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As you entered your second week of summer, you decided to invite your friends over to hang around at your house. Especially after the muggle twins that lived next door to you had invited you over to play something basketball with them someday, so you decided to kill two birds with one stone and invite your friends over so you could all have something to do (plus you may or may not want to see your Pureblood friends get confused by the game).
So when the day came, your parents were out of town for the week, and your house was already cleaned up as you wait for your friends to arrive.
***
Cedric put both his hands in his pocket after pressing on the doorbell as he wait for someone to open the door for him.
The door swung open after quick steps were heard. But when he saw who had answered the door, Cedric furrowed his brows in confusion.
“Caitlyn? Why are you answering the door—”
He was quickly cut off by the raven-haired girl, “Cedric! Thank God you’re here!” she exclaimed in a rush. Only now the boy noticed the frantic look on the Ravenclaw’s face.
“What happened? Is everything alright?”
Letting the boy let himself in, Caitlyn quickly speed-walked towards the stairs with the boy following in tow.
“Absolutely not! You’ll have to see for yourself.” she replied as she ran up the stairs with the boy still following closely behind her.
When the two made it upstairs, Caitlyn stopped in front of your door, blocking Cedric from entering in.
“Okay before I show you, I had absolutely nothing to do with this. I arrived before you did and they were like this when I came in looking for them.”
Arching his brow, Cedric asked, “Are you saying you broke into the house?”
“Of course, not! Y/N told me where the spare key was some time ago.” she paused, turning around to open the door, “Brace yourself.”
Arching his brows even further, Cedric was confused, why should he brace himself?
When the door opened, a loud gasp was heard as a group of screams followed. A shush then erupted and everything was quiet, making Cedric pop his head to the side from behind the shorter much shorter girl (for some reason), letting his eyes scan the room, looking at his friends that were scattered around the room.
You, Carmen, and Holly were on the corner of the room all huddled together looking caught and guilty, your hand covering Carmen’s mouth for some odd reason whilst Holly simply stared into the nothingness in front of her. On your front left, Ernie was splayed on the floor, propping his head up for one quick second to see who was at the door then dropped it back to the ground, continuing to stare at your bedroom ceiling. And behind him was Niko, who was sitting on your bedside table, knees to his chest as he also had a grip on your lamp, looking mortified as ever. Last but not least, half of Zacharias’ body was somehow hanging upside down from the roof of your four-poster bed, a guitar in hand. Cedric’s eyes looked skeptically at the six of you, darting from one person to the other.
His eyes widen at the realization when he saw the one familiarity you all had, “Are you all fucking high?”
A few seconds passed, the six of you looked at each other before bursting out laughing after being caught.
“Holly made us brownies!” you exclaimed happily.
“Have you learned nothing?! You should never eat whatever Holly bakes!” exclaimed Cedric.
“Hey! How dare you mister—just because you’re a Prefect does not mean you’re a judge in The Great British Bake Off!” barked Holly, who was snapped out of her own little world at the mention of her name.
“No he’s right, every time you bake, something bad happens — you should get your own kitchen.” all of a sudden sounding gloomier than before, you spoke from your spot, earning murmurs of agreement from around the room.
Holly huffed begrudgingly as she crossed her arms, retreating back to her corner like a toddler, grumbling multiple complaints under her breath pettily.
Cedric was about to scold the lot again when the doorbell rang.
Panic raised in the two sobers’ bodies, turning around then back at the group, they look at each other, “Shit! I think that’s Hyde and Harlem!” said Caitlyn in panic.
“Hyde and Harlem? What are they? Post-apocalyptic evil twins—” Ernie jumped out of his spot gasping, “—Are they?! Oh my god– my family– by parents! They’re all dead, aren’t they?! Oh my god– oh god– did they—?” he stood up from his seat, panicked cries booming around the room of stoned teenagers, “Those scumbag evil twins– it was them, wasn’t it? I knew they were no good! They’re gonna pay for this.” the Hufflepuff went to run out the room but was quickly stopped by Cedric who held his shoulders.
“We’re all gonna die!” cried Carmen in the back dramatically, followed by the rest of the group who panicked their own ways — all as dramatic as the other, some even more.
