𝐣𝐚𝐧 𝟏𝟑 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔
"did you hear about the death eaters breaking out?" renjun asked as he took a seat next to donghyuck at the slytherin table. the other slytherin's all sent him disgusted looks, but held their tongue because the intimidating trio were there.
"what are you doing?" donghyuck asked, his mouth agape.
"telling you about the newspaper."
"no. why are you sitting next to us?" he looked at jeno and yunhee who had taken the seats next to jaemin and jisung. jaemin didn't seem to mind. if anything, he was glad.
"because we're your friends." jeno replied and jisung choked on the hot chocolate he was drinking. yunhee passed him a tissue, helping him dry off the stains on his clothes.
"since when?" donghyuck scoffed.
"you lot will get in trouble with umbridge. she doesn't like when the houses mix." jaemin said then pushed a bowl of pumpkins pasty's towards renjun who took one with a small, 'thank you'. everyone ignored what donghyuck had asked.
"the worst she can do is give us detention." yunhee shrugged her shoulders.
"i actually don't want detention with her. not after hearing about the pink office." jeno admitted. "shit. she's on her way here."
"are we going to run again?" yunhee sighed. renjun and jeno nodded, getting up. they ran straight out the great hall and when yunhee tried to do the same, hands grabbed her arms, preventing her from doing so. "what?!"
"caught her, professor." seonghyun said, tightening his hold around her as umbridge approached them.
"arse." donghyuck mouthed to his brother.
"good job." umbridge replied. "miss kim, detention with me, now."
"but i have a class soon." yunhee argued, shaking seonghyun off her.
"i don't care. you can miss one class. the rest of your detentions for the week will be at ten."
"i've only missed one class before! this will ruin my attendance." yunhee said.
she didn't really care about missing class or attendance — well, she did care about being a model student sometimes — but it was just that she had promised mark she wouldn't get detention with umbridge. so she was trying to find excuses to get out of it. nothing would work though.
"follow me. now." umbridge ordered.
"promise to not tell mark about this." yunhee told the three. jisung sent her a worried glance before she followed after the woman who led her to the ghastly pink office.
"take a seat." she did as asked and umbridge pushed a piece of paper forwards with a quill. "i want you to write, i must not break the rules."
"i didn't break any rules. we're allowed to sit at whichever tables as long as there is no announcement or assembly taking place." yunhee said.
"uh-uh-uh." umbridge sang. "that is not what my notice wall says. now you will do as ordered unless you want an extra week of detentions and fifty points deducted from hufflepuff."
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"where's yunhee?"
the trio stared at mark and chenle who had stopped them in the hallway after dinner.
"why would we know?" donghyuck asked.
"she didn't show up to class and she never misses classes. we also can't find renjun and jeno. i've noticed you've all gotten close though." chenle said, crossing his arms.
"sorry. we don't know." jaemin replied, keeping his word that he wouldn't tell mark that yunhee had gotten detention.
mark sighed and turned to chenle. "i'll check the great hall."
"i'll check the hufflepuff common room again." chenle said and they both split up to check.
"yunhee said not to tell mark, but she didn't say not to tell chenle." jisung told his friends before hurrying after the said boy. "chenle!"
"what do you want?" he asked, turning around to glare at him.
"i do know where yunhee is, but i couldn't tell mark because she asked us not to. she had detention with umbridge." jisung explained. "i know in a way i'm breaking a promise, but i just thought you should know."
"jisung, thanks a lot." chenle responded, smiling at him for the first time in possibly years. "i'll tell mark, so technically you didn't break any promises."
"alright." jisung smiled back, watching his former best friend head towards the great hall.
"mark, i know where yunhee is." chenle said, patting him on the back to stop him from interrogating another student.
"great. where?"
"in detention with umbridge."
"oh no." mark eyes widened and he rushed out the great hall.
"mark, chill. its fine. it's only detention. she's had one before." chenle said, catching up with him as he ran up the moving stairs to get to umbridge's office.
"no, it's not fine. detention with umbridge is not fine. we have to find her quick."
"i don't understand. wh— yunhee!" chenle exclaimed, catching sight of the brunette sat in an empty hallway, staring down at her hand. "yunhee, what's wrong? why are you crying?!"
"it's nothing." she replied, hiding it and wiping her eyes as her friends kneeled down in front of her.
"show me your hand." mark said and she shook her head. "yun, please."
she rubbed her eyes one more time then stuck out her hand, showing the sentence 'i must not break the rules' etched into the skin on the back of her hand. the cuts were still fresh so there were dots of blood that oozed out from it. it was painful just to look at.
"what?! what the hell?! umbridge did this to you?" chenle shouted, shocked and infuriated.
"she made me write it over and over on paper and it appeared on my skin. the wound healed each time so it was fine before, but it wont heal as quick now." yunhee explained, feeling new tears appear in her eyes.
