12:30 pm Puppy Honey Cafe. Come Alone.

Arthit bit the inside of his cheek once more. He was sitting in the back booth of the cafe eating a large slice of strawberry cake that was accompanied by some pink milk.

"He said to come alone," Arthit spoke to the person next to him. Byul offered him a smile as she happily ate a giant slice of chocolate cake with some iced coffee.

"What's the fun in that? As a potential client of Boy For Rent, I want to know how this entire thing works." Byul tells him with a cheeky smile that causes him to roll his eyes at her. Even so, Byul smiles brightly.

"Anyway. I'll only be here for a few minutes. I have an appointment at the agency today" Byul pointed out. Despite the fact that Arthit was arguing with Byul for tagging along with him he was grateful to her because he wasn't so sure that he would have had the courage to show up on time at the meeting.

It had been Byul that had dragged him out of work and had made him drive to the cafe. He hated to admit the fact that he would have never had the courage to come alone. If Byul was not sitting beside him he might have not stayed for this long.

He also knew that this was the entire reason why Byul had tagged along with him. He was thankful for the fact that she didn't say this out loud to him. They knew each other enough to understand these kinds of things.

"You're not eating?" Byul questioned.

"I can't really hold anything down." He admitted nervously. Byul sighs and takes his hand.

"It will be alright my little Kitten the big bad wolf won't eat you." Byul jokes. Just as those words leave her lips there was a sound of a bell as the front door of the cafe opened. All eyes in the cafe shifted towards the door and jaws dropped.

There was a tall man with tan skin, dark hair, and a playful smirk on his face. He wore a gray suit, his hair was perfectly styled and as he walked he did so with purpose.

"Oh my god! He's so hot!" Byul squealed beside Arthit who was busy ogling the handsome man like the rest of the people in the cafe. He had felt as though someone had slapped him upside the head as his heart hammered away. His eyes caught those of that handsome man who offered him a charming smile.

He was woken up from his daydream by Byul who slapped his leg.

"Get it together Arthit. Pick your drool off the floor and close your mouth before he gets here!" She whisper yelled at him. Blushing Arthit quickly shook his head as though to knock some sense into himself. He doesn't know why but his heart is racing so fast.

He has never seen a man as handsome as this. When the guy approaches the table he smiles and then extends a bouquet of yellow Chrysanthemum flowers.

"For you." He tells Arthit who blushes a bright red as he takes them. Before he can give thanks Byul speaks up for him.

"Does this mean he wants your Chrysanthemum flower," Byul speaks up. If Arthit could die it would be right then and there.

"Byul! 별! 당신이 무슨 말을하는거야! (What are you saying!)" He snaps angrily in Korean.

"What?" Byul speaks with a shrug. A sigh is heard from the man in front of them and then he sits down he waves at the person at the cash register who nods.

"You must be a regular here," Byul says to him. Kongpob ignores her and turns to Arthit with a smile. The women around them are all staring and when one of the workers of the cafe brings Kongpob a black coffee he offers another charming smile and a thanks.

"I thought I made it clear that you were to come alone." His voice was cold and sent shivers up Arthit's spine. He can't help but feel intimidated. Something flickered in Kongpob's eyes and then he smiled again and shrugged.

"But what the hell do I know. You're the client. It's your discretion. So what? Do you want some kind of threesome because I don't sleep with women"

"I don't want to sleep with you" Arthit manages to say with a flushed face. The man in front of him looks at him with a smirk.

"Really?" He questions playfully, the smile on his lips never leaving.

"I'm one of the Top Boys at our agency. I assure you I can leave you fully satisfied." The handsome man winks at him and Arthit flushes red.

"No thank you." He answers politely causing the man in front of him to throw his head back and laugh wholeheartedly as though Arthit has told him the funniest joke in the world. His shoulders are shaking as he raises the back of his hand up to his lips and slightly thrown his head back. Despite the fact that Arthit feels embarrassed at that moment he can't help but notice how handsome this man is even when he laughs.

The handsome man in front of him shakes his head as he looks at him. He clears his throat and collects himself.

