"Baby wake up." Baekhyun cooed, shaking Byul softly.

He always liked waking her up in the morning even though there was a high chance that she would kick him from one end of the room to the other. He liked seeing her stubborn refusal even though the sun was shining high in the sky, and it was fun to watch her be childish once in a while when he was supposed to be the childish one.

"I don't want to." Byul murmured and pulled the blanket over her head, groaning. "Let me be."

Baekhyun grinned. Oh, wouldn't she want that? "I would, but I don't want to." Baekhyun pulled the blanket from her head and was glad that she didn't retaliate. The spoilt blanket from the last time must have made some impact. "Even if I want to, I can't. Eunbyul, you've got to wake up. Today's important."

"Everyday is important." Byul turned around in the bed and planted her face into the pillow. "I don't care anymore."

Baekhyun laughed softly and played with her hair. "Han Eunbyul..." he murmured. "If you're not going to wake any sooner, I'll be kissing you awake and I'll have you know that the EXO-M boys are already outside, so if they happen to be curious why we're taking so long and decided to barge in..." he trailed off meaningfully.

Byul sprang up from her pillow, her hair covering her face. She blew them away and eyed the door, swallowing. "Are you serious? They're here already?" she groaned. "Wait, they're coming today?"

"I thought you knew that a week ago." Baekhyun mused as he helped her out of bed. Byul quickly darted around looking for her clothes. She had maids to attend to her for these purposes but Byul always felt humiliated to be dressed by someone else when she wasn't even handicapped.

"Knew, being the key word here." Byul crept to the door and swallowed. She wondered if the EXO-M boys were out there or not? "Do you think I could charge over to the changing room without them noticing?"

Baekhyun laughed at the image she put in his mind. "You can try." he offered. "But I can't guarantee anything."

Byul groaned. She loved to see the boys again but not in her sleeping clothes like this! Her hair wasn't even tied yet! She must have looked like some sort of ghost from the seventh month or something! "I'm going out." Byul muttered.

She charged out of the room and instantly collided with six hard chests and fell on her promptly. Byul groaned and looked up at the six teasing faces as they grinned down at her. "NI HAO BYUL~~~" the EXO-M boys chorused in unison.

"You're up early today." Lay noted. "And nice sleeping clothes. Totally feminine." he eyed her grey outfit. "Not."

"Noona~" Tao helped Byul up and beamed brightly. "We were waiting for you to wake up for one hour and I wanted to go in to wake you up but Baekhyun hyung wanted to let you sleep longer because you didn't have princess lessons today." he said it all in one breath.

Byul glanced back at Baekhyun and the latter shrugged, smiling softly. Aish, couldn't stay mad at that guy.

"Now that you've made your grand entrance as the future Queen of Korea," Kris snickered at Byul's previous position on the ground. "Why don't we all grab breakfast because honestly, I'm too hungry to bother about hellos and warm hugs."

"LUHAN HYUNG!" Sehun's loud shriek pierced the silent morning air as he shot over to Luhan like a bullet. They hugged each other and immediately started chatting all at once with utmost enthusiasm, while Kris looked at them in a bored manner.

"As I said, I'm too hungry to bother about hellos and warm hugs." Kris muttered. "But maybe not them."

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"Someone is about to get married~" Chen teased Baekhyun as the whole lot of them were eating breakfast together. "Who would have known it was Baekhyun hyung to get married first out of us?"

Baekhyun harrumphed and slung his arm around Byul. "Look at my face and then look at all of yours. Of course it's me that's going to bag a girl first." he boasted.

Byul rolled her eyes and threw his arm off her shoulder. "Gosh, even I can't stand you when you talk like that."

The boys burst into laughter at Baekhyun's falling of the face and at his sudden misery. "Han Eunbyul!" Baekhyun pouted.

Suho laughed and shook his head, looking at the other boys. "But remember the conversation we had in the past when we were young?" he asked with a smile. "About our predictions of who would marry first and who last?"

"Oh I remember that!" Xiumin nodded excitedly at the memory. "That was hilarious! I would forever remember the moment when all of us voted in unison that it would be Kris that would marry last. I still believe that!"

Kris's face scrunched up and he glared at the boys. "What the hell? You guys still remember that?"

"Of course we do!" D.O. grinned. He looked at Byul who looked pretty puzzled at the whole thing. "Let me explain it to you, when we were young and immature in the past, we made a rating of who would get married first to who would get married last."

"And our Kris hyung here, was the last." Lay patted Kris's shoulder with a grin. "Because we reckoned that no one would ever want to be with him with that bad temper of his."

