Fire (1/2)

‘Hyung, did you have fun at the festival?!’ Taemin asked Minho while jumping up and down on the large bed, watching his brother who was looking through a chest that their servants had just sent to their room.

‘Yeah, I had a great day,’ Minho grinned, ‘but I spent most of it away from the festival.’

‘Why?!’ Taemin whined.

‘Because he found something better to do,’ Jonghyun interjected with a sly smile.

‘What do you mean?’

‘I saw him watching the fireworks at night with Princess Yuri~’ Jonghyun sang.

‘What?! What is the princess like? Is she nice? Do you like her?’ Taemin piped up.

Minho stopped going through the chest of precious jewellery from their country, he turned around and sat with his back leaning on the chest, grinning up at Jonghyun and Taemin.

‘Princess Yuri is beautiful.’‘We know that! All of them are, but what was she like?’ Key butted in when he and Onew walked into the room.

‘Amazing… I don’t know… we just… we just get each other, you know?’ Minho tried his best to explain.

‘Wow, you’ve only known her for two days and already you’re in love, I must say, Choi Minho, she must be one hell of a girl for you to fall in love so quick. Usually you don’t even like a person even though you know them for all your life,’ Onew said.

‘Your just saying that because one, Minho didn’t start liking you until we all turned 6, and two, you and Princess Taeyeon haven’t gotten close yet,’ Key said.

‘Shut up!’ Onew snapped, blushing.

‘That’s no language for a Prince!’ Taemin said, mimicking their etiquette teacher, causing laughter throughout the room.

When he’s laughter subsided, Minho chuckled, ‘mianhae, hyung. I didn’t like you because I was just a kid, and a very sporty one, so I didn’t understand why you kept on falling, very uncoordinated.’

‘I am not uncoordinated!! AND Princess Taeyeon and I have talked!!’

‘Ohh… tell us…’‘Urghh!! That Prince Sungmin is so annoying!! I can’t believe you have to marry him, Yuri! He’s so… so… so frustrating!!’ Sunny ranted when the girls were all in bed.

They’d all decided to sleep in the large lounge/bedroom on the massive bed that fit them all, instead of their own rooms. They were now all in bed, the lights off and about to fall asleep, but Sunny needed to get the Sungmin issue off her chest.

‘Unnie, I don’t want to marry him…’ Yuri admitted quietly into the darkness.

‘Why?! Yuri! Are you okay? Usually you would do something like this if it meant the good of our country. Even as a kid, to get you to change out of your favourite dress, the ladies in waiting had to tell you that it was for the good of the country!’ Taeyeon exclaimed.

‘… because I don’t love him.’

‘But even if you don’t love him, you’d still do it. Unless… do you already have someone you love?’ Tiffany asked.

‘Yes…’

‘Omona!! We need to tell Mum and Dad so they don’t force you to marry that Prince and so you can be with the one you love!!’ Sunny cried.

‘But… I don’t know if he loves me back… it’s kinda weird you know? I’ve only known him for two days and only spoke to him today… isn’t it too quick to fall in love with him??’ Yuri sighed.

‘Only known for two days?? Could it be… one of the Princes?! But Yuri, their engaged to unnies!’ Sooyoung cried.

‘It’s not the princes!’ Yuri shouted.

‘Then…’

‘It’s General Choi Minho,’ Yuri whispered in a barely audible voice.‘What?! But he’s a general, not a Prince!’ Sica yelled.

‘But… but…’ Yuri whimpered pathetically.

‘Unnie!! He is her ideal type after all, besides, who cares?? He’s better than Prince Sungmin,’ Yoona cried into the darkness.

‘Wow… Yoona excepts… that’s a first,’ Hyoyeon giggled.

‘So when did you talk to him??’ Sooyoung asked.

‘He was in my garden today and when I went there to relax, he was there.’

‘Ohh… well, at least your getting along with someone, I saw Sunny and Sungmin fighting over nothing,’ Sooyoung said.

‘Like you can talk, you were only being nice to Prince Key because he was buying you food,’ Sunny retorted.Soon, the girls had fallen asleep, one-by-one, except for Hyoyeon and Seohyun.