"So I have news for you" said Fong, Facetiming me as he walked along the depressingly lit corridors of the hospital.
"Is that an extracorporeal membrane oxygenator I see behind you?"
"Are you watching Grey's Anatomy again? I thought Denver died and you gave it up"
"Derek. See, this is why I love you so dang much. Anyhow, you were saying?"
"Earn wants to bring - drumroll - Earth to have breakfast at the hospital tomorrow. Turns out they are childhood friends and he's asked her to help document a rehabilitation project in Borneo. Her dad was the W family physician for years before he moved to Korea."
"If the world was any smaller, we would fall off the edges"
"What edges? The world is round"
"I'm secretly a flat Earther"
"You'll follow any trend that has Earth in it"
"That was true until yesterday, but parked until further notice."
"Why?"
"Wat and I kissed last night"
There was a clattering sound as Fong's phone fell and his face disappeared. It reappeared shortly.
"Teepakorn, what is wrong with you? Why would you not lead with that? It's past lunch time and this is the first I'm hearing about it."
I filled Fong in on everything.
"So are you guys a thing now?" asked Fong.
"I'm not really sure. Wat referred to us as a "whatever", but I think there is a possibility of more."
"Do you like like him?"
"I think I do. I didn't realize it before, but we've gotten pretty close over these last few weeks.
He gets me, Fong. Like you get me. The me under all the verbal diarrhea and incoherent chaos."
"Take it slow, Tine. Get to know each other better. Don't jump into this lightly. Wat looks and acts like a casanova, but I don't think he runs shallow when it comes to love."
"Please don't use the L-word. It makes me break out in hives. And we are barely anything right now. So what's happening with Earn? Have you done it yet? Seen each other's pee-pee and hoo-hoo?"
"Yuck. And obviously no. We've just spoken over the phone a few times, exchanged a couple of texts and she stopped by to have coffee early today morning on her way to work. She's shooting a tribal wedding in a village somewhere and had a long drive ahead of her."
"Dr Khaotung, the lady killer. She's totally smitten. Did she text you after she reached wherever she was going?"
"Yes" Fong blushed.
"I call dibs on a room for Uncle Tine to retire in. It must be on the ground floor of the east wing of the sprawling suburban mansion you and Earn will live in, with your two beautiful daughters and one strapping son."
"Is there a point to this call?"
"I don't know. You called me"
"I've completely forgotten why"
"I bet it had something to do with Earn"
"Ah yes. Earth mentioned he would bring someone to breakfast. I assumed it was you"
"He did ask me, but I turned him down. I don't think it's right for me to lead him on when I don't really know what's happening with Wat and me."
"Look at my boy Tine, making smart decisions."
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Business With Pleasure | 2gether AU
FanfictionWhen his father leaves him with a failing party planning business and a crippling debt - as in pay up or lose a limb - Tine Teepakorn has no choice but to make it work somehow. Enter Sarawat, who has been appointed by the friendly mafia loan sharks...
