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Chapter 16. His smile

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Lance's Pov.

Me, Hunk, Pidge and Keith were walking through the corridors as we slowly made our way to our next class. We still had a lot of time so we decided to take it easy and just talk to one another during the walk.

"You know some of the things I miss the most about home? The games. My family is still, obviously, at number one but the games!" I squeezed my eyes shut with a smile planted on my face before continuing," We used to play them together all the time. We would  play card or board games like uh..? The game of hearts, poker-" a chuckle escaped my lips," we always used to bet on the chores we had to do, so we didn't have to do them if we won the game. The loser would have so many chores- Uno! Dios mío! We loved to play uno." I thought it over for a second, scratching the back of my head. "Rachel somehow always cheated her way to victory, still haven't figured out how she does it though.. Hey you guys! I actually have a stack of uno cards with me here at Hogwarts, want to play and totally get your asses kicked by me?" I chuckled out after my long, excited rant about some of the games we always played as a family at home. We especially played them on holidays and birthdays if we were with a bigger party. Otherwise it was usually me and my siblings late at night trying to not get caught by our mamá and get another long rant about responsibilities and stuff.

My eyes looked at my group of friends with continuous excitement. They just stared back at me in confusion.

"Lance I'm sorry, but we have no idea what you're talking about?" Hunk spoke up as he sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck.

I looked over Pidge and Keith's expressions, they nodded along to Hunk's statement making me gasp out in shock.

"You magical dumb asses don't even have the knowledge about a common thing such as card games?!" I shouted out over the conversations happening around us. It caught some of the other students their attention, some even jumped at the loudness of my voice as it boomed through the old hallways of Hogwarts. Though they quickly continued on with their day.

A chuckle escaped Pidge's lips as she pushed her glasses back up the bridge of her nose.

"Of course we do, Lance. They're just different. We just don't know about uno or whatever. We have for example.." she thinks it over for a second. "Snitch Snatcher, Quidditch and wizarding chess board games or the exploding snap card game! That ones fun." She chuckled out.

I gave her a curious look.

"Somehow that sounds awfully dangerous... we have got to do those games! How about you teach me your wizard games and I'll teach you muggle games." I suggested with a smile.

They all seemed to agree. Some more than others. Keith, looking at you buddy. Though everyone still seemed somewhat excited nonetheless.

"Hey, Mclame!" I heard someone call out from behind me, a sigh escaping my lips as I rolled my eyes at the dumb nickname. Though I still stopped in my tracks, turning to whoever called out to me.

"James?" I questioned slightly confused.

He had honestly been very nice to me, well, it's whatever you'd call nice, but he had been quite bearable ever since I stood up to Nyma and Rolo for hurting his familiar.
He had taken me aside that same night in the Ravenclaw dormitory and had actually genuinely apologized for his previous behavior and had thanked me for helping him. He explained to me he was honestly kind of jealous of me, because he had worked very hard to be even recognized in the slightest of bits and I was just 'chosen'. At least, that's what he called it.