Smells Like Amortentia (1/2)
(taohun, nc17, 14,302wc, hogwarts!au, fluff, romance, humor)
Where Sehun is too much in love with Zitao, Zitao too obsessed with Instagram, Baekhyun - as always - a fucking pain in the ass, and Kyungsoo the master of potions. Hogwarts!AU
warning: mentions of onesided!kaisoo and broken!krisbaek
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part I
“You can't be serious!” Baekhyun said in a loud voice, nearly choking on his food afterwards. Sehun slowly felt himself shrink a little in his seat, having caught the attention of some of the other students and already regretting his decision to finally tell his best friend about his crush.
“Not so loud!”
“You cannot be serious, Oh Sehun,” the older boy repeated after having taken a sip of water. “Anyone but that fricking idiot!”
“I think he's cute,” Sehun said in the boy's defence and he could literally see the colour leaving his friend's face in disgust.
“Cute?” and suddenly Baekhyun was pulling that muggle thing called phone from under his shirt - something they had to get for Muggle Studies - clicking some buttons and apparently knowing what he was doing before showing Sehun the screen. “This is what you call cute?” The screen showed a winking Zitao, mouth pouty and his free hand making a V sign, the photo titled as “good-hair day :*"
“Yes?”
“Jesus, someone call a doctor, this bitch is crazy.”
“Don't call me that!” Sehun said back, trying to kick Baekhyun against the shin under the table but missing.
“But you are crazy! You are in love with Huang Zitao! How is that not crazy?”
“I meant the 'bitch' part.”
“Oh, so you do admit that you're crazy?”
“No!”
Sehun had been right, there was no use talking to Baekhyun about this. He had actually seen this kind of reaction coming but his desperate need to talk to somebody about these shitloads of feels he was having for the black-haired boy after over a year of keeping quiet about this to everyone had resulted in him deciding that it was time to tell somebody.
Sehun knew that Baekhyun had something against Zitao based on the fact that he liked to test his self-invented prank-spells on him or set his pants on fire in the hallway - don't ask! - but Sehun hadn't really thought that any of those incidents had anything to do with Baekhyun seriously disliking the boy. Up until that point Sehun had thought that Baekhyun just...you know...thought Zitao worthy of being the victim to his pranks.
“Oh god, where is Jongdae? I need to tell Jongdae about this!”
“No, you do not!” Sehun said in a panicking tone because if there was one thing that was clearer than crystal, it was the fact that once Kim Jongdae knew somebody's secret it would not be a secret any longer. “Don't you dare!”
“Jongdae is friends with Zitao. He'll be able to talk you out of this!”
“Oh come on, Zitao's not that bad.”
“Not that bad?” Baekhyun said, getting in a comfortable position as to show that this was going to take a while. "He posts pictures of himself at least twice a day. He makes sad status updates if he doesn't get at least 50 likes within an hour. He never does his homework for Potions which is bad for me because god knows why I was chosen by Satan to be his fricking lab partner and you know how Snape is, he makes the whole team suffer for a single person's mistake and unfortunately being a Slytherin doesn't help much sometimes. Also, Zitao smells like baby which is totally disturbing and makes me think that he might be a pedophile. But worst of all, he's a fricking Hufflepuff! And everybody knows that Hufflepuffs are complete idiots.” Sehun leaned forward to speak assuming Baekhyun was done with his rant, making sure though that he wasn't talking as loud as Baekhyun, because he was sick of people staring at them and possibly overhearing.
“I didn't understand half of what you said there but Zitao can post as many pictures as he wants to and obviously he deserves people to like them because he's cute as hell. Also, have you ever thought about the possibility that he might not do his homework because you are always such an ass to him and he wants to see you suffer? And are you seriously complaining about his smell because oh my god, Zitao literally smells like heaven and everything I love combined in one wonderful scent so I don't know what’s wrong with you. Also, who cares about which house he's in?”
“Who cares about which hou- Oh god, I think I'm going to pass out.”
“Well, who needs a doctor now?” Sehun was getting tired of this conversation so he took the last few bites of his plate and gave Baekhyun one last disappointed look before standing up. “Let's continue talking after you've had your share of pumpkin juice, ok? You know where to find me.”
“Yea, in the mental institution!” Baekhyun called after him and Sehun felt seriously disappointed in Baekhyun. He had hoped for a more understanding reaction from him as he was his best friend and he had basically just told him about the worries he's been dealing with all alone for a long time.
