Ethereal - TaeBin ✐

Chapter 5

"What the hell?!"

Hueningkai yelled as the words slipped out of Taehyun's mouth.

"Do not yell! What is with you and your loud mouth! Great, now everyone is looking at me like I'm some freak!"

Taehyun held the young boy's mouth as he dragged him away to a less crowded area. With his hand now off of Hueningkai's mouth, he pushed the boy back.

The two were then in a much more secluded place, so Hueningkai took advantage of the fact and opened his mouth yet again, but fortunately (or really, the other way around?...) Taehyun beat him to it. He stuffed a piece of bread he had in his pocket into the silver-head's mouth to shut him up once and for all.

"Don't talk and just eat that"

Hueningkai rolled his eyes and pulled out the bread out of his mouth and munched on it with a pout on his face.

"Jeez, you are getting more violent everyday, doesn't suit your 'innocent' personality that well"

"Well that's too bad, now just listen to me for once without over-exaggerating, you fool."

Taehyun said and took Hueningkai's hand, walking him to a bench and then he forced the boy to sit down quietly, but he didn't sit, instead he paced around with a frown on his face.

"I swear on your life-"

"Why me?!"

"Be quiet, will you? Anyways. I saw him looking at me, we even locked eyes and he smiled! THE PRINCE. SMILED. AT. ME."

"Well, he smiled at me too, doesn't mean he wants me now, does it? He also smiled at an old lady"

"You don't get it! The way he looked at me was different from the way he looked at you. He didn't lock eyes with you, did he?"

Taehyun questioned and a mischievous smile formed on his lips as he saw the way the younger stopped talking and seemed to be thinking, or remembering.

"Well, no. But that doesn't prove anything! I hate to be the one who says this, but he is a prince, Taehyun, and you and I are commoners. Even if our families are rich and known around the town, it doesn't mean that he knows us, and besides..." Hueningkai quietened, questioning whether he should say it or not, but he still decided to do so.

He held Taehyun's hand and pulled him down to sit next to him, looking around to see if anyone was eavesdropping on their conversation or if anyone was around in general. There were two kids playing quietly with each other and it didn't seem to cause any harm.

"You are a boy, and so is prince Soule. Even if he were to take a liking to you, the others won't allow you two to be together. Your father is the one who controls your life, even what you wear or do, were he to know the fact that you like a boy, things would become hard and complicated for you. So please, just forget about the prince. I don't want him to take this small amount of happiness that you have, and we both are aware that he would do that. He has changed ever since Miss Jiwoo passed away..."

Besides, you just met him. Are you really going to abandon the person who has been with you your whole life for a guy you just met? That's just unfair. It's unjust, Taehyunie.

Silence.

The sky above started losing its colors by each passing moment, and the wind picked up its pace. The sun was slowly setting down, and each passing second was implying the end to the young boys' hang out, as Taehyun and Hueningkai must be back to their family before night takes over the city.

"Taehyunie, I-I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said all those things, but I'm worried. I don't want anything bad to happen to you. And I care so much for you, I don't want our friendship to be restricted and ruined more than it already has, so please... listen to me this once and trust me-" Hueningkai held Taehyun's hands tightly, caressing it, hoping Taehyun would look at him, or at least say something and break this tension, anything, if it meant that Taehyun still loved him, even as friends. Hueningkai was okay with it, he knew their love couldn't go past that, but this thin thread of their friendship was all they had left, and he won't let it be broken all because Taehyun found someone else, someone that could replace Hueningkai.