WITCHCRAFT | jungri

♔Nineteen♔

"He kissed you?!"

"Would you keep it down?" Yeri hissed as she and Joy walked along the dark corridors of the castle. "Geez, you might as well shout it out and slap a sticker on my forehead."

"Are you kidding? I'm surprised the entire school hasn't found out about this," Joy responded, her eyes bright and mischievous. "Practically everyone knows about the two of you and your romantic parallels."

"Seriously?" Yeri's eyes widened, her cheeks unusually red as she ducked her head down. Had they really been that obvious?

"What did you expect?" Joy rolled her eyes in a sarcastic manner. "You two were holding hands by the Great Lake. I'm pretty sure half the school saw you two— hell, the fish and the Giant Squid must be raving about you down there."

"And why exactly is our relationship any of their business?" Yeri questioned the older girl; not that they had a relationship established yet— Yeri had yet to figure out exactly where she and Jungkook stood.

"It's a school, Yeri," Joy reminded her. "A bizarre one full of magic and creatures and everything supposedly just a myth, but a school nonetheless, meaning that most students take couples quite seriously."

"There's got to be a thousand couples at this school, Joy," Yeri grumbled. "Like you and Seokjin— hey, how's that going, by the way? Has sneaking around gotten any easier?"

"Oh shush, you," Joy sighed, pushing Yeri slightly to the left and nearly throwing the raven-haired girl off balance. "And our case is different— the school doesn't know about us, and that's because we know how to keep things secret, unlike you and your handsome lover-"

"Would you like to die?" Yeri threatened jokingly, pulling out her wand. "Because I've learned a lot of spells since I've gotten here— you'd be surprised."

Joy chuckled, grabbing ahold of Yeri's wrist and pushing it back into the pockets of her robe.

"I've been here a year longer than you, sweetie," she smiled. "Fight me and you'll be finished in an instant."

Yeri shook her head. "We're way off-topic, Joy— is there any way he and I can just, you know, hide from everyone? I'm not good at doing whatever this is on display for the entire school to see."

Joy shrugged. "Not much I can do about it— you're the 'Young Love' couple of the school."

Yeri immediately stopped in her tracks, causing Joy to nearly walk into a pillar.

"What did you just say?"

The Slytherin tilted her head to the side as she furrowed her brows. "You didn't know?"

Yeri shook her head slowly. Young love?

Joy sighed. "Every couple has a name at this school. There's the It Couple— Johnny and Chungha, the Match Made in Heaven— Seulgi and Jimin, the Match Made in Hell— Taeyong and Jennie, the Bubbly Couple— Yuju and Seokmin, the Eccentric Couple— Wendy and Yoongi, because who could have seen that coming-"

"Could you get to the point, please?" Yeri begged, afraid that her friend was going to run out of air and aphysxiate if she didn't stop talking soon.

Joy nodded, snapping out of her trance. "Right, sorry— sometimes my brain runs on autopilot and I kind of start going around and around like a vinyl record, you know? It's like, I don't even have to think about what I'm saying-"

"You're doing it again."

"Oops," Joy shrugged, sounding non-apologetic as she gave Yeri a sheepish smile. "Anyway, like I was saying earlier, you and Jungkook have been quietly labeled as the 'Young Love' Couple— mostly because the two of you have been quite infatuated with each other for a long time and simply haven't realized it yet. Also because you're young, of course."