“No one’s paying for anything! And no one is gonna die! Sit down!” he pushed the boy lightly back to where he was before. “Look I’m gonna try and stall them, you lot stay here.” he announced then turning back to where Caitlyn was stood next to the door frame, “You, figure something out while I stall.” he quickly ran out and down the stairs before she could stop him.
Taken aback, Caitlyn moved out of the door, facing Cedric who was already walking away, “Me? Why me?!” she protested.
“I don’t know, you’re the smart one!” he yelled.
“Hey! Just because I’m a Ravenclaw—” she stopped mid-sentence knowing the bit could no longer hear her and that she didn’t exactly know what her objection was, she sighed, grumbling as she walked back into the room.
Caitlyn went to you and the girls at once, offering her hand out, “C’mon let’s get you all up first.”
Your face stared in awe as you grabbed her hand, “You’re so pretty– is your Mum Aphrodite?” your voice sounded in a daze as you stumbled your way to standing up as you stared at the girl in awe.
“Do you have a boyfriend?” asked Carmen who also had a hazy voice.
The black-haired girl chuckled lightly, “Something like that.” she mused.
The three girls groaned at her answer.
All of a sudden, Holly gasped, making every head turn to her.
“Are you a Mermaid?” she whispered loudly.
Chuckling again, she offered the curly-haired girl her hand, “Unfortunately not.”
Groans of disappointment rang around the room.
A moment later as Caitlyn was busy getting the girls to even stand up from their corner, she heard the strums of guitar from behind her. Zacharias (still only showing half of his body from the roof of your bed) started humming a tune as his fingers strum a perfect chord somehow.
Caitlyn wanted to get the boy down before he falls off, but she was also curious as to what he’s about to do next — what song he was gonna sing.
“The stars are falling from the sky…
And you’re the reason why…”
The strums of his guitar going softly with his voice, even surprising the dark-haired girl.
“The moon is shining on your face…
And I finally think it’s found it’s place…”
The group of stoned teenagers followed along, humming the song with him. You, Holly, and Carmen bopping your heads softly — all very much in a daze still.
Then the rhythm started to go a bit harder than before, “‘Cause maybe, baby, I just wanna do you, do you,” his voice going more high-pitched and louder.
Caitlyn sighed at the sudden change of lyrics and intensity of the song, moving forward where Zacharias was, just a few centimeters away from his body thing upside down.
“Do you wanna do me, do me? Underneath the moon—” his overly-high voice got cut off by the younger girl under him.
“Zacharias! Get down before you hurt yourself!” she exclaimed.
The Hufflepuff whined at the interruption, “Why…” elongating the word, making Caitlyn sigh.
“You’re gonna eventually fall off, now get down before it happens.” She said sternly.
“But Cait…” he whined again, “Don’t you wanna hear the rest of my song?” Flipping his body over so he was now facing the girl. “I wrote it for you…” he said cheekily, an ominous smirk playing at his lips.
Caitlyn groaned in disgust at his confession — somewhat. “Oh hell…” she muttered under her breath in disbelief. Shaking off her disgusted thoughts, Caitlyn looked back up at the bit sternly, “Off!” She exclaimed, the boy getting down begrudgingly at once, words under his breath that were along the lines of Caitlyn being a ‘buzzkill’. As soon as his feet touched the ground, he stumbled forward and was unable to stop himself — Cait too was too late on catching him — Zacharias landed harshly on Ernie’s body that was splayed on the floor.
Both boys yelled as Zach’s body hit Ernie’s stomach, Ernie being louder than the two seeing as every and all weight that belonged to Zach was now on him. “Get off you fat-arse!” Ernie exclaimed at the brunette who lay limp on top of him.
“You’re comfy…” he muttered.
“Off!”
Zacharias grumbled once more as he stood up at once, offering his friend a hand to stand up.
All the while that was happening Caitlyn had somehow become confused at where the guitar Zacharias once held went, “Where’d it go…”
She cursed herself for getting distracted, moving her gaze to the boy who was still sitting like a statue on Y/N’s bedside table.
