Obscure episode 60

OBSCURE 🏚️ 🗝️
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BY RUTHIE LEE 🌸 🌸
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CHAPTER 60
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And strangely the crown prince asked. “To your own understanding what do you think love is.”.

“You’ve asked me something similar your Highness. And to my own perspective love is mostly when you feel at home with someone, I have come to realize you feel safe with someone when you love someone, you feel comfortable, you’re mostly happy, you never want that person to leave, you feel like there’s nothing else there but that person, or those people.” Rosanne explained adjusting her sitting position on the grass.
“Then do you feel that way with your betrothed.?” The crown prince asked.

Rosanne of course had no idea why he was curious of something like that but she nodded. “Garam and I are in love.” she breathed out.

“And you mentioned how you love your father, are you also in love with your father?” Asked the crown prince.
“What?” Rosanne laughed. “Of course not.”

“Your Highness, I do love my father, but the love I have for my father is way different from the one I feel for Garam and way different from the one I feel for Collin, Martha and your mother. Love is love, but love is different and comes in different approach with different people.” Rosanne explained but the crown prince still looked confused in anger.

Rosanne sighed and got on her feet. She had a lot of explanation to do.
“For example, the Queen, I love your mother because she is the queen, she’s kind and I love her for that, and I also admire her because she is not only pretty but a role model to all maiden. Now that’s different, now my father, I love my father so much, he’s my everything, he’s my home, my sky and ground, if he’s not around one day I won’t breathe properly. He’s like a sunshine in my life and that’s the kind of love I have for him. And Garam… Garam is the kind of person that I would also call my sunshine, the kind of love I have for Garam is one of the greatest because just thinking about him makes me happy, thinking about him, I want to be in his embrace, I want to place my l-ips on his and I want to feel more at home with his voice in my ears I want to-
Rosanne paused when she realized she was going too far.
“That’s the kind of love and that is how different they are.” Rosanne needed her speech.

“Why?” started the crown prince. “Why would you want to be in someone’s embrace and have your l-ips on theirs, that sounds disgustingly annoying.”
“it is not.” Rosanne defended.
“It is”.
Rosanne sighed. “Do permit every word that comes out of my mouth tonight your Highness.” Rosanne bowed.
“Permission granted.” The prince scoffed.

“Very well.” Rosanne took a tiny step forward. “I believe you are far from dumb your Highness, forgive my choice of words. But clearly we are both the same age and I am a woman and will be getting married soon, as a man and as royalty you are ought to be married at fifteen and you get to do things like that with your wife. Things that are disgustingly annoying to you”

“Ought to be married?”

“Yes your Highness, Men from the royal family get betrothed at fifteen and women, seventeen. If you were not under your so called cursed you would have lived a pretty normal life, where k-sses and cuddling would be sunshine and not pitch black night to you ” Rosanne ranted.
“You speak to me roughly” The crown prince glared at Rosanne.
She bowed. “I asked for permission your Highness. For any ill word I may speak” Rosanne almost rolled her eyes, but held her eyes.

“You believe if i wasn’t cursed I would have lived a decent life?”.
“Yes exactly. But to me, the fact that you get angry all the time doesn’t mean you’re cursed, you just have really bad anger issues and you’ve never been loved, you’re not cursed your Highness, if you think you are fight it then. And if you believe it is because of some stupid red marking, then what do you say about this?” Rosanne asked, bringing down the shoulder part of her dress, and revealing a red marking just like Hasting’s own.
It laid on her shoulder and immediately and simultaneously, the crown prince’s eyes and the red marking glowed under the lantern lights but Rosanne barely noticed it.

“You see this is a birth mark and not a cursed mark, I have no idea why my father tells me to hide it from people, but I am showing you this to prove to you that you’re not cursed, a mark can grow out of a person, my father said I was born with mine but look at the one on your back, it appeared out of nowhere. You are not cursed your Highness.” Rosanne shook her head with a smile.
“This is impossible.” The crown prince shook his head staring at Rosanne’s shoulder.
“Exactly. It is impossible, I have the same identical mark as you but I am not cursed, you just need to control yourself your Highness.”
Rosanne smiled, pulling her dress back up to cover her shoulder.

“Rosanne you’re cursed.” said the crown prince, and Rosanne lets out an hysteric laugh.
“I am not” she backfired.
“You do not understand.”
“What’s there to not understand your Highness. It is just a silly birthmark.” Rosanne shook her head with a smile.
“No, open it!” The crown prince commanded.
“Why? No.”
“It is an order, open your mark.” The crown prince’s eyes were more than serious and frightening even for Rosanne and she obeyed immediately.
Slowly as she pulled down her dress to reveal her mark. The crown prince breathed out the word. “Watch. Closely.”

Rosanne watched as his eyes start to beam bright red, and he beckoned his head for her to turn to her birthmark.
She slowly gasped when she saw the red glow coming from her shoulder.
“Impossible.” Rosanne took a step back.
“You are cursed.” breathed the crown prince.
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