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Wistful ♤

They found her.

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•Yoongi•

"Wait-what?!..."

His majesty rose from his seat as his father told him a good news which was awfully oblivious to the other.

"Wait... If I'm not mistaken, when you said there is a possibility for me to be betrothed to Austria, are you guys talking about Seokjin?!!!!"

The couple sniggered at their son's hilarious reaction.

"No, Taetae, listen,"

His former crown prince interrupted.

"When you were born, you're supposed to be paired up with Seokjin's younger sister right?"

"B-but she died! She was still a baby... you told me!"

"Your father received  a good news from his good friend Maximillan, that they might have found the princess somewhere in China...and that princess..."

They all fixed their eyes on him;

"Is who I am about to marry."

The prince, in a contrasting reaction to the people surrounding him, resolved.

"I completely agree to this. My friend, the crown Prince of Austria, married a Korean commoner and that is such an advantage. When we discussed this matter, Seokjin, his eldest and the heir to his throne will marry an Austrian. Long before his daughter was born, he already talked about you being betrothed to his princess. After the unfortunate incident, our family was saddened due to their misery as well as the idea that our supposedly strong alliance to the Austrian monarchy, had come to an end. But now..."

"I understand."

The prince was obviously gloomy. 

"I just want to know...if this princess is found... are we going to be married as soon as possible?"

The elders exchanged glances.

"There will be procedures my prince. So it will take time. Why? Do you have something to confide?"

He glanced at me;

"I want to appeal on which mistress I should keep."

The two older monarchs eyed the future crown prince probably surprised that his question was a far cry from what is being discussed. They silently allowed him to continue.

"I'm keeping the new one."

"That is yet to be discussed."

His crown prince interrupted upon hearing his plea.

"Father, I will cooperate to whatever I needed to do, but please-"

"Enough for now. You can't be more engrossed to your mistress than your future wife! Let us think about it or you can never keep a single one."

I watched the prince internally falter. I knew from the moment he found out that the older monarchs have found his match, one thing occurred to him.

Charlie.

He's obviously head over heels for the North Korean defector...if he only knew who and from where she is, would he still beg them to keep her? My father and I exchanged glances... we didn't expect that Charlie would make the prince feel this way...

"I will take my leave."

He stood bowed to his grandparents and parents with a straight face and left. Of course, as his adviser, I did the same thing and followed him. His steps were fast and his direction was certain.

"Charlie!"

He called out, startling the lady who was nonchalantly seated on a stair to her quarters. She was about to eat a long strawberry tipped stick-like which appeared to be 'Pepero'. She instantly smiled and was probably about to show the prince her new 'snack discovery' when he pulled her into his arms and embraced her so tight.

"Yer heyness...er ye ekey?..."

Squeezed inside his arms, he didn't move for a second. Until he gently let go of her and cupped her small face.

"Charlie, do you love me?"

I almost tripped as I stepped on a twig on the side of the stair as the prince delivered his question. Charlie, with a single pepero on her hand, was shocked. When the prince was about to say another word, she gently placed the pepero in his mouth, that I couldn't suppress a soft chuckle. Despite chewing a pepero, like a kid, the prince asked once again.

Charlie's brows worriedly furrowed as she gave me glance. The prince followed her sight, thinking that Charlie might be shy to respond to his silly question, he exclaimed;

"Yoongi don't look! Don't listen! Go away!!!"

Laughing to myself, I walked a little distant from them. I have never seen the prince this lovestruck before...

But I know he didn't feel good about what the older monarchs informed him. I knew it's truly worrying him...

Seokjin's sister... wow.

Who would've thought? The princess is alive.

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