i am here with a one-shot and i tried writing in a new way. and the use of time skips is a lot. this also hella fucking long help. now i haven't done that much of a proofread, so pardon my mistakes please

this was originally supposed to only be uploaded on ao3 but someone *cough* Lay_me_down_bro *cough* wanted it here too.

It started out with small pranks in between classes, like switching books, itch powder in robes, and some Weasley's Wildfire Whiz-Bang. it then turned to age line, expelliarmus as they held stuff (Changbin made Jisung break six bottles, flung his book at an older Slytherin, and sending his broom flying at the teacher), using accio at each other's stuff as they try to grab it. At some point, Jisung put sneezing powder on Changbin's clothes as he walked past him in class. The older Ravenclaw sneezed all through his Potion class, his potion exploded because of that too.

Chan, the oldest in their little trio was going crazy. Having been caught in between some pranks.

"Can you two stop. We're in a library." Chan whispered angrily through gritted teeth. The two stopped and stared at him, Jisung had his hands up and Changbin had his wand up. "I don't feel like being thrown out again," Chan grimaced at the memory, Jisung had thought it would be fun to stuff insects in Changbin's bag. The shorter had screamed bloody murder and that was enough for them to get thrown out for a week.

"It's not my fault Changbin can't hold his screams. The bugs were fake too," Jisung balanced a pencil on his lip "Besides, the library is boring. Can't we go out to the quidditch arena-"

"You just want to see Minho practice-"

"no. i don't like him, he's annoying."

---

"No. i DoN't LiKe HiM hE's AnNoYiNg." Changbin repeated what the younger Ravenclaw had said earlier in an overly exaggerated voice to mimic him. Jisung merley spared him a glance as he was too focused on the brown-haired Slytherin zooming past them.

Jisung wouldn't stop bothering them, so to make him shut up Changbin took matters in his own hands and joined Jisung to the quidditch arena to watch practice. Chan had been more than thrilled to finally get rid of them and have a peaceful study session.

"thirsty?" Jisung asked and motioned at a bottle he had beside him. Changbin couldn't remember seeing him have it when they first got here, but nevertheless he accepted the bottle. he unscrewed it first and sniffed it, he looked up at the male beside him- who was drinking from his own bottle- jisung must have felt his stare "i haven't done anything with it." he put his bottle down and went back to watching.

changbin shrugged and took one big mouthful of water. he didn't even get to swallow before he needed to sneeze, his nose itch intensified and before he knew it the water in his mouth shot out like a mini geyser- from both his mouth and nose.

Jisung had yet again pranked him with sneezing powder that he somehow had managed to hide.

jisung toppled over in laughter as changbin continued to sneeze his head off. the older couldn't even formulate any sentences- or words for that matter. the quidditch team had stopped their practise to stare at him, not that he noticed since he was still busy trying to murder jisung while still sneezing.

---

the sneezing had calmed down, still not gone, changbin had been close to death as he tried to hold in his tenth sneeze in potion class. he had exploded enough potions for this week.

changbin had thought out a plan to get back at him, the good ole slug spell. yes, it was a dirty spell to use. but if he did use it, it would mean he won the whole thing. so here he walked down the hallway after class, occasionally sneezing, going to a room he knew no one used. he had texted jisung about it since they did hang out there and that chan had 'asked' him to do it.

the ravenclaw snickered eveily to himself, his snicker got interrupted by a sneeze though. this sneeze was strong so he stumbled a tiny bit, but quickly regained posture. changbin reached the right wooden door and slipped inside.

he pulled out his wand with a sneeze, then cackled to himself. changbin ran to one pillar that was in the medium sized room and hid behind it. out of sight from the door. he went through the spell many times in his head, he was sure he had gotten in engraved in his brain now.

the door creaked open after a few minutes of silence and changbin waited three seconds before he popped out from behind the pillar and pointed his wand at who he thought was jisung.

"slugulus elructo!"

before he could see that the person was, in fact not jisung, the words had already left his mouth and the curse hit the poor ginger boy. the boy's eyes widened and a hand flew up to his mouth and then he dashed out from the room.

changbin was frozen in his spot. his feet wouldn't move.

"you okay changbin?"

confused changbin looked up, not realizing his gaze had fallen down on his wand, at jisung who was now in the room. changbin groaned and sat down in a squat, now he wanted to do no more than disappear from the face of earth "i cursed the wrong person!"

"you what?" jisung asked with a brow raised.

---

with a hand over his mouth felix dashed down the hall. he bumped into a few students, but no way in hell was he going to open his mouth. the slimy feeling in his throat was suffocating enough, but having to run at the same time made it 100 times worse than it already was. felix pushed past a group of gryffindors, that were blocking the door to the boys bathrooms, he skidded across the floor and kicked a random bathroom stall open.

felix threw himself on the floor, he gave no fucks that his knees were now ruined, and grabbed the sides of the toilet. he opened his mouth with a "bleh!" and two slimy slugs slipped out from his mouth. felix groaned, out of all the days he had to be cursed it had to be the day he was supposed to try and talk to his crush.

as the third slug went up his throat and into the toilet bowl, it hit him like a brick.

"bloody hell my crush cursed me!" felix said out loud. he wasn't sure how he felt about that, as he's here, his head down in the toilet bowl. slugs coming up his throat every sixth second, maybe he should get seungmin or jeongin to get him.

and as if someone had heard him, seungmin came inside the bathroom. felix recognized it as him because the younger was lightly humming to himself. his footsteps echoed around the stone room and they became closer each second. then they stopped.

"felix?" seungmin questioned "or are you one of the weasley kids?"

