The Kiss I Never Should Have Asked For - Chapter 8 – Our Notebooks

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The next morning...

I returned Korn's notebook before classes began.

He accepted it with both hands.

"Thank you, P'Phawin."

I nodded.

"I checked everything."

"There were only two small mistakes."

He smiled.

"I knew you'd find them."

I laughed softly.

"You make very few mistakes."

Just before he walked away, he opened the notebook.

His eyes stopped on the sentence I had written.

"You never caused me any trouble."

For a moment...

He simply stared at those words.

Then he looked at me.

"Did you... write this?"

"Yes."

"I meant it."

Korn smiled.

It wasn't a big smile.

But it was the first genuine smile I had seen on his face since that night.

"Thank you."

From that day on...

Our notebooks became something we both looked forward to.

Every week...

We exchanged them.

If he missed a question...

I explained it.

If I forgot something...

He corrected it.

Sometimes he finished writing an answer for me when I was busy.

Sometimes I helped him complete a long assignment before the deadline.

Without realizing it...

We had become a team.

One afternoon, Narin noticed the notebook in my hands.

"You're still paired with Korn?"

"Yeah."

"How is he?"

"He's doing well."

Narin smiled.

"I'm glad."

"Korn has always been hardworking."

I nodded.

"He is."

That was all Narin said.

He didn't ask anything else.

As the weeks passed...

Korn and I began talking more.

Not about love.

Not about that night.

Just ordinary things.

Homework.

Teachers.

School.

The weather.

Sometimes...

The simplest conversations were enough.

One evening, after we finished checking each other's work, Korn looked at me and laughed.

"What?"

"You know..."

"I never imagined we'd end up like this."

"Like what?"

"Helping each other with homework."

I smiled.

"Neither did I."

He closed his notebook.

"I'm happy we can still talk."

"So am I."

As I walked home that day...

I realized something had changed.

Korn was no longer just Narin's younger cousin.

He had quietly become...

Someone I looked forward to seeing every day.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgWcdKKPiK

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