Invisible Moon
Chapter 2
Invisible & Invisible
"Invisible person does see invisible person."
#WINisWIND
"Good evening! Welcome to UNISTAR SHOWTIME! follow the life of the Moon!
"Today, we came with an exclusive interview as many fans have been requested for, 'How can we find 'In UNISTAR' who is super handsome like an angel but invisible?' And now we invited all the UNISTAR members to answer this question!"
I was lying on the bed in my dorm, using my mobile phone to catch up on the TV program on YouTube.
UNISTAR SHOWTIME follow the life of the Moon - episode: IN Invisible Moon
In the video, the cameraman was walking to record the interview from the UNISTAR members in the studio, they might be on their break during the work.
The camera zoomed in the first member, P'Leo, in Twitter hashtag called #FullMoon. Due to his perfection, good appearance, good study, good personality, studying doctor, multilingual and also the most 'normal' habit in the group, he was known as the ideal Moon model.
Leo: For the case that Nong[1] In is invisible, I don't feel surprised. It can be explained with the scientific reason, Nong In doesn't invisible, nothing about supernatural at all. I think Nong In knows how to detach himself from people's sight. I and P'Kwang did curious before, we checked on CCTV and wondered why Nong In stayed right there but nobody found. Because Nong In often shirked in blind spots or where people did not pay attention. When he got going, he usually moved while others were focusing on something else. Besides, Nong In always did everything quietly and disappeared even before we realised. Nong In knows how to use a place to hide from people's eyes.
I nodded in agreement, P'Leo studied doctor, no wonder how he explained with a solid principle.
Interviewer: You seem to understand a lot, have you ever seen Nong In during his invisible mode?
Leo: Mostly, if he doesn't want us to see, we would rarely see him. However, the more we spent time together, the more I could learn his way. Now I can see him more often. I assume that introverted people probably have more chances to see Nong In rather than extroverts.
For example, P'Kwang is also an introvert and recently Nong In's invisible skills became barely effective with P'Kwang as well. I guess if you are sort of a recluse person like Nong In and get to know him long enough, you might not feel he is invisible anymore. Perhaps, due to the similarity of views and preferences— being in the same place and looking at something in the same way—that would make you able to see him.
I considered P'Leo's analysis. It might be true that people with the same habits tend to see everything in the same way. This reminded me of the coincidence, P'In stood behind the tree which was the blind spot. Yet, it was surprising that I had never been familiar with him before but I could see him at the first time while others had to pay more time adapting.
Then, the camera cut to the next member, P'Sea, the first generation and oldest member of UNISTAR. He was a tall man with a fair face, his face features looked both beautiful and handsome. No wonder that he got the title #BeautifulMoon.
Interviewer: What do you think about having the Invisible Moon in the UNISTAR?
Sea: I like him, I could see a lot of funny things when he was around. Especially, when the Half Moons were fighting and Nong In suddenly showed up, they both cried 'ARGH' like seeing a ghost.
From the outer side, P'Sea seemed to be very calm and polite, his face also looked innocent, but he has a teasing habit, he liked making fun of other members a lot.
Interviewer: Really?
The interviewer turned to ask the Half Moons, P'Natee and P'Wayu.
Natee: No way, I am a real man, I'm not afraid of ghosts.
Wayu: Not true, I've never cried 'ARGH', I cried 'WARGH'.
Then, the interviewer returned to P'Sea.
Interviewer: Have you ever been shocked when Nong In suddenly appeared?
Sea: No, I've never, because he is handsome, hahaha.
Interviewer: Oh, you said something like this, the Prince would get jealous.
If I wasn't wrong, the Prince was the nickname of P'Leo, because his fandom name was #Dom[2]Prince. While P'Sea was called Princess as many fans were likely to pair up these two. They both were in the same TV program named 'Diagnostic with the doctor Moons', it was a fifteen-minute show about health care tips. Sometimes there were demonstrations of first aid, massages and body checking which made some fans imagine too far.