"blehlix!" a slug decided to slip out his mouth as he tried to answer. seungmin understood it and gasped, felix felt a hand on his back that grabbed on the back of his vest and made him sit up. the younger shook his head and went into his back pocket.

felix saw him take out a small plastic bag, inside it was some white, kinda mushed, cubes. seungmin clicked his tongue and took out one "i heard treacle fudge helps with-" felix spat out another slug "-your problem..."

the gryffindor stuffed it in felix' mouth and stared at him with anticipation. seconds turned into minutes and no slugs were spat out in between that time frame. seungmin smiled in satisfaction and placed his hands on his hips.

his smile dropped though, and he bent down, coming to an eye level with the ginger "mind telling me who cursed you, so i can beat their ass?"

"oh no need to worry seungmin-"

"was it that slytherin hyunjin?"

"no." felix stood up and patted the dust off his knees "it was an accident, he thought i was someone else-"

"so it was hyunjin-"

"no you dumb fuck! it wasn't hyunjin, what's your problem with him anyway?" felix walked past him and over to the sinks to wash his hands. wanting to get rid of the germs from the floor and toilet ring, seungmin trailed after him.

"i- uh.." seungmin stopped talking and Felix looked up in the mirror to see him stare off into space.

"you don't have a reason, do you?" felix snorted and wiped his hands on his pants.

"i do have...oh! weren't you going to talk to changbin today?" the two exited the bathroom, managing to avoid pushing the group of gryffindors away, something felix now apologized for. the hall was bustling with students, as some hurried to classes and other's being lucky and were finished for the day.

felix was about to answer when loud laughter from further down the hall, from the room, felix had ran out from a couple of minutes earlier to specific, out first came a boy with black hair that somehow looked purple in some lighting. his head was halfway turned down and he was pushing away a ginger male that was laughing loudly at him.

either seungmin was really good at guessing and connecting the dots, or he could read minds. "you're telling me changbin did it!?" seungmin whispered/yelled into felix' ear. the hufflepuff cringed and pushed him away.

"like i said he must have mist-"

"oh i gotta beat his ass." seungmin interrupted him for the twentieth time that day. Felix had to hold him back by clutching his waist and dragging him back

"stop interrupting me!" felix wailed and bit him his shoulder, seungmin yelped at that "let me finish. anyway him and jisung are having a prank war between each other and i guess he must have thought i was him. i mean we do have the same hair colour."

"... you're too whipped for him."

"shut uuuUUup!"

---

the whole way back to the ravenclaw tower was filled with Jisung wheezing and hitting him. the younger was acting like this was the funniest thing to happen. people stared at them, and that didn't really help with Changbin's situation.

"i will shove your head into a toilet if you don't shut up."

jisung wheezed one last time "you cursed a poor kid with the slug curse, this is gold! wait- i gotta tell chan!" jisung wheezed again, he leaned on changbin who looked like he would much rather be swallowed by the big squid in the black lake than to be trapped with the other.

they stopped outside the door, changbin looked at jisung sending him a signal that he should say the password. jisung who was still laughing (changbin wanted to use Petrificus Totalus on him) were obvious to the older's stare.

"jisung say the damn password!"

"what- right right!" jisung faced the door and cleared his throat.

---

A week has passed since the incident with the slugs. changbin had been searching all over the school after the ginger he had accidentally cursed so he could formally apologize. The school isn't that big- who is he kidding, the school is enormous and there's like six different gingers, probably more for all he knows. So slowly changbin started to think that he had just imagined it all. 

yes. it was all an imagination caused by jisung.

the pranks didn't stop either. if changbin got a penny for every time he somehow managed to yeet his books away when he walked passed a teacher, he would have enough money to get that new broom.

changbin had heard that one of the first years in gryffindor had gotten that new broom. was he jealous? hell yeah.

changbin sighed and let his head fall back. being the half clumsy idiot he is, he managed to bang his head into the desk behind and he fell off his chair. the teacher, who happened to be mcgonagall, stopped her lecture and stared at him.

"Mister Seo what are you doing?"

He couldn't see her, since he was laying on the floor, but he could hear her voice. she didn't sound pleased. so as fast as he could he jumped up from the cold stone floor. her gaze was stone cold, or it seemed like that to changbin.

"sorry professor i didn't mean to," changbin quickly sat back down in his chair and mcgonagall returned to lecturing. he swallowed a sigh, his 'jisung senses' were tingling every second. because the younger ravenclaw had somehow built up so many extra hours so he had no classes today.

and that meant he could come and terrorize changbin any second now.

but maybe jisung was busy sleeping or catching up on work, so he was safe from any harm from the other.

"now grab your books and turn to page 268," professor mcgonagall grabbed her own book and as changbin was about to do like every other student, grab his book, but said book flew out of grasp and hit the blackboard. it missed mcgonagall by an inch.

the low chatter from the others stopped and everyone stared at him. along with mcgonagall. she didn't look happy, at all, and changbin were praying that he wouldn't get murdered by her.

"mister seo do you want detention?"

"no professor, i swear it wasn't me-" changbin knew that sounded stupid since his name was literary written on the book. and she would never believe him.

"is this your book or no?"

"yes, it's mine-"

"no more explaining seo. i am giving you a warning."

changbin slumped back in his seat. he felt like someone was staring at him so he looked up at window. but no one were there. he had one theory about his flying book, he had jinxed himself and jisung had showed up to fuck up his life.

