e p i s o d e 3

𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗉𝖺𝗉𝖾𝗋 𝗉𝗅𝖺𝗇𝖾

"That girl intended to kiss me." Thyme giggled like a five year old.

Kavin, MJ and Praepailin stare at him with a 'is he for real' look.

All four of them were sitting in the pool with random girls Kavin and MJ had brought. Praepailin kept her distance from  them.

Praepailin was on the float thingy. (what is it called? lol)

"He seems to enjoy that yogurt way too much" commented MJ.

"I agree" said Kavin.

"Why is he so self obessed" laughed Praepailin.

MJ threw a ball at Thyme "it's all over your moth! You're such a messy eater, Ai Thyne".

When Thyme rubbed of the yogurt off his lips he made a gag worthy face which made Praepailin gag loudly. "You're such a weirdo"

The boy started making teasing noises.

"He's lost all his cool." Said MJ

"It's been a while, Thyme. Haven't you lost that rush?" said Kavin and continued "oh, I forgot that was Thyme's first kiss." Teased Kavin, saying first kiss in english.

"It totally wasn't!" Thyme said being all defensive.

"If it wasn't who was your first kiss?" teased MJ again.

Thyme started throwing water at everyone. Kavin and MJ's girls went to the otherside.

"It's none of your business. You don't need to know"

"Oh, it's fine! You don't have to get all defensive. Everyone has their first kiss" teased Praepailin while winking at Thyme.

"As if you've had your first kiss" Thyme fought back.

The room was silent and Praepailin smirked at Thyme.

Thyme gasped and shouted "WHO!?"

"I never kiss and tell" Praepailin replied sassily.

Thyme chaneged the topic, "don't that that." He glaed at his sister "Lets talk about something important. Now I know what of a person Gorya is."

"Whatever he tells, she's definitely completely opposite." Praepailin muttered.

"What kind of a person is she?" asked MJ.

"She's a hypocrite. She says she doesn't like something, but she does. She doesn't use expensive things and takes the bus. She wants me to approach her."

"It sounds more like YOU want to approach her." Said Praepailin while high fiving Kavin.

He rambles on some more and everyone who was listening to his nonsese sighed.

"It's that you know what Gorya is like. But do you know how you're going to talk to Ren?" asked Kavin.

Ren. Ever since Thyme and Ren fought in P'Mira's party Ren hasn't been over here to hang. He didn't talk to anymore. Not even Prae.

She know he wasn't going to apoligize this time. How many times can a person apologize for no reason. This time Thyme was at fault and it was his resonsibility to be the bigger man.

"You've been at odds for too long." Added MJ "I'm sick of it. Arent you going to apologize to him?"

Thyme's face changed and said "he should be apologizing to me! Why should I apologize to him?" he said angrily "tell him if he doesn't apologize, don't expect us to talk in this lifetime."

The three of them sighed again.

"You are unbeliveable! You're an idiot sometimes!" breathed out Praepailin and splashed water in Thyme's face.

And in not time the hashtag #F4breakingup was trending.

"How can they rule the whole school? This is so unrealistic" thought Preapailin.

-x-

Gorya was planning to return Ren's handkerchief so she made her way to the rooftop. But he wasn't there.

She was going downstairs with a sad look on her face.

MJ saw her and planned to scare her. "why am I friends with children?" thought Preapailin.

Gorya screamed and was ready to throw a punch then she saw who it was.

"P'MJ!" she sighed.

MJ was laughing at her reaction "What are you playing?" Gorya asked him.

"I told him not to do it!" Preapailin made her way towards Gorya with a kind smile. "but not gonna lie, that was pretty amusing."

"What? Are you still aftraid of us?" MJ asked Gorya.

"Not me!" said Preapailin while laughing.

"We're not Thyme. We don't bite" said Kavin.

"We're just passing through. What about you?" MJ asked Gorya "sulking at the fire escape for hours."

"Did you see that?" Gorya asked MJ and Preapailin.

Preapailin nodded and MJ took out his phone "I can show you. Standing there like a mannequin." And pulled up pictures.

"You're looking for Ren? He's ditching today."

"Oh?" answered Gorya.

Kavin pulled out his phone and went to P'Mira's story.

"I just saw P'Mira posting about him coming over to her house. You can check it out. He should still be there. But are you sure you'll go?" teased Kavin.

MJ joined in on the teasing "be careful. You may see some glaring images."

