Okay you got it!! TinCan Fitlet for compassedship69! (Btw this will be a high school AU where Can became Tins best friend instead of Pete)
Tin had a problem.
It wasn’t a problem that could be fix with Tins hefty wallet or a problem that was just a phone call away to men in tight black suits, who spent their days sorting out ‘problems’ in Tins life. No, this was a problem of the heart, not the wallet or the mind. Tin liked someone. and thats a problem. Liking someone was never part of his plan. He planned to sail through high school, with a tight iron fence up against his inner feelings.Only to focus on work. He knew most relationships where on a timer, for who could give what the other wanted. But this relationship. No friendship. (He internally cringed at the word) was a bit different. Can. Can was different to anyone Tin had ever met. He was an idiot. He was also loud. Talks with his mouthful.Small but very strong. There friendship had suprised everyone in the school. They hated each other when they first met, Can told Tin he was a snob,Tin told Can he was dirty. But after a forced meeting by the school staff, the two weirdly became friends. They had weird similatires. Both talked to themselves. Both liked the same phone games.Both prefered to watch movies with subtitles. And both had never had laughed as much as when they were with each other. So it was a friendship. A happy kind friendship. It was all good. Great even.Until Tins problem was love.Falling in love in fact. Some would call it dramatic, it was a just a crush. A stupid crush. Tin realised he had this stupid crush when he was with Can, and how much he wanted to kiss him.To see if he really tasted like sweets. He hated seeing Can with other guys, he knew that Can was much more social then him. But it still hurt to see Cans light up when on of the football team members told a joke. He knew Can could never see him like that. The boy had never talked about his sexuality, he often said boys and girls where pretty, but Tin had a feeling he was straight. Tin himself had never really cared about sexuality. He just knew he could see both sexually, but that requited love was a trick. So Tin buried his problem. Put his problem in a box. A Louis Vuitton box to be clear. Tin knew that his feelings should be turned out like a lamp, but he was like a moth to Cans firey flame. Until everything changed.
‘AI TIN, GUESS WHOS GOT A DATE!’ Can came crushing in to the library, his hair messy. His grin wide, it nearly split his ‘cute’ face in half. ‘A date?’ Tin questioned. ‘Ai Tin, Peace asked me out!!’ He flug himself in to the chair on the oppoisite side. Ask? Him? Out? Tin felt a monster inside his belly. He should of known this would have happened. But he didn’t realise it would be this soon. Peace would make a good match for him, she was a nice girl with a loud laugh. Perfect for Can. She would make him so happy that his eyes would shine. And Tin would watch, as she would kiss him. and he would tell her that he loved her. And would wrap his body against her at night. ‘Hey, Ai Tin, didn’t you hear me?’ Can asked turning his head to the side cutely. ‘Yeah; thats great, Can’ He could feel his voice turn pretty high pitched. ‘Ai Tin are you- ‘Im fine Can!, I have some work to do!’ He left the smaller boy to pounded what made his friend so upset. …..
Tin and Cans intereaction were a little awkward since that day. Can went on his date, but when he told his best friend, he didn’t want to know.Why was Tin doing this?Why didn’t he care about his friend anymore?Can line Tin at one point. ‘Ai Tin; did I do something wrong?’It took Tin an hour to respond, with usual blunt methods’Im fine.“Can I come over?’’Fine.’Can sat with Tin on the sofa, the two were still frosty and there was a strange feeling in the air. They were both trying to get in to the movie they were watching. But both weren’t concertraiting on it. Things took a turn for the weird when the screen started to show the main couple kissing. Can looked at the floor. ‘Ive never done that.’
Tin snapped his neck up, looking at Cans soft eyes, his soft skin and his soft lips-
‘Ive never kissed anyone before’
‘I thought you would have kissed on your date’
‘Oh so you want to talk about it now, Ai Tin I thought you didn’t care!’
