Author's POV: 

You scrunched your nose listening closely. Whose voice was it? You thought.
"Who dares badmouth me?" You mumbled when you heard a familiar voice, "I am sure you are in no place to say something about our beloved princess." It was the Queen. 

"Beloved." You mumbled giggling happily when the familiar voice spoke, "No.. I mean. When we came to the party, we saw how she even forgot her lines for a while on the stage." It was Mrs Johnson. 
"Our niece, Holly would've never let you down like that... or at least- her elder sister would not. I saw her, she was so pretty!" Mrs Johnson said as you glared at the door.
"Who is Holly-" You mumbled before listening to the conversation. 

"Well.. at least Y/N is a well-mannered woman who knows how to keep her loyalty, unlike some other people." She said as you smirked proudly but soon went into confusion.
"What are they even talking about?" You muttered when suddenly you saw Jin walking towards you confused. 

"What are you-" He was asking when you gestured him to keep quiet. He looked at you confused before understanding what you were doing.
"Why are you eavesdropping?" He whisper-yelled as you gulped but he heard the conversation going inside.

"I just always want the best for our Prince... but a right princess matters too. I think you should've considered it.. Haha! I am not trying to meddle." Jin sighed and you could say he was mad.
"Oppa?" You asked in a low voice as he looked at you with a smile. 
"Come." He said before going to the living room while you followed him.

"You heard what she said, that's why you were eavesdropping, weren't you?" He asked as you looked down.
"Are you okay?" He asked as you giggled.
"Yes, I am completely okay! I don't care about her taunts. She always looked fake to me anyway!" You said making Jin chuckle.
"That's my little sister!" He said making you smile brightly. 

"Actually..Mrs Johnson is always trying to get on people's nerves. And she just found you as bait to that. Don't care about her." He said as you smiled.
"She always does this. Even when Taehyung was born, she said triggering things to the Queen and our relatives for no reason. Attention seekers." He said as you chuckled.

"How older are you than Taehyung?" You asked as he replied, "6 years." You made an 'O' shape before chuckling.
"Why don't you marry then? You have Lisa too~" You said as he looked down blushing.
"I want to confess... but just don't know how." He said as you chuckled.
"Why fear when Y/N is here?!" You asked.

"I think that's the fear." Taehyung mumbled while coming in as you both looked at him.
"What's going on in here?" He asked as you smiled at him. Of course, you didn't hear what he just mumbled. 
"Oh.. nothing." You said cutting off Jin who was about to spill the tea. You looked at Jin with a desperate look as he smiled knowing you didn't want to spill it in front of Taehyung. 

"Okay. I am going." Jin suddenly said as he got a call from Lisa. You and Taehyung chuckled at each other seeing him run away.

"What were you doing?" Taehyung asked before ruffling your hair as you hissed at him making him let out an airy laugh.
"Aish.. you can't be romantic but at least be nice!" You said as he smiled while you sighed. 

-----Time skip

"I had a good lunch~" You said to yourself before taking your phone scrolling since Taehyung was in the shower, thankfully. Or he would make you study again.
"Ahh.. it's been like months since I last opened Twitter." You said to yourself before scrolling. 

'Prince Kim Taehyung gets married #trending'
'BTS wins Grammy for the 328th time #trending'
'The president of USA tastes Kimchi for the first time #trending'
'Kimchi icecream or Mint choco tomatoes? #trending'
'Min Yoongi's real identity revealed! A cat! #meow
'Who is this Princess of Korea? #trending' 

You scrunched your brows at the last tweet. Without much thought, you clicked on the tweet and saw your and Taehyung's wedding photos and some other event images too. 
"I look good~" You said to yourself before scrolling through the comments. Most were positive and nice but a few caught your attention.

'Lol, she's got golden luck with that face.' 
'Can't believe Prince married such a weirdo!' 

You pouted looking at the comments. 

"What do they think of themselves.. Hags." You said but soon looked down sadly. 
"They commented these weeks ago. Why am I seeing this now?" You mumbled before turning off the phone sighing. 

"I shouldn't even have logged into Twitter." You said to yourself before lying on the bed. You looked at the ceiling before sighing. 
"Aimin is pretty. And they would've chosen her if she didn't deny it. It's true though.." You said to yourself feeling weird.
"Why did I never think of it.." You asked yourself. 

"I am sad. So let's be sadder." You said before plugging in your earphones and turning on 'The Truth Untold.' 
"Now I am gonna be sad." You said to yourself before listening to the song calmly.

Being childish is a burden itself. You always liked having fun and being free minded rather than worrying and stressing about things like others. But your habits always made people pick on you. Even though you were adorable, people still never left a chance in finding faults. But not like you exactly bothered about their taunts. 

But sometimes, it made you think. Even your friends apart from Mina sometimes behaved toxic with you because of that. Being fun-loving and open doesn't mean someone is immature. And that's what people never understood and made you feel left out. 

"They liked her first... did they just replace me with her?" You dramatically sighed before looking down sadly. The song made the atmosphere even sadder.
"Who is Holly.. Was I a third choice and not a second?" You suddenly asked yourself before falling on the floor.

"Life is so... unfair." You mumbled not knowing someone heard you. 

