The first story is Tao Kacha, please give it to me.

Just a close friend

I have a close friend named Tao. The two of us have been friends since freshman year. The two of us are now in our third year. We know each other because we were in the same faculty, receiving freshmen together, and became closer when we were in year one and second semester. When asked how close we were, the answer was that we were very close to each other all the time. So that other people who didn't know the two of us looked at each other and thought that they were probably lovers because they saw

Wherever you are, you must see the Tao there until your friends They tease each other that they are the most enviable couple. But that creates dissatisfaction for me. How can we be lovers? We are both men. Don't they know how feminine Tao is? When someone asked what the two of us were up to, I was the one who answered, "

A relationship that has no name" which will understand or not? Well, when is it okay for people to talk to each other?

But when asked what I think of Tao, I can say that I think of him as just a close friend who has nothing extra or anything in the way of anything. Just being with him makes me feel at ease. Happy and safe like I've never been with anyone before. Isn't this the reason it's called love beyond friends?

I mean my boyfriend. Importantly, Mr. Sawang, the most handsome guy like Tao, definitely wouldn't think anything like that about me because I see him with different girls all the time. It can be said that my heart is never free and I'm still the first. That he brought a female friend to introduce me to again since he was stubborn all the time, I asked him.

“Tao, girlfriend?” How many times has this question been uttered from my mouth?

“No, new friend, just wanted to introduce you,” he replied with a straight face.

I don't see him admitting it, so why did he have to tell me in the first place? I don't know. Maybe he was showing off his abilities. And every time Tao always asks me,

“Is this woman okay?” She was ready to stare at me asking for my opinion. I am not your parents who have to say whether I pass or not.

"I don't know, okay," I answered without much thought. because he thought it was his business Let him decide for himself. I don't want to get involved at all.

In a few weeks, Tao will come with a new girl and always have the same questions. Recently, I saw him with a girl I'm very familiar with, but didn't this person introduce me to him? That girl is no one else.

“Yuki” is my old friend. If I'm going to say it correctly, I'd say it's my ex since high school. Tao probably only knows that we're school friends but probably doesn't know that we've dated before.

They both like to talk and whisper near me. Seeing them makes me annoyed. I want to kick the Taoist and let him know and escape, but I like to solve problems by walking away. Claimed to have gone to the bathroom Buy some snacks and they'll disappear. Who would like to see those pictures? What's the most crazy thing about me? Why do I have to run away? I don't understand myself at all.

Today, while I was sitting and reading Conan comics under the apple tree next to the faculty building, a group of seniors walked up to me. I remember there was P' Beer, P' Lin, P' Aen and P' On.

“Nong Kacha, right?” P'On asked me immediately when I arrived.

“Yes, is there something wrong with you?” I replied, immediately wondering what business they had with me.

“You guys are Jack's code siblings. I'd like to come and ask for some help from you.” So I said, "It's like this. Jack is a senior who has already graduated." When I was in first year, he was in fourth year. Which my brother and many friends like to tease me, saying that he secretly likes me. I feel it because he is very good to me.

Likes to invite me to do activities here and there. And he shows some signs or behaviors that make me feel like he likes me, such as buying me snacks. Invite them to eat alone. At that time, I almost lost my mind, but I thought that lately we had grown apart because he had to go do an internship and I met Tao who was a friend of the same age first. go everywhere together

Until recently, I haven't seen him again. Until I even forgot

“This Saturday is Brother Jack's birthday.” This time Brother Lin spoke up.

"Would you like me to go and surprise you on my birthday?" Phi Beer added.

Before I could speak, P'Aen suddenly spoke up.

“Yes, Nong Kacha. I want Jack to be happy."

When one person finished speaking, the other person continued to mix things up until I didn't have a chance to speak at all. Finally, before he left, he stubbornly shook his hand and punched him.

"It's a deal. I'll pick you up at the dormitory on Saturday evening." He walked away with hope.

As for me, I'm still standing there confused as to when I said yes. Why don't you ask me about my intentions first? Like this, we're clearly shaking hands and punching each other. Let's go, let's go. It's a way of repaying him for taking care of me when I entered my first year.

“Is the tea going to go?” I was startled by a familiar voice coming from behind me. It made me stop my thoughts for a moment. When I turned around, I saw Tao as if he was staring at me with an expression on his face, listening intently to my answer.

“So what does Tao say? Should we go?” I wanted to hear my best friend's opinion and thought about when Tao had been eavesdropping.

“Hey, Tao has been here a long time?”

“Long enough to hear everything,” he said, walking to a stop on the opposite bench and sitting down. He slowly raised his head to stare at me.

“Do you think we should go?” I asked him again with the same question.

“That's not good.” He stopped there and before I could ask him the reason, he spoke up.

"Just kidding. I heard that they used to be lovers, right?"

"What the hell are you talking about to my boyfriend?" Well, I've never accepted my love for him.

