Luca.
Cihan just kissed him...
Luca could still feel it like a fantoom touch lingering on his cheek. The soft warm lips of the boy he was so very in love with pressing against his skin.
He almost wanted to run in the bar to grab Cihan and kis him on the lips like he intended to do before Cihan saw Isaac.
"Well Well Well... seems like you don't even need your charming skills. Yet cihan has you wrapped around his little finger already huh?" Isaac grinned and slung his arm around his shoulder. Luca didn't care. His fingers caressed his cheek like he could still feel cihans warmth.
"He seems to like you back then." Elliot grinned leaning against the other wall. They both wore black and had been stalking them the entire day to make sure they were safe. Even when Luca had worn clothes from a stable boy and had messed up his hair a Little and had used elliots sisters make up to make him look a little less like himself
Cihan didn't seem to have noticed. But nobody had recognized him either so it was a good thing.
"Please tell me you have at least asked him out for an other date or made your intentions clear!" Elliot begged,
"I..."
"I knew it, your hopeless. Well we will have to tell him your head over heels ourself so you can start courting him like you should've done."
Luca didn't respond. he couldn't get the flushed image of Cihan who had grabbed his hand and kissed him out of his head.
"You did tell him did you?"
"What?"
"That your the prince?"
"It didn't come up..."
Elliot rolled his eyes.
He really had to go tell him soon!
Luca didn't expect Cihan to come to the castle the next day or the day after but when a week past and he hadn't come by even once to visit his brother he was starting to feel very worried. Mostly because Aspen was worried.
He had even asked for a short leave to go check up on his brother.
Luca told him to go right after dinner and take a horse and some back up.
Aspen hadn't even asked questions about it. He knew Aspen knew and Aspen didn't seem to mind it. He was just worried. And that made Luca even more worried.
He was trying to sleep but Aspen hadn't returned. He had made his guards promise to come tell him when Aspen returned. And so far hours had past and nothing.
He even wandered over the courtyard for a while until his father found him. the man was wearing his leather jeans and a loose white shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
While dad looked soft and kind his father was all hard edges and gruff words.
Yet he didn't speak he just frowned and looked at the gates.
"Maybe we should sent someone...." his father offered.
Luca almost told him he was going himself when they heard horses coming in the courtyard.
He was relieved to see Elliot and Aspen back but no sign of Cihan made him roll right back at worry.
"Is he alright?" He asked Aspen. But Aspen looked anything but fine himself he was pale as a ghost and looked ready to jump of a cliff.
"He is gone." He whispered.
For it second nothing got thru his mind but the imange of that beautiful young man lying dead in an alley.
"The barkeeper said he had to kick him out because he didn't pay for the room.... but... that can't be because I paid for the rest of the week."
Aspen jumped of his horse.
"The bastard kicked him out." He growled.
Luca clensted his fist
"So where did He go?"
Aspen shook his head. Ellliot took both their horses to the stable and his father let them both inside.
"I went to his job but the owner just told me he didn't work there anymore and no one wanted to talk to me. We where gonna go back to look for him when a wormen came to us and told us he got fired the day after midsummers eve."
Luca felt his hands fall slack beside him.
He had no job and no home...
but why didn't he come to the palace?
"He probably didn't want to bother us..." Aspen seemed to guess his question.
"He was probably looking for a new job before he went to tell me but I don't know where he is Luca ... what if he got hurt... what if someone took him and..."
Aspen shook his head like he didn't want to think about it.
"I have to go back and look...." his father king Darn grabbed his friend and pulled him back.
"Its dark and late... we will go back tomorrow and try and find him alright. Right now you need to rest so tomorrow you can be fresh and clear when you go and find your brother. I will tell the guards to call us right away if he does come to the castle." Aspen nodded. Luca promised himself he would be right beside Aspen tomorrow looking.
He was gonna kill the man who had just kicked him out like that.
Cihan
He had avoided going to the castle for a couple of days after being fired. Trying to find a new job... anything. He even tried to harbors.
There where a few captains willing to take him on but they looked at him like he was a piece of meat so he declined. Perhaps some rich guy would let him clean their house. But after what happened the other night and what happened after... well he knew he was gonna have to face Aspen sooner or later. Though he rather not have two broken ribs and a messed up face.