10 minutes passed after the flying book and changbin could not seem to shake off the 'someone's watching me' feeling. he took a quick glance at the window again, he saw a figure that made him take a double take. and guess who had decided to show up.

jisung fucking han.

the younger ravenclaw noticed changbin staring at him and stuck out his tongue at him. changbin knew, changbin fucking knew what was going to happen. jisung flicked his wrist and changbin shook his head so fast he thought it would fall off his neck and roll to the other side of the room.

jisung did another flick and a small light jumped out from his wand. and next changbin knew is that all his stuff exploded up into the air and scattered all over the floor. changbin cringed at the noise and some people snickered at him.

"mister seo detention!"

"understandable..."

---

class ended and changbin was on a mission. a mission to find jisung and murder him. he quickly slipped out of the classroom, he completely forgot to talk to mcgonagall about his detention period. but that could wait.

it didn't take him long to find the younger since the familiar booming laughter echoed so close to him that his eardrum might have exploded.

"jisung how dare you!?"

the younger didn't reply as he was to busy laughing his head off, his body was bent over and his hands were on his knees. changbin stomped up to him and began hitting him with one of the books he was carrying.

"ow-ow-ow stop!" jisung used his left arm as a shield, waving his other arm around trying to hit changbin back. the two looked like complete idiots, (chan, who was further down the hall, took a different route to avoid them) but jisung abruptly stopped as a group of slytherins walked past them. changbin managed because of that to hit him right on his neck.

jisung didn't even react. he too busy making heart eyes at one of slytherins.

changbin followed his gaze and gasped "that's the minho you like!?"

"shush!" jisung panicked and jumped on him, a hand was harshly placed in front of changbin's mouth "not so loud! also how many minhos are in this school, in slytherin to be specific?"

since his mouth was blocked changbin stared at him with narrowed eyes. he made eye contact with the younger and the next second jisung flies off him screeching and wiping his hand frantically on his pants.

"you licked me you nasty!"

"your palms are sweaty. bleh." changbin stuck out his tongue. jisung looked at him with an expression that meant 'no shit'.

"Jisung!" someone screamed. the two ravenclaws turned around and saw a ginger-haired male coming at a speed of one hundred towards them. Changbin thought it was just another weasley, you know the ginger hair.

the boy stopped in front of them, he bent down and placed his hands on his knees, panting really hard. he put one finger up to signal them that he just needed some time to catch his breath. so it turned into an awkward silence as jisung and changbin waited for him to regain his breath.

after some seconds he straightened up his back and smiled, changbin squinted a little. something about this freckled covered cheeks and ginger coloured haired boy was familiar in some way. and not that changbin would 100% have mistaken him for a weasley. being lost in thoughts changbin didn't notice that the unknown boy had pounced onto jisung.

"idiot! you didn't show up before class to give me my- well our work- and professor snape for some reason hates my guts so he gave me detention!" changbin snapped back to stare as jisung was judo flipped onto the floor "i lost points from hufflepuff jisung!"

"owowowowow- felix that's my hair!"

"my grades are more important than you turning bald!"

changbin awkwardly cleared his throat to get their attention "as much as i would like to see jisung get his arse kicked, i kinda need him to carry my books." he rocked back and forth on his toes, hands behind his back as he waited for the ravenclaw and hufflepuff to get up from the floor.

jisung tried to run away, but changbin could see right through him and sent him a glare. the younger froze in his spot. changbin turned his attention to the newcomer, the hufflepuff named felix as he heard jisung shout, and he did a quick up and down scan of him.

the hufflepuff's cheeks were a soft pink shade and he shifted from foot to foot as changbin stared at him. it then, like a light switch got flipped, came as a realization for him. felix was that unlucky guy that was hit by changbin's spell.

the memory flashed through his mind and slowly his face became red.

"jisung we need to go so uh let's go," changbin grabbed him and dragged him off into the direction of the ravenclaw tower.

---

around 5pm changbin found himself walking down the deserted hallway. every other student was either eating or studying. doing whatever pleased them. except for changbin, who had detention. his detention consisted of polishing the trophies in the trophy room. he's glad professor mcgonagall allowed him to grab some food since he would probably be stuck here for some hours.

changbin pushed down a groan as he opened up the door. a little bit too hard. the door flew open and banged into the wall. changbin cringed at the noise and at the noise of a few trophies falling onto the floor made.

changbin stepped inside and closed the door after him, softly. he could see the bucket and rag being put out and ready for him to use. while he grabbed the rag and one bucket he quickly made a plan in his head to get back at jisung. problem was that jisung could hide, hide really well. and after the last time, he tried to curse him, he's kinda scared to do that again. so maybe just giving him a light push down some stairs, or putting bugs in his bed would do.

changbin laughed at his own plan and rounded a corner. he's thought about starting with the smaller trophies. he didn't get far with his walking since he crashed into someone. his back hit the floor and he let out a grunt of pain, followed by an 'oof' sound as the air got knocked out off his body as someone landed on top of him. there was something heavy on his chest but changbin had his eyes closed- well he thought they were closed since something was blocking his view of sight- so he couldn't really see what it was. the stuff that blocked it tickled his nose and had a nice scent to it.

the tickling intensified and he sneezed.

the sneeze was so powerful that he flew up in a sitting position, he bumped his head with the other person and they somehow managed to shift position. changbin had his eyes now open and could clearly see that he was staring right into someone's eyes. the person had brown coloured irises and their eyes were the size of dinner plates. changbin blinked two times, he noticed the position they were in.

he was in between the other's legs- quite the awkward position- and his hands were on either side of felix' head- wait felix!? the same felix he cursed and is jisung's study buddy!?

the two continued to stare at each other, even as they could hear the door creak open and the sound of footsteps became louder and clearer. both of them were completely frozen.

"felix are you in here? seungmin sent me to get-" whoever was behind them stopped in mid-sentence. and that's when both felix and changbin snapped back and both flew off each other. changbin slammed into another shelf of trophies. one fell down and landed on top of his head.

