I drag Sunghoon all over the Palace and then take him out to my garden. I hear him laughing behind me as I pull him with both hands and make him sit on a bench next to me. We are both breathless from the race and to recover he closes his eyes, tilts his head back and takes deep breaths. While he does it, I stop to admire his angelic features: the perfect line of his jaw, his dark lashes, his straight nose, his pretty lips. I don't realize I'm staring at him until he opens his eyes, looks at me and blushes. To my surprise, I feel that I'm blushing too. Kim Sunghoon what are you doing to me?
ME: "You just live with your father and your brother, right?" SH: "Yeah" ME: "And your mother?" SH: "I never met her, my father refuses to talk about her with us, every time we asked him something or did not answer us or changed speech" said Sunghoon shrugging his shoulders ME: "Oh ok, I'm sorry" SH: "For what? No problem really. And your mother?" ME: "I've never met mine neither, we're in similar situations. The thing you have and I don't have is a brother. I grew up alone and only since I turned 14 I had Jay hyung and after a few more years Riki. It was difficult, but now I'm fine" SH: "Oh I'm sorry" ME: "No need, now I also met you and your brother and cousin, three more people" I say smiling SH: "Yeah, you're right" says him smiling softly too
A pleasant silence falls among us for a few minutes and the world seems to stop. Then he puts his head to my shoulder and he says, almost whispering:
SH: "I'm a little worried about all this situation, for my cousin and for your Father" ME: "Hey, don't worry, we'll get at the end of this, ok? I promise" I say putting an arm on his shoulder and caressing it softly
He just nods. I take him by the hands again and we begin to walk into the park hand in hand. We also begin to chat about random things. After a while, He stumbles into a protruding root and falls, dragging myself with him and I find myself over him. Again. We freeze and stare at each other in the eyes. Then I move my gaze on his lips and again into his dark sparkling eyes. He blushes a bit and does the same. This is enough for me. I lean in slowly and then kiss him softly. His lips are very delicate and it seems that they are made on purpose just for mines. He kisses back and then he puts his arms around my neck. We kiss soft yet passionately. Then he pulls out, sits and covers his red face with his hands. I giggle and remove his hands.
ME: "Don't cover yourself, you have a beautiful face and I will never get tired of watching it" SH: "I...sorry, I don't know what I did, I'm-" ME: "Hey, calm down" I say while cupping his face with my hands "You want to know what you did? You made me happy. Hopefully I did it too"
He nods shyly and puts his hands on mine. Then we suddenly hear Jay calling us. He seems worried. We look at each other in the eyes and then we go to the exit where we see a breathless Jay calling us.
ME: "What's happening?" I say approaching him J: "I already told Riki and Sunoo. Jungwon, He's awake"
*Sunghoon's pov*
We all rush to the infirmary guided by Jay. When we get there, we see Jungwon awake and sitting on the bed while eating an apple and chatting with my brother and Riki.
ME: "JUNGWON!"
He puts his apple beside him and hugs me
ME: "How are you?" JW: "I'm ok now, don't worry. The nurse said I could leave when you would arrive here" says him smiling JK: "Glad you're ok now Jungwon, you've been really brave" J: "But you could've died, we were worried" R: "The good thing is that now he's fine" S: "Riki is right, we're so happy that you are ok now Jungwonie" R: "But the credit goes all to Jay hyung who took you and brought you here immediately" J: "Ah, no it's not. The credit goes to the doctor" JK: "If it hadn't been for your timeliness, Jungwonie perhaps now it wouldn't be here Jay" ME: "It's true, thank you Jay hyung" J: "No problem" says Jay smiling S: "And for that thing that said the King? You need to call Heeseung hyung now that Jungwon is awake" JK: "I'll take care of it" JW: "What thing?" J: "I'll explain it to you later, now let's get out of this room"
We all agree and help Jungwon get out of the infirmary, but when we see that he can walk perfectly we all head to a living room. While Jay is explaining everything to my cousin and Jake is writing a letter for his cousin, I'm still thinking about the kiss. Because of that I blush and Sunoo notices it.
S: "Why are you suddenly blushing Sunghoon?" ME: "Oh nothing I'm just hot" S: "Oh ok" he says suspicious side-eyeing me JK: "I finished. Tomorrow Heeseung will be here so we can go to the cave that my Father indicated us. I would say that now we can also stay here, dine, rest and then tomorrow we'll see" R: "I have the impression that something difficult will expect" JK: "Me too, now let's go"
After delivering the letter we stay for a little in that living room to talk. When dinner time comes, we eat and after chatting for a while again we all go to bed: Jay with Jungwon, Riki with my brother and I with Jake. When we are in bed, I put my head on Jake's chest and he puts his arm around my shoulders. Well, I think tonight I'll sleep good.
