A Servant to the Princes

Chapter X

"Good work, Mingyu!"

Mingyu was puffing and sweating after done filming the commercial. He was about to go out of the place when he saw Jeonghan standing stunned behind the stage

"Jeonghan, how was my performance?"

Jeonghan flinched and blushed when he saw Mingyu was approaching him. "Y-You were great! It was amazing."

"Oh, it wasn't that big of a deal." Mingyu smirked.

'To be honest, even I could have fallen in love with the way Mingyu looked on the set.' Jeonghan blushed once more and his heart started to beat like crazy.

'Oh no! My heart won't stop pounding!' Jeonghan screamed in his thought, covering his blushing face.

Mingyu looked at him weirdly and was about to asked what's wrong, when Jeonghan hurriedly took his bag and flew out of the door saying, "I got to go, Mingyu. See you at home!"

...

So Jeonghan was now in a train, going back home. His heart was still beating and every time he started to think about Mingyu earlier, his face turned red.

'It really was amazing. My heart wouldn't stop pounding. When the commercial comes out, Mingyu will probably be even more famous.'

Jeonghan looked outside of the train, only to see his own reflection. He closed his eyes and thought, 'Frankly, I thought Mingyu was just a star because of his looks. But now, I know why everyone likes him so much. Sorry, Mingyu.'

'Now that I think of it, Mingyu is pretty tough to handle such a stressful job like that.. But why is he suddenly quitting?' Jeonghan opened his eyes and frowned, thinking for an answer to that.

...

Mingyu went back to Pledis and flopped down on a couch, "Ugh! I'm so tired! Those wires hurt me all over the place!"

"Director Chen said that you did really well today." Manager-hyung said, walking into the room and stood up in front of Mingyu.

"You're so good at what you do. Why don't you tell me the reason why you wanted to quit this time?"

Mingyu looked at the manager-hyung, then he looked away and said dramatically,"It's all because my class leader was blaming me for distracting the girls and bringing down everyone's grades in the class! I'm getting angrier and angrier just to think about it!"

"I mean, who does he think he is?! I used to have the best grades in my class in elementary school!" Mingyu stopped, then he continued saying, "If I was studying instead of working all the time, I could teach that snot-faced geek a lesson of two!"

Manager-hyung sweated as he pulled an angry face and his eyebrows knitted together, 'S-so that's it....? Must resist the urge to strangle him...'

"But...to be honest.." Mingyu said, his tone was calm and deep with a serious face.

"The real reason I want to quit is because..."

Manager-hyung looked at him calmly and was listening carefully to what Mingyu was about to say.

"I want to live a normal junior high school life, and ask Jeonghan to go out with me."

...

Jeonghan went out of the train and started to walk to the direction of his home. "It's so late already." He said, after glancing at his watch that says 19:00 p.m.

'I should have taken a taxi. I haven't even done my homework yet!' He thought.

As he was walking, Jeonghan heard noises around the corner. And because of curiosity, he went there and saw something unexpected.

A guy, with his back facing Jeonghan, was punching repeatedly in another guy's face, who was laying on ground with blood everywhere. And lots of guys were surrounding them with a scared expression.

Jeonghan was shocked. He was about to run away but stopped after seeing the guy with his back facing him was, 'SEUNGCHEOL!'

'Wah! What should I do?! They're fighting!' Jeonghan paniced, looking around.

'Oh right! I better just get the heck out of here! I'll just pretend I didn't see this...' He walked away but stopped again when he saw a guy took a glass bottle in his hand and shouted, "Bastard!" to Seungcheol.

"WATCH OUT!" Jeonghan yelled as loud as he can, hoping Seungcheol can hear him.

"Seungcheol, behind you!"

Seungcheol turned around rapidly and smashed the glass bottle with his knuckle which was bleeding now. The bottle glass shattered into tiny bits to the ground. The guy who failed to hurt Seungcheol was afraid so he took a step back from him.

"You damn losers! You can't fight so you resort to using cheap tricks against me?!" Seungcheol shouted. "Okay then, bring it all on!"

"'Cause if you don't, I'm coming after you.." Seungcheol cracked his knuckles and said, "Prepare to get your ass kicked, jerks!"

Their faces by now was completely pale, "Wahhhh!" They shouted while quickly ran away, not wanting to mess with the scariest person anymore.

"Hmmph! Stupid brats." Seungcheol sighed.

"Hey puppy. What are you peeping at?"

Jeonghan flinched from behind the light pole, "I'm not peeping!"

'Who would want to peep at you anyway?' Jeonghan mumbled, then he pointed his index finger at Seungcheol and said, "And besides, I'm the one who just saved... Seungcheol, you're bleeding!"

"What are we going to do? The bleeding isn't stopping! Let's go to the hospital and have them take a look at it!" Jeonghan went nearer to Seungcheol to examine his hand.

"Stop yapping! It's just a scratch, I don't need to go to the hospital." Seungcheol said. He was getting annoyed at Jeonghan because he kept on resisting to go to the damn hospital. 

"But your hand...."