"Sehun-ahhhhh!" Luhan dragged the end of Sehun's name in a whiny tone that only annoyed the said male even more than he was already. It had already been 2 days since Luhan met Kris and Yixinng. Within those two days, Sehun spent most of his time sulking resting in their room, refusing to "chill" will the palace artist and his assistant. After witnessing Yixing kiss Luhan, Sehun didn't like the guy. Luhan had tried to explain what had happened to Sehun, but being the stubborn child he was, he literally ran around the entire palace to avoid Luhan. He even refused to shower in their bathroom and eat at the same end of the table with Luhan. In other words, Sehun avoiding any situation where Luhan would be able to trap him and feed him lies like it was the plague. In other extreme cases, Sehun went to sleep at 6 so that he wouldn't be able to hear Luhan trying to talk to him in his sleep.

He didn't want an explanation for what he saw. Sehun didn't want Luhan to tell him nothing happened. Part of him liked it. He wanted an excuse, to convince himself that he and Luhan weren't tied together by any romantic bonds. He wanted assurance that Luhan wasn't attracted to him in such a way, because surely, that meant that he wasn't either.

 So naturally, when Luhan tried to convince him that afternoon, it didn't go so well.

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"Sehun! Kris and Yixing are free for the rest of the day!" Luhan happily announced but Sehun could care less.

"Your point?"

"Let's chill with them!" Luhan jumped with excitement at the idea.

Sehun rolled over from the bed, making eye contact with Luhan. "I refuse to "chill" with your new lover. I don't want to see you both making out on the floors ag-"

"That's not what happened! I tried to tell you so many times! Yixing, h-"

"I don't want to hear it!" Sehun glared, sitting up from the bed. Just like the day of the incident, Sehun skipped lunch and dinner yesterday, wanting to avoid Luhan the rest of the day. This led him to be even grumpier in the morning. Sehun spent the day, hogging Jongin to himself, who was quite upset to be away from Kyungsoo. Kyungsoo was also dragged by Luhan to meet Kris and Yixing.

It slowly became a routine. At first, Sehun was too tired and exhausted and frustrated to keep his eyes open. 5 minutes after tucking himself deep in the bed, Luhan entered the room, exclaiming all the fun things he did the during the day. He must have not realized that Sehun was asleep, or at least trying to sleep, because he spoke for another 10 minutes before realizing that Sehun wasn't responding, nor moving from his position. Luckily, Sehun had somehow dozed off before Luhan went rambling on about how Yixing ended up on top of him. Ever that happened two days ago, Sehun had been forcing himself to sleep in order to avoid that topic and possibly all conversations with Luhan.

"Why not? You didn't even get to know them yet-"

"Exactly! I don't want to know. I don't intend on being friends with them, let alone hang out with them, okay?!" Sehun frowned, trying to get his point across.

"Bu-"

"Can't you just leave me alone?! Now that you actually have other people to bother, why don't you?" Sehun huffed before roughly pulling off the covers and stomping out their bedroom door. Luhan watched, not understanding why Sehun was so angry so early in the morning.

"He's probably just hungry.. he didn't eat with us yesterday.." Luhan mumbled to himself.

Sehun groaned in frustration as he exited the room, tempted to kick the door close.

"Aish, who's stupid enough to think I'd want to even see their faces!" Sehun threw his hands up only to hear his stomach grumble and twist in hunger.

"I must be really hungry..yes, let's just get some food before some more crazy nonsense happens."

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Later that day, Sehun was reading in the library, hoping that he would get some peace a quiet. Unfortunately, he was wrong because only 15 minutes into his book, Luhan came bursting into the room with his two new sidekicks.

How loudly Luhan pushed the doors open didn't catch Sehun's attention. Nor did his high pitched voice in Chinese cause him to stop reading his dull novel.

It was the fact that Luhan had came skipping into the library, hand in hand with a certain Chinese assistant that made him freeze. Sehun narrowed his eyes, hands completely losing their strength, causing the book to slip out of his grasp and fall onto his lap. He simply blinked, watching Luhan literally pull Yixing along with him. He didn't snap out of his daze until Luhan finally noticed Sehun's quiet presence in the corner of the room and waved a giant rainbow as if they weren't standing 10 feet from each other.

Sehun found them all annoying.

Although Luhan was quiet loud on his own, Sehun didn't like it when Yixing and Kris made a loud comment or laughed at Luhan's lame jokes. He found them to be louder than the short blonde himself.

He thought Yixing paid too much attention to Luhan.

He doesn't need to respond to everything Luhan says.

You're the one who doesn't respond to anything he says.

That is totally not true and off topic. Dimple-face keeps talking back everytime after Luhan says something!

That's how you hold a conversation, Sehun.

Well he shouldn't be in one with Luhan. Luhan can't speak properly! That's why I'm teaching him.

He's Chinese. Yixing is Chinese. Kris is Chinese. I'm sure they can communicate fine.

Shut u- why the hell am I talking to myself?

Sehun banged the book on his head, not understanding what he was doing.

"I going crazy! Crazy, literally crazy. I'm even starting to have my own conversations in my he-"

"Did you say something Sehun?" Luhan heard Sehun mumbling from the other corner, catching him off guard with the book to his head. Embarassed, Sehu coughed and tried to play it cool, hoping Luhan didn't hear him too well.

