<strong>+++</strong>


    <strong>In the ssroom,</strong>


    "Focus, te." the crown prince hit the head of te with his pencil lightly as they were deskmates. Everyone stared at her as she was the only woman in the academy.


    "I already learned all of this." she went on and slept on the table with her head tilted to the window staring at Jel and his brothers.


    "Those scums are really annoying." the crown prince stared in the same direction and said in an angry tone.


    "Why am I in a different ss from Jel??"


    "His status is too low, that''s why."


    "I asked you to enroll me in the same ss as him...*sigh, you''re really a disappointment."


    "You could get your head cut off saying like that."


    "Pfft...I''m not scared of something like that."


    <em>Ring ring</em>


    She jumped out of the window from the second floor as the bell rang, Jel was startled by her and rushed to her immediately ignoring his brothers.


    "Yah, what''s with you?? Pfft, pathetic!!" she red her eyes at the older brothers of Jel and smirked at them.


    "What did you say??" the oldest one walked toward her and his deadly aura was everywhere making the field stuffy and gloomy.


    "This is his first day, what''re you doing?? Giving him a tour??"


    "It''s none of your business, woman."


    "Come on, Jel. Let''s go to your ss." she ignored Jel''s brother and was going to grab Jel''s hand to go with her.


    "Where do you think you--" the oldest one grabbed her wrist from grabbing Jel''s hand, she turned back at him looking right into his red eyes. Even his hand was trembling by the sight of her.


    <em>Thud!!!</em>


    She got on the cklist of the academy on the first day of school not because she hit the heir of the dukedom, but because she hit the royal prince.


    "Christopher, what''re you doing??!!" Christopher almost got his hand broken if it wasn''t for the light magic that could heal him back up. He got up and brushed the dirt off his uniform and smiled brightly at Jel''s brothers.


    "Let''s just get along...Shall. We??" his face was all serious, the brothers spat on the ground and left that ce.


    "You too, te. Don''t--" she already left with Jel.


    The only person he could see in front of him was a guy eating his lunch watching all the drama happening in front of him.


    "Greeting, your royal highness. Em, they left a moment ago."


    "You must be sir Brady, right??"


    "You really remember me, your royal highness??"


    "Of course, how can I forget such an interesting person as you?"


    "It''s my honor, your royal highness."


    <strong>+++</strong>


    "Jel, you should just stand up for yourself."


    "...it''s gonna be troublesome and I don''t want to go to ss anyway."


    "Your brothers are really annoying, if I was you I would have already knocked all of them down." te talked to herself while Jel kept looking at her and smiled watching herining.


    He felt reassured when she was there with him.


    It was fun and cute for the first five minutes but te kept going on and on for an hour.


    "...your brother...you should hit them back next time--"


    "te..."


    "Hm??"


    "Focus on me, okay??" he pushed her against the wall staring into his eyes and grabbed her hand gently on the wall.


    "Jel...what are you..."


    "I don''t like it when you''re talking about other people, just focus on me for now."


    "I didn''t get to tell you thisst time, so I''m going to tell you now..." her heart beat so fast thinking that he was going to confess to her but he...


    "I heard you used to have red hair, but why did you dye it pink?" her eyes became cold when that guy said that. Even though she was going to ept the confession right away but that guy was so dense.


    ''<em>Damn it, I miss my opportunity again.</em>'' Jel was a coward about expressing his feeling, he changed the topic instead.


    "I just want to dye my hair pink like my friend."


    "You have friends??"


    "Of course, I have. What do you think of me the whole time??"


    "But you seemed like a loner...I thought that was why you came to me."


    "...I''m hungry now, I''m not going to talk with you." she pushed his arm from her way and turned back to the academy building.


    "te!!"


    "Hm??"


    "Your pink hair is...pretty."


    "I was going to dye it ck."


    "Eh?? But pink hair suits you better!!"


    "No, it''s annoying to dye the root."


    "Then I be the hairdresser to dye your root every day."


    "My hair will be destroyed if it ever came to that." she giggled as they walked beside each other.


    "How about I try rainbow hair next??"


    "That would be awesome."


    "I will look like a clown if I do that."


    "Pfft, you already look like a clown though."


    "You look like a clown, not me."


    <strong>Six yearster,</strong>


    "Phew...today, I''m going to confess to him. I broke the promise with my father...he will be furious...but at least, he didn''te here." te was depressed on her graduation day, not a single development between her and Jel happened all over the years.


    "What''re you thinking so hard of?"


    "Your highness, you came!!" she was smiling brightly when she saw the second princeing to congratte her at the academy.


    "Well, I came here to get my big brother''s award. He is busy with the state affair."


    "Stop lying, you''re just here to escape from your father."


    "Eh??? Brother???" the crown prince, no it was more like the emperor was right behind them as they were talking about him. The emperor got married to the saintess of the church and his power improved so much in the recent year making te all jealous.


    Even the second prince got engaged with the daughter of the marquess, everyone in her academy all got engaged at a young age while she, the one who was desperately finding true love was single till these days.


    "I think I''lle back to my empire next week."


    "So you''re gonna give up??"


    "I kept getting letters from my family, I left them for so long...so..."


    "Hm?? Wasn''t that Jel and Brady??" she pointed at the white-haired guy and the pink-haired guy whispering to each other so close to each other under the cherry blossom tree.


    "Christopher, does Jel love man??" she was shedding cold sweat when seeing those two together, she cried a little.


    "Don''t just assume things..."


    "No, no, no...I remembered him saying he loves pink hair."


