"Your majesty... the sun is about to set, I believe you should be getting ready for YOUR welcoming ceremony." An annoyed Aroon spoke up, he wasn't enjoying the lack of response from his king.
After Muriel introduced Thorn to the two young princes without mentioning that he is Tacito's actual father to the boys, the Junglaya King spent his time playing with the two kids outside, completely ignoring everyone else especially his assistant that just came by to remind him of his attachments.
"Your maaaaaajesty!" Aroon whined, but Thorn who was so emersed in joy playing a game of football (Soccer) with the kids, Thorn was no where close to paying Aroon any attention.
"Fucking children, why does everyone like these useless brats, Ugh!" Aroon whispered to himself as he walked towards his king, "You are wasting your Time my king! the ceremony is about to start and you have not yet changed your attire! " he nearly shouted.
"Aroon, it's just a suit...I can get dressed in a minute."
"My king, you will have plenty of time to spare for pointless games tomorrow, let us focus on the ceremony."
Kicking the ball away so the kids chase it, "What is going on with you today Aroon?! you've been behaving erratically even before we made it here!" Thorn asked.
"Pardon me my king but I shall be the one asking you the same question? since when you are so friendly with his majesty Muriel?! you acted like putty in his hands today, when it could have been the other way around." Aroon replied.
"Aroon I swear you're testing me today, can you at least not cause a scene in front of the children? maybe stop acting like a child yourself."
Offended, Aroon sent a quick glare towards his king, he then bowed and stormed away from Thorn without anything further to say.
Sighing, Thorn knew he can't stall anymore, so when the kids brought back the ball, he Kneeled to their level, "Sorry you two, it seems like my duty is calling me." Thorn said smiling at them.
"Okay! I don't know if mother will let us come to the party or not, grown ups stuffs you know!...so you have fun there since you can!" Yurei enthusiastically replied.
"Thank you, so are you two going to continue playing here? don't stay out for too long, it's getting dark."
Then Tacito signed something, " No don't worry your majesty, we will go back soon, and oh! Tacito is also asking if you're staying here with us until tomorrow, he wants to play again with you." Yurei explained.
"Of course! in fact your beautiful mother and I have lots of work to do together, so I Will be around all week...we can play more tomorrow in my free time." Thorn replied pinching their cheeks.
"OWOWOWOWOW!" Yurei whined making Thorn chuckle, "Goodbye." Tacito signed at him, " I think I know what that one meant! goodbye." Thorn waved at them happily as he walked away.
"Mother keeps finding weird new friends." Yurei spoke to himself while clutching his red cheeks, "The man with pink hair..." Tacito signed.
"Hmm? what about him Taci?"
"He avoided looking at us, I couldn't see his eyes."
"Why do you want to see his eyes?"
" i don't know I just felt like there is something to see, Yurei."
...Few minutes later...
"Yes? come in?" Muriel replied to the person who has been knocking on his door, a tiny hand pushed the door open and walked inside.
"Oh Yurei! is something wrong?" Muriel asked as he saw the boy Walk in a bit shyly.
"No mother, I have few questions...oh! you look beautiful!" Yurei replied as he stared at Muriel who was still next to his mirror, fixing his makeup.
Muriel instantly smiled at the compliment, "Oh my thank you hun! but what does my little bunny wants to know? I will answer your questions to the best of my ability."
"What is a lover?" Yurei asked unexpectedly.
"Eh?!" Muriel's face flushed red at the question.
"You look red, is it something embarrassing to talk about, mother?" Yurei asked, "Umm a little? Not sure how to phrase it properly, but a lover is someone you cherish a lot more than everyone else you care about in your life." said Muriel.
The young boy blinked at him a few times, "Cherish more...how?"
"More than a friend or family! You try very hard to take care of that person and keep them safe, just like how mommy is...or was with Mr green in the past." Muriel replied in a sad tone, the memory of his ex fiance was anything but pleasing to mention.
"Why did Mr green leave then? if you cherished him?"
The young king smiled again, "Because dear Yurei, in life you make choices...sometimes good and sometimes bad.
And when you make bad choices, you risk loosing everything you love, including your lover...Mr.Green made a bad choice, one he cannot undo." Muriel replied, "That is why he lost me." He added.
Suddenly, "I promise I won't do anything bad to Tacito." Yurei said.
Muriel paused for a second in disbelief, The face the little boy made was serious, Yurei wasn't joking.
"But Tacito is..."
"I know, but I don't want to be his brother...is that wrong? he isn't my real brother after all."
"Oh my goodness! i do not know how to answer that my dear!"
"Why?"
Baffled again, Muriel remained silent while staring at Yurei, until a sheepish smile formed on the the little boy's lips.
"Nevermind, you don't have to answer mother, I already got it! I just wanted to make sure of something by asking you." Yurei spoke heading back outside, but he stopped briefly as he opened the door.
"And mother! I forget to tell you this, but that guy you left earlier playing with us...The guy who looks like Tacito." Yurei spoke up.
"You mean, Thorn?" Muriel said curious.
