Punishment

"Everyone knows about it here Neil, it's only you that Sain always covers with new information you know."

"No, Faiz, you are the one like that." Neil doesn't believe Faiz's words, Sain loves him he can't do that.

Faiz shook Neil's shoulder again. "What's the matter with you, Neil?"

What's wrong with him?

"There's nothing Faiz. You're wrong about Sain, he's not like that. Sain is the first person I trust here," Neil said as he reassured himself.

"You can't see the mark on your neck?" Faiz pointed a glance between Neil and his neck.

Neil subconsciously raised his hand to rub his neck. "We can't look in the mirror anymore, can we?"

"Right," said Faiz finally, ending a topic that Neil didn't like at all.

Neil and Faiz were silent with their thoughts. Neil opened his voice again and said, "I don't want to go back."

"What?" Faiz walked closer to Neil in disbelief. "What did you say? Why do you always surprise me, Neil?"

Neil seems to be wrong in talking to Faiz, he is not ready to be asked about his wanting to stay here. Neil only shared his intentions with Faiz pepper, not to make this man forbid his decision. Neil then said, "You heard it."

Faiz grabbed Neil's shoulder in disbelief he shook him. "What are you doing, Neil? Does Skylar already know? He's trying there? While you—"

The door opened tightly, Neil immediately turned to find Sain coming through and pulling Neil close to him to distance himself from Faiz. Sain's gaze sharpened at Faiz with hatred that Neil could feel well.

"Why are you here, Neil?" His voice was flat with emphasis on each sentence causing Neil to shudder all over his body. He was afraid that Sain might misinterpret him and Faiz.

Neil opened his mouth only for him to close it again.

"Why are you mad at him? We were chatting," said Faiz casually which only made Neil restless.

"Right, Sain. We should go." Neil pulled Sain's arm across the doorway to exit the warehouse.

Neil looked back making a signal through his eyes that he was apologizing to Faiz for Sain's completely impolite behavior by asking such a question.

Sain took Neil to the roof of the school and immediately cornered Neil on the wall pressing his knee between Neil's thighs. Neil's heart rumbled, his breathing erratic as they headed here.

"Riksa?"

"Hmm?"

"Why are you like this, Riksa?" asked Neil almost squeaking. He looked into Sain's darkening eyes, those lips pressed into a straight line.

"Don't you think?" The deep voice dragged against the surface of Neil's exposed skin.

"Riksa, it's at school," Neil stretched Sain closer to Neil feeling each other's body heat.

"You ran away from me. Meanwhile, you came to the man?"

"He's Faiz, Skylar's best friend," Neil choked out as Sain's hand pressed his body tighter.

"You even dared to name the two of them in front of me."

Neil chose to remain silent in his fear. The thought of Faiz's words suddenly flashed straight to the surface.

"I've read it in a book in this library and remember when you mentioned it. You also don't know that there is a small black crescent-shaped mark on your neck. It's a sign of Sain's complete ownership of you, Neil. How could you be tricked by him with the trouble this big."

"Riksa, what are you doing? Please stop, this is at school. This is not good at all," he said as he kept Sain's hand away from him.

"So you chose to be with that guy?"

Neil's brows knitted with Sain's words, he didn't expect Sain to say words that had never even crossed Neil's mind.

"I love you, Riksa. How can that be?" Neil replied resignedly. Sain held Neil's body which felt weak like jelly.

"Of course, you love me." Their lips met, Neil would never get used to this. In his, mind he kept screaming that what they were doing was wrong.

However, his heart continues to oppose that he loves Sain and this is the best for him. This is Neil's source of happiness now.

Neil nodded in response to Sain's words. He squirmed more and more and voices escaped his lips.

"Since you've been avoiding me constantly, then of course I'll punish you."

"Riksa."

After saying that Neil was lulled back into space and time, the world seemed to be in his hands, happiness bubbling and ready to explode at any moment in his chest cavity.

He felt this again and was so happy that Sain punished him it meant he loved Neil so much.

When the rage bloomed at its peak, Neil didn't know why his tears suddenly melted and his choking breath hurt.

However, what is certain is that he loves Neil even if it's for no reason. Because love doesn't need to have a reason.

***

Neil rested his head on the palms of his elbows pressing his knees. He blinked now and then, observing the people moving swiftly to and fro in the middle of the field. As if there had never been a problem that crossed their lives. Neil's lips curled into a thin curve when he saw Sain who was flashing at him from the center of the field.

Neil observed how the hand that had touched him gripped a large orange ball and threw it right into the ring smoothly.

Neil's smile grew wider as Sain walked closer to him. Neil swiftly handed a bottle of water to Sain happily.

"You're not playing?"

Neil shook his head, still with a smile that never left his face.

"Why are you always smiling? You remember something?" Sain's eyebrows rose and fell teasing him.

Neil kicked Sain's shin and was satisfied when Sain finally winced in pain from it.

"I'm in pain," Neil said shyly he moved away from Sain's sight and didn't want to see the grin playing there.

"Want me to heal him?" asked Sain pretending that he looked guilty.

"And let you do it again. I certainly don't want to."

Sain smiled and chuckled lightly. He walked forward towards Neil who carried a sudden feeling of worry.

Neil's eyes widened as Sain looked down and kissed him lightly on the cheek.

"Riksa?" Neil's eyes wandered wildly around, afraid that people would see him, and heaved a sigh of relief when he didn't find what he was nervous about.

"Wow, I caught you back." That mocking voice came from behind him which was enough to create a deep sense of shame within Neil.