"Argh , so annoying, where did he go so early in the morning and didn't even tell anyone , I had to walk there with a heavy tray in my hand and come back ..so annoying , my prescious sleep ... Can't he inform someone before disappearing" , Hyuk was mumbling to himself while entering his room, when he saw Jin-He there folding his clothes, Hyuk looked around and saw that the room looked cleaner then ever.
"Noona, why are you folding my clothes , i can do it myself", Hyuk said sitting in front of Jin-He and tried to take his clothes back from her hand.
"It's okay Hyuk , i am your big sister ,i can always do these trivial things for you , you don't need to do these things from now on , Noona will take care of everything for you, you just take care of yourself and eat well", Jin-He said patting his head as he looked at him for a long moment before retracting her gaze and continued folding his clothes.
"But Noona .. you are not letting me do anything aside from serving the General , you know, I always want to help you with your work, so why are doing everything yourself, you are making me feel bad, i am the only one who is idly playing around the whole day, i even eat my meals in my bed", . Hyuk said guiltily and these days the food had been different from what he had before, making him feel weird and worried.
"It's nothing, i just want to do everything for you as your sister, tell me ,did you serve the General his breakfast yet, why did you come back so soon", Jin-He asked changing the subject so Hyuk would stop probing her.
"I did go there to serve him ,but he had already left , i don't know where he went so I had to take the breakfast back to the kitchen , oh by the way Noona ,let me tell you something,i wanted to say it earlier but I forgot",Hyuk said, looking at jin-He and proudly cleared his throat.
"What is it?", Jin-He asked curiously.
"Hmm ,you should not listen to the rumours about the General ,they are all fake, they are very jealous of General, that's why they say so many bad things about him,he is not like that at all, he feels bad for people who have to go through wars but he can't do anything about it because it's all what the emperor wants, General is so kind that he had tears in his eyes when he heard about the rumours going on in the manor and he even cried, so pitiful", Hyuk described the whole situation very patiently and looked at Jin-He.
"What do you mean?" , Jin-He asked horrified .
"Ahh , Noona when I told the General about the rumours , he became very sad and cried because he was very hurt", Hyuk answered softly, proud of himself.
"You told the General about the rumours going on in the manor?", Jin-He asked as he looked at Hyuk with an incomprehensible look on her face.
"Yes " Hyuk answered.
"And the General CRIED?" Jin-He asked shocked.
"Yeah a lot and I had to comfort him before he actually stopped crying,he was so hurt, he even apologised to me, do you know that, he was almost begging", .. Hyuk said nodding his head.
"Hyuk , tell me what was the General saying to you last night when you served him his dinner you didn't come back for a long time", Jin-He asked curiously as she had a small hunch about what was going on in the General's evil head.
"Hmm , we were actually hu.. noona , it's time for me to play , i will be going now" Hyuk said and ran away before jin-He could ask him anything further.
"Hyuk , Hyuk tell me the whole thing first", Jin-He called but Hyuk didn't stop.
*He cried , the rumours were not true, Don't tell m the General is, no way, that can't be, that Cannot happen, Hyuk wil never be able to get out here then*. Jin-He thought horrified as she realised something that was not very pleasent.
In the afternoon :-
Hyuk served the lunch to the General and sat in front of him, looking at his face.
"Where were you in the morning , My lord?", Hyuk asked depressed.
"Why , were you missing me?" , General asked, smirking with an eyebrow raised in curiosity.
"No , i was not , it's just that I had to wake up early in the morning and then carry a heavy tray , if you had already informed someone, I would not have to do that and I would get some more sleep", Hyuk said breaking the General's daydream into pieces, walking all over his heart.
"I am really sorry , I didn't know my precious Hyukie had to go through so much early in the morning and carry such a heavy tray around", the General said exaggerating Hyuk's work.
"Yeah , but I am quite hard working so it's okay", Hyuk said slumping backwards.
