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powder: "Jayceeee?" Jayce has been spacing out in class, bored and lost in his mind ever since he was assigned with Vi's younger sister.
Jayce: "Hm?"
Powder pointed to the enormous, thick white paper in front of them "Soo?…What colour should it be?"
Jayce shrugs "You choose...but not anything bright pink...please."
Powder shakes her head. "What's wrong with bright pink? Fine, fine...What is your favourite colour then?"
Jayce thinks for a second then spoke "blue"
Powder grinned and began grabbing some stationery "blue? Alright!"
Class concluded after around 30 minutes. The job was halfway completed, and Powder insisted on finishing it herself later.
They exited the classroom together in unison and manage to spot a red headed women leaning against a pillar
Powder: “Vi!”
Vi looked up and waved at both of them “hey guys…last period was so exhausting” she groaned
Jayce let out a tiny smile “I learnt a new spell”
Vi: “really, how?”
Jayce: “me and powder were researching spells for our project and managed to stumble across one we haven’t really learnt just yet.” Jayce put his hand inside his bag too look for some useless object, he pulled out some broken parts of metal from who knows where and placed it down on the ground. He brought out his wand and steadied his hand to point right at the object.
Jayce: “step back” vi gently grabbed powders arm, they both took a few steps back.
Jayce: “confringo!” The small object exploded, it was a minor explosion but was still an explosion.
One of the professors immediately paced to the site of the loud ruckus
Professor: “Jayce talis? What is the meaning of this?” She pointed at the grounded of metal scattered around the floor
Jayce: “I was demonstrating a spell..” he looked down at the ground
Professor: “In the middle of the corridors? If it was any bigger who knows who could’ve gotten injured? I’d advise you to keep your spells in the laboratory or somewhere with supervision, Jayce Talis.”
Jayce let out a weak nod
Professor: “please clean up the mess then head to detention, understood?” She spoke firmly then left the site
Jayce knelt down and grabbed the scraps of metal
Vi: “damn,man. Erm….Caitlyns over there, cmon, powder. see you later then, Jayce!”
Jayce: “wait vi!- goddamn it.”
After detention
The bustling corridors of Hogwarts hummed with obnoxiously loud noises as students streamed out of their classrooms for lunch, the echoes of chatter and laughter filling the air.
Jayce Talis, his tie loosened and his robes slightly askew, emerged from detention looking thoroughly unrepentant,He had just spent the last hour under Professor Silco's piercing gaze, writing lines about the importance of respecting authority, Of course, Jayce had only landed himself in trouble for attempting to show Vi and Powder a slightly dangerous spell in the corridors—an incident he would argue was a success since no one got hurt..but still got caught up in this horrible torment.
As Jayce rounded to a corner, still mulling over improvements to his spell, he collided with another student. Books scattered to the floor, and Jayce found himself face-to-face with a boy his age, though thinner, slightly shorter with sharp features and a cane resting against his arm.
"I—sorry about that!" Jayce said, scrambling to pick up the books. "Didn’t see you there."
Viktor and Jayce bent down slowly at the same time. his movements measured. "Clearly," he replied, his voice tinged with dry humor and an accent. "Though I suppose you were too preoccupied with... detention?" He raised an eyebrow, glancing at the parchment still clutched in Jayce's hand.
Jayce flushed. "Yeah..I- uh— well, Professor Silco doesn't appreciate ingenuity. Guess you’ve never had to deal with that."
"No," the boy admitted, his lips quirking up in a small smile. "I prefer to keep my experiments contained to the laboratory. Less collateral damage that way. Viktor." He extended his free hand, tone neutral but not unfriendly.
Jayce stared into Viktor’s eyes, it was amber but could be mistaken for pools of molten gold.
"Jayce." He grinned, shaking Viktor’s hand enthusiastically. "You're Ravenclaw, right? Me too."
Viktor nodded, adjusting the stack of books now in his arms. "Yes, you can tell because of my robes” viktor spoke with utter sarcasm “When I first heard of you, I always thought you would’ve been a gryffindor, not a…ravenclaw”
Jayce laughed. "I get that a lot." He paused, his grin softening into something more genuine. "But I’m not just about rushing into things. I actually do think things through—well, most of the time."
Viktor hummed thoughtfully
Jayce then spoke “I- uh, would you likd to have lunch with me and my friends?”
Viktor thought for a long second “welI, I have nothing to do as of now..sure.
Jayce grinned “great, follow me.” Jayce turn around and walked to the direction of the Great Hall in which Viktor followed right behind.
Jayce: “Are you familiar with my friends, Viktor?”
Viktor: “it depends, who are your ‘friends’?”
Jayce: “there’s..Vi and Powder..and-“
Viktor interupted “Powder? That girl with blue hair?…She was my partner once, she’s..creative.”
Jayce: “yep, that’s her. light blue though, not dark blue, that’s Caitlyn.”
Viktor: “Caitlyn kiramman?”
Jayce : “Mhm”
Viktor hummed, they soon rounded to a corner and reached the Great Hall
Jayce: “they are right over there” he pointed “cmon” he exclaimed.
Viktor and Jayce soon reached the group, there was a red headed women and 2 blue headed, Caitlyn and Powder.
Vi: “Jayce!” Vi greeted causing powder and Caitlyn to also turn their heads to him.
Vi noticed someone behind him “who’s that?”
Jayce turns his body and smiled lightly “This is Viktor, I met him while exiting detention”
Jayce turned to Viktor and put his hand on viktor’s shoulder, moving him infront of the group “viktor, this is Vi and Caitlyn” he gestured to the 2 women beside eachother “and this is Powder, you already know her” he gestured at the women beside caitlyn.
Caitlyn: “sit down, we are still waiting for the rest of the group”
Jayce glanced at viktor then soon began to place his things down on the table. “Sit beside me, Viktor”
Viktor nodded “How much more people are in this group?”
Vi: “likeee…ekko..claggor….3 more, and 7 all together”
Viktor nodded filling up his plate
Vi: “do you want to join us? I mean- our friend group, you seem very, Uhh- lonely”
Viktor: “wow, rude. I’m very much not lonely.”
Jayce: “sorry, Vi said that wrong. So, what do you think?”
Viktor: “I mean, why not?”
Jayce grinned “perfect” he exclaimed