memorable,

( maxxam & marauders ) —xo prongs.

[rvinsounds]

-- lean on me saebom finds out one of the things that jess is scared of for the first time 

a/n: self-indulgent fic round 2 leggo. also based off a text post 

it’s really amazing that it had taken this long, honestly. 

they had been living together for about a month or so now, and it was rather smooth sailing actually, for how against it they had both been for a while. but both of their respective leases on their old apartments were up, and it was about time -- as most of their friends thought. they had been officially dating for roughly two years already, and had been dancing around each other on and off since the infamous spongebob jacket day, so it really only made sense that their next move was to be together. 

the apartment was a nice one, considering both of their past (and current, for saebom) jobs as models, as well as the fact they they were either pureblood or had pureblood relatives who had old money to their name. it’s spacious, modern, high enough up to have a great view and close enough to all of their friends. 

(jess had had the time of her life decorating it, having just graduated in the spring and therefore had enough free time -- between photoshoots and planning her cafe -- on her hands to dedicate it all to the interior design. she was lucky that they had similar tastes, honestly, and enough money to support it all.) 

they’ve settled into a routine now though, juggling their respective hectic schedules, having a meal together whenever they’re both home for it, spending time together when they’re able to, sleeping in the same bed when they’re both home for it.

it’s nice. 

it just so happens that the last thunderstorm of the year occurs on a night when they’re both at home. they’ve finished eating dinner, and it’s a miracle that neither of them have a shoot or a meeting or a fitting that they have to run off to, both of them enjoying the free time. 

he’s sitting in bed, on his phone and he’s reading some article or another when he sees the first flash of lightning, turning his head just slightly to glance at the window just to make sure it was closed. it’s about to storm, saebom thinks, flicking his wand to draw the curtains before turning his attention back to the article he’s reading. it’s quiet, aside from the music that’s playing from the ipod on their nightstand, before a loud clap of thunder shakes the entire place. 

followed by a loud squeak, which he’s pretty sure is from his girlfriend.  

“jess?” he calls out, glancing up from his phone and peering in the general direction of the bathroom that was currently occupied by her. “what happened?” 

“i’m fine!” comes her answer, her voice a bit too peppy, but he passes it off as nothing, assuming she had done something that she was embarrassed about and didn’t want him to know about. it happened often enough, and usually she would tell him anyway a while after the math, so he genuinely wasn’t too concerned. 

there’s another flash of light, see-able even through the drawn curtains, but he doesn’t react this time because his phone buzzes at the same time, alerting him of a new email he had received and he checks it quickly, considering it’s from his manager. 

the following clap of thunder though, completely takes his attention because its followed by a muffled whimper that he hears, even through the music playing. but before he can react, their lights flicker, and a moment later, the entire apartment is plunged into darkness. he sits up, immediately casting a ‘lumos’ to assist him, standing up and hurrying to the bathroom to find his girlfriend. 

something is wrong is what his brain is tell him, and it makes him hurry there, pushing the door open carefully in case jess was right behind the door. 

“jess?” he murmurs softly, shining the light from the tip of his wand into it and seeing her hugging her knees, crouched down on the floor, her hands over her head. it clicks, after a moment of bewilderment, and he exhales softly before quickly tugging her into his arms, hugging her close. “are you scared of thunder?” he asks, his voice gentle, wondering if she would deny it. 

“... no,” comes her voice, just a whisper against his shirt, and he can’t help but smile to himself at that, feeling exceptionally fond. even terrified out of her mind, the tone of voice she was using betrayed her words, she was still going to deny it because he had asked. 

“okay,” saebom agrees, not arguing as he gently coaxes her to her feet, allowing her to keep her face burrowed in his chest as he carefully walks them both out of the bathroom and back to their bedroom, and into bed, ignoring that her hair was still wet from the shower she had been finishing up with when the power went out. 

he quietly summons the candles they have -- the ones that smell like coffee that jess likes to collect even though she rarely remembers to light them up -- lighting them with the tip of his wand, and charming them so that they floated around the room, in lieu of looking for somewhere to place them all. 

she’s shaking a bit in his arms, her face still hidden from view, and saebom frowns, wondering if it was because she was cold or if it was because she was terrified. instead of trying to figure it out, he decides to just take it as both and he pulls the blanket up around her shoulders, pressing a soft kiss to the top of her head as he runs his hand down her back soothingly. he’s thankful that they almost always had music playing, so it wouldn’t seem jarring if it suddenly started, and he directs his wand at the ipod on the nightstand to change the song to something less noisy. the last thing he does is make sure that the blinds are fully drawn, so the flashing of the lightning can’t be seen past any gaps, before he puts his wand down.

when he thinks he’s done all that he can, he just shifts so they’re laying down together, her frame tucked safely against his own. unsure of what else to do, he starts humming softly, running his fingers through her slightly damp hair, firmly ignoring the wetness he can feel against his shirt.

jess exhales softly, her fingers tightening in his shirt as she curls impossibly closer to him, mumbling something that he can’t really make out above the sound of his humming. “just sleep,” he murmurs softly, pressing another gentle kiss to silver hair. 

“sleep, i’ll be here in the morning.” 

the morning finds them curled up together still, all the candles burned out, but she can’t even be mad at him for forgetting to put them out. the apartment smells more like espresso than ever. 

maybe thunderstorms weren’t so bad after all. 

with him there, of course. 

[rvinsounds]

— move in which megan scares sina 

a/n: tfw you don’t wanna study amirite 

there’s a bloodcurdling scream that comes from the bathroom and sina drops the mug that he’s holding, which crashes to the floor and surprises him again. he stares at the floor in shock, picking his wand up from the counter next to him and flicks it to reparo the mess, knowing that that was his girlfriend’s favorite mug that he had just inadvertently broken and fixed. 

he stares at the mug in his hand for a moment before he remembers what had caused him to drop it in the first place, and he’s quick to put the mug onto the counter before booking it up the stairs to where megan’s voice had come from. 

“mei? what’s wrong?” 

turning the corner — sina is ready for something like a burglar in the house, or she had fallen and broken her ankle again or something — with his wand clutched tightly in his hand, he, instead, is greeted by the sight of his girlfriend standing tiptoe on a chair, clinging onto the back as if trying to get as far away from something on the floor as possible. 

“... what.” 

“sina there’s a fUCKING SPIDER — kill it — it’s hUGE HOLY SHIT —” 

he’s used to her swearing now, but this is like a never ending stream and it amuses him to no end, wondering if she would murder him if he teased her at this time. (he knows jess would.)

instead, he decides he’ll be a good boyfriend and catch the spider for her. and then he’ll tease her afterwards. 

“accio spider!” he calls, watching as a little daddy long legged spider zooms into his hand from somewhere under his girlfriend’s bed, and he heads over to the window to gently let it scramble away. he watches it for a moment to make sure it was safely out of the apartment before he closes the window, and turns back to his girlfriend -- who was still frozen on top of the chair. “it’s gone now, you know.” 

there’s a very amused smile on his lips, debating on what to tease her about first but she clambers down off the chair to press a kiss to the smile instead. 

“don’t. please,” she laughs, embarrassed. “what did you break, though, by the way? i heard a crashing sound.” 

“what? oh it was nothing.” 

“nothing?” 

“yeah, like that spider. it was tiny.” 

“hey!”

[rvinsounds]

-- teenager in which jess meets saebom for the first time

a/n: this is based on a true story 

she’s never been one for skinship. 

it’s just a fact of life, honestly. if anyone knew her at all, they would know that jessica nguyen the first year slytherin, absolutely hates hugs. 

which, of course, is all the more reason for her friends to try to sabotage her and harass her in public places. keyword: ‘friends’. the number one perpetrator of this is none other than her so-called best friend, megan. 

they’re standing in the entrance hall, stalling before dinner starts as they’re all done class, waiting to go in when the ravenclaw decides to strike, the younger slytherin not having the slightest chance to even protest before the older girl is on her.  

“hey!” jess protests, struggling in megan’s hold and it’s a testimony to how unsuspecting she had been to the upcoming attack that she’s completely stuck in her arms. she wiggles and attempts to twist and turn, leaning down to try to bite or lick the older girl’s arms through her robes. but her efforts are in vain -- really unable to get free. she changes tactics to twisting and yelling for help, glancing upwards. 

only to make eye contact with a slytherin boy. he’s a year above her, she thinks, but she’s not sure. 

“nuna, what are you doing?” he asks, holding eye contact with her before his gaze drops to her best friend. she had been staring at him, unsure of what the fuck he was talking about, until it clicks that she’s not the one that he was speaking to. 

her best friend doesn’t even let go, despite her attempts to be set free now that the older girl was distracted, grinning up at the boy. 

“i’m harassing jess,” megan says, her tone matter-of-fact, as if this was a normal occurrence. 

the boy’s eyes slide back and forth between the two girls, settling on the ravenclaw again and still looking very confused. 

“why?” 

“why not?” 

“can you stop just standing there and fucking help me?” jess grits out, struggling again before the boy laughs softly, looking very confused at their antics before he helpfully unwinds megan’s arms from around the younger girl, jess seeming very satisfied with the situation. 

“thank you dude,” she high fives the guy, who reciprocates it, before she sticks her tongue out at her best friend, only to do a double-take back at the boy next to her. “wait, who are you by the way?” 

the ravenclaw perks up at this, grinning as she slings her arms around the older slytherin instead, much to jess’ relief. “jess, this is saebom, my baby cousin. saebom, this is jess, my best friend.” 

the younger girl raises an eyebrow, having heard about this ‘cousin’ but never having really met him or discussed him in any way and she nods, shrugging. “nice to meet you,” she grins, reaching out to shake his hand. 

and that was the beginning of a beautiful (?) friendship ..

