My Moon, Chapter 27 pg 8
My Moon, Chapter 27 pg 8
Everyone furrowed their brows and exchanged confused looks. Phii Pi started asking each person to figure out whose car it was, since no one in the group had ever driven a white Audi A5 before.
“Whose car is that?...” Eff asked, setting the camera down on the worktable before gesturing to the female model to come over. “…Come take a break here first.”
“Thanks,” she said.
As the model joined them at the table, Panli spoke up…
“My wife’s car.”
“O_O”
“Damn... your wife has some serious taste,” Om says.
The fact that Panli is dating a guy isn’t weird for this friend group, since a few of them are also dating guys. Panli reaches out to take his phone back from the friends who ganged up to crack his passcode because they wanted to see more pictures.
“Give it back already.”
“I don’t wanna see your face, Li... I wanna see your wife’s face clearly!”
“Ugh... this pic only shows the side of his face. If we could see it straight on, he’d probably be super cute.”
“Yeah...”
“I’m not letting you see, you bastards!”
Ring~
‘Klaijai’s calling!’
“Your wife’s calling!”
“Answer it, Kal!”
“Don’t you dare, you damn Kal!” Panli yells, jumping up to snatch his phone back. He lets out a huge sigh, thinking...
Even when Klaijai isn’t here...
He still manages to cause this much chaos.
If Panli ever brought Klaijai to meet this group of friends...
He probably wouldn’t be able to control the swarm of crazies.
Panli quickly answers the call and says, “Yes, KhunKlai...”
[Puppy~]
“Yeah... what’s up?”
[I’m done with work. Where’s my puppy?]
“Puppy is at my friend’s studio.”
“Puppy, huh,” Kal teases.
“With that level of cute, I’d be fine being a puppy or a kitten.”
“Li talks to his wife so damn sweetly.”
Panli sighs while his friends gossip about him right in front of his face, then turns his attention back to the call. “Alright, I’ll come pick you up at the uni.”
[Okay… no need to rush, puppy. I have Phii Dom keeping him company.]
“Oh… okay.”
[Don’t drive fast, got it?]
“Got it, got it.”
[Puppy…]
“Yes…?”
[I miss my puppy so much.]
Panli broke into a wide smile before replying, “Your puppy misses KhunKlai too.”
The other end of the line laughed, clearly pleased with the response.
“See you soon, okay?”
[Yeah…]
After hanging up, Panli sighed again as he noticed everyone teasing him with their eyes. Only the beautiful model showed a displeased expression, but Panli didn’t care. In his heart, there was only one person: Klaijai.
“Phii Pi, I’m heading out. Gotta pick up KhunKlai at the uni.”
“Yeah, go ahead. As for the camera lens, I’ll return it after I’m done.”
“Cool…”
“I’m off…” Panli said goodbye to his friends with his usual short phrase. Everyone nodded in acknowledgment, saying, “Drive safe, man.” He slipped his phone into his back pocket and headed down to the first floor.
The tall figure quickly strode to his car, a white Audi A5 that his junior never stopped praising. Once inside, Panli let out a smile, thinking of his friend’s words complimenting Klaijai: Check this statement.
“So cute like that, I’d willingly be a puppy or kitten for him.”
For Klaijai…
I’d be willing to be more than anything.
KLAIJAI
Klai stepped out of the bathroom, his body smelling fresh as usual. He walked into the living room and saw a tall figure wearing only gray sweatpants, hunched over, glued to his phone on the long sofa. He gave a small smile, thinking of a plan he’d made with Phii Dom, before heading to the fridge to make a snack.
Klai usually likes eating yogurt with granola after dinner because it keeps him full until late. As he pulled a large tub of yogurt from the fridge, he glanced at someone still engrossed in his phone.
“Panli, you hungry?”
“No…”
Klai asked because Panli barely ate anything at dinner. Even though he answered like that, he couldn’t help but worry, so he asked again.
“I’m making a snack. Want some, Panli?”
“Sure, I’ll have some…”
The response from the guy glued to his phone made a cheeky sentence pop into Klai’s head. Even though the naughty thought made his face flush with embarrassment, he felt it was worth saying out loud. It’d definitely fluster someone, and Panli would absolutely shift his attention back to him…
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Panli spoke in a calm, steady tone before heading toward the stairs. The music grew clearer as he climbed the metal steps… clear enough for him to recognize it as How Long by Charlie Puth.