"Well... I can always change your mind." He offers him another wink and Arthit simply reaches to take a large sip of his pink milk.

"Can I ask you a question?" Byul speaks up.

"Go ahead." The handsome man speaks, though Arthit notes that the smile in his eyes is gone and his cold demeanor returns.

"How many clients have you slept with?"

"All of them."

"Ew." The words leave his lips before he can stop them and Arthit presses a hand to his mouth. A look of surprise is on the handsome man's face before he once again laughs.

"And that's my cue to leave." Byul says. She kisses his cheek and stands up.

"I have an appointment at the agency. I hope the guy I get is as good looking as you." She tells the handsome man before she leaves.

"내가 널 죽일거야! (I'm going to kill you!" He shouts at Byul who is laughing as she rushes out waving happily and heading to her car. The entire cafe is now looking at him for his outburst and Arthit blushes apologizing first in Korean and then properly in Thai when he receives some looks of confusion.

He wants to bolt out of the cafe as he sees the look in the Handsome man's eyes.

"Sit." The man tells him coldly before pulling him down to his seat. Arthit's butt hits the chair with a thud and he blushes.

"Sorry... that came out wrong I."

"It didn't," The Handsome man tells him offering him a smile.

"But tell me. What's a perfect person like you renting out a playboy like me?" Arthit winced hearing this man throw this fact back at his face.

"You didn't read my file?" He finds himself asking after a few minutes. The handsome man offers him a smirk.

"What's the fun in that? You seem to have a perception of me so why can't I guess something about you too?" There's a rude tone in his voice that makes Arthit bite the inside of his cheek.

"And what is that?" He questions. He doesn't know why he continues to push this handsome man back even though he knows that this person wants to say hurtful words to him because he, in turn, had been rude first.

"Well..." The handsome man begins as he pulls Byul's chocolate cake towards him and grabs the clean spoon beside Arthit's cake.

"You don't mind do you?" The Handsome man questions nonchalantly as he takes a spoonful of the chocolate cake. Arthit notes that he only eats around where Byul had not eaten from the cake.

"So... let me think..."

"You're a virgin... that's never gotten laid and wants my help to land himself a hot boyfriend." Arthit blushes and finds himself glaring.

"No." Arthit tells him.

"I know you don't want to sleep with me... So do you want me to help you come out to your parents or make someone jealous?"

"Neither. My mother knows about me."

"And your father? He can't quite accept you" Kongpob questions.

"My father died before I was born," Arthit tells him. The smirk on Kongpob's face leaves and something quickly flickers in his eyes as he grows quiet.

"I'm sorry..."

"It's fine. It happened a long time ago. I've had a happy life for the most part. My mom just got married to my University professor. He's a very kind man and also accepts me for who I am."

"That's nice to hear.... not everyone accepts others." Arthit could see pain flicker in the handsome man's eyes if only for a moment, he doesn't say more and Arthit doesn't press him to say more.

"So.. why then? Are you lonely? That's the only other reason I'm hired or to be shown off." The Handsome man tells him.

"Not really."

"Then?" The handsome man questions raising and eyebrow.

"I need you to pretend to be my boyfriend for three months."

"Why?"

"It's complicated....but before that can I at least know your name." The man is quiet for a moment and then nods.

"First tell me why you hired me." Arthit bites the inside of his cheek but nods.

"My girlfriend cheated on me." A bitter smile is on his lips and Arthit looks at the strawberry cake in front of him. He does not notice when the Handsome man waves the waiter over and motions for another spoon but when it is placed in front of him Arthit takes it quickly and grabs as much cake as he can while he speaks.

"After five years together I find her sleeping with one of my friends. She kept saying how I wasn't enough and all these things about me being predictable. It was really making me feel pathetic." Arthit frown as he stuffs a giant piece of cake in his mouth. The Handsome man in front of him is quiet but watching him with amusement in his eyes for some reason.

"What?" Arthit questions as he tries to quickly chew and swallow the mouthful of strawberry cake he has just stuffed in his mouth. He gulps it down with pink milk and hums at the sweetness.

"Wow..." The Handsome man says to him.

