tell me every terrible thing you ever did
and let me love you anyway
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The sound of water from the towel being twisted against the small plastic basin rang out in the small bamboo house. The student's Teacher Pin, who has finished teaching, hurriedly comes back to take care of the sick person during his lunch break. He doesn't even go back to his own house, even though he's sick, he still stay at other people's house...Mesa and JJ who took turns to come and take care of his friend, but now they're both free which is why they have the chance to see N'Prince doing sponging for A'Fah.
Like their purpose of living is to become a third wheel.
"Are you feeling better? Your body is not that warm compared to the morning"
Mesa nudged his friend with his elbow again and again, telling him to see that doctor. Just now when N'Prince was not here, he's still playing games with them. Now, he's resting his cheeks on Nong's hand like he's sick with typhus.
For the past two to three days, a huge improvement has been happening in the village. From mowing the grass, removing branches, making weirs, and thatching the roof of the house for that grandmother. Check on this auntie's light panel, squeezing the blood of chickens and preparing them to pay respect to ghosts according to their beliefs. Many jobs were assigned to the three of them. The doctor added more jobs to himself other than checking on the villager's health which at last, the person who has never been sick for centuries like him happened to be sick.
And once he gets sick, he exaggerates like this.
"Are you okay?" The sound of being worried from the heart of Omgoi.
"Yes, my temperature has become normal"
"I've taken the medication that you have asked from the medical centre krab" Showed him the medication before removing the string of hair that blocked the doctor's face. When he's sick he exaggerates...to the point where he doesn't care about his two friends sitting at the corner of the room with their teasing faces.
"Then I'll go and continue my teaching. I will come back later"
"Can you not go?"
JJ rolled his eyes.
Mesa covers his face because he can't take what's happening in front of him.
Played so exaggerate like in the theater I thought he's acting in Four Reigns (An old Thai drama) what the fuck.
"I can't, please just stay with P'Mesa and P'JJ" Those beautiful hands squeeze the cheeks of the sick person that are lying down on the mattress. Honestly, he wants to stay as he's worried as well. But responsibilities come first plus, he has 2 friends with him.
"Uhh fine"
"See you in the evening" Smile softly before turning back to wai in order to bid goodbye to the two Phi. Even though they're close with each other he still never stop wai to pay respect to them, the good guy of P'Mesa, angel of P'JJ.
Once the sound of the feet stomping the stairs became silent, the person that was really sick earlier stood up. He peeps out of the window to look at the voluntary teacher who makes his way towards the school alone even though it's really far away.
"Jaaaa"
"You can even run down the mountain, you're not even that sick. Just admit that you're acting" JJ lectured him. Kuafah raised up his middle finger before opening Prince's MacBook to continue with his games. The 3 men gathered around the screen to play fishdom as usual.
"Nong's Mac doesn't have other games?"
"There's township but no internet so we couldn't play"
"I think Nong isn't extraordinary guy"
"He used Chanel perfume. There's only one bottle but it's the top brand" Signal to the skin care product which is hipster but the brand is not hip at all from Melbourne that are placed on the shelf.
"Nong studied in Shrewsbury"
"For real?"
"Um I've asked before" JJ nodded while Mesa widened his eyes...The tuition fee for hundreds of thousands a year like that shouldn't be just a normal rich child? But being very down-to-earth, do whatever he's asked to, from cleaning pigs, washing dishes and bowls, walking up and down the hill to get the documents and never once complain.
This kind of person is everyone's favorite.
"You look at his manners too. You're playing with fire A'Fah"
"Our friend is a doctor, the moon of college. He is a model in a magazine and his father is an ambassador too"
"What if...Nong Prince is not a rich kid but a sugar baby?"
"What the fuck, why are your thoughts so low class?" Kuafah couldn't help but to think as well...are there any possibilities? It might be possible as everything makes sense. Because normally rich kids will not want to drag themselves into difficult life. But Prince makes it as though he has passed a lot of difficulties and is able to do everything.
All the elderly in the village adore him so much.
"What the...You look stressed out. I mean I'm just saying"
"But most of the kids in college C are sugar babies"
"Just go and ask Nong so that you'll know the truth"
"Dude, how am I supposed to ask? Prince Prince, are you born rich? or you're just a sugar baby...what the fuck"
"Just search his MacBook, there must be some clue"
"Uhh just do it A'Fah" Kuafah rolled his eyes at both of his friends. He doesn't mind what Prince will be, if he likes this person means that he likes this person. But it's for his friends to stop saying those things in order to annoy him, he pressed into the icon that named photos as normal MacBook will be sync icloud in his iphone.
Not long after the photo that named backup appears.
"Ah, he's not a sugar baby. Look at this..." Mesa pointed at the picture that Prince looks like he's taking pictures of a book for his friends to see. Which Nong took the picture and looks like it's taken in his own room that looks somewhat like a...palace?
"It might look like a hotel, Nong might not be a sugar baby, you're just talking shit" Slap his friends mouth because of his words.
Kuafah scrolled down to take a look at the pictures of Nong that he took normally, for example the pictures he took when he went to Paragon or everywhere to hangout with his friends. There are none of the pictures that Prince does not dress up looking appealing to others and if observed carefully, Nong is wearing a branded outfit. Mostly, they are not on trend but it's very expensive and are able to tell that it does not sell in Thailand.
"That's Gucci slipper that just released, it's white too plus, it's so rare to find"
"Is that a Balenciaga bag?"