“Could you turn a bit more to the left?”
“Is this enough?”
“That’s perfect!”
The tall figure, who had just reached the second floor, raised an eyebrow when he saw his close friend photographing a beautiful model. Panli walked over to a worktable set a fair distance from the backdrop.
“Yo, you’re here?”
“Mhm…” he replied, handing the camera bag to his senior.
“This model is stunning, man.”
“Yeah, she’s gorgeous.”
“Li, she knows you, dude!”
“Yeah, Eff said she took this job because of you.”
Panli let out a heavy sigh as he stood listening to the excited chatter of his three friends. His eyes flicked toward the photographer, who was talking to the slender model. Eff was using a soft, sweet tone with her, typical of his flirtatious nature.
“Always dragging my name into it, that jerk…”
“Haha!”
Phii Pi laughed heartily before sliding a chair over to him. Panli plopped down, glancing at the friends around the table. He figured the reason so many of them were gathered here, even those who weren’t partners in the studio, was because Eff was throwing a party after work.
They always throw a party whenever the brand Once in a Blue Moon launches a new collection, and Panli has never missed a single one. But this time, he’ll have to say goodbye because he’s got someone special now.
Back when Panli didn’t have a serious partner, he thought there was nothing wrong with attending parties filled with beautiful, model-like women. Chatting with them as they came by to say hi while he sipped his drink? No harm in that either.
But now…
No way…
Absolutely not…
Because he has Klaijai now.
“Last shirt, here we go!”
“Alright…”
Panli tore his eyes away from the goofy-looking photographer, Eff, and glanced at the model wearing the new Once in a Blue Moon collection. She locked eyes with him for a moment before flashing a smile…
You’re dead, Panli…
Not because of this woman’s smile.
She has zero effect on his heart.
But if Klaijai finds out…
Your wife’s gonna kill you, man.
The guy who proudly admits he’s whipped turned his face away from the model, swallowing hard and wiping the sweat beading on his forehead.
“Does your little troublemaker get jealous?” Phii Pi asked.
“Hella jealous,” Panli answered honestly. He thought Klaijai was super possessive, especially after that moment when Klaijai said, “Does my puppy have a side chick?” He could feel the intimidating aura radiating from him.
“Your troublemaker is Klaijai, your boyfriend, right?”
One of the friends, who wasn’t a partner in the shop, piped up. Panli figured Phii Pi had already spread the news about him dating Klaijai to this group. Even though Panli had tons of friends and multiple circles, the fact that he was with Klaijai had spread like wildfire through all of them.
Damn, he’s picky as hell…
“Yeah…”
“Whose white Audi is that?”
“…”
“The owner’s got killer taste, man. That car’s modded so nice…”
“Let me see…” Om said before standing up and walking to the large mirror, leaning forward to look down below. “Damn… that car’s modded nice, for real.”
“...”
“Didn’t go overboard with the mods… simple, but looks good.”
“That’s my wife right there.”
“Fucking hell… if you’re gonna hype him up like that, just show us a pic of your wife already,” one of the guys in the group piped up.
Panli didn’t back down from the challenge. He pulled his phone out of his pocket, unlocked the screen with a tap to show the wallpaper, and tossed the black phone onto the table.
The sight of several friends scrambling for his phone reminded him of a school of catfish fighting over bread crumbs. Panli glanced at Phii Pi, who raised an eyebrow at him. Among this group of friends, no one had ever seen Klaijai before—except for Phii Pi.
Panli smirked, thinking how lucky he was that he’d asked Klaijai to take a photo together last night. Now, his phone’s wallpaper was a picture of “the two of them kissing.”
“Fuck… so cute?”
“Yeah… a guy with an adorable face.”
“You are done looking, you bastard… I’m jealous.”
Panli turned toward the sound coming from the metal staircase. He only heard the voice, not yet seeing the person’s face. Still, he could guess who the hoarse, gruff voice belonged to.
Ohm…
“Yo, Phii Li, you are here too?... Hey, what’s good?”
Panli raised his hand to return the cheeky junior’s wai, then said, “Yeah…”
“Showing up and making a damn racket as usual, you annoying prick Ohm.”
“Yo, that Audi parked in front of the studio is just too dope.”
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