THE BROTHER'S LOVE 101
HALI'S POV
I held the glass of water and was about to drink it when it said something. "Fuck you." I giggled, that was why the glass broke in my hands. The royals, ministers, and high borns looked at me.
Raiden was beside me. He said in a low tone. "Act like a king."
My jaw clenched as I gazed at the water turning red due to my blood. I stood up and left the long table with the eyes following me.
"King Water!" My father's voice was now echoing around and I had no care at all. He was about to stand up when Raiden prevented him. "I will talk to him." He was always my savior when I acted strange and disrespectful. Fortunately, Queen Haliana was not here, she was in the Water Pack. I had no old woman to be a debate of.
Well, I was in the discussion of the important people such as Alpha Kings from a different pack. There was news that the Black Wolves Pack was reborn. They kept on finding little communities and invaded them. They were finding out who was the Alpha. Possibly, it was Jace. He was the only person who could have the capability to build the pack again in accordance with his likes. Anyway, the Elemental Kingdom was the center of the Alpha King's word and the biggest kingdom, they were here to cooperate and stop the killings of innocents.
However, my mood changed when the water whispered to me that Zarya was now happy! With the guy! I had not yet sure why I was being so freaking motherfucking livid at the moment! The water told me that she swam in the sea in the middle of the night with a man who was close to her heart.
So she will now have a lover? What a damn joke!
"King Water." Raiden's voice made my feet stop from stepping inside of my chamber. "What's the matter with you?"
In his back, I saw Colden. He was damn following this Clever King, which made my system rumbled in madness. "Why the hell did you care?" I moved closer to Raiden. Face to face as my mood was feeling so angry with no exact reason at all.
"Let me handle him." Colden moved closer to us. He provided a distance between us by locating us in our midst.
Raiden gazed at me with sulk and annoyance. "I tried to understand you. I did my very best to absorb why you acting like…" He stopped talking. I could see that he was seriously irritated. "Like what you always said… like shit. You are a king! I always keep reminding you!"
"King? So I should act like I am so clean like you, Pyro and Colden?" I gritted my teeth. I ignored the stinging sensation in my wounds in the portion of my hand. The blood was dripping on the floor. "I am not the king that everybody wants! I don't want this power, position, or the throne! I hate all of these shits!"
Raiden and Colden settled their eyes at me as if they could understand me. Raiden moved his head down and said wholeheartedly, "So do I."
My body was full of shock when Raiden talked. I thought he always liked to be in the power, that was why he kept Father's eyes looking at him with cleanliness and royal personality who would someday take the Higher King position. "Do you think marrying a woman I don't like is fine? Following her like I'm her tail? She is mocking me for courting her like I am trash for giving all just to get her? Just to please Father?" He moved Colden to the side to face me once more. We even did not put attention to Colden's offer to talk with me.
"Do you think is it easy for me to balance your garbage attitude? And Colden's cowardness? Or Pyro's unsaid mouth in the discussion that I need to please him to talk? And Zephyrus' unhealthy habits, escaping from the kingdom, breaking rules, and all pain in my head?" Raiden showed me how heavy a burden he was carrying. "If I will not be a good king… who will take care of you, my brothers?" He paused, the emotion was flooded in his face. "Who will teach you the right manner? Who will tell you what is the right thing to do? Who will plan for us to win the battle?"
I moved my head down. For the first time, I felt guilty about him. All the duties and responsibilities were lifting on his shoulder, which I never care about at all. I never mind about him for so long because I saw him as a perfect king who would be the heir of the kingdom.
"I feel like… my life is no longer mine."
The silence filled the air. Even Colden had no idea how to react to his words. It was too sensitive and painful to defeat. I opened my mouth to apologize to him, but I did not do. My pride was higher than my balls.
Colden broke the silence. "I'm sorry, King Lightning."
Raiden just looked at him and then at me. "I will call the omega to treat your wound." He was about to turn his back when I managed to talk.
"Aren't you sick of us?" I sniffed as I forced myself not to cry. I wondered what his life looked like during those years that we became a burden to him.
He looked back at me and said. "Never." He shook his head. "Because I value you my brothers more than anything in this world and I can give my life for the four of you." He smiled at me. "That is how siblings love like… just how you silently protecting us." He turned his back and started to walk away while saying. "Treat your wounds. Zarya is going home soon!"
My mouth moved openly in surprise. He knew what I have done for them?
Those little things that I buried in the ground. He acknowledged it.
I walked faster, following him, and shouted. "I'm sincerely apologizing!"