"Are you sure that you can take care of him?"
"I will buy him the whole Paragon if he wants"
"(Screams) Daddy Fah"
"Such a big heart, I like it"
"He's big at other places too, in case you didn't know" Kuafah smacks the head of his two best friends that act gayer each day. He warned them not to watch too much of gay porn but they didn't listen. They downloaded thousands of videos because they knew that there isn't any wifi on top of the mountain and they are scared to be lonely but didn't know what to download to fix their boredom.
And that's the end of the legendary guy faculty of Engineering, which now half of the body are gay.
"Wait guys, is that Nong's boyfriend?"
"Where?"
"The second photo located at the third row" Sharp eyes look at the picture that JJ pointed out before sliding the touchpad in order to press into the picture to take a better look. The first thing that appeared in their vision was the room that was dim, with candles that shine to them and wine. Both of them dress up very well as though that the day that they took this picture was a special day.
A good-looking guy who looks like a half-breed because his face is so obvious. He hugged Prince's neck till Nong's face was resting on his chest. Those cheerful smiles till Nong's eyes became small made them know that the student's teacher was so happy. The next picture, they were remaining at the same position but this time, the guy was giving a peak on Nong's forehead and Nong was making a shocked face.
And the last picture... was Prince looking up at the guy and they were smiling at each other.
Game over
"Calm down dude"
"(Chant to calm Kuafah down) Repeat after me"
"Monk Mesa what do you mean?"
"A'JJ, You're such a jerk" Kuafah massaged his eyebrows. The picture of Nong with another guy made him angry till his blood boil was not bad enough compared to the conversation both of his best friends were throwing at him.
But Prince said that he's single and he trusts him.
Because Prince himself does not act like he has a boyfriend either.
"Nong told me that he's still single"
"A'Fah, I mean that's something that you always do. The relationship with no name"
"Nong told me before that he dislike that kind of stuff"
"Then they are friends but they can do stuffs"
"Basically they are friends with benefits"
"Stop assuming. Get lost, I want to sleep" Kuafah pressed out of the album app and fold the screen of the MacBook while kicking his two friends to get out of the way.
"Are you sulking dude?"
"Sorry we were just teasing you"
"Babe let's make up" Kuafah covers his head with blanket. He is not sulking but annoyed at his friends and he knew that they will not go anywhere besides staying at the corner of the room because they will be assigning tasks to do if they get out of the house. Just get some rest, they are tired because they are being everything for Omgoi.
"If you go down the mountain, what are you planning to do next with Nong?"
"I know right?"
"When will you have time to go and see Nong? You will be busy in the hospital. In his college there will be a lot of people that able to give him time"
"Now that I mentioned about it, you sound pityful too"
"Um My problem are related to time...who will understand me?"
Yes. Even Daonuea, his own brother, doesn't even understand that he's busy. Sometimes he had prepared to go home but there's an emergency case coming in that led him to do surgery till the next morning. He has never even gotten to eat and drink some coffee. His back has never got to touch the soft chair that has been there to serve him.
Where's the time he can use to see Prince?
"But I have a feeling that Prince is an understanding person"
"If he's the right person for you, no matter what happens, he'll still be yours. I'm cheering for Nong too. You better don't mess up"
"Hmm have you seen me acting like this before?"
"Nope. But who knows? Maybe you're at your promotion stage"
"A'J have you forgotten? Our friend has never been in a promotion stage. Even Nong Jajah, the heroine of channel Maksi, is still being taken care of by Kuafah as garbage. He's a jerk from the first day until the last day, she cried and still trying to get him to be her boyfriend"
"She can be one of the example"
"Dude, don't even mention her, how old is she? Our friend might go to jail"
"My mouth are all zip"
The doctor that listens to his friend's conversation feels that his fever is coming back. He recalled and thinks that he might be someone that Prince dislikes. The guy that likes to give this kind of relationship to cover up all the time. He even gets his head spin about this matter to the point where he brought his brother Daonuea to buy water paint at Siam and his own brother got pulled and almost got slapped because the girl is following him.
And there's sometimes a boy who when he is with Sasi, he will get yelled at a little because his friend is unusually pretty. But he's always able to cope, raise her hands wanting to slap him, he will punch her back. The only thing he could do is to stand there still and watch.
...Just Daonuea getting pulled like that made him mad at the girl so badly. But he can't do anything besides telling her that there's nothing between both of them, that's just a relationship over night that has ended.
Made them hurt so that she could stop bothering him.
Daonuea that was listening was stunned. He cried and threw a tantrum the moment they got back to the condo, telling him to stop acting like this...But he can't, he can't stop being a player. But for Prince
For that kid
"..."
Made him feel that he wants to try.
Wants to stop everything...just to stay with this person
"Fah..."
"..."
"Fah, I've called you 4 times. What are you daydreaming about? Your fever came back or something?" Mesa touched his friend using his hands and noticed that his friend's temperature did not rise. But why does he still like ghosts?
"Nothing, just thinking about Prince"
"Fuck, didn't expect you would say something like this" Sharp eyes look outside, he want to go out and smoke at the cliff in the back, but he's afraid that when he come back Prince will smell it...he never thought that himself will be in this position as well.
The position where he will always think of Prince.
"I believe that you are serious with this person. Do it well, you might not be able to find someone like this again. I can guarantee you on this" The doctor nodded, he already knew that there will not be anyone who's like Prince in this world.
Because the Himalayas...there's only one in this world
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