[wifis-lildevil]

[books-n-quotes]

That’s all I want. Just you and me. Always.

Lauren Oliver, Delirium (via books-n-quotes)

[rvinsounds]

-- half moon alternatively titled ‘the 5 times jess (kinda) broke up with saebom and the 1 time she didn’t’

a/n: this is the time for self-indulgent fics LOL. i think i said this was like, a timeline through the years so say the first fic is probably sometime during my last year @ hogwarts and it just continues from there :D

“isn’t this like, your seventh coffee today?” 

jess glances over at her friend, and then glances down at the americano blanco that had just been delivered to her table. nadine had opted for an iced floral tea instead of coffee for once, and she shrugs, picking up the cup and taking a long sip. “ooh, this one is better than the last cafe. but the last cafe had a nicer .. what would you call it -- ambiance?” 

“how have you not gone to the bathroom like twenty times since i joined you?” 

“i have a magic bladder that is fueled by coffee.” 

nadine rolls her eyes, sucking on the straw of her tea as they both swivel around in their seats to take multiple photos of the coffee shop they were currently sitting in. they had been cafe-hopping all afternoon, and apparently the younger girl had been doing it since before she had met up with the former gryffindor. it wasn’t exactly a strange thing -- not when they both had aesthetic instagram feeds that they needed to keep up with. 

(megan and arazely would probably beg to differ.) 

it wasn’t until a while later of them sitting there, silently musing over their drinks that nadine realizes that they were missing something -- or rather, someone. 

“where’s saebom?” 

jess barely glances up from her phone, in the middle of trying to take an aesthetic photo of her coffee, liking how the sunlight from the window reflected just so in the surface of the black coffee, answering after snapping a few more photos. “i broke up with him.”

”WHAT.” 

the younger girl doesn’t answer, too busy taking pictures of her empty coffee cup before her phone is snatched out of her hand by the older. “hey!” she protests, reaching out and flailing slightly as she tries to get it back, pouting at her friend when it’s not handed back to her immediately. 

“what do you mean you broke up with saebom?” nadine hisses, clutching both of their phones in one hand, glaring at the other girl. 

“exactly that? i broke up with him,” jess waves a hand idly in the air, shrugging. “i’ll apologize after the next couple cafes -- he didn’t want me to go cafe hopping, okay? now, give me back my phone!” 

her lunge at the older girl is stopped short when the bell above the door chimes and she pauses to glance over, always habit nowadays considering she was working part-time in a coffee shop as training for her to open her own cafe in the future. she almost physically has to stop herself from calling out a welcome greeting, but her words become stuck in her throat anyway when she sees who’s walking through the door. 

megan. 

sina. 

saebom. 

her boyfriend -- or rather, her ex-boyfriend at that exact moment -- looks absolutely miserable, and he was complaining quietly to megan about something when their eyes meet and he freezes, almost automatically slinking behind sina. 

(she almost feels bad.) 

megan, on the other hand, looks almost angry when she makes eye contact with the only current slytherin, stalking over immediately and taking jess’ hand and practically dragging her back towards the door so they could have a decently private conversation. or as private as it could be in a public place. 

“what the fuck jess,” she mutters under her breath, meant only for her best friend to hear. “he’s been at our house moping for the past eight hours, why can’t you deal with your shit like a normal person instead of breaking his heart to go drink overly copious amounts of coffee?” 

all jess can do is shrug a bit helplessly before she’s flung in the direction of her (ex?)boyfriend who, despite looking upset and a bit angry at her, catches her in his arms and glances down at her. bless his heart. she, rightfully so, looks sheepish as she smiles awkwardly up at him. 

“hi ... sorry?” she apologizes, reaching up to touch his cheek where his dimple would show if he was smiling, and she does feel sorry for not having just come to a more logical way of doing this besides ending their relationship. her phone is slapped into her hand before she sees megan dragging nadine out of the coffee shop, sina making eye contact with her and mouthing ‘talk things out’ and raising his hands in a sort of ‘fighting!’ position before the bell above the door chimes once again, leaving her, mostly, alone with saebom. 

“... okay, let’s talk.” 

-- 

they’re sitting outside on the patio at a bar that she had gotten into using saebom’s name -- oh the irony is not lost on her, she knows -- along with her own. she hates that it usually works when their names are used in conjuncture, but only because he’s slightly more famous than she is. of course he is, considering he had started modelling when she was in her fourth year and she hadn’t started until after graduation. it’s understandable, but that doesn’t make her feel less bitter about it. 

she takes another sip of her peach cocktail, squinting at it and attempting to fish out the maraschino cherry that was, for some reason, sitting at the bottom of the fancy glass. 

arazely glances over at the older girl and watches in fond amusement as the now-former slytherin struggles to get the cherry out and ultimately gives up on it before taking another sip. it’s just the two of them for today, their older friends all busy with their lives and university and stuff and arazely’s just become legal a few weeks ago and jess has nothing better to do today, so it works out. 

“how’s chanuk?” jess asks, for lack of a better subject and she’s probably depressed enough that listening to her friend’s happy tales of a good relationship might either cheer her up ... or perhaps depress her more. 

she’s willing to take that gamble. 

settling back with a newfound determination to fish the maraschino cherry out of her cocktail, jess puts on an expression that she hopes conveys her barely there interest in the conversation topic, despite it having been her who had brought it up. don’t get her wrong, she loves listening to those sorts of things usually, but right now she has too many things on her mind. she makes a soft sound after getting a hold of the cherry, and she grips at the stem as she uses that to attempt to stir the ice around in her drink. 

she’s happy that her friends are happy, she thinks, watching as arazely’s face positively lights up when the younger girl talks about her boyfriend. last she had heard, they were planning a trip for the two of them once they both finished applying for jobs and, hopefully, landing them. or at least getting into healer training, in the case of the hufflepuff. her mind slides to her other friends in their little group -- megan and sinhwa are well on their way to getting married, she knows, considering she had helped the oldest hufflepuff look for rings on multiple occasions now, though she has no idea when exactly he’s planning to propose. she just knows it’ll be soon enough -- probably sooner than later, knowing him. minseok and nadine are abroad, or something, she knows her friends well enough and they were probably away for some quidditch game of minseok’s. 

and then there was her. 

ugh.

tuning back into the conversation at hand, jess just grins at her friend. “i hope you get accepted into healer training,” she says, hoping the younger girl wouldn’t notice that her attention had lapsed for a moment. as expected though, she does feel slightly better after listening to most of arazely’s tangent. 

“how are you and saebom?” 

jess winces, somehow not having been expecting her friend to turn the same topic of conversation back on her and she avoids the other girl’s gaze for a moment, eating the cherry in lieu of replying to that. 

“uh,” she starts, unsure of how to start on that specific talk and she sighs, glancing at the hufflepuff after a moment and deciding to just get it over with, knowing she couldn’t avoid the topic without it coming off as extremely suspicious. “i broke up with him.” 

“... again?” 

“we had an argument okay! he was insisting i needed to not avoid specific conversations and i told him i didn’t have to listen to him and then i don’t know who started yelling first but i broke up with him and left,” she admits, and even to her it sounds stupid. it’s obvious that she’s in the wrong in this case, but she hadn’t wanted to admit it. she still doesn’t want to admit it. she sighs to herself before she pouts and downs the rest of her drink, picking up her phone to turn it on and holding up a hand to stop arazely from saying anything more. 

“yeah yeah, i’ll call him right now.” 

-- 

shit hits the fan and explodes like an erumpet horn when her secret gets out. it’s all over the newspapers and across the internet and she’s being shit-talked and trashed everywhere that she thinks it matters. her instagram comments are such a big mess that she has to disable them for the time being. it’s not like she had ever hidden it from the media, not actively, but she had never gone out of her way to tell people about it either. 

“you’d think that people would understand that i use my normal face when i model after my fucking agency said so, hey?” she hisses, throwing yet another newspaper onto the table at her apartment, already ladled with many a newspaper and magazine, all accusing her of the same thing -- making herself prettier by unnatural means, as if people who did plastic surgery were natural either. “people get fucking photoshopped in every single fucking picture that’s ever posted anywhere and they decide to attack the metamorphagus for apparently changing her goddamn appearance.” 

her friend just nods, having sat through different versions of this rant already and deciding to just let the former slytherin get it off her chest before trying to talk any sense into her. 

“where’s saebom?” megan asks instead, changing the topic in hopes of cheering her friend up, but that seems to backfire when jess’ expression only darkens more, eyes narrowing. 

“he was trying to help, or something, and held a press conference but now they’re even more on my ass saying i confunded him or some shit and just -- ugh.” 

the former ravenclaw just stares at her friend, unsure of why the younger girl was so upset about that, when her boyfriend had just stepped out and stuck his neck out on the line to try to help her. usually the younger would be ranting at him and clinging onto him and denying that she was clinging at all. it was strange that he wasn’t here to comfort her, especially when this was such a big thing that would impact both of their lives, and perhaps even both of their careers. but it clicks at the look on the other’s face.

“jessica nguyen, what did you do?” 

the former slytherin winces at the tone the older girl is using, and it’s a testimony to how often she gets called out like this by the other that she doesn’t even really pause to think before answering her. if anything, jess trusts megan’s advice over most people’s, considering they lived together for a long while before they had split off because megan decided to get married. “i might’ve ... broken up with him ...”

“jessica.” 

“i’m sorry okay!” jess throws her hands up in defense, groaning and falling onto the couch in her apartment, curling up and hugging her legs to her chest as she stares at the blanket there, reaching out to touch it gently. saebom had given it to her because she had complained that her living room was too cold sometimes. “he was overwhelming me, i didn’t know what else to do!” 

because, and only because, the blonde already looked downright miserable, megan held her tongue and sat down next to her, taking her hand. she didn’t even flinch, glancing away instead. 

