GAP NOVEL

13. EXCHANGE

MON'S POV:-

"RIVER SHRIMPS!"

It's like a dream when I see a huge river shrimp in my plate. It's full of shrimp paste bubbling up in front of me. That delicious smell is calling me.
"Is it that good?" Khun Sam looks at me while I'm acting like an actress. "No wonder. When I broke the promise, you got so upset with me."

"Who? Who was upset? I wasn't. By the way, I'm so hungry right now. It looks so yummy."
After saying that, I start eating the shrimp that are in front of me. I'll be honest, I don't usually eat good food like this because I just graduated and didn't get my first paycheck. Besides, my mom isn't particularly rich enough to buy expensive food like that.
But Khun Sam brought me here to eat... Ah, my benefactress. I must give her a flower ring on every special holiday.

"You are neither pretty nor educated."

"If you said I'm not pretty, then I am."

"What?"

"You are a kind of Pharisee."

"And how do you know?"

"I watched."

"Hm?"

"When you say you don't like something, it means that you like it." I turn away from my plate to describe her. "For example, you said you didn't want to propose, but you really did."

"Nonsense."

"Is just you who thinks that it is nonsense. Everyone in your gang thinks the same."

"Hmmm. When did you speak to them? So if I say I don't like you. Do you know what it means?"

"It means you like me."

I smile from ear to ear. And I'm suddenly embarrassed as I stare into her eyes. Her too.
"Crazy. I don't like you at all." Her face is getting redder and redder as she's waving her hands in denial. "I mean what I said."
"You hate me?"

"No."

"Okay, so do you like me or not?"

"I do."

"Enough of that. What the hell are we even talking about? Oh, you got a notification, your phone is vibrating."
She is shaking her body following her cell phone to hide her embarrassment. I look at her, wanting to laugh, but I hold back.

Is she trying to avoid the subject? But what she did with that serious face is so lovely.
"Who will dance? Insane." She said for no reason. I wonder why, so I set my plate down again and pay attention to her.
"A dance?"
"Jim sent me a dance clip and told me to practice." Khun Sam shows me on her cell phone a clip of the SES group "I'm too old to dance."
"A wedding ceremony only happens once in a lifetime. Let's dance for her."
"No."
It means that she will definitely dance. I smile and am suddenly startled by my cell phone ringing. But I don't tremble like Khun Sam.
"Hello?"
[Mon, aren't you at home yet? I was going to invite you to Chatuchak, where are you?]
I look at Sam before answering him. She is having fun with the dance clip.

"I'm in Ayuthaya with Khun Sam, we are out to eat."
[You hang out with Khun Sam very often. Last week you were with her. This week it is the same. You do not have time for me.]
"Ahhh. Stop complaining. I see you every day. Please stop blaming me." Khun Sam stops looking at her cell phone and stares at me coldly.
"Who is it?"
"It's Nop." Silence ensues, so I decide to hang up. "I'm eating. Talk to you later, Nop."
But cruel eyes are staring at me and I don't know why I need to be scared of her like that, even though she's already met Nop.
"I'm sorry."
"Why are you apologizing?"