"doyoung, i love you, you know that?"

the human heir rolled his eyes at those flattering words before leaning in the embrace of the man holding him tight.

"i know. but you love yuta more." doyoung replied.

"it's a different kind of love, and you know it!" his best friend whined. "you don't love jaehyun like you love me."

"god no!" doyoung snorted. "i'd never be able to survive being your boyfriend. you're too whiny."

this remark made his receive a slap on the arm before both boys fell into a fit of giggles together.

"nah, but seriously, i don't know how you managed to make your parents change their mind, but it's the best thing that ever happened to us." sicheng stated.

"well, it was my death or the death of their pride." doyoung summed it up easily. "i'm glad they chose me."

"they haven't been regretting their decision, have they?" sicheng asked.

"they sometimes do. but most of the time, they think that it was a good idea." doyoung replied with a laugh.

it had been one week since doyoung's parents allowed both realms to get closer again.

doyoung didn't need too much time to get used to the changes, but it was very different for his parents.

he remembers this day they had been invited over to the demon realm, to have dinner with the royal family. they had been very surprised to see how the plates were composed of only juicy and bloody meat. they had eaten some anyway, but it had been hard for them to try – it was for doyoung too.

also, they were pleasantly seduced by the warm temperature of the demon realm. the king and the queen had, for one, been able to wear short-sleeved shirts, something that they had never done before.

"so? what do you plan on doing when you'll become the king?" sicheng asked with a smile.

"come on!" doyoung whined. "we're not going to have a royal speech now!"

"chill! i was just asking." sicheng chuckled. "it's just that i want to know... will you legalize inter-realm weddings? well, you'll need to if you need to get married to jaehyun."

doyoung gasped, slapping sicheng's arm as his cheeks coloured red.

he was still very shy, and the fact it had been formally announced that the heir of the human realm was in a relationship with the heir of the demon realm made everything worse.

he felt like, wherever he got, everybody was looking at him – which was the case.

"don't tell me you don't want to get married!" sicheng rolled his eyes. "i wouldn't believe you."

"you're just asking me that because you want to get married with yuta." doyoung scoffed.

"yeah, and? that's how things are supposed to go!"

doyoung shrugged. "maybe marrying him would be great."

"oh, trust me, it would be the best thing for you." sicheng nodded. "a wedding that unites both realms and ends completely the rivalry, and you get yourself a hot demon all for you, you get kids and raise them, proud to show them what you and your husband will have built together. and the little plus, you won't ever be cold again!"

doyoung listened to sicheng's speech with a dreamy mind.

he allowed sicehgn's voice to lull him into a trance that made him imagine all those things happening.

the crowd of demons and humans cheering on them at their wedding.

him and jaehyun being together forever in love.

then, the two of them raising their kids, and teaching them everything they need to know about the history of the realms.

and last but not least, the warmth speading through his body whenever jaehyun would be around, and the burning sensation of jaehyun's bare skin against his when they-

"woooow, you're going too far in your dreams, doyoung." sicheng declared, pulling his best friend up as the human had started to slip off the couch with a goofy smile. "so, i guess you like this idea."

"very much." doyoung replied, the beaming smile never leaving his face.

"then make it happen."

♨/❄

"isn't he hot?" sicheng asked, as per usual, when walking next to a demon who was on the phone. one detail changed since the last time he was able to do this though; this time, he wasn't in a school corridor in the demon realm, but he was in the human realm, walking on the streets that were now full of demons as much as humans.

"he isn't." the boy next to him growled.

"yeah, right, you're hotter." sicheng giggled, jumping in the muscular arms of his boyfriend in the middle of the busy streets.

yuta caught his boyfriend effortlessly, continuing to walk down the street as he pampered his boyfriend's face in kisses.

sicheng giggled at the action, giving his boyfriend a few kisses as well.

"are we filming porn here?" a voice interrupted them, making yuta drop sicheng on the pavement. the demon gasped before pulling his boyfriend up again immediately.

"taeyong." yuta raised a brow, surprised to see the demon in the streets of the human realm.

"i'm no harm, don't worry." the demon replied, raising both of his hands in the air.

"it's funny, but i don't trust you." yuta shrugged, placing one of his arms around sicheng's petite waist.

"do as you like." taeoyng replied. "i wanted to congratulate both of you, and jaehyun and doyoung as well."

"this sounds awfully fake." yuta told, sounding very mean.

taeyong sighed loudly, looking around before approaching the two lovers to speak.

"listen, you know how my family is?" he asked in a low voice.

"yeah. rats who would like to get to the power instead of the jungs. jaehyun told me about it." yuta spat.

"well, i was forced by my father to marry jaehyun to get to the power. but jaehyun understood what i was trying to do and broke up with me. that is why my father forced me to do the same with doyoung. but it failed as well because of jaehyun." taeyong explained.

"i don't see how any of this should reassure me." yuta snorted.

"i was forced to do those things. i never wanted to act like that in the first place." taeyong tried convincing the other demon.

"forced...?" sicheng asked in a timid voice.

"my father starved me if i didn't do what he wanted me to do." taeyong explained. "i had to act like a bitch to you and find a way to separate jaehyun and doyoung, but that's not what i wanted to do!" he continued. "i want nothing more but live my one life the way i want to."

yuta was silent for a few seconds to think about everything that had been said.

"this seems all too simple..." he whispered. "i can't admit to myself that after everything you did, you were the good guy."

"i'm not saying that i'm the good guy." taeyong sighed. "i'm just saying that i'm not as bad as i seem."

"but are you really?" yuta asked.

"i was thrown out of my family around a month ago. i've been living clandestinely in the human realm since then. this guy, ten, took care of me and helped me. i lived with him for the past weeks. you can ask him anything. i told him everything that happened to me." taeyong assured.

yuta and sicheng exchanged a look.

"what do you want to do?" sicheng asked the demon.

"i need to see jaehyun, and to apologise. and doyoung too. i promise i'll leave you alone after that."taeyong pleaded.

"come with us, then. we'll bring you to the castle."