Scentless Curiosity [KristSingto Fanfic]

24: Mysterious Admirer

Kit: My mid-sem break started!!!!! I mean, only 2 weeks but that's still enough for a break even though we still have projects to work on.

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  Today was just like any other day at work, Krist left the house after Singto did, bringing along whatever he needed for work. He took public transport, arriving just a few minutes before he would be considered late.

  Everything went as per usual, with him helping out in areas he could and if he could not, he would pay attention and file the things he learnt in his brain. That is until eleven o'clock when a delivery came in. The young man was sending in flowers, he stopped at the entrance of the office area to check the name of the recipient before calling out with his booming voice.

"Krist Perawat?"

For me...?

  He got up to head towards the delivery man, brows slightly furrowed in confusion. Why would anyone send him anything? Especially flowers.

  P'Ying dropped her work for a moment, curiosity getting the better of her. "Oh! Someone has an admirer~" He only looked over to her before settling the bouquet down somewhere where it would not obstruct his work, opting not to answer as his cheeks held a faint blush.

"Oo! There's a note, quick, read it!"

  She was going to stay for the 'note reveal' but somebody else called for her help so she had to leave, thankfully. After she left, Krist picked up the small note, it read:

  'Beautiful flowers to complement the beauty.'

-P.R-

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  From that day onwards, he kept receiving small gifts from this person 'P.R'. Each came with a note, which made him feel flattered that somebody would feel the need to send him gifts. He thought his fiancé would mind him bringing home gifts and flowers from a potential suitor but said man only smiled at him saying, "Of course they would like you, what's there not to love about you? Besides, you're mine already, they can't steal you away from me."

  Was a lover and future-husband supposed to react like this? He didn't know exactly how one should act but he thought 'Tuan would get jealous but it seemed he was confident in his position in Krist's heart.

  The notes varied, sometimes they were compliments, other times they were something slightly more personal. Which scared Krist a little. Like, how did they know what flavour of ice cream he had in his fridge?

  This whole situation felt slightly off to Krist, until three weeks in and he received another note.

  'Here's a small koala plush for you, since you're like an upsized koala.'

-P.R-

How do they know about my clinginess when I sleep? Unless...

  They were someone who he spent his nights with.

  Which left only one person.

  His phi.

  Honestly, why did he not think of it anytime sooner? The initials even matched, Prachaya Ruangroj. His phi would definitely be the type to do this and act like he didn't know anything at all. For some reason he had great acting skills to rely on.

  When Singto got home that day, Krist straightforwardly asked him about it. Singto only gave an innocent smile before heading off into the bedroom to grab a new set of clothes.

The next day

"Krist, you've got flowers again. They're gillyflowers this time?"

  It was a normal occurrence by now so the people got to the point where they would guess the name of the flowers or the gifts in the box.

"Yeah... Gillyflowers."

  A soft smile hung off his lips as he remembered the flower's significance. He stretched out his long fingers and picked up the note gently.

  'Seems like I was found out, huh?

  Yes, P.R stands for Prachaya Ruangroj. But~

  Did you know it also could stand for Perawat Ruangroj?'

-You know who-

  His face immediately set ablaze when he read 'Perawat Ruangroj', he had yet to decide whether to take his fiancé's surname but it sounded pretty nice. So nice that he unconsciously smiled sweetly at the note and flowers.

"What's going on here, huh? Smitten already?"

  P'Ying, noticing his obvious raging blush, decided to bother him for a while. Conveniently taking a glance at the note while she was at it. Once her eyes landed on the name 'Prachaya Ruangroj', her eyes went as wide as saucers. Who did not know who their boss was?! The same exact person as the one who was sending these gifts to her lovely and cute junior!

  Krist straightened out his face as he kept the bouquet away, noticing that his senior was frozen on the spot, he became worried. "P'Ying? Are you okay?"

"N-nothing. Nothing at all! Uh, you continue!"

  She decided it was best that this intern not know who his suitor was exactly since he was leaving in a month's time.

Later that day...

"Phi, why did you send those things?"

"I wanted to find out how long you'd take to realise that I know where you were working."

"But how...?"

"Because it's my company and I walked pass your department before."

  "What?!" Okay, I knew he was rich and all. But out of all companies in the world, it had to be his?!

  Needless to say, Singto spent a lot of effort to calm the shell-shocked man down.