"I saw that in first year they were so close that they weren't lovers. What do you call them?" He said with an annoyed expression on his lowest organ.

“Just an older brother,” I answered. Sitting down, I thought of something to tease him.

"So if we stick together and call ourselves boyfriend and girlfriend, now Cha and Tao are lovers." I said while laughing. Am I good at teasing my friends? I secretly noticed that his face was red too.

“That's funny.”

“Why do you have to keep your head down? Hahaha.” It's been a long time since I've been able to tease him. Really happy

Then the two of us were silent and no more words were spoken. I could only hear the gentle wind blowing past. It was strangely sluggish and I really didn't like it.

“Go, we'll go as friends,” he said suddenly without flute. Ready to send a smile at the end

“Haven't eaten free food in a long time?” He raised an eyebrow. If you're going to be this selfish about food, my friend.

“Oh, I thought you were worried. Actually, I'm just worried about eating.” However, I feel somewhat at ease because my close friend will be going with me.

And then the appointed time arrived and Pee Aon came to pick me up under the dormitory. When we met, Pee Aon made an appointment for me to sing a song as a gift for Pee Jack. I myself had no problem. Because I like to sing. So I asked him to prepare a piano for me, which he promised. When we had agreed, he invited me to get in the car.

But I declined on the reason that I was going to invite friends. I'll take my motorcycle along because I'm not close to anyone at the event or I won't have friends to talk to. which he agreed

When Tao and I arrived at the meeting place P'On came to pick me up and made me go around the back door to hide in another room first because I didn't want P'Jack to see me or else it wouldn't be a surprise. When we entered the room we found a lot of food all lined up. The boss said he had prepared it for us. Feel free to eat as you please because it will probably be a while.

So that we could sing, Tao and I would sit and eat together. But instead, I saw Tao eating with gusto like the reason he came was because he wanted to eat something free. No, he slowly picked up the spoon and held it in his hand for a long time. Without knowing what to decide to eat Or whether he didn't want to eat or not, which I couldn't secretly wonder about.

"Why don't you eat? Are you considering the nutrients?"

"I'm not hungry," he said, putting down his spoon.

“What the fuck is wrong? I still haven't seen Tao eat anything today.”

Instead of hearing an answer, only a smile returned. That smile was so expressionless. I didn't understand what it meant but it wasn't until I asked. An older man came and told me to prepare, so I suppressed this doubt and turned it into concern. Tao has never been like this before. The Tao I know is playful and fun.

Or he has a problem with Yuki for now, keeping his doubts at bay. Because there is something else I have to do.

When someone signaled it was time for me to go on stage, I turned to Tao. to ask for encouragement Tao smiled at me and patted my shoulder lightly.

“To the fullest, friend. “Just these words immediately gave me strength and encouragement. I'm ready.

When I got up to the stage, I was quite excited. There were about 30 people, one of whom was Jack. He looked as good and handsome as ever. As soon as Jack saw me come on stage The expression on his face was quite shocked, but it was replaced by a smile. And you're probably wondering how I got here. But he probably doesn't want to know right now because I dared to say it first.

“I wish Uncle Jack much happiness,” I continued.

“I would like to give this song as a birthday present to Jack. I pulled up a chair and sat down in front of the piano. Before skillfully drawing my fingers, I turned towards the door I had just walked out of, looking for someone. But I didn't see him, so I thought to myself, he must have secretly eaten. This guy is always worried about eating.

When the sound of the piano played, there was a loud screeching sound. It was like I was playing a concert, so much so that I forgot myself for a moment. And when I started singing the first mantra, every sound fell silent, as if there was only me in this room.

When the song ended, there was loud applause. I looked over and saw Tao standing at the door. When I turned back to the front of the stage I found that Jack was already standing in front of me with a large bouquet of flowers in his hand. I felt a little embarrassed. No one had ever given me flowers before, especially in front of so many people, which made me helpless.

I feel completely afraid that it's important for someone to be a man too. I turned towards the door again to get Tao's opinion, who I assumed would have a supportive smile. But instead, he found a neutral expression on his face. There was no emotion at all.

“How did you come? Thank you,” Jack asked, handing over a bouquet of flowers.

“Congratulations.” I held out my hand to receive the flowers and suddenly a voice rang out.

“Kiss the cheek.” Then many more voices sounded in support.

What is this? No, something crazy like this must never happen to me.

But I don't know if Jack couldn't stand listening to the cheering or if his heart wanted to, he slowly moved closer. closer to me His hands held my arms tightly and brought me closer and closer. I'm helpless. It was like I was being held down by chains and I couldn't move. I closed my eyes and thought that whatever was going to happen, let it happen.

I'm going to have to spoil my first kiss without my will!

No, that's not true!