"ah! woojin!?" he could hear felix' frantic voice "it's-it's not what it seemed like!" slowly he took the trophy off his head and one look at the other person who had walked in on their awkward position, changbin felt his heart stop.

of course, it had to be the ravenclaw prefect that had walked in. changbin wanted no more than to fling himself out of the window behind him. woojin must have felt his stare so he turned to look at him. one glance at his face and the older snorted, the panicking from felix in the background made him laugh harder.

"sorry i didn't mean to interrupt anything," woojin said after he stopped laughing, the two youngers in the room stared at him confused and woojin waved them off and turned on his heels and made his way out "don't worry i won't tell anyone about this, be glad it was me who saw you two."

before either changbin or felix could utter a word woojin closed the door, and they were both stuck in an awkward silence.

a minute passed and changbin could feel felix sending him glances every other second. he contemplated if he should start a conversation or not, seeing as felix looked like he would like to say something, but stopped right as he opened his mouth.

"anything on your mind?" changbin asked after some time. felix jumped and his head snapped up to look at him.

felix pursed his lips, he had this thinking face on that for some reason changbin thought was kinda cute- wait what?

"should we start?" felix motioned with his head towards the rags and the bucket that now was empty of its liquid. the floor now wet. and that's when felix noticed he sat in a puddle. felix groaned "well i'll be damned! now my pants are soaked and i look like i pissed myself!"

changbin laughed at him, he couldn't help it. felix spoke in such a deep voice and the way he flailed his arms around, made him look like a three year old who didn't get the toy he wanted. the scene was comical and changbin's humour sucked and literary anything could make him laugh.

"hey! don't laugh at me!" felix threw a wet cloth at the laughing male and he managed to land the cloth right into changbin's open mouth. the cloth then choked him, so now changbin was now coughing instead of laughing.

felix panicked and got up to help him, but he slipped on the water puddle and fell onto the floor again, a trophy fell down and landed right on him. changbin spat out the cloth and wheezed, he toppled over in laughter. apologizing in between each intake of air. the hufflepuff was laughing too, both just laughing at each other. if someone walked in on them now, they would probably think something was wrong with them.

---

after polishing for more than 2 hours (it felt like 10 minutes with all the fun they had) changbin felt like he was walking on clouds. hanging out with felix had been so much fun, they had talked about family, gossiped, shared childhood stories, laughed a lot, and shared their mutual hate for jisung. changbin learned that felix was the second one in his family tree to be a hufflepuff, his grandpa was the first. most of his family members were in gryffindor or ravenclaw.

changbin had walked felix down to the hufflepuff basement, he had ignored the protest from felix. yes, it would become a long way for him to get back to his own common room, but he didn't want to just leave yet and felix was also in the midst of telling a story about how him and woojin became friends. he still needed to apologize to him about the cursing part.

after saying the password changbin hummed- something he did not do- as he walked inside to find jisung. changbin wasn't an idiot, and he knew damn well why his heart was beating so fast like he just ran for his life from a norwegian ridgeback. why he didn't feel hungry anymore, and why he just wanted to lie down on the floor and squeal like a schoolgirl drunk on her crush's love.

he, after just hanging out with felix for two hours, had formed a crush on him.

"someone bring me my sunglasses, changbin's glowing and i'm going blind!" changbin was too lost in his thoughts to even care about jisung as he just face planted onto the couch and grabbed a pillow, he hugged it tight to his chest and sighed.

as he got no response out from the other, he let out another sigh. this one longer. again no response, jisung continued to read his book. changbin did it again, a long sigh as he got closer to jisung. the younger put his book down and turned his head annoyed.

"what do you want?"

"binnie binnie changbinnie has a cwush," changbin mentally cringed at himself and he knew jisung would clown him for this.

"please for the love of anything magic never do that again," he had a disgusted expression, it was like someone had made him eat onions dipped in caramel, that was then dipped in liquorice and then he had to drink earl grey tea. that expression quickly morphed into a smirk "wait, did you just say crush?"

jisung got all up in changbin's face, making the older lean a bit back as he nodded.

jisung didn't get the point of changbin moving so he followed after "on who? tell me, on who?"

"you know him-"

"you like boys!?"

"jisung, please get out off my face. you ate garlic, my nostrils are dying." changbin out the pillow up to his nose, he waited until the younger had backed away before he continued "yes, i like boys. have been doing that for the past four years."

"and you never told me!?"

"listen up cunt i told and i quote myself: hey ji i like boys, i want to kiss and hug boys, i want to marry a boy. i am a raging homosexual male. end quote."

"that's a lot of words for a twelve year old." jisung snorted "anyway, who is it? do i know him?"

changbin hugged the pillow tighter "yes." the younger gasped and let out a silent 'oh mah gawd who'. he thought first of he should even tell jisung, jisung for one had a loud mouth and without himself even noticing would spill something. if he told chan- that was out of the question. the older would try to play cupid if he knew.

so telling jisung it was.

"felix." changbin said, barely audible. so jisung just blankly stared at him.

"what- i heard fishlix, who the hell is that?"

"felix." changbin said again, a little louder.

jisung gasped so loud, it sounded like changbin had just told him the biggest news ever. like no homework for a week.

"as in felix lee!? the hufflepuff!? the guy you cursed!?"

"jisung stop shouting!" changbin hit him with his pillow "and yes, that- wait a minute." it then dawned on him. he never told who he accidentally cursed, he found out today, wrote it quick in his little diary...

"YOU READ MY DIARY!"

