Volume 1 Chapter 34 (2/2)
”Why is it so, khrub?”
”There... Can't you see? Whenever Mo'Phana is here, there will be so many girls around.”
I gave her a forced smile, while P'Pha sits quietly quirking his eyebrows towards my direction. P'Pha, you jerk!
”And... Noo', please come with him more often, na? You guys are both good looking.”
”Err..r...r..” From now on, you can hire me as your promoter, khrub Khun'Par. I charge less! Hahaha. ?
”Look there, see that?” She points at a large group of girls walking past yet they suddenly changed their minds and headed back into the restaurant the moment they saw P'Pha's face.
I repeat... P'Pha's face. ?
This is probably the reason why we got so many pork livers in our rice porridge.
”So popular! Aiis.h.!.+” I talked sarcastically about the truth with P'Pha.
”That's only the surface part.”
”Aiishh..!” This narcissistic b.a.s.t.a.r.d is getting into my nerves!
”Hurry up, before it gets cold...”
”It's too hot. It'll burn my mouth.”
”Blow on it first then eat carefully. Do you want to have someone blow on it for you?” P'Pha tries to grab my spoon and blows some for me that's why I have to pull the spoon back from him. It'll gonna be so embarra.s.sing.
”I can do it myself.”
”But you're a Khun'Noo, I almost forgot.” [Note: Khun'Noo is a term called for a young master surrounded by many servants or nannies].
”Stop it. I'm not that spoiled.”
He looks after me and makes sure I can eat that bowl of hot rice porridge by myself. He still probably thinks that I'm a Khun'Noo for sure.
Well, I wouldn't be surprised but right now, the restaurant is full of students which most are females. It's very obvious that they are here for P'Pha just to ogle at him while talking in hushed voices among themselves. P'Pha doesn't care about them at all though. He focuses on his breakfast, while I can see that people are also staring at me too which made me feel awkward all of a sudden.
”Here.” P'Pha scoops some of the pork liver from his plate and puts it to mine. ”That's my favourite. Normally, I don't share it with anyone else.”
Should I be proud? ”Thank you khrub.”
”Dig up. You're way too skinnier than Ai'Ming. How can you beat him if you're this malnourished?”
I gaped at him. ”Beat Ai'Ming? No way. That's impossible.”
”Right. No way possible indeed.” Aisht, P'Pha! Have you ever cheered anyone up for at least once in your life? ?
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”Pha...” I remember that voice. It's P'Pring. She looks so beautiful as usual with brand names adorning her fas.h.i.+on all the way from her head to toe. ? She even make girls awe at her beauty.
”Hmmm?” P'Pha replies.
”Why are you up so early today?” She's smiling at me and P'Pha. d.a.m.n! I feel like I could no longer swallow this porridge so smoothly. ”Can I join you guys?”
”Sure.”
”Khrub.” We almost said it both simultaneously.
P'Pring preferred sitting next to P'Pha. ”Par'Kha. Just the usual, kha.” She calls her order for Khun'Par to hear. It seems like she's also one of the regulars here, huh.
Did she came here together with him? And why am I even tightening my grip on the spoon this time? ?
”How was the trip? You're not getting tanned even after coming back from the beach.”
”Oh, we really didn't get out in the sun that much khrub.”
”Too bad. It's a b.u.mmer I wasn't able to come with you guys. It's good though that I could spend more time studying for someone...” She teases P'Pha.
”Give me a break. You're aiming for the high scores again, aren't you?” He sips some water right after speaking.
”Pha chose to go to the beach instead of studying for the quizzes.”
”Review some for me later, would you please?”
”Okay. When?”
”Up to you. I'm too lazy to read them all. I'd rather listen to you reviewing.”
”I'll text you then.”
The rest of their conversation revolved around Medical terms and stuff. I can only catch up a few of their topics owing to the fact that Biology School also has subjects that are inclined with their lessons. It didn't stop me from feeling left out from these two though. They are busy chatting while I was like a street child in front of them stirring the porridge in the bowl distractedly.
Since when did I begin to feel like I'm an intruder? Don't ask me, I don't know either. ?
”Nong'Yo... Why, you're so messy when eating…” I raise my face when I was called and not long after that, P'Pha uses a tissue to wipe the smudge of porridge at the corner of my mouth.
P'Pring smiles at me. ”So cute.”
”Don't praise him too much or he'll become arrogant.”
”It's quite strange. You used to argue with him a lot, but these days Pha is really close with Nong.”
”Well, just like what you've seen.” P'Pha is acting like a nanny, wiping my mouth like I'm a baby while talking to P'Pring.
”Poor Nong'Suthee. He'll be so sad if he finds out his senior only looks after the Moon from another faculty like this.” Suthee is the newest Moon from Med School. It seems P'Pring equivocally teases P'Pha but he seems not to care about it at all.
”Naah, let him be.” This guy looks more serious on taking care of me instead of Ai'Suthee. ”You're too hopeless, Nong'Yo... Pring, can you move a bit for me, please?”
He walks out from his seat and leaves P'Pring moving her chair back a bit looking confused. P'Pha then comes to sit next to me. ”Such a baby.”
Since I got a small mouth, b.a.s.t.a.r.d! ?
She witnesses everything from the time P'Pha holds my face to the time he uses the tissue to wipe my mouth clean.
