We are...คือเรารักกัน (We are... we are in love)

Chapter 1: Our fate got intertwined at first sight

Proofreader: azzianna
[Thank milkiemoo0122  for helping me with the name of this chapter]

"What the hell are you looking at? Do I look like your parents?

What an IMPRESSIVE GREETING I gave first thing on a new day. I sincerely apologize and genuinely hope you won't mind. I meant no offense, I swear. I just couldn't keep my mouth shut as my shyness had just been waking up. These symptoms usually occur when I walk through a crowd of unfamiliar faces in an unfamiliar place alone, especially if I am the target of more than five pairs of eyes. Whenever it happens, I will babble vulgarly or use inappropriate words, which occurs quite often and easily as you can see here. What's even worse is that right now there aren't just five pairs of eyes, but maybe hundreds!

I was walking through the courtyard in front of the Faculty of Engineering building around noon. It reminds me the day when one thousand two hundred and fifty monks gathered together* to... what? Uh, yeah. What were they gathering for? I don't remember, but let's just leave that matter for now. What I would rather know now is why Thailand have to produce so many engineers. Who says it's an agricultural country? Why don't we produce more farmers?

* Refer to Makha Bucha Day, a Buddhist celebrated on the full moon day of the third lunar month in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Sri Lanka and on the full moon day of Tabaung in Myanmar. It celebrates a gathering that was held between the Buddha and 1,250 of his first disciples.

I'm a curious person, who's quite imaginative and observant (more than necessary). That's why, I'm always mindful of my surroundings, especially when I feel like I become the object of other people's attention. And so, I think that others are like that too, but the truth is... was there anyone who really cared that I am passing by? Everyone looked quite gloomy, stressed out by the food and textbooks. But I sensed said that if there were really someone interested in me, they probably should be there.

I told you that I am extremely imaginative.

I plucked up the courage to glance in that direction. It was right then, that I saw a group of students were actually looking at me. They were even whispering, smiling and laughing. What should I do? Smile back or play dead? Which is the best way, God? Please tell baby elephant*. I didn't know what they were laughing about. Maybe they were laughing at the physics exam questions. (When I was in high school, I liked to laugh while solving physics problems because I couldn't do anything more than that.) But no matter what these people were laughing about, a person with an excellent obsession skills like me would like to assume first that

They must be gossiping about me.

[*When Thai people pray to God, they often call themselves "baby elephant". E.g. อธิฐานขอพรให้ลูกช้างและครอบครัวสุขภาพแข็งแรง May God bless baby elephant and my family with good health!]

It's never fun being nervous. Even though I wanted to raise my head and take a full look at the scene around me, I didn't dare. I could only lower my head and grumble like a bear who is eating bees while beating up my walking pace till I almost tripped, in order to get away from here as quickly as possible.

"Nong krap! What's your name? You're so cute. My friend likes you."

That's it! The fortune teller was right when they told me that I had a strong and accurate sense about this kind of shit. As soon as the creepy voice of the bastard who dared to tease me got louder, there were some sounds like ghost's shouting and wailing after him. I believe that karma is real. My friends and I used to behave as evil as him when girls walked past our Faculty. And now I can relate to those who got teased. Those girls probably felt the same as I do right now. It's a feeling of threat that makes you want to stop walking, take off your shoes and slap their mouths all together while swearing revenge in your heart Don't pass by my Faculty alone, motherfuckers.