"Yes, I think he'd be a good lover for you! hehehe!" Yurei said giggling, before quickly dashing outside the room.
Muriel sat there in disbelief, his entire face red and sizzling with heat, "Kids these days!"
...Meanwhile...
"Ahh! MATILDA!" Socorro cried out.
"SHIT COCO I'M SORRY!"
"Go a...little slower...YOU'RE KILLING ME!"
"Hold on! just a little more!"
"I can't do this anymooore! I GIVE UP MATILDA LET GO OF ME!"
"YOU'RE THE ONE WHO ASKED FOR THIS!"
"I asked for you to help me! not to MAKE ME STOP BREATHING MATILDA!"
"Shit, why did you even want a tighter corset? it already looks too uncomfortable to wear." Matilda spoke letting go of the corset strings she's been pulling for minutes now.
"I don't know! I thought I should trade comfort for Beauty this time!
I always put on simple outfits and I thought, well it's an important event so I should put on something a little bit more elaborate for Muriel...I don't want to embarrass my king." Socorro replied loosening The corset again to remove it entirely, "Now I realized this was a bad idea." she added.
"All you gotta put is a nice dress coconut, you don't have to go all out! take me for an example, I'm just wearing a suit." Matilda said.
"Easy for you to say that when you're the king's messenger and not his assistant, I must try my best to match my Kings level of Elegance.
Plus, we have nobles coming soon for the ceremony, and you know how much Arrogant and pretentious those nobles are, they only care about looks and diamonds." Socorro replied.
"Right...btw are all the nobles coming tonight?" Matilda asked.
"Well at least whomever can come after such a short notice!
I've made many invitation calls yesterday, but one day may not be enough for everyone to get ready for a royal ceremony.
So I expect some of the nobles to not attend considering the time limit, but there's few names that I am sure as hell! will be attending...why asking Matilda?"
"There's one Noble in particular I'm asking about coconut, I have a bad feeling in my guts about today's event...And I know that guy might show up.
I suppose it's Ned's lucky day since his heat started out of nowhere, and now it's his alibi for not attending the ceremony."
"Is it perhaps Lord Raud Valentino that you're referring to?" Socorro asked.
"So you know him." Matilda replied.
"I do pumpkin, I don't think his Majesty is unaware however, it's true most nobles often use their first name instead of the last name to get addressed by.
So it's easy to not notice something like this, I didn't until after I did a personal background check on the doctor, then I connected the dots."
"Ned has nothing to do with his father anymore...and I hope That poor excuse of an Alpha doesn't realize Ned is here."Matilda said.
"Don't worry your head Pumpkin, I'll take your worries into consideration." Socorro replied.
"Thanks coconut."
"You're welcome, now back to dressing me up...I can't believe I still don't have a suitable dress on yet."
"And You still haven't done your hair, or your makeup as well."
"Giving the time, I think that's something a little magic can fix." Socorro replied smirking as she pulled her comb out.
...Meanwhile...somewhere else...
" I can't believe this!! we're supposed to protect his majesty yet our commander can skip the ceremony without a problem! and we have to attend this loud ass event?!" Agu sitting on the bed, complained none stop about Garrick and the party.
"His majesty has said that we aren't attending for duty, so chill out a bit." Yuuya replied checking his reflection in the mirror as he fixed his suit.
"Chill out of a bit? Yuuya! do you realize that our jobs became bullshit thanks to Garrick?!"
"Agu my love, breathe... you are being ridiculous right now."
"What about you? what's up with you Yuuya, you're way more quiet than usual? I don't like that about you." Agu asked.
Sighting, Yuuya turned around and walked to the bed, sitting next to his boyfriend "Listen Candy, do you remember when I told you that day about these weird feelings I get sometimes, these gut feelings?"
"Yeah, you said whenever something real bad is about to happen, you would get this awful pain in your stomach... I've seen that thing in action like, that time where we found prince Tacito...is that feeling back again?" Agu asked.
"Yep pretty much, this feeling is an ability, it's in my family, we always knew when storms are coming to people we care about." Yuuya replied.
Agu stared at him for a moment, whenever Yuuya complained about this feeling, misfortune was bound to happen, and for someone as happy go lucky as his boyfriend Yuuya, seeing him like this, was never a good sign to Agu.
"How bad is this feeling this time?"
"The worst I ever had so far, and it's getting stronger bit by bit, I feel like... somebody's going to die soon."
"Could it be the ceremony, when did the feeling start? was it today? weren't you with the Commander earlier, why didn't you warn him?" Agu asked.
"Yeah I was with Garrick but we crossed paths with the foreign assistant, so he asked me to leave and I pretended to do so.
I actually stayed nearby and heard their conversation, despite not understanding exactly the subject.
Aroon was being extremely creepy and then he said something along the lines of keep your mouth shut and nobody else will have to die, it's then when my feeling started." Yuuya replied.
"Assistant Aroon Tar obviously likes Garrick, everyone can tell...but what he said does sounds ominous."
"Whatever happens Agu, let's avoid that assistant... nothing good comes out of someone who speaks that way." Yuuya said to which Agu nodded in agreement.