---At night

You were still lying on the bed after studying and eating dinner. The entire time you kept zoning out. Not because you were sad but because you were planning on how to sue the people who badmouthed you. 

It was sad when you felt like you were a second choice but those idiots who badmouthed you were supposed to be sued first. You were not insecure, you were just sad and feeling left out.

"I'll report you all." You said pouting before reporting every bad comment about you before sighing peacefully.
"Now rot in hell." You giggled but then again went back into sad mode. (if this is not me then-)

Looking at the ceiling you thought for a while. 
"I've crushed on so many people... so many times.. but they were all for fun and jokes. This time, for real.. I think I fell in love." You said to yourself before smiling as you thought about Taehyung. 
"But I don't like the thought of him being with Aimin. Not at all." You pouted when you suddenly heard the door opening. You quickly pretended to be asleep.

Taehyung on the other hand came inside the room sighing. He smiled looking at your back sleeping. He knew what you were thinking. He sighed turning off the lights before sitting beside you.

"Must be tired after a pile of overthinking she did today." He said to himself unaware of the fact you were listening to him. 
"I love you, Jeon Pabo.. well now, Kim Pabo." He said as you scrunched your brows, your back still facing him. The name sounded so familiar. It was how he called you. How does it sound the same? You thought.
"It was always you. My first love. Jeon Y/N. It was just supposed to be you and not your sister. Even I didn't know about how it ended like this but... I am glad it did. I love you." He said before kissing your head while you were still pretending to be asleep.

'What is he saying? I am his first love? This is confusing.' You thought but you heard him speak again.
"The girl who always followed me in Kindergarten despite me being so cold and reserved. The girl who sat with me, who sat alone in a corner away from the entire class of joys and laughter. Made me smile, laugh and worry. I didn't know I liked you until I left. No girl was ever so pure like you, the girl with her toothy grin giving me candies and bracelets every day. And not just once, but twice. You really made me fall for you twice." He said before caressing your hair while you gulped processing his words. 
"It's me after all, TaTa." He said as your breath hitched. Him? You tried your best not to react and pretend to be asleep while a thousand questions ran across your mind.

Was it the same tata you were thinking about? 

----Flashback || Taehyung's POV:

I was opening the washroom door after taking a shower when I suddenly heard Y/N talking. 

"Did they replace me with her? This feels sad.." What is she talking about? I thought before standing for a while. I was about to ask her when she said, "Life is so unfair.." She looked sad. What's wrong? 

Suddenly, she got up and left the room as I stepped out of the washroom. 
"What's wrong with her?" I asked myself before going out of the room. 

----At night || After dinner

I saw Jin hyung sitting there talking to Mother.
"Mother. Why do you even let people like them in? Today, they dared badmouth the Princess while she listened to it all." Jin Hyung said as I crooked my brows going forward. 
"What's wrong?" I asked as they both looked at me. The Queen looked down tensed as Jin Hyung looked annoyed.

"Today.. I saw Y/N standing in front of the guest living room with a dull face. I didn't know what was wrong but when I went there, I heard Mrs Johnson's voice. She was badmouthing the Princess. And of course, her manipulative words." He said as my face hardened. 
"Remember? Holly? The niece of Mr Johnson? Last year, he proposed to marry you with her but we denied it. She doesn't have a good reputation and her rumours aren't acceptable." The Queen said as I nodded. 

"That's why she's probably mad and decided to pick on us. And the bait was Princess Y/N. I wonder how that little kid must be feeling. She is such a pure soul.." The Queen said as I looked down, my heart aching. Is that why she was talking like that earlier? The Johnsons.. I swear.

"But they spit out harsh facts bitter coating them." Jin Hyung said as the Queen and I looked at him.
"I mean... weren't we going to pick Aimin if she agreed." He said as the Queen laughed making me and Hyung look at her confused. 

"It was always meant to be her." She said as I looked at her confused. 
"Do you think a Prince will get married to someone who we saw on the streets?" She asked as Jin Hyung asked, "What do you mean, mother?" She chuckled saying, 

"It was always her. The one we wanted to marry you off with was always Y/N. Not Aimin. Aimin was just a little excuse and we knew she'd deny since she already has a lover." She said as my eyes widened while Hyung was clueless.

"Actually.. one day while the maids were cleaning Taehyung's room before he came, I went in his room to check if the work was going fine. I found an album. It was his kindergarten photos before he left to get into a prestigious school. There, I saw a picture. A group photo of all the students. Everyone looked at the camera but Taehyung looked somewhere else. Or at somebody else. A girl with a toothy grin posing cutely at the camera. I never saw him smiling like that at any outsider or friend. It was the first time. So I put up guards to get information about the girl. And turned out it was Y/N. I myself investigated for some time before planning on making you marry her. You didn't know but you still fell for her and I was right." The Queen said making my eyes widen and a rush of happiness went through my body. I was relieved but surprised at the same time.

"How come I didn't know anything!" Jin Hyung whined making mother chuckle as I smiled.

"Now you know, it was always her. No one else. So treasure her like nothing else, Taehyung-ah. I know how much you love her. I see it in your eyes every time you look at her." Mother said as I smiled looking down thinking about her.