Chapter 6 - The door hazard caused by the law of Physics

The door hazard caused by the law of Physics.

Love is a matter of chemistry, but sex is a matter of physics – Annonymous.

“.. a- Aah! Huh… uuh… no… Not there!”

I calmly take an inhaler [1] out of my bag and take a deep breath.

Yes, It is Nopparat and Sudayu… my new colleague and my cute junior, who are making out and exchanging salivas on the floor. Nopparat is in a much better state, with his shirt and pants still intact, but the eyesore-colored t-shirt of Yu has been thrown under my table, revealing the naked torso filled with red bruises. The jeans on his bottom have also been pulled up to his knees. I didn’t know your legs are so pale, little bro. Furthermore, looking at a certain part… cough! I avert my gaze, turning back to the exit.

Bang!

The sound of the door which I have left open slid close by the law of Physics, startled the two people who were senselessly snogging each other. Two pairs of eyes simultaneously turn in my direction.

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“Um, sorry to interrupt.” I spoke out the standard response, before sliding my feet trying to moonwalk out of the room.

“Wait! don’t go, Mr. Phat! / Elder bro Phat!” The two voices sound in unison, making my feet pause.

“Please listen…”

“Hey, no worry, man. I understand. I won’t judg-”

“Please listen!!” Nopparat and Sudayu said together at the same time again, this time with the voice level of shouting.

Couldn’t take the pleading (threatening), I end up sitting while taking deep breaths from my inhaler, waiting for Yu to wriggle on his colorful t-shirt and for Nopparat to button up his shirt and zipping his pants… Honestly speaking from a (gay) man’s perspective like me, I can say that they still don’t look very decent … both of them.

Since I have good manners, I decline to give them inappropriate comments, even though I really want to tell them honestly that they can go solve it in the toilet first before we talk. Seeing their excious expression as if wanting to grab a knife and slice someone up, I think better of speaking out.

“…” I take another deep breath from the inhaler.

“I- It’s must be because of the strange drink that Pong has given me.” Yu start by grabbing the can of some drink which has no label on them from the table. “He said it’s an energy drink. H- help stimulate wakefulness. This, this is the tester.” The more Yu speaks, the more he stumbles on his sentence.

I don’t think this is a regular energy drink, but a special kind of energy stimulant *trumpeting sound.*

“…” We look at each other silently.

In the midst of the awkward silence, Nopparat is the first to finally speak out.

“Please don’t tell anyone about this.” Said with such a serious face as if my words can get him killed. But…ah, how do I tell others about this? That I once walked in on two nearly naked men embracing on the floor of my office? No, Thanks! What kind of person would you want to tell this kind of story to? I heave a heavy sigh, before straightening my back. “Don’t worry. I won’t tell anyone.”

“Bro,” Yu made a grateful expression.

“Thank y-” But before Nopparat can finish his sentence, I raise my hand to stop him on his track.

“…but I will keep this as blackmail material.”

“…” Silence fell again, before I sped out of the room, away from Yu’s angry shout.

“BRO YOU SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!” That last syllable is really high pitched.

I walked out to take the elevator to the ground floor, but instead of going down normally, the light in the elevator started to flicker. I start to feel frightened when the elevator suddenly stops on the third floor. No matter how much I try to press the button, the elevator refuses to move. I could only glance out at the hallway which had barely enough light to see the way. The doors on both sides of the corridor are tightly shut, and I can only hear the sound of my own breath.

Suddenly, the light in the hallway started to flicker repeatedly. The door of the elevator starts to slowly close with the screechin g sound of metal, before moving down slightly and stop with a ‘Clank!’ I immediately jump out with my heart racing.

The elevator door creaks and immediately slams shut before plunging down once I jumped out, leaving me sitting there with soft limbs from freight. I whip up my inhaler under the still flickering light in front of the elevator, clearly feeling my heart racing so fast it’s about to explode. “…That seriously looks too much like a scene from a horror movie.”

Chime… Ding!

My whole body froze. That… That sound…

“…Gida… Ohh ~ …prostrate oneself… Oh ~ O ~ Oh , Ohhh ~” The sound of a woman singing, her note drawn out. “….in the front of the king, Oh ~ O ~ Ohhh ~ ” [2]

My body starts to shake while the music continues to play along with that voice. Even though I don’t want to listen to it, I can help but start noticing the familiar sound of instruments… Three stringed fiddles, Dulcimer, Glong Thad, and Small cymbals [3] conducting the tempo.

“On the King’s bed… Oh ~ O ~ Ohh… delightfully… O ~ Ohh O ~ at the place.”

I speed up my steps… Holy shit. God Damn. I’m Fu*ked.

“Where the moon… Is moving up the sky… Oh ~ O ~ Ohhh ~ … .With no blemish…”

“Ahhhhhhhh!!” I scream when I tripped on my own feet in a hurry.

The music immediately stopped playing!

