#cwnseokmin

Jangmi hummed as she laid across her love lounge and texted him again.

jangmi: hi ;) jangmi: whatcha doing? ;)

He never ever texted her back and their chat just consisted of her texting him and double texting him, sometimes even triple texting him. What’s a Princess to do when she knows what she wants? Although she had no shame, she was careful to never let anyone catch wind of her shameless acts. She still had an image to uphold in front of the King and Queen and she didn’t work her ass off just to blow everything up.

Again the read messages popped up, but nonetheless, no response. Pouting, she sighed as she swiped away another message from a random guy, ignoring the booty call request. She wasn’t in the mood to be chased. She was in the mood to challenge the non-texter. She’s sure Yurye would have told him by now how she got his number. But it’s already been a couple weeks and he has yet to send a reply back.

Jangmi sighed and sat up straight. She checked the time on her phone and then smirked to herself as she went to her vanity and grabbed her favorite perfume. Spritzing her wrists lightly, she rubbed her wrists together and then rubbed her wrists on the underside of her jaw on both sides. Jangmi then took a look at herself in the mirror and straightened out her clothes before heading out. If he wasn’t going to respond to her texts, then she was just going to have to “accidentally” run into him. And it wasn’t hard to find him, he was always with Yurye anyways. So all she had to do was look for Yurye or just go to the training grounds and pretended her pretty little butt was lost or something to get his attention.

Jangmi laughed internally to herself as she skimmed through the halls and areas that he generally was located at until she found him walking down a hall alone. And much to her delight and luck, Yurye was nowhere to be found. Even better he was also headed right her way and no one else was around. Jangmi quickly straightened her hair and then stepped out from around the corner pretending to be surprised when he saw her, “Oh my~”

She hurried up to meet him while grinning, “Funny how I was just thinking about you. And now you’re here!” Jangmi tilted her head playfully cutting to the chase, “So whatcha doing?”

jihoon had been visiting the spades kingdom due to his parents’ request to run some errand for them, or rather to make an appearance and ‘gain favor’ of those who could possibly prove to be of some help with him gaining the throne, which he could care less about but they wouldn’t listen to his reasonings that he had tried over and over again to explain to them. the whole thing was really a headache to him, especially since he just would rather do what he wanted instead of fighting over something that seemed to be making a lot of others go crazy over.

after running the errand he had come to take care of, jihoon found himself wondering around aimlessly, letting out a small sigh as he smiles to himself. the spades kingdom was definitely a lot different than the clovers kingdom, sometimes jihoon even wished that he could live here rather than where he was now.

by the lake with @cwnseokmin​

it was in her darkest times that yanyu felt the most hopeless, yet she felt grateful to have the knight by her side. hopeless she was, but lonely she was not. there was no amount of money or gifts that yanyu could give to the knight to express her gratitude. thus, yanyu promised to repay the knight in the only way she knew how by being a true friend to seokmin.

the princess was careful not to disturb the knight often, as she knew how passionate he was with his work, yet ever so often yanyu would take it upon herself to prepare a meal for the two. doing this often came with weird stares from the palace chefs as she meticulously whipped together two lunch boxes, but yanyu didn’t mind the attention. after all, it was hard to care after having so much gossip tied to her name.

quality time over a shared meal was all yanyu wanted. she hoped that each time she came to the knight with the offer that, little by little, he could learn to lean on her the way she leaned on him.

with the clock on the wall striking noon, yanyu raced out of the palace with a basket in her arms. of course, she had to be the one running late! the princess hoped that seokmin didn’t mind, though she was sure he was hungry from all of his knight duties. and just before her legs could give out she spotted him in their usual lunchtime spot by the nearby lake. “seokmin gege!” the princess called out, waving her free arm frantically as if her voice didn’t announce her presence enough. before the knight could respond, the princess sat down next to him and placed the basket in the space between them. “i hope i didn’t keep you waiting for too long! let’s eat before the food gets too cold.”

one. two. three…

that’s it.

