The one you are waiting for is...me.
I'm probably the last to notice this, and it hit me like a freight train a couple of days ago:
Pat has been waiting for Pran to come back to his life without even realising it.
And P'Aof is telling the audience this in the second episode of the show, when we already know about Pran's crush and Pat's obliviousness, but before they both were fully aware of that fact.
The fact that their time together started when Pat gave Pran his watch back after Pran saved Paa.
The fact that Pran kept their time going when he decided to wear the watch after Pat returned it to him.
The fact that, when Pran was transferred, he left the watch at home, thinking that what he felt for Pat was an impossible dream. So their time stopped while Pran was away. But the watch stayed in his house, next to Pat's, as if waiting for them to reunite again, freezing their relationship for 3 long years.
The fact that, the moment Pat and Pran saw each other through their homes windows again, Pran took the watch from the box where time had stopped while they were apart and later, when they had agreed to help each other, set the watch to run, allowing himself to hope once again.
The fact that Pran kept the watch on him for the rest of the show, even when they fought, even when he left for Singapore. He took the watch because now they had to be apart again, but it was in their own terms, in their own time. Physically apart but emotionally closer than ever.
Pat was waiting for Pran, and Pran kept the time running for both of them for the whole show.
*cries, sobs and flops dramatically on the floor*
Pran LOST the WATCH. WHAT.DID.I.SAY.
And... we come full circle
Pat is returning it back to Pran once again. There is no time if they are not together.
*quietly sobbing in a corner*
