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He had seen them, or well, more precisely heard them, since the first minutes they met. Callum was lecturing Rayla about the cycle of violence between elves and humans, Rayla trying to spare his life and then trying to kill him. He was sure if he told anyone who wasn’t there now how much they used to argue on those first days, they would laugh and think it was a joke. He got it, no one who saw Rayla and Callum nowadays would ever believe they didn’t always like each other.
He looked out the window, curious about all the laughter that was going on outside.
Rayla and Callum were stumbling. His brother had an arm around Rayla’s waist, her hands over his. Even though they seemed to be putting a great effort into not falling, that was exactly what happened. Rayla’s back hit the grass and Callum barely had time to move a bit so he wouldn’t crush her, still, their legs ended up interwoven. That just made them laugh more intensely, making Ezran smile too.
Only Rayla could bring that kind of happiness out of his brother, and apparently, he did the same for her. There’s a cute blush on their cheeks, maybe it was for being out all day, or perhaps it was because they were near each other, it didn’t matter, it made them look like two children playing with nothing else to worry about. If Ezran thought too hard about that, he could feel a bit jealous of his brother, because he could act like that, and enjoy things so easily in a way Ezran could never. Because Callum didn’t have an entire kingdom to worry about, he could live happily with Rayla.
It was okay, he realized, his brother deserved it, and as cliche as it may sound, if Callum was happy, he would be pleased for him.
Ezran also loved Rayla. Along with Callum, they were the two most important people to him, he couldn’t think of anything better than them being so in love with each other.
Sometimes he wished he could find something similar to what they had. He wanted to sound as enamored as Callum did when he talked about Rayla, he wanted his eyes to shine the way Callum did when he even just thought about her. Ezran knew his own parents were a great couple, sadly, he never got to see that, but now he did get to see his brother being so madly in love, and that was an inspiration for his own love life. Even if he would never admit it to Callum.
When he looked out the window again, the two love birds were already kissing. Rayla’s hand was on Callum’s chest, while she used her other arm as support and leaned in to kiss him. Ezran felt his face hot and immediately turned away, resuming his way to the throne room feeling like he had just witnessed some intimate encounter. Not much different from the first time they kissed in front of him. That would be a story he would delightfully tell his nephews or nieces. It had been a surprise and at the same time, it all made sense. His brother and his best friend who he considered an older sister together, at least when they got married Rayla would actually be his sister-in-law, so it was a win-win situation he supposed.