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Daichi is absolutely sure this could turn out so, so bad – even without Suga-the-Prefect whispering it repeatedly into his ear as they walk toward the astronomy tower – but it's too late to back down, now. And, if he is lucky, he gets to see Suga a little tipsy. That, he wouldn't want to miss.
“Merlin, Suga, if you keep making me panicking we'll probably get caught because of my anxious vibes !”
Suga squeaks – it's cute, but Daichi thinks most things Suga does are cute, so it probably doesn't really count. And the imp is probably just riling him up on purpose, knowing full well Daichi can't help but be an upstanding citizen of the Hogwarts castle.
“Who decided to make that Prefect party again ?” he grumbles, tightening his cape around himself.
“Kuroo, who else ? I heard Bokuto was involved too.” Suga's voice is light and carefree. Daichi envies him.
“Slytherins are making this ? With help from Gryffyndors ? And we're going there willingly ?”
“You're in Gryffyndor too, you dumbass, and last I remember it's still not called Grandma-house…”
The rest of the walk is quiet, the excuse of “patrolling the corridors” can't really be used when they're not going anywhere near the dormitories. It doesn't matter, they've known each other long enough not to be bothered by silence – it actually feels nice to walk and let their arms brush and smile when they cross eyes.
“Ok, we're here,” Daichi starts shuffling around the ugly troll tapestry. “Is there a password we should know ?”
“Nah, they told me they check every few minutes to let people enter.”
“That's quite elaborate… do you think we should tell people ? They seem to party quite often.”
“Would explain Kuroo's incredible bedhead,” Suga smirks again.
“Won't explain why he's one of the top students.”
“He's friends with the 4th year Ravenclaw, Kenma ? I think they study together.”
“Who ?” Daichi genuinely can't remember.
“The one with the very selective hair-dye potion, you know.”
They have to stop discussing people's hair as a door opens right behind the tapestry – yeah, Daichi thinks, Room of Requirement to hold secret parties instead of secret armies... the battle for Hogwarts sure was a full decade ago.
Koushi can't understand why the party is worse with Oikawa being here. Really, you'd think Hufflepuff's Prefect would be more…
No, there's no way Oikawa french-kissing Kuroo while holding a Butterbeer in each hand isn't completely what Oikawa is like. Bokuto is making hooting noises from the other side of the room and Kuroo, licking his lips when they break apart, answers with a large wolfish grin. It looks more like a sleepover than a party, with sleeping bags scattered throughout the room for the Prefects (minus Asahi, who cancelled at the last minute because they have “homework, Suga, not parties with people that drink and talk”, minus Ushijima that seems to disappear every time Oikawa is not willing to talk about Quidditch, plus Bokuto because if Kuroo is here then so is he). Koushi has, for the moment, done little more than sit next to the candy bowl and stare at Daichi. He looks uncomfortable, trapped inside Kiyoko and Yui's gossip circle. Koushi sends him a weak supporting smile, that Daichi doesn't answer. He almost looks sick, Koushi realises, and he tries to get up to ask if he wants to leave, but then Oikawa is sitting so close he could be on Koushi's lap and handing him a bottle of Butterbeer. Escaping from this is as tricky as it sounds.
Why is Oikawa sitting this close to Suga ? Is he… flirting ? Daichi is too sober to deal with this but there is no way he will touch anything that may contain alcohol and then spend the night with Kuroo, Bokuto and Oikawa, so he just has to sit there, next to the equally pissed-off-but-not-leaving Yui that might hex anyone that dares disturb Shimizu and her. Now, they have brought up the topic of Runes and how “the teacher's translation was sooo wrong, could you believe it ?” Suga iss drinking his second Butterbeer and talking excitedly about Charms with Oikawa, and it's endearing in a way that kinda hurts, and Daichi wants to leave so bad – he jumps when a hand lands on his shoulder.
“Daichi,” Suga's words are a tiny bit slurred together but he seems okay altogether, since he managed to get this close without Daichi noticing. “We should leave. You look bad.”
“Leave ? So soon ?”
Oh no, oh no, Kuroo heard them and is now brandishing an empty Butterbeer bottle over his head. How he can lecture Daichi without sounding drunk at all is a mystery, but maybe it's because too much alcohol at once cancels out the effects. He's clearly had too much, though, considering what he announces as his grand idea of a game.
“Spin the bottle !”
Daichi is so green that Koushi giggles a bit, but he promptly shuts up when Oikawa reminds him he'll have to play. It's not like he has big secrets, though. Everybody knows for – well, the fact that there are two male Prefects this year in Ravenclaw is partly due to the fact that he was too quiet before being named one and then overwhelmed by the fact that being Prefect along with Ushijima really made him a girl and no. Asahi and Oikawa are the Hufflepuff Prefects, after all, so this year is just one big bunch of surprises rolled together. But really, that's it, no more big secrets, Daichi made him promise not to keep those to himself after he was done freaking out for misgendering him for so long. And they won't ask questions about the little, silly secrets, like, say, the fact that he wrote his entire Astronomy essay using Wikipedia because seriously, Pureblood wizards need to expand their research horizon a little, and Muggleborns like him could help.
