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C h a p t e r

F i v e

"I don't really know what to do," Jay admitted. He was sitting there watching Nicholai working out since he had nothing to do.

Nicholai looked up at Jay and grinned. "You can carry on checking me out, I don't mind." Jay blushed a little and looked down at his lap. Jay was checking him out but he didn't think Nicholai would have noticed.

Jay looked back up at Nicholai, who had continued his work out and was now lifting weights, and carried on checking him out. He watched the way his muscles flexed. "Damn," Jay whispered.

He looked down at himself and frowned. He was nowhere near as muscular as Nicholai. Jay thought to himself, shouldn't Nicholai be with someone more like himself rather than plain old me? It made his frown deepen.

"Princey, what's wrong?" Nicholai asked when he saw Jay frowning away. He put down the weights and walked up to Jay, bending down so that they were both at eye length.

"Nothing," Jay murmured, shaking his head and refusing to look at Nicholai. This time, Nicholai was the one to frown.

He took hold of Jay's hands and rubbed his thumb over Jay's knuckles. "You know you can tell me anything, right? We need to be open about things."

Jay nodded his head and looked up, whacking a smile on his face. "I'm fine, just missing my sister," he lied. Nicholai slowly nodded his head, not entirely believing Jay. "You can get back to your workout. I don't want to keep you."

"You aren't."

Throughout the day, Jay's thought kept bugging him a lot. He was afraid that Nicholai was going to leave him and then he would be miles away from his family. He was unsure whether or not his family would take him back.

Jay spent most of his time avoiding Nicholai. Nicholai had decided to go out food shopping. He offered Jay to join him, but he declined. He didn't want to get too attached to someone who might leave him soon.

"Maybe if I leave now, it'll hurt less," he said to himself, tapping his chin. He grinned and jumped up, not bothering to pack anything. He went to the front door and opened it, looking before he headed out.

He closed the door behind him and started walking around. He furrowed his eyebrows when he realised he didn't know how to get out. He didn't even know where he was!

"Excuse me?" Jay called out when he saw a girl walking. She looked over and smiled.

"What can I do for you?" The two met half way and Jay explained where he wanted to go and asked how to get there. The girl looked at him weirdly, wondering why he wanted to go to the castle. "It's an odd place to go. I heard that they're so bad to their son, why would you want to go back to a town under their rule? Okay, we're under their rule here but we don't directly have to deal with them here."

Jay narrowed his eyes in confusion. People knew about him? "How are they bad to their son?"

"You haven't heard? Oh, gosh! He came out of the closet, which is super cool! But they basically abandoned him in a way. They don't treat him properly and I heard they massively favour their daughter. Word around is that he found love at his sister's ball thing and his parents aren't happy. Said it was for his sister to find love, not him. But he doesn't know that because apparently he's left!" Jay was taken aback at how much this girl knew about him, even if she didn't realise that she was talking about him.

"Wow. Do you think he should return there? You know, if he was trying to find his way back, do you think he would be making a wise choice?" The girl shook her head.

"No, I don't think so. I heard he was unhappy there and I think he deserves to be happy. Everyone does. Maybe the guy he left with makes him happy? Who knows? Either way, the Prince deserves to be happy." He smiled. He liked how she didn't know or figure it out that he was the Prince, especially since two new people moved to town fitting the description (in a way) of the two people who left.

"And what if the Prince thinks that the guy he left with would leave him for someone else?"

"Then the Prince is blind because he doesn't see the way the guy looks at him." Jay jumped when he heard Nicholai's voice. He saw him carrying shopping bags but he had a sad look on his face. "Come on, help me with these."

The girl looked at the two with a curious glance. "Nice to meet you," she finally spoke up, speaking to Jay.

He smiled at her. "Nice to meet you too," he replied. He slowly made his way to Nicholai, not being able to look him in the eye.

Once they were in the house, Nicholai sighed. "You were going to leave me." It wasn't a question, it was a statement.

"I'm sorry." Jay still couldn't look at Nicholai. He felt ashamed. "Honesty. I should be honest." He looked up to see Nicholai raising an eyebrow. "I'm afraid you're gonna leave me because I'm not like you. You're all muscles and all that and look at me. I'm just... Nothing."

Nicholai sighed, shaking his head. He walked up to Jay and cupped his face. "I want you for you, Princey. I like the way you are. It makes me feel happy because if anything, I can be your hero and protect you."

"That makes me feel weak and pathetic. I don't want you to view me as a damsel in distress."

"Well firstly, I'm not leaving you and you aren't leaving me. Secondly, I have a proposition. It may make you feel better and it'll definitely make me feel a lot more better." Jay tilted his head as if asking what he was on about. "You workout with me. I can train you."

"Like my personal trainer?" Nicholai nodded his head, a smirk on his face. Jay blushed knowing the look on Nicholai's face. Nicholai bent down and pecked Jay on the lips.

"Like I said, Princey, you're all mine." Jay gulped when he saw the look on Nicholai's face darken. "I really want to take you to bed right now, do you know that?" Jay's blushed deepened. "Oh, even more now. That blush, it makes you totally irresistible." Nicholai got closer to Jay.

"Personal space," he squeaked out from nervousness.

"Believe me, soon you'll be begging for me to get closer and closer and bam, I'm inside of you." Jay's eyes widened at Nicholai's comment, his heart beating faster than ever. Jay didn't know what to say so he stayed silent, except his cheeks were full of colour again.

Nicholai was still close to Jay, just soaking in the beauty that was the Prince. He was shocked when Jay pulled him down so that their lips smashed together. It turned him on even more. He growled out Jay's name as a warning.

Jay giggled, continuing to kiss Nicholai. "I like kissing you," Jay admitted shyly.

"I like kissing you too, trust me, Princey."

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