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From Woman and Man Who Love Them
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Chapter 2 - Confession
Which Yona confessing about her first kiss in front of Lily
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"so... what exactly happened between you two?".
Yona just take a seat beside her and look at her with confused frown "what did you mean?".
"you know, i'm rather perceptive and what i mean... what happen between you and Hak?".
Yona blushed so hardly, her face turn as red as her hair before she throw her hand to face and curl into ball inside her blanket, look mortified over something "Lily, i'm embarassed?! What should i do?!".
What a cute reaction that make her more curious about unclear matter of fact and trying put her blanket aside "wait, what's wrong? What's going on here?".
Yona take a deep breath, breath in, breath out, before she finally could tell her "i kissed him".
Her eyes narrowed, if not maybe her eyes about to pop up from their place, before she placed both of her hand at her friend's petite shoulder "...say that one more time?".
"Lily!? I know you hear me, right!? Don't make me repeat that embarassed thing!?".
"sorry, but i'm not sure... maybe my hearing isn't so good right now? I think i just heard a thing and...".
Before Lily finished her sentence, Yona tell her one more time "Hak... i kissed him".
Lily's eye widen "...eh? you did what? Did you had...".
Yona nodded "yes, i did...".
Lily scream from her deep lung and grab both Yona's hand, looks so excited with sparkle at her eyes "KYAAA!?".
Yona placed one of her finger in front of her mouth and close Lily's mouth with the other hand "LILY!?".
Ope, looks like Lily forget that it was a midnight, and her scream had made all of their friend and bodyguard rushed into their room.
Ayura slid the door first "Lady Lily?!".
But it was Kija who bumped into the room first "princess, what happened!?".
"Yona, are you alright?" ask Shina with concern, same as Tetora "Lady Lily, what happen?".
"did the little miss have a nightmare?".
Hak standing behind the to crowd from outside along with Jae Ha "that scream loud enough to wake them all".
After quick apologize, Lily made sure that both of them just talking "it was nothing".
"jeez, what a pain!? If it's nothing, so why did you scream at midnight, then?".
"nothing is nothing, just do a favour to us and let us continue our girl-talk session before we go to sleep. Please leave both of us, just go back to your room and sleep because what would we talking about didn't related to other man, mom...".
"i'm not your mother!?".
"Yun, it's alright, really... now, could you all just go back to your room and back to sleep?".
Lily smirking with awe, her blabbering couldn't affect them but one word from Yona could make them become silent. Yona's word always affected her people and this is each of reason why she love her.
"you had heard her, right? now get out of my room, quickly", Lily push them all out of her room and closed the door "one more time, i'm sorry and good night".
Just after they sure the others had gone back to their room, Lily quickly take a seat beside Yona and smile "so, can we continue? I'm ready to listen all of your explanation and i won't let you fall asleep till you told me the story".
Yona huffed, know well how her stubborn same as her "fine, as long as you're not too loud or you will wake them all again".
Back to several minute before...
"so, since we couldn't sleeping, would you like a drink with me tonight?".
Jae Ha invited him to the garden. Three liquor in his hand. Two for their drink by himself and one for theirself. Hak take one big swig to gulp his liquor right after he handed it from Jae Ha who chuckling and take a sip of his liquor beside him. He knew it's hard for him to obey her princess's order to didn't kill Soo Won at the battlefield of Xing.
Flashback...
Right after all that arrow scattered into piece, Soo Won arrived not only with Keishuk and Joo Doh, Tae Woo and Lily because they're get the report from Tae Woo. Yotaka and Mizali come with them, too. Of course Yotaka and Mizali ready to kill Gobi, but Soo Won interfere them.
With Joo Doh standing turned away his back to Soo Won's, shielding Soo Won's back, Soo Won lay his sword to Gobi's neck "that red-haired girl who your soldier's arrow aimed just now, she is the princess Yona, the daughter of the late King Il, princess of Kouka Kingdom. And you... did you aware of what you did just now?".
Not like his appearance, his expression sharp and cold, like the one that he showed in front of Hak and Yona that night. What different right now, he do this because he's angry to Gobi and his mercenaries, he can feel bloodlust from his entire body. Kou Ren didn't mind if Gobi die at Soo Won's hand, but that man still her countryman and she would make sure Gobi and his companion would pay their crime with her law's country.
She and Tao had built up Kouka and Xing's peaceful reconciliation at that time, but there's still one thing unclear for her "why did you protect her? She is your enemy, right?".
