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Chapter 5

"What are you doing?" I asked, walking more carefully into the room.

He raised his eyes from where he was pulling cello tape over a box of his things. "Noh," was all he said then he rose and started for the wardrobe.

"Phun, what's going on?" I could see very well what was going on , but if anyone should be packing isn't it me? Phun has been all for trying to remember our past lives together. I mean our lives before the accident, not our past lives, jeez.

"Nothing is going on. I just think that we should put a break on this for a while," he said, still busy loading up his bag. Did he read my mind or something, how come we are both on the same page?

Okay Noh, you have to play this right. Do it right and Phun will take all the blame for this. If anyone asks I would say that Phun was the one who wanted to give up. So with this in mind I flopped on the bed, trying to look as dejected as I possible.

"What? And just when I thought I would put in more effort, too," I said and spied him. His back was still turned to me. "I mean Phun, you were working so hard to help us remember and I am so sorry that I wasn't helping as much. How can you just give up now when I want to help?"

He turned and I could see he was smiling, "Noh, do you really mean that?"

"Eh... yeah." I nodded serenely. "Of course, but since you want to stop now I think that there is nothing more I can do."

Suddenly he plopped next to me with all grins, I nearly yelped. "Um, Phun, wha—"

"Since you say you want to keep trying, should we do that thing now?"

I blinked like my eyes couldn't go wide. When he said that thing he meant? "T-thing? What do you mean?"

"You know, that thing from the university, remember?"

T-the kiss?! I jumped to my feet. "What are you talking about? Didn't you want to give up, hurry up and give up."

I am tired of acting now, who wants to do that thing. No way.

Phun laughed and shook his head, "I understand you Noh, I won't try to do anything you don't want anymore."

I wasn't comforted and I frowned at his back as he busied with packing. This was okay, right?

"But, do you have to move?" I asked. "This is your house after all, I should be the one moving."

He turned and looked at me, "you are right." Not a modest bone in his body, I glared. Are you just going to accept that? Even if it is his house where was I supposed to go on such short notice?

"But Noh, this house belongs to old us," he said, "and is filled with our old memories, do you feel comfortable living here?"

I looked at the shrine of love at the corner next to the window, at the pictures showing us as a happy loving couple. No, this was really awkward. How can I possibly be comfortable? "So, what should we do?"

"I think, for now, we can just take a break, give it time to come back to us," his voice was toned with the effort of zipping up his box. He sure has a lot of things in this house, and he knows which are his. "I don't want to force it anymore, Noh."

Neither do I. if anything, let the memories just go like that forever. I wouldn't mind. I smiled, "that's pretty smart of you Khun Phun," I teased.

He smiled back and said, "you can stay as long as you want, Noh."

I nodded, gratefully. I could stay here for a bit but I don't know how it would be without Phun. We've only been living here for a week and I have been consoling myself with his presence. What if when he is gone I begin to see ghosts of our memories walking around, and what if I can't sleep at night because of them?

"Nah, I will only stay a day or two. Like you said, it is a little uncomfortable," I smiled shakily.

So we decided to give ourselves some break away from this whole memory problem. Phun and I exchanged contacts so that we could talk every day, texts when we couldn't and get together when we are free.

But I wasn't free, at all. Who told me to join the theatre arts department again? I had so much work to do; someone gave me the idiot task of being captain to these noisy guys.

"Hey come on, "I shouted at Word and Road who are messing around with the equipments in the music room behind me. They were really so noisy. One was playing guitar very loudly and the other a band. They sounded like they were playing different songs too.

They stopped after my shout but the minute I turn away, they are back on it. I should go and smack them, but I am so tired from all the walking I have been doing; from classes to classes, practice with the band and then later some more practice.

When my phone chimed, I looked at it expecting a message from Phun but it wasn't, it was from P'Ae. He is the paramedic who rescued me out of the accident that day. He came by often to visit me at the hospital and when I was leaving he asked for my contact, which was new as the old phone got smashed in the accident.

How are you doing today, Noh?

He sends me texts like this a lot, sometimes making me feel like I was being monitored by a doctor.

I texted back: Hi, P'Ae, I am fine thank you. How are you doing?

No sooner have I lowered my hand I see a head breathing on my neck. "Word!" my heart is jumping around in my chest. "What are you doing?!"

"hmmm, so you broke up with Phun and now you are getting another boyfriend, eh? Hmmm."

I pushed him away with a frown. Jeez what's with him? "I'm not getting another boyfriend, asshole."

My phone chimed. I glanced at it but I was worried this creep would come and spy over my shoulder again, so I got up to put some distance between us.

"Oh look, look. If it isn't a boyfriend then why are you hiding it?"

Good point, I paused. "You like him," the grin was like a cat's, so fucking annoying.

"Shut up, Word. You don't even know that it's a guy."

"P'Ae," he teased in a girly voice, "P'Ae is a girl? Do you think I am naïve?" he snapped at me.

"Noh," Road was on the podium guitar in hand, his bangs covering his left eye, "don't do this again."

"I'm not doing anything!" I cried.

"What is Noh doing," a voice said behind me.

"Oh, the boyfriend shows up," Word giggled behind his hands. I really wished I could smack him from all the way here.

