“Only you and me this time, I’Li”
“Yeah”
During the same day after returning back from the concern. When the night arrives, Lifa turns her PC on and gets in discord as Boom has said. She hopped into VC with Boom alone because the others are either at work or busy studying.
“Do you have any games on your PC?”
“Uh…..No, I don’t”
“Get into the website…Seriously, are you in the mood to play games right now?”
For some reason, Boom asks this just in case.
“Not much…I barely play any games after all”
“Really? What do you usually do besides just reading books?”
“Well…When I was at my old house I just watched a little bit of TV, Play with some friends…Something like that”
“What about them now?”
Lifa paused for a moment before answering.
“No idea, Now we don’t talk anymore”
“Is it because you changed schools?”
“Yeah…That’s one of the reason”
“(Shit…What a drama)W- What about the others?”
“My father is really strict about making friends, Everytime I brought them to meet him, he always said ‘You should’ve find a better friend’ or something like that…”
Her voice gradually lowered as she spoke.
Looks like Dome had gone too far.
“So the reason why you moved here is to…”
“I told my parents that I would be able to concentrate more on studying. The didn’t believe at first but after negotiate for a while they finally gave in”
“I really love your negotiation skill, ngl”
“Oh, shut up”
They both lightly laugh, Then they talk for a while until they probably forgot their original purpose.
This might be one of a few times in his life that he has found real close friends beside Tar and Chompoo. She’s also quite a cute and famous person.
To be honest, Boom still thinks that he’s not very worthy for her because he’s lived a rather lousy life. He almost got an F in first semester if it weren’t for Lifa’s help and the prizes that Tak liked to lure him with.
“What time is it now?” Boom asked.
“Almost 10pm. I’ll go to bed now”
“Ok ok, see ya”
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After speaking, Lifa left the VC. Boom just sighed and muttered ‘Are you my mom? idiot’
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Many days later.
It was a small school break for Boom, to be honest. It's like the school is just going on maintenance to update new and even more annoying content, which is haunting Boom right now.
“You got a semester break homework, bro?” Beam asked.
Boom thought about it for a second before replied ‘Maybe not’.
“You sure?”
“Why you ask?”
“Cus P’Li asked me about this yesterday”
“When did that happen?”
“A little late in the morning”
“I woke up at noon, ya’know?”
Damn it, Boom laying down on the sofa.
Because it’s Sunday, all the family members are now gathering in the living room.
Tak is washing the dish, Chai and beam are on their phone and Boom is just laying down with a fairly loud sound TV used as a bgm.
“You got homework?” Asked Chai.
“I don’t know, I just heard it”
“Just do it if you have any. Only one week left until the new semester" Said Tak.
Although she said hurry, Boom still has know idea what it is.
In this case, Boom makes contact with Lifa. While waiting, he walked up the stairs to get his phone charger.
*Ding dong* His phone vibrated. Boom picked it up and found that Lifa had replied ‘Look at the window on your left’.
He was confused at first but eventually did as she said.
“Boom~”
“What the fuck…”
What he sees is Lifa in casual clothes waving back with a smile on her face as if she had succeeded in teasing him.
“What’s up with you?”
“I wanna try something like this for a long time, ya’know?”
“Whatever, Do we have semester break homework?”
Boom gets to the point, Lifa then brings out the essay and shows it to him.
“From guidance class. It’s an essay about the economy”
(Isn’t it supposed to belong in social studies?)
But that is not the case.
“Take a picture and send it to me, I can’t see it from here”
“My phone just dies, I’ll go give it to you”
“Ok, Just throw it nic–”
*Bam* Lifa closed the window door after finishing speaking and rushed to the first floor.
“...Wasn't she going to throw it?”
Shortly after, He heard Beam shout to get down there.
(It is what I think it is?)
It is exactly what you think.
When he went down stairs, through the living room and arrived at the front of the home. He was greeted by Nelly who unexpectedly ran and clung to him.
“Nelly?”
“She wants to come too, Hope you’re not mind”
Boom sighed after hearing that. It’s not like he hates her or anything, Just a little surprised.
“Why you here?”
