WuttheJenny @Exofabulous: OMG, thanks!
Fawn_shipboys: Sud is so gorgeous!
Hikitty618 @PrinceGiftizreal: For f---‘s sake, get a new name already. Gift has moved on from that sleezebag Prince. SPPT let Prince go. He doesn’t even do bl anymore.
PrinceGiftizreal @Hikitty618: Doesn’t matter because, fyi, they’re together in secret.
Hikitty618 @PrinceGiftizreal: Wow, didn’t know there were any Prifters still around. You are seriously delulu if you buy into that crap about them meeting on the sly. Gift is totally happy with his new partner. Daeng is a changed man because of him.
RabbitSpinshppr @PrincGiftizreal: Wait, what??? Is that true? Prince and Gift are secretly together? OMG, my Prifter heart!
PrinceGiftizreal: Didn’t you see the picture Gift posted on his Insta in his apartment a week ago?
RabbitSpinshppr @PrinceGiftizreal: The one where he’s showing off his new watch?
PrinceGiftizreal @RabbitSpinshppr: Yeah, but look closely. Did you see the book on the table? Did you see the TITLE? (over one hundred likes)
RabbitSpinshppr @PrinceGiftizreal: OMG!The Little Prince!!!!!!!!
PrinceGiftizreal @RabbitSpinshppr: But that’s not all! Look at what’s beside it, actually touching the book.
RabbitSpinshppr @PrinceGiftizreal: It’s a wrapped gift! I’m crying! (six sobbing emojis)
PrinceGiftizreal @RabbitSpinshippr: And the piece of book that’s touching it isgreen! Prince’s favorite color!
Gunwookiesgrl: Please tell me what that means! I don’t get it!
RabbitSpinshppr @Gunwookiesgrl: A GIFT! Touching the book about a PRINCE! And it’s GREEN! He couldn’t be any plainer. He wants us loyal Prifters to know that he and Gift are together.
PrinceGiftizreal @RabbitSpinshppr: What do you bet that Prince gave Gift the watch?
Yaoi_lover @Gunwookiesgrl: Prifters are seriously deranged. Don’t fall for that crap. I swear, they’re the craziest fan group out there, and that’s saying a lot.
PrinceGiftizreal @RabbitSpinshppr: There’s no way that can be a coincidence. Join us on the Prifter thread, and I’ll show you other stuff we’ve noticed. Someone posted a photo of them at a restaurant recently. It’s kind of dark, but it’s them. You can tell by the way Prince is sitting. And three weeks ago, they both wore a white shirt with a black collar on the SAME DAY! Another sign to us die-hard Prifters. They’re together.
RabbitSpinshppr:I’m crying! (five crying face emojis)
I remember hearing about how Prince was discovered having a moment with some other actor in a shipped couple when they were onLove Lounge, an SPPT show where SPPT couples spend a week in a house together, playing games and being filmed the whole time. I’m pretty sure that scandal shut the show down. I watched a few episodes to get a feel for the boys’ love industry, but I didn’t seetheepisode. I did find a clip of it. I never would have noticed what the fans immediately did, though. The backlash ruined Prince’s career and forced Gift to have to get another partner—Daeng. The other actor involved in the scandal—I can’t remember his name—was able to lay low for a while and get through relatively unscathed. I think someone else was fired, too, for spreading rumors. It was the death ofLove Lounge, as bl actors obviously can’t be trusted being filmed live.
Shaking my head at the crazy fans out there, I rub my eyes before looking at the screen again, skipping over the arguing that comes after a Dift fan insists Daeng and Gift are a real couple now. Seeing no more about me and Noi, I leave the website.
Sometimes I worry about the negatives that come with being in the industry; but, on the whole, I think the positives outweigh them. I don’t want anything bad to affect Noi, though, which is the reason I’ve started checking these sites. I want to be prepared and have P’Sign handle anything negative as soon as it pops up.
I pull up Rainbow TV’s website. Noi and I already noticed our pictures have been added there with the rest of the actors’. We had a publicity photo shoot recently and they used shots from that.
“Sud,” Noi says.
I look up from my phone. He’s staring at his phone.
“Look at what Rainbow TV just posted on Instagram!”
I quickly go to the company’s Instagram profile where eight pictures of me and Noi have been posted, all from the recentphotoshoot. I’m shocked at how good we look. Both dressed in dark pants and pastel shirts—Noi’s pale pink and mine mint green—with our hair and makeup flawless, we could be models for a magazine. The poses are all romantic, our arms draped lazily around each other, our bodies pressed together.
The photos have already garnered thousands of comments, and I brace myself in case what they have to say isn’t good, but all I see are people exclaiming what a gorgeous couple we are and how they can’t wait for the series. I look at the pictures again, trying to see us through others’ eyes.
I’m about as polished as I can get, and I have to admit the green shirt against my skin, which is darker than Noi’s, is a nice contrast. Noi is almost unrecognizable. When I tell him he’s good-looking, I’m not just saying it. With his patrician features, pale skin, round eyes, long, straight nose, and full mouth, people always notice him; yet, he can’t see it. But faced with these photographs, I’m beginning to think I’ve never really looked at him objectively until this moment. It’s no wonder he has so many admirers both at school and now on social media. I especially like the shot of him smiling, genuinely amused at something I’m whispering in his ear. There’s one photo where we’re standing, forehead to forehead, fingers of both hands laced together, that makes something leap deep in my chest.
Glancing at Noi, I can see he’s definitely equal parts shocked and embarrassed.