Year 1 - Dynamics - A Harry Potter Fic.

Part 29 - Jay's POV

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(Great Hall) (Jay's Pov)

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(The day before Halloween)

(Lunch)

Jay groans and lays his head down on the table.

"I hate this stupid quill." He groans and lightly tosses the quill across the table. Then pushes away the ink bottle, desperately wishing for a pen.

Vyla stuffs her hand into her pocket and pulls out a chocolate frog container. She opens it up, humming to acknowledge Jay's frustrations, and bites into the magical candy.

Suddenly the room fills with feathers, loud coos, and loud thunks of packages hitting the wood tables. Jay's parents bought an owl so his family could stay in touch but they hardly wrote, so he wasn't expecting much. Maybe a note from his Grandma, that was about it.

"Ow!" Vyla howls.

Jay lifts his head to see Vyla rubbing her head and holding a small brown box tied in a red string. Then a flimsy package falls in front of Jay and onto his paper. He frantically pulls it off. Luckily, nothing is smudged.

Vyla shakes a fist at her owl as it flies away, "Dumb bird!!"

Jay snickers, "What is it?" Vyla's family always sends her interesting wizard things or good snacks. (As well as the occasional condescending letter from her mother.)

Vyla shrugs, she holds the box up to eye level observing it as if she were buying a new car. She pulls on the end of the string causing it to fall loose onto the table. She puts the box back down on the table and pulls off the lid. She reaches in and pulls out a small silver key with a yellow note tied onto it with the same string that was tied around the box.

"The hell?" Jay mutters.

"For your friends." She reads. Vyla looks to Jay, they share a puzzled stare.

"That's not ominous and creepy at all." Jay jokes.

Vyla chuckles, and shrugs.

"What about you?" She asks, gesturing to his package.

"No clue," Jay says, he rips the brown paper from the package.

Inside a neatly folded leather vest, white v-neck, and a wig sit with a note and a cassette tape on the top.

Vyla snickers, "Your parents sent you clothes?" She points to the cassette tape, "And what the hell is that?"

Jay rolls his eyes, "Yes they did. And that? It's a cassette tape. I have a mini-player in the dorms. It plays music."

Jay picks up the letter and skims over it.

'Jay, we figured you'd need a Halloween Costume. So your step-father gave up some of his old clothes. Does Uncle Jesse work?

Love, Mom

P.S. The cassette tape is from Nirvana. And Grandma says "Hi."'

"Thanks, Mom," Jay whispers, smiling to himself.

Vyla, stuffing her face with somehow more candy, looks at Jay and squints. "Well? What did your parents say?"

"Nothing, just sending me a Halloween costume and the album Nirvana released last month." He shrugs, attempting to contain his excitement.

"Too bad..." Vyla inputs.

"Grandma says 'Hello' though." Jay lifts the cassette tape. "What do you think?"

"Looks like a block of plastic to me. And a weird one at that. Most wizarding music is played on phonographs or with magic."

"Jeez- you all do need to jump up in technology." Jay gets up. "I'll be right back."

"M'kay." Vyla mumbles, her mouth full.

Jay runs out of the Great Hall.

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(Time Skip)

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"What do you think?" Jay asks Vyla as she takes orange headphones off of her ears.

Vyla smiles widely.

"You know, it's not bad! It's really-- how'd you put it? Oh yeah, bopping!"

Jay laughs filled with pride, "I'm glad you like it, you can borrow my cassette player sometimes if you want."

"I'll take you up on that offer, Schultz," Vyla says, taking an ear of candy corn that appears from thin air.

"Ew," Jay comments in disgust. "How can you stand that stuff?"

"I, uh, was trying to get another chocolate frog. Why? Do you recognize this candy? Cause I don't."

"Of course I do, it's candy corn." Do they not have candy corn here?

Vyla hums a note and pops it in her mouth. Her eyes narrow and she shrivels in disgust. She quickly spits it into a napkin.

"Nasty!"

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(Time Skip || After Lunch)

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Now in his dorm, Jay pulls the white v-neck over his head. It's too big, way too big. What else did he expect? He puts the vest on.

"I look like a fool." He mutters brushing the shirt and vest down.

Justin swings open the door -scaring the living daylights out of Jay- and looks him up and down. "What the hell are you wearing?"

"Nothing," Jay says stripping the shirt and vest. "Just some stupid Halloween costume."

Justin flops onto his bed and opens a book, "What costume?"

Jay mutters something about a 'Jesse' under his breath.

"What?" Justin asks, putting the book down on his chest.

"It's Jesse!" He yells and his cheeks flush. "From Full House."

Justin unsuccessfully covers a laugh with a cough.

"Oh piss off," Jay mumbles falling onto his bed.

Justin breaks out into a laugh, "Full House?"

"What's wrong with Full House?!" Jay semi-yells lifting his head from the pillow.

"Nothing, man." Justin calms down. "You do know that they don't do costumes right?"

"They don't?" Jay asks.

"Nope!"

"That's fucking great." Jay says sitting up on the bed, "First the lunch, then the stupid costume, and now YOU!" He aggressively pushes the costume off the bed.

"What did I do?!" Justin asks defensively.

"You're teasing me!" Jay answers.

"I am not!"

"Yes, you are!"

"You're just sensitive," Justin says recoiling from the conversation.

"I'm not!" Jay yells before realizing his predicament. "Okay, maybe a little."

Justin chuckles, "A little?"

"Okay, a lot." Jay gives in and flops back onto the bed.