Shrimply Mine

"Anyone slept with Kung? Need a review." That is the first thing you see in Shrimply Mine (อย่ามาอยู่กับกุ้ง), and before your eyebrows hit the ceiling, relax. Kung means sleep in the most literal sense. He is a university freshman who does not sleep well on his own, so he asks friends to share his bed. Just sleep. Campus gossip, of course, heard something else, and the rumour reaches his new university before he does.

A friend warns him that if he ever actually falls for someone, he will regret this habit. Kung says no way. You can guess how that goes, because then comes Tak, a friend of a friend from the Physical Education major and the one person Kung did not plan for.

Their first meetings are a disaster in the best rom com tradition. There is a collision in a corridor, an argument over a pen and a lot of teasing about the colour yellow. When the rumour about Kung comes up, the reply is a loud "Get out!" Yet the two keep ending up in the same space, and the insults slowly lose their bite.

When the big question finally comes, will you sleep with me, the reply is another question: do you ask people that so easily? Then comes a quiet confession that it has only ever been cuddles. From then on, a set of house rules appears. Rule number one: they are only sleeping. Rule number two: cuddles are fine, but ask first. Somewhere between a guitar, a campus play that needs music and far too much yellow, two strangers become the person each one wants beside him at night.