My Precious Prince (fruk royal au)

Chapter 15

"Hate and love, both complete opposites yet one cannot live without the other.."

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"This is your room, Prince Matthew. I hope you will be comfortable here.."

Matthew thanked the servant, locked the door and flopped onto the bed which he sunk right into. This was very unprofessional, Matthew thought to himself, father would not at all be happy about this. Father said that this would be a disgrace and as one of the eldest of the Kingdom of United North America, he must always stand up straight and tall, even when no one's watching.

"Get over it already!"

What? Matthew scrambled out of bed and looked around to see Alfred standing behind him. It didn't look exactly like Alfred, it had more of a ghost presence to it and he looked more dull, his eyes filled with nothingness, smiling creepily at him.

"What do you want?"

"I feel pity for you Matthew! I cannot imagine what it would be like to be named dead in your homeland! It's honestly quite shocking how father would go so far to killing you just for... me."

Matthew tried stepping away from this 'Alfred' but it was no use, Alfred kept coming closer and closer.

"Can you imagine how much father must hate you? Can you? No one loves you Matthew! No one!"

Matthew couldn't take it anymore but he held strong. He didn't want to show Alfred he was weak, no, he couldn't. He instead responded back, as bravely as he could,

"That's not true! Mum, Jett and Māori still love me!"

"Oh! Do they?"

"Yes.. right?"

"See, you're even doubting yourself meaning it just isn't true!"

"N-no!"

"Aww, what are you going to do now Matthew, cry? See, this is why father wanted me to be king instead of you! You would cry over everything and bring our family down which is why you're a fucking disappointment Matthew! Get that in your head! Whether you're dead or alive it really doesn't matter to anyone because you're just the other twin! The other me! You won't ever be Matthew, you'll just be Alfred's twin for the rest of your life! You're in my shadow, were in my shadow, and always will be in my shadow!"

Tears burst out of Matthew's eyes and he bawled out like a baby. The laughs of Alfred echoed through his ears, getting louder and louder.

"STOP IT! PLEASE!"

It didn't, it just got louder and louder.

"I HATE YOU, ALFRED!"

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"I LOVE MATTIE!"

Alfred stood, fist clenched in front of his father, quivering with rage.

"Do you now?"

"YES! YES I DO AND AS A FATHER, YOU SHOULD LOVE HIM TOO!"

"Oh well.. too late I suppose.."

"SUPPOSE?!"

Alfred's anger and hatred built up for his supposed father even more and do he snapped and threw a glass vase at him, while saying,

"Does it hurt? Huh? Does the glass sink into your skin! I know what you did to mother, you now feel the same pain as her! Don't you? Don't you?"

He then stormed out of the room as John watched him in a menacing silence. His hazelnut eyes sparkled a little red as he pursed his lips.

"Oh you will regret that my dear Alfred. In the worst way possible.."

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Alfred's head was a mess, he knew it himself. He just needed some time alone to get it out, to get all the emotions out. He wanted to be near no one, he just-

"ALFRED!!"

Māori and Jett came rushing towards him, holding the book, Jack and the Beanstalk. A classic tale that nobody could not love but there was someone who cherished the book more than anyone and it was Mattie himself.

"Alfred, come on! Let's read Jack and the Beanstalk together!"

"Aren't we too old for this?" Alfred groaned.

"No one's too old for a classic tale like this! Now come on, stop acting like you're so mature with me and let's read it!" Matthew exclaimed, as he grabbed the copy of the book and Alfred in the other hand, dragging him down the corridor to their room.

They sat in their bed, snuggling in the blankets and pillows and opened the first page of the book. Matthew then started to read,

"Once upon a time a poor widow who had an only son named Jack, and a cow named Milky-White. All they had to live on was the milk the cow gave every morning, which they carried to the market and sold - until one morning Milky-White gave no milk. Unfortunately now, because of this, they had to sell her.."

"Poor cow," Matthew commented, "He doesn't deserve that. He might've been very sad then.."

Alfred knew that his brother was overly emotional when it came to do with animals getting hurt or sent away, it always made him cry. Alfred was confused why Matthew had a tendency to do this but seeing his brother start to tear up made Alfred panic and say,

"Maybe the cow wanted to leave?"

Matthew started to sob and shout, "HIS NAME IS MILKY-WHITE AND WHY WOULD HE EVER WANT TO LEAVE! Is it because he got treated unfairly? Wait... was he beaten, was he hurt?"

"Because he wanted to travel the world?"

"Like how we want to go to Europe?"

"Especially Britain and France!"

"Yeah with mum, I'm sure he knows the best places!"

"Of course but what about France?" Alfred questioned.

"Oh, I'll go there alone since you don't know how to speak French!" Matthew teased.

"OI!"

Alfred tackled Matthew in the bed, smacking pillows at him while Matthew tried, helplessly, to fight back. It went out until they both burst out in laughter and fell asleep.

"How I wish we could relive this again, Mattie..."

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Hello everyone! I am so sorry I delayed this chapter! I was way too tired because of the vaccine and stressed because I have a French test coming up but now, as I revised, I got myself together and managed to write the next chapter! Hopefully, I'll get the next chapter in a couple of days (most likely Tuesday).

Signing off,

Pirate Elvrinda❤️