But immediately, another hand grabbed my arm and dragged me like a dragger with such great strength that I almost fell because I was unable to prepare. And the flowers in my hand fell to the floor and I didn't have time to pick them up or even turn around to look. Because the person dragging me didn't seem to stop or let go of my hand, so I didn't even have time to see what the reaction of the people standing in front of me and the people at the event would be because it was so fast.

But it's not difficult for me to guess, right? I was more or less shocked when suddenly someone I didn't know grabbed my arm and dragged me away. With only an important moment like this and probably followed by wondering who he was and what he was doing. And probably not satisfied with that, which I don't understand either.

When I was pulled up to the parking lot, I decided to do something.

“What the hell are you doing? Tao,” I said as I shook my arm out of his hand, which worked.

“Did you know? What did Cha do?” he said in a harsh tone that I had never seen before, like he was angry at something that had upset him.

“What is tea doing?” I asked with curiosity mixed with equally hot emotion. It was confusing. I should have been glad to escape the unwilling kiss. Or will I be angry at the person standing in front of me who has lost my manners?

“How about kissing in front of ten people?”

“Aren't you ashamed?” He stared at me without looking away. I slowly looked into his eyes, the hard look in his eyes not softening at all from before.

“Then why did you have to drag us here like that? It's extremely rude.” He immediately countered.

“Aren't you regretful that you didn't get to kiss him?”

“Then why must Tao be so angry?” I said without melting from those eyes. Found that his eyes were hard and fierce. Starting to soften, he didn't say anything but grabbed my arm and dragged me to the car.

“Go back to the dorm.”

Then he got on the motorcycle and started it while I climbed on top of it easily, with my curiosity still following me.

The streets seem so lonely late at night like this. The higher the speed of the car combined with the emotions of the driver, the anger and doubt disappeared completely. Now there was only fear of when the car would crash or overturn. Because it was so fast that it was frightening and I didn't know what other crazy thoughts Tao would have. From fear he started to tremble even more as the wind hit his face.

I feel the coldness Until I got goosebumps.

But suddenly something warm came to touch my hand. He took my hand and moved it to place it in front of his lap. Without saying anything, but that didn't matter, because it made my fear disappear enough, he slowly moved my hand to wrap around his. The speed of the car gradually decreased until it was normal. I understood that my anger was starting to soften now. But I didn't say anything. I want his mood to be normal first because I don't want to add fuel to the fire that will soon be extinguished.

Now I'm angry. There is no fear or doubt left, only peace of mind remains. It's comforting that the old Tao has returned again. It's as if what happened a few minutes ago was just a dream. I feel very lucky to have a close friend like him. I really do.

My thoughts were halted when a moving car stopped in its tracks.

“Better get something to eat first. I'm so hungry.” Tao then confusedly told me to get out of the car before following him to the noodle shop that was only 10 meters ahead.

That made his curiosity come back again as he ate two bowls of noodles, even though before there were food lined up in front of him, he said he wasn't hungry.

I'm not hungry, so I ate 2 bowls. What the hell is wrong with this!

After we finished eating, we walked along the footpath. Why was it so quiet? I didn't like it one bit so I decided to say something to break the silence. without thinking anything and want to tease it too

“Tao does that. Are you jealous of me?” I smiled and turned towards him to see his reaction.

“What are you doing?” he immediately shot back with a questioning expression.

"He dragged us out of work before Brother Jack did.." I stopped there. What do you think it might mean?

"What the hell are you jealous of? Friends." But he didn't dare turn towards me but continued to walk with his head bowed.

“Then why is your face red?” He quickly turned his head towards me. Which made me see his red face more clearly.

"Where's the red? Tell me."

“Right here,” I pointed at his face forcefully, causing him to stagger slightly.

It's so obvious that even kindergarteners know that it's bright!

"But anyway, thank you for making me numb and not losing my first kiss to anyone," I said, feeling a little embarrassed. I must confess that I have never kissed anyone.

“Really?” he said, turning his head towards me with a questioning expression and a sneering smile.

“Um,” was all I said and then I bowed my head and continued walking.

I knew he was definitely laughing at me in his heart.

After that, we didn't say anything, but a hand came on my shoulder. The person who embraced him made an ignorant face and didn't point out. I didn't resist anything. And then we kept walking. I myself am happy I was so relieved that I forgot what had happened in the past few hours. I don't know how he feels about me being just a close friend or not.

But right now I don't care, I just want to be near you. A close friend like him doesn't want anything more than this. Just close friends like us have each other and never abandon each other. Walking side by side with each other, whether happy or sad. and ready to face various events together I am extremely satisfied even though I don't understand the reason for what he did.

But I'm glad he did it even though my heart was still full of doubts. But in the end I always feel happy and hope he will do this to me again. Because that shows that he still values ​​me. And it didn't cause much damage and I liked it. Like just thinking deeply or thinking too far because

We're just close friends, that's all!

Tao*Kacha

Please give me some advice.