Chapter 11

Hiro ate until he was full and his stomach bulged a little. He couldn't remember the last time he felt so full. "Can I pack the rest?" he asked Raiden with wide eyes.

Raiden didn't really care. "Sure. They would only feed it to dogs anyway."

Hiro didn't take Raiden's words to heart. After all, he needed the food. He had to make his sister and brother taste them!

Raiden meant for his words to hurt Hiro but seeing as the boy was happily wiping his lips with a tissue, he felt irritated. After all those years of constantly chasing, this is what Hiro chose. To live as a pauper. Even that day, when things went south for Hiro's family, he had appeared. He had offered his help but...

'Go away! Go away! Go away!'

Those were the words Hiro screamed over and over again, pushing and kicking him, shouting at him to get lost. Raiden could never forget that day. The rejection was worse than any he had ever received from Hiro before.

"Why?" Hiro asked, breaking Raiden's thoughts. It was weird. After everything that had transpired between them, Raiden was still helping him. "Why did you buy me dinner?"

Raiden leaned back on the couch, wearing a small smile. "No particular reason," he said. He slowly gazed at Hiro from head to toe. He was too thin. A shadow of what he once was. Raiden's heart hurt to see how low Hiro had fallen. "Have you ever wondered how amazing life would have been for you if you had just accepted my help that day?"

Hiro scoffed. Accepting Raiden's help that day would have been akin to selling himself. Raiden had offered to help his family in exchange for Hiro's hand in marriage. Hiro had just graduated high school when everything went downhill. How could he accept to marry a stalker? And obsessed freak. Who knew what Raiden had planned then? In fact, who knew what he was planning currently?

"I don't like men," Hiro said blankly, hoping Raiden would get it and leave him alone.

"You don't have to like men" Raiden shrugged. "You can just like me."

Hiro was starting to think Raiden had a mental problem. "Don't you get it? You're also a man."

"Yes," Raiden answered. "Just one man whom you can learn to like. It isn't so difficult."

Hiro felt Raiden was being unreasonable. Even after all these years, he hadn't gotten over him. Still, he wanted to thread lightly. Raiden was his employer now. "I like females," he said. "I like boobs."

"Oh I like them too" Raiden chuckled, staring at Hiro's flat chest. "Yours are quite small though but it's not a problem. They'll protrude in no time once I fatten you up."

"Stop this!" Hiro's hands went to his chest immediately, covering them in the form of an X with his arms. "You know what I mean! Stop twisting my words!"

"Ah?" Raiden cocked his head. "I don't know what you mean. Elaborate."

"You know!" Hiro insisted. "I like women. I like their...their...you know, that place." Hiro blushed slightly, unable to pronounce the word. He was a gentleman. He couldn't say such vulgar words.

"Oh that place," Raiden said, feigning surprise. He stood up and circled the table, sitting next to Hiro. He suddenly grabbed one of Hiro's legs and set it over his shoulder, making Hiro lay on the couch. He leaned in so he and Hiro were face to face.

Hiro was stunned. When did things escalate so quickly? Raiden's movements were so swift. One second he was sitting and the next, he was lying on the couch with Raiden on top of him. He tried to move but couldn't. Raiden was directly above him, holding his leg captive in a vice-like grip. "W-What are you doing?"

"You know, Hiro, about that place..." Raiden said, staring into Hiro's beautiful champagne-coloured eyes. "You have one too."

Hiro was thoroughly confused. He had one? "Are you insane? Let me go! I don't have one!"

Raiden smirked. "Isn't it just a hole?" His smokey grey eyes were full of mirth. Teasing Hiro like this was so fun. Back then, he could never get so close.

Hiro gasped as it dawned on him what Raiden meant. He unconsciously squeezed his butt, protecting the place in between. "N-No! The locations are different!"

"But it's a hole too isn't it?" Raiden teased. His free hand went below, cupping Hiro's plump ass. He was surprised to find it firm and big. His hand couldn't cover it.

"Stop!" Hiro shouted, squirming on the couch. He felt uncomfortable.

"The location doesn't matter. It serves the same purpose for me." Raiden said then squeezed Hiro's fleshy butt, chuckling. "You seem so thin but this place is thicker than everywhere. Everything you eat seems to come here."

That was the last straw.

SMACK!

Raiden's head whipped to the side with force as a loud crisp sound rang out in the room.

This was the second time. The second time he had been slapped by Hiro. All the playfulness in him suddenly vanished, replaced by rage. Why? Why does Hiro reject him every time? What was so wrong about him? What did he lack?

He turned with a very strong intention to hurt Hiro but was stunned to find Hiro crying. His eyes were red as tears spilt down his face like a waterfall. He kept his arms up, afraid that Raiden would hit back.

"I'm sorry" he sobbed. "I'm sorry. I just- I didn't like it. I'm sorry. Please don't fire me. Don't hit me either. Please, I'm sorry."

How could Raiden bear to hurt him? He never intended to hit him at all. He only wanted to hurt him with the cruellest words possible. He didn't think Hiro would cry. The Hiro he knew had a solid backbone. Had poverty broken Hiro down so much?

He grabbed both of Hiro's hands and raised them above his head. Hiro tried to move but he couldn't. Raiden was too strong.

"I can end this for you, Hiro" Raiden said, staring right into his eyes. "You know I can. There's nothing I won't do for you. All you have to do is become mine. Indefinitely."

But that was something Hiro would never agree to. He didn't like Raiden like that. Raiden scared him. Raiden used to stalk him and keep pictures of him. He shook his head.

"No. Never. Let me go."

He struggled to get out of Raiden's vice-like grip but the more he moved, the tighter Raiden held him.

"Why are you so stubborn?" Raiden asked, enraged. "Why do you always reject me, Hiro? I have nothing but the purest intentions for you."

"Your intentions are not pure" Hiro cried. "They were never pure. Y-You used to stalk me. Y-You wanted to do things to me. Why can't you leave me alone?"

Raiden went silent, staring at the crying boy beneath him. His grey eyes darkened considerably as he thought of the things he could do to Hiro right there. He could take him. He could have him all to himself and there was nothing Hiro or anyone would be able to do about it.