---

the day after felix spent all free period looking for seungmin. he just had to tell him about everything that happened yesterday. he had bugged poor jeongin about it the night before. the second year had stared with wide eyes as felix rambled on about how cute and amazing changbin was.

"excuse me, minho!" felix stopped the older slytherin. the two knew each other through dance, also how he knew the other slytherin, hyunjin (the one seungmin for some reason did not like)minho stopped walking and waited for felix to catch up with him. when he did felix cut right to the case "have you seen seungmin?"

minho tapped his chin "hmm. yeah i did see him." minho pointed in the direction of the owlery "i passed him as i walked back from there. he seemed angry or something."

"ah thank you!" felix waved and ran. by the amount of running he had been doing these past days, he was sure he could outrun the fastest broom by now.

felix squeezed himself through the crowd as he ran, he nearly tripped over jeongin at some point. don't blame him, the hufflepuff was tiny. still not reached puberty. felix ran down some stairs and out the main entrance, the air was somewhat chilly. winter was around the corner, and it would probably start snowing soon.

he ran, up the stairs of the owlery tower, he felt excited to tell seungmin about this. he hurried up and slipped inside the entrance "seungmin you'll never- MERLIN'S BEARD I AM SORRY FOR INTERRUPTING!" felix screeched and put his hands over his eyes. his cheeks were flaming hot in emberasmet.

what had he seen?

"felix it's not what it looked like!" seungmin yelled and felix just tried to manoeuvre his way out. kinda hard to do when you have blocked your own vision, so he bumped into the wall.

"how do i delete the image of my friend violently snogging someone out of my head!?"

"hyunjin this is your fault!"

"hey! i just wanted to ask you why you hate me so much, then you just kissed me- not that i'm complaining."

---

minutes later, all three of them had calmed down, but felix still avoided eye contact with both of them. he looked kinda dumb there he sat staring at the wall behind them as he spoke about yesterday's event in detention.

"so are you going to ask him out or nah?" hyunjin asked after felix' long rant was over. the ginger had legit stars in his eyes as he spoke about the other.

felix twiddled his thumbs and looked at the floor, a small pout on his lips as spoke "when i grow the balls to do it. which is never." felix dramatically sighed "how do i even know if he likes boys! what if he likes girls! boobs man!" felix looked down on his chest sadly "i don't' have those."

"have you asked him?" seungmin questioned, "i mean you would never know if you didn't ask."

"i can't just go up to him like," felix got up and imitated how he would walk up to changbin, his hands on his hips and walked sassily "hello there changbin. you like... boys? people of the male gender? people who don't really have boobs?"

hyunjin snorted and fell back on the floor, he immediately got up once he realized he might have landed in owl poop.

"i mean it's worth a shot," seungmin shrugged and felix just screeched back at him. some owls hooting angrily at him so the trio quickly got up and ran out, nearly bumping into a boy with black hair and glasses.

once they got a distance away from the tower felix spoke up.

"i think we sent harry potter into his death. i mean, i really pissed those owls off."

hyunjin and seungmin shrugged, not really bothered since they didn't know the boy. yes, seungmin was in the same house as him, but the boy barely spent time with the rest of the gryffindors. he liked to cling onto the youngest in their little gang. woojin's half cousin, jeongin.

the trio reached the main building of the school they split up, well hyunjin left them to go and join some other slytherins to class and felix took this to seize the opportunity to ask seungmin about the scene he had stumbled into.

"so," felix began, looking at seungmin while aggressively wiggling his eyebrows at him "what happened to your undying hatred towards hyunjin?"

seungmin's face turned red and he avoided any eye contact "i don't know what you're talking about felix."

"well i can't get the image of you two ma-"

"felix!" seungmin breathed out in relief as jeongin came and interrupted the other before he could finish his sentence. the young hufflepuff had a wide grin on his face as he jumped into felix' arms "guess what! guess what!"

"uh i don't know, you got to play with charming spells?" felix suggested as an answer, but jeongin shook his head "uhm you.. got to defeat some slugs?"

"yes that too, but no."

felix made eye contact with seungmin, the other shrugged in response.

jeongin groaned at the lack of answers from the two "i'm going to try out for the quidditch team!" he yelled excitedly. felix thought he busted an eardrum at the outburst.

it took the two older students some time to react. not that they had time to reply, because from the hall, jeongin had just come from, woojin came running. jeongin noticed his half cousin too, he winked at felix and seungmin, jumped out off felix' arms and dashed the other way. woojin nearly slipped as he rounded the sharp corner, yelling something after him.

"well guess we're having plans tonight, i need to watch him. need to cheer on him like the older responsible stu-"

"that's a lie."

"rude." felix huffed and they started to walk again. he quickly checked his wristwatch to see how much time he had left until his defence against the dark art. still another 30 minutes. seungmin suddenly stopped, so felix stopped too. "why did you stop?" he asked the gryffindor.

seungmin pointed at something down the hall. felix turned to look at it, and damn did his heart skip beats? yes it did. felix thought his heart was going to jump out of his ribcage the second changbin came walking out from a room in all his glory. his dark, nearly black, purple hair glowed in the lighting.

did his heart break when a girl came out after him? to answer that, yes it did. did it break more when changbin smiled at her and held her hand for a split second, before walking away. again, yes.

quickly he ran. the aching feeling in his chest was to much for him. yes, changbin wasn't his and nor would he ever be. but you can't help but feel it break a little you know, just knowing that fact. felix ignored seungmin calling out for him to stop, he just ran.