”Enough already!” I complained. ”It's really not that messy.”
”Every spoon is a mess when you eat.”
”That's not true.” I feel so embarra.s.sed to both P'Pha and the people who's looking right at us.
”Let's see about that.” He grabs my spoon and tries to feed me.
”Hey...”
”Pha.” P'Pring shouts out with a chilling voice that makes both of us look at her curiously. ”Don't you need to go to school? It's almost time now.”
”Nah. I can speed up the car. Shouldn't take too long.” He keeps looking at me while speaking to P'Pring.
I'm not a baby, you know!
”Can Pring go with you kha, Pha?”
His hand that's trying to feed me stops instantly. He looks at P'Pring and asks. ”Where is your car?”
”It's in the garage. Needs some maintenance check for at least two weeks.”
”Hmmm...” P'Pha's pondering for a moment. I keep staring at my bowl of rice porridge to let them talk, but I can feel something touching me. It's this big guy's finger scratching my hand. ”May I give her a ride?”
What the f.u.c.k? Why do you have to ask for my permission!?!?!
”What?”
”I'm asking for your permission. Can I give her a ride today?”
f.u.c.k.... And why do you even have to ask me?
How about give it a try looking at the girl sitting right in front of you? She's so angry right now. My jaw drops that I have no idea what to say other than scratching my head with a confused face.
”What do you say?”
It's very clear that P'Pha doesn't care about P'Pring at all.
”Okay.” I said softly. My heartbeat is beating up a little. I'm not really sure if that's the right answer.
”Are you sure?” He tries to make a double check.
I look down under the desk. ”Umm.mm”
P'Pha pats my head and messes my hair a little before he continues eating his porridge.
Do you know what happened next?
He uses his other free hand to place it on top of my other hand which I rested on my lap and leaves it right there innocently.
I tried moving away since I'm worried other people might see us but he doesn't let me to.
I'm not even sure if P'Pring sees that.
”I'll wait in the car.”
She speaks in her coldest voice I've ever heard. She left her bill on the table taking her Prada purse along with her before walking out of the restaurant.
”P'Pha... Let go of my hand.”
”No!”
”Hey.”
”You're worried, aren't you?”
”a.s.shole. No.”
”I have nothing to do with her since forever.”
”Let go.”
”No!”
”Aisshh P'Pha...”
”Say it that you're not going to be worried about this.” P'Pha moves his face closer without bothering about other people's eyes at all. Oh come on! You're the Campus Moon for this rice porridge's sake! ?
”Hey...”
”Say it.”
”I'm not worried.”
”Are you sure?”
”Khrrrruuuubbbb....”
”It'll only take a 5 minute drive from here to the faculty. Nothing's gonna happen during this period of time, understand?”
My heart is beating like crazy now. Finally, he lets go of my hand. I couldn't say or do anything else other than lower my head while staring anonymously at the bowl. I feel so embarra.s.sed to both myself and everyone else in that restaurant while the culprit sitting beside me simply pretends like nothing happened.
When he's serious... everything becomes so clear and certain between him and I. Nothing else matters even those stares coming from the eyes of other people inside the restaurant.
”I have been waiting for Nong'Yo for quite too long. I won't let any minute pa.s.s by having you misunderstand things about me.” P'Pha speaks gently.
I... I couldn't say anything in response. The only thing I know is that I'm so proud of this guy, the one I choose to give my heart to.
Hope you can be like this forever.
”Gossiping about me inside your head again?” P'Pha puts the spoon down looking right at me. ”What do I need to do to make you trust me?”
He made a face like he's in deep thoughts and takes the card out of his wallet then lays it down on the table right in front of me. It looks so old and shabby due to being folded but it's obvious that the one handling it took very good care of it that's why I feel strangely happy deep inside.
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”I'll do the same method as Nong'Yo did.”
What method? What did I do????
He takes a sticky note out of his wallet and writes something in it before folding and sliding it inside my own.
Everything happened so fast that I have no idea what he just wrote there.
”I'm going to school now, then you can read it as soon as I'm away. If you lose it, I'll be very mad at you.” P'Pha warns. ”Par... Check please.”
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It's almost time for their cla.s.s to begin. We walk to his car while P'Pring is waiting beside it. She looks at me a lot different than before, I can clearly tell. The way she glares at me looks like she hates me.
”Sorry. Took me so long.”
”Are we gonna make it on time?” She's obviously a bit mad at P'Pha too.
”Take my call, okay?” He turns to me and messes my hair again. ”Get some more sleep, but not too long or your face will look puffy.”
f.u.c.k! How can I get more sleep now that he's saying something like that?
”Just kidding.” He smiles. ”I'll be leaving na.”
I nod before he walks to the car. ”Let's go.”
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P'Pring's cold look throwing right at me caught my eye that made me step back a little before seeing her getting into the car with him.
If this was the same scenario that had happened only a few days ago, my heart would surely feel hurt, but...
Naah... ?
As soon as P'Pha's car left, I hurried back into my room with a very curious thought about what he wrote on that sticky note.
I'm quite excited.
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I let myself collapse intentionally on the couch and took the piece of sticky paper out of my wallet.
I couldn't stop smiling.
It's the lamest heart shape being drawn I've ever seen.
To my dearest Nong'Yo,
You always have my heart...
From P'Pha.
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