Yo is finally ready to take down his wall of shame. One by one, pictures of Pha are disappearing from his room. But when Pha finally gathers the courage to confess to his Nong, will he still be in Yo's heart? Retelling of my story Breaking Down the...
As soon as the quiz is over I go up to the front of the room to check my scores. I got the top score, of course. Then I do something I have never done before, I ask the professor to print out a copy of the score report. He probably thinks I am going to gloat to my friends, but really I just want to gloat to that Shorty.
"Pha, what's going on?" Kit asked me, looking at me sharply. I know, I'm acting weird.
"Nothing, it's not a big deal," I said, trying to sound nonchalant. "I'm just going out for sushi."
"With whom?" Beam gave me the same look, like he thinks I might be growing a second head.
"With that nong, the freshman Moon from the Science Faculty," Kit guessed. How did he know? I looked down at my shoes, feeling like a kid being caught stealing cookies before dinner.
"What about Nong Wayo from high school?" Beam asked me. "Have you already given up on him?"
"What? No!" Of course I haven't given up on Wayo, even if Shorty is adorably cute and looks like a super handsome version of my Wayo, I don't want him to be a substitute. Feeling guilty I look at my friends for help. "Help me! I need someone to take me to the sushi place so I can cancel my plans with him."
"Hey, don't get us involved in this." Kit and Beam both start backing away like the cowards they are.
"You're my friends, you're supposed to help me when I'm in trouble!"
"Okay, we'll think of something."
I told my friends I had to go, I'm sure Shorty is done with his practice. Hopefully my friends can think of something quickly to get me out of this.
I stop at the practice area and they are just getting out. Shorty is looking at his phone, his pink lips pursed in a pout. Why does he always look so adorable?
"Sawasdee krab," Shorty wais to me as he notices me standing near him. His chocolate brown eyes are staring at me, making me rethink getting out of this dinner. I take the score report I got from the professor and show it to Shorty with a grin on my face.
"29 out of 50?" He looks at me with a shocked expression. Does he think I'm stupid?
"No, 29.5 out of 30!"
His face changed from shocked to impressed and then he turned his amazing smile to me and I have to remember to breathe. Why was I so worried about going out to sushi with him? I smiled back at him, about to ask him if he's ready to go when someone walked into my eye-line, blocking my view of his cute face. It's Pring.
"Pha, I was looking for you," Pring said in her usual sweet voice. "Ai'Beam and Ai'Kit told me you wanted to go to sushi. I'm free now, do you want to go?"
I'm looking behind her at Shorty, wondering why she's bothering me, when I remember why I don't want to go with him. I'm not giving up on my Wayo and this beautiful boy isn't going to change my mind.
"Yes," I said to her before turning to Shorty. "Just go back to training, Shorty. I'm going with Ai'Pring."
"Okay," he mumbled to me, but I'm already walking away.
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Author's Note: I know I don't do many notes for my readers. I just figure my story can speak for itself and doesn't need much explanation. Some of my chapters are pretty short, I'm really sorry about that, but I hope that since I am publishing so many of the chapters at a time, you can forgive me for the short ones. I hope you'll all be willing to keep reading to find out what happens in this version of the story, even though so far it's exactly the same as the early chapters of "Breaking Down the Wall." Please stay with my story, I promise the big changes are coming.