“he’s probably at my place again,” she says softly, standing and bringing jess to her feet as well, and she leans in to brush her off and smooth down her hair, considering she had been running her fingers through it in frustration just moments before when she was ranting. 

“let’s go and talk to him.” 

-- 

as predicted, her modelling career does end up in shambles for a while after the whole fiasco, but the bright side was that she had been planning to quit long before that had even happened. it was really just the final nail in the coffin at this point. 

her true love, of course, had always been coffee. and will probably always be coffee. her cafe was well on its way, despite the last couple bumps in the road she had to deal with. the company she had originally been planning to order coffee beans from had hit a block when it came to discussing the last details with her, and as they were also the ones who were supposed to provide her espresso machines as well -- well, the easiest way to put it was that jess was hella stressed out these days. 

after she and saebom had worked things out the last time, there had only really been smooth sailing ever since. she had finally started opening up to him about whatever problems she had instead of pushing him away and trying to deal with it by downing copious amounts of coffee and/or alcohol. it had helped their relationship greatly when they both realized it would just work out much better for the two of them to just talk things out, instead of him going behind her back to do things that he wasn’t sure she would approve of and her pushing him away whenever she was stressed and bottling up her emotions. 

but the stress was starting to get to her again. she had just had another deal with a different company fall through and was going through her current options: she could scrap the idea of using these ethical companies for coffee beans since they weren’t cooperating with her and buy beans from someone else, she could continue calling them and emailing them in hopes they would reply, she could probably also go knocking on their door and demand they respond to her ... she could also burn down their headquarters, but that wouldn’t solve anything besides perhaps sating her random pyro cravings. 

she’s sitting in the front of her cafe by the counter, the chairs and tables having come in just a few days earlier and she has something in front of her that already resembles a cafe — just without espresso machines and actual coffee beans. staring at the papers spread across the counter in front of her, she groans softly and is in the middle of wondering if one could actually die from being too stressed, when the chime on her door goes off and she glances over, raising up half out of her seat, “sorry we’re not open for business yet —” when she catches sight of her boyfriend’s grinning, dimpled face. 

“saebom!” she practically launches herself into his arms, so stressed out of her mind right now, she can’t help but want to relax with him, no matter what they do. they had recently moved into an apartment together, finally, but he had been away on a business trip for the past couple days that she hadn’t been able to tag along with. 

in other words, she just really missed him. 

“let’s go eat dinner,” he suggests, pressing a kiss to the top of her head when she doesn’t do anything besides try to burrow deeper into his chest, smiling to himself in the very blatant show of affection. she’s been much more affectionate with him in private as of late, and he’s unsure of why but he’s not going to complain. it’s reassuring, if anything. 

jess agrees and she quickly packs up her stuff before they head out and she locks up the cafe for the rest of the night, thinking she would deal with it tomorrow. they head to one of their favorite restaurants, jess allowing her boyfriend to treat her to dinner for once. 

they’re done their food and dessert and are outside walking hand in hand, just strolling along with no destination in mind, when he turns to her, and takes both of her hands in both of his. 

“jessica,” saebom starts, and she stares up at him, confused as to what was going on before she sees him fumbling with something in his pocket, and before she can stop herself or think her decision through, it’s already been made for her. 

“no —” she blurts out before she can’t stop herself from doing it, her eyes wide and she feels bad immediately when he pauses, hurt flashing across his face and his expression crumbles soon after. she knows she’s guessed correctly when his hand stops trying to find whatever was in his pocket, and her first reaction is to run. like she always says, despite always saying she wanted to fight, her fight or flight reaction is always to run as far as she can, but she knows she can’t do that. 

not to him. 

so when he moves to pull away, his hand letting go of hers before she reacts quickly enough, she grabs his hand and holds on tight. 

he looks as surprised as she feels, and turns to glance at her, hope in his eyes, and she has to shake her head regretfully when their eyes meet, so as not to give him the wrong idea.

“i’m not ready to get married yet, not right now at least,” she tries to explain, taking his other hand once his expression isn’t so wary anymore. she knows she’s hurt him, and she hopes he won’t hold it against her. “my cafe is all i can focus on right now, bom-ah,” she says gently, squeezing his hands and she smiles a bit at him. “i can’t plan a wedding anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean i’m not in love with you, okay? 

“in the future, but not right now. it’s just not the right time right now.” 

— 

it’s weird to think that all of their friends are engaged now, but they’re the only two that aren’t. her cafe had taken off once she had finally figured everything out and she had been busier than ever, trying to run it on her own before she finally had to cave — only once she had enough funds to do so, of course — and hire a proper baker and a manager and even a barista for her rare days off. 

she had taken some days off, though. only because she had finally been able to and her staff had practically forced her to stop working herself to the bone, to accompany saebom to seoul for the fashion week there, since he was walking in a few of the bigger brands’ runway shows. it had been tiring, but in a different way than it had been when she was trying to open her cafe by the planned date. mostly because she had to speak korean more than she was used to, having learnt it because the company she modeled for a few years back had been headed in seoul, and she was rather rusty now. 

thank god for saebom. 

they were sitting on the couch in the almost-penthouse hotel room that his management had rented them, sipping on the champagne that had been a welcome gift from one of the clothing companies that saebom was walking for. 

“it’s nice to be away from london sometimes, hey,” he breaks the silence and she hums in agreement, her legs stretched out over his lap and her head resting gently against his shoulder. she thinks that maybe she could’ve had this life as well, if only she hadn’t wanted the cafe more. it had been fun while it lasted, at least. she doesn’t regret it at all. 

they clink their champagne glasses together as the television in front of them plays some reality show that neither of them are really paying attention to, jess’ eyes on her phone as she texts into her group chat that she has with arazely, megan and nadine. he’s not sure what’s happening that chat, but he doesn’t think he wants to know just in case they’re having another one of their ‘roast saebom’ conversations. he waits until she puts her phone down with a content sigh before he nudges her gently, wanting her full attention. 

“what about now?” saebom asks softly, pressing a kiss to her lips before he pulls away, not wanting her to misunderstand what he’s asking. 

(he, on the other hand, after discussing in detail with megan one day very soon after the first time, understands being the right person but asking at the wrong time now. he wants to ask again, knowing that they’re right for each other but it might still not be the right time yet, and he doesn’t want to pressure her or anything.)

“what about now?” jess replies, a bit sleepy from the champagne and the time change and she glances up at him with a concerned expression on her face, unsure what he was asking her. he hadn’t given any context but he did that sometimes, and she raises her head from where it had been perched on his shoulder. “bom?” she prompts, nudging him gently and sneaking a kiss onto his cheek. 

“... is it the right time now?” 

she pauses, taking a moment to consider what he had just asked her before it clicks. the wording is familiar enough that it doesn’t take her very long to realize he’s quoting her words back at her and she makes a soft sound, moving to straighten up but he shakes his head and tugs her back against his side. 

“it’s okay if it’s not,” he reassures her, a smile on his lips and she relaxes when he doesn’t seem angry or annoyed. “i was just wondering,” he adds, tugging her closer and she changes her position and shifts to curl into him instead, tucking herself cozily under his arm. 

“not right now,” she acquiesces a lot later, when they’re in bed, curled up close together with the light of the moon shining in through the window that they forgot to draw the blinds over, and are too lazy to do so now that they’re in bed and comfortable. he’s shirtless because she stole his shirt off his body to wear, just like old times. “soon though, i promise.” 

—   

they’re at nadine’s and minseok’s rehearsal dinner for their wedding, but their seats are set slightly apart from the head table because of the lack of space compared to the actual venue they would be in eventually. the food is soon to come out and everyone, as per usual, is at varying degrees of sobriety already. she makes a soft sound as she gazes up at nadine, watching as the older girl talks with her soon-to-be husband. 

it’s nice, she thinks, seeing them that happy. it’s the same way she feels when she sees megan and sina together nowadays as well, wondering if she’ll feel the same way if they were to put an official official label on them. she makes a soft sound, watching as nadine plops herself into minseok’s lap, obviously tipsy. 

they’re cute and it makes her feel happy, glad that they were tying the knot finally. soon.

leaning against her own boyfriend, jess glances up at saebom with a fond smile on her face. “they’re so happy, hey?” she murmurs, reaching out to pick up her cup of crown and coke and taking a long sip. 

“bommie, lets get married,” she says softly, not really realizing she had said it out loud and not realizing he’s frozen beside her as she watches minseok stare in their direction and she raises an eyebrow as she sees nadine protest at her fiancé. 

“hey bom!” she glances back at minseok when she hears his voice and then glances at her boyfriend who looks completely frozen in his spot, “looks like you’ve just seen a ghost?” 

“jess just said she wants to get married,” she hears him whisper, and because everyone had shut up at minseok calling out, so does everyone else. it’s completely silent and most of the people there knew how heavy that statement was. everyone in their friendship group, at least, knew she had turned him down the first time, and a select few knew about the second. “she wants to get married.” 

there’s a split second where no one reacts as everyone stares at them, and she’s kind of in shock because she hadn’t realized she had said it out loud either. 

“then why aren’t you down on one knee?” 

she doesn’t even have time to process who had yelled that — she’ll later pinpoint that it had definitely been megan who had done it — because next to her, saebom has jumped up and pulled out the ring case from his pocket. 

and in the next moment, he’s down on one knee in front of her, holding the ring up. it’s completely silent around them, as if everyone was holding their breath in anticipation. 

as if there would ever be a different outcome when she was the one who had suggested it first this time around.

