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Let's Get Lost in Bangkok

When Tay came out of his room, he saw Ara preparing ingredients for cooking. As Tay walks into the kitchen to help Ara, he hears his phone ringing. He saw Singto calling him

"Hello?", Ara looked up at Tay when she heard his voice.

[Hello Phi, where are you now? Are you still outside?]

"No, I'm in the apartment right now. It was raining earlier so we decided to come back.", Tay answered and put on the loudspeaker.

[Oh, okay. Where's Ara? Have you had dinner? want to join us?]

"I don't think so, Ara just started cooking right now"

Then, Singto changed his call to a video call. Tay picked it up and saw Singto lying on the floor with his friends.

[Ara is cooking?]

"Hello my dearest brother?", Ara drew closer to Tay so that she was seen on Tay's screen.

[Why don't you cook for me too? You've never cooked anything for me.]

[Are you cooking, N'Ra? Can I join you for dinner? Your cooking is delicious]

"New ...", Tay immediately cuts New when his friend suddenly appears in a video call.

[You have eaten my sister's cooking? Why have I, her brother, never even tried the food she made?]

"It's just an omelet, don't exaggerate Phi. It tastes the same as any other.", Ara cut them, "Haven't you had dinner yet? You wanna come then?"

[I'll be there after the rehearsal. Wait for me!]

"Okay, let me know when you're on your way here.", Ara said.

Singto hung up the call and then Tay turned to Ara. Then Singto texted him that he and his friends were going to eat at his apartment. Tay saw Ara who was busy cutting vegetables.

"I think there will be a lot of people who will join us for dinner.", Tay said, "Are you sure you want to cook? It will be tiring, we can just buy food."

"It's okay, I said yes to them anyway.", Ara looked at him and smile, "Besides, P'Tay will help me, right?"

Tay saw Ara and smiled as he rubbed her head, "Of course I'll help you."

"But first we need to buy more groceries because I don't think this will be enough."

They both decided to go shopping once again. Arriving home, Ara immediately started cooking with Tay helping her. Actually, Tay often stood watching Ara cooking because Ara mostly did it all by herself. Tay is in charge of tasting Ara's cooking. Ara finished everything right before Singto arrived.

"Hey .. where's Ara?", Singto asked when he came into Tay's apartment.

"She said she wanted to take a shower because she smelled of meat or something ...", Tay said.

"Waaaa ... Ara cooked all of this?", Off commented when he saw a table full of food.

"This looks delicious", Krist said.

"Can we eat now?", New asked.

"Yeah ... Ara said if you guys come, you are asked to eat right away before the food gets cold.", Tay said.

They all almost finished all the food on the table, when Ara came out of the bathroom after taking a shower. Ara then sat on the floor next to Singto who had finished eating.

"How is it?", Ara looked at her cousin.

"Your cooking is delicious, N'Ra", Off said.

"Really Phi? Thank goodness if you like it ..", Ara was happy.

"Since when did you learn to cook? As I recall, you never went to the kitchen at all before.", Singto said.

"Who says I've never been to the kitchen?", Ara looked at him.

"Your mom always complained before, don't you remember? or did you learn to cook for your boyfriend huh?", Singto said.

Ara and Tay looked at each other, then Ara cleared and said, "What boyfriend. Since I live alone in the apartment, I always order food from outside and make me gain weight, so I tried cooking."

"You live alone? Since when?", Singto asked as Tay looked at her.

Ara felt Tay and Singto looking at her, then she looked at them, "Why are you two looking at me like that? I'm an adult, kay? There's nothing wrong with living alone right? After all, I started living alone since my master's first year, so it's been almost a year and a half."

"You don't live with Kia? I thought you lived with Kia", Tay asked as he remembered Kia's video call earlier

"Ahhh ... I've been living in Kia's apartment for the past 3 or 4 months now.", Ara looked at Tay.

"Kia? Who's that? How come I've never heard of it.", Singto asked.

"Kia is my friend, I went on vacation with her before. You don't know her Ssing, I will introduce you to her if you go to Singapore."

"Then how could Tay know Kia?", Singto looked at Tay then Ara.

"A lot that Tay knows but you don't know Sing.", New replied from the dining table, "Right 'Tay?"

Tay glared at New, while others joined in to tease Tay. Ara smiled at Tay who blushed because he looked cute. Ara opened her camera and took a picture of Tay. Tay immediately covered his face and tried to take Ara's cellphone but Ara pushed him. Tay pulled Ara's hand so that Ara fell to Tay's chest, while Tay grabbed Ara's cellphone and saw the results of the picture.

"Don't delete it! You also took my picture earlier too, don't think I don't know.", Ara said as she trying to reach back her cellphone.

"Okay okay... I won't delete it, let me see first.", Tay said to Ara.

Singto saw Ara leaning on Tay and Tay let her as they are both busy looking at photos on Ara's cellphone. Even the way Tay spoke to Ara changed. Singto turned to look at his friend to try to ask them, but he saw his friends also gaping at Tay and Ara. Singto then cleared his throat hard to get Tay and Ara's attention.

Ara who realized immediately back down to its original position and cleared her throat. Ara raised an eyebrow at Singto who kept staring at her, "Why?"

"You two are in a relationship or what? You two are very close ...", Singto asked

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kiko98
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Chapter 1: hey i just found this story and it really made me smile - i'm half thai and can't go visit my family in bangkok and surat thani and this made me miss my second home, but in a good way :)