Khun Sam and Tee are gone. Nope and I are enjoying the river prawns at the table in front of my house. No, it's not good, not for both of us, only Nope is enjoying it. In my case, I am distracted and my mind is far, far away.
It's blown away by the woman who said "disappointment" to me, turned around and walked away without saying another word.
"How did you get close to Khun Sam and that other pretty woman?"
I come back to reality when Nop asks me this question.
"Pretty woman? Do you mean Tee?"
"Yeah."
"Oh. She's friends with Khun Sam. We're not close."
Nope takes his eyes off his food to look at me, like he's considerate of me even though we're so close to each other.
"If you're not close to her, why did you date her?"
"She invited me to eat."
I don't tell him the other details, which only Tee and Khun Sam's other friends know. Nope he's still upset so I ask:
"What's that?"
"Do you like Tee?"
"Tee?" I am stunned and wave my hands in denial. "Crazy! I don't like her. She's just a friend of Khun Sam's."
But she is rich. He continues.
"And she's beautiful too. I've seen a lot of girls who are lesbians, so I think you like her."
"If I liked girls, wouldn't it be Khun Sam?" I laugh. My face is hot, but I have to hide it because I don't want him to know. "Anyway, I don't like Tee."
"I'm so relieved." Nope he takes a big breath. "When I think you might like it, I get bad
feeling. I'm afraid you'll like a girl because she's rich and elegant. And I've seen her in magazines, she's a celebrity."
"By the time I was in high school, I was already famous."
"Correct. It means that she is not my opponent."
I feel uncomfortable. It seems like he's been trying to trick me since we were students. If a man showed interest in me, he tried to show that he was my boyfriend.
"No".
"Hmm?"
"I think we need to clarify our relationship." When he realizes I'm serious, he tries to calm me down.
"No...no...no. You're leaving a scar on me."
He makes me bored now. Every time I try to talk about the relationship we have, I never can.
"By the way, Khun Sam is so cute. He said that like a child."
When she talks about Khun Sam, I forget we were talking about our relationship. I think she's mad at me. Even though she's cute, she's bothering me.
"She's a little weird."
"Why is she mad at you?"
"I don't know."
"Are you going to apologize to her?"
"Why would I have to apologize? I didn't do anything wrong, but she did." I'm taking it out on him even though it's not his fault. "She broke a promise."
"You're mad at her like a child. I don't know what happened, but don't forget to keep a good relationship with her. At least you have a chance to be with Khun Sam, who is her idol and she even came here to see you. If one of you guys break this relationship, you'll regret it."
After these words, I get angry. Yes, we are close now. It's not easy spending the night at his house. If she leaves me, what am I going to do?
At first I was upset, but now it turned into anxiety... Normally, she always sends me stickers on Line, but she was out all day and all night (including Saturday night and all of Sunday). Even though he's the awesome type of person, at least he has a cute side when he sends me stickers every night. But where is she?
I worry, I can't sleep. To maintain my dignity, I won't talk to her first.
On Monday morning we meet in the elevator, but we don't speak to each other.
How punctual, I've been working here for a month and I've never gone up in an elevator with her. Why only today?
It happened so fast while we were in the elevator. So we don't exchange a word. Which shows that she's mad at me.
"Why are you so late?"
She smiles at everyone in the office... Yes. Everyone is silent as if the boss is going to turn them into stone statues. I look at my watch, it's half past seven. It's not office hours yet. She's crazy?
"No, you just arrived. You are part of the Human Resources team, you should arrive earlierâ¦
about thirty minutes. You have to be an example for others."
Noi, who was early but not early enough, is in shock before apologizing.
"Boss ML, I usually arrive at the same time. Besides, my house is quite far from here."
Suddenly, a pair of demonic eyes turn towards Noi.
"Why don't you look for a job close to home?"
Has no sense! She looks at everyone with her demonic gaze before entering her office and keeping the walls in clear mode to put pressure on everyone in the office. Now, I feel a little uncomfortable. I have to work early in the morning to see something like this.
They all go to work and are silent as if they had forgotten their voice at home. You can only hear the typing noise. And with the face of having been revived by someone, Mr. Kirk appears... He has arrived.
He goes to his girlfriend's room and switches the walls to matte mode for privacy.
Grumpy... I'm in a very bad mood.
It's not the first time I've been in a bad mood seeing Mr. Kirk. Even when sitting, standing or walking, I feel like this. Am I mad at him because Khun Sam broke his promise to date him?
"Sam, please calm down and talk to me."
Khun Sam rushes out of his room. Everyone pretends not to realize why it's not good for them right now.
But not me. I want to know!
Since they both left, everyone continues gossiping like never before. I start to go to the bathroom, but Yah tries to stop me.
"Mon, please wait. You may be in trouble. They must still be waiting for the elevator."
"I don't think so. They're both adults. They wouldn't be mad at me for going to the bathroom."
Yah and my colleagues are amazed at my courage, so I'm leaving. I don't want to go to the bathroom, I really want to know what's going on between Mr. Kirk and Khun Sam. And it was not difficult to find them, they are really waiting for the elevator.