Sehun had been in love with Zitao for nearly a whole year now, having fallen for him at the Halloween party of their fourth year where Sehun had witnessed the boy stuffing his mouth with all kinds of delicious pastries, fillings running down his chin, and at first Sehun had watched him in disgust, thinking about how muggles were really one of a kind, but then somehow after the sixth pumpkin pastry, he had started to notice the small mesmerizing details of Zitao's face. The little hook on his nose, the goldish tone to his skin and the heavy bags under his eyes and all those together had made him look so beautiful. After that Sehun had often caught himself watching the boy in the few classes they had together and his eyes would unconsciously skim through the crowd in the great hall, searching for the beautiful boy with the six silver piercings on one ear and the dark black hair that sometimes covered his forehead and didn't show the whole of his wonderful face. At first, Sehun had just tried to figure out how it was possible for someone handsome like that to eat like a pig and he had wondered if it was again just a muggle thing but then it had already been too late. From then on it really hadn't taken long for his heart to start racing just at the sight of him, and then the dirty dreams to start. Sehun would find himself waking up in the middle of the night, a boner poking his blanket from having had wild animal sex with Zitao in his dreams. Sehun had realized then that, yes he definitely liked the Hufflepuff boy and really really wanted to date him. But even if Sehun was usually the easy type to get along with, when it came to meeting new people, he was really reserved and had problems approaching anyone -especially if the person looked like Zitao and had such effects on his body. His last resort had been to turn to Baekhyun who had connections all over Hogwarts and somehow Sehun had hoped that despite him having something against Zitao for no reason, Baekhyun would put that behind him for the sake of their friendship and actually help create an opportunity for Sehun to get closer to Zitao so he wouldn't have to wait for the next Halloween party or the upcoming Yule ball.
Zitao was a Hufflepuff and he was a Slytherin. That meant that they pretty much never got together apart from the few classes where they would sit apart from each other and as soon as the class was dismissed, Zitao would be gone before Sehun could even think about actually doing something.
That's why Sehun felt really pessimistic that day, thinking about how the chances of ever getting to actually talk to Zitao, not to mention getting a piece of that ass, were getting smaller and smaller and soon he would be left with only the option of actually initiating a conversation with the Hufflepuff - which wasn't really an option at all because Sehun knew that he'd never get the balls to do it.
He sighed out loud as he went down the stairs to the dungeon, at least hoping that Baekhyun had been joking about wanting to tell Jongdae because that would make everything so much worse and his comfortable life in Hogwarts would officially be over.
**
It was two days later, Sehun was spending a boring sunny Sunday in the library while pretending that he was actually getting any of the Herbology stuff he was reading when Baekhyun sat down in front of him, the two of them not having had a proper conversation since Sehun's confession at breakfast the other morning.
“What?” Sehun asked, not even looking up from his horribly boring book he liked to call "Book of Plants And Other Kinds Of Green Shit That I Don't Really Give A Rat's Ass About".
“We need to talk.”
“I'm studying, don't you see that?”
“Oh, who are you kidding?" was all the smaller boy said before pulling the heavy book out of Sehun's hands and closing it without even marking the page. “It's about Zitao.”
“If you are going to call me crazy again, this conversation is already over.”
“No, I'm not going to call you that,” Baekhyun said seriously and this was the first time Sehun actually decided that he was going to listen to him; “I'm not saying that you aren't crazy, but I'm not going to call you that."
“Oh great.”
“Just listen, will you?” Baekhyun said in an annoyed voice, getting shushed quiet by the old wrinkly librarian and showing her a face before leaning forward. “So I talked to Jongdae.”
“OH MY GOD, you did not!” Sehun shouted, his worst nightmare having come true.
“I did.”
“NO YOU DID NOT. YOU DID NOT DO THA-!” he only shut up because he got hit on the head with the book he had been reading up until a minute ago by the librarian who was looking at him furiously and pushing a finger to her lips before turning around with a warning.
“Calm down, will you? He won't tell anyone." Baekhyun said in a quiet voice while leaning forward, ”He actually seemed rather interested in helping you out.” and now he was grinning and Sehun just looked back at him, a painful expression on his face.
“What are you talking about?” he asked, imagining what would happen as soon as he'd enter the dungeon in a few hours. Everyone would already know. He was going to get pranked and laughed at and he'd never be able to face Zitao ever. “Help me out? In what? Survive living hell?”
