Back to school meant Jun would be walking down empty corridors and belting out songs. Like right now. He had to start practicing as soon as he could to stay in the trainee program. Right now, the boy was mostly focused on his low notes, which he was told needed more work. "Dooooooooooe" His voice went a bit shaky and didn't stay as clear sounding as with his high notes. He tried again, but same result. Ugh, why's he get the voice good for high notes but not low???

Doooooooooooooe

Whoaaa, whoa. Louis stopped halfway down the corridor when the eerie deep voice echoed throughout. What was that?! Like a battle cry or something?! He turned around sharply, but there was no mob of vikings chasing after him.

He did see, however, one lonely silhouette in the distance. Go figure.
There was only one person Louis knew who liked to walk around the empty school corridors singing songs about heartbreak or, in this case, just making eerie singing sounds.

“Kim!” he called out to the boy, taking a couple steps toward him until the Ravenclaw caught up with him. “Serenading empty halls again?”

FORGET THIS.

Jun went back to holding long notes, even though they didn't need much improvement. But Shin could hold a note for a little over thirty seconds and being selfish, Jun wanted to surpass him. The boy took in a deep breath, and sang a line before holding the last note. But hearing his name, made him turn and stop. Damn it, Bolton! "Hm, maybe. Or maybe I was just hoping my serenading would catch yours ears and you'd appear," Cue smirk and a punch to the arm for making him stop his note.

Sorry, Delilah. But Bolton was asking for it.

“I knew I felt something summoning me here,” said Louis with a chuckle, which only grew into a laugh when Jun punched his arm. What was with the Ravenclaw hitting him or threatening him with pans all the time?! “You’re rather violent for an artist, y’know.” Weren’t artists supposed to be gentle, delicate creatures? All sensitive about their work and stuff?

“What’re you doing out here anyway?” He raised an eyebrow at his friend. The fifth floor corridor didn’t exactly strike him as the best place for anyone to be practicing their notes.

"Mhm, that's how I'm gonna call you from now on. Don't have to get gross owls to do the job for me," Just his vocal cords and lungs. Jun disliked owls anyway. He would've been out here with Charmander but the ferret was asleep on his bed and didn't feel like moving. Lazy animal. Jun snorted at Lou's comment. "If you ever meet an artist who is calm and nice, then they'e probably just started out," As for Jun, he had been singing, dancing, playing piano and everything since he was a little boy. Many turned down parts in musicals so people grow from that.

"I was wandering around the corridors, practicing my singing notes," Especially the low ones which he somehow still couldn't do. But Lex told him he'd eventually get them once he practiced them enough. "And you? On prefect duties already?"

“That works for me,” Lou decided with a nod. He’d much rather be summoned through song than owls who bit at his fingers and took dumps on his robes. Yep, no thank you. The Ravenclaw’s following comment got him to chuckle. “I do know an artist who’s calm and nice, actually,” he said, a certain little Spaniard transfer student coming to mind. Though… for all he knew, she probably had some aggression hidden within her, too. You never know with these artist types.

“How very you.” Louis grinned, then shrugged. “You could say that. There were rumours of a dying whale on the fifth floor so I had to come check it out,” he teased with another cheeky grin.

Jun nodded. Though knowing an owl aimed his dropping to Lou's head would be a funny view. Anything bad happening to Lou would be funny to Jun. He wasn't sure why, but it was probably like that to anyone. And these two have been spending more time together. It's as if the day after they met, they just became good mates. Which id probably why Jun bothered Lou so much. He was soft too. "Calm and nice, for now. Wait until she blows up and you're gonna think I'm the calm and nice one," That was a certain thing.

Oh, those rumors. Two can play at that game. "Yeah? I heard there was a dead male Gryffindor prefect around here. I'm pretty sure it's about to be confirmed," Don't play this dangerous game, Bolton.

Louis laughed. “No way. She could feed me to the Giant Squid and I’d probably still not see you as ‘calm and nice’,” he said, shaking his head with amusement. The idea of a calm Jun that didn’t punch him at every given opportunity was simply impossible to imagine. He wasn’t sure he wanted to imagine it, anyway. He kinda liked the Ravenclaw’s fiery nature.

At Jun’s comeback, Louis raised his eyebrows and let out a long whistle. “Ah, ah, ah.” He waggled a finger at the boy. “It’s in my little rule book to report all dangerous and threatening behaviour, Kim.” Playfully, he took the badge from his chest and blew on it, then wiping it with his sleeve so it was nice and shiny.

