QT: I Bent The Male Lead

Jason veered around the bed not able to fall asleep. He was deep in thought, the thoughts of the crown prince ran through his mind. 

Things had gotten better, everyone was accepting of their relationship if he could call it that. But the male had suddenly changed and treated him like he didn't matter.

They had gotten close yet seemed to be far apart. Nothing made him happier than knowing that the crown prince belonged to him. But even then he felt a little lonely, he was missing the crown prince's soothing voice and his angel eyes looking at him like he was the only man in the world. 

His heart was beating for the man, he couldn't be still knowing that his love was angry at him. The worst part is that he didn't know what he had done wrong. 

He replayed everything that had happened in his head trying to figure out at what point the crown prince's attitude changed. But he couldn't spot what the problem was. 

He had to figure it out before the sunrise so that he could make it up to the male and get things cleared. Before they got worse to a point that he couldn't control. 

On top of everything there was the princess selection that he had to worry about. The King had given an order that the prince must marry a woman alongside him. And that couldn't be anymore annoying. 

He got up from the bed and walked over to the window. He couldn't sleep from all the worry. He stood by the window watching the moon in the sky, his mind could not help but wonder if Davion was awake or not. 

"Why are you so mad at me?" He asked aloud to no one in particular. 

He let out a deep breath when the silence of the room gave him no reply. He wondered how he was going to find the root of the problem when Davion won't even see him. 

"It is sad," he heard a small soft voice say close to him. He turned his eyes to the room and looked around the room. He tried to locate the source of the voice that had just spoken. 

"Lovers growing apart, truly sad," the voice uttered once more. 

"Who is there?" He asked. There was no reply and he couldn't see anyone in the room. He had been awake the whole time so he doubted that someone could have snuck into the room. He would have surely seen or heard them if they came in. 

"All because of a misunderstanding," the voice added. 

This time he had been keen and followed the train of the sound. His eyes directed to the plant near the window. 

He slowly sauntered to the plant and lifted it to check if a small person was hiding behind the flower pot but there was nothing behind the flower. 

"Set me down you nincompoop," the flower scolded to him. Jason set the flower pot back and backed away from it. He was beginning to think that the lack of sleep was getting to him. 

"Great, now I am hallucinating," he let out frustrated. 

"What an idiot, you are a nature bender and that means that as much as you can control plants to your will. You can also understand them," the plant let out explaining that he was not being imagined. 

Jason's eyes went wide with surprise and wonder. He could talk to plants, not what he expected to discover in his lonely night. But at least he wasn't alone, he had a company that he could talk to. 

"What should I call you?" He asked the plant. He was tired and down, he didn't even care that the plant could talk. Or bothered by the fact that he can understand what it was saying. 

"Is that what you really want to know?" The plant inquired. "Wouldn't you rather wish to know why your beloved is angry?" The plant questioned. 

Jason's eyes lit up on hearing the plant's words. "Wait, how would you know that?" He called into question. 

"Plants have ears and we do communicate with each other," the plant said. 

Jason nodded, for someone who had entered a novel, he was in place to overrule what was possible and what wasn't. And in hus life, he was going to need all the help that he can get and that included talking plants. 

If it would help him find peace then he was willing to listen. He gave his attention to the plant. 

"Why is he angry?" He asked. 

Silence followed his question before the plant let out,"He is of the belief that you don't love him."

Jason shook his head, he found the plant to be unhelpful, since the crown prince knew how he felt. He had expressed his love for the prince to him. His feelings were clear, it was Davion that was yet to confess to him.

"That cant be the problem," he stated. 

"You didnt call off the engagement as you promised you idiot, now he thinks you didnt want to," the plant scolded. 

"But the engagement didnt take place," Jason stated out loud. He didnt put thr ring on Sashina's hand but his, so it didnt make sense what the plant was saying. Or why the crown prince would be angry because of that. 

"Yes, but you are not the one who called it off," the plant pointed it out to him. "Had the ice prince not intervene would have stopped it or not?" The plant asked. 

Realisation dawned on Jason like ice cold water. He had not really thought about it like that. He wasn't the one who broke the engagement as he had promised the man. And in truth, had Amaru not intervened then he would have gotten engaged to Sashina. 

So technically, he had broken the promise that he had made to the prince.. "By not keeping your word, you have given doubt a chance to grow in his mind and heart and he is drawing away from you," the plant added.