“No. To hook you up with Zitao. He'll help.”
Sehun didn't know what to think of that, so he looked at Baekhyun with a frown on his forehead, not quite believing his best friend's words and still feeling the shock in his veins.
“Why?”
“Because I asked him to? Jongdae and I go way back, you know that.”
“Yea but... you don't like Zitao, why would you want to help to hook me up with him?”
“Oh that, well yea, let me tell you about the details,” Baekhyun started, “Jongdae knows a powerful potion, similar to Amortentia, that if taken will make the person fall in love with you head over heels for a week! Just needs a bit of your hair and spit and he can get that stuff ready for you.”
Sehun was everything but enthusiastic about that idea because he had never actually thought of making Zitao fall for him in such a way, he decided to listen until the very end anyway because there was a very slight chance that this would get better and he reaaalllyyy hoped so because Sehun wanted to be with Zitao very much, yes, but not really like that.
Baekhyun saw the doubt in his best friend's face so he rolled his eyes.
“Sehun, I know what you're thinking. Jongdae is reeeaaaally bad at potions and he'd probably kill Zitao first before making him fall in love with you, but Jongdae told me that he can get Kyungsoo to make the potion. That guy still owes him something, don't worry.”
“Oh yea, that's what I was worrying about.”
“Anyway, just a bit of that potion and the guy will be head over heels with your for exactly 7 days. And that's where we get to the brilliant part!”
“So it gets better?” Sehun asked unimpressed and was already sure that he was not going to go along with this ever. He was thankful for Baekhyun trying so hard though so he didn't interrupt him just so he could tell him off with a simple 'bitch, I don't think so' afterwards.
“As soon as the potion loses its effect, Zitao will forget everything concerning you that happened in those last seven days!” and now Baekhyun was looking at him like he had just told him that they were going to get the House Cup this year and was expecting Sehun to flip his shit in excitement.
“How is that a good idea?! Do you realize that I actually want to be with Zitao and not just nail him once or twice?!"
“Yea yea, I know you think that now" Baekhyun said, a mocking smile on his lips, “but believe me. After spending seven days with that weirdo you will have realized that he is not for you and you will be thankful that he'll forget everything. You won't even have to deal with breaking up with him. Isn't that great? Aren't I great?” and Baekhyun was apparently still expecting Sehun to get on his knees and thank the lords for having blessed him with such a good friend like Baekhyun but that was not gonna happen.
“I'm sorry to burst your bubble here, Baekhyun, but... what?” he asked while rubbing one of his temples with a finger in disbelieve, “How could you actually expect me to like this kind of silly idea? I am seriously in love with Zitao. I don't want this kind of crap!”
“Seriously in love? Oh come on, you haven't even talked to him once. Those are just your pubertal needs going through with you. Once you got him to do it with you, you'll lose interest. At the latest when you realize what an annoying ass that guy is.” and that's where Sehun figured that he really shouldn't have listened to all of this.
“The only ass here is you, Baekhyun!” Sehun said seriously and suddenly felt the anger welling up inside of him. “You don't know Zitao any better than I do so how can you judge him like that? Besides, I am not like you! I don't go around fucking guys for the fun of it just to break their hearts later and never talk to them again!” and Sehun knew exactly that he was hitting a nerve there because Baekhyun was no longer looking at him , eyes fixed on the table in front of him, knowing exactly what he was getting at. Sehun was too mad to be understanding though “I want to be with him and if you find that so disturbing than maybe we shouldn't be friends any longer because I don't need you to keep telling me how crazy and wrong I am when it's actually you who won't ever find someone because you just use and push everyone away from you, like the scared little boy you are!” That's when Baekhyun stood up, having gone unusually silent and looking at Sehun with that weird look on his face Sehun had never seen before. He was feeling bad already.
“I get it. I'm sorry for trying to help.” he left with those words, having Sehun taste the bitter after-taste of hurting your best friend on purpose and tears welling up in his eyes.
“He's the one who started it,” he whispered to himself before he grasped his own things and left as well, his heart feeling heavy and hurt.
**
This was definitely the worst fight the two of them had ever had after that incident in Sehun's third year when he had broken Baekhyun's wand on purpose because the older boy had eaten the last piece of his favourite dessert. This fight was way more serious though, and even if Sehun had the power to turn back time, he could still see himself get angry and react exactly the same way even though he felt bad for having lashed out at his best friend that harshly.
