From Something To Everything (Bounprem)

13. Friend request

By the time the match had ended, almost everyone was dead drunk.

It was already so late that Benz suggested that they have a sleepover.

Tae and Benz had gone back to their bedroom to sleep. Some went to the guest room to sleep and the others found their comfortable position on the couch and floor of the living room.

Prem was completely sober. He hadn't touched any alcohol. He was on the balcony talking to Sine about their group project when Boun approached him with a beer bottle.

Seeing Prem busy talking on the phone seriously, Boun decided to wait for him to get off the call. He didn't want to but couldn't stop himself from eavesdropping on Prem's conversation.

Prem had noticed Boun's presence beside him.  For some reason, Prem was feeling extremely uneasy due to his presence.

Even since Boun had entered the apartment, Prem had noticed him. He had also felt a burning gaze on him throughout the match. He saw the reflection of Boun in the decorative bronze mirror-like thing next to the television stand. He tried his best to act normal and not turn around and look at Boun.

Prem found Boun extremely handsome. His long golden hair and well-defined jawline along with a hot frame reminded Prem of vampires, like the ones mentioned in the novels Sammy reads.
Prem awkwardly escaped the balcony pretending as if he was still on call leaving Boun alone.

Boun chuckled watching Prem leave and sipped his beer enjoying the night view from the balcony.

Boun turned to look inside through the sliding glass door. He could see that Prem had brought blankets for the people sleeping in the living room and had started tucking them in one by one.

Boun walked in locking the balcony door behind him. He placed the empty beer bottle on the coffee table and helped Prem tuck in his friends.

Prem smiled awkwardly at Boun.

"Phi, where are you going to sleep?" Prem asked in a low voice as if he was afraid that he would wake the sleeping people.

"Looks like there is no space here," Boun said looking around the completely occupied living room. "Where are you going to sleep? " Boun walked closer to Prem.

"I was planning to sleep in the other guest room. But the bed is too small. You take the bed I will take the couch." Prem said leading Boun to the guest room.

"I will take the couch; your hand is still injured. " Boun said rejecting Prem's offer.

"No need phi. Don't you have to work tomorrow? The couch is small, you will surely get a backache tomorrow. "
"Then what about you? Wouldn't you get backache? "

"It's Sunday tomorrow. I don't have to work. Also, I am used to sleeping on the couch. " Prem smiled before stubbornly lying on the couch and covering himself with a blanket.

Boun shook his head in amusement before going to bed himself.

After making sure that Boun had gone to bed, Prem peeked out of the blanket.
One could see Prem's red face if the lights were still on.

Prem himself didn't know why he was reacting like this. He exhaled deeply trying to calm himself.

Prem couldn't get much sleep. He woke up earlier than he normally does.

The couch was really uncomfortable. He couldn't fall back to sleep.

No one else had woken up. Prem freshened up himself and went out of the room.

The whole living area was a mess. Empty beer bottles, cans, plastic covers of snacks, and people were all over the place.

Even though Prem was not very particular with cleanliness, he couldn’t help but start to clean the whole place.

He placed an order for the breakfast before gathering the trash into trash bags and throwing them into the garbage bin outside the apartment.

Even after he was done, none of the people sleeping there was woken up.
He received his delivery with a sigh.

Taking out his share of food. He placed the rest of them on the dining table and left the apartment leaving a note to let Benz know of his departure.

The first thing Boun did after waking up was to look for Prem.

He felt slightly disappointed when he saw the empty couch with a neatly folded blanket.

He went out of the room and saw Benz and Tae waking everyone up.

“Boun, you are up,” Benz said rubbing his head which was heavy from the hangover.

“Prem is such a considerate kid. Not only did he clean the whole place, he even bought everyone breakfast.” Tae said as he set up the table.

“Boun, come and have breakfast with us. Prem has brought hangover soup as well.” Benz invited.

“When did he leave?” Boun took a seat.
“No idea. When I woke up he was already gone.” Benz said joining the group at the breakfast table.

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Prem went back to his condo to change before meeting up with Sine and Rin to go to Sammy’s place.

The four of them had to submit a group project in the following week.

Unlike Prem who got special privileges, the other three had tons of work at their internships. They had to juggle work and studies at the same time.

The weekend was the only time they could take a breather and do their group work.

Under Rin’s strict leadership, the group of four sat down and completed the group project by the end of the day.
Everyone was dead tired. Especially Prem who hadn’t slept properly last night.

He dragged himself back to his condo. He didn’t even bother to change into pajamas before crashing on the bed.

No matter how tired he was, his biological clock didn’t allow him to fall asleep that early.

Laying on his bed, Prem whipped out his phone.

Other than his parents and ex-teammates, anyone rarely called or texted him. He was planning to scroll through Instagram reels until he noticed a friend request from the username Style_Caster.

As it was his private account, not many people knew his username.

Prem checked the profile to see if it was someone whom he is familiar with but was disappointed to see that the account was private and he couldn’t view media until he become a friend.

Suddenly he saw a message request from Style_Caster.

Prem opened the chat.

Style_Caster: Hi Prem👋🏻👋🏻
   This is Boun.😁

Prem was a little surprised to see that Boun had sent him a friend request.
He accepted the request without hesitation and followed him back.
Prem put his phone down on the nightstand and was preparing to sleep when his phone chimed continuously.
Prem saw that it was Boun who had been texting him. 

Style_Caster: Why did you leave so early in the morning?🤨 We didn’t even get to talk yesterday.

Prem didn’t know what to say. He had to reply without sounding rude.

After thinking for a while he replied appropriately and was about to put his phone away when he saw a next text from Boun.

Just like that the duo started chatting comfortably and even ended up exchanging line IDs and phone numbers.