LEE DONGHYUCK。

"are we gonna play something?" i questioned jaemin as he kept dragging me with a determined look plastered on his face.

after a few minutes of silence, i squinted my eyes at him and shot him a little glare, "yah, i'm talking to you."

still, i got no answer. i deadpanned and scoffed, coming to an abrupt stop causing him to stop as well.

"yah–"

"no." i cut him off, "where the hell are you dragging me to? i was having a match with my twin, you know."

jaemin sighed, "look, they've patched up the hole already."

i frowned, "i guess no more visiting jaeyoung secretly then." i say and crossed my arms.

"you're okay with that?" jaemin looked shock for a bit.

"we can see her at the bakery when we want to—"

"and if we get caught?"

"we won't get caught," i waved him off, "besides, you heard what chenle said, right? the others know about her."

"that's what makes it more dangerous!" jaemin exclaims, "what if they do something bad?"

my face dropped, "and that something bad could be?" i raised a brow.

"like– um, i don't know! throwing her in the dungeons? punishing her for getting close to the princes? i don't know!" jaemin threw his hands up in defeat.

i smirked, "bet you're just jealous that you haven't seen jaeyoung in a while." i whistled and slowly walked back to where we came from.

i heard jaemin grunt lowly, "me? jealous? psh, yeah no." he said defensively.

i stopped and turned to look at him with a sly smirk, "you may be able to fool my twin brother, but you won't be able to fool this twin." i point to my self.

jaemin narrowed his eyes, "bet you're the one who's jealous."

"should i be? i'll be meeting her the in the art exhibit anyways." i bragged at him, sticking my tongue out playfully.

i saw jaemin clench his fists, "you brat—"

"better not fight in here." we both froze and turned to the direction of the voice. my eyes widened, "taeil-hyung!"

"so you know about this... girl, too? both of you?" he raised a brow and we both nodded sheepishly.

he sighed, "who is she anyways." i heard him murmur under his breath causing me to chuckle.

"i guess you didn't meet her properly yet, didn't you?" i tilt my head and he sneered.

"she's a bit disrespectful to the royal fami—"

i raised a finger, "for starters, she probably didn't even know that we were princes. we told her we were knights."

taeil ridiculed and crossed his arms over his chest, "are you crazy?"

i pouted and pointed at jaemin immediately, "his idea."

jaemin flinched and shot me glare, "y-yah!"

suddenly, i felt an arm tug me, "there you are! i've been looking for you. why the heck did you disappear all of a sudden!" i heard jeno's voice nag at me as he dragged me back to the shooting range.

"he's the one who's at fault!" i blamed jaemin.

"why am i taking the blame?" jaemin exclaimed.

"we all know who's at fault." i laughed before running away with jeno, leaving the poor boy with taeil.

when we got back to the shooting range, renjun questioned us, "where's jaemin?"

jeno and i looked at each other, "he's with taeil-hyung." we said in unison, shrugging at the same time.

renjun looked at us in shock, "taeil-hyung?! what's he doing with him?"

jeno and i hummed, "talking? probably." we both snickered.

i heard jisung's voice from afar, "chenle look! they're doing the twin thing again!"

i furrowed my brows, not knowing jeno did the exact same thing before saying, "we don't have a twin thing!" i flinched and looked at jeno, who happened to also shot a look at me as we both said something in unison again.

my eye twitched, "stop copying me!" we again said at the same time, even with the same movements.

from the corner of my eye i could see chenle and jisung staring at us in amusement while renjun was plainly annoyed by it.

we averted our attention back onto renjun, "renjun! he's copying me!" again, in unison.

i scoffed, and so did he, i breathed in some air and was about to shout when renjun suddenly smacked the back of our heads.

"ouch!"

renjun shrieked, "what the hell? even when you're in pain you're doing that twin thing!?"

i gritted my teeth, "that wasn't intended at all."

jisung and chenle approached us, "it's cool though, being in sync and all." jisung pointed out.

jeno and i glanced at each other before scoffing then looking away. "definitely not." we shot each other a look.

