"jeno, are you ready?"

"one second."

mark lightly tapped his foot on the floor, waiting for his roommate who was unnecessary slow in dressing up.

"here i am." jeno appeared after a few minutes.

"really?" mark raised a brow. "it took you all that time to wear black jeans, a black shirt and a gryffindor jacket?"

jeno shrugged. "i wasn't sure what to wear."

mark rolled his eyes, chuckling lightly at his friend.

"let's go, we're going to be late like last time." he added before the two boys left the dorm to get to the school's gates.

they were supposed to have a trip with some other students to hogsmeade.

mark had been willing to show jeno around for the past month, but they were late for the last trip, so they couldn't go there.

the two gryffindors ran across the corridors, trying to get to the gates the quickest possible in order not to miss the departure for the second time.

"here they are!" mark exclaimed, pointing at a large group of wizards waiting in front of the gates.

"we're on time!" jeno laughed, running behind his older friend.

before the two boys could reach the gates, a loud and close thud made mark turn around.

jeno was groaning on the floor, lying under a brunette who was rubbing the side of his head.

"fuck, that hurt." jeno groaned as he sat up.

"donghyuck, are you okay?" another boy exclaimed, approaching the brunette and helping him up.

mark helped jeno up as the two other students – who happened to be slytheins – talked on their side.

mark could hear words along the lines of 'are you hurt somewhere?' and 'do you feel okay?'.

as he was about to ask the same questions to his own friend, one of the slytherins – the one who hadn't fallen – turned jeno around quite violently.

"can't you watch where you're going?!" he said rudely.

"excuse me, but he was running as well. so, he should have been careful too." mark interrupted.

"am i talking to you at the moment?"

"jaemin..." the brunette pulled the sleeve of the angry slytherin.

"not now, donghyuck." jaemin turned around to look at jeno once again.

"i could have you fired for what you did." jaemin said, his eyes burning holes into jeno's skull.

"come on, he did nothing." mark rolled his eyes.

"and it's the same for you." jaemin threatened mark as well.

"and what are you going to say, huh? that we collided into your friend?" jeno raised a brow. "that's not a valid reason to fire someone!"

jaemin smirked, his face suddenly intriguing jeno.

"oh, but a member from the na family doesn't need a valid reason to have someone fired..."

donghyuck rolled his eyes behind jaemin's back.

here he was, once again, using the fact he was from one of the most important wizard families to show his power...

and facing jaemin, jeno was rather confused, not understanding anything that the black-haired had said.

however, mark's breath hitched and his whole body tensed. being a half-blood, he had already been warned about the na family. and he knew that this meant nothing good for them.

"what does that mean, mark?" jeno asked, making jaemin's smirk widen even more.

"i'll explain later, we need to go." mark grabbed jeno's wrist, trying to pull him away.

"why?"

mark and jeno were stopped by a chuckle.

when they turned around, jaemin was once again smirking at them – well, mostly at jeno.

"how cute... you don't even know who i am..." jaemin chuckled.

"should i?"

"of course, you don't." jaemin snorted. "mugbloods don't know anything about the wizard world. thay don't belong here!"

mark pushed jeno away, approaching jaemin with a glare and grabbing his shirt with his fist.

"don't you dare calling him that way." he spat.

"what...? mugblood?" jaemin smiled fakely. "that's what he is after all."

"mark, what's happening?" jeno asked, very confused.

donghyuck couldn't bear the tension lingering in the air, so he coughed, pushing jaemin and mark away from each other.

"come on, jaemin. let's go." he said in a soft voice, dragging his slytherin friend away as mark was fuming.

jaemin turned around one last time, grinning at jeno.

"be careful who you're talking to, mugblood. your wizard friend won't always be there to protect you."

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"why did you react like this?" donghyuck asked when they were both back into their room.

"he's a muggle, donghyuck. he's a fucking muggle."

donghyuck tried not to get affected by the was his best friend was cursing his own kind.

he truly had to make sure that jaemin would never discover.

"yeah, but that doesn't mean you should act like this..."

"he bumped into you." jaemin continued. "and he hurt you." he added, pushing a strand of brown hair away from donghyuck's face to reveal a bruised area.

"it's okay..." donghyuck shrugged.

"let me clean the wound."

donghyuck waited for jaemin to grab the first aid kit in their bathroom and to sit next to him on the bed again.

donghyuck winced as a cotton dippe din rubbing alcohol touched his wound, but jaemin's hand found his way to his thigh, making him feel slightly better.

"are you ready for the match?" jaemin asked with a slight smile.

"i guess so." donghyuck replied. "who are we playing with again?"

"ravenclaw." jaemin replied.

"we've never played against them." donghyuck noted.

"nope." jaemin nodded. "but we'll go to their training tomorrow. and we'll see how hey play."

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"mark, what just happened?" jeno asked, still confused about the conversation they had shared with the two – more like one – slytherin.

"don't pay attention to this slytherin. you should stay the furthest away from him." mark warned.

"but why?" jeno furrowed his brows.

mark let out a long sigh, turning his head to look towards the gates where the group of students had already left for hogsmeade.

they had once again missed the departue.

"let's go go back to the dorm, and i'll teach you everything about the na family in the wizard world."