"N-Nothing."

Luhan smiled and shrugged before going back to his conversation with Yixing and Kris. Sehun kept his eyes on the brunet, observing his movements. He didn't like the way Luhan leaned forward onto the table to speak with the other two Chinese men. Or how his eyes lit up when Yixing mentioned something he knew of.  Just watching Luhan from afar made Sehun feel miserable, annoyed, and a tiny bit lonely. Sure, he was the one who wanted to avoid the other male but neither did he want Luhan spending time with people he could relate to.

Now that Sehun thought of it more, it seemd like he wanted to isolate Luhan, keep him locked away from society and people who may like him or whom he may like. It didn't make any sense at all. Sehun didn't want to be with Luhan, yet he didn't want him to be with anyone else. He didn't want other people to talk to him, and yet he himself didn't want to speak with Luhan. At least not at that moment.

What if they're really dating?

That idea had never crossed his mind before. He had mocked Luhan of finding a new lover but what if he and Yixing were seriously in a romantic relationship? Sehun blankly stared at the library floor.

I mean, they were kissing..people don't randomly kiss if they're not in love, right?

Sehun felt a tight squeeze in his chest.

Even Halmeoni said that Yixing was the surprise...could it be that..she found someone else for Luhan to marry?! Luhan is no longer engaged to me?!

"It couldn't be!" Sehun exclaimed and jumped up from his seat, eyes wide. Luhan, Yixing and Kris turned their heads to see the young prince's stiff posture with his back turned towrards them. They looked at each other before Luhan spoke up.

"Sehun-ah..Are you alri-"

"I'm fine." Sehun responded sharply, still not able to wrap his head around the thought that Halmeoni called off their wedding.

S-She wouldn't...and someone like Yixing of all people?!

"You sure?" Yixing stood up only to have Luhan insist. Sehun turned around just in time to see Luhan put his hand on the other male's shoulder, not hearing that Luhan was trying to persuade him that he would try to talk with Sehun.

"Aish! Ah!!!- I don't know anymore! Just do whatever the hell you two want!" Sehun yelled, stomping off, leaving the 3 of them confused.

Luhan furrowed his brows, turning to Yixing and Kris.

"Who is he talking to?"

"I don't know.." Luhan shrugs. He couldn't help but worry about Sehun. "He's been acting strange since yesterday.."

None of them said anything for a while until Luhan sudden got up from the chair. "I think I should go check on him..sorry guys, I'll see you later!"

With that, Luhan dashed out the door in hopes to find Sehun.

Kris smirked. "That's sums it up."

Yixing smiled knowingly and nodded his head in agreement.

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And that was how Luhan had found Sehun couped up in their room, under the heavy blankets like a child.

"Sehu-"

"Leave me alone! I already told you this morning that I don't care about stupid Yixing or Kris! You can go hang out with them all you what!" Sehun huffed, refusing to remove the cover from this head, causing his voice to seem muffled.

Luhan frowned. All his efforts within the past two days seemed to do nothing to get Sehun to accept his two new friends. Luhan understood that he may not like Yixing or Kirs but now, it was starting to seem like Sehun disliked him.

No..he said he didn't hate me..he wouldn't suddenly change his mind..

"Why don't you want to hang out with us?" Luhan asked.

"Because..."

Luhan stared at Sehun's covered body. Why was Sehun hiding from him?

Does he really hate looking at me? Is it really that bothersome to talk to my face directly?

"Could you take the blanket off?"

Sehun did a motion that hinted that he was shaking his head.

"Why not?" Luhan pushed. He wanted to know why Sehun was acting like this but the younger wasn't cooperating. It seemed impossible to hold a conversation with his stubborn attitude. It made Luhan upset and even slightly angry.

"Talk to me, Sehun.."

No response.

Luhan sighed. "I don't understand you, Sehun! You're so annoying and frustrating! For a while, you've been so kind and willing to do everything together, and now you don't even want to talk to me, let alone look at me. Did I do something wrong? Did I say something to offend you? Tell me Sehun. I won't know anything unless you do. I can't read you mind, though I wish I could. I can't understand how you feel if you don't tell me directly. Why I feel like I'm the one who's missing something here? I thought we were on the same page. I thought..I thought we were okay." Luhan says, almost desperately for any sort of response.

No response.

"Please, Sehun. What do you want me to do? What can I do for you to tell me what's wrong?"

No response.

"Y-You want me to go away right? You want me to leave you alone?"

No response.

Luhan waited a while but it seemed that the silence already answered his question. Luhan sadly nodded to himself, feeling a drop in his stomach. His eyes feel heavy and watery.

This is stupid, Luhan. Don't cry over this. You didn't expect anything anyway.

With a final sigh, Luhan makes a move to leave only to be stopped by a hand tightly holding onto his wrist. Caught off guard, he immediately turns around making direct eye contact with the other male. Sehun had turned over so that his head just slightly stuck out from under the blankets and his arm extended out, still connected to the brunet's. Luhan couldn't help but think how shy and hesitant Sehun looked, despite his poker face. Luhan knew that his mask held so many more emotions than the young prince wanted to show to others. Emotions that Luhan wanted to evoke from him.

"Please," his voice was raspy. "don't..go."

I've finally managed to update another chapter! *round of applause*
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