“Niko…” she said softly at her brother who still looked mortified. He blinked at the sound of his name, his eyes finally moving to where his sister was standing, “Hey buddy… Why don’t we get you down yeah?” She said softly, nodding along with Niko who slowly obliged.
Everyone was now finally standing up, all in their own world, some giggling, some just simply existing.
Caitlyn stared at the line of human chaos, unable to think of what next.
Until someone spoke up.
“What are we doing anyway?” exclaimed Holly from the far left, murmurs of the same question following.
“We… Are going to play, basketball!” Cait said truthfully, trying to pull a response from the group. Some signs of their knowledge of the game.
The group stayed quiet at the news.
Ernie spoke up, “W-what’s basketball?”
Caitlyn was about to answer the boy’s question when someone else beat her to it.
“Isn’t it the one with the big stick and pillows on the ground?” You thought out loud.
“No, dingbat!” objected Carmen, sparking hope inside of Caitlyn, “That’s Tennis…” she continued softly.
Holly then voiced again, “Oh… isn’t that the one with the netted sticks– stick-nets–”
The group continued to argue on what basketball is with Nicholas muttering, “I thought that was Lacrosse…” alone in the background.
Caitlyn looked over the group of older kids, sighing as she was hopeless.
***
“H-hey!” Greeted Cedric nervously as he opened the door, being met with the muggle twins themselves.
Both giving him a bright smile, Harlem had a headband in between her fingers, fiddling with them. Hyde being on the other side of his sister, he held a basketball in his arm, a smile also decorating his face.
“Hello?” Greeted Harlem, a tad-bit confused (despite her cheery expression) at the unfamiliar boy who had answered the door.
“Did Y/N move?” Hyde whispered lowly to his sister — though failing as Cedric could still hear him.
“Oh—no! I-I’m Cedric!” failing to keep hiding his nervousness, Cedric introduced himself.
The twins’ eyes brighten at the mention of his name. “Cedric!” They exclaimed.
Now it was the boy’s turn to get confused, “Yeah?” he stared warily at the two.
Snapping out of their daze, Harlem was one to speak, “Sorry! It’s just– we’ve just heard so much of you. Y/N would not stop talking about you. It’s nice to finally put a face on the name.” She said casually.
Cedric’s cheek immediately felt warm at the news that you talk to people about him, “O-oh?” he said shyly, making the twins chuckle, nodding. For a few moments, Cedric was unable to form words in his mouth, his brain felt like it stopped working. Soon enough, he notices the two people standing in front of him again, he shook his head and plastered a small smile on his face, “All good things I hope.” He said smiling.
“Well yeah, the best. It’s always, Cedric this, Cedric that, ‘Cedric won the Quidditch cup!’”
“Oh—” he was surprised that the boy had mentioned Quidditch, which made Cedric almost object and make up a lie about how Quidditch was a muggle sport they had never heard of.
“No need to fuss up a lie mate, we know.” Hyde reassures casually, which made Cedric a bit tense but overall relieved he didn’t need to lie about one more thing.
“Can we come in?” asked Harlem.
Cedric nodded in realization, moving out of the way for the two to enter.
“So… Where is Y/N? And the rest of your friends? She said there was gonna be quite a lot of you.” Harlem mentions casually.
Remembering about his group of friends, Cedric began to fumble nervously again, “They’re upstairs—” quickly thinking up a lie, “Freshening up!” not quite a lie actually.
“Oh, okay.” the two muggles reply softly as they sat down on the dark blue linen couch.
Silence passed the three for a moment, slight awkwardness (that was radiating off of the only wizard in the room) hanging in the air.
“So…” Cedric started, moving over to the small ottoman across the couch, the coffee table separating the twins and the Hufflepuff. The two looked up at the suspiciously high-pitched voice that belonged to Cedric. “W-what’s it like, b-bein’ a muggle and all that?” he asked, that being the only thing he could come up with. Looking all innocent, Cedric rested his chin on his palm, smiling awkwardly at the two as he waited for them to say something.
“Uhm—it’s, okay?” said Hyde, a bit unsure at what he was supposed to respond.
