The story of a friend who still hasn't forgotten his friend. Attachments and resentments from the past draw us back together in a place of memories again. The school atmosphere when I was in high school could bring smiles to many people's faces. But it may also be a deep, unforgettable wound for many others as well. Peerawat has returned once again to this place of memory, friends.

What is waiting to welcome him? We invite readers to follow along.

The yellow beam of light traveled down the main road, leaving nothing but soot from the exhaust pipes, sending a pungent smell into her nostrils. The stench of the smoke caused the woman, who was still drowsy, to wake up and she hurriedly raised her sleeve to cover her nose. Not too far away, there were about three lights, illuminating the porridge shop merchant in the corner of the building.

He was busy carrying a basket of crockery and preparing to welcome customers in the morning. Movements from that angle are enough to be a friend to travelers of some peace of mind. Two young people walked hand in hand, half ran across the street to the darker opposite side. There was only the light from the street lamp posts that were sparsely spaced out.

The couple's eyes tried to adjust to the darkness and they slowed down their steps as they entered the narrow path beside the canal. The wind continued to blow hard from time to time since they got out of the car. Winters in the northern region are as cold as rumored. The young woman thought to herself, If I had known the weather would be this cold, I would have prepared a warmer shirt.

“We shouldn't have come by ourselves,” the owner of the clear voice complained in a trembling voice, her shoulders slumping. pressed himself closer to the young man automatic companion

A strong hand reached out and squeezed his shoulder gently, trying to soothe him and relieve his worries. "Come on, I'm with you. What are you afraid of?"

Numbers on the clock face

Smart Watch 

Says time 4:38 a.m.

The pair walked through a small alley and cut into the school area. An all-male place The iron door on the side of the school was not securely locked. The janitor ceremoniously held a polished iron around it. Peerawat knows this because he used to be a student here. They also use this door regularly when they have to enter and exit the school outside of normal hours.

The young man reached out to open the door and led the way with long steps. The cold wind blew against her body, causing the young woman to fold her arms over her chest and tighten her coat close to her body.

The school's blue and white flag fluttered atop the pole. The wind caused her to press closer to him than before.

"There's still time... Let's take a nap first. It's still good to sleep a little. I haven't had much sleep for many nights." Peerawat frowned.

He had just one day passed his midterm exams and had to go to a volunteer camp to build a library for a small rural school. His travel plans were delayed, so he and his girlfriend had to take the bus on their own. As for the friends in the club, they had gathered together and chartered a car in advance and went to live at a temple about 2 kilometers deep in the alley.

Peerawat stomped his feet as he was familiar with the area. He led his girlfriend by the hand to the octagonal pavilion in front of the large school building. They both put down their luggage and sat down, preparing to fall asleep. But then he couldn't stand the harassment of the local mosquitoes.

"P'Phi, if we sit here and sleep, I'm sure we'll be eaten by mosquitoes."

Peerawat shook his head vigorously and opened his eyes to stare into the darkness. In fact, he was too sleepy to care about the mosquitoes. But I felt sorry for him. My girlfriend is in the same place. He was also too lazy to listen to her complaints until he started to get annoyed. At this time he wanted to rest and thought of the homeroom from when he was still studying here. The room was on the west side of the school's fence.

“I can imagine where we're going to sleep... Get up, follow me.” Peerawat stood up and smoothed his hair, shouldered his backpack and led her by the hand as they walked along the dimly lit path.

Just take a short walk through the garden to the back of the school. You can be sure that he and she will have a bedroom that is not disturbed by mosquitoes. Luckily, the room was on the first floor, so it wasn't locked from the outside like other floors.

The three-story cement building in front of him was overgrown with the branches of the Phikun tree. A faint fragrance wafted into the young man's nostrils. The smell caused many feelings mixed together, fear, calm, paranoia. The woman's legs stiffened and she almost didn't want to continue walking. But Peerawat told her to hurry and follow.

The light from their phones guides them so they don't stumble as they climb the stairs. The doorknob of the room was colder than the air at this time. The familiar smell of the classroom touching his nose reminded Peerawat of when he was a student here. The sounds of lizards and night insects greeted him as he entered the doorway. Hand moves to feel for light switch

But he found that it didn't work. I guess it was because the janitor had already chopped the cutout down. The door closed quietly and the young man picked up his cell phone and looked at it. Judging from the way the chairs were arranged, he assumed the last time they were used. The room was probably used as a place for some kind of activity. Maybe it's a role play or something like that.

