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Let's Get Lost in Bangkok

On the other side...

30 minutes before Ara arrived, Tawan or who was called as Tay, arrived at the GMM Grammy building. He went up to the 5th floor to borrow his friend's charger, Newwiee or New, because he forgot to charge his phone last night. 

"What are you doing here at this hour?"

(Bold for conversation in Thai)

"Didn't I tell you that my suitcase was switched?", Tay answered as he charges his dead cellphone.

"So?? Is the owner male or female?"

"Female. A tourist"

"And you asked her to come here? Are you serious?", New raised an eyebrow.

"What? She's not my fan either", Tay shrugged his shoulders as he answered casually.

"And how do you know? Who knows if she deliberately exchanged your suitcase with hers to find an excuse to meet you.", New asked and Tay paused and realized how he had not thought of that possibility, "even if he's not your fan, where will you meet her? in the lobby? with your many fans in front of the building? How stupid. You will get her attacked by your fans."

Riiinggggg ...

Tay heard his friend's phone ring as he was thinking about what Newwiee had said. Tay forgot that he and New were quite famous actors and had a lot of fans out there. And now his cellphone is dead and can't reach her, because last night he was really tired and he went to sleep when he got home.

"Tay, my mom actually came here, she's in the lobby. Come with me to meet her, my mother asked you earlier.", New took Tay's hand.

"But, I was waiting for that woman to come, remember??"

"It won't be long, you know my mom is rarely here and even if it's only here for a while. Come on ...", Tay gave up and let New pull him.

Without realizing it, he left his cellphone charging and Ara's suitcase on the 5th floor. They both meet New's mother and her mother invites them to go out to eat before she leaves. They chatted for a long time before his mother said good-bye to go home. They walked to New's mother to the basement where she parked her car. 

"You guys are here. I'm looking for you.", their manager said while meeting in the lift.

" Phi .. Why are you looking for us?", Tay asked.

"I just got a call, the results of your last photo were not very good. Their magazine editor asked you to take a photo again. But their photographer only has time now, so we have to go over there immediately. Luckily I met you two here. Let's get going, we don't have much time."

Hearing what their manager said, Tay and New immediately got into the van and went to the photo studio for a re-shoot. When they arrived, the Editor was waiting for them. She explained about the dissatisfaction with the results of the previous photo and explain again the theme of this shoot this time. This photo shoot is quite important because it will be published during the celebration of their magazine's anniversary. So the editor wanted this shot to be perfect. But they managed to finish just as the sun was setting. As their apology, they invited Tay and New to have dinner together.

While they were having dinner, Tay suddenly remembered the girl, "SHIITTT NEW!!"

"WHAAAT??" , New, who was surprised Tay shouted beside him, shouted too.

"I forgot about that girl."

"SHIIITTT !! Me too .. So what should we do?", New asked.

Tay opened his bag to find his cellphone and then, "What time is it now? Damn .. I left my phone on the 5th floor."

"Do you think she's still waiting for you? It's already late, meaning she's been waiting for you almost 8 hours..."

"Let's go back to the taxi, let Phi have dinner with them.", Tay told him, "you have to come with me. It's also because of you."

"But I'm hungry", New pouted.

"I'll treat you later. Come on!"

Tay immediately informed his manager that he had an urgent business with New and had to leave as soon as possible. Their manager offered to take them, but Tay refused. It would be better if he had dinner with the editorial team to maintain the relationship between the companies. In the end their manager agreed and let them go and he would explain to the editor team. Arriving at the GMM building, Tay and New immediately went up to the 5th floor and took Tay's cellphone.

"Do you see the cellphone that is being charged here?", Tay asked the staff, who was sitting at the table where he left his cell phone this morning.

"Oh .. Off took it earlier, he said he'd give it to you."

"Where is he now?", New asked

"He just came down, he says he would buy coffee with Gun"

Tay and New quickly went to their regular coffee shop downstairs. Luckily, Tay and New find Off and Gun sitting chatting inside a coffee shop.

"My phone...Hurry up!", Tay startled Off and Gun.

"Eiiii ... You should ask nicely and thank the person who took care of your cellphone first.", Off said but didn't give the phone.

The impatient Tay searched Off's body and ignored his screams. Finally he found his cellphone in the pocket of his left trousers. Tay immediately his cellphone when he heard Gun ask New what happened to him. New explained to them what happened.

"She said she was still waiting for me in front but that was 2 hours ago. I'll check it out."

"Tay !! Put this on.", Gun gives Tay a jacket, mask and hat, "Just in case, if your fans are still there waiting in front."

"Thanks"

Tay immediately put it on and went out of the building looking for Ara. Fortunately there are no fans in front so he is not too worried about looking for Ara. He then saw a girl who was chatting with an aunt who sells drinks beside the GMM building. The girl sat next to a suitcase similar to Tay's. Tay tries to call the girl to make sure that she is the one who brought the suitcase. The girl, who was using her cellphone to talk to the aunt, was shocked that her cellphone rang.

"Finally you called me, where are you?"

Seeing that she was really the girl who contacted him this morning, he immediately approached her.

"Heii .. I'm Tawan. I'm really sorry, my cellphone died and I charged it while waiting for you, but suddenly I had a sudden job that I couldn't put off. And I just opened your message.", Tay explained quickly, "I'm really sorry"

"You shouldn't have let girls wait outside this long. She is very kind to help me sell even though I don't know her. Shee must be really tired waiting for you all day.", The aunt scolded Tay, "I know you are famous but you shouldn't do that"

"I'm sorry, aunt. It's my fault"

Ara who didn't understand what they were talking about could only listen. But Ara could tell from their tone that the aunt was scolding Tay. Ara, who wants to translate that the aunt has scolded Tay enough, seeing her cellphone die because she spent all day translating her conversation with aunt  then then stood in front of Tay.

"It's okay, aunt", Ara said one word that the aunt should understand and the she turned to Tay, "Tell the aunt that I thank her for accompanying me all day and sorry to bother her. My phone is dead and I can't translate it."

 

 

 

 

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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 :)