The Cold Little Prince

Part XVI: Pain

Yoonbin's thin body looked more frail than usual. As Yuna walked into her dorm room, she found Yoonbin welcoming her with pale face and hunting breath. Yuna, who was being carried away, hurriedly encouraged Yoonbin to go back to sleep on her bed.

Still grumbling, Yuna compressed Yoonbin's forehead as hot as the embers. "The Hospital yuk. I'm afraid you're okay."

"So!" the Yoonbin response is fast and ketus. His eyelids were closed while agonized moans came out from his tightly clenched mouth.

"I can't help much. What if my brother dies?"

Yoonbin. Not angry, just sad and confused. Yuna is not good because she talks like that.

"Cepet healed Brother Yoonbin dear," said Yuna while peeping Yoonbin's forehead and then stroking it slowly.

Yoonbin's hand grabbed Yuna's wrist. She placed Yuna's hand on her soft cheek. In a hoarse voice he spoke. "I wanna feel you. I want you to give me a hug and kiss, but I know you can't."

"That's a damn thing!" Yuna roared in her heart. He's learning to keep an image.

Sayu Yoonbin's gaze just made Yuna fixated. With a slow pull that Yoonbin took out with great difficulty, she brought Yuna into her arms. "So hugging may be possible..."

Yoonbin's right hand grabbed Yuna who was still stiff with an irregular pounding. It took a while for Yuna to return her embrace and pat Yoonbin on the back. He let the guy dunk his face between the recesses of his neck. Her breathing was hot and Yuna started to lose focus. Yoonbin is nothing.

"You are so gentle Yun" said Yoonbin. "I feel greedy because I want more than I've got right now."

"For example?" sahut Yuna scrunched her forehead.

"You."

Yuna did not have time to ask any further because Yoonbin had fallen asleep. The guy hugged her tightly. Yuna could feel the roar of Yoonbin's breath hunting but regularly. He lasted for 20 minutes in such a rigid and awkward position. After confirming that Yoonbin was actually sleeping, Yuna let go of her embrace slowly, then dropped off after one kiss she landed on Yoonbin's lips.

His brown eyes are all he wears to worry about Yoonbin. Yuna observes from a chair that was made in a package with a brown study table where Yoonbin piles up her assignments and book collection. His eyes shimmered all over the room like a health inspector doing his job. So observant and intense.

His gaze stopped on a slightly open white velvet box. Though the box that was closest to him, but Yuna only realized later. Not that she meant to be presumptuous, but Yuna was curious about the contents of the beautiful box.

"Sir permission see yes," he sighed Yuna. "Yes, please" he replied again. The tone is not normal.

The box is approximately 30×30 cm in size. As Yuna grabbed it, she could feel the weight of the box being quite heavy. He's getting curious.

Dear Ben's,

My Sunshine, My Smile, My Happiness

Yuna's forehead wrinkled as she read the headline on the first envelope that caught her eye. He took the pink envelope. His eyes glanced at the other envelope. He was shocked and confused as the sweet words were written perfectly on the envelopes in the box.

His hand trembled slightly as he read the letter. It contains a very sweet letter and praise from teenagers being kasmaran. Yuna's hand almost squeezed out the letter she was holding. But his wish can still be withheld. He kept the first letter and moved on to the next. His heart grew hotter when one by one the contents of the letter were revealed. The one that made him so jealous contained a kayak gini.

Dear My Beautiful Ella,

I can fully understand about your passionate feeling. I'm so happy to know that you feel that way to me. Let's meet on the last Friday night of this month. I have something to tell you. Don't let him know about this.

With Love, though,

Ben

"Who is it *******?" yuna muttered almost like a curse.

His fiery eyes glanced at Yoonbin who was soundly asleep. The heat may have gone down eating him he could sleep as well as that. Yuna felt an ache and her eyes became hot. Crying but afraid to be weak.

Yuna put the letters back into place reluctantly. He wanted to burn the letter. But that's impossible because it belongs to Yoonbin. Moreover, he did not know how valuable the letters were to Yoonbin.

His hands shook as he looked at a piece of photography featuring a teenage Yoonbin with a beautiful bule chick. Yuna immediately suspected that the girl was Ella. He didn't know for sure, but his instincts said so.

Angrily Yuna put the photo under Yoonbin's mailbox. He walked out of his girlfriend's room with a tight chest and teary eyes. Yuna walked away with long strides while crying silently. His hand rubbed the rough tears that drenched his cheeks. But in vain because his tears continued to fall like heavy rain in late November.

"If I judge it's like demit. If his ex is very good use. It's unclean!"

Yuna was too quick to judge. But he doesn't care. Because now he was angry and jealous.

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