Chapter 2

Yuuri POV

~~~Shin Makoku - Royal Bedroom~~~

I´m lying in this enormous and cold bed. I still can´t believe it. He is not here! ... My god! He is supposed to be here. At my side! Listening to the little things I have to say and talking about everything that passes his mind. He is supposed to be here! Lying at my side and smiling brighter than the sun. Why is he not here? I just can´t anymore. Now I´m finally in Shin Makoku and everything was supposed to be better!

I´m turning again. Another sleepless night. Great!

Maybe I should go to Gretas room and snuggle up to her? Maybe that will solve everything. And I could talk to Conrad about everything. That´s it!

I get up and run to Gretas room.

"Sweety, are you sleeping?".

Of course, she is. What was I thinking. It´s almost day again. I lean down right beside her. She lets out a cute little snore. It´s so much like Wolfs. I smile freely and close my eyes. I´m so tired right now. I should really sleep!

... What could Wolf do in Bielefeld? They said, there was a ball right? Why wasn´t I invited? Is he always going to balls, when I´m not here? What would he do, when he is there alone? Wolf always stays at my side or commands the guards, when we go to festivities together. Maybe he dances, when I´m not there? With women or men?

God, I hate the thought, that I don´t know, what he´s up to.

The sun is up. Greta yawns beside me and looks at me with big eyes.

"Morning Daddy!".

"Morning Sweety, did you have a nice sleep?".

"Yes, very!", she says and breaks into a big smile.

She is such a cutie! We stay silent for a while and let the sun warm our tummies. So even beside her, I can´t sleep.

"Yuuri, I miss Daddy Wolfram", she tells me.

"Me too", I sigh, "me too!".

I stand up.

"Greta, let´s go meet him!".

"Yay!", she screams.

I leave her to prepare herself for breakfast and walk back to my bedroom to change my own clothes. Conrad stands at the door as I walk back out.

"Your majesty. Don´t you want to do your morning jogging today?".

I can barely use my eyes right now.

"I´m too tired today. Sorry".

"Is everything alright, your majesty?".

I´m even too tired to tell him to call me by my name right now.

"I´m alright! Conrad, please prepare everything. Greta and I need to go and see Wolfram right now".

"Yes, your majesty".

Concern is showing in his brown eyes.

"I´m alright!", I try to ease him. But I can´t give my voice a carefree and joyful sound, "I just need to see Wolf".

He is not appeased at all, but goes off to prepare the carriage.

~~~Shin Makoku - in the carriage~~~

We will arrive at Waltoranas castle soon. I can´t sit still. Not that long anymore! Gwendal and even Günther let us go so easily after they saw my face. I suppose I look a bit ill. But what do you think, someone, who hasn´t slept since more than a week looks like. It´s evening. The ball has probably already started. I don´t think that anyone is expecting me. It´s gonna be a mess again. Maybe I will even have to dance. Horrible!

The horses stop and I help Greta exit the carriage. She is smiling the biggest smile I have seen, since I arrived back in Shin Makoku. A few guards take our bags and take them to the castle. Oh my! They won´t even have a bedroom prepared. It´s not nice to come uninvited.

As soon as the guards recognize us, the let us past and begin to whisper. They obviously didn´t know we were coming. I smile awkwardly. Waltorana soon comes to us to great us.

"Your arrival is pretty surprising, your majesty. Wolfram didn´t mention anything", Waltorana says.

"I´m sorry to intrude! We didn´t plan to come, but...".

I don´t know what to say. Truth would be: I can´t sleep without your nephew, so I just had to come to share a bed with him. That sounds so wrong! I laugh awkwardly instead.

"Well... you are welcome as always! Let´s go to the ballroom".

I follow him. Greta excuses herself and goes to her, now new assigned room, to change her dress.

I walk into the room right behind Waltorana, trying not to make a great entrance. Surprisingly it works. There is no big announcement, that I´m here. Great!

I slowly go through the room, only looking for Wolfram. Some people great me and I return the favor, but always excuse myself soon.

There he is! He is on the dancefloor in the arms of a man, who is almost as beautiful as he is. The man has dark brown hair and blue eyes and looks at Wolfram with a loving and familiar gaze. So that is what Wolfram is doing, when I´m not with him? When I can´t even sleep or think without him? I feel how I get angrier and angrier. The Man swirls Wolf around and pulls him close to him. Even closer than before. Now I´m furious! How can Wolf let another one touch him like that? I feel my hair grow and my eyes twitch. My power is flowing over me. The people around me are still. Kind of frozen and even the musicians stop to play. Wolf stops dancing and looks around to see what´s wrong. When he finally spots me, my face twitches.

"Get... here... now!".

I try really hard to constrain myself.

"Yuuri?", he asks. Disbelievingly.

"Get... here... NOW!", I shout.

He comes to me immediately.

"Your majesty?".

Oh great. Now he thinks, I´m my other self?
"No!", I say simple.

He stops right before me.

"Come here!"; I say as I open my arms for him.

Wolf seems unsure of what to do. I raise my eyebrow and he goes right into my arms. I stare at the man, that Wolf danced with - with my whole anger in my eyes. He shivers.

My best friend feels warm in my embrace. A load falls of my mind. I´m home. I feel, how I tired I really am.

"Sorry Wolf, but we need to go to bed", I whisper into his ear.

"WHAT?!", he stares at me with his eyes wide open.