"They still don't." Kai muttered and Kris shot him a look.

"Where's Ddong-ha's rating then?" Byul asked in interest, while Baekhyun reddened. "If you guys tell me you thought he was going to marry first, I won't believe you."

Luhan laughed. "Because he isn't! He was number eleventh before Kris. We figured it was hard to find a girl that could tolerate him as well but well Byul, you're different."

"Hahaha Eleventh!" Byul laughed at Baekhyun openly and he flicked her forehead. "Don't forget you're the one who's making this make believe prophecy false because you're marrying me."

Byul calmed herself down and looked at the boys. "Who's the first then? Who did you think would be the first to marry?"

Everyone looked at one guy all at the same time and Chanyeol shifted in his seat. He cleared his throat in embarassment. "Ahehe."

"Chanyeol." Byul grinned. "Figures."

"Yeah, girls love this sort of guy." Sehun pouted. "They don't like cutesy ones like me anymore. They like macho but nice men like Chanyeol hyung."

Chanyeol pinked at all the attention. "Aish you guys." he stood up from his seat. "I'll get you guys refills for your tea." he excused himself and promptly left the room.

The boys looked at each other and laughed loudly. "He was embarrassed! Totally!" Xiumin slapped his thigh in laughter.

"Well it is true that girls would like the Chanyeol type of guy." Byul reasoned. "He's funny, quirky, kind-hearted, nice and would definitely treat his girlfriend well."

Baekhyun frowned at her words. "Yah, why don't I hear you say that about me at all?"

Byul blinked innocently. "Because they don't apply?"

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Chanyeol saw Sora at the kitchen before she saw him.

He really didn't need to get tea for the boys but he couldn't help but feel embarrassed at the topic. To be completely honest, he wanted to get married. He always visualized himself being married at this age of his and he always wanted a wife, kids and a family.

But well, Byul didn't like him so..

And anyway, watching Byul and Baekhyun prepare for their marriage made him want to go through all that too. With someone else of course, but he wanted to have a special certain someone whom he wanted to protect with all he had and for her to love him back as much.

With Byul, he wanted her a lot. But he didn't protect her, he was the danger in her life. He learnt his lesson and he knew that the next time he fell in love, he was going to try to protect the girl no matter who she was.

But enough of that, back to the topic.

Chanyeol was about to request for tea from a maid when he saw Sora snooping around in the kitchen. Of from what he saw, it seemed like she was snooping.

She was carrying a basket of shrimp pastries that Baekhyun had requested a maid to bring from the kitchen and Chanyeol immediately realized that Sora must have volunteered to do it instead. Nice act, really.

But what alarmed Chanyeol immediately was the other thing on Sora's other hand, clutched tightly in her slender fingers through a kitchen cloth.

Poison Ivy.

What the hell was she doing with that fatal plant? Where the hell did she get it? The Palace most definitely didn't grow such things, Chanyeol was sure.

Chanyeol immediately imagined the worst and he stormed over, his face dark and dreary. He pulled Sora by the arm out of the kitchen and turned to glare at her."Why do you have that?" he barked.

Sora blinked in surprise and looked down at the plant in her hands. "This?"

"Yes this!" Chanyeol hissed, surprisingly harsh. Sora flinched in shock and swallowed, backing away from his glare. "This is Poison Ivy, Im Sora. Where the hell did you get that?" he scowled. "Are you planning to poison us royals?" he eyed the plate of shrimp pastries on her other hand.

Sora's eyes widened and she blinked furiously. "I..." she dropped the poison ivy. "These are for the rats!"

"That's what you say." Chanyeol narrowed his eyes at her, not knowing why he was so mad. "If I didn't catch you, you might have added that into our food and all of us would die. No one would know it was you."

Sora broke away from Chanyeol and lowered her gaze onto the ground. "Believe what you want, Chanyeol-gun. I didn't mean to poison you princes, and I mean what I say." she pushed the plate of shrimp pastries into his hands. "Take that back to them."

Sora quickly walked away without a backward glance.

Chanyeol eyed Sora, his heart beating fast. From fury or something else? He didn't know.

But he did know that he was still suspicious. Even though he would feel extremely bad if he had wronged Sora, he didn't think he did. He didn't want to think that she wanted to be a murderer but he had a nagging feeling in his chest.

Why didn't Sora look in his eye when she was defending herself? Why was she looking away like she was trying to hide something?

Chanyeol couldn't help but remember how Sora was dodgy about her background and was secretive all the time. He frowned. "Am I thinking too much?" he murmured, wondering why this girl intrigued him.