“I’m dead…” I frantically look left and right trying to find help. But it seems that heaven is not done playing tricks on me yet, since I heard some whisper, followed by footsteps and scratching sound coming out from the door in front of me.

Creaked….

The door slowly opened, cold air gushing out… I slowly took a careful step back with the last of my strength, feeling the cold sweat dripping down my back… A candlelight suddenly lit up in the darkness inside the room behind the door.

…With a face that is slowly emerging from the dark.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!” Rattiphat screams, eyes roll upward… and faint.

“Senior… Senior…”

“Urg…”

“Phew! You finally wake up. I’m glad.”

I blink my eyes repeatedly, trying to focus. In front of me are the faces of five, six people with different expressions. “I…”

Then, I immediately pushed myself up when I noticed that the room was completely engulfed by darkness. The only reason I can see the face of people around me is the few candles lit up around the room… I can still feel the cold temperature in the air. The young man who is holding a wooden rhythm clapper gives me a smile. “You suddenly fainted. We were all surprised.”

I try to recall the situation… Um, the elevator stopped, I heard a very creepy singing voice, then, a face appeared from the dark… “The song just now.. did you guys play it?”

They look at each other confusingly, before nodding. I feel like throwing a table at them. “What the hell were you all doing!?”

“What? We were rehearsing music, of course.” One of them answered, puzzled, before moving aside to show me the traditional Thai instruments.

“We received permission from the company to open a Traditional Thai music club… We are currently practicing for the upcoming competition. The song just now is called ‘The Moon on the sky,’ composed by King Rama II.” The person who spoke smiles proudly.

I can only open and close my mouth repeatedly, with no sound coming out. These guys… why are you practicing at this time, and with traditional Thai instruments to boost… sob. You guys… give me compensation for scaring me right now! I was so frightened that my soul flew away… sob. “Why are you guys practicing at this time!?”

“Because we just clocked out. How are we going to practice during working hours!?”

That’s true…now that they have mentioned it.

“And what’s up with this horror movie set up?” …don’t tell me you did it for music inspiration, I will jump kick you in the face for real.

“Ah, It was raining very heavily just now and the thunder caused a power failure… We already called downstairs. Seems like one of the voltage transformers is broken. The emergency power generator should start soon.” One of them said with a chuckle. The rest of them also start laughing while I can feel my face heating up.

“But… Wait. Just now, I clearly heard the sound of a woman. Why are there only men here?” I pointed out.

The six of them look at each other’s faces again, making me pause. Don’t tell me that I had really- ! Fortunately, all of them start laughing meaningfully. Then, all of them turn to the muscular young man who is scratching his face with a gesture that could be called cute, but since his face doesn’t really fit with it, I decline to call him that. He smiled sheepishly “It was me, senior.”

“…” I keep blinking.

“…” The big, muscular man continues to scratch his own cheek.

I look at the man who is a size bigger than me, before lifting my eyebrows as if asking ‘Is it fun shitting with me?’ He breathes out a sigh, before taking a deep breath and starting to sing. “Oh ~ O ~”

Holy shit! Jesus christ!! His voice sounds so sweet it gives me goosebumps. “Hey!”

“Hahahahahaha. Shocking, right? We were also shocked the first time. Who would imagine Puzzle would have such a nice singing voice. Really worthy of his name, Puzzle!” One of the young men in the Traditional Thai music club laughs while hitting the mentioned person’s shoulder. The young man named Puzzle smiles shyly which doesn’t fit with his face at all.

After solving my confusion, I speak again. “I’ll get going, then. Are the stairs that way?”

“Uh Huh. That’s right, senior. You can walk straight to it. Also, there might be some gang gathering to drink and gazing at the moon downstairs. Don’t be too surprised.” Having said that, he grabs the three-stringed fiddles and start playing the song ‘Bat eating banana [4] ’

What the hell was that for.

His friend also goes along with him and harmonizes in the small cymbal. Saying, “If you happen to find any pieces, please help pick it up for them too. At least put it away in some room so the boss won’t find it on his morning inspection”

“Yeah, man. I remember the last time someone took off their underwear and left it in the middle of the 2nd floor hallway. Hahahahaha.” He also started hitting wooden rhythm clappers in his hand together.

“And then our boss ordered him to wear only underwear to play guitar at the front of Anodard pond, right? Who was that? Yong?” This guy seems to be the one who plays xylophone or the Kong [3] since he turns to the back to look at it forlornly like if he could bring it to play anywhere too, he would.

“Yeah, it was Yong from the Art department. There’s also Te and Tong from accounting.”

“That was so funny, man. There was a youtube video that went viral too.” They keep talking, while their hands are also playing the instrument.

I look at this group of young men gossiping and scratching my own head… coming to a conclusion in my mind.

It seems that the people in my company have some screw loose…

After saying goodbye to the traditional Thai music club, I walk straight to the stairways and slowly walk down under the dark to the ground floor. However, I found the door locked, and could only walk back up to the third floor, pulling my own hair lamenting on my bad luck today. I plan to ask the music club to call the security for me.

