mark and donghyuck were interrupted in their kissing session by a knock on the door.

both boys pulled away, mark furrowing his brows.

"come in" he exclaimed, inviting the person who had knocked to enter his dorm.

the door opened slowly, and a mop of blondish hair appeared.

"mark? donghyuck?"

"chenle, is that it?" mark asked once he made an eye-contact with the chinese at the door.

"yeah. huh... jisung and i found jaemin crying in the corridor..." chenle told.

"what?!" donghyuck exclaimed, rising to his feet.

"if you want to follow me and... yeah?"

mark and donghyuck both agreed, following the hufflepuff across the gryffindor common room and then throughout the different corridors of hogwarts.

they first heard cries, and then finally saw a teary jaemin leaning against a wall next to a worried jisung.

donghyuck didn't hesitate one second and ran to his crying best friend.

"jaemin!" he exclaimed. "what's happening? are you okay?"

the pure blood continued crying, ignoring the other slytherin who was cupping his cheeks sweetly.

"jaemin, please... talk to me..." donghyuck begged, looking into jaemin's soul under the eyes of the three other boys.

jaemin stayed silent.

"jaemin, i hate seeing you like this... it pains me so much..." donghyuck said.

"i don't want your pity." jaemin answered simply, going back to crying.

donghyuck looked at his best friend, and he would have argued back if it wasn't for two other boys who arrived in the middle of their conversation.

"huh... is everything okay?"

"why is jaemin crying?"

jaemin lifted his head, meeting eyes with jeno and renjun, making a wave of sadness take over him and causing him to cry even harder.

"we found him like this already..." jisung shrugged, giving jaemin a sad glance.

the two new-comers nodded, looking at jaemin as well.

"please, jaem... tell me what's wrong. i want to help." donghyuck said with puppy eyes.

but it seemed like jaemin wasn't sensitive to them.

"i don't want to! go away!" he lashed at his best friend, making the boy back away immediately.

mark approached donghyuck from behind, wrapping a hand around his waist to comfort him from the sudden rejection.

jaemin glared at them.

actually, he glared at the three pairs of boys around him.

"fuck you, guys. fuck. you." jaemin articulated clearly.

he faced his best friend, looking at him in the eye. "fuck you for keeping a secret from me."

he then turned towards chenle and jisung. "fuck you for making me believe things."

and he finally looked at the two boys that had arrived. "and fuck you for breaking my heart."

the six boys exchanged confused stares, still not understanding what could have gotten jaemin in such a state.

the boy seemed angry yet sad.

it was scary.

"jaemin, i'm sorry..." donghyuck let out, small tears starting to fall from his eyes as well at the thought of his best friend hating him now.

"donghyuck, shut up." jaemin cut him. "i don't want to hear you."

"jaemin, no one will be able to help if you keep everything to yourself..." chenle tried reasoning the sad boy.

"you two were the ones who should have kept things to yourselves." jaemin tackled back, referring to the things they had told him earlier that day.

jaemin was too naïve to think these could be true.

he should never have trusted them.

this was completely delusional and ridiculous.

jaemin and renjun...

jaemin and jeno...

none of those sounded as beautiful as renjun and jeno.

that was it.

they were meant to be.

jaemin was meant to be left out.

left out...

that's exactly what he felt like at the moment.

donghyuck had mark.

chenle had jisung.

renjun had jeno.

and who did jaemin have?

right. no one.

he was alone.

"jaemin, we're willing to help." renjun took a slow step towards the crying male.

"oh, but you're not helping." jaemin replied. "those four aren't a big help, but the two of you are even worse." he said, pointing successively at mark, donghyuck, chenle and jisung, and then renjun and jeno.

"that's because you're not letting us."

"letting you help me?!" he exclaimed. "what for? the only thing i'll earn from is is a broken heart."

"jaemin, listen- "

"don't you dare trying to give me life lessons, mugblood!" jaemin cut jeno's words.

the whole corridor became silent after jaemin's exclamation.

the three muggles shared quick glances, the three of them feeling uneasy in here.

"jaemin, can you stop referring to him as that." renjun asked, approaching jaemin even more.

"why? that's what he is." jaemin scoffed.

"it is insulting. none of the muggles asked to be sorted as wizards. and none of them asked to get discriminated against." renjun retorted.

"neither did i." jaemin told. "the wizard world son't be invaded by people whose blood isn't pure, and you know this as much as i do. it was better before."

jaemin recalled his family telling him about a time where the wizard world was limited to pure bloods. no impurities.

but now, with time going on, both hogwarts and the magical world had started to allow more and more muggles in.

this disgusted traditional wizard families, just like jaemin's.

jaemin had always been raised in a world without muggles.

and imagining that he had to share his knowledge with some of them disgusted him.

muggles had a world.

wizards had a world.

they may be living on the same planet; they weren't meant to be together.

however, these fundamental ideas of jaemin's life started to get more and more unsure.

jaemin started questioning them, wondering if they were really good.

and this scared him.

those feelings he thought having developed for jeno were a threat to his pure blood.

his family wouldn't hesitate to thow him away if he admitted liking a muggle – someone his family despised, and someone he had been despising too.

that is surely why jaemin kept recalling himself that jeno was a muggle.

that is surely why jaemin cursed at him a lot.

that is surely why jaemin tried to push his feelings away when he was aware that they existed.

"time changes, jaemin. we're not living in the past. now muggles and wizards live in harmony." renjun told.

jaemin agreed with him.

but he just didn't want to admit it out loud.

saying this would be a way to deny his family.

and as a member of the na family, he couldn't do that.

"i wish time never changed." jaemin said. "mugbloods stay between mugbloods, and wizard live happily without worrying about everything those incapables people do!"

"jaemin- "

"it's okay." jeno stopped renjun from talking.

renjun looked at his lover who stepped in front of him.

"if you hate me this much, i'll disappear from your sight. stop bothering the others with you bullshit."jeno spat.

how much jaemin wanted to tell him that he was wrong.

how much he wanted to tell the truth.

how much he wanted to jump in his muscular arms and cry there.

but he couldn't.

his pride took over his heart.

"i don't hate you, jeno." jaemin started. "i hate your kind. muggles have nothing to do here. they should disappear, and go back from where they are from. there is no place for them in the magical world."

renjun gasped, pushing jeno away to stare at jaemin in the eye.

"be careful what you are saying, jaemin." he told. "muggles are everywhere, and closer than you can think. you can't imagine the consequences of your acts."

"muggles are easy to spot, and you know it."

"quite easy to say for someone who isn't aware is best friend is one." renjun spat, making the boys behind him gasp.

donghyuck's eyes widened at the sudden words pronounced by rage by renjun.

had he just been busted?

"what?"

dongyuck lifted his head, a lump forming in his throat as he met his best friend's eyes.

"donghyuck, what is he saying?"

donghyuck stayed silent, not knowing how to answer.

"you're a muggle?!" jaemin yelled impatiently.

donghyuck slowly nodded, diverting his eyes not to see jaemin getting mad at him.

"i am too." jisung stated, catching the attention of jaemin.

"is this a joke?" the pureblood asked, looking at the group of boys that had been trying to comfort him.

"i'm afraid it isn't." jeno mumbled.

and with that said, jaemin ran away the fastest he could, completely ignoring his friends calling his name.

i wanted to thank all of you for reaching 1k followers! this is a number i never even imagined i could reach, but i did, thanks to all of you, so THANK YOU!!!
i published a new story to compensate the angsty chapters of 'wizards' and as a thank you for the 1k! it's a marknohyuck soulmate au called 'love maze'! hope you'll like it!!