"she did it to me, as well. that's why i didn't want you lot getting detention." mark said. "the pain won't last long, yun."
"but it hurts a lot now." she sobbed and mark brought her into his arms, hugging her. "why is she doing this?"
"she's living out her torturer fantasies." chenle sighed, patting her head. "she's abusing the power she's been given to harm those that challenge her even in the slightest. i promise we'll get her back for that."
"we will for sure." mark agreed. "we should get your wound cleaned."
he helped yunhee off the floor, being careful not to hold her injured hand.
"can i see your wound?" she asked as they walked down the corridor. he held his hand out and with her thumb, she traced the nearly faded scars.
"it didn't take long for the pain to subside." he said. "i wish there was something i could do to help other than saying comforting words."
"do you think renjun could find some spell that would ease the pain?" chenle asked. "how many more detentions do you have?"
"the rest of the week. all because i sat at the slytherin table."
"i'm going to kill that umbitch."
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𝐣𝐚𝐧 𝟏𝟗 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔
after another hour of torture with umbridge, it had hit curfew and yunhee had her prefect duty's to take care of. she met jeno and renjun by the slytherin common room where they waited for the trio to join them. they eventually did and they started walking down the hallways they knew the other prefects wouldn't be patrolling.
"it's making me nervous having you two out after curfew. you could get caught and get detention with umbridge." yunhee told jisung and jaemin who didn't seem to care.
"it's whatever. detention with her can't be that bad." jisung said.
"you don't get it. i'm sorry i didn't say anything before. i was too nervous and i asked mark and chenle not to say anything." yunhee said, stopping them from walking any further. she rolled up her sleeve and showed them her hand. "this is what umbridge does to you in detention."
"oh my god, yunhee." jaemin gasped, grabbing her hand to get a better look at it. "are you alright? this looks painful."
"i've put up with it for a week, but it hurts even more and takes longer to heal. i don't want you to go through the same thing."
"i'll kill umbridge." jeno muttered.
"you'll have to team up with chenle to do that." she joked.
"i wish you told us about this before." renjun sighed.
"please don't be mad at me. i'm sorry."
"i'm not mad at you. just tell me next time." he said, taking her other hand and pulling her into a hug. "i wish i could find a way to make it less painful."
"group hug!" jeno yelled and joined in with the hug, forcing the trio to do the same. yunhee was glad jeno had gotten softer towards them because it made making them open up much easier.
"so this is what you three have been doing with the slytherin's every night. i see you're replacing chenle and i." they all heard mark's voice. it seemed impossible that they heard that right because he wasn't a prefect, but when they looked over to where the voice came from, there they were, mark and chenle.
"what are you doing out past curfew? you're not prefects." jisung said.
"could say the same to you and jaemin." mark responded, then held his hands up. "sorry. didn't mean to interrupt your friendship meet-up. i see we're not welcome."
"no. wait, mark, chenle." yunhee held onto their arms. "you're very much welcome. in fact, jeno, renjun and i made a club — just the three of us — to see if we could get you two to become friends with those three."
"look, we know you're not very fond of them, but we've spent some time together and we misjudged them. yeah, they were gits second and third year, but now i see that they were just hanging with the wrong crowd." renjun said in a hushed voice.
"chenle, you know jisung. i forgave him a long time ago because he's... jisung." yunhee said, glancing over her shoulder to smile at the boys.
"yun, did you forget how he completely turned his back on us? he practically tossed us aside the minute he made new friends! we were just replaceable to him!" chenle yelled. "he's an arse."
"chenle, don't say that. he—"
"no, yunhee, he's right. i am an arse and a coward, too." jisung interrupted. "after first year, my parents asked me to ditch you two, especially you, yunhee, because you're muggle-born — which i did not care about, i swear! you were my best friends and i loved you both. i was scared of my parents and what they would do to me... but most importantly what they would do to you you. they threatened me, so i ran away from you two. then worst of all, they asked draco to keep an eye on me. i had to act like i hated you. i'd laugh along with jokes, even join in with them, but inside it killed me to do that. i thought that leaving you would be better, but it actually hurt you even more. you have every right to be angry at me and continue to be... i just needed you to know... i'm sorry."
"i figured that was the issue. i forgive you — well, like i said, i did a while ago." yunhee said then turned to chenle for his answer. he was staring down at his feet.
"do you know how long i waited for this moment?" chenle finally looked up with tears in his eyes. "i... i hate you."
"lets hug it out." jisung said and chenle shook his head, but didn't push him away when he was hugged.
"you smell like lemon and honey." chenle cried, wrapping his arms around him and making the others laugh.
"so... mark." jeno said, bringing the attention back to the quiet gryffindor.
"i don't mind being friends with them. as long as you don't tell them about our secret hideout." mark said, smirking.
"what secret hideout?" donghyuck asked.
"it's secret for a reason." jeno replied.
"no fair!"