Welcome to Hogwarts(Boyxboy)

Chapter 26

"Fire crabs?"

"No, he said we weren't doing those 'til next term."

"I know, I'm just assuming that's you're problem given the colossal prat you're being."

Kurt laughed as Nick whacked Jeff around the head with his Care of Magical Creatures text, scowling.

As usual, they'd gather together to study that Sunday afternoon at their back table in the library, the same one at which Kurt had treated Blaine to certain... things at the previous Thursday, though he wasn't about to tell any of the others that. It was raining hard outside, the fat drops hitting the window behind them with loud plinking noises.

The seven sixth-year Ravenclaw boys were seated with their books and notes scattered around them as they worked through the intense amounts of homework they'd been receiving in the weeks leading up to the Easter holidays, which would start in two weeks time on the first Sunday of April.

"This is rubbish," Thad muttered, scowling down at his Runes chart. He was the only one of them that took the class and was often found working along over complex charts of spiky runes and difficult translations.

Kurt had always wondered why he and Flint chose to take the class; just looking at Thad's homework made his head hurt.

"You think everything's rubbish," David said, laughing a little as Thad wrinkled his nose and tilted his head at a passage in Spellman's Syllabary.

Kurt smiled down at his Charm's essay as Thad muttered something and David laughed.

"You know what I was thinking?" Blaine muttered, leaning close to Kurt on the pretense of reaching out to borrow his ink.

"Hmm?" Kurt said, doodling absently on the corner of his parchment. He wasn't feeling very focused on homework since the worry that Blaine was meeting Jeremiah was no longer eating away at him.

"What happened here on Thursday," Blaine murmured, laying his hand on Kurt's thigh and rubbing it lightly. "I still can't believe you did that."

"There wasn't anyone around," Kurt said, rolling his eyes and smirking a little.

"Maybe not, but that doesn't change the fact that someone could have shown up at any minute," Blaine said. He grinned. "You're such an exhibitionist."

Kurt gave a tinkling laugh. "If that was the case, I'd just throw you on the table and do it in front of everyone." He bit his lip and gave Blaine a coy look, fighting back a laugh as Blaine growled in frustration.

"You need to stop doing this," Blaine hissed, digging his fingernails into Kurt's thigh. "One of these days I'm going to stop caring that there are people around."

"Hmm, we'll see," Kurt said, tapping his quill on his parchment as he turned back to his half-finished essay. He looked up and saw Flint striding through the shelves, frowning and running his finger down a row of books and muttering something.

"Flint!" Kurt called, raising his hand to wave at the Gryffindor, who turned to look at him with a wide smile.

"Hey," Flint said, swinging his arms a little as he walked up to them, standing behind Thad and Wes. For some reason, Thad bent very low over his Runes homework, his cheeks faintly pink.

"Care to join the insanity?" Kurt said, waving his hand at the jumbled mess stretched across the table and nodding to the last chair between Thad and Nick.        

"Sure," Flint said, plopping down next to Thad and pulling out his own Runes homework with a quick glance at Thad's neatly written notes. "Thad, can you help me with this translation? It's got me buggered."