The camera then zoomed at P'Natee, as in hashtag called #RedMoon. His reputation was known as a bluntly mouth person, he was always straightforward—who cursed him, he cursed back funnily, and many fans loved it — it was a sort of his unique characteristic.
Natee: Why is P'In invisible? Well, P'In realised that he can't beat up on my handsome, so he had to hide himself, hahaha. Hey! cameraman! please focus on me, you must make my record super handsome!
The interviewer only asked him once and done, she then turned to the next member instead, P'Wayu, who I just saw this morning, he was surrounded by many fans at the football field.
There were two UNISTAR members from my XU university, P'In and P'Wayu. These two had a different type of handsome, P'In was like the masterpiece sculpture - gorgeous but emotionless, while P'Wayu was like a glorious supermodel - his super white skin made him shine under the spotlight. P'Wayu looked so hot when making a serious face and looked bright when smiling. Among all of UNISTAR members, P'Wayu was the first person that I could remember because he got the title #NewMoon. As he loved making jokes but his jokes often fell flat and no one could understand, as if his unfunny joke turned off his shining light as the Moon, dark like the new moon.
How bad was his joke? let's try.
Interviewer: You are in the same university as Nong In, so you must be closer to Nong In than other members, right? So, can you tell the fans, how can they see the Invisible Moon?
Wayu: If you wanna see P'In, it's very easy.
Interviewer: How?
Wayu: Just fall asleep.
Interviewer: So what?
Wayu: Whenever you sleep, you'll go to see 'Pha In'[3].
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I ate dot[4], No one would ever play this joke.
Nevertheless, no matter how unfunny his joke was, his fans still liked it, that made me want to eat more dots.
So, I only knew more about P'In from P'Leo, others...not even mentioned.
Interviewer: It's not over yet, we already interviewed all UNISTAR, now it's time to interview our Invisible Moon, wait—where is he?
The cameraman tried to find P'In but could not even see his shadow. There were only other members taking the break.
Leo: Where is Nong In? I thought he was still here just a second ago.
Natee: Er! P'In has vanished.
Sea: He probably went out while we were interviewing.
Wayu: I told you, go to sleep and will see P'In for sure—I mean Pha In.
The video ended with P'Wayu unfunny joke, but still no sign of P'In. I put down my phone on the bed while thinking about what P'Leo had said.
"I could see P'In because we are similar?"
It was possible, the same personality would have the same views. Anyway, it was the bedtime now, tomorrow would be the first day of new freshmen welcome[5]. I must get ready for new friends and a new society.
I woke up and dressed up in the university's uniform. I arrived at the business faculty building ten minutes before the appointment. I went to the registration queue to get the name-tag, nobody took over my queue, I was lucky today.
"Nong Win no.101, here you go." the senior student gave the name-tag to me. I also looked at her name-tag, written 'P'Noey 3rd year'.
It was a common tradition of Thai university that the third-year seniors would arrange the welcoming ceremony, and the sophomores would help in some activities.
Come to think of it, P'In was also in the third year, because P'In was the third generation of UNISTAR.
I wore my name-tag and went to sit in a row of classmates in the building yard. When all the freshmen came, the activity would be started. In the meantime, I was using my phone to search for the profile of P'In on the unistar.com website.
"Oh, P'In is also studying business," I exclaimed, and looked around wondering, would he join the ceremony?
"P'Noey ka[6], will P'In come today?"
The first-year female students already asked.
"I think so, but I haven't seen him." P'Noey said.
"So...P'In is invisible?" They continued to ask.
"Do you want to hear the truth? We studied in the same classroom, but sometimes I couldn't even see where he was sitting."
"Really?!, by the way, Is P'In a P'Cheer[7]?"
"Oh yeah!, my friend from the engineering faculty told me that the third year made P'Wayu duty to serve the drinks." Another girl added.
