Does Pakin likes Graph's friends?
No, but Graph is great at surrounding himself with people Pakin can't actually be too mean to.
Graph's best friend is Chanchao, a girl who is obsessed with BL and gives Graph terrible advice to try to seduce Pakin. As far as their classmates know, Chanchao is Graph's girlfriend, a rumor they allow to exist because it keeps people from hitting on either of them. A rumor that absolutely puts Pakin on edge the way Ple does to Payu.
But Chanchao's brother is Shin, boyfriend to Pakin's best racer, Oat. Even though Shin and Pakin hate each other, unless he wants to piss off his top earner, he has to keep his mouth shut.
Graph makes a new friend during Try Me: Nith. Nith is a senior who is a loner, pretty quiet, but he takes notice of Graph and tries to be nice to him. Nith doesn't have many friends, and he feels bad for the boy, so he'll take Graph out bowling or to have fun. It seems like Nith is in love with Graph, which pisses Pakin off, but Nith actually has a crush on Chanchao.
Nith, incidentally, is the half-brother of Pakin's best frenemy, Sin. The same Sin who supplies the drugs that make Pakin and Graph's first time so brutal (Sin also has sex with Win fairly often when Win is on his self-sabotage spirals, so Pakin hates Sin for that). Sin is the wealthiest man in Thailand and absolutely loves his little half-brother.
Later on, when Pakin is scared that Graph is isolating himself and is too lonely while Pakin is busy with work, he brings Rain and Sky to be friends for Graph. Pakin trusts Payu and Prapai wholly and completely, so by extension he trusts their boys.
And whatever trouble those three get into together, Payu and Prapai are wrapped around their boyfriends' little fingers and Pakin can hardly go after his favorite racer or his platonic soulmate (Payu, mechanic of his heart).
