A Servant to the Princes

Chapter VIII

"Hey, he said servant, right?"

"Are you serious? A servant?" Whispers were heard everywhere. Jeonghan let go a sigh and trying all his best to hold back his tears but he could still hear the voices taunting him continuously. Jeonghan could feel that his tears were in the verge to fall down to his cheeks, so he turned around and ran away ignoring the shouted from Minhyuk saying where he was going. Well Jeonghan himself didn't know where he was going either until he ran into the toilet, locking the door and leaning against the wall.

'There's no relationship whatsoever between the two of us!'

'My servant!'

Jeonghan felt pain in his chest as Seungcheol's words kept repeating in his mind. He sniffed and sobbed quietly as he sat down on the ground while hugging his legs.

...

*Back to Seungcheol, in the cafe*

After Minhyuk shouted at Jeonghan, he turned around and faced Seungcheol.

"Seungcheol!"

"What is it?" He replied annoyingly.

"You're just going to leave? You should at least apologize to Jeonghan."

"What?" Rolling his eyes, he glared at Minhyuk.

"You went to far with him. I don't know what's going on between you two, but you can't treat him like that."

Seungcheol gritted his teeth, if glares could kill, Minhyuk would have been dead by now. "Stuff it, kid. Who the hell do you think you are?" Seungcheol said dangerously. Then he raised his index finger up and pointed it towards Minhyuk.

"I'm warning you, stay away from Jeonghan! Or else-" He yelled but was interrupted by Minhyuk, who bravely yelled at him back, "You think you can do whatever you want? Stop acting like such an asshole!"

Then Minhyuk decided to open his mouth again, "Don't think just because you know how to fight, y-" He couldn't even finish his sentence because Seungcheol's fist landed on his face strongly. He hardly fell to the floor. Stain of blood formed at the edge of his lips

"Yeah, I do think I can do whatever I want! And don't you dare to touch what's mine again!" Seungcheol made sure he emphasized the word 'mine'.

He turned around and saw everyone were staring at them with their mouths agape and their eyes wide open. He just tsked and walked away, out of the cafe into the dark night.

...

Jisoo was standing outside of his house as he continually kept on pressing the bell button with frustration, seeing that no one was opening the damn gate.

"Why isn't there anyone home?" He yelled, hoping that maybe someone was at home to hear him.

He sighed, rubbing his nape, "What's going on? Out of all the days to forget to bring my keys and cellphone.. What should I do? Continue to wait here...?"

"I guess I should go look for a payphone.." He was about to walk away when he thought, 'Hmm.. If time is money and I'm here wasting time, then I'm wasting money..' So at the end, he decided to just wait for his brothes or Jeonghan to come home.

He sighed for the second time and leaned his body beside his house gate. After waiting for about 5 minutes, he heard footsteps approaching. He raised his head to see that it was Jeonghan. He had his school uniform on and his head was hanging low, looking at the ground.

"Jeonghan! Why are you so late?! Where have you been?!" Was the first thing that came out of Jisoo's mouth.

"I was waiting for you because I didn't bring my keys! Damn it, it looks like I won't be able to go to prep school today."

"You're so useless!" After the harsh words was thrown to Jeonghan. He flinched and was having a hard time to breathe.

"You really ar-"

"Why are you taking it out on me?! Is it my fault that you didn't bring your own keys?!" Jeonghan interrupted, closing his eyes with his fist clenched tightly.

"What gives you the right to order me around?! So what if your family is rich? You think you can treat people like trash?!" Jeonghan kept on shouting, while Jisoo was looking at him, not like the usually mad or annoying look, but with softened look.

"Always treating me like a servant and taking your anger out of me.. You think it's easy being me?" Salty tears threatened to spill from Jeonghan's eyes as soft whimpers escaped his trembling lips.

"It's not like I wanted to become an orphan..." He shut his eyes desperately as the tears flowed down nonstop. Jeonghan rubbed his eyes and tried to stop the tears but he failed miserably and hiccuped between his sobs. They stood there in silence for a while when Jisoo finally broke the silence.

"Geez.. What do you think you're doing? Writing a sob story? Or do you think you're an actor in some weepy TV drama?" He mocked.

"If you're trying to get pity from me, why don't you try getting some self-respect for yourself first." Jeonghan frowned slightly and blushed.

"Life isn't as easy as you think it is. Deal with it." Jisoo said again, walking closely towards Jeonghan.

"If you're not satisfied, then study more and be successful in the future so that you can show the rest of us. I can't stand people who whine and don't do anything about their lives to change it. Show me you can do better, if you don't like the way you're being treated." After being said what he wanted to say, Jisoo took Jeonghan's bag and rummaged his bag, searching for the house keys. After finding them, he turned his heels to walk away into the house, leaving Jeonghan all alone outside.

"I can't stand this anymore! Since when I was trying to get pity from him?! You're the ones that are hopeless egotistical brats!" He took a deep breath and let out an angry shout.

"Just watch.. I will get my revenge!"