"Stop teasing her salelo!" Preapailin laughed and tried to stop them.

"I just want to return something to him" said Gorya getting defensive like Thyme.

"Sure you are" teased Preapailin and walked back with MJ.

-x-

Preapailin was in her room with her door closed listening to music with her headphones on. She was slowly humming to the song playing

She heard a knock on her door, she screamed "it's open!".

She assumed it was Aunty Yu bringing her food so she didn't say anything.

She felt someone tap her shoulder, she took her headphones out and saw P'Tia.

"I didn't think my welcome would be this warm" Tia smiled at Preapailin.

"P'Tia!" she screamed and jumped on her sister. Her hug was so tight it probably blocked P'Tia's airtway.

"Do you want to kill me?" Preapailin heard P'Tia. Her voice was muffled.

Preapailin let go of her older sister and smiled at her.

"Khor thoad kha, I missed you so much phi!" Praepailin grinned.

"I missed you too!"

"Wait. What brings you here?"

"Well I heard about Thyme creating another mess. I can't make you fix everything. That'll be tiring so I'm here to talk some sense into him." She smirked "wanna join?" she asked and Praepailin nodded.

-x-

They were sitting in P'Tia's car and they were following a bus that Thyme bought.

"Who would buy a bus? He's so weird. Does he actually like N'Gorya?" thought Praepailin.

P'Tia's car overtook Thyme's bus and made the bus driver stop the bus.

Both of them got out and saw Gorya running from Thyme and Thyme screaming like a crazy person.

Praepailin sighed and let P'Tia handle it. She had had enough of doing babysitting duty.

P'Tia pushed Gorya away and kicked Thyme when he was running behind her.Praepailin laughed loudly as Thyme fell on the floor.

"What the hell?" Thyme asked, and when he saw who had kicked him he was shocked "shiaa" he said.

P'Tia took her glasses of and flipped her hair. It looked like she was being introuduced in a soap opera.

"P'Tia!" said Thyme while slowly standing up, holding his chest as it was still painful. "Why didn't you tell me you were coming?"

"That would ruin the whole surpise now wouldn't it?' smirked Praepailin.

"Ai Prae you sutt!" Thyme spat.

"Now, please you two! Don't get started. One problematic person at a time" P'Tia joked.

Praepailin fake gasped and put her hand in her heart pretending to be hurt.

"And now you!" she looked at time "what kind of sick game are you playing?" she looked at Gorya "look" she pulled Gorya closer, "this cute girl is shivering in fear. Don't worry we'll give you a lift." She took Gorya towads her car.

Praepailin went to Thyme "P'Tia, why are you messing-" but before Thyme could finish Praepailin stepped on his foot.

"That felt good" she said and went back to Gorya and P'Tia.

"Come on! Lets go" Praepailin said as they were taking Gorya towards the car.

As Gorya sat down P'Tia spoke "think of this as my apology okay?" there was a pause and she spoke again "you are Gorya right?" which made Gorya nod at her. "Pleasure to meet you" and P'Tia gave Gorya her card.

Tia asked her driver to take Gorya to school.

-x-

Praepailin and P'Tia hung back and sat inside the bus with Thyme.

"Thyme," P'Tia started, "it's not that I don't know what you've been doing, but it's not rigjt. You know that, right?"

"Agh, yeah I know" answered Thyme.

Thyme was sitting in my middle and to his right sat Praepailin and to his left sat P'Tia.

"I belive that deep down you're not a bad person. But you can be a better person."

"A better person" Thyme said not believing her. "As a Paramaanantra, have we ever cared about that word?" he said and silence consumed the place.

"So, why didn't you tell me were back?" said Thyme.

"I told you, I'm here to look after you. Both of you." She looked at Praepailin and Thyme.

They didn't believe her.

"How about the truth" both the twins said at the same time.

"I've got an urgent task. Mae asked me to come back and sort it out. Something is big is coming to Paramaanantra."

"That big huh?" Thyme asked.

P'Tia took her phone out, it was a conference of their Mae.

"Mae is moving to phase two."

After the video finished P'Tia spoke; "everything is undergoing a great change. Things won't be the same. You too. It's time for the two of you to grow up. The days when you're just playing for fun are winding down."

"We know" spoke Thyme.

Every time anybody had a conversation Praepailin was the one who sat in silence and listened. Talking was always done by Thyme. They were used to it. She didn't like speaking. She only spoke it was necessary.

"We know that our teenage days are running out." They all sighed.

