I loved you in secret - walter x henry (young royals)

But you weren't even listening

TW: mentions of vomiting

Walter

We arrived back at Hillerska on Sunday evening before school started again. We were spending the evening together with the other first years' in the common room playing monopoly while the third years were having their party until Wille came to the room and asked us to go to the party as well.

Now we were walking to the palace. Since it was only January, it was so cold I could see my own breath and I regretted not taking a jacket with me. Henry was walking next to me, his nose was red, probably freezing from the cold air. I was happy when we finally reached the palace, hoping it would be a lot warmer inside.

"Hey, hey, hey! Hold on. What the hell is this? What are you doing here?" Vincent stopped us at the entrance.

"We're going in." Wille told him confidently.

"No, no, no. Who gave you permission to leave the school?"

"Why does it matter? We're going in." Wille sounded serious.

"Come on, Gg home, you guys. Seriously." Nils tried as well.

"Go get August"

"Hell no, man" Nils disagreed.

"No, no, wait. You know, that's a great idea" Vincent then turned to Nils, "Let's get August. Let's see what the prefect says.

"Whatever" Nils shook his head lightly.

"Go get August" Vincent repeated while Nils went inside the palace.

"Is this like a touring circus or what's going on here?" Vincent sounded annoyed.

"Wille! Welcome back, man" August walked outside the room behind Nils, overly euphoric.

"You're supposed to say Crown Prince." Wille scoffed.

"What?" August seemed a bit offended and we all started chuckling.

"You're supposed to say Crown Prince." Wille repeated slower.

"What the fuck? Okay." Vincent and Nils snickered now as well.

"If the Crown Prince were to return immediately, then maybe I won't dole out any reprimands" August tried to sound not offended.

Wille and I looked at each other for a moment before he turned back to August, "No, I think we're gonna stay here actually."

"The Crown Prince...must understand–" August was hesitating but keeping his voice stern anyways.

"Challenge me." Wille looked him in the eyes dead serious, "Tell me what to do. See what happens."

August tried giving him a smile but only succeeded for a couple of seconds with an obvious fake smile, "If you insist, then I suppose I can make an exception."

"No, no, no" Vincent disagreed but it was already too late. We got the permission to go inside from August so no one could really stop us. Also I was pretty sure that Wille wouldn't accept a no now. He just nodded at August and walked past him, all of us following him. We walked along the hallway following behind Wille.

Inside the party, there were neon lights hanging around everywhere, people were dancing and having a good time. I looked over to Henry and pushed him more inside the room past Wille who was standing at the bar next to the entrance.

First we each got ourselves something to drink and went to Alexander, Elias and Linus, who were standing in a circle, dancing a bit.

"How were your holidays?" Elias turned to us.