The Last String

15

"Can I ask for a favor?" Pol asks out of the blue, scratching his head shyly as he approaches Jake.

"Anything" the superstar answers nonchalantly, putting his sunglasses on as he gets ready to get into the car.

"Since I'm selling away my only friend to you, can you advertise my hotel? Just one post" Noon's eyes grew wide at his friend's words. He's being sold for an advertisement? What a very nice friend he got.

"Yeah, sure, let me take a pic" Jake pulls out his phone and prepares for a selfie, Pol steps aside awkwardly as he giddily waits for him to finish.

Jake looks at Pol before taking a pic, the younger just looks at him in confusion.

"You want me to promote your hotel but you don't want to take a picture with me?" The superstar asks and Pol lets out a small "Ahh" before excitedly hopping beside Jake, smiling ear to ear as the superstar takes some pictures with him.

"Are you done?" Kit coldly interrupted, his face unreadable but there was a hint of rush in his tone.

"I'll get your instagram from Noon, but don't complain if your hotel gets busy" Noon rolls his eyes, that's what Pol wanted, he was such a business-minded kid.

"Thank you for taking us in" Dhan says before he gets in.

"Anytime, if you want to come just tell Noon, I'll always leave you a room" Pol makes a casual salute gesture.

"I'm going in" Kit follows Dhan inside the car.

"Thank you for your help" Noon gives Pol a quick hug.

"This is nothing, don't worry too much, remember I'm always here when something happens" Pol gives him an assuring look, then looks at Jake who was patiently waiting for them.

"Take care of him, although I want to warn you but I remember I have a favor to owe you so I'm gonna keep my mouth shut for now"

//

"Your house is big" Noon's jaw dropped as he entered Kit's house.

He didn't expect Kit's house to be this big, Kit looks like a normal employee but oh this looks like a mansion to him. He now feels embarrassed thinking he let Kit sleep in their cramped up room in Krabi.

"It's an ordinary house" Kit mumbles.

Ordinary house? A house this big?  This looks like two times as big as our house

If you're asking why he was in Kit's house, a luggage in his side and feeling shy observing everything.

Noon wasn't ready for his sudden barging in but he was thankful because Kit took him in voluntarily.

If not for Jake who insisted to drop him off to his apartment after they arrived at Bangkok no one would know he was living in a cheap one room apartment.

Now he was forced to pack his things up and move in to this house.

"I don't have a lot of things here, just paintings, the room right there is my painting space, if you don't see me around but you know I didn't go out, I'm most likely to be there all the time, but that room is a no entering zone, I don't like people checking out that room" Kit points out a room in the far left. Noon just nods, making a mental note to himself to never enter that room just like Kit had said.

"That's the kitchen, then the laundry, if you see any smudges of paint don't bother to clean it, someone comes here twice a week to clean the house, she knows how to clean those up, now let me show you you're room upstairs" Noon was surprised of how well Kit's life is