"Her Confession"
"What in the name of—!" Krystal and Chanyeol whipped around and saw Kris, murderously looking at them like he could kill anyone in a blink second. Krystal felt like her whole body had jolted due to too much shock and the overwhelming things she was feeling at the moment. It was as if someone had shoved her inside a bucket filled with ice just right after basking under the heat of the sun. Everything was too irrepressible, she almost felt delirious, almost like fainting in an instant.
Maybe it was also the very reason why she hadn't noticed that the wand just inside her pocket was now flying towards Kris's grip in a flash. Everything was just like a lightning. She could even swear that the time difference was only a couple of seconds when she suddenly found that Kris was now diving for Chanyeol. She could only terrifyingly scream when both had brutally knocked on a nearby desk as they beat each other to death. Kris had already cut Chanyeol's lower lip for his first blow, but the younger student wouldn't let him prevail as he also tried to injure the other by kicking and punching him as much as he could so he could get out of his cornered state.
It was a devastating bloodied scene, seeing two people you cared about kill each other with no hesitancy. She could even swear she had heard some bones cracked to either one of them as she cried outrageously and ran as fast as she could to get some aide to the Hogwarts' school librarian, Madame Pince, when she knew that none of them were listening to her anymore. It was quite surreal when everything went too fast but also so devastatingly too slow to stop the two from doing enough damage to each other.
When the help came, Krystal was sure she was going to lose her reason to breathe. Both had been injured really badly. Chanyeol earned deep bruises, wounds, a split lip and a broken arm. It was a good thing that Madame Shim was able to heal them without delay. Kris also gained some bruises and wounds, though not as much as Chanyeol seeing that Kris had the upper hand for cornering him and knocking him on the desk at the first place. The only serious injury he harbored was a fractured lower limb he had earned when Chanyeol tried to topple him over to gain dominance, making him fall back mercilessly on the desk's stand.
Professor Gyu and Madame Maxime had also come to interrogate them. The Slytherin house Professor was seething, seeing that both his students were in a fight, not to mention that they were also in the same Quidditch team. Madame Maxime looked very disappointed of Krystal, though she had constantly declared that her student had nothing to do with this and that Gyu's students were the ones who had caused the trouble. She had even smugly pointed out that Krystal was a model student, and that she believed that she was the one who had witnessed the fight and ended it by reporting the two to Madame Pince so she needed to be thanked for and not punished. This statement was however, confirmed by both Kris and Chanyeol, making Professor Gyu more than incensed. Without any further questions, he had granted them two weeks of detention before storming out of the room with his infamous cape billowing harshly around the tensed air.
He was very mad for being humiliated in front of the foreign Headmistress
and both his students knew that their detention would be more than enough for any punishment coming their way. Krystal was left speechless to what Kris and Chanyeol did. They had left her out of this even though she was really the reason why they'd almost killed each other at the first place.
Her Headmistress was greatly pleased of the outcome and had even praised her for her supposedly heroic deed before going out of the room. A look of triumph and pride was visibly plastered on her aristocratic face.
And now, Krystal was left crying. She was crying in frustration, guilt, worry, anger and all the other emotions so cruelly rammed inside her. All her life, she neither lied nor took any selfish recognition like this. And the fact that both the people she cared about were terribly hurt because of her just pulled the last straw. How could her stay in Hogwarts ruin her like this? "Stal, don't cry. Please, stop crying," Chanyeol uttered while tenderly wiping her tearstained cheeks. She was currently sitting on a small stool between the beds of the two occupants, though her chair was notably moved away from her brother and nearer to Chanyeol. "Don't touch her like that as if you're concerned of her or something!" Kris suddenly spat at Chanyeol from his bed. He looked very outraged but was too helpless and couldn't stand up due to his broken leg.
