The Village Girl And the Fox Prince

Chapter 20 - About the Difference.

“Yes, I'm scared because of it. As you know, we've talked about this before, right? It's about keeping our distance and boundaries, so that over time we don't change. Stay like this, or at least no one will get hurt,” Hazel said after a few minutes ago speechless in shackled thoughts.

Such a rough breathing was clearly heard. Lynx understood that this was too fast, but she couldn't hold it back either. Each inch of distance stretched between her and the girl, as if a dagger was drawing out her chest.

So hurt. Lynx predicts perhaps her pain outweighs the pain of rejection of love. At least Lynx has expressed his feelings. Instead of being late to tell, and even end up regretting later.

“Hazel, don't you remember what we talked about yesterday? You said that being with a loved one is happier than having the rest of the world,” Lynx said, looking at Hazel's faithful body behind her.

It appears that the girl just nodded her head. “It's true.”

Lynx steadied her heart before speaking, holding her breath for a few seconds to relieve the nervousness that struck. Then his eyes focused on Hazel's back there.

“I ... Love you, Hazel.” His tone sounded out loud, making Hazel who heard him instantly stare at the place in shock.

“I've fallen in love with you, little lady,” he added.

This time Hazel turned her body, staring at Lynx in disbelief. His mouth felt stiff, he forced it to laugh. It sounded hollow with that puzzled expression.

“Haha! Your jokes aren't funny, Lynx. Stop saying something that doesn't make sense. I'll forget what you said, so it's better we-”

“Nobody is being funny here. Also, I'm not kidding. The situation is tense like this, you consider this a joke? How do I feel you take it lightly?”

Hazel took a hard gulp at the sight of how serious the expression the long-haired man was making was. Trying to be digested any number of times, it felt like Hazel still could not believe that Lynx would reveal such a thing.

“Lynx, please. I don't mean to underestimate what you just said. But---”

“But what?” Lynx again cut off the girl's words, so Hazel had to sigh, she looked resigned.

Next to Lynx's hand was taped to her chest, then walked step by step to get closer to Hazel. “I fully understand what our situation is like. Let's just say I'm selfish, let's just say I don't know myself. Because a creature like me dares to love a perfect human like you.”

As the distance between the two erodes, Hazel has no choice but to walk backwards. To the extent that he was unaware that his back was attached to the wooden cabinet in the back.

“You're mistaken, Lynx. There is no perfect man in this world. I'm just an ordinary girl forced to live on suffering that I never wanted. Anyway, we just got to know. You can't just judge me and you easily conclude that your heart chose me to love.”

Lynx no matter what Hazel said, the thump in her chest grew even more pronounced as she stared fixedly at the brownish bead of the girl in front of her. The baseless beauty, he encountered there. So that he did not find the words bored when he wanted to look at her.

“Falling at you is as easy as winking. And just as the eyes do not need to be commanded to blink, my heart does not need an order to whom it will dock. In the deepest of hearts, only your name is engraved there, Hazel.”

Even though he had heard the words of the mutter that the man had thrown, Hazel still could not accept it easily. Moreover, it seemed that only Lynx felt that feeling.

Or rather, Hazel was still unaware. That all this time he had been secretly pounding just because of his touch, or felt misbehavior towards Lynx's simple attention.

If not love, then what else?

“You can feel it, Hazel? Believe me, only with you can my heart beat this fast,” said Lynx as he closed his eyes, unaware that his tail and pointed ears had appeared.

Hazel, who ventured to raise her eyes, saw how the cheeks of the man before her turned red. The thick dark orange tail was moving happily, its pointed ears were occasionally waving softly.

Not knowing where the perfume came from, but suddenly Hazel inhaled a very fragrant aroma. As if passing and passing in front of him. Like sourced from Lynx who loomed in front of him.

The lentic fingers that were on the man's chest began to move smoothly, feeling slowly to feel longer how the heart in there was pumping. What Lynx said was true, only the gurgling was so pronounced.

But the sense of pleasure when it turns out there is someone who sincerely loves him, suddenly withered. Replacing with sadness after being slapped by reality. The smile on his lips had gone down, looking flat with the look of his sore eyes.

“Lynx, don't overextend the circumstances.” Hazel said as she lowered her head, she slowly pulled her hand from Lynx's chest.

“Hazel?”

Not wanting to look sad, Hazel raised her head to look at him. “You know? I once dreamed of being married to a prince who could change my life. But not with a fox prince like you.”

Her words hurt Lynx to accept, especially Hazel saying them with a big smile. The usual sweet smile Lynx admired, suddenly even made a scar in the heart.

“I don't mean to break your hopes or feelings. But ... You know for yourself, Lynx. We are not the same. I'm a human being, and you're a creature from another world. We are different worlds. You said that too, right? About the ban from your clan.”

“... Do they forbid you to be in a relationship with a human? If so, I think you should obey what is written in the rules in your world,” Hazel added.

Lynx knew that falling in love with a human was a mistake. But only from that mistake could he feel his real life.

Years of living an unpleasant life change in an instant when he meets Hazel. If the happiness he finds is only in the girl, Lynx is willing to trade all the luck in his life just to be able to live with her.

Seen once if the man is sad, his tail and ears bowed lethargic. Hazel's not feeling well. But the truth must still be said. He does not want if in the end a moment of happiness even brings misery.

Puk, puk, puk.

Hazel tries to comfort Lynx by giving her a gentle pat on the crown. So that beautiful bead would look back at him.

“There is a saying, if an impossibility can be broken with great effort. If you love me so much, why don't you fight and prove it? Due to the fact that living together with loved ones is happier, it can never be opposed more anything.”

Lynx didn't know if it was an opportunity for her or just a sedating word. But he won't waste it.

If that's what Hazel wants, then she'll prove it. That love that grows in the heart, not just mere nonsense that does not mean. Lynx will show that the existence of love cannot be hindered by anything.

Even so, the world she and Hazel came from was very different.

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