"It's nothing Phun," I turned to address Phun and see that he isn't alone like usual. There was a head behind him. No not just a head, a person was standing behind him but they were short so I only saw a brown head.

Phun was smiling at me looking like he was waiting for a good joke. "Phun, who is behind you?"

"Oh, Noh," he turned and stepped out of the way. "I want you to meet Nong Ruth, she is a big fan of yours and wanted to meet you."

Said fan escaped view to hide behind Phun again. She was small, probably a second year. "Hi," I waved at the air. I am not good at dealing with fans.

"Hi, P'Noh," she said with a little voice.

"She is really shy," Phun said still smiling.

"Noh, do you have time today so that we can go out together?"

By together, was he referring to her as well? I scratched my head, forgetting that my hair was longer now and got ruffled from that.

Phun reached over and smooth down my hair like it was natural and said, "You are not carrying buzz cut anymore, it's so strange to see you with long hair."

"But I still look handsome," I said with a satisfied asshole smirk but Phun nodded.

"hm, still handsome."

"Oh," Word the nosy walked over, "so you two are back to being lovey together eh?"

"Go away." He cited the girl and lunged forward. Whether he tripped I do not know. Word has a huge girl phobia. He starts to become clumsy whenever he sees a girl. It's so fucking stupid I laugh my ass off every time he starts stammering and walking like he has two left legs.

But at the moment I wasn't laughing, the asshole who was so clumsy around girls, and usually liked to stand behind me and play pranks, lunge into me and pushed me on Phun.

Phun kept his ground the best he could but I wasn't weightless and I didn't have my feet on the ground, Word was also on my back. We fell. It wasn't pretty.

"P'Phun," I was groaning on the ground but I heard the sound from above me. I opened my eyes with a curse on the tip of my tongue for that stupid Word but my voice died at the position I was in.

My legs were straddling Phun on the ground and he was lucky I got my knees there otherwise our lower body would be meeting just as hard as our chest was meeting. I can't breathe.

Phun opened his own eyes and was looking at me without saying a word. This was fast becoming awkward. I've got to move before someone comments on how awkward this was. What the hell was Phun looking at me that way for? There was a soft look like recognition in his eyes. Did he remember something? Did the fall hurt his head and caused all the memories to come racing?

The chime from my phone made me blink then Phun said, "Noh, how long are you going to stay like this?"
I swallowed and stood up then I stammered out, "W-word, watch yourself ddamn it."

"Noh, don't you have a message?" Phun was standing next to me and distracted me from chewing out Word who got off almost immediately and retreated to hide behind Road.

Right. I looked at my phone and saw four messages from P'Ae. My eyes went wide.

Noh, do you have a free time today?

Noh, are you busy?

Noh, did something happen?
Noh why aren't you answering?

What the hell. Why did he sound so worried.

"What is it Noh?" Phun asked me.

I didn't know what to tell him. P'Ae and I aren't that close but we've been chatting fine enough since I left the hospital that I shouldn't be surprised that he was worried but... I feel weird.

I better write something back. But before I could move my fingers to write I hear someone shout my name " Noh!"

I turned my head to the loud voice and see P'Ae standing there looking like he had just seen a horror show. What is he doing here?

"Noh," he came over to me frowning. "I thought something happened to you, are you okay?"

Um, okay doctor, aren't you being a little too worried here? I stared opened mouth.

"Noh," he came and placed a hand on my shoulder. "Are you alright?"

Oh. I remember. This guy was present at the time doctor Gray told us that I shouldn't try too hard to get my memories back. Did he think I fell sick when I didn't reply him immediately? Hey, that's a fast conclusion. It's been almost a month since I got out of the hospital, I'm fine.

I smiled, "I'm fine, P'" I said, "What are you doing here?"

He gave an exaggerated relieved sigh with his eyes closed. "I thought maybe something happened."

"How did you know where to find me?" I asked.

"Oh, I was just walking by your department, I thought that we could go out sometime."

I blinked silly and caught a look on Phun's face from the corner of my eyes. He was giving P'Ae and an accessing look, watching him. What is up with that? Did he have some kind of beef with P'Ae? Did he not like him? That's strange, I don't think Phun has met P'Ae.

"P'Ae," I started, "why were you walking past my department, don't you have work."

"No, I am a student here too," he said with a smile. "I was kind of hoping to surprise you. Noh, do you have free time?"

"Noh is going out with us, "Phun spoke before I could even move my lips. Wait, did I agree to that? He had a stubborn look on his face, meeting P'Ae eye to eye. Way to make the guy uncomfortable. Sheesh.

"Is that so? That's too bad," P'Ae looked at me like he thought I had anything to say. I didn't mind going out with P'Ae but I didn't want to go against Phun. I smiled in agreement.

"Next time, P'Ae?"

"Count on it. I will be here first next time."

Word whistled behind us.

I scratched my head again, scattering my hair once more. This time it was P'Ae who reached over to smooth it back. "I like your hair, Noh."

I opened my mouth and closed, not sure how to respond. "uh, um, thank you."

"Noh," Phun came from the side and accidentally shook off P'Ae's hand from my hair with his shoulder. "Sorry, " he apologized. " we should go now," he said to me.

I didn't know we were in a hurry. "Okay," I said. "P'Ae, bye." I waved and started off with Phun next to me.