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"Your highness! I understand you are in a hurry but please try to stay put, your hair will not be as pretty if you keep going back to glance at the door every two seconds," sunoo, one of the prince's closest servants, said as he chuckled softly.
The omega, Hyunjin, however, pouted, "but he is late sunoo! He has never been late before," hyunjin whined, making the younger smile softly at him and tie the end of the red ribbon that decorated hyunjin's black long hair, "you do not know what might happen, your grace, he might have got caught with sir choi, and we both know how talkative he can be,"
That made hyunjin chuckle, looking at himself in the mirror in front of him admiring the work the beta has done, his white simple clothes worked for making him prettier, his crimson red cloak hugging his broad shoulders perfectly. His plump lips are red and shiny and he knows why they call him the real beauty of the kingdom.
"You look so pretty, your highness," hyunjin thought it was sunoo at first, the young beta tends to shower his prince with compliments every chance he gets, but instead, it was his royal knight, standing at the door with a polite smile, "changbin! Have you seen seungmin? He is late and I am worried."
The alpha nodded, "His grace is waiting for you in the garden, the king asked for him as soon as he arrived, that is why he is late. No need to worry about him, he's perfectly fine." With that hyunjin finally sighed in relief.
Processing that seungmin is waiting for him, he stood up abruptly and gave the younger a short but warm hug, giving them a chance to mix their lavender and cheery scents, "thank you, sweetheart. I will be going now."
Sunoo smiled warmly as he saw the prince walks quickly, not in such a prince way that if his tutor saw him walk like that he'll get an earful of him, but he can not even bother thinking about it as he busked in the contentment of the happy lavender scent.
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Hyunjin smelt him before he saw him. The overwhelmingly familiar roses scent that he grew so fond of was thick in the air around the royal garden, especially at hyunjin's favorite spot.
"Seungminnie!" hyunjin called. The younger alpha who was sitting down on a bench staring at the stars stood up immediately, a soft smile decorating his pinkish lips, "my prince," came the reply as he embraced the taller within his arms, humming contently at the familiar scent.
"I missed you, my prince. How are you? Were you okay when I was gone?" Seungmin's hand dropped to the omega's waist as they pulled away enough to look at each other's faces. Worry is glistening in the alpha's eyes but it's still ever so tender and held so, so, so much love to the older.
Hyunjin nodded, somehow dazed already by the presence of the younger man, "No need to worry, darling. The only bad thing that happened is not having you around." He pouted, knowing well how pretty it makes him look, especially in seungmin's eyes.
The younger chuckled, realizing how much he missed his fiancé's endearing behaviors and the way his lips pout ever so easily. "Well, my love, I have two big news for you. One is good the other is great, so what do you like to hear first?" He tucked hyunjin's hair behind his ear lovingly as he asked.
Hyunjin leaned just a little bit to the hand that seungmin cupped his cheek, "the good one first, I wanna save the best to the last." Seungmin hummed and nodded, thinking about how to arrange his words in the best way possible.
"The good news is I got to convince my father to hold the ceremony at your kingdom, and the great news is that it will be in one month from now, just in time to be around April where your favorite flowers bloom."
And seungmin saw it again, the utter happiness that glistens and shines in the prince's brown big eyes, the same shine that made him fall in love when he was first introduced to him back when they were seventeen, the shy smile and the happy scent that embraced him.
Hyunjin was ecstatically gushing over how their mating ceremony will be beautiful and grand and how he will send handwritten letters to all of their friends when seungmin dragged him gently yet quickly to kiss him.
It happened naturally, like it is muscle memory, like seungmin is meant to kiss him at every given chance. And hyunjin, as he always does, blushed a pretty hue of pink at the sudden affection. Blinking his pretty eye at seungmin when they parted.
"I can't wait for that too, my prince." His voice was dripping with love, and hyunjin feels like he is the most important person in the whole world right now, in between seungmin's arms. Not because he was dressed up nice and pretty, not because he was the prince, nor the very beautiful garden they are standing at.
Hyunjin knows even if he was a homeless man, and he crossed paths with seungmin and they fell in love again, seungmin will still make him feel like he is the most important person in the world anyway. Because it is the way his eyes soften when their gaze meets, the way his scent is overwhelmingly happy, the way his long delicate fingers rub reassuring circles on his waist.
Seungmin was his home, and safe place, that's why when the two were set to get married and mate then leave to role over seungmin's kingdom, hyunjin did not feel sad. Yes, he will miss his home, but seungmin promised to come back whenever they can, and wherever seungmin was, hyunjin knows he will find safety and comfort.
"You are amazing." The omega whispered suddenly, not breaking the eye contact the two started a few minutes ago. Seungmin chuckled, endeared, "how I am the one who's amazing. Darling?"
Hyunjin let a smile take over his plumb lips, "you are. You make me happy, so happy to be exact that I have to remind myself that you actually exist, every morning I wake up and clutch on my daisy necklace to make sure that you are not a dream, and the past five years of our lives are not something I came up with. You make me feel like I'm someone important. Not as in a prince, but as a lover and a person to you."
Seungmin listened carefully, paying attention to every word, knowing well that his prince is not the best at expressing himself through words. A very warm and genuine smile decorated his lips, as his hand on hyunjin's cheek moved to his chin, bringing him impossibly closer, "you have learnt to talk in this pretty way, My prince."
"I am beyond glad that I make you feel how important of a person you are to me, hyunjin. You are more than you ever think to me, your highness, and I can not wait to spend the rest of my forever with you."
And hyunjin was the one to kiss him this time. Letting stars be the ones to witness the promise both of them made.
The promise to give their forever to each other.