JAEHYUN GROANED AS SEOHYUN JUST SEEMED TO KEEP PESTERING him during lunch. "Amara, kill me." He begged as Seohyun kept poking him and pestering and gawking at him like Jaehyun was a newborn baby. "Did you know that if you-" Amara cut him off, "Did you know that if someone named Seohyun Asterius Ryu won't shut up in the next three seconds he will actually be shaved bald?" She smiled innocently as Seohyun his jaw dropped. She really called the middle name.

"I can't help it! Look at him!" Seohyun explained defending himself as he grabbed Jaehyun his cheeks and stretched them like people did with a baby. Jaehyun swatted away his hands annoyed, "Quit that will you? I'm two years younger!"

Amara snickered as she saw how worked up Jaehyun got. It had become a regular occurrence to see the Slytherin sitting at the lions nest, because as Seohyun said. 'It's my last year! Let my baby sit with us!' Jaehyun glared at him lightly but rolled his eyes. "Mhm, I'm not hungry I'm going to wri-" Jaehyun yelped as he was pulled down back into his seat.

Seohyun gave him a stern of putting look and shook his head, "You haven't even touched your food, you're eating." He stated firmly leaving no other option for poor Jaehyun. The boy whined, "But Seohyun." He whined dragging out his brother's name dramatically.

As he was exclaiming his name one second too long Seohyun had forced some egg down his mouth. Jaehyun started slightly choking before swallowing the food. "Hyung!" He called out offended and he swatted away his hands. "Rude."

Seohyun snickered and Amara was losing her shit, Jaehyun glared at them. "Not funny, I hope both of you get hair loss tomorrow." He sneered annoyed as he munched on some toast his older brother had laid in front of him. Seohyun pouted, "My hair is my finest part!"

"Your hair is your only fine part." Jaehyun snarled at him rolling his eyes which caused Amara to wheeze. Seohyun pouted once again, "My baby brothers being a bitch." He whined, Jaehyun rolled his eyes shoving his brother a little.

Meanwhile a few seats away were everyone's beloved pranksters. James was whining, "What if i don't get captain?" He whined out, Peter groaned and threw a piece of toast at him. "It's too early for this, ever."

James rolled his eyes, "It's only lunch Pete! You wouldn't understand!" He exclaimed dramatically which caused the entire group to let out whines. Sirius snickered and mocked James, "You wouldn't understand!" He exclaimed as his hand fell on his forehead, his back leaning onto Remus who just laughed before pushing him off.

The boy with glasses looked at his best friends offended, "Fuck you Padfoot!" He exclaimed throwing a croissant his way, which he dodged. "If you won't be captain you'll live." Peter sighed as his eyes averted towards the Korean boy currently fighting with the Quidditch captain. "How about you ask sleeping boy?" He asked.

James his entire body perked up and he grinned ear to ear, "Pete you're a genius!" He exclaimed, "We have to kidnap him until he'll beg his brother to make me captain!" He exclaimed, Remus stared at him as if he had been traumatized. "No, we're definitely not doing anything like that." He stated firmly, James pouted which Sirius imitated. He over exaggerated his pout making a baby like sound, "Real funny Padfoot." James sneered as he faked a laugh which caused the entire group to fall into a pit of laughter.

"Fine, fine.. what if we befriend the boy? Y'know show him I'm actually worthy of being a captain?" James pleaded, Remus sighed and rolled his eyes. "Have you seen the boy? He barely talks, and when he does.. he stutters and is just awkward, it'll take a long time before he warms up to you." Remus stated knowingly, James put on a determined face.

"We have an entire year to befriend the sleeping boy! Operation James is the best Quidditch captain is a go!" He exclaimed proudly, Peter frowned. "And what if you do? You'll just pretend like the entire year didn't happen?" He asked, Remus agreed with his friend. Faking to be someone's friend and then leaving them behind after getting something out of them was just sad, you don't do something like that to anyone.

James rolled his eyes, "No- i mean, probably not? If we spend an entire year trying to become friends with him I'm sure we'll make at least aquintences. I just need to prove that I'm a good person!" He stated proudly, Remus frowned and shook his head. "Just, if you're going through with this don't get him attached.. it's too somber to watch him lose the only people he liked.. Just keep it acquaintances and not friends."

