"How could I even forget the day I fell in love with him. People always talk about love at first sight but not love at first word, and the way he talks, how fast yet carefully he picks his words"
Daon smacked Thon on the back of his head earning a hiss and a glare from his older brother "You went for a 2 week vacation and came back talking like Shakespeare" The younger one rolled his eyes but deep down he was happy to see his brother swooning over the royal counselor
"Where even is Nick?"
"He's with our mom, planing some stuff for the New Year's Eve Party" It's not just any party, definitely not since is held by the royal family. And Thon's and Daon's mom she loves organising this type of events as long as it meets the royal standard — she still needs to hold her reputation as the queen
"Mhm" Daon nodded before his thoughts drifted of to an entirely different question, the one that he has been itching to ask since Thon and Nick arrived last night
"Sooo how is it betweem you and Nick after your little trip" Here is the question. Of course he wants to ask his older brother more but how he knows Thon, he will scold him for being too nosy.
But he's definitely gonna ask him later anyway. Daon, a person who loves gossip and knows every drama is 20 kilometre radius won't let anything slide away.
He won't, trust.
"Well..it was nice"
"Just nice? That's all you got, Thon?"
"Yeah, nice." He sighed as he saw the suspicion in Daon's gaze "Fine, ask what you want. One question." Thon stopped his younger brother before he could ask any question "And nothing too inappropriate"
"Did you ask him to be you boyfriend?"
"I did"
"And what did he say? Because I swear if me working as a Cupid for the two of you didn't work out-" Daon really did pull an over time trying to get Thon to confess, he's gonna combust if it didn't work out
"Calm down, Daon, he agreed"
"Pftt" he sighed dramatically "I guess my job as a Cupid end here"
"Drama queen" the older brother scoffed and stood up from his chair
"Where are you going?" Daon snapped out of his dramatic pose
"To meet my boyfriend, in my bedroom room"
"And you told me to not ask anything inappropriate?" He yelled at Thon even though he already left Daon's room "I hate people in love" Daon muttered and floped onto his bed although his pose looked more like this one of a sick Victorian child now. But there was one difference, sick Victorian kids didn't have a bed full of silk pillows in different shades of purple and a collection of over a 150 perfumes in their room.
Meanwhile in Thon's bedroom Nick and Thon were laying on the bed. Nick was going through his notes where he had written all of the details and requirements for the New Year's Eve Party and Thon just kept looking at him like he was the only thing in the whole world.
"I can't quite concentrate when you keep your eyes glued on me." Nick said without looking away from the paper's in his hand, if he did and met Thon's gaze he'd become a blushing mess. He's supposed to be a calm and composed royal counselor but the younger one was to only one who made him loose composure. It doesn't matter that Thon is a year and half younger than Nick, he never actually minded it. Not until some days when Thon had energy like a 5-year-old on steroids.
"The view is too pretty for me to stop looking" Gosh, Thon and his lines. Nick is still holding on even when he can't help but smile faintly.
Thon is not lying about the view being pretty. Nick's heart shaped lips, the mole near his left eye, and the way he runs his hand through his dark brown hair subconsciously when he thinks. He could list so many things about Nick and go on and on about it for hours and he'll still find more things he loves about the royal counselor.
"Did my mom finally settled on the theme for this year's New Year's Eve Party?"
"She did, ashes to flame. She said she wanted a unique theme, not a festive or traditional"
"Ashes to flame?" The prince repeated, trying to understand what even is that supposed to mean, shooting the counselor confused look.
"It's like being reborn in the new year"
"Oh, interesting." He slowly nodded his mother definitely came up with something unique. "And how does she want to organise it in 5 days?"
"Many things are prepared already, and there are many people helping"
"Yeah, you're right" Thon rested his head on his boyfriend's shoulder who was still going through his notes. He always admired Nick, ever since he became the royal counselor, even when they haven't spoken to each other back then, he always admired him and that admiring somehow became love. But he is not complaining, he never will. He is too love struck for that.
He kept resting his head on Nick's shoulder, both of them comfortable in this silence. A silence that would be too awkward is it was a few months ago, when they would just stare at each other like two deers in the headlights. But now it's different, much better. Sometimes even both of them wonder how things changed in a span of a few months.