Collection of GOT7 One-Shots (xReader)

To Stay (Mark)

You don't mind the scolding call of your mother or the disapproving looks of the old maids. Holding the skirt of your gown, you practically run to look for Mark. Of course, your high heeled shoes don't let you maximise your speed, but you don't have to anyway. After hearing that your family is arriving, Mark comes down of his room to greet you, and so you meet him halfway at the ballroom.

"Mark!" you call, face breaking into a smile at the sight of your best friend. He opens his arms for you, and you jump into them without hesitations.

You've known him since you were little. His country is the closest to yours so your parents and his often have friendly afternoon meetings. Mark is older than you by five years, so he was one of the first people to see you after you were born. The age gap didn't stop you two from being thick as thieves. As he is the third in line for the throne, he wasn't strictly being trained how to run the kingdom. He spent more of his time playing with you, the princess who's too young to learn anything. And even when you started taking etiquette lessons and learning the history of the kingdoms, he still comes by to support you and even explain to you some technical things you couldn't get.

Your friendship with him is too deep to be stopped by your mother's fake cough to get your attentions. But it makes you let go of the hug and create the respectable distance your mother keeps on reminding you.

"Your Majesty," Mark addresses your mother as he takes her hand to kiss her knuckles.

"It's good to see you Mark. Though I think I've seen you just two weeks ago at our princess's birthday party? I'm not sure I remember it right because it looks like you've missed each other a lot already."

You blush at your mother's words. While it isn't a big deal for you to do gestures with Mark, as he's been with you all of your life, having someone else think of them differently still makes you feel embarrassed. You're not a stranger to rumours that you and Mark might be a couple in the making, that he's just waiting for you to turn of age before asking for your hand. But you've never felt Mark romantically interested in you. He's been constant all of your life and the way he looks at you never changed.

"He's my best friend, Mother," you only reason, finding it suspicious if you get too defensive and also reminding yourself that it's your position in his life. No amount of hushed stories from the maids or your own feelings can change that fact.

"Alright. Just remember why we're here. Once Mark has chosen his bride, you cannot act that way anymore. It will be disrespectful and simply unacceptable."

Suddenly, you feel little. You completely forgot the fact that you're here for a party where Mark will dance with all eligible ladies and choose his bride among them. Mark is already on the age of marriage and is expected to find a wife soon enough. His parents have never seen him interested in any other girl, so they decided to hold the ball.

You were first to arrive since your country is the closest.

"Hey," you feel Mark's hand gently patting your head. It's something he likes doing since you were just a toddler. It's a brotherly gesture, so it makes you guilty when your heart skips a few beat thinking of it otherwise. "You're still my princess even after we get married."

You want to cry. That statement just proves that he sees you as a younger sibling at most. It also reminds you that not only Mark will marry someone else but you, soon you also have to marry someone else but him.

"And you'll always be my prince," you reply, the words rolling of your tongue swiftly as it's the truest thing in the world.

The truth that makes your heart break a little, but brings a smile to Mark.