“will you marry me?” 

there’s no chance for her to even answer, because apparently everyone already knows what its going to be this time. there’s a chorus of shrieks, probably from a tipsy nadine, joined by arazely and then megan soon after. or, that’s what she would figure out if she wasn’t staring down at her boyfriend -- fiance? -- in awe, nodding numbly, mutely, and watching as he finally was allowed to slide the ring onto her finger. 

it’s beautiful, as expected, and she’s sure all of her friends probably had a say in which one he chose, and she wouldn’t even put it past him if he had chosen to get it custom made. it glitters prettily in the light shining down on them, and jess stares at the ring on her finger as if she can’t believe it still, still sort of shocked into silence at the sudden turn of events. 

(she’ll feel bad later that she had done it at nadine’s wedding rehearsal dinner but the older girl reassures her again and again that it was totally fine.) 

nadine yells for a photographer, trying to rearrange the rehearsal dinner into an engagement party for them instead, but all jess can see is the blinding smile on saebom’s face as he stands, before she throws herself at him, her arms winding around his waist, sniffling slightly. 

thank merlin for makeup setting charms, honestly. 

[rvinsounds]

-- only one in which someone shows up at jess’ cafe and saebom is jealous 

a/n: i said i had an idea for crack and this is it LOLOL but i’m writing it in group chat form, like in facebook messenger or smth but probably some wizarding app :D i’m copying the format from a fic bc lazy + effort = no

- GROUP CHAT: ‘LOSERS’ [8 MEMBERS] -

[19:47] ‘jess’ has entered the group chat

jess: GUYS 

jess: GUYS 

jess: G U Y S 

jess: G 

jess: U 

jess: Y 

jess: S 

[19:50] 

jess: no guys seriously i have some crazy news like legit crazy news what the fuck why i no one fucking here i’m ignoring my cafe for this 

jess: G U Y S 

jess: don’t make me start calling people 

[19:51] ‘ara’ has entered the group chat

ara: i’m here!

jess: i don’t wanna have to repeat myseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelf 

[19:52] ‘megan’ has entered the group chat 

[19:52] ‘sina’ has entered the group chat

megan: please calm down 

sina: what happened?  

jess: pls hold and stay in the chat as i go make a latte for a customer and wait for at least nadine and saebom to show up bc they need to know

[19:53] ‘saebom’ has entered the group chat

saebom: here!

[19:55] ‘nadine’ has entered the group chat

nadine: minseok told me i needed to be here 

nadine: he’s watching telly 

nadine: and yelling at it, idky he likes muggle sports so much, honestly 

jess: is everyone here 

ara: yes? i’m with chanuk 

ara: actually he’s eating, but i’ll tell him if anything important happens

jess: okay nadine is with minseok it’s fine 

jess: OH MY GOD YOU GUYS WILL NEVER GUESS WHO JUST CAME IN AND ORDERED A ROUND OF COFFEES 

jess: HOLY SHIT 

jess: HOLY 

megan: was it hongbin 

jess: SHIT 

nadine: WAIT IT WAS HONGBIN? 

nadine: WHAT

nadine: WHAT IS HE DOING IN LONDON 

megan: wait what 

ara: guys

jess: what

megan: i was joking 

jess: well 

jess: no i fucking wish it was hongbin 

jess: i would ask him to marry me on the spot 

saebom: :< 

jess: shut up 

jess: you know i love him more :D 

jess: anyways 

jess: no 

jess: it wasn’t hongbin 

jess: i would rather it have been hongbin 

jess: i need to go to his next concert tho fr 

jess: think i could close the cafe for a week and go or 

ara: probably! if you think it’s worth it 

jess: everything is worth it for hongbin 

jess: saebom let’s go watch the concert

megan: okay but who did you see? 

jess: right 

jess: so imagine this 

nadine: why can’t you tell us like a normal person gdi

jess: i’m just behind the counter, it’s p chill rn so i have a book out and i’m just reading it, making sure all the customers are okay and stuff, and i have a latte with me and it’s all fine and dandy when the door opens and 

jess: FUCKING 

jess: HARRY 

jess: FUCKING 

saebom: WHAT 

jess: POTTER 

saebom: REALLY 

jess: WALKS IN??????????? 

saebom: NO WAY 

megan: oh my god really 

nadine: YOOOOOOOOOO 

saebom: MERLIN 

jess: SODDING HARRY POTTER 

jess: man he’s p attractive for someone so old tho 

jess: i can see why bom likes him 

saebom: um, he’s the saviour of the wizarding world, what other reason do i need? 

nadine: don’t you own like half of the collectibles they’ve released of him 

nadine: saebom loves harry potter 

[20:15] ‘nadine’ changed group chat name from ‘losers’ to ‘oh saebom: harry potter fanboy extraordinaire’

saebom: HEY 

sina: i can’t believe he wanted harry potter and settled for jess 

saebom: they were LIMITED EDITION 

jess: DO U WANNA GO 

jess: WHAT DO YOU MEAN SETTLED

saebom: jess is better 

jess: SINA LET’S TAKE THIS OUTSIDE 

jess: 1V1 ME RN 

sina: no it’s kinda cold outside 

jess: i’m gonna murder you in your sleep 

nadine: saebom get out 

jess: yeah saebom get out 

megan: hey pls stop trying to murder my husband

saebom: WHY ARE YOU BEING MEAN TO ME I WAS BEING NICE 

jess: he deserves it

jess: bc ur gross 

saebom: :< 

ara: guys 

ara: please stop fighting 

ara: jess please finish your story 

jess: oh right 

saebom: :< 

jess: STOP WITH YOUR SAD FACES 

[20:23] ‘jess’ changed the group chat name from ‘oh saebom: harry potter fanboy extraordinaire’ to ‘sina and saebom suck’ 

jess: anyways 

sina: i’ll catch up after 

sina: a student just came with a question 

sina: megan will update me! 

[20:26] ‘sina’ has left the chatroom

jess: he came in and i had to act natural and shit as if it wasn’t obvious i knew who he was the moment he walked in or anything 

jess: i’m going to fight him for real i swear

jess: and he ordered four cafe lattes 

jess: two flat whites 

megan: pls stop fighting my husband

jess: a caramel macchiato 

jess: three americanos 

jess: no i refuse to stop fighting sina

jess: and he bought four different danishes and six muffins 

jess: must be some auror meeting or something 

jess: BUT HE CAME TO MY CAFE FOR IT 

jess: AND IT WAS ONLY HIM? 

jess: WHY IS HE OUT BUYING COFFEES LIKE SOME INTERN??????????? 

nadine: i think they usually takes turns 

nadine: it must’ve been his turn and you were his pick 

ara: that’s so cool!

jess: I MEAN??????????????? 

jess: but you know what was 

jess: FUCKING WEIRD 

jess: he said he had wanted to try my cafe for ages now??????? 

megan: i think saebom is going to die of jealousy

jess: i’m going to DIE 

jess: IN GENERAL

jess: also saebom i got you an autograph 

jess: it even says “to saebom” 

saebom: WHAT 

[20:30] ‘nadine’ changed ‘saebom’s display name to ‘harry potter’s #1 fan’ 

harry potter’s #1 fan: HEY 

megan: she’s not wrong

[20:31] ‘harry potter’s #1 fan’ changed their display name to ‘saebom’ 

[20:31] ‘nadine’ changed the group chat name from ‘sina and saebom suck’ to ‘saebom luuurves harry potter almost as much as he luuuuuuurves jess’

jess: ew what the fuck

[20:32] ‘jess’ changed the group chat name from ‘saebom luuurves harry potter almost as much as he luuuuuuurves jess’ to ‘you guys all suck besides ara’

ara: you guys are so weird 

ara: i’m gonna go finish having dinner with chanuk before he eats everything 

ara: talk to you guys later 

[20:33] ‘ara’ has left the chatroom 

[20:33] ‘megan’ changed the group chat name from ‘you guys all suck besides ara’ to ‘guys please’ 

megan: i’m also going to go 

megan: this school won’t run itself 

megan: nadine we’re still on for lunch tomorrow? 

jess: HEY 

megan: and jess? i’ll message ara later 

nadine: yeah 

jess: ya 

megan: bye bommie 

saebom: bye nuna

[20:35] ‘megan’ has left the chatroom 

nadine: guess i’ll go too 

nadine: minseok finally stopped yelling at the telly 

nadine: gonna see if he wants to have ice cream

jess: why wouldn’t he want ice cream though 

[20:36] ‘jess’ changed the name of the group chat from ‘guys please’ to ‘ice cream appreciation crew even though megan is lactose intolerant’

nadine: right? 

[20:37] ‘nadine’ has left the chatroom 

jess: okay 

jess: are you picking me up? 

saebom: ofc i am 

jess: okay 

jess: some customers just came in 

jess: i’ll see you soon! 

saebom: okay 

saebom: i’ll head out now 

saebom: see you in 5?

jess: i’ll make you a coffee 

[20:42] ‘jess’ changed the name of the group chat from ‘ice cream appreciation crew even though megan is lactose intolerant’ to ‘saebom is aight’

jess: let’s buy ice cream tonight 

saebom: why are you like this 

jess: you love me 

jess: ♡

[20:45] ‘jess’ has left the chatroom 

saebom: that i do 

[20:46] ‘saebom’ has left the chatroom

[rvinsounds]

— really really in which jess stresses sina out and then nadine and jess stress megan out.

a/n: another v self-indulgent engagement fic that came from my reading back the line chat and finding ridiculous shit for me to write about LOLOL. but also that’s not all the fic is about i just liked how that sounded ok it’s about the bridesmaids being chosen and stuff HAHA also this was supposed to be a crackfic but now it’s become sappy what the fuck a/n2: this is why i shouldn’t be allowed to write at 4am ...

they’re gathered in jess’ cafe, much to her exasperation — “is this just a place for you guys to have meetings? i have actual paying customers you know!” “shut up jess, you know you’d be angry if we held this anywhere else.” — after the unsurprising announcement of their eldest couple’s engagement. 

“ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today —” 

“why the fuck does this sound like a funeral?” 

“SHUT THE FUCK UP.” 

“language.” 

“sorry dad.” 

“anyways, i think sina has an announcement.” 

the former hufflepuff only looks amused, allowing nadine to have her moment of being the MC for their little meeting, before he exhales and smiles warmly at their group of friends gathered there. they’re missing seungyeon and chanuk, both of whom couldn’t make it to their little gathering because of work, and euncheol who was out of the country at the moment.

“as you know, megan and i are getting married.” 

“holy shit, really?” he slants a glare at the current youngest slytherin in their midst, and jess has the audacity to grin back at him, but he just shakes his head before pulling out two little cards out of his pocket, unshrinking them in the next moment with a tap of his wand. he clears his throat, glancing around at his group of closest friends, and selecting one of the cards from the two in his hand. “saebom, would you do me the honour --”

“i call best man.” 

“what.” 

sinhwa doesn’t even have time to react, to retract his hand holding the card out to saebom before it’s snatched from his fingers, jess grinning like the cat who had gotten the cream. the two men look very shocked, frozen in their spots as nadine cackles loudly and reaches out to high five her friend. it takes a moment for sinhwa to recover before he scowls playfully and indicates for the ex-slytherin girl to hand the card to her boyfriend.  

“anyways — oh saebom, would you do me the honour of being my best man?” jess quietly slides the card into her boyfriend’s hand, leaning her head against his shoulder he takes it, opening the card and grinning at the former hufflepuff. 

“it would be an honour,” saebom replies, his dimple showing in his cheek and jess can’t help but lean up to kiss him on the cheek at his obvious happiness. 

“and minseok,” the ex-gryffindor perks up at his name, the corners of his lips turning up at the corners as he receives the card, his chaser reflexes helping him evade interception from his own girlfriend, though nadine’s (lack of) height helps in that case as well, “kim minseok, will you do me the honour of being a groomsman?” 

“’course,” minseok grins, pocketing the card with a little salute. jess gets up after basking in the happy glow around all of them for a moment, returning about ten minutes later to their regular chatter with a new round of drinks for everyone, sliding the cups in front of their respective receivers. 

“i can’t believe you gave best man to saebom when i fucking called it first,” she huffs playfully at sinhwa, plopping herself into saebom’s lap in a show to prove she wasn’t really angry about it and was purposely just being a brat. 

“you don’t just call best man,” arazely offers from across the table, rolling her eyes playfully at both the older girl’s words and her actions. they’re all still sort of getting used to jess showing her affection for saebom in public, though it’s become much more common within the confines of her cafe nowadays. 

“what — no, it’s like how i called shotgun in minseok’s car the other day,” she points out, just to be contrary, grinning. “fuck you saebom.” 

“hey, you love me.” 

jess ignores his words in favour of pouting at him, her puppy eyes big and exaggerated. “why are you always stealing my spotlight? i wanted best man.” 

“do i not get a say in this?” sinhwa sighs, slanting the words in a soft murmur to his fiancee, megan mostly just smiling fondly and half exasperatedly at jess’ antics, knowing that the younger girl would get it out of her eventually. they both also knew she was just taking the piss anyway, so there wasn’t really a point in arguing with her when she was set on making life difficult. “no, i don’t think you do.”

“you can be best man at our wedding in five years,” nadine volunteers, a cheshire-like grin on her face as she added fuel to the fire, ignoring minseok’s “hey!” of protest. 

jess turns to nadine, rolling her eyes. “can saebom not for once, like i get he’s pretty and all but he’s not that pretty — like, he’s aight, i guess.” 

saebom pouts at her before she grins, patting his cheek in a show of affection, leaning in to murmur something in his ear before she gets up again. “just kidding, i gotta get back to work. let me know if y’all want more drinks, okay? say bye if you gotta go!” 

— 

the dinner is a fancy affair. they know the moment they hear which restaurant it’s in, despite it being in muggle london. it’s one that’s rather famous even in the wizarding circles, considering it’s high class but not over the top fancy. 

they arrive in pairs, as usual besides sinhwa’s brother and mimi, and they wait in the lounge, assuming they were to enter at the same time, and are lead into the private room megan and sinhwa had booked. 

it’s decorated beautifully, with hints of silver and blue, the choice of colours obviously the theme of the wedding in the future. the table is laid out with glass and silverware, a box placed at each seat next to a placard with their names on it. 

they all step into the room, eyeing the namecards from the entrance to make sure none of them awkwardly hovered trying to find their spot, sitting down once they had all found their places: jessica and saebom in front of sinhwa and megan respectively, nadine beside sinhwa with minseok across from her and sinhwa’s brother beside megan, mimi across from them. they settle down, grinning at the soon-to-be bride and groom. 

it was obvious what they were there for, but there was a buzz of excitement in the air nonetheless. considering the placements, everyone already knew which positions they would be — not considering that all the males in the room had been asked already — but that was beside the point. 

they all drew their wands once they had sat down, quiet as they glanced at megan for instruction, tapping the boxes in front of them gently, the wrapping paper melting away as if it had never been there in the first place. it’s quiet, the little glass cases before them clear, almost as if the glass wasn’t really there, though still obscuring what was inside. 

another tap from their wands had the glass dissolving, the jewelry glinting prettily in the lighting of the restaurant. in front of each of the girls in a simple, dainty bracelet. each bracelet is silver, with a charm of the first letter of their names hanging next to a pearl of different colours for each of them — pale pink for jess, lavender for nadine, cream for mimi — with jess’ having a little gem on the ‘J’.  jess grins, sliding the bracelet on, adding it to her collection of trinkets already adorning her wrist, tucking the little card baring the words ‘my ‘i do’ wouldn’t be the same without you’ into saebom’s suit pocket. the other girls follow suit, before turning to see what sinhwa had planned for the groomsmen. 

as the boxes in front of the bridesmaids had done, the glass melts away in from the males as well. the boxes are flatter, less fancy than the ones for the females, but inside they hold a complete set of cufflinks and a tie bar — each piece has the groomsmen’s korean names engraved on them. 

they’re all quiet for a moment, as if worried to break the serenity and peace of the moment, saebom quietly swapping out his cufflinks for the new ones and tucking the box into his pocket, glancing around to see the other two men had done the same surreptitiously. 

no one really notices nadine and jess signalling to each other, obviously both of them having planned something as well, and it catches everyone off guard when they both flick their wands and two bottles of champagne float over before popping open, dousing everyone rather thoroughly with the bubbly liquid, including themselves. 

“you guys are fucking getting married!” 

“FINALLY!” 

it breaks the silence, in a way only nadine and jess can ever manage, and it’s some special sort of champagne (bought from weasley’s) that soaks you to the core but doesn’t linger, and they all find themselves dry within a couple minutes, after lots of grumbling. 

dinner comes in soon after, delicious as it always is when it comes from this restaurant, and they all immerse themselves in conversation, talking and getting to know each other better, considering they only really knew the people within their group of ten very well. once their food is finished, they tuck into dessert, and then split to head home soon after. 

on their way out, jess and nadine can be heard arguing over the fact that no one had cried. 

“i thought it was for sure that saebom would cry —” 

“hey!” 

“shut up saebom — but no, i thought you were gonna cry. what the heck.” 

“whatever, it doesn’t matter, the bets are still on for the actual ceremony right?” 

“yeah, and the reception.” 

“i think minseok has ten galleons on one of them.” 

“ten? that’s weak from him.” 

“will you guys stop betting on my wedding?” a third voice joins in, and the two turn to see megan standing behind them, hands on her hips, though they can see a smile fighting to break it’s way out of the frown on her lips. 

nadine and jess both pause, glance at each other as if considering it, before answering in the exact same, sing-songing tone of voice. “no~” 

megan sighs, watching as they all disapparate to their respective homes, glancing at her fiance with a fond smile playing on her lips before she leans over to kiss him gently. “why do i put up with them? actually, a better question is, why did i choose them for my bridal party. they’re gonna ruin everything.” 

her fiance laughs, tugging her into his arms before they have to separate for the night, just holding her there for a moment. “but you wouldn’t change anything for the world, would you?” 

it’s quiet as they both take in the mess in the private room, and it’s with an easy smile that she answers. 

“not even for the universe.”

[rvinsounds]

-- beautiful, pt. ii in which, the annual ski trip continues to commence, this time with a little menace in tow. 

a/n: :~~~~~~) 

“no, minseok cannot bring micah down the slopes with him.” 

“okay, but why not.” 

“maybe because he’s five months old?” 

“okay, i see your point, but consider this -- he’ll have fun.” 

“he’s going to die and you’ll be held responsble.” 

“um, excuse me, i’ll have you know that my man is a very skilled boarder and has never wiped out in his entire life.” 

“that’s not very reassuring.” 

“excuse you again, i am very reassuring.”

“nadine.” 

“meg.” 

“no.” 

-- 

they ended up going sledding. 

there was a little kiddie-hill of sorts at the ski resort -- it was mostly for beginner skiers and was definitely called the bunny hill, but that was besides the point -- and there was a small shop near it that offered sleds for rental. nadine and arazely were arguing, playfully, over who would get to take micah down the hill on the sled first as megan watched, shaking her head fondly before putting an end to the argument by announcing that micah would be riding with his father for his first time. 

idly, she wonders where saebom was, considering he had been ecstatic over the thought of taking her son down the hill despite having been a bit concerned over whether his overly long body would be able to fit comfortably on a sled. 

it takes a few moments before she spots him running for his life, his girlfriend chasing after him with handfuls of snow, and she laughs. jess always had a way of bringing out the childish side from her boyfriend and she watches the two former slytherins fondly before turning her attention back to her husband, watching as he carefully places their son in his lap before pushing off and sledding down the hill. 

