O-Negative (Foon tries to corner the Peun market)

Ong-art is not one to give up easily

Episode 16 of the Thai TV show O-Negative (Episode 15) returns to Foon's birthday party at the moment when Ong-art has arrived. Ong-art calls Peun a beanpole one too many times and Art and Peun start moving towards him. Foon has to restrain them. She tells them to go inside and that she'll handle Ong-art.

She tells Ong-art that she didn't invite him to her party and doesn't want him there. He's puzzled, wondering if she's still mad at him. She tells him she has broke up with him. He's still puzzled how she could reject somebody as wonderful as him. She points out the list of reasons is endless, that he is obnoxious, rude and annoying just to name a few. She reminds him again that she broke up with him and tells him to grow up and accept it. She turns and leaves him.

When the party breaks up Peun takes Prim home. As soon as he drops her off he gets a message from Foon asking him to meet her. He tells Prim he is going home and will message her when he gets there, but of course the immediately zips off to meet Foon.

While Prim is in her bed with a happy little smile on her face as she thinks about Peun, he's in Foon's car driving around. Foon is making it very clear to him that she's broken up with Ong-art. Peun says he knows that because they all listened to her comments to Ong-art at the party. She then reminds him that she was going to tell him what present she wanted him to give her. He asks what it was, and she says she wants him.

Foon comes prepared

They go to his house where they start kissing and pawing each other. Peun stops her and asks her if she's taken the pill. She pulls a condom out of her back pocket, so they tear their clothes off and land in bed for another naked anatomy lesson.

The next morning Art sees Foon dropping Peun off at the college. Later that same day Peun comes across the three girls sitting in a commons area. After some brief small talk he tells them he has to go to class. Prim tells him she'll see him after class. Foon gives her the side eye while Chompoo just files that fact away.

We cut to later in the day where Prim is in the same commons area waiting for Peun. While she's doing that we have scenes of Peun and Foon happily eating in a sushi restaurant. Prim waits until it is dark and then goes home. As she is sadly sitting at home wondering what became of Peun, Foon and Peun hopping into the sack at his place.

Prim must have an inkling what is going on, because as she waits for word from Peun she gets more and more upset and starts to try to scratch off the temporary Tattoo she got at Foon's party (they both got the same star shaped tattoo). Poor Prim, could this day get any worse for her?

I'm guessing Prim's mom has had one too many

Well, of course it could. This is a soap opera after all. She hears a crash in the other room and runs out to find her mom laying on the floor with an empty wine bottle and a broken glass laying next to her.

Prim is frantic. First she tries to call Foon to get help. I've got to say Foon wouldn't be my first choice, but whatever. Unfortunately for Prim, Foon is in Peun's bed and has just discovered the picture of Prim that Art drew. When she gets the call from Prim she ignores it.

We cut to a shot of the Foundation ambulance racing down a road. In the back is Prim's mom, as well as Art and Prim. They rush Prim's mom to a hospital. Later, as Prim and Art are in the hospital waiting to hear news of Prim's mom's condition, Art tries to call Peun. Foon and Peun are sleeping. Foon rolls over, sees the call is from Art and ignores it.

Eventually Prim's mom gets rolled out in a wheelchair. She is physically alright, except for an injured ankle. She does seem to be embarrassed that Art, Tum and Bo have seen her in this state, but she invites them back to her house to thank them.

Bare feet and broken glass

As an aside, Asians take their shoes off when entering a house. Chinese and Koreans then usually wear house slippers, but O-Negative has shown Thais to either wear only their socks, or more commonly, they go barefooted. I mention that because, as anybody who has cleaned up after a broken glass can imagine, the scenes of Prim and Art sweeping up the glass shards in their bare feet are a bit nerve wracking.

At any rate, back at her home Prim's mom is a gracious hostess. She thanks them and talks about the ambulance ride. She has Prim serve them water as they give her advice about tending to her injured ankle. Art, rather than bossing Prim around, helps with her cleanup of the broken glass. There is also a scene where he drinks the same type of flavored water from a bowl as he did at his mother's house, they even flashback to make the connection obvious for the viewers.