"princess Yona and her companion was Kouka Kingdom's people, they're my people's and as the King, i must protect them, too".
Hak didn't like this, but it's true Soo Won had trying to protect Yona and the others "we needn't your protection at all".
Joo Doh raise both of his sword "let's see if that filth mouth of yours still could insult his majesty or not".
And Hak raise his glaive "just try...".
Bloodshed between two bodyguard would happen just if both of Yona and Soo Won ask their bodyguard to step back. When Joo Doh insisted to kill Hak, Algira and Tae Woo move to in front of Hak, Tae Woo even raise his spear. At that time, Yona order Hak to not kill Soo Won, which suprising Hak and Soo Won.
"you're always so naive... how could you order him to not kill me while i would face him?".
"don't get wrong idea, too many witnesses here so we can't kill you all here, but of course we will fight back if you intend to kill us", Yona tighten her bow which already she got back from Kou Ren, arrow at her bow with eye targetted Joo Doh who had raise both of his sword, fire lighten up at her eyes "now, lower your sword. Hak injured because protecting me, so if you lay your sword to him right now, don't blame me if i shot your vital, Joo Doh".
After ask Joo Doh to obey Yona and waiting, Soo Won pull his sword out and embedded his sword to the earth, he step forward till he stand in front of Kou Ren "that was my reason as the King, and the reason for myself...", Soo Won pass Kou Ren by and standing with arm-length space in front of Yona "because i only acknowledge you as the Queen".
Not only his word that make her eyes widen, but because unpredicted action of him after that, too. It's not like him to do this in front of everyone.
Soo Won pull one of her hand and embrace her with full force in front of the other before he whisper "i know, i didn't deserve you and i shouldn't ask this to you, but... please, be happy with Hak, Yona...".
Yona push him away with full force and slap his face with full power "I HATE YOU?!".
Soo Won swipe blood at the corner of his lips, smile so sadly "i know that... i know this is mean nothing for you, but sorry for everything i've done to you... sorry, that i loved you".
After Soo Won left them all behind alongside his companion, except Lily and Tae Woo, just like at Awa, Yona dropped to her knee, kneeling in the ground. When Hak sat behind her and pat her shoulder, Yona bump into him, hug him tightly and crying hard, histeric-one like she did once at Awa while wrapping both her hand to Hak's back with continue call his name, as if his name was a spell that could broke the curse; her one-sided first love always haunted her, become curse for her.
"Hak... i'm sorry... forgive me...".
"needn't to apologize to me, just stop crying already. What for and why did you apologize to me?".
"because... he hug me and told me... it's make me feel as if... i had betrayed you...", said her in the middle of her sob.
Hak didn't say a word, he just hug her back tightly before he wrapped his arm and carry her back, didn't care about his wounded arm and shoulder. It's clear, he trying hard to holding his rage back from his tense.
Flashback End...
"i know her order for not kill him was hard, but it's for the sake of Xing and Kouka, we can't kill him at that time".
"i already know that, and not that thing which bother me".
"then what?".
"that bastards never did something meaningless. Princess Yona had held princess Kou Ren and princess Tao's trust. If he made princess Kou Ren and princess Tao thought he would comply princess Yona's request because he love her, it would made a sense that he different with his father and he didn't cool-blooded person at all", Hak take a sip before continue "he use princess Yona this time and i hate that, he had playing around with the princess's heart and made her cry again".
Jae Ha understand that, he calmed his little brother down before asked him to spoke with Yona and stop being such idiotic loner "i understand why did you angry, but if you angry to the king, why did you pulled away from her? She would think you're angry with her, too".
"i didn't mean pulled away from her, i just wanna give her time to think... not only for her, i too, wanna think about something... that, i didn't understand why did she doing that...".
He still don't understand...
Why did she cried and apologize to him?
Why did she thought she had betrayed him just because Soo Won hugged her and told her that he loved her?
And why...
Why did she kissed him?
"then talk with her already, maybe you would surprised about her answer but...".
"if i let myself get surprised by everything that princess does, there would be no end of it and if i let my guard weakened, i think i would lost control".
Jae Ha raised his eyebrow "and what exactly she had done to you?".
Silence. Again.
Jae Ha sighed, same old pattern. Hak always silent if he didn't want to speak about something to other and it made him concern, like this time.
"KYAA?!".
"LILY?!".
That scream had made both of them jolted from their seat and with their rush to Lily's room, conversation ended for tonight.
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