But as I walk past the second floor, I decide to try the door and find it open. The light in the hallway of this floor is quite bright. I can also see the moving light at the far end of the hallway… it must be the security guard! I hurriedly walk to him while calling. “Brother, big brother.”

I walked to the end of the hallway but couldn’t find anyone. At first, I was going to walk back, but something on the floor suddenly caught my eyes.

… a leather shoe.

“Oh ~ O ~” I’m startled by the sudden voice before I recalled that this is the sound of the music club practicing upstairs. That young man named something who is as tall as a giant really has an amazing voice. I sigh while looking back at the same shoe.

The shoe is left on the floor in the angle as if it has flown out from the room with the sign ‘Medical room.’ There is a big poster of the schedule of each doctor/nurse with their portrait. Each of them as handsome as a model… This company must really have selected people from their face value!

I let out a chuckle when I noticed that the sentence ‘Medical examination Schedule’ is crossed out with a black marker and replaced with ‘The Moon – search the sky, find the moon!’ and each doctor is labeled with V1 V2. It’s also written to call the Goddess of prophecy in order to vote. What’s even more amusing is that someone circled the face of a doctor and wrote “I called dibs! Nuch, Art Department.” One poor doctor also got a beard drawn on his face.

“ Oh ~ O ~ Ohh….”

“FU*K!” I’m again surprised by the long, drawn-out voice. I realized that I was spacing out gazing at the artistically messy(?) drawing on the poster of the poor doctor. I turn to the side to inspect the leather shoe again. If this is a horror movie, then there must definitely be a corpse inside the medical room.

After Rattiphat met a twist ending of a supposed horror story in the music club just now, there is nothing that can scare him anymore. Presumably, this shoe belongs to one of the mentioned drunkards.

After standing there thinking for a moment, I decide to try turning the doorknob… and find the room unlocked. At first, I thought that if the door is locked, then I will just hide the shoes away to the side, but now that the room can be open, I guess I will at least move it into the medical room.

With that (shallow) consideration, I push the door open and step inside with the shoe in my hand. But as soon as I enter the room, a bad odor is shroud inside the room… I couldn’t stand the smell, intended to throw the shoe in and just walk out, I tripped on something in front of the door. Moreover, the floor is very slippery as if someone had spilled some drink on it. Almost face planted on the floor, I push myself up, planning to berate whoever threw their trash around randomly like this only to freeze. My body stiffens up once I see just what I tripped on earlier.

A leg…

A human leg! …Holy shit! Human leg!!!

A human leg with nobody attached to it in particular!!

Dammit!!! Now I got the plot twist yet again! Now I can see where exactly the foul smell comes from!

“ Oh ~ O ~ Ohh… The Phlay Knam (a character) O ~ Ohh… mournful and disheartened… Oh ~ O ~”

Hey! Music club! Can you guys stop trying to build a creepier atmosphere here!!

When I am about to be scared out of my mind, I hear some voices coming from one side of the room… Actually, this noise has been here since the beginning, I just didn’t notice because I was too preoccupied by the leg in front of me.

Crunch… Crack. Crunch… Crunch. The sound of something tearing mix with the sound of chewing echo in the room. Under the moonlight from the window, I can vaguely see the shadow of the two figures in front of me, and then…

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Bang! Not this again!!!

The door behind me slid closed under the law of physics, making the sound that chills me to the bone. The two people in the room immediately turn to look at me.

What day is today? Why does this keep happening to me! Sob!

I intend to use the advantage of the darkness to slip away, however, the moment I take a step back, there is a humming sound, then the light suddenly turns on! This is bad!

The light shone on the two figures. One of them is a teenager who seems to be around middle school. He is biting… ah… something that looks suspiciously like a finger in his mouth. There is blood and pieces of meat scattered around the room, almost making me throw up. The only thing that stops my legs is the handsome face of the person who is standing next to that teenager.

His face shows a cold smile… so cold that the hair on the back of my neck stands up. Along with the drawn-out singing voice from the floor above, he called my name.

“Hello, Mr. Phat.”

Yeah, this is really REALLY bad. The man who is standing there is my boss.

Footnotes:

[1] This is not a medical inhaler (for asthma), but a herbal inhaler which is very famous and widely used in Thailand. > picture < They mostly come in mint scent, design to be small and portable, and used to inhale for relaxation and refreshment.

[2] This is a song call “The Moon on the sky” or > บุหลันลอยเลื่อน < composed by King Rama II, the second monarch of Siam under the Chakri dynasty (The current king of Thailand is King Rama 10).

[3] These names are Traditional Thai instruments. Three stringed fiddles or “Sor” is a kind of string instrument (similar to.. violin maybe). Dulcimer or “Khim” is another string instrument (similar to… Guzheng/Guqin?). Glong Thad and Kong are a type of drum, and Small cymbals are called “Ching”. > Picture <

[4] ‘Bat eating Banana’ or > ค้างคาวกินกล้วย see 4:20 (jump scare soon after) <<