"It may take some time, but don't worry. We'll make it."

Even though Thyme had spoken for both of them. Most of it was for Thyme to understand.

Praepailin was already mature enough to understand. Thyme was the child. Even though he was older than her, Praepailin was always more responsible.

"You may have grown up a bit" said P'Tia.

"I agree" answered Praepailin.

"It's about Gorya isn't it?" asked P'Tia.

Thyme avoided eye contact from both his sisters and started to look away.

"I'm not giving up on you." Said P'Tia.

"I'm not either" Praepailin softly smiled at Thyme and put her head on his shoulder as all three sat in comfortable silence.

-x-

Thyme and Praepailin sat in Thyme's room playing games, "aha! I win and yOu SucK!" mocked Praepailin after wining for the third time.

"We play together all day! where did you practice?" whined Thyme.

"Admit it loser! I. am. better. than. you." Thyme rolled his eyes at her comment.

"I'm done! let's do something else." Thyme told his sister.

"You are just tired of losing." said Praepailin while standing up and stretching. "What do we do now?" 

Thyme shrugged a response.

"Let's make something! I'm so hungry!" suggested Praepailin and Thyme nodded.

-x-

"You're doing it all wrong! you're supposed to fold gently not make a tornado! gimme that!" Praepailin scolded Thyme when they were making brownies.

"If you know it all do. it. yourself." Thyme screamed.

"Well if we make them, maybe you can give some to N'Gorya and tell her you made it! perfect first day gift!" giggled Praepailin.

"I doN'T wANT tO gO OuT wiTh hEr!" said Thyme getting defensive AGAIN!

"yeah right I totally believe yuh" mocked Praepailin.

"Keep your voice low! if Mae heard you, she won't let me" whispered yelled Thyme.

"So you do want to take her out! how are you going to do it!? let me help!" said a very giddy Praepailin.

"I don't know! Kavin said he'll help me" said Thyme while Praepailin hummed.

-x-

After they made the brownie batter she poured it in the dish and licked the spoon.

"I wanted to do that!" whined Thyme.

She passed him the bowl, "take this" grinned Praepailin.

He took some batter on his hand and ran towards his sister and put it all over her face.

"Ai Thymeeeeee!" she whined, Thyme had a smirk on his face which she would soon erase.

She took a bunch of flour and started running after him. 

"Oh it's on sutt!" she screamed.

In no time everything was a mess.

Both of them were laughing so hard they didn't even realise the mess they had made.

"How did I know I was going to walk into something like this" they heard someone say.

They turned their heads to see Ren, Kavin and MJ standing in front of them.

"Look at the mess you made!" Praepailin blamed Thyme, even though they were equally at fault.

"Me!? you did it!"

They started arguing back and forth until the three boys had enough and broke them apart.

"We have to clean up!" Praepailin told Thyme as she grabbed the paper towels.

"You know we have people for that?" Thyme told his sister.

"We created this mess! They already have so much on their plate! You can go, I'll clean up" Praepailin told her brother while humming a tune slowly.

Thyme shook his head and grabbed another paper towel.

Slowly all the boys joined in on the clean up duty.

"See! you guys will survive on your own! I so proud of you four" giggled Praepailin.

-x-

P'Mira was leaving.

Everyone was in the airport saying their goodbyes.

But Ren didn't come. He was heartbroken cause of P'Mira's decision.

Praepailin had called him multiple times telling him he'll regret it if he doesn't show up but he ignored her.

P'Mira hugged everyone and told them she'll miss them all.

"Thank you for coming to see me off. You had to wake up early."

"Mai pen rai khap P'Mira, it's good that we're here. This place is full of beautiful ladies."

Praepailin rolled her eyes "what he meant was, we don't mind seeing you off we love you and will miss you a lot" after finishing she smacked Kavin's head.

"We'll visit you sometime. Good luck," said Thyme.

"You too" replied P'Mira "I'll be watching you" she warned Thyme.

Then they heard footsteps and saw Gorya coming to say goodbye.

They hugged and P'Mira took her suitcase and made her way inside.

She waved at all of them again and she left.

When they turned bac to head home, they saw Ren.

He was making his way slowly towards them. He stopped at Gorya and they were talking.

He pulled out his passport which had a ticket.

"Oh, please don't tell me he's gonna do what I'm thinking" begged Praepailin in her thoughts.

"I'll follow P'Mira to France"

"There it is" Praepailin thought. "Shiaa" she muttered softly.