“this fucking sucks!” sooin groans out loud before she glares at the horse in the stable next to the one she’s currently sweeping hay out of. “this is your fault.” she states matter of factly before pointing an accusing finger at him. “i could be sleeping right now but you… you just can’t clean up after yourself huh.”

this was no way to spend a saturday morning when she could be down at madam kang’s bakery getting her fair share of discounted pastry goods. instead she was here cleaning up the royal family’s personal horse stable. what. a. joke.

okay, sooin didn’t actually have a problem doing things for the royal family. she served the king and queen after all (maybe she did mind serving the queen but it’s not like she really has a choice when she has to). she had a problem with whoever ratted her out to the grand officer about a small bribe she had taken to scare off a noble from his creepy attempts to court a lady who was tired of saying no. after all, it’s not like what she did was actually bad. she was helping her fellow citizens and protecting them. if anything, she should’ve been rewarded.

but alas, even the grand officer had to give her some form of punishment no matter how amusing he found the situation to be. 

sooin finally leaves the stable to find a wheelbarrow for the hay when she spots the iron nameplate of the horse’s name above the stable. baekgwang. why did that sound so familiar…. and then she remembers the grand officer stating that was the eldest prince’s horse. prince yurye. and her head immediately turns to seokmin who’s working in another stable.

“hey, isn’t that horse right there-” sooin points back to the horse she had been venting to moments before, “your prince’s horse? wouldn’t you prefer cleaning his horse’s stable?”

sooin asks curiously before a sly smile makes its way onto her lips, “or are you kind of tired doing stuff for him? it’s okay, you can tell me i won’t tell anyone.” 

and then another thought strikes her. of all the years that she’s known seokmin, he was never the type to get into trouble. especially for someone as dedicated as he was to his job. what reason could he have for being shoved into cleaning duty with her on a weekend? it was one thing for sooin to be there, it was definitely another for seokmin.

there’s a colony of seagulls flying nearby as yurye looks up while simply enjoying the breeze carrying the gentle ocean waves to shore over and over again in an endless cycle. the weather is decent for the random day yurye had requested leave of the palace alone. for a personal day. and despite requesting a personal day, he wasn’t really alone, seokmin was with him. seokmin was always with him some way or another and maybe that was the only constant in yurye’s life that kept him as grounded as he was.

seokmin knew yurye like the back of his hand. sometimes even more, especially during the times when yurye wished he didn’t. from small things like knowing that yurye was true to the image he built as the prince he was to bigger things like knowing despite yurye did his best to be the prince he was, he would also indulge himself at times. sometimes it took form in spontaneous horse rides, or pushing a task off for later (yes, even the responsible prince did that from time to time - of course only for tasks that didn’t immediately require attention) or the recent amount of visits the prince had been making to the kingdom of hearts to visit being for a certain princess.

heck, seokmin could probably tell yurye at exactly what time yurye’s eyes closed when he fell asleep even though seokmin would be stationed outside his actual chambers. that’s how well seokmin did his job. and without him to watch yurye at all times so that yurye could do things without worrying for his own safety, he probably wouldn’t be half the prince he was to that day. many people didn’t know just how much credit yurye really gave to seokmin for his loyalty and dedication. 

with a glance back to seokmin, standing further from the water with his eyes focused on something else, yurye smiled softly before turning towards the ocean. rolling up his pant legs as much as he could, yurye stepped into the cool water, shuddering lightly at the sudden chill before taking one of rocks in his hand and easily skipping it across the surface of the small waves.

from where they are, they’re still close enough to the oceanside town to see the ships coming in and out of port. and a thought strikes yurye. how easy it would be for him to just… get on one of them and leave? it’s no lie that he’s considered the thought of leaving before… back to korea where he can start new. what would he even do? yurye honestly has no idea. and it’s not because he’s incapable of starting over it’s just that… if he actually gave it thought and figured out what to do, the reality of being able to do so became that much more real.