“they look like they’re having fun,” a voice speaks from beside her, and megan turns to glance at whoever was beside her, grinning when she realizes it’s seungyeon, and she reaches out to ruffle her fellow ravenclaw’s hair, unable to resist still treating him as if he were her ‘son’ as she liked to call him. he swats her hands away with a whine of “nunaaaaa,” and megan relents, laughing as she reaches out to fix his hair this time. 

“they’re acting like children,” she sighs, shaking her head fondly as they watch jess sneak up behind saebom and somehow manage to dump an entire handful of snow down the back of his shirt. even from where they’re standing, they can hear the resulting yell from him and they both laugh a bit to themselves as he retaliates by picking his girlfriend up and swinging her around, even more amused at the resulting shriek. jess swats her her boyfriend, screaming her head off about betrayal by her own house and for him to put! her! down! only for him to shakes his head and swap his grip so he was carrying her princess style instead. perhaps relaxing by the reassurance that they were (mostly) alone, she allows him to carry her for a while, settling against him. 

“they’re allowed to .. considering they have to be so professional for the majority of their lives, it’s nice to see them having fun, right?” 

megan nods, fully agreeing as she continues watching all her friends as they start random impromptu snowball fights, and take turns on the sled with micah -- she watches this very carefully -- and just run around wreaking havoc and she thinks that it almost feels like they’re back at hogwarts again.  

-- 

their annual ski trip isn’t complete without one day where both nadine and jessica get drunk -- and considering that megan isn’t pregnant anymore, she’s going to be roped into drinking as well now. 

they choose to sit in one of the private rooms, the music outside too loud for micah even with the charmed noise proofing headphones on, but the child is very amused by the lights flickering around the room, streaming in from the pub scene outside. saebom and chanuk are crouching in front of the child, both simultaneously making silly faces in attempts to draw his attention to them. 

megan glances over at her friends, the three other girls hovering by the table, apparently in an argument over how to mix the drinks if the snippets of conversation she’s catching are an indication at all. 

“just because you mix coffee does not mean you know how to mix alcohol!” 

“excuse you --” 

“excuse me?” 

“-- i worked as a bartender before, remember? i used to give you extra shots free of charge, do you not remember this?!” 

“oh right -- that’s besides the point.” 

“how is it besides the point?” 

“the point is that you’re wrong.” 

“do you wanna fucking go nadine --” 

“LET’S GO LET’S TAKE IT OUTSIDE --” 

“merlin, are you drunk already -- ow! are you trying to kill me? what the heck!” 

“kill me? what the heck!” the new voice draws all of their attention away from the argument at hand, all three of them -- including arazely who hadn’t been taking part in the argument -- glancing over at the oldest hufflepuff, his eyes crinkled up as he mocks jess. 

“do you wanna fucking fight, sina?” 

the hufflepuff raises his free hand in surrender, the other dutifully wrapped around his son, grinning all the while. the slytherin girl narrows her eyes at him before turning back to the more important matter at hand, glancing at her friend before they come to a truce, deciding to just pour the few bottles of alcohol and pop into the cups haphazardly and hope for the best. 

a few drinks later and they’re all at varying degrees of soberness. of course, sina is fully sober, as is seungyeon who’s allergic to alcohol, and surprisingly both minseok and saebom as well. they both grin dopily when questioned, muttering separate things about having to take care of their girlfriends and playing with micah as their excuses. arazely and megan are both on their first drink still, whereas nadine and jess are both well on their way to drunk. 

“just give him a sip it’ll be fine ..” 

“what are you doing?” 

“he’ll like it!” 

“nadine, are you giving my son alcohol?” 

“no i haven’t yet, i’m trying though.” 

“... nadine.” the ravenclaw takes the cup out of the slightly older girl’s hand, eyes narrowed at the gryffindor who definitely didn’t look as sheepish as she should. 

“he needs to learn how to drink alcohol sooner or later! better sooner,” the gryffindor grins, before eyeing the half finished cup in her friend’s hand, snatching it out of the ravenclaw’s grip a moment later. megan just sighs, letting nadine go -- with her drink, which she hadn’t really been enjoying but had been forced to take since she was ‘finally not pregnant’ as nadine had put it. 

at least micah hadn’t ended up drinking any alcohol.

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-- beautiful, pt. i in which the annual ski trip commences once again. megan is early, nadine and jess are drunk. more shenanigans.

a/n: this is a mess. what a great metaphor for my life.  a/n2: this should be taking place in 2019 if y’all need a time thing. yeah. ok. idk it’s 4am and i just word vomited this entire fic lmao sefvsjhdgf idek if it makes sense but you know what. fucking yolo :D

despite everyone thinking otherwise, even with a smaller monster thing human in tow, megan and sina are still the first ones to arrive at the ski lodge even taking muggle transportation into consideration. they check in and get one wing of the fourth floor to themselves as they usually do, though euncheol sadly couldn’t make it this year. the rest of the crew show up at varying hours after the initial 10 AM arrival time that the married ones had set. 

first, technically second, to arrive are the four maknaes of their friendship group who had taken the portkey that would have left at 6:14 PM from london, landing them in denver at roughly 11:35 AM. they had greeted the former hufflepuff and ravenclaw, with small child in tow, before separating to their respective rooms for naps to catch them up to the timezone. chanuk happily chattering to arazely, his arm around her the entire time as he walks them to the elevator.

saebom and minseok arrive a few hours later, at 4:30 PM, having caught the portkeys out of london at 11:04 PM though, it’s just the two of them for some reason. 

“where are jess and nadine?” a surprised megan asks, raising her eyebrows at the two males when they arrive without their girlfriends in tow. 

“oh shit,” minseok turns to saebom, eyes wide as the younger mirrors him, the two males staring at each other. “we were supposed to make sure they came with us, weren’t we?” 

megan neck-chops them both for their trouble, before setting off two quick text messages to the last two girls, telling them they better not miss the last portkey or she was going to murder them and drag their dead bodies across the ocean for this damn trip. she gets a keyboard smash of somewhat legible words reading ‘oklkideokes er’;; be thrwe siiiiiiiiiiooon’ from jess and just a somewhat blurry selfie of nadine pressing four sugar-rimmed shot glasses to her cheeks. 

“i swear to merlin if they miss that portkey ...” she shakes her head, throwing half-weary glares at the two tallest males in front of her, who were looking wary despite her being much shorter. “you guys ...” she sighs, shaking her head. 

it turns out that, despite being rather tipsy, jess does know the extent of megan’s threats -- as she should, considering how long they had been friends now -- and her and nadine stumble into the ski resort later that evening at almost exactly 7 o’clock on the dot. “we got th’last portkey! fucking almost couldn’t find the piece of shit -- not that it was actually a piece of shit, who the fuck makes a bottle cap? into a portkey? like -- how do they expect us to find that? lucky nadine fucking stepped on it like a minute before it took off, i swear to god. 1 fucking 56 in the goddamn morning looking for a fucking bottle cap --” 

saebom claps a hand over his girlfriend’s mouth to stop the spew of increasingly vulgar words and everyone can’t help but be amused at her expression as it completely lights up when she sees him, and practically launches herself into his arms. (he’s glad that sina and micah are nowhere to be found, as that meant they had missed the entirety of all the cursing that had just happened.) saebom himself looks completely caught off guard, before laughing and kissing the top of her head. they all mostly glance away as he leads her to their shared room for a sobering potion before there’s a loud crashing sound that catches everyone’s attention afterwards. 

“oops,” nadine grins, glancing at the mess of glass on the floor, having somehow knocked over a tray of champagne flutes and she fumbles, looking for her wand which she promptly finds, which is then promptly taken out of her hand by arazely. there’s an exchange of looks, nadine laughing raucously for a moment before minseok literally just picks her up and heads to their shared room as well. 

it’s quiet for a moment before seungyeon starts laughing, chanuk joining in soon after and megan chiming in afterwards. no one is really sure what had just happened, honestly, but they’re all together again for the first time in months and honestly, it just feels good to be reunited. 

“wait, what happened?” sina asks, wide-eyed, having come back from feeding micah and returned to their entire friend group laughing their asses off. 

arazely sighs, a fond smile on her lips as she uses nadine’s wand to clean up the mess that said older girl had created, a house-elf appearing immediately after to refill the glasses with champagne. “don’t worry about it sina-oppa. just the usual -- nadine and jess arrived.” 

he nods slowly, having just noted that saebom and minseok were both missing from the immediate vicinity, handing their son back to his wife. “safely?” he inquires softly, his expression slightly worried before it relaxes as she nods. 

“as safe as they could be,” megan rolls her eyes, cradling their son close to her and humming softly under her breath as she waits for everyone to return. 

it doesn’t take long for the four who had left to return, nadine and jess both having changed into comfier clothes than their clubbing outfits and obviously having taken sobering potions, though neither of them look too sheepish for having turned up at varying levels of intoxication. jess just salutes at megan while nadine grins, all ten of them following some hidden cue to head to the dining room for dinner. 

let the sixth annual ski trip commence!

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[rvinsounds]

minseok and nadine shopping during a trip to seoul -- taken by nadine

circa 2018

“if my face isn’t in it, neither can yours!” 

“no one said your face couldn’t be in it just lower your phone!” 

“no no no i said my face couldn’t be in it so you’re not allowed to have your face in it!” 

“but i don’t get why --” 

“just fucking go with it mate, why you gotta argue with everything?” 

“it still doesn’t make sense.” 

