"say ah, cutie."

renjun slowly opened his mouth, allowing jaemin to place a spoonful of yoghourt inside.

"aw... such a cute baby..." the raven-haired exclaimed, looking at the ravenclaw munching on the sweet substance.

"i am not a baby." renjun pouted.

"you're my baby." jaemin replied, chuckling when renjun flushed.

renjun turned around, trying to block jaemin from his view.

he was flustered, and this was not normal.

jaemin had been taking him hostage for a bit more than a week now, and renjun couldn't help but feel his heart accelerating whenever the younger boy would give him some attention.

this wasn't supposed to be happening.

sure, jaemin was hot, but he was an asshole.

well, he was an asshole with muggles. he was actually a sweetheart with renjun – except that time he had pushed him in the gryffindor bleachers, but let's say that was an accident.

jaemin was rather sweet around renjun.

he kept calling him 'cutie'.

he kept cuddling to his side.

he kept giving him attention.

he kept whining when renjun tried to ignore him.

renjun didn't know what had happened to him, but it seemed like he had developed some kind of stockholm syndrome.

he had fallen for his kidnapper – his very hot kidnapper he may add.

"renjun..." jaemin whined, asking renjun to turn around and give him some attention.

"what?" the chinese looked at jaemin, crossing his arms over his chest.

"stop being distant or i will have to place you on my lap."

renjun's cheeks became as red as a tomato.

this was something jaemin often did too.

teasing.

renjun was very annoyed by it at first, but by now, he enjoyed his teasing.

it made him feel loved and desired.

he loved having the other boy wanting his attention.

in some kind, renjun was important for jaemin.

"stop making me flustered." renjun mumbled.

"never." jaemin chuckled. "you're cute when you're flustered."

and here went renjun, flushing beet red again.

"jaemin!"

"yeah? what is it?"

renjun's heart skipped a beat at jaemin's sudden change of tone.

it was incredible how soft and cute he could act around renjun, and how he was able to become hot and intimidating when someone else was around.

"sungchan said he needed to see you now." donghyuck said approaching the two boys. "hi renjun."

"hello..." the chinese male waved at the slytherin.

"can't he wait for a second?" jaemin tsked.

"he said it was important." donghyuck told, sending renjun a wink.

the raven-haired stood up with a sigh.

"i'm sorry, cutie. i have to leave. see you around." he smiled brightly, picking renjun's hand up to kiss the back of his palm as if he was a princess.

renjun's cheeks coloured for the nth time, and he hit his chest a few times as if to scold his heart for beating this much for an asshole.

when he found himself alone, he decided to leave the place and go back to his room where jaemin wouldn't find him, but someone else disturbed him.

"ahh!" he exclaimed as someone poked his side, making him squirm.

"hey!"

"why did you- jeno?!" renjun exclaimed, looking at the boy that was standing so close to him after more than a week.

"that's me." the male smiled.

"w-what are you doing here?!" renjun exclaimed. "if jaemin sees us we're dead meat!"

jeno chuckled, placing a finger under renjun's chin and making him look at him in the eye.

"don't worry about him, cutie. donghyuck is making sure that jaemin is busy for some time."

renjun's face became bright red as his heart thumped inside his chest.

these feelings were going to kill him one day.

plus, jeno calling him 'cutie' reminded him so much about jaemin, but it was so different – yet amazing – at the same time.

it was as if his heart was divided into two parts.

jaemin being one, and jeno being the other.

renjun couldn't prevent him to happen.

and everything was very messy since he knew that the two boys he had taken a liking in hated each other's guts.

"do you want us to hang out for a while?" jeno asked. "i missed you."

renjun nodded, placing his tiny hand in the crook of jeno's large palm.

"i missed you too."

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"lee jeno..."

the so-called boy turned around, his eyes rolling to the back of his hand when he realized who was standing a few meters away from him.

"na jaemin..." he mimicked.

the slytherin chuckled before approaching him with a glare.

"i thought i had asked you something." jaemin said, leaning against the wall just next to jeno.

"yeah. what's your problem?" jeno asked, glaring back at the slytherin.

"my problem is that i hate when people don't listen to me."

jeno snorted.

"and your shitty behaviour will not help anything." jeno told. "don't expect people to listen to you if you don't respect them."

jaemin's jaw clenched, and he pushed jeno against the wall with such violence that the boy hit his head.

before he could protest, jaemin caged his head between his hands, intensifying his glare.

"more than something i asked you, we made a deal, jeno." jaemin said, insisting on the last part.

"a deal?" jeno raised a brow, not even the slightest impressed by the act jaemin was pulling.

"you not approaching renjun against me not telling you stole the wand." jaemin clarified.

"and how can you confirm that i broke the deal?"

jaemin chuckled, allowing one of his hands to ruffle jeno's hair and slide down on his cheek, his neck, and down his torso.

"i saw you bringing renjun out in the gardens..." jaemin smirked. "coincidentally, the room i was in had a window that allowed me to have a beautiful view of the gardens."

a wave of panic passed through jeno's body.

jaemin had seen him with renjun.

jaemin knew he had broken the deal.

and this meant that jaemin was free to get him expelled of hogwarts.

him and all the muggles.

which included jaemin's best friend.

and he still didn't know that.

"you don't have the right to prevent me from seeing someone." jeno spat.

"let me remind you that i am a member of the na family." jaemin told.

"you love renjun too much to do that to me." jeno argued, making jaemin let his guard down.

jeno took this opportunity to pushed jaemin away and pin him on the wall himself, grabbing his wrists and gluing them to the wall, just next to his head.

"you can't denounce me." jeno simply said, looking through jaemin's wide-open eyes.

"i can do whatever i want." jaemin spat.

"saying that i stole the wand will bring you more sadness than happiness." jeno warned.

he knew that if anyone knew a muggle had stolen the wand, every muggle-born would be excluded of hogwarts, and the magical world will banish any muggle-born.

and jeno felt quite bad for jaemin.

jaemin would lose his best friend.

jaemin would indirectly lose the boy he liked.

jaemin would lose way more than he'll win.

"watch me." jaemin said, his eyes never leaving jeno's eyes that were full of compassion. "IT'S LEE JENO!"

jeno gasped when jaemin started screaming out loud.

the corridor they were in wasn't too busy, but he knew that any teacher around them could hear him.

"IT'S HIM!"

jeno sighed, looking sadly at the boy that was glaring at him.

he had to act, and he could think about nothing else at the moment.

"HE STOLE THE- "

jaemin's sentence got interrupted before he could say everything out loud.

however, it wasn't interrupted by jeno's scream.

nor by jeno's hand.

instead, he was interrupted by jeno's lips. right on top of his.