Fateful Encounter (Completed)

Chapter 16

 The four members of SKY were in the waiting room getting ready for an interview. It is a popular Saturday morning show and will be broadcasted live on national television. The interview will be one hour long and is only the beginning of a packed day for the four members. The program will be concentrating on the tremendous international success the band has had in the past year or so and their first ever world tour 'SKY and You - 1st World Tour'. This also will serve as a platform to promote their coming charity event 'Possible'. 

Arthit and Saom were done with their makeup and were messing about in the waiting room. They were clicking picks of Lamon who had fallen asleep while waiting for his makeup to be done. Pup was checking his phone while the hair dresser was busy bustling around him. All the giggling the two youngest members were doing distracted Pup from his phone. He watched Arthit decorate a sleeping Lamon with toilet paper while Saom filmed. He had to smile at how ridiculous Lamon looked with all the pieces toilet paper hanging about. However the best part was Lamon waking up and scaring himself when he looked in the mirror. That had Arthit rolling on the floor laughing like a maniac while Saom could barely hold the camera. The staff couldn't hold their laughter either.

It took some time for the members and the staff to calm down and finally get their hair and makeup done. They still had time before they were called in for the interview. Lamon and Saom had finished tuning their instruments and Arthit was using two chopsticks and any surface available as a drum kit. Pup looked, fondly, at their youngest, who'd always been a hard worker. At the moment only the four of them were in the waiting room, the staff having left after their work.

'Arthit' Pup called. Arthit looked at his leader. Lamon and Saom both stopped their work to pay attention as well.

'I know last week had been rather difficult to you. Being in a new place is like that. Especially when you are well known and people have a preconceived image of you. They will have expectations and sometimes their expectations can be unrealistic or even unfair. But the thing is, our careers doesn't depend only on our hard work. It also depend on our image. There's really not much we can do to control how things run in this business. But one thing is for sure. No matter what you do, if your heart is in the right place, then everything else should fall accordingly. So have a little patience, OK? You know that we are all in this together, don't you? That we are a team and we are hear if you want to talk about anything?' The leader said kindly.

'We've been where you are before Arthit. You know firsthand how stressed Lamon and I were when we were in our final year. But since we had our band, family and friends, we were able to power our way through. So don't hide things from people around you. Because they will be your only source of strength when you feel like you can't get up in the morning.' Saom put in. Arthit was more than grateful to his band members. He felt tears prickle the back of his eyes. He blinked and cleared his throat, nodding to indicate that he understood.

'You can call us anytime. Well maybe not when I'm sleeping or taking a dump, but any other time, OK?' Lamon interjected making Arthit laugh a little.

'Thanks P'.' Arthit said standing up and giving all three, a hug each. As he went back to his seat and picked up the two chopsticks, he felt really lucky to have these people in his life. His parents, family, two very best friends, band mates and P'Kong. Of course P'Kong. How can he forget the senior head hazer?

After the bold invitation for a date, neither one had had a chance to meet due to various reasons. Even though they've just successfully finished a world tour, covering twenty six countries across the globe, the band mates had not had any off days. It's been two weeks since they returned and their schedules are packed till next weekend. And Kongpob was busy with his senior year academic work and, according to Kongpob, something called a 'CEO Test'. Which had something to do with an actual ongoing project in a remote village in Chiang Mai. Arthit didn't know much about the project except that it had something to do with renewable energy. Kongpob was actually on a site visit since two days ago.