“it’s cute okay, just go with it.” 

“nadine.” 

“fucking fight me.”

[rvinsounds]

— falling slowly in which jess gets a random facetime call from saebom 

a/n: this is fully based off of a text post that i found in one of those snapchat articles about cute couples or whatever ksdjfvjhdsbfv and then ari went “is that saebom to you jess” so that’s how this crack/strangely kinda angsty fic was born. enjoy 

she’s sitting in their hotel room, enjoying a night in by herself -- her introvert ass needed a day to ‘recharge her social battery’ as she liked to put it to her friends -- as her boyfriend was out drinking with his friends. it wasn’t easy dating someone famous, as nadine had put it when minseok was drafted onto the starting lineup of puddlemere united, but she thought she had had it in the bag since saebom had been modelling since their fifth year. but as he gets noticed by bigger and bigger brands, she’s sometimes stuck wondering whether she should’ve continued with her modelling career before settling for her cafe. 

not that it was settling when that was all she had wanted for so long. put off for a little longer might be a better way to put it.

but she does feel a bit sad whenever he’s off to one of his parties -- whether it be sponsored or exclusive invitations or even just company ones -- because, though she’s always invited as his significant other, they’re a bit fancy for her taste. don’t get her wrong, she’s always loved an excuse to dress up and be glamorous for a night, but sometimes it’s just too much. especially when it’s a few glam parties all in a row. it’s the time of year that saebom gets invited to multiple parties in a week, and despite not minding it, jess just needs time to relax after them. 

so he’s gone off by himself to get drunk and party it up with sponsors and brand designers and makeup artists and other models while she’s at home by herself, marathoning muggle television shows and texting megan about it. it’s not that she’s sad about the fact that she hadn’t gone -- that had been her decision -- but she is a bit bummed out that he was still going and not staying in with her. but, at the same time, she understands because of the holiday season he could really get his name out there by going to these parties. 

(and he always comes home to her. so she doesn’t mind. too much.) 

it’s late, jess thinks, checking the time as she pauses her rewatching of stranger things 2 and noting that it was well after midnight. she doesn’t usually wait up for him, considering most of the time the fun doesn’t start until 1 or 2 in the morning in the clubs in seoul, and she’s not planning on staying up until 5 or 6 to see him come home. she yawns, deciding to start getting ready for bed, since despite having changed into pajamas for her tv show marathon she still has a full face of make-up on. 

she puts her playlist on to play some music while she does her night time routine -- double cleansing her face, toner, serum, face mask, all the works -- jamming along to the music that is both nostalgic and current. it’s because of this, that when the first facetime call comes through, she completely misses it. she had been having an impromptu concert, holding her bottle of toner up to her lips as she pretended to hit a high note that she would never be able to reach except in her wildest dreams, until she realizes that it’s a ringtone and not super junior’s black suit playing from her speakers. 

hurrying to her phone and plopping into bed, her rather glum expression brightens when she sees ‘오바봄’ as the caller ID on the facetime call screen, and she quickly picks up before she misses it again, hurriedly tugging her hair out of the ‘apple hair’ style that it had been in before and adjusting her bangs to fall into her face properly as it connects. 

“hey!” saebom greets her immediately, her favourite dimpled smile on his face and she waves back happily, glad that she’ll at least get to see his face before she falls asleep. 

“hi~ how drunk are you right now?” she teases, seeing the pink on his cheeks and the glitter around his eyes -- which had definitely not been there when he had kissed her before leaving -- and grinning when he looks sheepish. “your alcohol tolerance is shit.” 

“hey, don’t be mean to the love of your life,” he teases back, his words just slightly on the edge of slurring together, and she notes that he’s outside. very drunk then. “i missed you, did you miss me?” 

“gross,” she shoots back easily, rolling her eyes and flipping her non-existent long hair over her shoulder in a show of independence. “i don’t miss people, people miss me,” she grins, though it’s obviously what the hidden message in her words are, especially to him who knows her so well after dating for so long. of course i missed you, you idiot. “why are you calling? are the people boring you again?” 

he laughs, and she’ll deny it to past the grave about her heart jumping in her chest, before he shakes his head. “me and a couple of others got the munchies after shots so we went to get pizza!” to prove his point, he holds up a slice of pizza on a plate, obviously having finished one before that. she shakes her head, a fond smile on her lips as he smiles back at her, telling her briefly about what had happened at the party and which korean idols he had run into by chance. 

she spends half the time watching his face -- damn, she really lucked out at hogwarts, honestly -- and the other half staring at her own. it’s not that she feels unattractive, but compared to his full face of makeup and glitter, she does feel a bit drab next to him, especially on the same screen. her boyfriend seems to notice her change in demeanour and tilts his head, pausing mid-sentence.  

“do you know how perfect you are?” he asks loudly, and that jerks her attention back to their conversation rather than wallowing in the fact that he was currently much prettier than she was. 

“what?” 

“DO YOU WANNA KNOW HOW PERFECT YOU ARE?” he’s practically yelling and she has to turn down the volume on her phone in case that the people in the room next to her are light sleepers. 

“bom-ah, what are you --” she doesn’t even have the time to shush him before he’s continuing on, waving his phone in a wide arc to show his surroundings, and the people he’s with laughing at him. 

“LOOK AT THIS PIZZA! FOR YOU, I’LL DROP THIS PIZZA --” he pauses, dramatically showing the pizza to her and she doesn’t even know how to react, caught off guard. 

“IT’S GONE!” and she watches as he literally just flings the fucking pizza across the street. 

it’s silent for a few moments as everyone processes what had just happened, and she stares at his beaming face on her phone screen before she bursts out laughing. “what the fuck.” 

he’s just grinning at her, and his face is so proud of himself, that she can’t even get mad at him for being so ridiculously endearing and stupid. she faintly wonders how she had managed to deal with him for this long before she just shakes her head, hearing his friends calling for him to ‘stop being sappy’ and ‘hurry the fuck up’ because ‘the party isn’t going to wait for us’ so she just smiles as she wipes tears of mirth from her eyes. 

“thanks for making me laugh,” she grins at him, all too amused by her boyfriend’s antics for her own good, but also very thoroughly cheered up from her sudden mood drop. “i’m going to sleep -- you should get back to the party before people start wondering where you are.” 

“sleep tight~ i’ll come home as soon as i can ditch these losers without them getting mad at me,” he singsongs, singing a bit of ‘baby goodnight’ as off-pitch as possible and laughing as she winces. “sleep well, good night, i love you, i’ll see you in the morning,” he says quickly, his friends threatening to break his phone if he doesn’t hang up soon. she repeats the greetings back, waving at him as he presses his lips to the camera and her screen goes black. 

what the fuck, she thinks to herself as she settles down to sleep, hugging the phone to her chest, smiling as she remembers the entire call. when did i get so fucking sappy?

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— like this in which jess needs a reason to write lots of fluffy things SO ANNUAL SKI TRIP IT IS. WOOHOOOOO. 

a/n: this is such a future fic honestly. takes place in like 2019? 2018?? keep in mind i would’ve graduated in 2012 so ara/chanuk/seungyeon would’ve graduated 2013? so mei and sina are married? probably since april of the year? i made a rough timeline but idk LMAO THIS IS AN AU UNIVERSE LEAVE ME ALONE FAM

bg info on the ski lodge tho. basically it’s the same/similar one from this fic (there’s smut if you wanna read, just a head’s up!), it’s somewhere in the states, a ski lodge for wizards and witches, there’s hot springs that run on a magical fault line, plus a bar, and dining room/dinner area? also the mina section is based off of this AY -- BUT YEAH OKAY ON TO THE FIC 

it’s a tradition now, since the first time they had done it in 2014 and then again the year after, and once again every year since that. it had been a chain of portkeys up to the ski lodge, as they had all, once again, decided against taking an airplane and then a taxi. mostly, it was the purebloods who were still a bit wary about muggle transportation, especially across an ocean. a chain of portkeys was easier to manage and much quicker. 

they arrive in separate groups -- megan and sinhwa and nadine and minseok, the older pairs heading into the lodge first to get all the rooms and keys sorted. 

“everyone is paired up right?” megan asks, turning to nadine who’s distracted by minseok, who’s distracted by the blue bubbles floating out of the deer head on the wall. the older girl, by only four days as she constantly reminds everyone, glances over after realizing that she’s being spoken to. 

“you and sina, me and minseok, jess and saebom, ara and chanuk? seungyeon and daeun ... euncheol and whoever he’s bringing on this trip? did you hear he and his last girlfriend broke up after the last trip?” nadine scrunches up her nose, shaking her head as her gaze falls on her fiance and sinhwa trying to pop the bubbles. “sucks. i liked her.” she counts on her fingers again, before nodding. “five rooms!” 

they pause once they’ve told the witch behind the check in counter, hearing familiar voices and they grin as the rest of the group trickle in. jess is trying to dust snow off of saebom’s jacket whilst simultaneously unwrapping her scarf, chanuk looks extra round with his earmuffs on his head as he rubs arazely’s hands in his own, euncheol is busy brushing snow from out of his girlfriend’s hair and seungyeon rushes over to greet them, waving, his eyes bright. 

“sorry, we almost missed the last portkey because it was buried under snow and we couldn’t find it,” he’s breathless, but he’s still smiling widely. 

megan just smiles, reaching over to ruffle his hair, like old times. since they had all graduated university and had somewhat gotten real jobs, it was harder to find time to spend all together nowadays. so this was a special time for them all, especially during the busy holiday season, it was nice to get away and catch up with old friends. “help me hand out the room keys?” she asks, smiling as she hands half of them to the (younger) former ravenclaw. seungyeon nods, grinning before he heads out to help her do what she had asked of him. 

when all the keys are handed out, megan grins and she glances around at everyone else before clapping her hands together. “okay, let’s meet back up in an hour for dinner? we can unpack and relax for a bit beforehand.” 

there’s a loud “woohoo!” from the back corner, and everyone laughs, dispersing either to the dining room to grab snacks or to the elevator or stairs to head up to their respective rooms -- they had booked out a section on the fifth floor so everyone was close but still had their separate rooms -- let their sixth annual ski trip begin!

