The Ice Prince & His Moon (5)

"Did you see everything?" Prince said.

"N-No your highness," Jin said.

"Jin, it's not what you see," Prince said.

"What do you mean your highness? If this is how I see it that's fine, she will be your wife and I'm happy for that," Jin said, he kept his head down.

"But I haven't decided everything yet," the Prince said.

"Then you must decide immediately your Highness," Jin said.

"Should I marry her?" Prince said.

"Yes, of course, there's no reason to reject her your Highness, she's too perfect, and it seems you two have the same hobbies," Jin said.

"I'm just taking her horseback riding," the Prince said.

"Oh great, that sounds like fun, when are you going to take her for a ride? I'll get Holy ready for you" Jin said.

"Why do you keep lowering your head while talking to me? look at me" Prince said.

"But--"

"I said look at me!" The prince said and Jin raised his head and looked at the prince before him.

"Prepare Dream for me tomorrow, I will take him to ride with Princess Nayeon," Prince said.

"Dream? you will take him with you, your Highness?" Jin said.

"Yes, so take care of Holy while I'm not around," Prince said.

"Yes, Your Highness," Jin said.

Jin returned to his room, he just sat on the edge of his bed and kept crying, how come he felt so sick? It was a wrong feeling, he shouldn't feel that way towards his prince. He's just a guard in charge of guarding the prince, that's all.

***

The next day, Jin woke up early because he had to prepare Dream, after taking a shower, Jin immediately went to the stables to see Dream's condition that morning and stopped when he saw Prince Jungkook already there. It was still 5 am, even some of the horses were still in place, which meant that no guard had entered there yet.

"Your Highness, what are you doing here so early?" Jin said.

"Oh morning, I just miss Holy, I promised to take him away today but I brought Dream with me, so I came to accompany him before I left," Prince said.

"And what's wrong with your eyes Jin? Why are your eyes puffy? Did you not sleep well?" Prince said.

"Oh, I... I'm fine, let me prepare Dream for you, your Highness," Jin went into Dream's cage and checked his condition before cleaning his body and feeding him. The prince only saw what Jin was doing from the Holy stable across from him.

"I'm going out with Soobin today," Prince said.

"Yes, Your Highness," Jin said.

"What's wrong with you? Why are you being so weird?" Prince said.

"What? Oh nothing your Highness," Jin said.

"Give Dream to me, I'm entrusting Holy to you because only you can touch him, so don't let me down okay?" Prince said and Jin just nodded, before giving Dream to the prince.

"I'll be right back," Prince said before leading Dream out of the cage.

Jin is back in the castle, he doesn't have any horse to patrol so he will take care of the condition in the castle. In a week is the day that Jin has been waiting for, Moon Day when people gather to fly lanterns into the air. And that day was also his birthday. He never thought his birthday would be celebrated by thousands of people in the castle and he was looking forward to that day.

Meanwhile elsewhere, Prince Jungkook and his guard, Soobin crossed the river to go to Arcelia's kingdom, it was still very early but he didn't want to come home too late. They rode to meet Princess Nayeon at her castle. At least he should know how Nayeon is. Even though he wouldn't agree to the wedding.

They were waiting for Princess Nayeon to come out of her castle, Prince Jungkook and his guard didn't get off the horse, at that time Soobin's horse was beside the Prince's horse, and he kept watching the Prince at that time because he knew it was not a horse the Prince often used to ride.

"Your Highness," Soobin said.

"What is it?" Prince said.

"Did something happen to Holy? Why are you riding Dream today?" Sobin said.

"No, I just want Holy to rest and ask Jin to take care of him," Prince said.

"Jin? Does he take care of the Holy? But how? Holy only obeys you, Your Highness," Soobin said.

"I wouldn't order him if Holy wasn't friendly with him right?" Prince said and not long after Princess Nayeon came on her white horse, a horse that was almost similar to Dream.

"Oh, it turns out we have the same horse, even the face looks similar, what's your horse's name?" Nayeon said.

"Dream, and who is he?" Prince said.

"She's Cloud, come on, I'll show you around my territory, I'll show you what's not in your place," Nayeon said and she led Prince Jungkook and Soobin, she also brought her guard, her name is Irene.

It was the first time Jungkook had seen a female royal guard, but Irene looked cool on her horse, unlike Nayeon.

To be continued...