"I know... I'm pathetic. I hired someone to pretend to date me."

"You're cute. You don't have options?" The Handsome man questions but Arthit simply continues to eat stuffing his mouth again mainly to stop his feelings.

"Does it look like I want to date someone right now?" He questions. The other man looked at him for a moment and chuckled while Arthit continued to eat not realizing that he has frosting at the corner of his lips as he ate messily.

"So you just want me to pretend to be your boyfriend for the next three months."

"Hmm," Arthit replied nodding.

"I want to prove that I can be fine without her. Even if it's a lie for now." Arthit tells him. He looks down at his plate and suddenly finds it empty. He looks at his pink milk and realizes that it too is almost gone. He frowns wondering how this was possible.

"Wouldn't revenge be a lot better? Sleeping with someone, giving them that same feeling." Something flickers in the Handsome man's eyes. Rage maybe? Arthit doesn't bother to ask more but answers this person with reason.

"What would I gain from it? Doesn't that hurt you more in the end? I already feel pathetic, what is feeling empty going to make me? I'd be like her if that was me. It means not only did I not love her or respect her but that I can't love and respect myself. There's a lot of things this relationship took from me. I want to keep the little self-respect I still have left." He tells the handsome man.

"Do you love yourself?" The Handsome man questions. After a long period of silence where Arthit feels uncomfortable, in order to break the tension, Arthit takes another sip of his pink milk. He then pulls Byul's chocolate cake towards him and begins to eat the part that the handsome man avoided. He doesn't care that Byul ate from there. She's like his sister they use to eat from the same plate when they were younger and Byul would sometimes steal his toothbrush when they were younger because Arthit's was pink and hers was yellow.

"Arthit?" The Handsome man questions. It's the first time that he has heard this man call his name and surprisingly his tone is quite soft and velvet-like as he says it. Arthit stuffs a giant piece of cake into his mouth, finishing the part that Byul had eaten.

"Sometimes... not often. I supposed everyone has days like that. But... I'm getting better at it. Doing this is just... I don't know." Arthit rambles.

"That's alright. There's not a person on the earth that has never felt that way. Self-love and self-confidence are things you build not things that you just naturally have. Just like relationships, they are built up from nothing." Arthit nods in agreement at the handsome man's words.

" So... what are your requirements?" The Handsome man questioned looking at him calmly for the first time without a smirk or that devilish, yet charming smile.

"Requirements? I thought the contract stated everything." Arthit spoke up while the handsome man pushed the rest of the chocolate cake slice towards him. Arthit's eyes lit up happily at the sweet that was placed in front of him. Arthit was met with a chuckle from the handsome man which caused him to blush. Even so, he continued to eat happily.

"No. I'm sure Smile mentioned that we had to abide by certain rules that you set." The handsome man explained. Once again Arthit simply just hummed as he licked his spoon with the frosting that was on it.

"Well... we're not sleeping together." He was met with a chuckle as the other man nodded.

"You've established that clearly already. I just meant what type of things do you want to do together. I assume you want to parade me around your ex." Arthit nodded then felt apologetic as he heard these words from the handsome man.

"I'm sorry. I feel like I'm objectifying you for money."

"You are. But that's what I get paid for." The Handsome man spoke with a smirk.

"But.. yes... I want you to go to my elementary school. I teach music at Sunshine Elementary."

"Sunshine Elementary?" There was a look of surprise on the Handsome man's face and Arthit nodded.

"Yes. Do you know that school?"

"Yes. I attended when I was younger. I'm also aware it's a private school that goes all the way to High School"

"Oh... Did you really attend? I was a student there too." Arthit frowned and looked at the Handsome man trying to remember if he ever saw him at school. There was a look that flickers in the Handsome man's eyes that Arthit can't read but he nods.

"Yes... How old are you?"

"Twenty-five." Arthit answers.

"Erm. So am I. But I only attended that school until I was in the third grade and then I left to study abroad." The Handsome man responded. Arthit nodded realizing that third grade was when he started at that school.

"So back to what we were talking about."

"Right... I just want you to show up once in a while, pretend like you're picking me up and things like that. Namtarn works there. She's the school's counselor."

