Chapter Five
"Still Beautiful"
"We only part to meet again"
- J. Gay
Chanyeol Park felt like hell by the time he went back to the Slytherin dungeon. After hearing those inopportune news, he had ran straight into the field and almost jumped into his broom that nearly knocked him off the ground if it wasn't for his viselike grip. He stayed with the wind for hours, seemingly throwing all his frustrations and hatred in the innocent breeze.
He felt embittered.
He felt cheated.
He knew it probably made no sense at all as they were very young before. It was all, perhaps, nothing to her while he took everything quite seriously.
But still.
They promised that they would never forget about each other. She had even cried when he left. What they had was something special. Or at least for him, it was.
The sticky feel of his sweat covered shirt inside his robes was quite irksome, and was even being added by his somewhat sore and tired body. Clearly, this day wasn't his day at all. He woke up with a random girl on his bed and a persistent hangover, skipped his first class in which he knew would get him in trouble tomorrow and then, when classes were over and he thought that was the end of it, he'd overheard some facts that made him think how much of an idiot he really had been.
Now, all that he honestly wanted to do was to throw his body into the shower and fall asleep in a huge tub. "I told you she's really pretty." Chanyeol looked around by the time he had gone inside their common room and saw Terrence Higgs and Miles Bletchley together with some of the Slytherin Quidditch team members, Graham Montague, Peregrine Derrick and Nyo Dongwoo slumped over the low backed black and dark green sofas with buttons in the corner that had become one of the most favourite places of the Slytherins in their common room.
"No Quidditch this year, remember?" Chanyeol tried to look uncaring as he went nearer to the group, though he knew what it was that they were really fussing about. "You're right. No Quidditch this year. But there are some entertaining things besides Quidditch too, you know," Miles Bletchley grinned at him while wiggling his eyebrows just like he did a while ago at Kris. Chanyeol suddenly wanted to poke those two ugly eyes with his fingers until they'd bleed.
"What the hell is this, anyway?" Chanyeol asked as he callously snatched the picture from Terrence' grip, making the latter whine in protest. "She's Kris's sister. She's really something, isn't she? Don't go off telling this to him, though. He might get too angry that he'll try to stop her from coming to Hogwarts," Nyo Dongwoo warned as Chanyeol stared at the picture for the first time. Chanyeol tried so hard to convince himself not to care anymore. He tried so hard to stop staring, just return the picture and walk out.
But, damn.
Looking at the girl of your dreams for the first time in years and seeing how exactly she had turned out to be was quite… amazing; in some sense, even vaguely beyond belief. She was even more beautiful than he remembered or even thought about. Krystal was wearing her uniform, which was made of light blue silk as she smiled and waved at the camera. A book and her little blue hat were placed delicately just beside her. She was sitting on an outdoor porch swing and her other hand had reached out to take a strand of stray hair away from her face because of the breeze.
The ambiance was bright and sunny, making her glow a little. She was just so beautiful and so happy and so carefree that it almost hurt to know that she had so easily forgotten the tears she shed when he went away… She was happy now. She was happy with someone else.