---hours later---

changbin walked around aimlessly, he and felix had planned on meeting up at the library at 7 pm sharp. but felix never showed up, even after an hour. changbin had waited for that long, in hopes that he would show up. which, again. he didn't.

they had such fun yesterday. did changbin do something? was there something he said? did felix find him boring?

millions of thoughts ran through his mind.

changbin sighed and leaned against the wall. he was contemplating if he should go back to the ravenclaw tower or find chan just to rant to him. he could've chosen jisung, but that boy was nowhere to be found.

out of the corner of his eye, he saw one of felix' friends, seungmin, walk hurriedly in the direction of the hufflepuff basement. changbin ran over to him, seungmin nearly tripped over his own feet as he had to suddenly stop. a wave of emotions flashed in seungmin's brown eyes and changbin felt a little uncomfortable under his gaze.

"just wondering, have you seen fe-"

"oh he's feeling sick, gotta go!" with that the gryffindor made a beeline the same way he had just come from.

changbin was left there with an eyebrow raised in confusion.

---

a week passed. a damn week had passed since changbin had seen felix, again he was beginning to think he had imagined the boy all along again. jisung was no help either, the younger finally got the chance and grabbed minho's attention. now the two were hanging out all the time, so changbin had no one to vent to.

"changbin i've been calling your name for six minutes now," chan snapped his fingers in front of his eyes and changbin snapped back from whatever daydream or deep thoughts he was in. "what's on your mind?"

"do you know felix lee? and you talk to him if you do know him?"

"yeah i do. and yeah i do that too, how so?" chan closed his book to focus all his attention on the boy in front of him.

"has he ever like mentioned me? like something i have done to piss him off and make him ignore me?"

chan thought for some seconds then shrugged "honestly no. but woojin did mention him being cooped up in his room all the time."

changbin thought back to the day he and felix were supposed to meet at the library. he tried to recall what he was doing that day. first he had potion class, no felix in that classroom. on his way to herbology he had waved at him, but the latter didn't seem angry at him. let's see after that he went for some lunch, he had seen felix run out of the castle and over to the owlery a few minutes earlier.

changbin knitted his eyebrows in frustration, digging deep into his mind to recall more. ah yes, a ravenclaw his age dragged him into a room, she wanted to tell him something. a confession. changbin quickly and as nicely possible declined it, telling her truthfully that he wasn't interested in girls.

they exited, he smiled at her and told her she was a nice girl. think he held her hand for a second then walked away- "hey felix stop running!"- changbin abruptly stood up and slammed his book shut. scaring the crap out off chan, the older threw away his feather in shock. chan also spilt his ink on his book and that made him groan.

for some seconds changbin just stood there, recalling hearing someone shout felix' name right after he had held her hand. he then slumped back in his chair. why would felix react that way? changbin thought, he looked up at chan who was frantically looking for his feather.

there was no way felix could have feelings for him right?

again changbin got up, he had to find out what was going on. maybe save the possible friendship him and felix could've had. chan didn't seem to notice that he left, to busy finding that damn feather pen that had cost him more than half of his weekly allowance for three weeks.

not that changbin could remember the way down to the hufflepuff basement. he had to find that tiny hufflepuff first.

and that didn't seem to be hard, because in a matter of minutes changbin found him bickering with woojin.

"- i am 12 not 2 woojin!" he stomped his foot and glared the older.

woojin rolled his eyes "you're acting like you're 2 right now. also chan would agree with me about the fact that you're too young to join the quidditch team."

"what are you two? my parents? woojin come ooooon" jeongin whined and clung onto woojin's left arm, doing his best puppy eyes.

"no, this is a message from your mom."

"well screw her!" jeongin yelled and woojin flinched, the younger huffed and crossed his arms "she never allows me to do anything after my dad died. it's been years and i'm not a baby anymore. it was an accident, a storm came and swept him off his broom and he fell."

woojin kept silent for some time, before he sighed in defeat "fine.but if your mom snaps, it's not my fault."

jeongin cheered and hugged him. changbin took that as his opportunity to approach them. jeongin looked up from woojin's chest when he heard footsteps approaching them, and changbin felt like chickening out and running away. as jeongin's daze fell on him, along with woojin's, changbin gulped nervously, suddenly feeling hot and his palms were clammy.

"changbin do you need anything?" woojin let go off jeongin and the younger stood silently beside him. changbin lowkey felt like he was being judged by him.

"you- you know felix right?" why was he stuttering? it was just woojin... woojin who could kick his ass all the way to pluto if he felt like it. also felix' friend.

"what do you want from him?" jeongin tilted his head and came up to him, hands on his hips to look imitating. but having a hufflepuff that was nearly three heads shorter than you wasn't really that scary and changbin was about to start cooing and squishing his cheeks.

"i just need to talk to him." changbin fiddled with the ring on his finger. something he did when he was nervous.

"talk about what?"

"i need to know what i did wrong, he's been avoiding me for a week..." changbin looked away. he didn't know that his would take such an effect on him, it had happened before. he talked to a student for some hours and they got really close, then they didn't talk ever again the day after. maybe he had just been the one who had hoped for something.

woojin had his eyebrows knitted "he hasn't spoken to you?"

"no?"

jeongin groaned "he's so dumb and he lied to you woojin, come here changbin we're finding felix and you two are going to talk!"

---

"felix lee!" jeongin kicked open the door while he screamed out the name. the room was an empty and unused storeroom. felix who was currently eating choked on his food, and stared with wide eyes a the younger hufflepuff. jeongin trotted inside "you lied, you told us you talked to changbin."

"but i did-"

"you can't fool me xilef, don't ask me how i just said that, poor changbin is a confused little child, thinking that you found him boring and that's why you left him and avoided him." jeongin dramatically pulled changbin in and hugged him "look how sad he is!" jeongin took one finger on the corners of changbin's mouth and dragged his lips into a frown.

felix stared at changbin with zero emotions in his eyes and changbin just panicked, and when he does that he usually hides behind a person. jeongin being that person this time.

