But Thithat or Ai Thi, my superstitious best friend, believed that I was having bad luck and tried to drag me to make merit and to see a monk which of course i don't want to go but in the end, I was tricked to sit and see a monk under the tamarind tree in the temple.
After class, Ai Thi told me, "When you come back, I'll send you to the dormitory."
After the mission of deceiving me to see the fortune teller was completed, Ai Thi still invited me to come back together, even though he was smiling until his eyes closed.
"When I arrived, I was thinking of sending you to the dormitory. Isn't that strange?" I glanced at the person next to me with a slight resentment. If it's the other day that we finish class at the same time, I will easily get in the car and go back to the dormitory. But today, at first, I plan to sit and work at the university library and then come back in the evening.
At first I didn't think much, until it drove past my dormitory. I started to wonder. Thi said he was hungry and he wanted to go to the mall to find something to eat. When the car took a turn to the temple, I realized that he was trying to prank me again. As soon as we arrived, he immediately dragged me to the fortune teller's table and pay for all the ritual, like a rich kid. Even though I didn't want to see a fortune teller at all.
"Don't worry about this. Just think like I intend to come to see the fortune as well, so don't be angry." The person said with an awkward smile, lightly stroking my shoulder, trying to relieve my resentment.
Ai Thi knows very well that I don't believe in horoscopes and superstitions. I believe in my actions. Life is ours, we can choose to do or not to do something. At this time, I encountered a lot of things, probably It's because of my own mistake, not destiny. When I thought that my friend was worried about me that much I wasn't angry about it. Besides.... I'm not the one who pays for it myself. So it's okay.
"You just need to listen a little bit, and don't think too much, I think this guy is not accurate," said Ai Thi as we walked back to the car in the hot sun. "Are you worried about me?" I glanced at him knowingly. Pan is my code junior that Ai Thi has been following for more than a year now, but the young man still doesn't give a sign that he likes Thi back. Maybe it's because my friend, who looks like a playboy, made Pan distrust his feelings.
The taller man lightly pushed my head and pressed the unlock button of the car. I stuffed myself in the driver's seat, and the silver Audi pulled out of Temple heading to the main road. "Wait, let's take you to see the synthesizer that my mother always comes to. That person is quite accurate."
"Okay, I'm not going anywhere," I replied in a serious tone. Even when Thi insisted to take me there, I wasn't indifferent at all.
As I said, I believe in my actions. believe in what can be tangible and proven, more than fate, and I think that going to a fortune teller is not solving the problem at the root because I just had to be more careful, taking care of my health and more focus on studying, that's all.
The other reason is that fees for fortune telling are expensive. My family is middle-class, not rich and has hundreds of millions worth of business like Ai Thi. I wouldn't throw any money for that particular reason.