I think the writer's intent is to contrast Prim and Art's more natural friendship and its evolution with Foon and Peun's far more venal relationship. However, I could be just over-thinking the hijinks of a soap opera's overwrought plot.

When Art leaves he tells Prim to call him if she ever has problems. They message each other when he gets home to make sure each other are OK. Meanwhile, Peun is saying goodbye to Foon as she gets into her car to leave his place. He checks his phone and notices Art has called him several times.

Peun calls Art and claims he missed his earlier calls because he was sleeping. I suppose that is technically, sort of, kind of, somewhat accurate. Art tells him about Prim's mom's fall, Peun is mortified when he finds out Prim had tried to call him for help, but didn't get an answer, because he was busy banging Foon at the time.

Flowers for Prim

The next morning Peun shows up early at Prim's house. He brings Prim an offering of flowers as an apology for not answering her calls last night. If only she knew why he was apologizing so profusely. He also brings a couple of bags of food and milk for Prim's mom.

Peun joins Prim's mom and really lays it on thick. He gives her the food he brought and dispenses all sorts of advice to her as to how to tend to her ankle. Prim joins them and tells her mom she's to have no coffee, no smoking and no alcohol until she recovers. She tells her mom that it is lucky Art came, because she doesn't know how she would have gotten her to the hospital otherwise. Needless to say Peun feels like a heel when he hears that.

Prim and Peun go to school. They're late for their art appreciation class and Foon is not pleased when she sees Peun entering late with Prim. After the class the girls decide to visit Prim's mom. When Peun is asked if he wants to also go he's a bit panic struck because Prim and Foon will be there together, but he agrees to go. Foon suggests stopping to buy some food for her, but Prim says that is unnecessary because Peun brought so much in the morning. Foon looks even more distressed over that news.

Foon and Prim's mom pondering the dishwashers

O Group and Prim's mom eat dinner. After the dinner Peun and Prim horse around as they wash the dishes. First Foon observes the pair, then Prim's mom takes in all three of them. We know what Foon thinks about the couple, but Prim's mom has kept her opinions to herself. Throughout the show she has silently observed Art and Peun orbiting her daughter, she also saw Foon pouncing on Peun earlier. However, it is still not clear what she thinks about it all.

Chompoo has to leave before it gets too late so Foon drives her home. Of all things Art has brought a couple of six packs of beer. Prim's mom, not wanting to be tempted by alcohol, excuses herself and goes upstairs. Art decides he doesn't want to be a third wheel around Peun and Prim so he leaves as well. Finally, when Peun leaves Prim asks him to set up an appointment for her mom with Dr. Ben, the psychologist. They decide to have the appointment after sophomore projects and Peun says he'll go with them.

We now have a montage of them working on and then presenting their final projects. Chompoo makes some sort of wild looking dress, Foon drapes fabric on a portrait, Prim does a model house layout and Art designs a logo. Peun also does a logo, but it is the world's most cliché looking restaurant logo. Entertainingly they show the class looking bored during his presentation with shots of Professor Buddy yawning while he's looking at it.

Dinner at Go's Bar & Grill

When their final projects are done they all gather at Go's place. Art is going back to his mom's home in Kanchanaburi during the break. Chompoo, who missed the trip last year would like to go there this year. However, because of the goofy secret Foon/Peun liaison it is less likely that those two will go this time. Prim says she can't go until she takes her mom to see the psychologist Peun's parents recommended. Further, she says that Peun offered to go with Prim ands her mom to that appointment. As you might expect, Foon looks distraught at that news.

The next morning Peun calls Prim to tell her he has set up an appointment that night with Dr. Ben. His parents must have pretty good pull with her to get night office hours with a psychologist. Prim is thrilled. As a ruse she tells her mom that she's taking her to dinner that night. I can't imagine her mom is going to like that trick.

Two crazy kids being cute

Soon afterwards Foon calls Peun and asks him if he is free. This leads to a montage of the two of them having fun trying on different hats, yukking it up as they eating lunch and eventually shopping in an art supply store.

Their fun is interrupted when Prim calls to remind him he was going to go to the appointment with her and her mom. Peun tells her he'll pick them up at their house. When he hangs up the episode ends with Foon turning on her puppy dog eyes and asking him to stay with her.

[Episode 17]