-- 

the first thing they had done when they had reached their room was change into clean clothes. the second thing they had done was fall into bed, the lure of the crisp sheets too much for either of them and that was where they were, still, an hour later. though the entire group doesn’t usually eat dinner together the entire trip, they always do for the first night there. 

which is why megan is a bit miffed that nadine and minseok haven’t shown up yet and it’s been almost ten minutes since the time they had set to meet up with everyone. so she does what she does best, and goes to find them. instead of knocking on their door, she literally just apparates into their bedroom -- considering the door is unlocked (probably on accident, probably nadine’s fault) the anti-apparition-into-rooms charm is ineffective and she literally appears with a loud CRACK! at the foot of their bed. 

there’s a muffled yell, nadine covering her face with her arms, minseok glancing up at the sound and he has the decency to look sheepish after checking the time. “nadine, babe, we’re late for dinner,” megan hears him murmur, and she can’t help but grin to herself. 

(she’s so happy for them.) 

but she’s also annoyed at the moment. “guys, the dining room is serving dinner in ten minutes. arazely had to stop chanuk from coming up here to yell at you guys for being late,” she says, her tone all official like the one that she usually uses to read the announcements at her little school, slipping into it automatically though she has to hide a smile, her hand resting gently on her stomach. 

“honestly, you guys can cuddle and do all you want but if you miss dinner, don’t come complaining to me that you’re hungry and have to order room service,” she continues, eyeing her friends and megan can’t help but shake her head after. “make sure you lock the door too, by the way, that’s how i apparated in here without you guys having to allow me to,” she adds after another moment, watching the two former gryffindors lowly sit up, begrudgingly, at the truth behind her words. 

“also nadine, jess wants to go to the bar after and she refuses to go unless you do because she for some reason needs a wing woman -- i think she said that to make saebom jealous, but that’s besides the point. everyone is waiting downstairs, so please hurry.” 

and she smiles, waving and leaving through the door this time, making sure to lock it behind her on the way out. 

--  

they manage to, somehow, get a vip lounge to themselves in the connected club that was a part of the ski lodge as well. 

(they’re pretty sure it has something to do with saebom and minseok being with them.) 

nadine and jess have disappeared for a while now, but no one is too worried -- the two of them tended to disappear to go and dance and flirt with cute boys and return once they were tired and wanted real attention from their real boyfriends. but this time when they returned, they were both grinning almost too happily, cheeks flushed from dancing and from all the alcohol they had taken in. 

it’s obvious how drunk they are when both of them literally drape themselves over their boyfriends, though said boys definitely aren’t complaining. 

“we just got this for free -- let’s do shots!” jess grins, holding up a three-quarter full bottle of what looks like vodka, nadine producing shot glasses out of nowhere and placing them onto the table between everyone. chanuk shakes his head in amusement, looking like he might protest, but he’s the first to start setting out the shot glasses so someone can pour. 

sinhwa, on the other hand, seems to have paled slightly. he’s staring at the bottle in jess’ hand, chewing on his bottom lip, his arm around his wife. megan is laughing, too amused that nadine had completely plopped herself into minseok’s lap and was simultaneously trying to get comfortable while also yelling at chanuk to hurry the fuck up. no one notices the tension until it’s too late, the bottle in jess’ hand shattering with a loud splintering noise and spraying everyone around her with vodka. 

it practically rains vodka, or whatever alcohol it is, on saebom and jess, and nadine and minseok who are next to them, and a startled euncheol. who wasn’t paying attention at all, distracted by his girlfriend. 

there’s a pause as everyone processes what had happened, sinhwa looking as surprised as everyone feels, before -- 

“what the flying fuck --” 

“that was a 40 dollar bottle of quality vodka --” 

“we know you don’t like vodka but the rest of us people would like to enjoy free alcohol, thank you very much.” 

“YAH. KANG SINA. I WILL FUCKING END YOU --” 

“merlin, stop fighting everyone,” saebom interjects, tugging his girlfriend towards him with an arm around her waist and she flails against his hold before ultimately giving up, huffing to herself as she also settles herself down in his lap. though, that doesn’t do much and she glances up and eyes the male. 

“i will still fucking end you,” she says seriously, almost seriously enough that it’s almost believable that she might not be as drunk as she seemed a few moments ago. “but not until the baby is born.” 

the silence in the room is deafening -- ignoring the pounding music outside of the room -- everyone between jess and sinhwa as the male splutters in his surprise before megan slaps him on the shoulder. “i told you you were being too obvious!” 

the gasp from jess is audible, before she grins and nadine immediately reaches up to high five her. they miss the first one, but the resounding smack of their connecting palms is as satisfying as it is painful. 

“i fucking told you!” 

“i can’t believe we were right!” 

“i can’t believe you didn’t tell us --” 

at that last outburst, both megan and sinhwa look sheepish. they exchange a glance before megan shakes her head slightly, her hand going to rest on her stomach, just a further confirmation of what had just been revealed. “we were planning to tell you guys on this trip, honestly, but we all sort of got caught up in everything.”

with the combined glares of half the people in the room, sinhwa apologizes profusely, though he keeps a protective hand around megan’s shoulders the entire time and a bright, proud smile on his face. everyone is quiet for a moment, the only sound the pounding music outside of their private room, until saebom quietly flicks his wand to clean up the mess and dry everyone off. 

nadine just sighs, fond, glancing at the row of empty shot glasses on the table, forlornly.

“you’re getting us a new bottle of vodka.” 

--

the ski lodge is well-known for their hot springs, considering these ones are apparently on a magical fault line and have some restorative powers or whatever, and that’s where everyone heads once dinner is finished. it doesn’t take long for everyone to change into their swimwear and trudge down to the large glass doors that lead out to the hot springs, deciding to spend it all together since it’s the last night.

the heat from the hot springs combat nicely with the crisp winter air, and it doesn’t even feel that old to be stepping outside in nothing but their swimsuits. 

though, it’s still a relief to slide into the hot water, everyone sidled up to their respective significant others as they take in the hot water and cool night air. “beer?” minseok asks, having brought a charmed cooler along and there’s a cheer that goes up as he starts passing chilled bottles out. 

“cheers to our annual ski trip!” jess calls out in the middle of a heated conversation about brooms -- interrupting minseok and saebom as they debate with seungyeon over which was the best out of the newer models -- stealing saebom’s bottle from him to toast it, raising the half finished bottle into the air. there’s a loud chorus of everyone toasting each other, clinking bottles together. 

seungyeon toasts the newest model of starsweeper with a sideway glance at saebom and minseok, both of whom just laugh and shake their heads in amusement, never willing to fight with their maknae despite being the professional quidditch players of the group. 

chanuk toasts arazely’s heart, thanking her quietly for everything she’s given him in his life, grinning as he ends it with a loud “WOOHOO!” which brings laughter to the group, as all the boys try to out-cheese each other, resulting in jess trying to dunk saebom underwater when he says something, in her words, “utterly disgusting.” 

arazely toasts their friendship, giving a short yet heartwarming speech on why everyone was a blessing in their group and reducing half of them to tears. nadine subtly wipes her eyes before she stands, holding out her beer to megan, who’s holding a soda. 

“cheers to your future son or daughter meg,” she grins, tilting the bottle slightly before lifting it into the air, and they all cheer again before attempting to chug the whole thing (and failing). “may the next ski trip be a family one!” 

they laugh, everyone all too amused at her failed attempt at chugging, once again, as they relax under the stars. 

megan glances around at her friends, feeling very, very content with how things have worked out for everyone. she eyes the rest of the couples, glad that everyone had paired up rather successfully even though most of them hadn’t tied the knot yet. it was only a matter of time, she was sure. 

“wanna bet nadine and minseok get married next?” 

“you wish.”

[rvinsounds]

saebom and jessica sitting on the dock, by the great lake -- taken by jess

circa 2011

"i can't believe you’re graduating this year,” she murmurs, looking at their legs as they swing their feet, watching the waves crash against the wall underneath them. she recalls him attempting to fight the squid, and suddenly is overcome with the urge to laugh -- which she fights, coughing into her hand instead. “i can’t believe we wasted so much time.” 

he just shrugs, fingers playing with the threads in his ripped jeans before he wraps an arm around her shoulders, tugging her into his body. “i can’t believe our relationship started thanks to sina hyung’s spongebob jacket.” 

she laughs helplessly, the giggles she had been trying to fend off crashing down on her in waves, her face buried in his shoulder, and she thinks she wouldn’t have had their relationship any other way.

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chanuk tying arazely’s laces when she hasn’t realized that her shoe had come untied (ignoring her protests) -- taken by arazely

circa 2012

"what are you -- you know i can do that by myself right?” she protests, blinking at her boyfriend who was currently crouched on the floor, fingers busy tying her shoelaces into a bow for her, pouting at him. 

they were headed to hogsmeade for a long-awaited trip, considering it was the first of the school year -- everyone needing to replenish something or another, whether it be snacks, candy, quills, or things for pranks -- they were at the back of the group, taking their time and drinking in each other’s presence. everyone had paired off by this point, and they were alone together. it was strange though, being the oldest for once, considering jess had graduated earlier that year. seungyeon had let them have some alone time, taking off with his ravenclaw friends. 

“can’t have you falling, can i?” 

“i’ve already fallen for you, loser.”