“As I said, I’ll help you. And Nelly wants to see you apparently”
Meow~ Nelly growl as if she knows human language.
“Kiity~”
Beam saw Nelly and reached out to her. Nelly sniffed her hand before clinging to it.
“Good afternoon, Uncle and Auntie”
Lifa entered the living room and greeted Tak and Chai inside. So they both responded in a friendly way.
‘I’d like to come hang out and play for a bit’ Lifa politely ask, To which Tak replied ‘You’re welcome’.
When permission is completed. Lifa then left the living room and went straight to hand an essay to Boom, who’s playing with Nelly on the stairs with Beam.
“Uh…Not that much, huh? I’ll do it later”
“Always like this…and ended up breaking your wrist” Lifa complained.
Lmao, Beam burst out laughing. It almost made Lifa bursting out as well.
“You’re always like this, bro”
“You’re not any better, Beam. You still asked me to go talk to the teacher in the other day, you lummox”
“Can’t you just shut up about that?”
“You’re the one who started it”
Before the violence erupted. Nelly suddenly runs to the second floor, Lifa follows her, So as Boom and Beam.
Nelly stopped in front of Boom’s room and scratched her nails like she wanted to go in.
“Nelly, what are you doing? His door is all scratched” Neely speaks as she lifts Nelly up.
“You can let her continue, ya’know?”
Beam purposely jokes around to mess with Boom. But Boom just snatched Nelly from Lifa.
“Wanna go inside?”
“Meow~”
‘So be it’ Boom opened the door. Nelly jumped off him and entered the room. She walks around for a bit before jumping onto his gaming chair and lying down.
“That’s easy,” Beam muttered.
“Is it really ok, Boom?” Asked Lifa.
“It’s ok, If she wants to come again, Let her come, ok?”
Boom walked over and lifted Nelly off so he could start working on the essay Lifa had given to him. But Nelly is still snuggled with Boom, which he is ok with.
Lifa and Beam just stared at Boom from outside.
“.....Will you 2 come in or not? If not, then close the door for me, ok? The mosquito are no jokes here”
“I’ll pass, see ya” And Beam just walked back to her room, which is right next to him.
“Well…If you excuse me”
Lifa entered Boom’s room and closed the door. She looks around for a moment before Boom brings a nearby plastic chair for her to sit on.
“The room looks pretty open” She muttered.
“Do whatever you wish to do, There’s manga and light novel on the shelf if you want to read it”
“Ok…”
She observes the books on the shelf, Since there are quite a lot of them, it takes some time before she can choose.
“Hm?”
While she’s picking the book, Her eyes get hooked by a handful of gold medals hanging by the window. The logo on the medals is different Perhaps it’s from a different school.
“Hey…What are these medals?” She asked, curiously.
“It from when I was a runner”
Boom answered in a rather quiet voice and sounded faster than usual. His facial expression is clearly gloomy even though he tried to look away.
Deep down, Lifa really wanted to ask more but judging from his facial expression right now, Asking would only trigger Boom’s pain even more, so she remained silent.
“Meow~”
When Nelly saw his gloomy expression. She went to cling with him before jumping and sitting on his lap.
Boom smiled for a bit before patting Nelly's head.
“She never did this to others, you know?”
“Only with you?”
“Yeah, but rarely”
Lifa walked back and sat with a book. She sat and read while she scratching Nelly’s back.
“You wanna know why I quit being a runner?”
That question made Lifa eyes widen in surprise.
“Why so sudden..?”
“C’mon, just hear me out. It’s something I’ve been unsettled for a long time. I want to find a place to spill it out”
Boom leaned back in his chair.
“.....Go on” Since he gave permission, Lifa took the opportunity to sit and listen.
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Boom’s path to becoming a runner began when he was in primary school at his old school.
It was during a sports festival. At first, Boom is just an ordinary cheerer, but then…
“Where’s that runner kid!?”
“His friend told me he got hit by a car”
“What the fuck!? It’s almost time for a race! Do we have anyone we can replace him with?”
Upon hearing the news, The staff and people in the team were worried because the injured person was their trump card on the running side. And when there were no runners, they had to quickly find replacements.