The topic of Baekhyun breaking up with Yifan which all happened about a year back was still something nobody was allowed to talk about because even though he'd never admit it, Sehun knew that Baekhyun had actually been head over heels with the boy and breaking up with him for whatever reason had hurt him bad. But now, even though Baekhyun had been insensitive about Sehun's feelings and acted like an ass, he knew that he had to be the one to apologize first, and he was going to. It was just hard to approach Baekhyun when Sehun felt tears welling up in his eyes every time he looked at him because he was so sorry.
It was already the seventh day after their fight when Sehun had decided that he really needed to talk to Baekhyun that evening. Baekhyun was a year older than him so they weren't sharing a room which resulted in Sehun deciding to wait for him in the great hall because he knew that Baekhyun was going to stop by there to meet up with head boy Joonmyeon for his weekly 'Why You Should Not Use Self-Invented Spells On Your Classmates' session to which Baekhyun had been going weekly for a few months already. And even though his best friend liked to bitch about it, Sehun was pretty sure that Baekhyun actually enjoyed meeting the oh-so-perfect Joonmyeon and make him a little frustrated. Anyway, it was a Sunday night and Sehun had sat down at the end of the Slytherin table, looking over at the Ravenclaw's table where Joonmyeon was still sitting alone, waiting for Baekhyun. Sehun used the time to try and prepare the right words.
The moment Baekhyun and Ravenclaw's Kyungsoo entered the common room together. Baekhyun and his eyes met and Sehun immediately got on his feet.
“Hey Sehun" Kyungsoo said, taking of his robe, “You here to join our little session today?” Sehun didn't even know that Kyungsoo had been part of this until that moment. But it did make sense, considering what had happened a month ago when Kyungsoo had turned Gryffindor's Yixing into a cat because apparently his dimples had pissed him off.
“Well, no...,” he said kind of nervous and caught Baekhyun looking at him troubled, “I just wanted to... I'm sorry, Baekhyun. I didn't mean it, really. I was just-”
“It's ok,” Baekhyun interrupted him, “Maybe I shouldn't have said that kind of stuff about Zitao. You are my best friend and you like him so I should support you even if I think that he's a total twit.”
“Yea well, I'm sorry for brining up the... you know...the Yifan-incident.” and Sehun was actually unsure whether it was ok to even mention that name but Baekhyun just shook his head and smiled a little.
“That's ok. Friends?” he approached Sehun, holding out his hand and waiting for him to grab and shake it.
“Friends,” Sehun said with a grin on his face, feeling the heavy burden he's been carrying around for the past week fall from his shoulder while squeezing Baekhyun's hand.
“So I guess everything is alright between us again?” Baekhyun asked, question in his eyes and when Sehun nodded his mouth turned into that weird shape, “and since we are back to being friends you will forgive me for doing something really really stupid?”
“Why... what did you do?” Sehun asked, smile leaving his face because if Baekhyun was admitting that something was stupid than it was really reaaallly stupid. And then Sehun caught sight of Kyungsoo watching the two of them making up and suddenly it clicked.
Baekhyun and Kyungsoo weren't even that close.
Why did they come in together?
Where did they come from?
Why did they...
The fricking potion!
“Don't tell me you did it anyway.”
“Ehm...”
“No... no.”
“No what?” Kyungsoo asked confused, obviously not being able to follow the conversation.
“Kyungsoo... did you make that potion for Zitao?”
“Yes, why?”
“And did you already give it to him?”
“Jongdae did, yes.”
“Oh god.”
“I'm so sorry, Sehun,” Baekhyun started begging while holding on to one of Sehun's shoulders. “I still think that's a good idea, though.”
“Oh my god.”
“You will see. It will be fine!” Baekhyun said, forcing himself to grin and Sehun felt all of those angry feelings coming back to him but instead of shouting them out and hurting his friend again, he pressed his face to his hands, keeping himself from doing anything he would regret later. “You see, even if you do end up liking him for real you can use this one week to get to know him better and then get him to fall in love with you for real afterwards, right?”
“Oh god, I can't believe you did that, Baekhyun. I just can't...”
“It will be fine!”
“How did you even get my hair and my spit? Didn't you need it for the potion, how did you-” but they lived in the same dorm so it wouldn't have been that hard to get those even without his knowledge.
