Hugfia's 30 Day OTP Challenge

Day Twenty Eight: Doing Something Together

Prince Hugo and Princess Sofia play in the rain together.

Drip.

Princess Sofia reflexively reach up to her face and felt something wet before looking up at the murky grey sky. The forecast had only been 66% chance of rain when she had checked the weather forecast before her and Hugo had decided to head to a park nearby their castle to have some alone time.

“Looks like it’s gonna rain…” Prince Hugo says as he walks alongside Sofia. “If you don’t have an umbrella, my jacket’s big enough to keep us both dry~”

“Oh.” Princess Sofia had already pulled the compact umbrella from her purse. “I… have my umbrella.”

“…but, but, but,” Prince Hugo whimpers, looking at Sofia with puppy dog eyes. In response, Princess Sofia averted her eyes and popped open the umbrella.

“Come on, let’s head home.”

“…are you sure you don’t wanna share my jacket? I promise it’s nice and warm~”

“…tempting, but I think we should hurry before it rains any harder.” Sofia held up the umbrella high above her head and motion for her husband to join her underneath. After a moment’s hesitation and a particularly loud huff, Prince Hugo grabs the umbrella from her hand. He holds it up and with his free hand, pulls Sofia so she's standing side by side beneath it.

“This way, we both win~” Prince Hugo proclaims cheerfully, slipping a hand around her.

Princess Sofia flushed red, feelng slightly embarassed, but she doesn't say anything. The newlyweds attempt to hurry through the park as the pitter-patter of the rain gets increasingly louder, signifying that the rain is indeed getting stronger.

As they walk, Princess Sofia notices puddles starting to form on the sidewalk, near the cracks and edges. Perhaps, if the rain stops sometime before they leave the park, Princess Sofia and Prince Hugo can delay going home and instead just hop around and play in the puddes.

Suddenly, Princess Sofia feels a strong tug and next thing she knows the both of them are running. Princess Sofia glances over at Prince Hugo to try to figure out what caused the abrupt change in pace. Hugo notices Sofia's gaze and flashs a determined grin. Princess Sofia's heart skips a beat and it’s almost enough to disguise the uneasiness growing in the pit of her stomach.

“Jump!” Prince Hugo yells out suddently.

Instinctively, Sofia obeys.

It seems that Prince Hugo didn’t want to wait until the rain stopped to play around in the puddles.

He lets out a satisfied sigh. “That was a good one, wasn’t it?”

He has a point. The splash from the puddle they both jumped in was truly magnificient. Princess Sofia had been hoping to avoid getting wet, but at this point it’s, well, a little too late.

Before Sofia could answer him, Prince Hugo starts tugging at you again, “Oh! There’s another one!”

Prince Hugo races toward another puddle, with Princess Sofia lagging about an arm’s length behind. Unlike before he doesn’t signal for her to jump too and when he jumps Sofia ends up getting yanked forward. This causes Sofia to slip and lose her balance. Princess Sofia ends up falling, face first, on to the ground next to the pavement with a hard thud. Prince Hugo, whose hand is still firmly holding on to hers, topples right on top of Sofia.

Now Sofia knows for sure- dirt and grass do not taste good in the slightest.

Prince Hugo, realizing the position Sofia's in, jumps up and moves to her side, rolling her over onto his lap so that Sofia can finally breath some fresh air.

Hugo half yells her name out, “Are you okay?”

Princess Sofia spit and sputter, trying to clear her mouth of any dirt. “Hugo …. I think I’m dying…”

Prince Hugo stares at Princess Sofia with wide eyes and latches onto one of her hands, “What?! No! You can’t!”

“I… I’m sorry,” Sofia croaked dramatically, “I… I…”

“What is it?” Prince Hugo asks, leaning forward.

“I…” Sofia rolled her eyes back and flutter her eyelids, pretending to die dramatically.

“Wait! No… NO!!!!” Prince Hugo half-sobs loudly. “You can’t… not yet…”

Princess Sofia lied there, as still as she can manage, doing her best to contain her laughter. She feels Prince Hugo shift a little and if feels as if he’s bending over. A second later, Princess Sofia feels somethng warm and soft brush against her lips. Surprised, her eyes shoot open just as Hugo pulls away.

“Ah… y-you…” Sofia stuttered.

Prince Hugo grins smuggly. “It seems a kiss doth saveth my lady from a death most foul!”

“B-but… my lips were d-dirty…”

“Oh?” Prince Hugo tilts his head to the side. “You were so cute, I didn’t even notice.”

Princess Sofia's face heats up instantly. Looking pleased with this reaction Prince Hugo reaches up and wipes her face with one of his sleeves. Then he leans in, a playful smirk gracing his features. “Now that you’re clean, would you like me to kiss you again.”

She stares at her husband.

Prince Hugo takes her silence as a yes, and moves to close the distance. At the last second, Sofia raised her hand and moved it between her lips- blocking his kiss. “Not now. We should really get back home. We’re both soaked now. If we don’t hurry, we’ll catch colds.”

Prince Hugo pouts as he pulls away. Slowly he rises to his feet then extends a hand to help Sofia up. Gladly, she ta6ke it. Once they're both standing, Sofia brushed off some of the dirt while Prince Hugo goes to retrieve the umbrella. He must have accidentally dropped it during the fall.

Then they resume their walk back to their castle. Princess Sofia notice he’s a little more deflated than normal so after a few moments of walking Sofia clear her throat. ”Erm, if you want, we can… resume what we were doing once we’ve showered.”

Prince Hugo perks up immiediately. “You mean, in the shower?”

Princess Sofia blushed. “N-no.”

Prince Hugo visibly pouts at his princess.

Sofia's lying, but Princess Sofia thinks it’s better to leave him to find that out on his own.