#bameekiew

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Kiew, ultimate dad friend, taking care of Bamee... but also

I love them so much.

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I could die, look at them, how are they this darling? The tiny suits, the wine, the candelabra, just everything about them on this final little formal date together, knowing that Kiew might be gone so soon and might never be able to return to do this again.

They just love each other so much. So much.

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Bamee's crush on Kiew is the cutest thing. The little looks, the little ways he tries not to look, the shyness and the awkwardness, the way he's only really got eyes for Kiew even when they're with other people and even more when they're alone.

(Kiew is so jealous, though, by the end, and absolutely useless with it.)

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The way Kiew ran to Bamee and pulled him into his arms and just held him because Bamee needs that, to be held and to be comforted, to be told he isn't a burden but is loved and how much Bamee needs that love and how much love Kiew has to give and for him.

(I do love that Plawan is going to figure out Kiew's feelings for him before he does because he is not subtle he's just oblivious.)

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Bamee being very convincing about not remembering Kiew. Obviously. Not subtle at all. Not in the slightest.

Oh, baby. You can't save yourself from pain by forgetting or pretending not to remember. It won't keep him in your life, no matter how much you love him and he loves you.

Sometimes, the timing in life just isn't right and sometimes the way love falls doesn't let anyone be saved and sometimes love just is what it is and there doesn't get to be more..

It's the understanding, it's the compassion, it's the way they love each other even knowing they're going to be apart and that this love, what they share, cannot be the forever they both wish it was.

(The most painful part is knowing that if this works... Kiew will forever remember his love of Bamee but Bamee will only ever know him as his father's friend.)

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Kiew turning out to be the most loving and darling boyfriend is just the sweetest thing imaginable. He went from time period homophobic to accepting to in love to literally making Bamee not just the center of his world but the center of his heart.

He sleeps snuggled with him, he cooks for and with him, he sets up an indoor stargazing date for them including a surprise walking to the living room scene.

Once Kiew falls, he falls hard. I love him so much. He's a darling boy and they're the cutest couple, the way they hold hands and smile and the way Bamee pulled his hand to his chest? They're in love.

(But also Kiew's love giving Bamee a chance to truly stand up to his stepmother because he knows he has a home now with him no matter what. Although her apologizing still rings false, no matter what.)

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But just the idea of going forward 27 years and meeting your childhood friend at the university you were supposed to go to and slowly realizing that you've lost so much more than you expected and realizing that you don't know how to fix this and that the son of your friend is now the same age are and that what was once familiar is now unfamiliar and that the future is a very different place than you anticipated... oof.

Kiew is struggling so hard with everything and truly embodies the toxic masculinity of the 90s in a way that no one in 2023 is familiar with, trying to avoid contact and so stiff and awkward in himself...

And then Bamee is just gay and I love him for that.

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Drunk kisses and cuddles and secondary pairing shy and sweet post-kiss liptouching? Done and dusted, out of this world!

(And then, like, five minutes later we get Kiew saying his life is entirely pointless without his mother and basically inviting death, I really do adore this strange little show of nonsense.)