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Chapter 2- The brilliant idea
"Conrad, if you could ask for one thing, what would it be?" Yuuri asked his most trusted friend.
He was really running out of ideas on what to get Conrad. What would be better than the answer of the man himself?
Conrad titled his head slightly, looking up at the sky. He turned to Yuuri and said "I have everything I need."
Yuuri sweat dropped his answer didn't help him at all! "Are you sure?" he asked Conrad again.
Conrad nodded, smiling as always. "Why do you ask?"
Yuuri laughed nervously putting his hands in front of him waving them hysterically. "No reason!!! Hahaha! No reason at all!!!" Yuuri answered with a silly smile on his face.
"If you say so, Yuuri." Conrad smiled warmly. God, that smile of his was so… electrifying. There is no other word to describe it. Seeing it directed to him sent shivers down his spine.
"What is this man doing to me?" Yuuri asked himself. Yuuri shook his head clearing away his thoughts and smiled back at his protector, wondering how he would react if he heard what Yuuri was thinking. Yuuri couldn't help but to laugh out loud. Conrad would probably say that he was very flattered or something like that. While he was living in his dream world he didn't notice the look Conrad was giving him.
"Yuuri?" he inquired, looking at his king with amused eyes.
"Hahahaha! Sorry Conrad!!!" Yuuri apologized as he finally stifled his laughter but it caused his eyes to tear up instead. Conrad swallowed with much effort as Yuuri turned those shiny obsidian eyes at him. "I was just thinking about something." He told the brunette beside him.
"It must be a very funny to cause you to laugh like that." Conrad responded as he glimpsed at his happy-go-lucky king.
"It is. I just thought about how y--" Yuuri immediately covered his mouth and blushed deeply.
Conrad gazed worriedly at his king. "Your majesty?" he called out cautiously. "Is anything wrong?" he asked.
"NO!!! Nothing's wrong! And stop calling me 'Your Majesty' Nazekuoya!" Yuuri complained, his dark eyes blazing.
Conrad chuckled under his breath. His deep voice sending shivers down Yuuri's spine. Yuuri laughed nervously joining Conrad's laughter.
"As you wish, Yuuri." The brunette smiled. Yuuri could feel his stomach doing flip flops, his name sounded so much better when Conrad said it. Yuuri blushed heavily and turned away from Conrad trying to stomp down his embarrassment.
"That's better." Yuuri grinned after a few moments. "You know, we should have a picnic here sometime!" Yuuri suggested eagerly, looking into Conrad's deep chocolate eyes.
Conrad nodded his approval. "I haven't had a picnic for ages now." He vaguely commented as he tried to remember the last time he did something like that.
Yuuri tilted his head to the side looking at the knight before him. "Why not? You should have a break once in a while!" Yuuri scolded him.
Conrad smiled at his King. Yuuri was too worried about him sometimes. "It's not that I don't take breaks, it's just that it would be weird to go on a picnic alone."
"Oohhh… I guess your right about that!" Yuuri agreed before a brief silence enveloped them. "Well, you have no reason not to go anymore since I'm going to be here to keep you company for a long, long time!" Yuuri laughed.
Conrad eyes widened slightly at his King's words, they made him feel all warm inside for some reason. "Thank you, Yuuri." He whispered silently to the young man, unaware that Yuuri had heard it.
Yuuri blushed embarrassedly, "Why did I say that?" he thought wanting to bang his head into a wall or something similar. "Because you wanted to you dimwit." Yuuri's conscience told him pointedly. Yuuri groaned inwardly. "Ok, I'm talking to myself; this isn't a very good sign." He thought. "You bet it isn't. Anyway, I'm here to bother you about Conrad's present." His conscience reminded him of the thing he kept thinking about ever since this morning. "Oh." Yuuri murmured, he had almost forgotten about that ever since Conrad and he had talked about a picnic—
"That's it!!!" Yuuri shouted in realization pumping his fist into the air.
Conrad looked at Yuuri worriedly; he had been acting weird— well, weirder than usual all morning. "Yuuri?" he questioned getting Yuuri's attention.
"Oh!!! Sorry about that…" Yuuri smiled sheepishly. Conrad nodded slowly, mentally asking Yuuri to explain what was happening to him all morning. "Are you busy tomorrow?" Yuuri asked suddenly catching the knight off guard.
After asking the question, Yuuri realized what it implied. It was like he had asked Conrad out or something. Yuuri blushed beet red. "I-it's not how it sounds!!! I was just wondering if you wanted to go on a picnic tomorrow! That's all! I promise!!!" Yuuri said as he stumbled over his words, mainly because he was panicking so much.
"It's alright Yuuri." Conrad reassured the young king. "I was just surprised. I'll go with you." He smiled at the now calm boy. It was true; he was caught off guard when Yuuri asked if he was busy… It was just that, the way he said it made it sound like… Conrad shook his head clearing away his stray thoughts.
Yuuri blushed heavily at Conrad's warm gaze. He could just feel like Conrad was seeing right through him, or something similar at any rate. "Great!!! Then we'll meet here tomorrow around 10 in the morning, if it's alright with you…" Yuuri trailed of looking at the brunette for his approval.
Conrad nodded his head and held back the smile threatening to appear on his face at Yuuri's joyous expression. Having a picnic with Yuuri was a very appealing thought to him, especially if it made Yuuri this happy.
"Alright then! I'll see you tomorrow okay?" Yuuri beamed as he started to run to his office, wherein Gunter was waiting for him.
"Your majesty, you shouldn't run!!!" Conrad reminded him, worried that Yuuri might trip. And his worries weren't unfounded because Yuuri has proved time and time again that he is still a little clumsy even though he's growing up, which means that he still needed supervision from time to time.
Yuuri glared at him cutely with his dark eyes which twinkled with mirth. "Don't worry!!! And stop calling me 'your majesty' nazekuoya!" he retorted.
Thoughts of running after Yuuri and cover those smiling lips with his entered Conrad's mind as he looked at the grinning youth. But of course, it would be unsuitable for a knight of his majesty to do something as scandalous as that.
"Why should you feel guilty? He's not engaged to Wolfram anymore, right? So why not seize the opportunity?" Conrad felt his conscience question.
He fought down the urge to roll his eyes. "Because he's the king and I'm just a knight." He repeated to his conscience again.
Eversince Yuuri broke his engagement to Wolfram his whole world turned upside down. In the past, he would've contented himself with just watching Yuuri from as distance. But now that he recognized that there was a chance, his conscience wouldn't stop bothering him about it.
"You should know by now that social status doesn't matter to Yuuri. He makes friends with 'everyone'." his conscience rebutted, emphasizing the 'everyone' part.
"Even so…" Conrad started, grasping for some reason to prove to his conscience that what it was suggesting was impossible, but after being silent for one minute he found that he had no other reasons to dispute to his conscience.
"You see, there's no other reason why you shouldn't try." his conscience reasoned.
"But what if he doesn't love me in that way?"Conrad finally voiced out the root of his insecurities.
"What if he does?" his conscience countered, and that promptly shut Conrad up.
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