AN: The calm before the storm. Enjoy 2100 k of Jeonghan and Mingyu being gross with each other.

“Are you seriously going to sleep? Hey.”

After much shuffling Jeonghan and the Prince found themselves lying side by side each other. Jeonghan has been properly scared of the driver seeing the Prince backhugging him until the latter told him that the carriage has been specifically designed to give its riders privacy. The Prince assured him that the carriage driver can’t see them but as an extra precaution, arranged the bags to block any opening.

They threw some bags lying on the seat to the floor creating a big enough space for them to lie down. For some reasons, the Prince ended up spooning Jeonghan. It was a tight fit yet comfortable nonetheless. And the Prince brought some pillows, it seem.

 “Jeonghaaaaan,” he jiggled him. “Jeonghan,” he repeated, mouth a centimeter away from his ear sending tingles down his body.

“Fine.” He mumbled, sleep not being an option since he’s all bothered now.  He turned around and got startled a little bit on how close the Prince’s face was on his.

“Tell me something.”

Jeonghan wants to tell him a lot-- his qualms, his worries, everything that was on his mind at that moment. But he’s far too comfortable now to open up about those. He’d already been too emotional last night.

 “You remind me of a bear.” He said instead as he memorized the positions of the cute tiny moles he found on the Prince’s face.

The Prince snorted. “I’m more of a lion, don’t you think?”

“Lion? I don’t think so. Lions are more cunning and sly. You’re way too impulsive to be a lion. Also, I still remember how you roared at me when I threw the apple at you. I still get nightmares when I think about it.”  Jeonghan .

“Did I scare you a lot back then? It’s another thing to apologize for it seem. I’m sorry if I’m so rude at you. I was a coward, too proud to admit that I was impressed by you.” He Jeonghan’s cheek lightly “…so brave, so full of reason.

Also, a bear? I don’t know why but I feel like I should be offended by this comparison.” The Prince furrowed his forehead.

Jeonghan smiled as he brought up his hand to rub on the space between his eyebrows.  “What no. Bears are a lot of fun. I mean I feel like they give out great hugs.”

The Prince’s pulled him closer he can feel his grin on his cheek. “This is the best, right?”

“Yes, but don’t be too happy about it.  It’s great. But I don’t know about it being the best.” He teased again.

“You sound like you already got a lot of hugs in your life.” A pout appeared on his face and Jeonghan fought the urge to laugh.

“Whatever you say. I wasn’t the one who got kissed in the forehead.”

There was a moment of quiet as the Prince's eyes searched his.

“Are you still bothered by it?”

“Huh?” he asked feigning innocence about the question.

“You were irritated and mad at me just now.”

“I don’t know about being bothered by it when…” Jeonghan lifted his torso for a minute and gave the Prince a playful look. He then gave him a peck on the lips. ”… I can do this.”

Jeonghan took the Prince’s surprised state to immediately bury his face on his chest—his face already heating up in embarrassment for what he did.

There was a moment of silence, the soothing rhythm of the Prince hand on his hair and the rocking motion of the carriage lulling him to sleep.

Then he felt a wet pressure on his forehead.

“Don’t worry, my forehead is all yours.” The Prince whispered.

Jeonghan giggled at that. “You’re such a sap.”

“Jeonghan… wake up.”

“I swear to all gods out there if this is not important, I’m going to strangle you,” Jeonghan’s mother is right. He’s a lot grumpier when he lacks sleep.

“It’s something important…”

“How long was I asleep?” the sleep was thick in his voice and he opened his eyes a little bit to inspect whether he drooled on the Prince’s robes.

“Just about two hours.”

“Did you sleep too?” his question came out muffled by the other’s shoulder.

“No.”

Jeonghan looked up, bringing his hand up to trace the dark circles under the Prince’s eyes. He frowned.  “You should have slept too. What did you do? Watch me sleep?”

“There’s really not much to do here besides that.”

“I know but that’s a little creepy.” Jeonghan played with the ties on the Prince’s robes. “Do you not like me anymore?”

“Hmm? What do you mean?”

“Did my sleeping face turn you off?”

He chuckled. “If anything, I loved you even more.”

Jeonghan’s heart skipped a beat. Love?

For now, he doesn’t want to label anything they have. And so he immediately changed the subject.  “So what do you want to talk about?”

“I just thought… Isn’t it weird that you still address me as Prince?”

“Did you seriously wake me up because of this?  Because if so, I’m going back to sleep.” He nuzzled back to the crook of the Prince’s neck as if he can get more sleep by doing that.

“Nooo.” The prince laughed. “Also, because we have to make the most of our alone time together. In less than two hours, we’ll arrive in the mansion.”

Jeonghan frowned. Right. It makes sense and so Jeonghan humored him. He did say he would make the best out of their l