“pete, how long are you gonna keep doing this?” yuri asked.

“doing what?” pete replied

“ this. how long are you gonna pretend you don’t love earn? youre so obvious because you keep lookig at his picture in your phone more now than ever.”

Pete smirked. “ that bad huh?”

Yuri  said “uh-huh”.

Pete said, “ look, even if what youre saying is true, that i do love him? whats the use? he doesnt love me. he loves noh.  he doesn’t care about me. and from everything that happened, i think its safe to say, we’re better off without each other.”

Yuri, “ you gotta let that go Pete. or you’ll never be happy. you’re angry at him because he picked noh over you.  people screw up pete. he did. but people change too. “

Pete and Yuri were walking in Siam paragon while having this conversation. as they turned a corner, Pete bumps into Earn. Earn tried to smile at him. but Pete looked away and walked away briskly.

Earn looks down on the ground. Phun and Noh come up from behind him, and put an arm around his shoulders. they saw what happened. Phun and Noh had just come out of the cinema while earn was shopping.

“he hates me.” earn said

“yep he does.” phun said. “but i think it’s because you still matter to him. if you didn’t he won’t even hate you. you’ll just be nothing to him.”

“you gotta talk to him. even just one last time. “ noh said.

“he won’t even look at me.” earn said.

“the school fair. you can sing a song for him. everybody will be there. “ noh said.

“that’s next week?!” earn said. “ i don’t know if that’s a good idea.”

“you have better ideas?” phun said.

“look singing for noh here didn’t do me any good.” earn said. phun smacks his head.

“thats because he was already mine you bastard.” phun chuckled.

“he has yuri now.” earn said.

“i doubt that. Pang said Yuri tells people she’s single and that she and Pete are just the best of friends.” Phun said.

“ok but we don’t even know if he feels the same way for me as i do for him.” earn said.

“youll never know unless you try. youre worried about something that hasn’t happened. besides, you already lost him. what more do you have to lose?” noh said.

“frankly im surprised you think he and yuri are together. i’v always felt he’s been in love with you all these years. didn’t you feel or suspect anything?  no stolen glances?” phun asked.

truth be told earn’s always had a small voice suspecting Pete might be in love with him but at that time he was so hung up on Noh he didn’t pay attention to it. but thats also why he didnt want to tell Pete about noh. Pete’s always taken care of him. has always been at his beck and call.

earn looks up to phun and noh. “ i gotta think of a good song.”