“Wait a minute, Baekhyun. Sehun wasn't alright with this?” Kyungsoo asked confused and then looked at Sehun who was obviously not liking any of this. “You told me that that's what he wanted. I wasted hours on this stupid potion and Sehun doesn't even need it?”
“Believe me, he needs it,” Baekhyun answered and Sehun just shot him a glare and noticed how Baekhyun was still holding on to his shoulder, pushing him away a little.
“So what... Zitao is in love with me already? Like... right now?” Sehun asked, kind of only realizing that fact now and thinking about how Zitao could be thinking about him right that second.
“It takes a while to take effect but by tomorrow morning he'll definitely have fallen for you,” Kyungsoo explained.
“And he will talk to you at breakfast, I'm sure of it!” Baekhyun added, daring to show Sehun a smile but flinching back again when Sehun shot him another one of his death glares.
“Is there any way to turn this back? Like some kind of antidote?” Sehun asked Kyungsoo.
“There is but it'd take a week to make it so it's pretty useless. I'd say just deal with it for now. If you show Zitao that you don't like him, he probably won't bother you any longer. I know him a bit and he's not someone who chases after another who doesn't even like him back. The potion doesn't change his character.”
That was probably supposed to make Sehun feel at least a little better about the situation but how was he going to pretend to not be interested in Zitao when that boy was actually all he had been thinking about for months? He'd been dreaming about having Zitao approach him and fall for him for a year so there was no way that he would in any way be able to hide his excitement the moment the boy finally talked to him. He'd probably jump him like a mad bunny.
There was no way that any of this was a good idea but because Sehun was sick of being angry at Baekhyun and apparently he couldn't change the situation anyway so he took a deep breath, forcing himself to get used to the idea of having to deal with this shit for the coming week.
“Ok...”
“Ok?” Baekhyun asked, looking at Sehun while grinning, “You're ok with it after all?”
“No, ok as in 'ok you owe me big time, asshole." he said, pushing Baekhyun against the shoulder half joking and half serious as the boy tripped back, a troubled look on his face.
“Well, I guess I really do don't I?”
“You bet!”
**
And just like Baekhyun had said, there Sehun was, biting in one of his sausages when suddenly a tall black-haired boy sat down in front of him at the Slytherin table, catching the attention of the few students that were still having their breakfast. Sehun felt himself turn a shade of pink as his heart started beating like crazy but he still managed to look up at the boy without wetting himself which was harder than it sounds because this was the first time Sehun had see him up that close and good lord, he was gorgeous!
“Good morning, Sehun. I'm Zitao.”
“Yes, you are." Sehun said and immediately wanted to hit himself in the face with a sausage because he was already not making any sense and they've been facing each other for what, less than five seconds? “I'm Sehun.”
“That's what I just said,” Zitao answered, smiling amused and Sehun was already searching for a blunt object so he could take it to Baekhyun later and beat him up with it because this was all his fault. “I was wondering if you'd like to go to Transfiguration together? You are in my class, right?”
“Oh, yes,” Sehun said, not having expecting this at all but he was not going to say no when Zitao was basically asking him out on the date. And that's what it was because their classroom was at least 10 minutes away from the eating hall and two people spending that much time together qualified as a date...right?!? “Yes, let's do that.”
“Great!” Zitao stood up as Sehun gulped down the last bit of his pumpkin juice and followed the black-haired boy out of the great hall into the corridors.
They were walking side by side, Sehun's left side burning and his eyes fixed on the ground when Zitao's beautiful face suddenly appeared in front of his, him having leaning forward while walking.
“I guess the floor is really interesting to look at, isn't it?” he said grinning but before Sehun could say anything and embarrass himself some more, Zitao was leaning back and laughing a bit, looking at Sehun from the side. “I've been meaning to ask you something.”
“Yes?” Sehun asked and hoped that his voice sounded normal.
“Do you have an instagram? Because I'd like to follow you on it.” Zitao smiled at him and Sehun just looked back perplexed and completely confused.
“An what? follow what?”
“An instagram...wait you don't know what that is?!" Zitao seemed rather surprised as he pulled out his phone and showed that thing called instagram to Sehun. He recognized it as the thing Baekhyun had showed him a few days ago because there were a bunch of Zitao's pictures on it. Sehun still had no idea what this instfram thing was but if Zitao was asking for it, he'd definitely have to get one of those too.