James snickered, "So protective of him, damn Moony I've never seen you act like this for us before!" He pouted. The werewolf sighed chuckled softly, "That's cause no one actually likes you, I'm pretending to like you. Euphemia and Fleamont are paying us all to be friends with you." He stated amused at his friends reaction.

James gasped in offence and dramatically threw his hand over his head, pretending to fall on to Peter "How could you do such an atrocious thing to me?" He cried out dramatically, Sirius snickered and threw some cereal into his mouth which he nearly choked on.

Jaehyun was mindlessly wandering towards class, yawning every few meters that passed. He was tired, both socially and physically. Just talking to Seohyun had drained his social battery, topping it of with the fact he got like four hours of sleep, which was already quite a lot for him. Him and Regulus had talked quite a bit last night, till two in the morning.

He plopped down in his usual seat in the back of the class, not expecting anyone to sit near him he put his bag down on the chair next to him. "Is that seat taken?" Jaehyun his eyes widened, "What?" He sputtered out confused as he came to eye with James Potter. The boy smiled earnestly, Jaehyun stared at the boy utterly baffled. "Y-you.. you- you want to sit next to me..?"

The question was accompanied by a tone which already showcased his confusion and not to mention pure shock. In his four years he had been to Hogwarts people had always sneered at him as they passed in class, nobody had ever went to sit next to him. James gave him a confused look but nodded nonetheless. "umh- uh- Y-yeah! Er- i mean no! The- the umh seat is free!" Jaehyun quickly rambled to giving a response to the given question.

James grinned and put the bag on the ground softly, "Thanks mate!" He said patting Jaehyun on his back. The introvert didn't know what to expect, what he did expect was water to fall over him, or a snake to bite him in his ass, but nothing happened. "Er- umh.. not- not to be rude or anything- but- umh.. is there any reason that- that you came to sit next to me..?" Jaehyun awkwardly asked, it was just clear by the way he was talking that he wasn't used to socializing a lot. He stayed put in the small dot of a friend group he had and was happy with it. To have someone popular like James Potter approach him wasn't a very usual thing, hell it was the first time someone had wanted to sit next to him, someone willingly sat next to him.

The Potter gave him a way too honest smile for Jaehyun to actually buy it, no way in hell that someone like James would willingly sit next to a snake like him. Maybe- maybe he came to make fun of him for falling asleep in their compartment! Or- or would it rather be him intorregating him to see if he knew anything about they said.. In anyway it just didn't seem logical.

"Nope! Peter is already paired up with Frank, so I'm left alone." He stated as he slammed his book on the desk. Jaehyun went red from embarrassment for even asking such a question, hell maybe he'll scare him off! He nodded and grabbed his books as well, "R-right.. i- I'm sorry for asking.." Jaehyun spoke awkwardly as he started to scribble down some of the words he had yet to fill in from his previous slumbers yesterday in class.

On the other side of the class were the people James usually hung around were seated. The remaining Marauders stared at James, taking in every small move he was making to the socially unavailable boy. Even Lily Evans had taken into account that he hadn't taken his seat behind her, which slightly shocked her. Her eyes averted, quite relieved, to see James on the other side of the classroom.

"Do you think he's setting his pants on fire?" Dorcas asked confused, Marlene snickered but shrugged. "The boy looks like he's gonna bloody piss himself, either he's queer and got the hots for Potter or he's just really shy." She stated as she was whipping on her chair.

Lily laughed softly and shook her head, Alice in the meantime had her back turned to the friend group and was happily talking to Frank. 'completely platonic' is what Alice had called it but none of them were that dense. "I don't think anyone will ever get the hots for Potter.. i mean look at him." She said as the group of girls turned to look at the group, indeed, not very eye catching for them. James himself was currently imitating professor Slughorn, though his expressions were extremely exaggerated.

Mary was meanwhile already sleeping on her desk as Emmeline was drawing figures on her arm. "You think she'll die from it?" The girl asked wondering as she drew a cat on her arm. Marlene laughed the second she saw the drawing and grabbed a pen as well, writing about how cool she was on the girls hand.

Lily smiled at her friends, and behind their desk sat Remus who was slightly disappointed in his friends. "Are you certain that this is a good idea? It's just blatantly sad to use someone like that.." Remus mumbled as he watched Jaehyun awkwardly shift in his seat whenever James glanced over at him. Sirius shrugged, "He'll live, he's a snake after all." He grumbled.