"Why are you so angry? I don't know what I did wrong. We were fine that day eating river shrimp in Ayuthaya."
"Please don't talk about it." She seems annoyed with him. "Starting today, I don't want to hear about river shrimp."
"So what's wrong? Why are you mad at me?"
"I'm fine. It was nothing." She said in a monotone. Then he puts his hands in his pockets and sighs. "I'm sorry I got mad at you."
"You can tell meâ¦anything. What happened on Saturday? You suddenly had a headache and went home. And she's so mad at me. Was it because she wanted to go eat river shrimp?"
Khun Sam looks at her boyfriend like he's losing his temper.
"I said enough of this matter, you should stop."
"I just want to know why."
"Because of you, I had to cancel a date with someone. I told you I already had a date, but you made me."
"It was because we don't usually go out together. But I said you could take this person with us."
"I didn't want to make her uncomfortable."
"But you are my girlfriend."
"Serious?" She answers him. It seems that she doesn't feel anything for that word.
"Right. I'll apologize to her. Who is it?"
Khun Sam is stunned.
"There's no need."
"I need her. If you care about her that much. Is this person a man or a woman?"
I can hear the anxiety in his voice and now I'm excited to hear the answer.
"A woman."
"Wow. That's good. If I were a guy, I'd think you're cheating on me."
My beautiful boss is stunned and waves her hands in denial.
"You should go. I'm not in a good mood today. We'll talk later."
"You're still angry with me?"
"No I'm not."
I quietly go back to work, but I can't concentrate because I keep thinking about what I heard.
I am confused, excited and expressionless. A few minutes later, Khun Sam returns to the room.
We looked at each other and looked away.
Palpitation...
Palpitation...
My heart races again.
He has already returned to his room. Everyone is gossiping now because the room has matte mode activated. But I keep looking at my phone... my boss's contact.
I don't know what I did wrong, but it's okay to talk to her first.
Doraemon: Sticker
I do a test by sending a sticker of a cone. The message is read, but I get no response.
It is a Cold War.
Doraemon: Sticker
Doraemon: Sticker
Doraemon: Sticker
Doraemon: Sticker
Doraemon: Sticker
I send Line stickers to Khun to get his attention. She reads but remains silent. So I can't take it anymore and I send him a text message: Doraemon: Hungry.
It seems to work. She is answering me.
Boss: Why are you telling me this?
Doraemon: He wanted to eat river prawns.
Boss: You already ate.
Doraemon: I want to eat with you.
It is full of awkwardness and reconciliation. At the same time, I'm excited because I don't know how she felt about that message. If she were a man, it would appear that she was seducing him.
But she remains silent without answering. Why did you change the walls to matte mode? I wish I could see his reaction.
Maybe its better this way.
Doraemon: But... You recently had shrimp with Mr. Kirk. You must not want to go with me.
Doraemon: We can go eat something else. I pay.
Playing...
My phone is ringing in all this silence. They all look at me curiously. The last time my phone rang, they called me to the freezing room. I calm down for a moment and then answer the phone.
"Yeah?"
[It's Sam. Come here please. We need to talk.]
She said nonchalantly. I'm afraid I'll have to go to the freezing room. I hang up the phone, get ready and go to see her. she is waiting for me
"Do you know why I called you?"
"I don't know."
I don't know what to expect from her now.
"How long have you been working here?"
"Around a month."
"Hmm..."
I am very excited. Will she compliment my work?
"So it means you haven't received your first paycheck yet. Am I correct?"
"Yeah."
"How could you pay for me?"
"Hmm?"
I look at her questioningly.
"It's not good. We'd better eat something cheaper."
"You come with me?"
"Um, if you pay me something cheaper, I'll do it. But it's river shrimpâ¦" The serious woman nods. "...Then, I'll take you to eat river shrimp as an apology for breaking my promise."
I am smiling from ear to ear. When he looks at me, he covers his eyes with his hands.
"What are you doing?"
"Bright!"
"Yeah?"
"The light is burning my eyes."
I look around the room and I don't see any light that could burn his eyes. But he keeps covering his eyes and waving his hands for me to go away.
"You should get back to work."
You're not mad at me anymore, are you? When I think about it, I'm happy and hopping like a rabbit.
But I remember one thing.
"Ah, Khun Sam."
"What's that?"
I hold up my little finger and show it to him.
"Promise."
"That?"
"I'm trying to reconcile with you. Please promise me not to sulk."
"Okay, you can go now."
"Nothing like that, show me your little finger."
"I'm not going."
"So instead I'm going to shoot youâ¦Bang! Bang!"
I throw him a mini heart like the one in the Korean series. At first I thought he wouldn't understand, but he responds by catching my heart in the air and throwing me back.
"Pop!"
"I'll give you the injection back."
I'm the one in a daze right now and in a hurry to get out of there. Because? Because I don't know how to deal with it. Heavens, how beautiful she is.
I feel faint...