Runaway Princess #1: BTOB Hyunsik ✔

Chapter 13

HYUNSIK'S POV

I threw myself in bed right when I got back home from Seoul. I feel so tired. Everything inside me is so heavy. I turned as my sleepy eyes caught the cross-stitch Junhee made.

Her voice echoed in my head.

"Remember the birthday gift I gave to you? Will you open it up?"

I stared at the framed cross-stitch more and more. Open it up? I've already hung it.

I got up and took it from the wall. I can't forget her image earlierㅡshe's so beautiful. She looked like a beautiful painting I dare not to touch.

"Will you open it up?" She said. I wondered what she meant. I sighed and sat in front of the canvas again, hanging back the framed cross-stitch to the wall. I removed the cover of my unfinished painting of hers. This was supposed to be the last pieceㅡbut I couldn't help starting to paint a new one of her image earlier.

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"Hyunsik-ah, help me here." Haeseong harabeoji said as I was walking downstairs. I just woke up and it was so late.

"What's that?" I asked, looking at the canvas he was holding.

He smiled. "I found your painting when you were just thirteen. I want to hang it on the wall. Help me."

"What should I do?" I asked.

"Take that painting over there. I'll take the frame." He said.

"Okay."

I took the painting and put it down the floor. Haeseong harabeoji opened it up to put my old painting. It was the scenery at the farm.

As grandpa was opening the frame, Junhee's voice echoed in my head.

"Will you open it up?"

I immediately ran to my room, leaving grandpa in wonder.

I grabbed her gift and opened it up from its back. Two pieces of paper slipped through and fell on the floor. I took them both and unfolded the first one carefully.

Tadaaa~ you finally figured out there's a letter here. -_-
Probably took you so long hahahaha
First, let me confess something.
I'm not June Han. I'm Yeom Jun Hee, the princess of the royal family.
Now, that sounds crazy right?
Mm, I've always told you.
I wanted to experience an ordinary life.
But everything I experienced in this house was extraordinary to me.
I just want you to know that I'm so happy here.
There's not a day my heart didn't glow when I'm with your grandparents, when I met your friends, when we would eat altogether, when I'm with you.
Simple things I never thought would make me so happy.
I'm so sorry. I hope you don't hate me while you are reading this.
I may have lied about my identity,
But everything else was true.
Second confession, I think...
I'm in love with you.
I think you'll hunt me with memories of you when we're not together anymore.
Thank you for showing me that life can be beautiful, for making me look forward to tomorrow during my whole stay here.
You don't need to feel the same way so I hope you won't be bothered by this stupid love letter.
By the time we see each other again, I hope... everything would feel lighter.
ㅡJ.H, Jun Hee

I folded it back slowly and took the other one. It was the flyer of Seoul College of Arts & Music. On the back was written,