Peter frowned but decided to keep his mouth shut. Remus sighed, "Like James said, apparently he's hated in his own house because he doesn't act Slytherin like, well.. honestly i can kind of see what he meant, normally they'd sneer or just give him a dirty eye, he.. well I'm pretty sure he's on the verge of pissing himself.." He acknowledged.

Sirius grunted rolling his eyes, "It doesn't matter, he'll live." He brushed off, already annoyed that their topic had shifted to talking about a dirty snake. Remus sighed but decided to let it go and focus on the Arithmacy lesson instead.

Jaehyun was bouncing his leg up and down constantly, his guard never went down. The second James had even spared a glance at him he was panicking, he felt as if he was being stalled for one of their stupid pranks again. He had spare clothes but what if it was something else? Lord what if it was poison in his pen which made the ink poison his lungs where he'd die?!

Okay, no maybe he was being a little dramatic, they wouldn't kill him. Hopefully.

"You want one?" James asked, as he showed a handful of sugar quills, as tempting as it was Jaehyun honestly didn't want to risk it. He was right! James was trying to poison him! Jaehyun politely declined, a wave of relief washing over his body as he just conquered death.

James snorted, "It's not going to kill you, here just take any." He took one as well, and as he sucked on the sugar quill, he didn't die. Jaehyun hesitantly grabbed one, "Er- umh- thanks.." He managed to sputter out. James shot him a kind smile, the boy wasn't too sure of his act of kindness but nibbled on the sugar quill anyways.

This was weird, everything about this interaction was widely confusing. Having James Potter sit down next to him was just the tip of the ice berg, there wasn't a decent explanation as to why he was seated next to him. James was friends with everyone in his year except for Slytherins, but the thing is, Jaehyun himself is a Slytherin. So what was this stupid tomfoolery? Nothing made sense and it scared him, not knowing what would happen. James could choke him with a sugar quill and he'd and up dead!

Okay, Jaehyun calm down! He was merely being dramatic, or maybe he was just being himself. Just a mere overthinker who always sought out the worst for himself in te most innocent situations.

After the lesson was finally finished Jaehyun was trying to convince himself that he wouldn't be happier if he killed himself before potions, one of his many beloved subjects he was so kindly forced to take. "Hey! Jaehyun right?" James called just as the boy was about leave the door. Jaehyun froze his entire posture being stuck in his place.

He hesitantly nodded, he felt as if any moment from now on he'd be assassinated by the Potter boy. "Er- umh yeah! Yeah.." Jaehyun trailed off, awkwardly staring at the boy. James grinned and headed over to the boy, swinging his arm around his shoulder.

"You've got potions right? Let's walk together!" He exclaimed grinning. Jaehyun froze, trying to comprehend just what in the world was happening. He wasn't used to having people willingly join him on small walks to class, he wasn't used to having company, he wasn't used to have friends. He wasn't used to people caring about him.

And thus he just couldn't trust it as much as little Jaehyun would want, no would beg.

Jaehyun chewed the inside of his cheeks, hesitantly sharing glances over at James who was walking with him through the rooms with a large grin spread across his face, making it seem like he actually personally knew Jaehyun. It confused him all together, it felt like comfort but one he couldn't trust. Hesitantly Jaehyun turned towards James.

"Hey.. umh Potter- not to- not to sound like an arse but- er- umh.. shouldn't.. shouldn't you be walking with your friends?" He asked, slightly scared of what the boy his reaction could be. But much to his surprise, he just flashed him a dashing smile.

The Potter boy shrugged, "They'll live, besides.. We're friends, right?" He asked, his brows slightly raised. Jaehyun his eyes widened, do people really make friends that quickly? Is that how you make friends?

He stared at the boy for a few seconds, and nodded reluctantly. "Oh- er.. yeah.. yeah sure." Jaehyun smiled gently at him, James was surprised when he saw the boy actually smile, with teeth and one dimple on his right side. It was a genuine smile and it had caught James of guard, Jaehyun didn't seem like the type to be trusting this easily. But at last, Jaehyun did want a friend, he'd become friends with first years if he needed to.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

I realllyyy hope I finish this cus I love this book just too much:/