Harlem was about to defuse the tension by saying something but she was stopped by a loud thud and a pair of yelling coming from up the stairs. All of the words that were in her mouth before were immediately bumped by the new forming ones, so she asked, “Is everything alright up there?”
“Y-yeah.” Answered Cedric nervously (as per usual). “Y-you know what, I’m gonna go check on them– you two wait here and look pretty.” He said in a rush, not realizing what he had just said.
“W-what?” they both said in unison as the boy ascended up the stairs.
***
The boy barged into the room of stoned teens arguing over basketball.
“What’s happening, why aren’t any of you sober?” he asked, all attention immediately turned to him.
He looked at Caitlyn expectedly, waiting for an answer. The girl uncrossed her arms and started, “There’s nothing I could do about this! Marijuana usually lasts longer when ingested, I don’t know when they’re gonna be sober!”
Looking around nowhere to be exact, Cedric tries to think of something — anything. But nothing came to mind. He looks up, your mouth falling agape.
“Alright, I can’t think of anything right now so, I’m gonna have to ask you guys to act sober alright? As much as you can. You can do it, I believe in you.” He explained.
All the while he was explaining and looking at you all expectantly, your mouth was still a wide O. Carmen noticed how you were staring at the boy, looking confused and disgusted, she lifted your chin to close your mouth only for it to drop again.
Then all of a sudden his eyes met yours and you can feel your heart stop, “Are you a prince…” you said softly.
Seeing as that was the only response he got, the boy slapped his forehead, his palm gliding down his face, trying to stay calm and not snap at your currently fragile feelings.
He sighed, “If I say yes would you all do as I say?”
A variety of agreements were heard from the group.
“Then yes, I am a Prince of a great Kingdom somewhere.” sounds of little ‘woah’s erupted, “Now go wash your faces, we’re playing basketball.”
***
Everyone stood in the middle of the court as the game was about to start.
You had somehow changed into a white Tune Squad jersey along with the pants set. Everyone else were either wearing a shirt or a tank top and joggers. Carmen herself had a headband she had misplaced, making it cover her eyes instead.
The Cyprus twins looked at your dazed little group — all still trying to act sober (failing terribly might I add).
“Okay… Uhm,” started Hyde who was confused, “L-let’s choose teams.”
Cedric looked around, specifically at the group behind him, “Uh—yeah, alright. Who’s gonna be the team leaders?”
“You and I, can— if you want. Since I heard you were captain of your Quidditch team, and I’m captain of my basketball team.” Hyde continued.
“Yeah, alright, uhm—”
“Can I be on his team?” you cut him off, pointing at the boy himself.
Cedric stared at you, then to Hyde.
“No, go ahead.”
After a surprisingly short team choosing session, you end up with Yourself, Zacharias, Carmen, Harlem, and Holly in Cedric’s team. And Caitlyn, Ernie, Niko, and Holly on Hyde’s.
A few minutes into the game, everything went pretty well. Good actually, the boys seem to at least know what’s going on, whereas Caitlyn had to occasionally bring you and the other girls back to reality.
Slowly but surely, those who ate the brownies slowly lose their focus on the game. You had passed the ball to the opposing team on purpose because you thought Holly was pretty and Niko had also thrown the ball right at Cedric’s forehead, causing a few minutes time-out between the game.
Now it was another five minutes into the game, you and Zacharias had one arm slung over the others’ shoulders the two of you singing the lyrics to ‘Stacy’s mom’.
“She’s all I want and I’ve waited for so long…” your voices mend together as both of your free hands waved in the air.
“Stacy, can’t you see?” Letting yourself free from Zach’s arm, you faced him as you sung the lyrics on his face.
“You’re just not the girl for me…” he sung back.
Harlem watched in confusion as she dribbled the ball, running towards her opposing team’s net.
Holly was on the other side of the court singing along quietly by herself, swaying around in her own zone before Caitlyn walked up to her, hands on her shoulder, “Have you seen Niko?” she asked.
The Hufflepuff took a moment to pause and think, “Oh, yeah. He went to chase for Alvin.”
Caitlyn furrowed her eyebrows, “Who?”