And everybody knows about Daichi and him, right ? So no problem on this side as well.
“Aaaaall right !” Bokuto is way too fired up and almost shatters the bottle while spinning it. “It lands oooon… Michimiya.”
Yui smiles – a smile that tells people she can and will hex them if necessary – and picks "dare". Koushi expects she'll have to kiss someone but no, Kuroo is too much of an idiot for this and instead she has to circle the room twice hopping on one foot and holding her nose from under the other leg. Sober, Koushi would find that ridiculous and a little endearing, but he really is a little tipsy, and he must watch with awe and then explode in laughter.
“Oh Merlin, you're all being stupid,” Yui chides, but she looks a little proud as she sits back down in the circle. “My turn to spin !”
It lands on Kiyoko, who has to give Oikawa a neck kiss without breathing for a minute, and then on Bokuto, who smooches Daichi's foot as if his life was at stake, and then it's his turn.
“There's no way I'm picking 'dare', Kuroo, look at that face of yours and tell me you can be trusted ! Truth.” Koushi hopes he won't regret this... He's the first to pick "truth" and he can feel the mood shift from playful to "trial mode" in no time.
“Sugawara Koushi. Tell us about…”
If Daichi has to spill one more secret – and hear Yui's corrections, because hell if if she is going to let him skip the most embarrassing parts – he is going to kill Bokuto and his stupid habit of hooting when he laughs too loud. Or Oikawa for asking him how it was when he first kissed someone.
“Wet and sloppy, my dear Daichi, don't cover it that well,” Yui had said. “It felt like kissing a jellyfish straight out of the sea. You really should learn to kiss some day."
Raising his eyebrow, Daichi wonders if the beans have not been spilled after all. Suga picked "truth" and was asked which Muggle artefacts they used for their Astronomy research, though, he will have to ask Suga how that works sometime. Later, though. Because it's Suga's turn again and he picked "dare" – Daichi sent him a warning glance but he didn't notice, too focused on eye-battling Oikawa into submission.
“Suga-chan, hold Dai-chan's hand and don't let go until the end of the game.”
Is that supposed to be an inconvenience ? Daichi snickers, holding his hand out with a “Mylord”, and Suga graciously intertwines their fingers. They've been making out for weeks – ok, months – so this almost looks like a step back, but whatever makes Oikawa happy, right ?
What Oikawa is playing at is not hard to guess. Matchmaking, that's what, and Koushi is going to cast a Bat-Bogey hex at him if he keeps doing it this badly. It's not like him and Daichi needed anyone's help to realise they were crushing on each other, so if Kuroo could stop pretending he didn't see them snog just two days ago, it would be great. Oikawa might realise something is happening.
“Spin the bottle” eventually dies down, which is great because Kiyoko stoically dancing the macarena after casting Wingarduim Leviosa on herself was really to much to bear, and they end up snuggling under a pile of blankets that magically appeared when Bokuto asked for them. Oikawa is muttering about how annoying Ushijima is, always telling him he should be in Ravenclaw and be his Keeper, but really Iwaizumi is the “best Beater that ever was and if Kunimi would just freaking remove his broom from inside his ass he'd be the best Seeker ever – no offence Daichi but Hinata is not even close to best” and they'd “eventually win against Ravenclaw for once dammit I hate this guy”. Daichi's feet are cold on his legs, but Suga is sitting on his stomach and too snug to move.
It's four in the morning, Daichi needs sleep, Oikawa apparently needs his beauty sleep, if Bokuto doesn't sleep Akaashi is “going to murder someone”, and yet no one is even making a move out of the heat cocoon of them being all piled up. Frankly, they're too well slotted to dare try that, and they've come to this hour of the night where talking with your mouth only half controlled by your brain is not only socially acceptable, but required for comprehension reasons.
Daichi needs ten minutes to find the word – they're wasted, completely so, and he didn't even drink. When he says it aloud, Oikawa snorts, “No joke, Daichi”, and sinks back under Kuroo's legs. Suga knocked the air out of him when he sat on his stomach but now everything is perfectly perfect – Prefect, haha. Suga is laughing like crazy, crushing his stomach even more, or maybe he's just feeling the magic sparkle deep down because Suga is freaking beautiful like this. All the alcohol he didn't drink is probably getting to his head a little, and he'll blame that when people will ask him why he started kissing Suga.
Yui left the cocoon first and crawled into her sleeping bag without a word, soon followed by a sleepy Shimizu. Oikawa is now huddled in a corner and sending magical paper planes to Iwaizumi – no doubt telling him how Koushi betrayed their marriage by dating someone else and he “didn't even know, Iwa-chan, I feel so betrayed !” He eventually moves out of the cocoon , which leaves Daichi and him alone in the huge blanket pile. Not that he's complaining. Daichi's hand has been stroking his back slowly, softly, and they're kissing whenever they find the energy to move their heads. The room has dimmed its light without any of them asking, and the chimney that replaced the ambient glow crackles comfortingly.
Lips to his ear, Daichi whispers an "I love you."
Koushi doesn't mind falling asleep to that, really.