"donghyuck!"
"jeno!"

we both yelled, "when is this gonna stop!?"

"when both of you just shut the heck up." renjun spat and grabbed an arrow. "let's just get to training."

then he pointed at us, "donghyuck, jeno, no talking."

i huffed and glared at jeno which he did the same. honestly, having a twin brother was quite cool, even though we weren't really what you call identical as we were fraternal twins. yet there was this twin thing that would happen time to time and it just annoys us.

"it's all your fault." i mouthed at him in which he mouthed back, "you started it."

i knit my brows and look away, grabbing my own bow and arrow to shoot.

after training, we all headed back to take a shower and then rest. now, i sat by the lounge area with renjun. he was busy reading a book while i played a game with our video game console.

"i don't get why i'm not the one who's going to the art exhibit." renjun whines for the umpteenth time already.

i sighed deeply, my eyes still fixated on the screen. "why do you want to go anyways?"

"art! of course." renjun stated.

i chuckled, looking back at him, "why look for art when there is a masterpiece right in front of you?" i smirked at him.

i could feel an irked vibe around renjun as he gave me a fake smile, "you mean that old painting behind you? that's definitely a masterpiece."

my smirk dropped and i glared at him, huffing as i averted my gaze back onto the screen, "renjun you meanie!"

"it's the nicest way to say, you're ugly."

i gasped dramatically, glancing at him, "you're mean! we're brothers!"

"half-brothers." he corrected me.

"ouch?" i said sarcastically, placing a hand over my heart.

"that's right, get hurt." he snickered making me kick him as he yelped and i grinned in victory.

"oh, you two are here?" we looked to the door and saw some of our brothers by the doorway.

we both hummed as i spoke, "we got bored in our room."

yuta stretched and took a seat on the couch a bit away from me, "same here."

"how was the study for you, jungwoo?" sicheng questioned as he walked in with lucas.

"it was okay, a bit difficult, i guess." jungwoo answered softly and sat next to me with doyoung.

"oh? are we all here? who's missing?" i muttered and scanned the room.

"taeil-hyung's not here, as well as youngho-hyung, ten-hyung, jeno-hyung, and jaemin-hyung." chenle listed down, answering my question.

my expression perplexed, "huh? taeyong, jaehyu—"

"who told you we're not here?" i flinched and nearly dropped the video game console as i snapped my head towards the doorway.

jaehyun and taeyong walked in with mark trailing behind them. "do we have a gathering here or something?" mark joked and sat next to jisung.

"actually, i have something to announce." jaehyun chuckled, "i got our schedule here for tomorrow."

"are you trying to replace minseok-hyung?" jisung questioned making most of us laugh at him.

"you could've just said you wanted to become an assistant, jaehyun." kun teased making jaehyun huffed and glare at us.

he ignored our mockery and started speaking, his topic instantly grabbed everyone's attention in the room. "mrs kang, including her workers, are going to visit the palace for two days in the following week. we're going to be taste testing the meals and pastries they will be providing."

my eyes sparked with interest as i continued listening to the lists of things we would be doing for the preparation.

"oh? you mean the people who work at the bakery will be going here?" taeyong raised a brow and that made me curious.

what does he mean by that?

i glanced to my side and saw doyoung tense up. is there something going on?

i heard a fake laugh and my eyes landed on doyoung immediately. "i don't think even the workers would come."

jaehyun furrowed his brows, "i literally just said including the workers."

i watched as doyoung gave him a salty look before murmuring, "didn't have to rub it in."

taeyong then looked at us, sending us a smile. a smile we rarely see ever since the incident. i grew nervous, did something happen to him? since when did he start to smile again?

"let's all be nice to the workers, yes?"

lucas nodded, "of course we'll be nice to the workers! didn't you kno—" mark slapped a hand over his mouth.

"and that's enough talking for you." mark said as lucas squirmed.

i smirked at the thought, placing the game console down, "this is gonna be a fun week."

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