Can eyes were firey, this had been weighting on his mind for quiet a while. ‘I didn’t kiss her!, we had fun! you would have known if you paid attention to me!’ Tin knew Cans anger very well, he’d seen a million times. But he’d never seen Can like this, a painful anger, his eyes showed off pin pricks of pain. ‘if you had so much fun why don’t you be with her instead of me.’ Tin replied, he tried but he couldn’t keep the jelosey out his voice. ‘Shes busy today!’ ‘So I’m a replacement then.’ ‘AI TIN I DIDN’T MEAN IT LIKE THAT, GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, YOU SEEM SO UPSET SINCE THAT DATE, DON’T YOU WANT ME TO BE HAPPY!’ ‘only with me.’ Tin confessed. The two feel silent after that, looking at each other. Tin looked at Cans eyes, getting closer. ‘I want you to be happy, but I wanted to be the one that took you on dates I wanted to be the one who made you blush, I want…to be your boyfriend.’ ‘Oh Ai Tin…’ Can said a hint of sadness in his voice. Tin wanted to hide, he felt like a small boy, too frightened, too open hearted. ’ Thats why Ive been moody, thats why I can’t stand it when you talk about her thats why I can’t even look at you without thinking about kissing you… ’ His brain was on autopilot, confessing his feelings like this. It was stupid. But he couldn’t stop himself. ‘I like you so much.. and I know and understand that you could never-never like me, but ..you need to know’ Tin felt a tear run down his face. He knew Can would leave at this point. ‘Ai Tin…’ His voice was so soft, it was making Tin weaker. ‘Ai Tin, I’m not.., Ive never…, I’m… you like me?’ ‘Yes, more then anything.’ He should leave, Can should walk out this front door and never look back. ‘Could you, um, kiss me then?’ Can’s usual loud tone was replaced with a begging one. ‘What?’ Tin said his voice barely a whisper. ‘Kiss me, thats what you are meant to do if you like someone right, to kiss them, like in that movie’ ‘Why do you want-’ Can moved over slightly to kiss Tin on the mouth, it was short, very short. Only a peck. Tin smiled a little. Can was always so cute. He went staright to Cans lips and kissed him hard. It was a longer kiss. Two very different mouths meeting together, on with more force but the same tempo. They both let go off everything, Tins cold aura, Cans rapid speed. They feelings where locked together now. They let their lips natural part. And Tin looked at Can, he felt all his walls fall, he felt his heart beat more then anything. ‘Ai Tin, I like you too. I like Peace but as a friend, I realised that. But I thought you’d never like me, because you seemed so angry with me.. I didn’t understand it, I thought you were being mean…’ Tin cut off the smaller boy with his own lips again. He could get use to this. He was still scared, but he knew that Can and him could work this out. They were best friends after all, no, boyfriends.
Tin sat at his table and considered his current problems with Can. Or rather, his problems in wooing Can. The straightforward and blunt boy was surprisingly difficult. Gifts were turned away, Tin was ignored when food was put on the table, and his manners were awful.
And yet… That cheeky little smile had Tin tripping over himself these days. Or perhaps it was the lips that formed that smile…
Regardless, Tin considered getting help. Tactical help. Even if they weren’t close friends, all children of rich and influential families had some awareness of each other. The networking of their family and family friends could not be avoided. There was also a group chat for a few of them, but Tin had that on mute. Tin didn’t like or trust many of them, but they weren’t completely awful to get coffee with on the weekends.
Pete was already useless, sitting two chairs to Tin’s right, giggling at his phone. Thanks to Ae, Pete had been a hopeless conversational partner all night. Even then, Tin normally hated to ask anyone for help. But stuck at a charity gala with some of his other rich peers, the youngest Medthanan figured he might as well chat. Well, he’d use the term parley if he had to speak to the Panitchayasawad heir.
Yo was such One Piece nerd. But at least, in their youth anyway, they had agreed on literature.
So even though the Medthanans and Suthilucks were in vastly different fields (real estate vs plastics), Kongpob was the least annoying. Tin didn’t even want to humor talking to the young Daichapanya.
He’d really rather debate if Naruto would beat Luffy with Yo again than hear Ming talk about Kit Kats all night.
“Kong. It’s been a while.” Tin tilted his head and Kongpob smiled.
“Oh, Ai Tin. How’s LBC University?”
“You’d know if you had decided to go yourself instead of enrolling at GM University for Engineering.” Tin leaned against the wall and Kongpob followed suit next to him. “All for that Engineering student you met.”
“P’Arthit is very kind, Ai Tin. And the program itself is very good. I can always go to LBC for my Masters anyway.” Kongpob shrugged. “But you didn’t come here to talk to me just for fun, did you?”
“Why Ai Kong, I am hurt!” Tin widened his eyes and put a hand to his chest. “It’s been months since the last soiree our parents have forced us to. And you’re clearly my favorite amongst our associates.”
Kongpob smiled again, a cheeky thing which was disappointingly nothing like Can’s cheeky grin. “Ai Pete is your favorite.”
Tin rolled his eyes. “Fine, you’re second.”
“As long as we’re being honest.”
“If we’re being honest, then how is your pursuit of ‘P’Arthit?’”
