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IV

Warning! This chapter contains homophobia, minor violence and blackmail. Please proceed with caution.

C.YJ. POV

Yeonjun looks back down at his phone, leaning against the wall outside of the great hall.

O. A. 🐍

outside forbidden forest in ten or we tell your family
sent 12:47 pm

The Slytherin looked at the time at the top of the device. It read 12:56 pm, meaning he had four minutes to get to the location. Eyes widening, Yeonjun stuffed his phone into his bag and started sprinting across the school, taking as many shortcuts as he could to get to the wooded area. After what felt like an eternity of running, he could spot three figures slouched against the edge of the forest, heads looking in the opposite direct from where he was sprinting from. He clunkily pulled his phone out, looking at the time again. One minute. Internally, Yeonjun made up a little cheer for him to keep going and within that minute, he managed to reach the trio, who had now turned to look at the panting Slytherin with cat-like grins. There stood Oliver Avhone, a tall Slytherin with doe eyes, a tall nose, and a round chapped mouth, topped with a windswept mop of overgrown blonde curls, with his girlfriend Della Blaire, a slim, dark girl also from Slytherin, her usually coiled hair forced into two tight fishtail plaits, with strong features and a striking pair of cruel amber eyes. Behind them stood Jaiden Noble, a Hufflepuff girl wearing her uniform loose with trousers, small face bearing bright violet hooded eyes, a button nose and heart shaped lips, which always wore an uncomfortable or guilty smile when Yeonjun saw her. Oliver smirks at the bedraggled appearance of the other Slytherin, smugly commenting "You really are too much of a coward to tell your parents you're a faggot, ay Choi?"

Upon hearing this, Yeonjun could only snicker, replying "I would rather not be disowned before graduating, thank you very much Avhone." At this remark, the blonde burst out into a short fit of laughter, before turning back to look at Yeonjun. "Shame you're a freak of nature, you have a semi-decent sense of humour." Oliver snickered, eyes full of malice. Once more, Yeonjun retorted to the insult, stepping closer to the other Slytherin, speaking in a low tone and making direct unfaltering eye contact. "Shame you're such an asshole Oliver, because if you had a personality outside of it, I might even find you cute." Avhone's face might've as well as turned green from the disgusted expression he wore. Enraged by this comment, Della stepped out from beside her parter, backhanding Yeonjun across the cheek and yelling in his face. "Lay off, you fucking fag! No one wants your disgusting germs, especially not Oli!"

At this, Yeonjun could only sigh. Rolling his neck and placing his hands on his hips, he asked the trio the only thing he cared about in that moment."Well? What the hell do you want from me this time?" With those words leaving his lips, the Slytherin girl grinned maniacally, deviance glinting in her eyes. "Steal me some acromantula venom from the potions closet by the end of next week or your family get told."
Hearing the task he had been given, Yeonjun was about to refuse, until he noticed the dark, threatening stare from Oliver behind her. Biting his lip to stop the initial words from coming out, he decided to phrase it more calmly.
"You know, that's a big ask. I don't think-"
"Oh, I'm sorry, are you questioning me? You better fucking do it, or the rest of your friends will have the same punishment." Yeonjun immediately shut up and nodded his head. Oliver smirked.
With this confirmation of the task, the couple walked off, a still silent Jaiden behind them, who spared Yeonjun an unnoticed smile and a sympathetic glance. Once they'd vanished from his view, Yeonjun slumped down against a tree, wondering how on earth he was going to do this. He pulled out his phone's timer, and set it for Friday the next week. The seven day countdown started now, and there was no plan.

A lot of plans crossed his mind, but the one that hovered was asking his friends for help. Though this was quickly dismissed, as dragging them into this mess would mean that if he got caught, the others would suffer even more because of his stupidity. Plus, he could imagine that they'd probably be irritated at him for not just standing up for himself, because telling them the stakes would only make the pressure to succeed higher, and that pressure belonged to Yeonjun and him alone, because he was the one who made the stupid mistake of trusting Oliver in the past. This was all his fault, and eventually, the debt of his trust would be payed off and he'd be able to escape the errors of his past character judgements.

With a heavy sigh, he slipped his phone back into his bag, after sitting under the tree pointlessly brainstorming for twenty minutes. Standing up, he looked at the sky, dark clouds starting to form overhead, foreshadowing rain. Yeonjun smiled to himself a little remembering that he shared that next class with Soobin, and walked back onto the castle grounds, temporarily locking his task in a mental wooden box.

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Chapter four done!
I don't have anything else to say other than I want sleep-
Stay safe, my little moons and I'll see you all in the next chapter!
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