“You know… Alvin, the little guy. He uhm—he has two brothers, the other one is blue and smart and like—there’s the smaller chubby green one.” she explained all loopy.
Furrowing her eyebrows further, she tries to decode Holly’s little imaginative explanation. Her eyes look like they could pop out of her head, “He went to chase a squirrel?!” she exclaimed, immediately finding her brother trying to climb up a tree in the distance, running towards him at once, leaving Holly on her own once more.
“Hey! They are chipmunks! Those are different…”
Soon enough, everything returned to chaos; Caitlyn was trying to get her brother off the tree before he could hurt himself (“I hate this deja vu,” expressed the girl), Ernie was somehow laid on his front on the floor, crying his eyes out for absolutely no reason and Carmen sitting quietly on his back, you and Zach had moved on to another song (“If long hair and tattoos are what attract you, baby then you’re in luck!”) and dancing around in circles, focused on your own moves though your voices moved in sync.
There were so many things happening, the only two people sober who were aware of the situation had forgotten completely of Hyde and Harlem who was now standing next to each other, watching every scene in sight unfold.
“Is this what happens when you’re a wizard?” whispered Harlem to her brother.
“I’m not sure…”
***
You woke up with a groan escaping your lips, you were confused when you didn’t feel or see even a slight of sunlight. When you open your eyes, you were in your room and it was dark outside, next your eyes scanned across your room, immediately noticing the brunette that was sitting on a chair, a book in hand.
“Cedric?” at the name, said boy looked up with a smile on his face.
“Hey, you’re awake…” he said, his smile not faltering.
Then your eyes scanned across your room again, seeing all of your friends splayed out and all dead asleep. Ernie was on the floor next to you, a blanket underneath him along with a pillow, you could see spikes of brown hair at the end of your bed where a small ottoman was placed — probably Zacharias. On the end of your bed, Carmen was fast asleep on your feet, one arm draped over her eyes. On your left, you notice a mess of brown curls, moving the hair up a bit, you can see Holly sleeping peacefully. The only ones missing were Niko and Caitlyn.
You looked back to Cedric, the boy already knowing what you were about to say, he nodded his head towards the direction of the other side of your bed, you carefully towered over Holly to see the other side (very careful not to wake her), seeing Niko sleeping peacefully with one of your stuffed animals in his arms.
Sitting back on your side of the bed, your eyes fell to Cedric again, you were about to say something when a groan cuts you off.
“Ugh… What happened?” asked the blonde boy to your right, his question waking the rest of the group (except Niko, presumably).
“Holly baked.” replied Cedric as a matter of factly.
Everyone immediately groaned at his response, knowing all-too-well what had happened.
“Hey!” the baker sat upright in her spot, pulling out her defense and offense, “I was just trying to do something nice…”
“Pot brownies are too nice Holls…” mumbled Zacharias, Holly only making a ‘hmph’ noise in return, then falling back onto her bed covering her face with your covers.
Noticing the absence in the room, Carmen was the one to ask, “Where’s Cait? —Wait, I didn’t–” she paused, “I didn’t do anything too stupid, didn’t I? Cedric, please tell me she’s still my girlfriend…” she looked at him pleadingly which only made him chuckle.
“Don’t worry, she still loves you.” he reassured, “She went home early, said she had to wash off the stupidity off of her.” he chuckled.
Pausing for a moment, Carmen shrugged, “Eh, good enough.”
Carmen’s question sparked a realization in yourself, you quickly looked at Cedric and as if he had read your mind (your expression showed it all, actually), he reassured with a smile, “I am still your boyfriend, don’t worry.”
All of a sudden, Niko’s voice came out of the blue, “Hey, y’know Holls… If you ever decide to open a bakery, you should call these the Pot Puffs special, since you’re a Hufflepuff and all.” he joked, making his presence known to the room. His joke only made Holly groan from under the sheets.
Popping her head from under the covers, she glares down at the bit to her right, “Say crap about my baking again, next time it’s rat poison.” Pointing her finger at him then continuing moving her head for everyone to see, she pointed around the room, “Goes for all of you lot.”