"Hold still and stop squirming!" Xiao scolded me as she was putting makeup on me.

It was the evening of the day of the ball.

Since I heard Taehyung and Eleanor's conversation yesterday, I never went near him. I asked Lady Anne to assign a new maid to nurse him and told her that I wasn't feeling well.

I couldn't bring myself to go near him. I just couldn't. I knew that they would someday marry each other but I couldn't accept that fact.

I would rather leave the castle and never step foot in here again than accept their marriage and live with them broken-hearted. My heart was crying in agony.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Xiao tilted her head, looking at me worried.

I nodded. "I'm sorry for causing you trouble, though."

She shook her head. "No, it's fine. I'm sure my parents would love to have you living with them," she smiled assuringly.

She finished doing my makeup and we walked out, into the ballroom. Our heels clicked loudly against the floor.

"So are you telling him today?"

I gulped. "Yes. In fact, I'm going over to his room right now."

She cheered for me and I parted my ways with her, changing directions towards his room.

My palms started sweating and I tried to calm my breathing. My heart was beating rapidly and I kept telling myself that I'll be fine.

I knocked on his room and he told me to enter.

He was all dressed up and looked like he was recovered completely. I smiled at that.

He was shocked to see me and quickly shuffled towards me. He held my face gently and inspected me from head to toe.

"Are you okay? Lady Anne said that you were not feeling well yesterday."

I pushed his hands away and forced a smile, "I'm fine. I came here to tell you something."

He blinked. "What is it?"

I pursed my lips and gulped harshly. "I'm resigning from my duties and going to live with Xiao's family."

He was frozen. His eyes were wide and I couldn't decipher his expression. Tears started prickling my eyes.

I cursed internally. I told myself that I wouldn't cry...

"Why?"

I looked down. I didn't want to tell him that I was doing it because of him.

"I thought this environment was difficult for me to live in, so I'm choosing a smaller and more peaceful place with a more 'Home' feel to it."

He didn't believe it.

"Don't..."

I looked up at him.

"Don't leave me. Please stay with me. I..." he whispered with a shaky voice.

I bit my lips. "I can't do that, I'm sorry."

I turned to leave before I showed him my tears, but he suddenly wrapped his arms around my waist and hugged me from behind.

"Please," he whispered again.

"I honestly don't understand your actions right now. You're marrying someone and yet you're here, hugging and pleading another woman not to leave you," I scoffed in disbelief.

He raised his head up from my shoulder. "You heard that? Is that why you're doing this?" He mumbled surprised.

I didn't care about anything at this point. I wanted to know.

I turned in his arms to glare at him. "Tell me why you're doing this!"

He stared back at me.

I waited for him to say anything. About her, about us, anything. But he only fixed his gaze on me. I lost my patience.

"You-"

"Her parents were killed by the current king," he cut me off.

I stopped. I was shocked by what he just said.

He sighed and continued. "He's someone I  used to know and he made his way to the throne of her kingdom by ambushing and eliminating the rulers. I only heard about this from her when she first came to the castle, and I started looking for ways I could somehow keep her safe. He used to treat her really badly but recently became less harsh towards her. But she still wanted to get away from her kingdom. She talked to me about her problems and I wanted to take her into my care. So, I decided that I should marry her as soon as possible and have her live with me."

It was too much for me to take in all at once. I understood where he was coming from but I still couldn't accept it.

How selfish.

"But how about you?"

He raised his eyebrow.

"What about your happiness? Will you be happy with her?"

He furrowed his eyebrows, "Her safety is being concerned here, Violet. Have you no compassion?"

I clenched my jaw. Always putting others before himself.

"Do you love her?"

He tensed up.

I chuckled and released myself from his hold. "If you do, then you won't need me. I can tell you that. Don't let me interfere with your life."

I walked to the door and opened it.

"I don't."

I stopped in my tracks.

"I don't love her..."

"I love you."

I stood still. I couldn't look at him. Tears were threatening to fall from my eyes.

He smiled. "I didn't say that to hear it back. I said that to make sure you knew."

Shut up.

"You're my favorite, Violet. My favorite pair of eyes to look into, favorite pair of hands to hold, favorite laugh to hear all the time, favorite way to spend the day. You don't know how hard it is to force myself to stop thinking about you."

Stop talking. Please.

He slowly walked towards me. "I can't lose you. Because then I would've lost my teacher, my best friend, my soulmate, my smile, my laugh, my everything. I have never wanted someone this much in my whole life."

"But you're still marrying her, aren't you?"

He stopped right behind me and breathed out. "If you're making me choose between you and her, I'll choose you in a heartbeat."

"But what about her?"

"I will try to do anything I can in my power and make arrangements to have her live with us." He took my hand and brought it up to his lips to kiss it softly. "But you never said that you were displeased with me marrying her, so I won't do that."

Is he for real?

"I thought you didn't want to hear those words back?"

He smirked, "I never said I didn't want to hear it back."

Oh, you smug little-

I wiped my tears [A/N: damn, how is her makeup still not ruined] and turned around to face him.

I pulled him by the back of his neck and crashed my lips onto his.

A/N: No teaser is being dropped...
What's happening in BigHit???
Is there even a Music Video???

Is there really a comeback???

On a side note,

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Wow what a long chapter