Oho, I could imagine scene by scene. When P'Wayu just walking normally, still had many fans running after him. Then, the one who received a drink from him, no doubt, that drinks bottle would be heavily hugged and kissed until it couldn't remain in its shape.
"Really!? I'm envious! I wanna be in that faculty now!" P'Noey said.
"Yeah! Then, can we go to the engineering faculty instead?"
"No way! go to your line! If you skip, we will punish you." P'Noey suddenly became serious.
"P'Noey is too cruel, we wanna see P'In." They almost cried.
"Me too, Where is In? I wanna see either." P'Noey also.
My classmates sadly came to sit behind me. The third-year said P'In would come, but where was him? I also thought while looking at the balcony outside the building. I saw the beautiful scenery, the black afara tree was full of light-color flowers, it was fluttering like a flying bird when the wind blew slowly.
"Eh," I exclaimed.
P'In was sitting at the balcony but no one noticed again, I assumed it might be because people rarely looked at this place. P'In was looking at the black afara tree as the same as me. He was holding a glass of coconut juice, as the wind blew gently making his white shirt and his hair fluttering lightly.
I couldn't help but think that the scene was like he was shooting a music video.
All of a sudden, As if my eyesight had magic, P'In just turned to me and he noticed that I was observing.
Our eyes met, with his stone-like expression, not showing any emotions, but the way he looked at me was strange—hard to explain—somehow serious but not that much, somehow curious but unconcerned. His eyes reflected the sunlight as if a sparkle from the reflection of the moon's light in the water. I just realised that he had such beautiful eyes.
I unconsciously gazed at him for a while, until his eyes were flashed with surprise, making me realize that I was staring too long. So I quickly looked away.
"Hello all Freshy[8], welcome to the faculty of business, XU university. Congratulations for getting in here. Let me introduce myself, my name is P'Tong, I'm your P'Cheer..."
The leader of the welcome ceremony was greeting us by using a megaphone. I was carefully listening to him, as my determination was to make a better life here. However, even if I was trying to focus, I still felt like being gazed.
I glanced around the balcony instinctively, then startled. P'In was gazing at me while drinking coconut juice by using straw, his face was emotionless, only the little glimmering in his eyes.
Does he like coconut juice? I thought.
No no, it was not the right time to think about his favorite juice. I was nervous as there was a celebrity staring at me like I was doing something wrong. But I was more wondering, normally not many people noticed my existence because I wasn't interesting or attractive enough.
Then, I stared back at P'In as though we could talk through the eyes, our eyes met again, P'In didn't turn away.
Why were you looking at me? I frowned, trying to ask through the eyes.
P'In showed a thoughtful expression for a second, then turned his eyes off me, backed to scoop the coconut meat in the glass.
I was not able to understand what he was thinking, but I had a feeling that he might think in the same way as me. The reason why he looked at me was probably similar to mine.
Why could we see each other?
Perhaps, only the Invisible could see the Invisible.
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Footnote
[1] Nong is the polite culture way in Thai spoken language, used in front of the people's name who is younger.
[2] Dom is the shortened word of 'fandom', meaning the group of idols or celebrity fanclubs, commonly used as slang among Thai teenagers.
[3] Pha In is the name of the Hindu god. In Thai idiom, the phrase 'went to see Pha In' can be referred to 'fall asleep'.
[4] 'Ate dot' (eat dot) in Thai slang means 'no comment'. It was a similar way to reply with no comment as '...' (pronounce "dot dot dot"),
[5] New freshmen welcome is the traditional ceremony of Thai university, mostly all the activities are arranged by the seniors of that faculty, the aim is to make first-year students get along with each other and also get to know the seniors. The main rule of this ceremony is the freshman need to follow the senior.
[6] "ka" is the Thai cultural way for showing respect to the interlocutor, normally "ka" is used by Thai females at the ending sound.
[7] P'Cheer is the title of the senior who leads the activity in the freshman welcome ceremony.
[8] Freshy refers to the first-year student in the college, normally used in Thai spoken language.
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