“I’Boom”
And Boom was accidentally around there.
“What’s wrong, bro?”
“Are you fast enough?” One of the staff members asked.
“Quite a bit” Boom answered.
“C’mon, I’Boom is sure fast, Give it a try”
Someone gaslighting him, So It’s worth giving it a try.
Eventually, Boom was forced to become a runner.
The result was fascinating.Boom’s able to win 1st place in a qualifying round. Not only that, he also dominated an entire race on his own.
“You’re not half bad”
“Right?”
After that, the team sent Boom to be a runner’s representative until he reached the final round, Which he’s able to win without much difficulty.
This is like a new future to Boom.
Since then, he has been training everyday until he entered his current school where he met Tar and Chompoo. He’s still training.
And when there’s a sports festival, whenever there is a single men's race. Everyone always asked Boom to go compete, which he didn’t mind.
“Hey, I’Boom. Go for it”
“Can you do this for the team, brother?”
“I’Boom is fast, He’ll sure win this”
All the words he heard were words of encouragement that kept pushing him forward.
But at the same time, it also increases indirect pressure on him as well.
Everyone out there trusts Boom alone to win various gold medals.
Got approached and semi-forced to compete in many events. At first, Boom didn’t think anything of it, but after a while it started to become more and more frequent until it could not be controlled. To the point where he had injuries on both ankles.
To the point where Tak and Chai had to get involved. By having Boom refrain from competing for months at the time.
“Dear, Are you sure you want to compete in this race?” Tak asked with concern.
“Yes, mom. I’m Ok…”
“Good luck, brother”
After many months of break, Boom has decided to compete in a national running event. If he wins, he can go to the SEA games level.
But that meant he had to bear enormous pressure from both his friends at school and the people in the province because according to the rules, each province could only send one representative. Needless to say, Boom is everyone's pick as usual.
This is the first day of the contest. Therefore, the first race is the qualifying round from a total of 77 people. And the competitor must enter the top 50 to continue. Which will compete with 7 people at a time and the top 5 will go on to the other round.
‘To all the contestants, Please come to the race track’
After the announcement, Boom got up and left the room to go to the race track.
(C’mon, my ankles. Please don’t let me down, right now)
About Boom’s injuries. Although it’s gotten better, it’s still not fully recovered. He still has some pain but it is at a tolerable level.
Boom got into position and did a starting position like the other runner.
“Go!”
*Bang!* As soon as the shot is fired, All the runners start running like they’re chasing the ice-cream truck. With Boom in 1st place.
(Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!)
Everything went smoothly, until…
*Crack*
(Argh!?)
Boom’s left ankles made a loud cracking noise, causing the injury to intensify until he fell to his knee.
(GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!?)
Good thing that he is on the lead and very close to the finish line. So Boom forced himself to endure the pain and dragged himself like that.
But he couldn’t make it, the other contestants ran ahead of him until almost all of them crossed the finish line.
Only a runner from Chaing Rai who rushed to help and carried Boom to the finish line first, then followed him.
Boom has officially lost the qualifying round and unfortunately is unable to continue.
After the race finished, the medical team rushed in to examine him before taking him to the hospital.
The loss of Boom prevented his province from continuing. And there were some people who were dissatisfied with this.
On social media, there are various comments that criticize and insult Boom such as ‘What a loser’, ’Disappointment’, ’Noob’ including various types of insults. Without realizing before that Boom had an ankles in jury.
But they wouldn’t listen, even if they were told.
Although Tak and Chai have already filed a defamation charge against those fucking lummox. But the wound in Boom’s heart still hasn’t healed.
He had completely disappointed the people who believed in him. And wherever he goes, there’re always people whispering about him, even in school.
(God fucking damn it…)
His life revolved around something like this for almost half a year. This makes Tar, Chompoo and Beam have to protect him all the time.
That makes Boom thinking.
(Why the fuck did I compete it in the first fucking place!? If I know it’s going to end like this, then I should not had do it in the first fucking place!)
Since then, Boom didn’t compete in any racing contests at all. And the story gradually became quieter and quieter until people completely forgot about it.
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