Under his arm he had tucked the book he had borrowed from a guy named kade. He was glad he managed to get it back. He would have felt horrible if he didn't.
The guards at the first gate looked at him like they were a little shocked. Perhaps is was the bruises on his face or the split lip or the blood dripping down his face may have something to do with it. Cihan tried a smile and failed so he just kept walking to the courtyard. It was raining a little so most people didn't look at him and he hoped the blood he stopped bothering with, would finally wash of his face.
He held a cloth to it for an hour and it was still going. Also the wound on his side was stinging really bad.
He did found out by asking a kitchen maid, who looks very very shocked, that his dear brother was in the mess hall.
Apparently the mess hall was a big hall filled with guards and other staff members of the royal palace so a big no and he tried to turn around and walk out of there.
But Elliot appeared right behind him,
"Oh damn... what happened to your face?" Elliot didn't smile, Cihan tried.
"I fell."
"You fell?"
Cihan nodded while coming up with a believable excuse. He didn't have one.
"Very hard. I have that book I borrowed from kade I came to bring it back."
"Very hard..." Elliot echoed.
He than grabbbed cihans arm dragged him to the end of the mess hall. Cihan tried to squirm out of his grip but it wasn't working. It hurt his chest to walk this way but he didn't want to bother Elliot with it.
At the end a couple guys were talking and looking at a map. Aspen was laying with his head on the table grunting.
"What your problem?" Cihan asked before thinking.
Aspen looked up. Just Staring.
Elliot patted on cihans shoulder causing him to flinch.
"Look what the cat dragged in."
Luca was sitting at the table looking just as tired as Aspen. Cihan really had hoped he wouldn't see Luca. He hated seeing looking now he looked like a ugly mess. Although Luca didn't look much better. He was still very handsome. He didn't shave for a few days and Cihan wondered how it would feel if Luca would kiss him. But he shouldn't be thinking that should he?
"What. Happend." Aspen stood up grabbing his jacket as if he were afraid Cihan was gonna disappear into thin air.
"He fell." Elliot said.
"You don't say..." frank mumbled.
"Healer." Luca demanded.
So they ended up at a healer.
"You got fired and kicked out and don't try and talk your way out of it. I went to look for you when you didn't come to visit so you better start talking." Aspen growled.
Cihan whinched a little when the very nice healer lady called Tamar tried to clean his side. It needed stiches. Which meant he was gonna have to lay still at a table while Aspen, Luca and Elliot where staring down on him. He didn't wanne tell him got stabbed but it was a little to obvious.
"I was in the forest."
"The forest?"
Cihan nodded. Bad idea. He stopped.
"And then someone stole kade's book so I went to get it back. I don't think I got any blood on it though."
"Yes because imagine if any blood got on it." Luca mumbled a little stunned.
"I would feel a lot worse than I do now."
Aspen tied to hit his face against the wall but Tamar said he couldn't so he yelled at his little brother.
"Why can't you come get your big brother who is a guard to take back the book people stole from you! I am a guard Ci !"
"I am very aware... I didn't wanne worry you."
"Yeah because the past two days looking for you and not sleeping where not filled with worry because there was no trace of you!l
"I'm... Sorry!" He didn't think they would miss him.
"Lay still please." Cihan had had stitches before so he just lay still till the stinging was over and then the woman covered him in bandages and gave him a big scolding for walking around with a open wound for two days straight. He than had to promise to come back tomorrow because she was very worried about an infection.
"Your highness, Can I get your permission to tie my brother and hide him under my bed if I promise to feed him well?"
"HÄ!"
"Sounds a little overkill my friend.' Luca answered. Then he blushed.
He didn't think He would ever see Luca blush. It made him smile.
So no one died. Don't look at me like that, also LisannevanBeek i see you! ð§
Hope you like it. No more chapters today. Maybe tomorrow or Monday or Tuesday.
Be lucky I'm to lazy to get myself on an other update schedule.
Also imma bet imma make it.
I said I was gonna put all chapters of the second one up if I reached 1000 reads before Monday. And I still haven't so ... ha. Why does this not even feel satisfying ð¤£
I will now leave to bake an blackberry crumble pie. Goodbyeee.
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