𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝟐 & 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭

𝙑𝙤𝙮𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙁𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝘿𝙖𝙮 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨

    THE FLYING CAR CELEBRITIES BARELY GRINNED once the next day. Things started to go downhill from breakfast in the Great Hall.

    The four long house tables were laden with tureens of porridge, plates of kippers, mountains of toast, and dishes of eggs and bacon, beneath the enchanted ceiling (today, a dull, cloudy gray). Beomgyu, Taehyun, Arlo, Jake, and Sunghoon were found waken a bit later and had to race down to the Great Hall. Beomgyu sat down at the Gryffindor table next to Taehyun and Rio, who had her copy of Voyages with Vampires propped open against a milk jug, and Jisung and Daniel sitting infront of them. There was a slight stiffness in the way Rio said "Morning," which told them that she was still disapproving of the way they had arrived. The rest of their friends, on the other hand, greeted them cheerfully.

    "Mail's due any minute—" Jisung mentioned.

    "I should've brought a helmet. . ." Daniel said.

    "A house elf shows up in my bedroom, can't get through the barrier to Platform Nine and Three Quarters, almost get killed by a tree. . .clearly someone doesn't want us here this year," Beomgyu sighs.

    "Clearly," said Taehyun, stretching infront of his food.

    They peered to the Hufflepuff table next to them, with french toasts in their mouth, when Lee Jeno was making a ruckus at Zhong Chenle.

    "Chenle. . .what are you doing?" Soobin looks nervously at the goblet that Zhong Chenle was pointing his wand at, inching away.

    "I'm trying a spell," said Zhong Chenle, focused on the cup.

    Ni-Ki, sitting from behind them at the Slytherin table, held up his plate as a shield. "Uh. . .what kind of spell?"

    "Oh no," Huang Renjun sighed from the Ravenclaw table, placing his face in his palm.

    "Ooooh! That looks interesting, Chenle!" Sunoo hovered.

    Zhong Chenle smirked to himself. "Eye of rabbit—!"

    Jake and Heeseung sunk down their seats and took cover, forehead and eyes peeking out, from under the table.

    "Harp string hum—!"

    "Um—excuse me? What's Chenle trying to do to that glass of water?" Holiday asked from a side of the Hufflepuff table.

    "Turn this water—"

    "Well, trying to turn that water into rum," said Jeno, backing away, "Actually managed a weak tea yesterday, before—"

    "—Into rum!"

    B O O M!

    The cup exploded at Chenle and Sunoo's faces, worn with dark dust. The students from an earshot burst into laughter. Hwang Hyunjin and Yang Jeongin came to ruffle Zhong Chenle and Sunoo's head, howling, "Atta' boys!". Beomgyu and Jisung burst into loud laughs. Taehyun and Daniel shook their heads with a sigh like the rest of their friends. "That's okay, Chenle!" Arlo still chirped. Rio was swatting smoke away from her scrunched face. And Holiday said, "That's not a spell."

    Beomgyu had only just started his porridge when, sure enough, there was a rushing sound overhead and a hundred or so owls streamed in, circling the hall and dropping letters and packages into the chattering crowd. A big, lumpy package bounced off Kai's head and, a second later, something large and gray fell into Rio's jug, spraying them all with milk and feathers.

    "Oakley!" said Jake, pulling the bedraggled owl out by the feet. Oakley slumped, Unconscious, onto the table, his legs in the air and a damp red envelope in his beak.