“Where do I get this?”
“In the app store.”
“Is it in Hogsmeade?”
“Oh my god” Zitao started and suddenly he was laughing so hard and Sehun had no idea what was going on. “You are so incredibly cute.” He didn't know if he should have taken this as a compliment but since Zitao was smiling and cute was in general a very positive word, he felt his heart flutter at the thought that Zitao had actually meant those words.
“Am I?”
“Yes,” Zitao confirmed once more before calming down a little, “I guess it's not weird that you don't know it. You've never actually set foot in the muggle world, have you?”
“That's right.” Since Sehun came from an old wizardry family, he had never even heard a lot about muggles when he was a child. Not because his family hated them and didn't want to talk about them but because they just didn't know anything about them apart from the fact that they had to handle life without magic which had sounded horrible to a five-year-old Sehun who had then decided that he would never ever want to witness something sad like that.
But since falling for Zitao, he had started to doubt the fact that there was no such thing as magic in the muggle world because come on, Zitao was too good to be true. There was no way that this prince-like creature could have been conceived without a little help of a Formosus spell before having sex -yes, such spells existed and his parents had used them to make their son into a little handsome fella which Sehun was very thankful for.
“It's something you have on your phone so you can take pictures and share them with your friends. If you give me your phone, I can make you an account if you want to. You should have a phone right?”
“I got one for the Muggle Studies class just recently. Don't have it with me right now though." Sehun said kind of regretting that he didn't carry it around on a lace around his neck like Baekhyun did. He should start doing that. “I'll give it to you next time?” it was too late to take those words back when he realized what he had done. Sehun had just asked Zitao for a next time without shitting his pants!
“Yes, of course. Bring it to dinner later?” and suddenly Zitao was smiling at him like he was really looking forward to it and that's when Sehun actually remembered that this boy was in love with him right now and he was probably looking forward to it as much as he was.
“Yes, definitely!”
**
If there was one person he loved more than Zitao at that moment, it was Baekhyun. Definitely Baekhyun, his wonderful friend who had made it possible for him to get close to Zitao after Sehun hadn't even managed to get a simple Hi out of his mouth for over a year.
“Ok, it's getting kind of weird.” Baekhyun said troubled, trying to push Sehun away from his side as the younger boy started snuggling against his neck in the dungeons, murmuring "thank you"s and "I love you"s and "Zitao is so cute I can't's.
"Get off of me, Oh Sehun!”
“I love you" Sehun repeated once more before he finally let go and looked at his best friend with a sweet smile.
He had just come back from dinner where Zitao had met him just like promised and set up one of those instflam accounts for him. It had taken him about five minutes to explain how this weird app thing worked when Zitao had all of a sudden slung an arm around Sehun's waist and said a loud cheeeese before taking a picture of the two of them and now all Sehun could think about was how Zitao had pressed his cheek to his face and just looking at that picture on his new instflam made him want to kiss Baekhyun so hard.
“Look at it, aren't we beautiful together?” Sehun said, pulling out his phone for the 10th time that night and showing the picture to Baekhyun who already seemed rather annoyed.
“Oh yes, Zitao is going to appear on even more pictures now because believe me, this will not stop him from taking any less selfies.”
“Why don't you just unfollow him if you don't like his pictures? Zitao said that was an option." Sehun asked confused, pointing to the unfollow button when Baekhyun started making resentful noises.
“That might be an option for normal people but that weird ass put some kind of master-spell on his account so nobody can unfollow him! Not even head boy Joonmyeon was able to help me with that one.”
Sehun gasped at that, looking back at Baekhyun with huge eyes “So you are telling me that Zitao is handsome, cute, funny as well as a brilliant wizard? Did I just win the jackpot or what?”
“If that's what you would like to call it...” that's when suddenly Sehun's phone made a weird noise and the boy flinched at the weird vibrating motion it was making in his hands.
“What's happening? Did I break it?”
“It's a message,” Baekhyun said pointing at the screen, “Apparently from Zitao.”
And Sehun didn't know what he was doing when he started pointing his finger all over the screen, all excited, when he managed to open the chat box and a short message popped up:
'You asleep already? -Tao'
There was a little dancing panda next to his cute nickname and Sehun just wanted to scream because why was the lord so generous to him?
'No' Sehun typed back slowly, proud that he had managed to sent it out without any help when the next message came just a second later.