    Both of the guys looked indifferent since they knew the whole time how much Jel loved her, the second prince waved them goodbye didn''t want to involve in drama.


    The emperor crossed his arm smirking and giggled watching the drama.


    "Hey, Christopher..." her tone changed when she was alone with the emperor.


    "What?"


    "About the second prince''s fiance, Catherine, was it?? You also knew, didn''t you??"


    "What can I do about it? As long as my little brother loves her, none of it matters."


    "Someone needs to keep an eye on her, she''s a greedy..."


    "I know, I won''t let my brother fall into her scheme."


    "Well, as long as you know. It''s good."


    "I heard Brady just became a marquess, didn''t he?"


    "I heard about it too. He was an impressive guy, I was lucky to have him as a friend--" she stopped midway when she saw Jel giving Brady the bouquet of flowers. She hid behind the emperor''s back couldn''t handle the pain.


    "I knew it!!!! I knew it...what should I do, Christopher?? Should I bless them??"


    The emperor really enjoyed watching her being stupid misunderstanding everything one-sidedly, he chuckled and patted her head.


    She was disgusted when he did it like that.


    <strong>Meanwhile,</strong><em>Jel was not much of a difference.</em>


    "Today, I will ask her to marry me!!"


    "Go for it, my best. Friend!!!"


    "Ah, you look stupid with that flower. Let me get that for you." Jel took the flower off Brady''s hair.


    "Will you give her flowers too?? I think a man should give a woman a bouquet of flowers when they proposed to them!!!"


    Jel cast the death roses magic and a bouquet of flowers appeared out of thin air.


    "What do you think??"


    "Nah, it''s red."


    "But isn''t red romantic??"


    "Think deep, Jel. What''s her favorite color?? Think deep."


    "Urgh...why is it so difficult?? Wait, you never propose to anyone too." Jel knocked his head after realizing he was suggesting him to do this and that when he never proposed to anyone either.


    "By the way, don''t you think te really has a lot of male friends??"


    "Haha...haa...I''m already used to it. You''re also her friend." Jel was pouting.


    "I remember she beat me to the ground, broke two of my ribs when we first met each other...such a good memory..."


    "That''s good??"


    "I just like her personality, I think she''s dense sometimes...and stupid...and a little bold...and...crazy...and heartless...and..."


    "That''s enough, I will be asking her to be my wife."


    "Good luck to you, I wish you all the best."


    <strong>+++</strong>


    <em>Sigh...</em>


    te ended up walking to her dorm without having a talk with Jel. She didn''t realize Jel was throwing roses to create the letter Love in the backyard as she closed the curtain.


    A letter was on the table when she walked into her room.


    <strong>''His majesty is sick, your highness. Pleasee back immediately.''</strong>


    The ss she was holding to drink water, without taking a sip of water, the ss dropped on the floor on her feet. There were cut on her feet as she was scared of losing her father.


    She used the back of the dorm, the route she used to escape the academy all the time, she ran and ran leaving Jel waiting in the rain as she rushed back to her father who was sick.


    te fell to the ground as she hit a woman on the street.


    "Sister te, why are you in such a hurry??" the woman with silky white hairying down to her knee in a red dress was staring at her with her red eyes simr to Jel worrying about te who was pale.


    "Jessica, I''m sorry I can''t talk with you right now and please tell your brother I won''t be back again."


    "What?? But he--" te took the carriage and left to the guild tower to use the teleportation magic spell from there although it will cost a fortune to use it.


    Rain pouring down, Jel kept waiting for te looking at her room''s window with a bouquet of purple roses just like the color of her eyes. His suit in white which he wore for her was already soaked, he stared at her room seeing the curtain was opened and no matter how many times he shouted for her...there wasn''t any responseing back.


    "Brother!!!" Jessica rushed to her brother holding the umbre, the lightning was everywhere that day, her voice couldn''t reach him until she grabbed his hand to wake him up from his miserable state.


    "Sister te isn''t here. She told me she won''t be back here!!"


    "What??? I just saw her--no, where did she go??"


    "To the magic tower."


    "Thank Jessica, brother owed you a lot." Jel dropped the rose and put the ring''s box inside his pocket running to the magic tower in the rain.


    "I hope they will meet each other..."


    "Hey, you there!!! What''re you doing?? What''s all the mess???" the cleaner was mad seeing the rose everywhere in the backyard.


    "I--"


    "Clean it up."


    "Yes..." she took the broom from the cleaner and sweep all the mess of her brother under the rain.


    "Mydy, what are you doing??" her knight finally caught up to her in the rain rushing to her as soon as he spotted her white hair.


    "ude!!! I''m cleaning this up."


    "Are you an idiot?? Let''s wait until the sky is clear. You''re gonna catch a cold."


    "Hehe~"


    "You should take care of yourself, your body is weak."


    "Alright, alright. I really don''t know if you''re my knight or my mother now...haha..." the knight took off his jacket and put it on Jessica and then held the umbre for her as they walked their way to the shelter.


    "ude, I''m d you''re my knight. Achoo!!!"


    "Seriously...you''re like a baby. Come on, let me wipe your snort."


    "Ah, that''s gross."


    "Don''t worry."


    "Let me do it myself, I''m already an adult, you know. I''m just a little small."


    "You''re still a child in my eyes." ude ruffled Jessica''s white hair teasing her.


    ''I will die the next day or next week...I''m not a child, ude...'' she thought at the moment when she heard ude saying that. Because she wasn''t born with a perfect body.


    <strong>To be continued....!</strong>