the two lovesick boys sitting against a tree side by side lifted their heads when a brunette and a blue-haired boy came into view.

"sungchan, come with us. jaemin is fighting with some gryffindor, and i need someone to help up stop them before they destroy the school." he said in one go.

singchang sighed, rising to his feet.

"come with us, jisung."

the purple head stood up as well, following the three other boys towards the school library.

they got there pretty quickly, and jisung widened his eyes when he saw the number of books that were sprawled on the floor.

"mugblood!"

"fuck your kind, na!"

"i hate you!"

"so do i!"

the two boys were lashing insults at one another while throwing books around to harm the other.

donghyuck signalled sungchan to come and help him hold jaemin back while the two others would hold jeno – whose nose was bleeding.

the mission was a success as no more books got thrown, but they continued screaming at each other.

"jaemin, stop screaming." donghyuck sighed, trying his best not to lose his balance despite jaemin's strong attempts to make them let go.

"i won't as long as this mugblood hasn't left this wizardry school! he's a shame to hogwarts!"

curse words were leaving jeno's mouth as he was ready to beat the shit out of jaemin. thankfully, jisung and mark were strong enough to hold him back.

"what the hell is happening here?" a small boy appeared, a brow raised.

"renjun!"

the small boy's attention got caught, and so, he turned towards jisung, a small smile appearing on his face when he recognized him.

"please, help us."

renjun pulled out his wand from his back pocket, agitating it a few times in jaemin's direction.

"petrificus totalus!"

jaemin's body stiffened as donghyuck and sungchan made sure he wouldn't fall on the floor.

renjun truend around, facing jeno's who widened his eyes.

"i'm calm, i'm calm!" he raised both hands above his head, hoping that the small chinese wouldn't put a spell on him too.

"now, what's the problem?" renjun asked, looking at jeno since jaemin couldn't speak.

"he's being mean with me, nothing new." jeno replied, glaring at the slytherin.

"he's being mean with everybody. i told you not to pay attention to it." renjun said.

jeno shrugged.

"bring jaemin away, i don't care where." renjun said. "i'll bring jeno to the nurse."

"why?" the gryffindor asked.

"your nose is bleeding." renjun told.

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"how can you be this calm around jaemin?" jeno asked as renjun was sitting next to him in the infirmary.

"i'm not scared of him." renjun replied.

"i'm not either."

"but you don't show it enough." renjun explained. "na jaemin wants the other to fear him. he has a superiority complex. and you have to show him that you don't care about him."

"i don't." jeno nodded.

"it doesn't seem so. you're giving him too much attention. too much pleasure."

jeno shrugged.

na jaemin was truly a parasite that he needed to get rid of the quickest possible.

"huh... excuse me?"

jeno and renjun looked towards the door where mark was awkwardly standing.

"come in, mark." jeno invited him.

"i'll take my leave then." renjun said, standing up.

"thank you very much for your help, renjun." jeno smiled at the chinese boy.

"you're welcome. i'm glad i could help." he smiled back. "bye jeno." he added, waving cutely at the gryffindor.

mark looked at their interaction with curious eyes, and he smirked at jeno when the chinese boy had finally left the infirmary.

"what?" jeno asked.

"you're blushing." mark pointed out, making jeno hide his cheeks.

"it's hot." he replied.

"sure..." mark laughed.

"let me tell you, you were the same with donghyuck." jeno warned.

"oh, sure. and i totally admit that i am head over heels for him." mark explained. "this boy has to be a fairy. he made me fall for him in the spawn of a few days."

jeno rolled his eyes at mark's lovesick expression.

the boy seemed to be high up on a cloud, in another dimension in which lee donghyuck would be the sun.

"ask him out." jeno said.

"ask renjun out yourself!" mark replied.

"shut up..." jeno rolled his eyes.

mark slammed a hand over his wide-open mouth, looking at jeno with bewildered eyes.

"oh my god... you didn't deny it!!" he exclaimed.

"mark, shut up!"

"you like him!"

"mark!"

"jeno likes renjun!"

"MARK LEE!"

in the end, the two boys bickered for the whole afternoon about their crushes.

but what is most important is that jeno never denied his love for renjun...

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"i hate him." jaemin said.

"yeah, we had understood it the first time." donghyuck replied, rolling his eyes.

him, jaemin and sungchan were in their room, sitting on jaemin's bed as the younger rented about how he hated the gryffindor.

"i hate all gryffndors. because they always take his side." he added.

"jaemin, calm down." donghyuck said calmly.

"i would have ended him if that cutie hadn't intervened." jaemin mumbled.

"i hope you're talking about me." donghyuck stated.

"you? cute?" jaemin raised a brow. "look at your reflection in a mirror. i was talking about the ravenclaw seeker. huang cutie renjun."

donghyuck snorted.

"i'll do as if i hadn't heard your insults, and i'll just concentrate on the last part of your sentence, but huang cutie renjun?!"

"he's the one i pushed inside the gryffindor bleachers." jaemin explained.

"and you have a soft spot for him?" sungchan spoke.

"he's cute. and very fun to tease." jaemin smirked, recalling their previous conversations. "plus, he's a pure blood."

donghyuck rolled his eyes for the nth time.

"jaemin, he would have been the same person if he was a muggle, you know. the fact he is a pureblood doesn't add anything."

"it adds that i can marry him and not dirty my family's blood." jaemin explained, making donghyuck choke.

"m-marry?! are you this deep in the relationship?!"

"we're not like that yet." jaemin said. "but i'm already thinking forwards for my future. and he fits perfectly with my plans..."

donghyuck sighed, rubbing his temples.

his best friend was someone strange...

"i'm not even sure if it will ever be like that, jaemin."

"oh, you'll see..." jaemin smirked.