royalㅣjikook

twenty three.

ㅡ beyond words.

"do you still remember what happened in thailand?" yugyeoms asks softly as he leans against the school's wall, both him and jungkook in a small area outside jungkook's classroom.

"perhaps you might want to forget about it but i really liked it a lot," his shoe scuffles on the floor as he looks up to jungkook, "i can't forget everything because at that time, i felt like your true friend, so, thank you" when silence ensues, jungkook makes a move to leave when yugyeom's rushed voice stops him, "wait! there's something i want to ask you" jungkook doesn't turns to him but hums, "do you really like him?"

a small smile lifts up on the black haired lips on thinking of crescent eyes and dazzling smile, "i fell for him already" he pretends not to hear yugyeom's scoff as he walks off, leaving the male behind.

yugyeom splashes his face with water, the front of his hair getting wet as his hands held on tightly to the sink, his palm slowly reddening while he looks at himself in the reflection.

"i'm serious yugyeom. if you don't accept this, i will have to marry the person my parents chose and i would rather marry the person i like"

he remembers the first time they met, autumn breeze filling the air as yugyeom slowly walks in the vast field when he spots a male in the area too.

"what? thinking of running away from home too?"

"believe me when i said i tried but i can't possibly run away from the palace" yugyeom laughs but becomes frozen as the stranger's words gets interpreted in his mind.

"oh wow, crown prince"

their relationship blossomed from there, through secret little rendezvous or in the theatre during yugyeom's ballet classes, until it stopped one day when jungkook's finger was engraved with a ring, permanently.

yugyeom doesn't really think much, he doesn't think at all actually these past few days, and bottles down the sleeping pills right in the school's toilet. his vision becomes blurry till it turns to darkness as his head hit the tile floor.

"yugyeom! guys, fuck, he overdosed himself with pills" jackson bursts through the classroom, his group of friends feeling alarmed when bambam skids his chair away and rushes to the male's washroom, the others following after his hot trail.

"why are people running there?" jungkook turns his head around upon hearing jimin's words and feels his hands getting tugged along as jimin slowly walks towards the crowd, stopping in his tracks when he sees an unconscious yugyeom being carried. bambam stops and shoots a look at jungkook before hastily going down the stairs, sending the male in his arms to the hospital.

the car ride back to the palace was silent and tense as jungkook kept quiet the whole time, even as the stepped out and walk back to their respective room. just as the other's hand twist the doorknob, jimin speaks up, "shouldn't you go visit yugyeom at the hospital?" he doesn't receive an answer as jungkook closes the door behind him.

"is it because of me?" jimin lets out a frustrated sigh as he runs a hand through his hair, glancing across to see jungkook still in his uniform, sitting on his chair as he has his face in his hands.

"is he that worried?" jimin's chest feels hollow as he thinks of jungkook still having feelings for the other male.

i guess yugyeom's inevitable.