saudade | taegguk

12

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Taehyung drew the curtains, allowing daylight to light up his room. Taehyung buried himself within the heap of fluffy pillows on his bed. A smile was etched on his face as he thought about Jeongguk loving the flower crown he made him. 

He thought the brooding male would just throw it away but seeing him wear it made Taehyung's heart swell with pride. Jeongguk had also kneeled before him. It was almost an unspoken rule, a royal only kneels before his love and no one else. 

I will only kneel before you. 

Taehyung's heart thumped wildly as Jeongguk's words replayed in his mind like a broken record. On the other hand, Taehyung also felt an unknown connection to the boy in his dreams. 

Taehyung had concluded three things about this. 

Number one, he knows that the child is a boy, the doe eyes and now the chuckles. 

Number two, the mysterious child should be someone he knows since he was young or has met when he was younger because it's not easy to have met Taehyung since the boy was a royal. 

Number three, for some odd reason this particular aspect of his childhood got blocked. 

Taehyung was absolutely now certain that the child in his dreams had to be a royal or someone closely associated with the Kims. 

Wait I was a child too in my dreams so that might mean that the mystery child is around the same age if not slightly older than I am. 

Taehyung knew that his parents only are close with the Parks by his memory but since this aspect of his childhood is blocked so there is a possibility that the Jeons might be close too. He wrote down all the possible royals or people associated with the royals who are within the same age range as he is. Kim Namjoon, Kim Seokjin, Park Jimin, Min Yoongi, Jung Hoseok, Jeon Jeongguk. 

He then struck off Namjoon and Seokjin from the list because Seokjin wasn't a royal when he was younger and Namjoon, well, Namjoon was his brother and he doesn't resemble all the features. He then stuck off Jimin from the list because he didn't have black eyes. 

"How ironic that Hoseok, Yoongi and Jeongguk, the three males whom he has never seen before are the possible identities of the child!" Taehyung exclaimed to himself, sarcasm dripping with every word. 

Is one of them pretending to not know me? 

Taehyung rolled over, burying his head into his fluffy pillows when he felt something poking his forehead. Propping himself up on his elbows, he saw an envelope with a wax seal, on the front his name was written in a beautiful cursive font. 

He opened the envelope and several pages of music scores were neatly folded along with a small card. 

"I have been waiting so long for you to be in my forever." 

The short sentence got butterflies to bloom in his tummy. He quickly closed his room and ran down three flights of stairs to the palace ballroom where the piano was located. He had learnt piano when he was younger and has played loads of songs but this score was unfamiliar leading him to believe it might have been written just for him or a song that is unreleased.

He quickly placed the score in order as his fingers quickly glided across the keys as the tune echoed through the silent, empty walls of the ballroom. 

"Ah, shit–" Taehyung clutched his head as an excruciating pain coursed through him. His eyes snapped open and he was panting slightly. He had a sudden vision of a car and an unidentified male and female. He also saw an enamel. 

"Taehyung are you okay?" He heard a feminine voice echoing as two hands wrapped around his arm trying to help him up. 

"I'm sorry for the trouble Queen Ophelia," Taehyung mumbled as he regained his balance. 

"Sweetie, you don't need to apologise," Jeon Ophelia smiled as she handed him a cup of tea. Queen Ophelia had made some tea for her husband and she gave it to Taehyung because the boy looked like he really needed it. 

While Taehyung was sipping on his tea, relishing in its soothing effects, Jeon Ophelia popped the question she really wanted to ask. "Taehyung, the song you played earlier... How do you know it?" 

Taehyung glanced at the score before focusing on Queen Ophelia. "I don't know Queen Ophelia, I got the score in an envelope and I got curious but the tune didn't seem unfamiliar either–" Taehyung paused when he thought he saw a smirk on the lady's face. 

I'm hallucinating a lot lately. 

"I wrote the song and well only the boys and my husband knows about it so I was curious. Do you like it?" She must have been proud of her song, hence, the smirk. 

I really thought I was schizophrenic. 

"I love it Queen Ophelia and who are the boys?" 

"Oh! It's Jeongguk, Yoongi and Hoseok! They loved singing it and dancing around together in their undies! Don't tell them I told you about it. They get very embarrassed," Jeon Ophelia rambled, reminiscing those memories with a fond smile. 

Jeon Ophelia looked at how Taehyung was glancing back and forth from the clock to her. 

"I must be taking up a lot of your time, you can go Taehyung-ah!" Jeon Ophelia shooed him away chuckling. Taehyung murmured a quick apology before dashing off to his important appointment. Underline the word important. 

"Really grew up to be a beautiful irresistible boy. Jeongguk definitely won't be able to take his eyes off this time around." Jeon Ophelia chuckled as she saw the pretty blonde prince dart down the marble corridor. 

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