Once Personality Wins (Seventeen Jihan)

Chapter 7: The First Conversation

The prince must be sleep deprived or something along these lines cause he isn't making any sense right now. No one can just have such a 180 personality switch like that. You can't just simply go from ignoring my presents to just asking me a favor in this sense. I am not so much complaining about this but, it came with no warning.

I raised an eyebrow looking at the Prince. "Um, Prince Jeonghan." I started, "what has gotten into you?"

He tilted his head to the side like a cute rabbit and said "Nothing at all...what was your name again?"

"Joshua," I said slowly, now thinking he had no idea what my name was and I had already introduced myself to him. I sighed.

He smiled, "Yeah tutor Joshua. I just felt an uneasy feeling around you and thought I should put up a barrier." He explained

"A barrier?" I questioned

Prince Jeonghan nodded, "Yes I don't want to go too deep into why but I do have a huge favor I want you to help me with."

"Yeah, you told me earlier." I reminded him

He looked around the room and back to me, "Then are you willing to help?"

I know I was going to regret asking this but I must, "Um by any chance are you talking about the King's advisor, Seungcheol?"

"Yes." He said proudly but then he glared at me and said in a voice a little deeper, "Is that a problem?"

I shook my head a lot, "No no that's not what I was trying to get at." I reached the nap of my neck and looked down at the floor feeling a little ashamed to ask this out loud, "Wait, you like guys too?"

"It's pretty obvious right now." He said rather simply.

I don't know if I should be learning from him in how to be so outright confident in my sexuality or just expect that things will just fall in place for me as time flows. Prince Jeonghan is making his move to get what he wants and I will just sit down and wait for love to struck me in the heart. Who is the Prince here? I ask myself.

While I was thinking this I thought I wouldn't be much help in this cause I wouldn't say my love life is any better per say. "But why me," I asked.

"Cause you are my fellow gay? And I can't really ask for help from someone I can't trust." Prince Jeonghan said simply looking at me with his mesmerizing eyes.

I was doubtful in what he was saying but... "Oh ok...wait does that mean you trust me?" I said realizing that he was, in fact, saying he wasn't uncomfortable with me. He felt close enough with me to get this person right off the bat. But it was a little weird that he is like that after putting a so-called barrier up. Not like his actions are the only weird thing about the castle. I just become accustomed to the weirdness now.

Not a good thing but, I will just have to live with it.

"Yeah I can tolerate you more than others I guess." He said but I didn't know who he was referring to as the others. The maids? The guards? Or someone else.

"A step in the right direction I see?" Silence from both of us.

"So um...your a prince you shouldn't be on the floor." I said realizing we both were still on the floor.

I quickly got up and offered my hand to the prince to take. He took it and I pulled him up. Once he was up though I didn't let go of his hand. It was so soft like a babies hand unharmed and didn't seem to have done much labor work.

"Tutor Joshua... your hand?" Prince Jeonghan said pointing at my hands still holding his tightly.

"Oh ah sorry about that," I said as I quickly let go of him and moved back to the desk to avoid him seeing my reddened face.

Not another word was said between us. He is now sleeping in my bed as he always does and I am sitting on the desk being the bad tutor I am, just starring out the oversized window. Well, am I being that bad? I learned through experience that constantly being right in their necks is worst than just blatantly ignoring their presents. Most of them even get so annoyed and want my attention, that I didn't give them and end up coming to go after me.

But I am 100% sure that, that method will not work for Prince Jeonghan one bit. He would take full advantage of that and make sure to continue sleeping alone in this room. Now thinking about this, isn't Prince Jeonghan lonely?

"Hey, I wonder..." I ended up saying out loud. "... why do you sleep so much." I finished asking.

"No reason." He said his eyes still closed.

I wasn't going to let him stop at just that, "There has to be no one can comfortably sleep all day."

"There is nothing interesting to do in this castle." He said giving me a reason.

A light bulb went off.

I turned around and looked at Prince Jeonghan who was surprisingly looking back at me tiredly. "No, no matter what you say I won't do it." He exclaimed already sensing what I was about to get at.

"Nope not listening to you," I said jumping out of my chair and skipping up to where the prince was laying. "Come on"

"No," He said wrapping himself with the blanket like a burrito.

I laughed to myself as I grabbed the other end of the blanket and unfolded the burrito wrap in one clean tug "You have to it's your tutor's order."

With no blanket to cover him he grabbed the pillow and threw it at me, missing me by a hair "You can't order me around." he said grumpily

And that was where he was wrong. I smiled brightly at him, "Yes I can the king gave me special permission for it."

He looked at me in disbelief, "Still no and you can't make me."

I stopped pulling and tugging him off the bed and walked away saying, "Well, then I guess Seungcheol will only think of you as a sleepy head."

"Ok, I'm going." Next thing I knew he was right beside me at the door not looking so tired anymore.