"felix you're scaring him. i'm going to leave now so talk... bai!" with that jeongin ran out, being sure to kick the door shut on his way out.

it was silent. so silent changbin swore felix could hear his fast heartbeat. he gulped and shuffled awkwardly to sit on the floor, a meter or two away from felix, the other followed him with his eyes. there they sat in silence staring at each other.

it felt oddly deja vu ish, only that this wasn't fun.

"listen-" they both spoke up at the same time, changbin nodded at felix to let him know that he could start. felix avoided eye contact and played with the hem of his shirt "hey listen changbin. i am sorry for avoiding you... it's just- nevermind it's dumb." felix ignored his aching heart.

changbin could read people quite good, and with felix' body language he could figure out that something was hurting him. maybe just maybe changbin could tell him about the girls, because maybe that was what's bothering him. not that it was possible. changbin chuckled inwardly at the thought of felix having romantic feelings for him. that would never happen in a million years.

yes, changbin did realize he fell fast and hard for felix. but the aura of the younger just made him feel happy and all fuzzy inside.

"so just so you know, if you saw me with a girl i don't like her." felix seemed to perk up at that and looked at him "yeah i mean, she's nice and all that but girls aren't my thing." changbin snorted at his own sentence. that sounded dumb. being busy trying to figure what else to say he didn't notice felix having a mini celebration dance.

"so you like boys?" felix questioned. changbin panicked again, what if he had made felix uncomfortable. instead of saying anything he just nodded his head and felix grinned "me too!"

changbin was shocked, maybe he had a chance now.

---

"jisung!" changbin jumped on the younger and hugged him like he was some type of teddy bear "i love him!" he slid down so he was now laying with his head in jisung's lap.

"who? felix?"

changbin nodded and sighed with so much emotion running through him. he looked up at jisung who was trying to read a book "where have you been the past days? have you replaced me with minho already?" changbin fake cried.

"i mean i need to hang out with my boyfriend-" jisung smacked the book over his mouth and changbin gaped at him. then the shortest of the two grabbed a pillow and started to hit jisung with it screaming 'why didn't you tell me you asshat!?'

---

changbin and felix hung out a lot more, changbin often running to felix when jisung ditched him to hang out with minho. his feelings for the younger grew and grew, and soon it was christmas break. felix along with his family were going to australia this year, while changbin would stay behind. jisung and minho were so in love with each other that they literally begged their parents for a week straight to let them celebrate christmas as one big family. it worked.

changbin had no idea what chan was doing. the older seemed to be lost in thoughts a lot of the time, he always had this soft smile on his lips while he was thinking about whatever was on his mind.

his train of thoughts was interrupted when felix just barreled into the empty storage room, his cheeks were redder than a tomato and his eyes bigger than a owl- his breathing was irregular too.

"lix you okay?" changbin put down his feather and ink.

"binnie why do i always walk in on people making out," felix fell to the floor and groaned for ten seconds. obviously changbin was yet again left confused by the hufflepuff. he was in a position known as 'the child' in the world of yoga "first hyunjin and seungmin, remind me to never piss off the owls. the second time it was jisung and minho, in a library of all places. then hyunjin and seungmin AGAIN. then today it's chan and woojin, like what-"

"waitwaitwait! rewind! who!?"

"chan and woojin? didn't you know they have been together for a year now?"

"i- no? chan never told jisung and i, oh that little cunt."

felix snorted and rolled over on his back "well i just need not screech this for a second." felix cleared his throat "ugh i'm so sick of this! someone take me out!"

"as in avada kedavra take you out or a date take you out?" changbin giggled as felix looked at him.

"i don't care, surprise me."

changbin doesn't know where he grew the balls for this, but he doesn't regret the words from slipping out his mouth, "well the felix, can i have the honour to take you out on a date?"

felix became silent and stared at him again with wide eyes, for how many time this boy's eyes widened was concerning. one day they would just pop out. changbin felt nervous as felix just stared at him instead of answering.

"...yes." felix said solfty.

changbin smiled "great! meet you with the main entrance at 8pm tonight?" felix smiled back and nodded his head fast.

---

"jeongin what do i wear!?" felix panicked as he threw clothes out of his closet, occasionally stopping and putting a shirt in front of himself while he stared at his reflection in the mirror.

"clothes."

"really?! i would never have guessed that, i thought we were supposed to wear bedsheets and fruit bowls!"

"you have thirty minutes left." jeongin bit into his apple, he ignored felix' sarcastic comment comepelty.

"what!?" felix dived into his pile of clothes, he picked up a pink oversized sweater and just a pair of jeans. he kicked off his sweat pants, rolled around on the floor as he tried to get his pants on. he jumped up and did some squats to get the pants on since the rolling around didn't work.he then threw his shirt and jeongin's face, the younger lost his apple making him whine. felix pulled the pink sweater over his head, his hair got messy in the process, but that fit the look more. the sweater was a turtle neck so he just looked like a squishy bean. the sweater was actually hyunjin's, but felix kinda stole it.

"aaaaaaa! i only have 15 minutes to get there!" felix dashed out off the room, he completely forgot about his jacket. he ran so fast his legs could take him, up the stairs- he tripped but no one saw that- rounded some corners and then he finally reached where he was supposed to meet changbin. he was panting hard and his legs kinda just gave up and he fell on the floor, face first. face mushed into the carpet and his butt up in the air.

