My Moon, Chapter 4 pg 11
My Moon, Chapter 4 pg 11
“Didn’t I tell you before? During my class, I ask for your attention for two hours. After that, you can play on your phones for as long as you want, and I have no right to interfere.”
The students in the class began lowering their heads to avoid the professor’s gaze. Once she got started, the notoriously strict professor of the department could go on a rant that would put anyone to shame.
“How many times have I said that this subject isn’t hard to understand, but it has a lot of details? If you don’t pay attention in class or listen carefully, you won’t be able to answer questions or do well on exams like this. Most of the content relies on memorization. I’m not giving you problems to solve for numerical answers, which you might still manage to figure out. This is pure content. And if you keep giving vague answers on exams like you did in last week’s quiz, I won’t give you any points.”
“Don’t think that just because your group finished presenting, you can do whatever you want. The topics your friends present are important too—it’s all knowledge. But if you think you don’t need to listen because you already know everything, at the very least, you should show some respect to me and the friends who are presenting. Let me say this one last time: don’t take out your phones to play during my class.”
“Yes.”
“So, can you answer, Thot?” the professor asked again.
“Uh… the additional revenue the company gets comes from, uh… expanding its business into Asia.”
The professor turned back, sighed, and jotted something down on a white sheet of paper before looking up at him. “Did your friend answer correctly?”
“No, sir.”
“Alright, I’ll give a bit more time. Any group able to answer?”
“Me, sir!”
“Go ahead and answer.”
“Renting out warehouse space to other companies to use as distribution centers.”
“Is that correct?” the professor asked him again.
Klai nodded and said, “Yes, sir.”
“Group C gets one extra point.”
“Thank you, ma’am!”
The female friend thanked the professor and gave him a friendly smile. Klai smiled back before turning to the person beside him who had nudged his arm. Pie had now taken Mai’s place.
Pie grinned widely and whispered softly, “You were amazing, Klai… You showed Thot who’s who.”
“Not quite like that, Pie. I just wanted Thot to realize… life’s too short to hold grudges against someone for long. Thot should let go and move on. If you don’t like someone, just leave them alone.”
“The scores for this presentation will be entered into the system, so you can check them yourselves later.”
“Yes, sir.”
Klai and his two friends stepped down from the stage and returned to their seats. He listened attentively to another group presenting, thinking to himself…
You did great today, Klaijai.
And after giving himself some encouragement, he didn’t forget to…
“Klaijai. what’s you thinking about? You’ve been smiling to yourself the whole time.”
Thank someone who’s been his source of strength.
“I was thinking… tonight I’ll go look at the moon from my balcony again.”
Thank the same moon that makes him fall in love again every night.
After all the groups finished presenting and the professor dismissed the class, Mai and Pie, who had been curious for a while, couldn’t hold back anymore and asked him about Thot. They didn’t understand why Thot always seemed to dislike him in particular and acted rudely whenever they crossed paths, like giving him side-eye.
Klai didn’t quite understand either.
He had never done anything to Thot.
Although Mai and Pie had heard bits about him confessing his feelings to Phii Shin and getting rejected from classmates in their major during freshman year, they didn’t know the full story. And neither of them had ever pried into his personal matters.
This time, Klai decided to tell them the whole story in detail.
No matter what kind of relationship it is,
if we choose to walk together,
laying the path for the future by sharing past experiences
will help us understand and support the relationship moving forward.
“Wow, how can Thot be like that?”
“If you ask why Thot is like this, you also have to ask why Phii Shin did what he did,” Pie said, shaking his head.
“I saw Phii Shin at the freshman orientation booth… I never thought he’d be capable of something like this.”
“The truth is, Phii Shin isn’t entirely a bad person… deep down, I believe he has some goodness. This time, he just made a bad decision.”
“When I was a freshman and not yet close with Klai, I heard some friends in our department talking about this. At first, I thought Klai told those two friends who were always with him, and they passed it on to others… but I never imagined it would turn out like this.”
“Let me confess something…” Mai paused before continuing, “When I wasn’t close with Klai yet, I thought the same as Pie. But after getting to know him, I learned that Klai has a really close friend like Kant, and Klai once said Kant knows almost everything about him. So I secretly wondered if Kant was the one who spread it. I don’t know how Kant could’ve let the department know, but I thought it was possible.”
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