This time Kongpob frowned. “P’Arthit is… a challenge. He’s very tough on the outside and surprisingly soft on the inside. But I got his attention.”
That got Tin’s attention. “How did you do it?”
Kongpob looked to the side sheepishly. “I told him I’d make him my wife.”
It was the worst time to drop that line as Pete had come with Yo to see what all the fuss was about. Pete did a spit take and Yo made a face.
“Your wife?!” Yo scrunched up his nose which did nothing to detract from how cute he was. “How are you so cheesy?”
Pete wiped at his mouth with a napkin before adding, “I think Ai Kong didn’t mean it that way…”
“What other meaning is there, Ai Pete? Ai Kong is going for it!” Ming said as he threw his arms around Wayo and Pete. It was slightly comical as Wayo was the shortest amongst them, even if he wasn’t that short. “Ai Kong, did it work?!”
Tin pinched the bridge of his nose. His small hope of having a quiet conversation was suddenly dashed. “Mingkwan, keep your voice down.”
Ming pouted. “Na Ai Tin, you always sound like you’re scolding me.”
My original plan was to make it entirely a comedy. Even in my notes on the post, I mentioned the original title: “No room for brooding (Get out of the damn shower).”
You can still see the humor origins in the first few scenes. Tin’s attempts to talk to himself are rather broken just so you laugh at the implications. Can’s reactions are a little too oblivious about what’s going on.
But as I progressed, I found I couldn’t make everyone laugh at Tin. It just wasn’t happening. You can blame the MV or you can blame my soft and emotional heart. All the same, it felt wrong to just laugh at Tin here.
I felt like I wanted something bigger to happen, something bigger between Can and Tin needed to happen. So I reworked it a bit and asked, “What if Can’s inattentiveness, his obliviousness, came back to bite him a bit?”
A lot of times in fanfic before the last few episodes, Can was portrayed as the emotionally aware one. This was an interesting way to test what would happen if he wasn’t.
ALSO in order to spill some more tea, it was only after I wrote this fic and slapped several others into this ‘verse that I realized I made a bit of a continuity error. In “The Worst Kiss”, Can seems to know where Tin’s spare key is hidden because he bursts in on Tin having a minor breakdown over his emotions in the bathroom. Here in “The walls have ears”, Can says that Tin doesn’t believe in leaving spare keys anywhere and doesn’t have one. Sadly, the spare key was lost in the space-time-fic-paradox in between a few fics.
Thank you for answering again after my stupid blunder! 💕
I’ve just left a rambling comment on AO3 so I’ll keep this reply short.
It’s the radio silence that drives Can crazy the most.
No messages sent at whatever time of the day. No ridiculous yet cute selfies with even more sickeningly sweet captions. No abrupt yet beloved calls. Nothing. Imagine being surrounded by them every single day for 2 consecutive months and then whoosh, nada.
And it’s not like Can can blame anyone but himself. The one who said ‘no’ is him. The one who rejected the proposal and got left behind in the parking lot is him. The one who watched the car drove away is him. The one who found a secluded corner by the IC’s Science Lab to cry is him.
Also imagine this. Pete coming to soccer practices and Can unconsciously glancing over at the space behind him every single time, void of something (someone), hope soaring one second and falling the next. Imagine Can typing out the beginning of a message before bedtime just to backspace and delete because it dawns on him of how unwanted the action is. It’s the small little things that hurts him, kills him a little bit every single day.
Imagine Can slowly realising just how much Tin has occupied every breathing space of his life in such a short amount of time and having to unlearn the habits he has picked up when his life has Tin.
His mum makes the little boats herself and it’s a family tradition to go to the Chao Phraya River and let them float
the Krathong’s floating symbolizes letting go of all one’s hatred, anger, and defilements and Can brings Tin with him because if someone needs that kind of letting go it’s him
Tin never went with his family to these kinds of festivals and first, it’s too crowdy and loud, but the moment Can’s mum grabs his arm to bring him in the circle of their family so all of them can put the boats on the river together his heart overflows with feelings
also Can said that lovers put the boats on the water together to symbolize their togetherness and oh boy Tin is sold
Yi Peng
is mostly celebrated in northern Thailand (Chiang Mai) but more and more everywhere in Thailand in the last couple of years
Can loves the floating lights and they met with all their friends to light the lanterns
Can and Tin hold the sky lanterns together and look each other in the eyes while letting their lantern go
Can follows their lantern with his eyes and points out how high it flights but Tin can’t take his eyes from Can’s face
It’s the first time they doing something traditional meaningful together as a pair and it’s one of Tin’s favourite memories
The Last Good Bar 
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