best part

CHAPTER 3

The next day I told win about my decision. "if that's what you want and it makes you happy like this then is there even a question? Go for it Tine." he said. I hugged him tight "ah tine" he said hugging me back, stroking my back in a soothing manner.

Me win and Kao talked about the problem that in case tine was busy tutoring and the café filled up we needed a person for managing the café as win will be out for next few months. So from Kao's connection we met a barista called Sun, who was his close phi. P'Sun told us Fong and Team were available so we hired them both.

P'Sun owned a café and it is well known among Bangkok city so we decided to ask him for his opinion since we needed trustworthy people.

Team and Fong are university boys who work at part time jobs and had previously worked at P'Suns café for a year. The both of them are very friendly.

Soon I started tutoring sarawat, at first it was hard but then we started to settle in time. We became comfortable with each other.

When we took breaks from studying, I would let him taste some of my desserts or teach him some simple recipes of chocolate drinks so he could have when he felt tired from studying while he was at home.

I even got to learn from him that he didn't like desserts and only liked what I made.

It made me a blushing mess, making my heart was pound on my ribs hard and fast. I almost died of happiness for some reason. It made me feel so happy, till now many people had complimented but this one was the only on that had left such an effect on me.

I tried my best to stay calm, it was hard. But he had worsened it by saying why my face was beet red, and leaned down to touch my forehead to check my temperature. He asked me if I was alright but I said I was fine and changed the subject to what he wanted to eat. It was successful thank god, although he asked if was okay later, once again to ensure. And all I did was nod.

There were times when he would wipe my sweat for me, though it was just a simple gesture I felt my heart race.

His studies has started improving as well, my slow and easy explanation had did some sort of magic, well that's what he said.

He started scoring well in tests taken at the uni and his improvement impressed the teachers very much, while he would be delighted and be very much encouraged and determined to score better next time.

It was really very adorable to watch him beam with happiness and my heart would swell with happiness.

The smile on his face was so precious that I wanted to hide it from the whole world keeping it for myself and never let it erase face.

There were days when he would be sad, moody and sulky but I knew his weakness for such times, his favourite blueberry cheesecake would change it.

He would be too cute to exist and I had a difficult time in staying calm preventing myself from jumping on him and showering his face with kisses and hugging him tight till he couldn't breathe!

It's almost 3 months of tutoring him. And we were wrong, the café didn't have huge rush. So, I could manage on my own sometimes rather than involving others.

Presently I looked at sarawat who sat infront of me studying the hell out of himself, he look tired with light dark bags under his eyes for having studying till mornings.

I had requested him to not over work himself but he seemed too determined on this, so I decided to make him relaxed for a day. Since it was just few days before exam I genuinely wanted him to rest, he really deserved some rest.

After finishing the tutoring for the day I went home and decided to take him somewhere to relax so I started with preparing a small list of food which sarawat liked.

I decided to take him to Lumphini Park. Thinking of transportation to that place I decided maybe we should take bus. The place is known for its artificial lake used for paddling.

[AN/ the given details of the place may or may not be true but the place actually exists in Thailand im just using using the name and not promoting it or anything]

Hoping it would relax us in the calm atmosphere I finalized the place. I looked up the recipes and wrote them down, feeling pretty excited for the day to come.

Time skip~

The day had finally come, I had woken up early to prepare all the food and was done stuffing the basket with it. I put on my outfit and got out from my place.

I had given the responsibility of the café to team and fong, and asked them to close the place early since we would return home directly after the picnic.

That's when it struck me

I hadn't asked sarawat if was willing to go with me.

But sarawat did like to accompany me, yeah so I guess I still had a chance. I really hoped he was in a good mood. I looked down at the basket I was holding.

'I am an idiot' I sighed and shook my head.

As soon as I reached the place I stopped on the tracks, I felt nervous, and 'why am I nervous' I thought to my myself, and I pulled the door to get in. I was greeted by team's adorable smile. "P'tine!!" he beamed "are you going on a date phi? is that why took off?? Whats that? it smells great" he pointed to the basket. "it smells delicious in here- oh hey p'tine" said fong coming into the scene, "is that for us phi??" fong said with sparkling eyes.

I shook my head smiling at them, they were so excited that they didn't let me speak. I simply took some food kept in the basket that I had made for them and handed it over. "Here this is for you" I gave them their part of sweet corn fritters and Thai paneer satay. They took hold of them and their faces burst in smiles, fong jumped at me hugging me like a koala bear, taking me by surprise.

"Thank you so much phi !! I love you" fong spoke while team thanked me bowing slightly. We parted and I simply ruffled his hair and smiled at him.

I put the basket behind the counter, "what the hell fong?! Stop stuffing it in your mouth, its not running away and im not going to clean the floor" said team to fong who was stuffing his face with the fritters, "Im hungry" he whined. I laughed at them, just then sarawat came in.

I had almost forgot I had to ask him out, I felt my heart beating hard with nervousness.

Fong and team had gone in their locker rooms. Sarawat looked at me and gave me a small smile waiting for me to come sit next to him to start the study session.

I took a deep breath and went him 'you can do this ai'tine' I said to myself as I walked myself over to him.

"Sarawat.. you have been studying hard for a while now, you have been behind the books and so engrossed that you haven't thought and made time for yourself, you deserve to have a day of rest and relaxation. Would you allow me take you somewhere? Let's spend some time together, maybe get to know each other more?"

The next thing he said stung my heart

to be continued..

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- W // [ 19.11.2021]