The Silent Prince (a short taehyung FF)

⚜️Impossible⚜️

Chapter 3

{Taehyung}

Taehyung jogs away from her house and into the woods. Removing his leather boots before entering the stream, a low whistle rang from the other side .

He whistled back, a sign of his arrival. From a far, a few bushes rustled here and there, but out emerged Ji woo, his acquaintance.

"Your majesty, would you like a raf..." the word didn't even get to slip out of his tongue. His majesty was already waddling across the stream.

"There's no need. It's only waist deep."

His majesty grunts, pulling his legs out of the water.

"I don't need to depend on fathers men just because I'm crown prince. I can do things myself fairly well, don't you think ji woo?"

"Y-yes. Your majesty." The man stutters.

"Now Let's hurry back to the palace before Father suspects anything." Taehyung says, shoving his other soaked feet into his boot.

The walk to the carriage took only 3 minutes, especially with the prince running with him right at his tail.

After he's gotten engaged for an alliance to Vorta, he's been doing this (escaping) for two good months now.

Princess Jeon jihyun.

By escaping reality with his animated name, V, where almost nobody, even in his country Desinara recognises him.

He crosses a main stream which separated Koven from Desinara.

And even though they weren't exactly nice to each other, both used the streams to their utmost advantage.

Ever since young, three-year old Prince Taehyung had to learn poise, commerce, court rules, palace rules, Desinara' rules. Manners and behaviour. All had to sink in before he learned how to speak properly.

But being the genius he was, prince Taehyung managed to memorise them by the age of 4. By then, he was already attending court sessions.

However. He's been put into hiding, it was a tradition. For Desinara's royal members has to be kept hidden until he or she turns 20. But that doesn't mean that his people don't get snippets of his features. That also ceased any violence on the land. Getting heart thumped by the fact that a royal member might be wandering the streets of Desinara, no one dared to offend each other. Speculations and assumptions of the people, mistaking other nobles for the prince. What a rather stupid way to bring peace to a country.

Other than the generals and Advisors at court who knows his name and face, there wasn't anyone else who knew him deep. Except. For Rie.

After being boosted up by ji woo, Taehyung flings his legs over the high spiked fence, landing softly on both his feet. During his first few escapes out of the palace, he's got scratches and cuts which left him scars.

He makes his way to the stables. He yanked out his wet boots and socks, ditched them at a corner, pulling on some low grade spandex socks and a pair of cheap leather boots.

There Ode stood, her tail swishing side to side at the sight of her owner. He stroked her mane, and brushed it down. An easy smile brought to his lips when his mare nudged his hand.

"Sorry girl. I didn't get you an Apple today." As if Ode understood english, She harrumphed. Before Taehyung could go through her coat of fur,

"Your majesty...." He turns his head ever so slightly towards the source.

"What can I do for you princess?"

Jeon Ji Hyun straightens her gown, "I was hoping..whether you would join me for tea?"

"Is Jungkook here with you?" He questioned her, turning back to brush her coat of fur.

"No...but her highness is joining, so.." Taehyung straightens his back and brush his hands on the back of his pants. He didn't want to disrespect the queen, so unwillingly, he obliged.

Before approaching the sitting room, Taehyung slipped his hand into hers, her glossy eyes set on his. A curl of hope flickered in her.

He cringes at her expression, forgetting to conceal his real feelings for her. Disappointment creases her forehead, and she looks down.

"I'm sorry." He says pitying her.

"No.....it's alright." The princess dabbed her eyes with the back of her hand, a genuine-fake smile plastering her face. They enter the sitting room and sees Queen Im Yu. He releases her hand, and gets down on one knee.

"Good afternoon Your highness."

"Good afternoon Taehyung, I see you and jihyun getting along pretty well."

"Stop it Mother." Jihyun hisses. Looking away, face flushed.

"Don't mind her attitude. You know how she is. You've been childhood friends since birth, and it's only right that she's your betrothed, you seem to be the only one able to tame her personality better. Better than her own Brother." The queen joked. Now it was Taehyung's turn to blush.

"A queen is never here to just discuss about politics. I'm here to discuss about family." More like his marriage with her Daughter.

"As you know, we're planning to set the wedding date just before we celebrate Desinara' s age of 300 years old."

Taehyung takes his seat next to the princess and looks down at the floor. The queen eyes him suspiciously.

"Is there something wrong with the date, Son?" The name catches him off guard.

So soon? The wedding is 6 months later and she's already start to call him 'son'.

"I-...uh. No. Not at all, your highness." He dips his head lower. During the whole session, his gaze only flicked from his fingers to the back of the room, to the chandelier up at the ceiling, the rumpled satin couch.

He really wasn't interested in all this arranging of marriage thing. It's meaningless to him.

They're just going to use the marriage as sign of an alliance made, so why the big hoo-ha? He can't even choose who he wants to love. He doesn't have a choice. He's crown prince, and the greying ends of father's hair proved the fact that Desinara, was ready to be handed over to her next successor.

Love was never a factor in royal marriage.

Freedom that was, ironically, out of his reach.

Impossible.

~To be continued~

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