'Want to do something crazy then?'
“Crazy?” Baekhyun asked who was leaning over his shoulder and following their conversation.
'Crazy?' Sehun typed back, taking a few seconds to find all of the right letters.
'Meet me in front of the library?'
“I told you this guy was insane!” Baekhyun started in a loud voice but Sehun could barely hear him, heart beating too fast, “You're going to get detention if Filch finds you. And he will find you with that ridiculous scent of Zitao's. There is no way his stupid cat is not gonna smell that.” Baekhyun said, already holding on to Sehun's arm as to tell him not to go but all Sehun could think about was that oh my god, Zitao was actually asking to meet up with him alone in the middle of the night.
'Be right there' he typed back and didn't even listen to Baekhyun shouting don't do its after him as he left the dungeons.
**
Sehun had used a silent spell so his steps would be inaudible as he made his way to the library. He had been lucky, not passing anybody on his way and was now waiting for Zitao to come and join him. It was about 10 minutes later that Zitao grasped him by the shoulder from behind and pulled him into the library with a huge grin on his face.
Zitao shushed Sehun quiet as they roamed through the corridors of the library, Zitao holding on to Sehun's hand and not letting go as he stopped in the darkest section of the library. The black-haired boy was quietly listening for any signs of someone else being around and when he was met by complete silence he looked at Sehun, an exited smile on his face.
“Guess we are alone,” he said and Sehun was having a hard time pretending that the most beautiful boy on the planet holding his hand was not a big of a deal at all “Want to study together?”
At that Sehun couldn't help but pass Zitao a confused look because he had definitely not though that this was what Zitao had meant by doing something crazy, but then the boy started to giggle in a really weird way.
“You should see your face,” he whispered, letting go of Sehun's hand which made him feel empty and sad for a second but then that hand was moving back behind his head and pulling him by the neck. “Actually, this is what I had in mind.” and all of a sudden Zitao was kissing him and oh Jesus, Sehun was too surprised and exited to even kiss the boy back. It took a soft bite on Sehun's upper lip to snap out of it again and finally move his lips against Zitao's as he closed his eyes and could not believe that this was actually happening and he was not dreaming. For a few seconds he was seriously considering whether this was real or not, thinking about when he could have fallen asleep and pinching himself in the thigh to see if it'd hurt or not - and thank god, it did! - because even though Zitao was in love with him at that moment because of that stupid potion, this was still way too good to be true.
They were kissing for about a minute, lips and tongues moving together before Zitao pulled back first, hands fisting into Sehun's shirt and holding him close.
“Thank god, you kissed me back,” he whispered against Sehun lips and before Sehun could even say of course they were back to the snogging, this time more passionate and clumsy.
They were still in the middle of licking into each other's mouths when there was suddenly the sound of a door opening and both of them flinched back at the same time, getting on their knees and trying to hide as good as possible.
“Shit,” Zitao whispered, sliding closer to Sehun to look over his shoulder through the bookshelfs and Sehun should have probably also been fearing getting caught but all he could do was wrap his arms around Zitao's stomach and press his face to the boys neck because he smelled so good and Sehun had been dreaming about doing this to him so many times already.
“Don't breath against my neck, it'll make me laugh,” Tao whispered with a smile on his face and pulled away a bit to look at Sehun who nodded and then decided to look over his shoulder as well, checking whether they were safely hidden.
“Someone there?”
“Yea, some student.”
“You can see something?” Sehun asked, trying to make out anything specific but failing.
“Not much but I think I saw him wearing a uniform.”
They kept on watching the person roam through one of the potion shelves through the small gap in the bookshelf until he had apparently found what he had been searching for and left the library again, leaving Zitao and Sehun alone. Both of them breathed out in relief as soon as the door closed behind him and looked at each other with a smile on their faces.
“Man, this was scary,” Zitao said, leaning his forehead against Sehun's shoulder, both of them still in a squatting position.
“This was your idea,” Sehun said in defence when Zitao looked up at him, a troubled smile on his face.
“Yea, usually I'm not someone who'd take such a risk. It's just that I like you a lot so... I don't know why I did this, something is wrong with me.” and suddenly Sehun remembered that even though this was not a dream and this was really happening, nothing of it was really real. At least not for Zitao. He was under the effects of a potion. He didn't really like Sehun.
