura from him, which screamed sexy from all angles.

While these two were frozen in time looking at each other, Thanit and Nine locked gazes and smirked at each other. Pay back time, screamed their minds. 

Thanit snapped them from their drool land into reality by clearing his throat and coming near his husband followed by Nine. 

"What is Gulf doing with Li? What's going on early in the morning? He's supposed to be training right now right?" Tae asked Thanit with a frown. 

"That's what! He's been dragging Nine all over the yard and made us chase him like wild dogs. Li wanted him to hand over his gun and not walk around the house with it in his hand, but you know him right, he tricked us and had been running all over the whole time. He even told Li that I'm a nag and so is Li." Thanit said pouting at his husband, while Nine nodded his head frantically and simply added fuel to the fire by opening his mouth. 

"Tae, he also threatened me that he'll shoot my head if I open my mouth." He said with his puppy face, while Gulf stood there with wide eyes, listening to them rant him out Infront of MEW!! Why Infront of MEW!? 

Gosh! What the hell is going to happen now? He'll think I am a maniac. Gulf thought mentally kicking himself. 

"Oh, Mew, you're here. I didn't see you." Nine said greeting him and smirking at Gulf, while Thanit just shrugged. 

They were having the best times of their lives seeing Gulf screw up so bad. 

Gulf looked up at Mew, to see his expressions. 

Why the fuck is his face red? He's clenching his fist. Why? He's pissed? Angry? Because of what happened? What? Huh? Ooooiiii! So confusing. Gulf mentally conversed with himself, while tilting his head to the side.

And within a few moments, Mew burst out laughing. Huh? He's laughing? What why? What the fuck? This is more confusing? Gulf thought.

"Oh I'm sorry. This is just kind of funny, and Gulf is too cute." Mew said while Gulf blushed furiously. Mew literally found Gulf cute and not intimidating despite the threats and all he threw around here and there. It was adorable as hell in Mew's eyes.

"A fluffball tryna be a fire ball" that's what he'd describe Gulf as. 

The others just observed them not knowing what to do. 

"Ahem!" Tae cleared his throat. 

"Gulf, go back to your training and Li, call Pavel and tell him to come back. He isn't around that's why Gulf's out of control. Gulf, behave or else.." Tae said while motioning the slicing of throat action to Gulf. 

"I will behave Tae, please don't call the monster trainer please." Gulf pleaded. 

"Well, call me and here I come." Pavel said walking towards them and Gulf rolled his eyes. 

"Gosh! Why did you come back so soon? Be gone for a few hours already!" Gulf huffed motioning Pavel tp go away with his hands.

"Come on, I know you missed me. Let's continue drilling your ass now." Pavel said, putting his hands on Gulf's shoulder. 

He looked around and saw a shocked expression on Mew's face. He then realised what has caused that expression and then quickly retorted. "I meant drilling your ass in training. Not anything else." He said looking at Mew, who nodded in understanding. 

"Let us go as well, Mew." Tae said and kissed his husband goodbye. 

Gulf on the other hand was being dragged by Pavel. He looked over his shoulder and saw Mew looking at him, so he winked at Mew who immediately turned red at the action and Gulf motioned to him saying that he'll be calling later to which Mew nodded in agreement before leaving the premises with Tae in their own cars.