"err.. felix is that you?"

felix lifted his head and was his breath stolen? changbin, although he just wore some jeans, a black shirt, a grey beanie and a black jacket (and his house scarf) in conclusion, the most basic outfit ever. but in felix' eye she looked like the most handsome, beautiful, amazing, breathtaking, heart stealer, cute, hot, s- you get his point, he liked the outfit.

he felt his cheeks become hot as changbin helped him up from the floor. changbin's hand felt just right holding his (small)hand, and he couldn't help but swoon a little. okay, yes felix was whipped.

"let's go?" changbin smiled and felix just melted. felix who? never heard of him. when he saw changbin holding out his hand for felix to hold, he grabbed that hand like his life depended on it. this was his opportunity to be close to changbin- of course respecting if the other felt uncomfortable.

they walked outside.

it wasn't snowing which was good, but it was cold. but never would admit to that, not after he said he wasn't cold to changbin a few minutes ago. felix never admitted to defeat and snow was not going defeat him, nor the cold. well, hypothermia could, but he never loses so he would win that battle- hopefully.

"felix are you sure you aren't cold?" changbin asked worriedly when felix shivered, they stopped walking and before felix could protest changbin slipped off his jacket and put it on him. changbin was incredibly close to him, and felix just died a little. just then changbin looked up and made eye contact with, his gaze went to his nose and he smiled a little "you have your freckles out and breathing." changbin boped felix' nose and grabbed his hand again.

felix took this as a chance to lay his head on changbins shoulder and snuggle up to him as they walked. changbin didn't seem to push him off so he took that as an okay to keep the position. no words were spoken for a while.

they stopped eventually with a clearing, changbin having used accio to get another jacket (how that spell worked when they were a distance away from the castle was a question) and were now having snowball fight. it had started to snow now. felix hid behind a tree, a snowball ready in his hands. he waited and used his hearing to hear the crunch of snow under someone's boot, but nothing. it was silent. curiously he took his head a little out when a cold substance hit his face. snow dribbled into his shirt and felix screeched feeling the cold water run down his stomach.

he heard laughter come from somewhere and then another snowball hit him, this time on top of his head. felix shook the snow off his head and that's when he noticed changbin trying to be sneaky. the older hadn't noticed that felix saw him so felix took this an opportunity to play that he didn't know.

"changbin where are you?" felix called out, he walked a little being sure to not look into changbin's direction. out from the corner of his eye he saw changbin getting ready to throw another ball at him, but felix reacted fats, he spun around and threw the ball as hard as he could. it hit changbin right in the face and the ravenclaw fell on his butt.

felix ran to him, and pushed changbin onto the ground getting on top of him. sitting proudly on his stomach "i won." felix announced with a smirk. changbin wiped some snow off his face and laughed, he held his hands up in surrender.

"okay you win. what do you want?"

felix grew some balls like changbin had done earlier, he puckered his lips "a kith?" he batted his eyelashes at him. changbin went quiet and felix thought he messed up, but as he tried to get up changbi grabbed his scarf and yanked him down.

felix' eyes fluttered shut at feeling of changbin's (cold) lips against his lips. they were slightly chapped, but what do you expect when it's winter, they were still soft though. they separated after some seconds, felix was sure his face was redder than a tomato.

changbin smiled up at him "as much as i liked that, my back is getting cold and wet from this snow." felix rolled off still in a shock. i mean how would you react if your crush of three years kissed you?

again felix found changbin holding his hand. they were cold now, because of the weather and from the playing in the snow. felix smiled and gave a light squeeze, changbin squeezed back and they giggled at nothing in particular.

---

"your hair is so soft," changbin ran his fingers through felix' hair, completely fascinated by how soft it was. felix hummed and turned to the next page in his book, again they were in the empty storage room, someone had put a couch in there now. felix laid with his head on top changbin's chest, their legs somewhat tangled.

after their little snow date both confessed outside the hufflepuff basement, that was two weeks ago. felix would leave in two days and changbin wanted to spend as much time as possible with him.

"bin?"

"yes?"

"i wish i could spend christmas with you here. australia is boring."

"as much as i would like that, you have to spend it with your family," changbin pecked the top of felix' head. the younger boy blew air out if his nose, showing that he didn't agree "lix you will see me after break."

"yeah but-"

"no buts," changbin interrupted him.

"at least let me give your present now." felix got up and went over to his little bag, he opened it and took out a small box wrapped in red christmas paper. he smiled and went back to the couch, changbin sat up to allow him to take a seat on the couch and not his legs.

"i haven't bought yours yet," changbin admitted embarrassed, but felix only giggled and waved him off. felix placed the small box in changbin's hands and motioned for him to open it. changbin obeyed and slowly opened it, kinda feared that felix just wanted to prank him.

there was another small box, a black velvet box, changbin lifted the lid off revealing a necklace. the chain was silver and had a white crystal charm on it. changbin lifted the crystal up to his eye level when he noticed some interesting movement in it.

there was two letter in it, an F and a B. the F was yellow and moved somewhat like lightning, some sparks flying off it. the B looked more like water, it looked like it moved like waves. changbin looked away from and at felix who was looking away.

"i have one too, but my crystal is more pink," felix said with a small voice. well he accidentally made his voice 10x deeper than it already was. changbin choked on air and felt his soul slip away from his body.

"uh.." changbin was at loss of words "i- i love it."

felix smiled brightly and leaned forward and hugged him. changbin leaned a little back so he could look at felix' face, and he quickly gave a peck. felix wasn't having any of that, so he pressed their lips together one more time, longer this time. when they separated again, felix laid his head back down on changbin's chest, there he heard and felt changbin's fast heartbeat and he smiled.

"lix?"

"mhm?"

"sorry for casting that slug charm on you-"

"you're apologizing for that now!?"