Lecture chairs were cluttered in the left corner of the room. Leaving the middle of the room open, he took his girlfriend's hand and led her to sit in the lecture chair on his left.

“Let's sleep here. It's already morning." After saying that, Peerawat placed his backpack on the table next to him and sat down with his face on the lecture table, completely sleepy. The girl felt giddy in her heart but didn't dare speak. She clung to his arm tightly and fell next to him, and for a moment they both fell asleep.

5:17 a.m. Cold steam penetrates the room until Deer feels uncomfortable.

“If you don't leave. I'm going to throw you downstairs right now!” A gruff voice sounded in my ear. The girl felt a sudden danger, causing her heart to twitch, but she couldn't move away.

“Do you want to leave for good or do you want to leave dead?” A voice came from the other ear.

Deere slowly opened her eyes to face him. She found that many people came together. The teasing sounds of another group of men could be heard nearby, but she didn't even have the strength to scream out. Footsteps sounded like people were chasing each other, loud and tight outside. But it couldn't help her feel like she had made friends. Peerawat, where is he? She thought to herself, where did he leave her?

“What is his love and concern for her? By now he must have run away and gone somewhere.

Answer me!! Are you going to get out for good or are you going to throw me downstairs?”

A throaty growl pierces the eardrum. The girl thought a lot about how she ended up on this rooftop. Previously, she had only gone up 4 or 5 stairs and opened the door to enter the classroom. Something must have gone wrong. Or is she having a nightmare?

“What else? They were the ones who dragged me up.” Someone from the group answered as if she knew what she was thinking.

“Then why did you bring me here?” she replied sternly.

She just swept her eyes and noticed that This group of boys was dressed in middle school uniforms. He looked like he was at least 3-4 years younger than her, but the situation in front of her was inferior and she didn't dare call herself "elder."

“Bring it up to show how bad the guy who came with you was. Look where it disappeared when she was in danger. You don't hope that anyone will come and help you. People like Pir Friends can still throw it away. Let alone with just one woman. If you don't hurry up and get out of here. She must be a corpse.”

At the sound of her voice, her little wrist was pulled from both the left and right sides. Pull it this way and that. Until it looked as if he was about to fall from that tall building. The young woman arched her neck and screamed for help. But no sound came out of his throat. She felt a headache that almost exploded. A group of 5-6 boys

That laugh was so loud it hurt my eardrums. Her ears were tense. For a moment I thought of my parents... How sad would you be if she came to the volunteer camp and would never go back?

The classroom is quiet. The sound of someone's footsteps approaching the unmoving body. Peerawat felt increasingly uncomfortable breathing.

“You have a lot of style.” There was a loud sound of tables colliding and toppling over. The rubber soles of school shoes creaked and creaked like human noises.

Playing football in the classroom The sound of stomping feet was approaching. The left side of his body trembled, feeling cold and hot, and some energy was sent to disturb his sleep to the point of suffering. half asleep He tried to move but couldn't control his limbs.

“It's good for you to come. I've been waiting for you for a long time, Pir.” He felt familiar with the voice that spoke. But I can't imagine whose voice it is.

“Phi Pee!!” Peerawat's right arm was violently pulled. He was startled. Turning around, he saw his girlfriend's face, completely shocked. He instinctively knew that she and he had both been attacked by something here.

“Let's go.” He grabbed her wrist tightly and ran out of the room quickly, his long feet running back in the same direction. Cutting through the school fence and stopping, breathing heavily, tired... like I had been running around the field. Even though the weather is cold But both of their faces had sweat glistening from their hair.

"P'Pee, I'd like to call P' Nat to come pick us up right now," the young woman ordered in a trembling voice. She was so frightened that when she ran out of the room she didn't take out any luggage. Peerawat He held out his hand and turned it upside down, indicating that he hadn't taken anything out of the room either.

“Then let's go out and sit at the porridge shop across the street first. It's 5:30 in the morning and there should be a lot of people there.”

“But we didn't take out our wallets, hyung.” The woman had a worried look on her face.

“No problem, now let me go take a rest over there. I'll talk to the shop owner about seeing a friend and he'll give me some money. There shouldn't be a problem.”

Pork porridge with fragrant eggs is placed in front of two bowls. Questions poured out of the woman's mouth about the history between Peerawat and this all-boys school along with recounting the events she encountered in her dream just now. The young man listened to Deer's story and was so shocked that he sat quietly for a while. When he regained his composure, he opened his mouth to tell the story of the past.