Everyone had shocked expressions on their face.

"He's still a high school student! What about graduation. This idea seems very impulsive. He did not think this through at all." Thought Praepailin but she didn't question him out loud.

Then Ren kissed Gorya's forehead, which left everyone wide eyed. Especially Praepailin who sighed under her breath.

Then he made his way to his friends. He started leaving without a word.

"Oh, hell no!" Praepailin said out loud. He owes her an explanation. A goodbye.

She ran towards him but before she could say anything Thyme called for Ren, "how can you do this?" he questioned Ren.

He turned around and saw Praepailin standing in front of him, tears pooled in her eyes. He saw Thyme who had a confused expression on his face.

Thyme started walking towards Ren, Praepailin moved a step aside so Thyme and Ren can fix themselves and apologize.

"Are you really going to leave me?" Thyme asked Ren.

Ren's expression softened. "Didn't you think to tell us about something this big?" Thyme screamed.

MJ, Praepailin and Kavin smiled softly at Thyme. He was finally talking to Ren. They hated not being together. It felt nice when Thyme was doing all the talking about friendship. They knew how much everyone meant to eachother.

"Do you ever think to consult it with us?" Ren was also smiling at Thyme and Thyme continued to rant.

"We used to be together ever day. Are you really going to leave us? It won't be F4 anymore! Huh?" Thyme gently pushed Ren backwards.

"Take care guys" said Ren while putting a hand on Thyme's shoulder.

"Damn it!" Thyme pushed Ren's hand aside out of frustration, he grabbed Ren's collar "Ren," he breathed out "I haven't even apologized to you." Everyone smiled at Thyme being considerate. It was extremely rare.

"You don't need to" Ren said softly and Thyme put his head on Ren's shoulder. He would never in a million years admit it. But he was crying.

All three of them went to the boys and heard Thyme say "if anyone bullies you, I'll deal with them!" Ren laughed and MJ and Kavin teased Thyme for crying.

"I think you're the biggest bully so he'll be fine" laughed Praepailin while drying her tears.

"Is Thyme crying?" joked Kavin.

Everyone started teasing Thyme and Thyme was getting defensive again!

MJ, Kavin and Thyme started chasing each other, Praepailin and Ren were looking at them with amusing faces.

Praepailin turned to face Ren "Call me as soon as you board. Call me when you land. Call me every day. You're going to be okay right?" rambled Praepailin.

Ren bent down to her height and wiped the tears from her cheek and chuckled lightly "I'll be fine I promise. I'll call everyday, okay?" he asked her softly and Praepailin nodded and pulled him so that she can hug him.

She was so tiny. Her head was where his heart was. She could hear his heart beating thump thump.

She slowly cried and chuckled, "oh god I'm a mess."

"Take care of yourself too, okay? You can't babysit these boys all the time" Ren joked,

"Well now I have to work double shift cause my babysitter partner is going to France" said Praepailin.

"I'll miss you so much," said Ren

"Meeya mor" Praepailin replied.

Then the troublemakers came back and started using Ren as their shields.

Praepailin loved seeing everyone like this. Happy.

-x-

Ren said his goodbyes and boarded the flight.

Everyone went out to scream at the plane go.

"Come on, guys, or you'll miss him! Let's see him off!" screamed Thyme.

Praepailin, MJ and Kavin ran towards Thyme and started screaming.

-x-

The whole gang dropped Gorya home and ended up in Thyme and Praepainlin's house.

All of them started watching a movie. Praepainlin definitely did not pick a sad movie on purpose. She was feeling like shit the moment Ren's flight took off. It wasn't just the part where she was in love them him. But he was her bestfriend. She didn't know how to survive with him. She didn't think she could have survived without any of those boys. Every since they were children they had stayed together.

"Are you okay?" Kavin asked Praepainlin.

She shook her head. Thankgod it was dark no one could see her face.

They were watching the movie, well... more like screwing Thyme for screaming at the screen who was also crying like everyone. But he had this bad boy's don't cry phase so he ended up screaming while watching. It was pretty dumb.

"I think I should get therapy again" Praepainlin said loudly.

Thyme paused the movie and everyone looked at her and gestured for her to continue.

"I don't feel fine anymore. I don't people to be worried about me. It happened again. When I talked to a therapist it made me feel much better."

She sighed slowly and continued, "I know I had a problem, when I went to a therapist she kinda helped me with my anxiety