"So did my Precious Hyukie have his breakfast". The General asked again.
"Hmm, I did Noona gave me my breakfast in my room itself and said I don't need to go out for breakfast starting today, oh by the way she has been acting odd recently she does not let me help her or other servants in the kitchen and she even does my chores herself , she even cleaned my room , clothes , my bedding , everything", Hyuk explained every small detail that he had noticed these days.
"Hmm, but is not that a good thing ,she does your work for you so you don't need to do anything yourself ,you are free to play or come to me , right?" , The General said looking at Hyuk lovingly.
"No , it's not , i get embarrassed whenever she does my work , i am big boy I can do all the things myself and actually, I want my wife to be the only one who does my personal work for me with love", Hyuk said as his face flushed with embarrassment and he looked down cutely.
"What?" , the General asked displeased with the answer.
"Yeah , I want to marry a beautiful wife ,who I love and take care of ,she can do my work for me at home while I work and we will live happily ever after",Hyuk said shyly as his neck started flushing.
"Seriously , do you have a lover?", General asked in a desperate manner.
"I don't have a lover but let me tell you a secret" , Hyuk said and sat in the General's lap , looking at him he said smiling,
"I don't have a lover but there is a girl I really really like a lot , she works in the manor , i even gave a flower to her yesterday to impress her , she accepted it and gave me a smile ,she is soooo cutttteee , i will propose marriage to her, she will be my wife", Hyuk said confidently.
The General took a deep breath to calm himself and snuggled his head in Hyuk's nape and said painfully.
"Hyuk , i am so sad and lonely here and you are still in the mood to talk about your marriage, i am hurt now, you don't consider me at all", The General complained like an aggrieved wife.
"No ,no don't worry , i am here ,i will never leave you alone even if I get married and have a family ,i will still be here for you , don't be sad" , Hyuk said as he hugged the General tightly and kissed his forehead lightly.
"Sorry, baby Hyuk, but you cannot get married,you are only mine*, The General thought snuggling closer to Hyuk, who was completely clueless of the cruel man's intentions.
....
Tomorrow after having his Lunch , the General was sitting, reading a book lazily when the doors of the chamber suddenly burst open and an angry Hyuk stumped his feet in the chamber.
"Where is she?" , a loud voice came in as the General looked up from his book to only see Hyuk looking like a little bullied kitten.
"Where is who?" , the General asked lazily.
"The girl" .. Hyuk asked getting closer ..
"What girl?", General asked again.
"The girl I told you about , the girl I like, the girl I am going to get married to, someone told me she went somewhere earlier today with other girls , where is she , please find her and take her back here" , Hyuk requested holding the General's hand.
"Oh that girl , i don't know Hyuk, I have nothing to do with these affairs". The General said and patted Hyuk's head.
"
Please, please" Hyuk requested pouting cutely.
"Okay , let me ask my eunuch" the General said and called his eunuch in, who was ready at the door to be called in anytime when he saw Hyuk earlier.
"Yes ,my lord ,is there something this servant can help you with?" , The eunuch asked with his head bowed as he sighed internally.
*why do I have to do all these things, at an age like this*, he thought as he looked at the two.
"Where is the girl , wait".. the General said and looked at Hyuk
"What was her name?" , the General asked.
"It's Miri", Hyuk said with a cute pout, hopeful to find his lost love again.
"Yes , where is the girl named Miri", the General asked the eunuch.
"My lord , that girl was taken by her family early in the morning , since she was crying because she missed her family and wanted to get married to her lover", the eunuch said, acting his part perfectly.
"W...what .lll...lover?".. Hyuk said with broken heart as the General signed the eunuch to get out .
"It's okay Hyuk, what can we do about it , come here , you must be heartbroken ,let me comfort you", the General said opening his arms for Hyuk, who without thinking anything climbed right into his lap and put his head on the General's chest.
"Okay".. Hyuk said as he put his arms around the General's neck and hugged him.