“I used to be an alumnus of this place, as I once told Deer. But it's only been for one year. Mathayom 1, I took the entrance exam here following my close friend who had studied together since elementary school. But there was something that caused me to have to transfer schools,” Peerawat said with a sad face.

“At the end of the year there are field trips. The school takes you to many places. They also take you to a waterfall. When we arrived, the elders were having fun playing together. Where does each person suffer? They secretly ran away from the teacher and went to play on the side where there were not many people. Take turns jumping into the water. Those who are greedy, kick each other until they fall into the water.”

The young woman nodded and scooped porridge into her mouth, wide-eyed and listening.

“After playing for a while, I got tired and hungry, so I sat down and waited for them to finish playing. The rest of them continued to play. Until one person in the group had cramps and cried out. Those in the water quickly swam in to help. But they've been playing for a long time. After going in to help, it didn't take long before he started to feel exhausted. Three or four people hugged each other in the water.

Trying to drag friends to shore. But the more they pulled, the tighter they clung to each other, pulling each other to sink. I couldn't do anything right, so they called out to me to come down and help. But I knew that when I went down, I probably wouldn't have the strength to help them. At that time I was both tired and hungry. So I waited and didn't know what to do. I decided to run and tell the teacher. But by the time we got back, we weren't able to help them in time,” Peerawat recalled with a serious expression.

“So what do you do now?” The woman stared into his dull eyes as she talked about the past.

“The rest of my friends in the room scolded me. Said that I was selfish, abandoned my friends, and endured being in a study environment with no one to associate with. After having no one to talk to for a few months, my mother took me to transfer schools. Since that day, I haven't come back here again. Until tonight, dear. Actually, I think that this matter has happened many years ago.

I always make merit and pour water for them whenever I think of it. I don't think they will still hold grudges until today.”

The clock face says 5:30 a.m.

Peerawat slowly looked around in the darkness but saw no one. Aside from the body of his girlfriend lying still with no sign of moving. The next second, the collar was violently pulled back. His left and right cheeks had punches coming in unexpectedly. He fluttered his hands in the air, startled, confused and afraid.

“Finally, you've come back, Pee. You survivor, you son of a bitch.” The figure standing on his head spat out a single saliva, landing right in the middle of Peerawat's forehead. The young man's heart almost burst out of his chest. He felt uncomfortable, like he couldn't breathe.

“I'm giving you another chance to choose. If you survive this time We won't bother you again." A voice called out. Followed by laughter in the room.

“Let's put it this way. In this room, there's you and that woman. I'll let you choose who you'll save. If you run out now You may have a chance to survive. But if you wake up your girlfriend, run away. You must be the one who died. You choose.

....but selfish people like you I think you will survive again as usual.”

The corners of his mouth turned into a disdainful smile. The voice of anger and anger over the old story still hasn't faded.

The young man prayed for the sun to rise quickly, but to no avail. He turned to look at his girlfriend, who was still face down on the lecture table, unmoving. His eyes suddenly caught sight of a cell phone not far away.

“You pick it up and call. If you think you can call me,” the leader of the group ordered in a stern voice. Then an explosion of laughter echoed throughout the room.

“Do you know how cold it is in that water? If you were a little smarter, we wouldn't have died....!!!” The figure cursed loudly.

“Then what do you want me to do? You want me to jump down and die with you all?” Peerawat shouted back.

He became angry when he saw that his opponent was only blaming him when the incident was actually an accident caused by excitement. It was a situation where everyone had to accept the results of the excitement at that time. It's just that each person's good fortune, misfortune, and misfortune are different.

He might have been lucky to survive that incident. But it wasn't that his life after that incident was happy. Traveling with a group of dear friends But he had to come back alone. Peerawat considered it a big sin that he couldn't save his friend.

“Phi Pee Pee Pee!! Wake up, Deer, nightmare. Let's hurry and get out of here, Pee Pee!!” The young man's arm was shaken violently. The two of them grabbed their luggage and rushed out of the room. There was no sign of anyone staying in that area. No one followed out.

Aurora catches the horizon, birds go out to find food, two cell phones ring, but there's no sign of the owner picking up the phone.

Monday morning at 7:30 a.m.

Grade 1/7 students opened the classroom to find the body of a young man lying face down on the floor. There were no signs of injury or physical harm on his side. There was only a trace of water flowing out from his mouth. Only the deceased

“You guys are satisfied,” someone's voice said in the corner of the room.