“Yea, weird,” Sehun answered, feeling kind of sick all of a sudden and standing up while taking a step back. He felt kind of hurt even though Zitao didn't even know that this wasn't real from his part and all Sehun wanted to do was go back in the dungeons and hit Baekhyun on the head because this was still all his fault.
“You ok?” Zitao asked, apparently having noticed Sehun's sudden change of mood and taking a step forward. “Is it because I said that I like you? Is this going too fast for you?”
“No,” Sehun answered and he couldn't help feeling bad about this even though he loved being close to Zitao and kissing him was wonderful and he wanted to do it again. He just felt like it wasn't right and all of it had been a mistake.
This had been their first kiss and Zitao was not going to remember.
“Then what is it?” Zitao asked and Sehun was looking at him again, seeing worry and insecurity in his eyes and he felt so bad for making him feel that way, so he stepped forward a little again. He touched Zitao's hand slightly just so the Hufflepuff boy could take them in his immediately.
“It's because I really like you too. For a long time, actually.”
“Really?” Tao asked him back and he was looking at him with such a beautiful and sincere smile on his lips, Sehun felt his heart break a little at that.
“Really.”
“If so,” Tao started again, having that really flirty look on his face that made Sehun get weak in the knees, “can I kiss you again?”
Sehun smiled and nodded. His heart hurt and he would probably cry himself to sleep that night but rejecting Zitao at that moment would make the boy sad and seeing Zitao sad would make everything a thousand times worse, so he leaned forward about to press a small kiss to the black-haired boys lips again when Zitao leaned back to avoid it and grin at Sehun.
“But first, let me take a selfie!”
**
“Congratulations,” Jongdae said at the breakfast table the next morning while smiling at Sehun, “I saw the picture. It's only been a day so I can't say that I'm not surprised, but anyway, I'm glad everything worked out.”
“What picture,” Sehun asked but he guessed that it must have something to do with instaflam because apparently every picture had something to do with instaflam nowadays.
“The one of you and Zitao kissing. Congratulations.”
Sehun nearly choked on his eggs that second, looking at Jongdae with huge eyes.
“Tao uploaded that?”
“Yea, you didn't know?”
“I haven't checked instaflam since yesterday.” that's when he finally took his phone out, touching the icon and first thing that popped up was a picture of him and Zitao kissing in the dark library, the one Zitao had taken yesterday shortly before they had left to go back to their houses.
“It already has over 300 likes. Basically the whole school should know about you two by now.”
“Wow,” Sehun said and really didn't know what else to say to that because this was crappy as hell, “So in like a week everyone will remember expect for Tao? Well, that's great. I'll have a lot of explanation to do then. Thanks for getting me into this mess.” and he was directing those words at Baekhyun who was sitting with Chanyeol at the other end of the table and couldn't possibly hear him.
“Well, I wouldn't worry too much about that.”
“Why?” Sehun asked getting incredibly worried about how fricking messed up this situation would be in a few days time and taking a last spoon full of cereals.
“Just because,” Jongdae said and stuffed his face with pancakes which told Sehun that their conversation was over for now.
And now that he knew about this picture, everything weird that had happened to him this morning before breakfast suddenly made a lot of sense. People have been staring at him all day long and Sehun had thought that it was because his eyes were still swollen and red from all the crying he had done yesterday. But he had been wrong because apparently it was because everyone had seen the picture. Sehun didn't know if he actually liked that.
“Hey, Fuckapuff!” some Slytherin suddenly called out to him and then a few students who had heard the remark started to laugh and it took Sehun a second to get what was going on.
“Ohhh very funny,” he called back and shot Jongdae an annoyed glare because he was basically responsible for this situation as well.
It was weird, but the happiness Sehun had felt yesterday was already gone and had left him with such bitter sadness, thinking about how his situation with Tao was probably going to turn out in a little less than a week. Up until before their first kiss Sehun had thought that he might be able to get out of this somehow. No, to be really honest, he hadn't thought much about the consequences at all. But now that shit was getting serious and the day Zitao would lose all of his memories about him was getting closer and closer, Sehun found himself at a loss of what to do as soon as those seven days where over. He was going to have to explain himself to a most-likely really angry Zitao who'd feel used and would probably hate him for the rest of his life.
He felt beyond miserable thinking about all of those things at once but then he saw Zitao approaching with a huge smile on his face and all Sehun could do was grin back at the boy because god he really really liked him too much for it to be healthy for his own good.
part II