"what the hell happened, mark lee?!" an angry jeno stormed inside the changing rooms at the end of the game.

mark raised his head, looking at his teammate and roommate with a sheepish smile.

"i think i had a cramp." mark replied, placing his left hand over his right shoulder. "it made me mess with my aim."

"bullshit, mark." jeno replied. "i saw you did it on purpose."

mark lowered his head again.

he had just wanted to protect the slytherin keeper.

it was nothing bad.

he had only spared him another week of throwing up and not being able to go out of the infirmary.

"why did you do that, mark?" jeno raised a brow.

"he was about to get hit, jeno." mark replied.

"these are the risks of playing quidditch, mark. you offered 10 points to slytherin by doing that."

"look." mark rose to his feet. "he had been sick since the game with ravenclaw because lucas hit him with his beater."

"who's lucas?"

"my ravenclaw friend." mark told. "but it's not important now. what is important is that he doesn't deserve to be hit twice by the same ball, and that is a bludger."

jeno sighed, hearing mark's words.

"mark, we're chasers. our goal is to score points. the slytherin keeper should have been more careful."

"but... i couldn't let him get hurt. you weren't there when he fainted in the bathroom the other day."mark explained.

"no, you're right." jeno crossed his arms over his chest. "i was helping a cute boy with his life because my friend was taking forever to come."

"hey! i was helping a cute boy with his life too!" mark whined.

jeno huffed.

"really now?"

"what?"

"did you save him because you found him cute?"

"huh? well... huh...?"

mark gulped, trying not to embarrass himself more than he had just done by stuttering after such an easy question.

but had he?

he would love to say 'no', and to tell jeno that he would have done the same if it was someone else – jaemin for example.

but he couldn't lie right to jeno's face.

"so, the answer is yes." jeno sighed.

"i didn't say anything!" mark whined in a squeaky voice.

"you blush says it all!"

mark hid his face in his hands, mumbling an inaudible 'that's false', to which jeno snorted.

"you know, admitting that you find him cute won't kill you." jeno spoke.

"why are you telling me that?"

"you're in denial." jeno added, making mark sigh.

"and what if i find him cute? i was so worried for him the other day! and i still am."

a wide smirk appeared on jeno's face as he clasped his hands together.

"mark lee has a crush."

"what? no!" mark exclaimed.

"oh, yes, you have."

"he's just cute."

"and you're willing to protect him even if it means going against your own house..."

"that's not what i said!"

"BOYS! OUT OF THE CHANGING ROOMS!" the voice of their coach interrupted their bickering.

jeno grinned, his eyes never leaving mark as the older boy was trying his best to hide his red cheeks.

"who could imagine that mark lee fell for a slytherin...?"

𝓗

"jisung? what are you doing alone here?"

the young boy lifted his eyes from his phone to look at the person that had asked him a question.

"hello renjun." jisung said. "i was just surfing on the net."

"why aren't you with chenle? you two are usually glued by the hip."

jisung let out a long sigh.

that was true.

it had always been 'chenle and jisung'.

they were the bestest best friends that could exist.

but it seemed like everything changed now.

jisung had feelings for chenle...

chenle was glued to shotaro...

and it had just... changed.

"come on, tell me what's wrong." renjun said, taking a sit next to the boy when he noticed his depressed face at the mention of his best friend.

"it's nothing..."

"jisung?" renjun looked at the younger boy in the eye. "i see that there is a problem. sometimes opening up can help you."

jisung didn't answer right away. he waited for a few seconds, his eyes looking at a boy and a girl holding hands a few meters away from them.

"i fell in love with chenle." he said simply.

renjun gasped, almost swallowing wrong and getting in a coughing fit.

"chenle?"

"yeah..."

"like, your best friend?"

"yeah..."

"does he know it?"

jisung finally looked at renjun in the eyes, glaring at him.

"would i be there if he knew?"

"i don't know..." renjun shrugged. "so, you love him and you're scared to confess?"

"it's not that i'm scared. i know i won't confess." jisung explained.

"now, that's stupid."

"why?"

"because you two will never be a couple if you don't confess."

"but we won't be a couple." jisung insisted. "not as long as chenle spends all his time with shotaro..."

"you mean the ravenclaw chaser? the first-year who looks like a cute otter?" renjun asked, way too loud and enthusiastically for jisung's good.

"exactly."

"chenle likes him?" renjun asked again on the same tone.

"i hope not. but i'm quite desperate..."

renjun nodded, taking in everything jisung said.

"i'll have a chat with him if you want."

"there's no need." jisung said.

"are you sure?" renjun asked.

"yeah..." jisung answered. "my feelings will eventually disappear."

"that's not how it works."

"how can you know? have you already lost your feelings for someone?" jisung raised a brow.

"never." renjun replied. "but trust me, i would love to..."

jisung looked at the boy with furrowed brows.

"you like someone?"

"like is perhaps a bit too early." renjun replied. "but he interests me a lot."

"who is that?"

"an asshole named na jaemin..."

jisung searched for a few seconds in his memory.

"isn't that the member of an important family? chenle mentioned him a few times."

"yeah, that's him." renjun confirmed. "and i would prefer falling for someone else."

"do you have someone in mind?" jisung asked.

"lee jeno."