To the moon ♡ muke

11 - the air you breathe is haunting me ☽

Part two

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The Shelter of Magic was an enormous school with multiple buildings. There was a gym, library, dorm, observatory, school, and huge training grounds with ponds and forests, and lakes.

It had everything a student could wish for in order to succeed in his general and magical education.

Parents from all over the country had enrolled their kids in it because of their success. Some of the pupils at the school didn't go home at all over the holidays, therefore, it was taken care of every source of entertainment that school could allow for them to have. One of them was a so-called party room in the dorm's basement.

It looked nothing like a basement. Especially after Michael put Ashton in charge of decorating the room for his birthday party.

When Luke, who was in charge of the music, arrived at the party before it began he couldn't have found better words than magical to describe the room.

"It really is, isn't it?" Michael heard Luke's praise and took the heavy box filled with Luke's excessive record collection.

"Mikey!" Luke followed his friend and tried to get his attention. "When did you recolor your hair?"

Michael's almost orange hair was vividly red again.

"Do you like it?"

A huge grin on Michael's face made it hard for Luke to watch his hair and not his face. Luke nodded anyway and hugged him tightly. "I'm not going to wish you a happy birthday yet and you're also only getting your gift on Tuesday. I just wish you'll have the best day possible and eat lots of cake."

Michael squeezed him back just as strongly as Luke did and whispered back. "Thank you."

"Yo lovebirds," Ashton shouted. "Stop hugging and start helping me, your guest will be arriving soon Clifford and it's your party, not mine."

Michael and Luke both laughed but helped Ashton anyway. It's not like they had a choice.

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The party was rather small but Luke still didn't know most of the invited.

It's not that he was surprised Michael had other friends than him he just didn't know he had that many. They were friends for only two months or so but the people there knew him for years and Luke felt jealous.

Nick, Michael's friend he told him about, was not only incredibly funny and good-looking but also close to Michael since he arrived.

It's not like Michael didn't introduce his friends to Luke or tried to get Luke's attention for the past hour. Luke just didn't want to be a part of a conversation about how fun it was a year ago when Michael and his friends did this or when they were remembering some funny teachers Luke has never seen in his life.

"Are you okay?" Calum asked when Liam left him to go and dance with some girl who thought he was single and available.

"Yeah," Luke answered, his tone of voice anything but nice.

"They're not as bad as they look. I mean I live in the same neighborhood as most of them."

"They're just so.. loud."