HEMP ROPE, BETWEEN US (ENG)

Chapter 3

It was almost 7 in the morning.  At the sunflower dorm the residents were starting their day. Some were just waking up, some were leaving, and some..

"Ninety seven...ninety eight...ninety nine...one hundred."

The counting stopped and heavy breathing could be heard. The young man in room 919 turned off his alarm that had started to ring and got up to take a shower.

18 year old Teerayu Siriyothin, otherwise known as Team, grabbed his towel and headed to the bathroom. He didn't go to club practice this morning but he still worked out in his room. He ran his hand across his abdomen where a six-pack was becoming visible. After a while of slacking off he was getting back into shape. Ever since entering university a few months ago his muscles were getting stronger.

The tall freshmen stood in his uniform, struggling with his neck-tie with a frustrated look on his face. He couldn't wait until the day he didn't have to wear it anymore because he still couldn't tie it. He had tried to learn so many times. He finally gave up, grabbed his keys and sent a message to his friend to bring him some chicken avocado sandwiches on the way out.

At eight o'clock the faculty is full of tired students. Team walked to sit with his friends at a stone table, where he saw a box of sandwiches waiting.

"Ooh look at this!" There was everything he had asked for. Chicken, Tuna, and Ham with Cheese.

"This one is for you Team." Pharm said. Since meeting on orientation day they had become best friends and as the son of a restaurant owner his food was was always delicious.

"Who is that one for?" Team asked and pointed at the extra box. Manow was sitting beside him eating out of her own, so who was getting the last one?

"Yeah, whose is it?" Manow spoke up after swallowing a big bite of sandwich. "I'ts for him right? for hiiim."

"Ohh." Team raised his eyebrows.

"Oh what!? hmm?" Pharm shouted, his face getting red.

"Oh getting angry means you admit it!" Team waved his finger at him. "After this I'll go to the club, I have to pick up my stuff, I'll give the food to your Phi" Team took the box and put in his bag, ignoring Pharm's stare.

"Wait wait," Pharm pulled him back and pointed at his necktie that was still untied. "If you don't wear it properly and go to class like that you'll get in trouble for sure." He said with a serious face.

"Okay, go ahead." Team patted his friends head, Pharm started fixing his tie.

"Manow.." Pharm turned to look at her "Where will you post the pictures you're taking?"

Manow gave a guilty smile and put her phone back in her pocket.

"Don't just blame me, look over there, see? They girls are screaming over you, I bet they took a bunch of pictures of you already."

Team glanced over to where Manow was pointing. It was true, there were a group of rowdy girls watching and whistling at them. He just shrugged, being shipped with his best friend didn't bother him. The world was open to all kinds of relationships now and at the university there were many popular couples being shipped together on the school page, boy/girl, boy/boy, and girl/girl.

"I'm sure Dean will be understanding of this." Team teased his friend and ran off before his friend could hit him. If he kept it up Pharm would probably let Team starve to death.

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There weren't many people at the club this morning, most of them were leaving for their first class. Team shoved his clothes and bag into his locker and looked around for their famous president.