"Really?" Kongpob questioned Arthit who nodded while he continued to eat the cake.

"How long did you date her again?"

"Five years. She left me for someone with more money, who is more adventurous. Not someone as boring as me... Smile said you would teach me to be more spontaneous." Arthit tells the handsome man as he eats what is left of the chocolate cake and then drinks the last of his nomyen.

"Erm... Alright. I can do that but if you want to sell this for all it's worth then we have to make it believable."

"How?" Arthit questions.

"Well. From now on I'll pick you up and occasionally drop you off at work. I can go to lunch with you and we can go out on dates."

"Dates?" Arthit questioned. The Handsome man smirked.

"Yes. I'll teach you to be more spontaneous and even how to find someone to have fun or fall in love; things of that sort."

"Does that mean you accept to work with me."

"For you not with you." The Handsome man spoke with a smile.

"Okay... but... you need to attend the Winter event with me. It's this big thing where all the staff will get to meet the director."

"If all goes well then you'll have someone else to go with you but... if you don't have a date by then or aren't in a committed relationship with anyone then I'll go with you." The Handsome man tells him with a smile. Arthit frowns for a moment and bites his bottom lip, he can still taste some of the frostings from the cake that he had eaten.

"Okay." Arthit tells him. The Handsome man offers him a smile and then extends his hand out to him as he stands up.

"Then... we have a deal. I'm hired aren't I?"

"Yes." Arthit tells him as he too stands and takes his hand to shake it. When their hands touch Arthit feels a soft shock that runs through his hand and he gasps softly while looking back at the handsome man in front of him. His eyes widen in surprise when he's suddenly tugged forward almost crashing into the handsome man's arms if not for the fact that there was a table in between them.

"W-What now?" Arthit questions. The handsome man moves his face closer and Arthit stops breathing at that moment. He doesn't know whether to push himself away or to close his eyes. This person in front of him is so handsome and alluring that Arthit was unable to think clearly with how close he was. He could smell his soft breath against his skin which smelt of coffee and chocolate, the smell of his cologne made Arthit want to bury his face in this person's neck. He smelled so good.

"Mr... Hand...what do I call you?" Arthit stuttered out. The man in front of him smirked he reached his hand out to cup Arthit's cheek. He caressed it gently and Arthit's breath hitched once more.

"You have frosting all over your mouth." Arthit blushed as the handsome man wiped his mouth by swiping his thumb across his lips. Arthit bit the inside of his cheek when the man simply licked his thumb clean after pulling away from him. With shaky hands, Arthit reached for a napkin to make sure it was all gone.

"My name is Kongpob. But you can call me Mr. Handsome if you want. I like it." The Handsome man Kongpob spoke with a teasing smile. His eyes danced with mischief.

"O-okay... Kongpob." Arthit was met with another bright smile before Kongpob spoke.

"Great. I'll see you later then. On me okay." Kongpob spoke as he took out some money from his wallet and placed it on the table after waving the waiter over. No sooner than he did that, he quickly turned to leave. Arthit remained glued to where he stood now tightly holding on to the napkin he had in his hand and his racing heart seemed to freeze when Kongpob stopped at the door and turned to look at him.

"By the way. The yellow Chrysanthemums don't mean what your friend said. In Japan they symbolize the sun. I thought it was fitting for you. Don't you think Arthit?" Kongpob winked and then walked out the door with the sound of the bell chiming behind him. Arthit's feet suddenly gave in and he collapsed in his chair.

"What just happened?" He questioned to himself as he touched his red face trying to cool it with his hands. However, there was a feeling around him that suddenly hit Arthit and when he looked around the cafe he realized that all eyes were on him. Men and women were looking at him in envy. Feeling flustered Arthit quickly stood up from his seat, he grabbed his flowers and rushed out of the cafe and towards his car that was parked out front. As soon as he was inside his car he groaned feeling mortified.

"What did I get myself into?" He questioned out loud. Just then, his phone vibrated and he took it out to see a new message on it.

I will come to pick you up from work tomorrow. Wear something cute.

~Mr. Handsome~