Ahem-hem-hem! Remember the badge and its powers.

"Then it'll be your dream come true," Jun had remembered when Lou had mentioned that to him. And people thought Jun was the weird one. The prefect wanted to be squid food. Jun had promised for his funeral that he'll sail him off into the lake and let the Giant Squid have him. Maybe the Giant Squid would like a barbequed Louis Bolton. Pretty sure the creature would appreciate it.

"Badge, my butt!" That's what Jun thought of those things. It's Lex's fault, most likely. She didn't really act all prefect like so Jun didn't pay much mind to them. "Hm, then I guess you should report yourself too soon," Skateboarding is happening soon.

Louis seemed a bit puzzled by Jun’s comment, his dark eyebrows furrowing for a moment as he just stared at his friend. Then he remembered.
OHGOSH. He still remembered that?! “You’re good at sarcasm, Kim, I’m surprised you didn’t catch that one.” ‘Cause the Gryffindor obviously had no demented dream of becoming Giant Squid food. No thank you.

He snickered with amusement at Jun’s reaction to his little show with the badge, which he proceeded to place back on his chest with exaggerated pride. Of course, Lou didn’t actually care for it all that much, but it was all too entertaining to watch his friend get all worked up.

“Report myself?” He cocked his head to the side. If Jun was talking about the butterbeers… AHEM. “Alright, no reporting will be happening any time soon. As long as you continue to pay… the fee."

"Oh, I caught it. Just wanted to see if you caught mine too," And Bolton obviously didn't. He didn't have the eagle logic only some of them had. Not every eagle didn't belong there but there must've been a weird trait that put in the nest. They needed to be flicked out. Oh, and there goes Lou with his little badge again. Jun was about to take it and throw it into the lake for the Giant Squid. Pretty sure they'll never see that thing again. Even if they accio it out.

Jun grinned. He wasn't going down alone for that matter. "Of course. A kim always pays his debts,"

“Oh? Should I assume there will be many of these unexpected tests coming up?” asked Louis with a playful raised eyebrow. If that was the case, then he’d better brush up on his sarcasm skills. He wasn’t awful at it, but it wasn’t his strongest suit either; but he felt pretty certain that with Jun around, sarcasm and sass would begin to come naturally to him.

SNORT.
“What?!” What was that?! Louis laughed for a moment, shaking his head. “Alright then, I’m holding you to that.” Actually… “Aren’t you dating the other Gryffindor prefect? Does she make you pay a fee too?” Probably not, if they were dating. Maybe Jun should’ve been a Lion, he certainly had the connections to turn the common room into his own personal playground, having VIP status with the prefects.

He nodded. "Yes, there will be. You don't know me too well yet, Lou. You're gonna have to get used to it. But since you're kind of wonky up there," Jun poked the boy's forehead and started walking again, "I'll go slow for you, yeah?" Merlin knew Bolton wouldn't catch on so easily. Even Lex had started catching on not too long after they became friends. Seriously, sometimes them two were too similar for their own good. Scary at times but 'two peas in a pod'.

Now Jun was the one snorting. "No, though I had to give her three chocolate frogs for a bet she won," And a kiss; but was more of his idea than hers. No complains either. "She's more into candy than butterbeers and likes the sugar rush effect," Which he now had to be sure as to not give her too much. The Head Girl and that one friend Lex had might come after him. Yeah, he didn't want to deal with that.

"Heyyy." Louis batted Jun's hand away, scrunching his nose disapprovingly at the boy. PSH. What did he think he was, some mentally-challenged first year?! "I'll be looking forward to these tests just to prove you wrong," he decided, determination in his voice. Like a good little Lion, Lou could be rather stubborn. And he was not going to let the smug Ravenclaw think he was too clever for him.

"That's not so bad," said Louis with a shrug. Chocolate frogs were certainly cheaper than a bottle of butterbeer each time he passed Lou by the corridors. The boy remembered the giant bag of candy Alexa had walked into the common room with and nodded his head with an amused smile... "Yeah, she seems like the candy-loving type. Does she give you a candy each time you serenade her too?" Snort. Or did he really just serenade him, and not even his own girlfriend?

"Yeah? You might not catch on so easily so I'll go easy on you for now," Not more Jun could do for the slow prefect. Maybe if he paid him in butterbeer and candy he'd understand. But Jun didn't like sharing his candy. Only when he thought you deserved a piece or were too down. Also depends on the relationship you have with him. Lou still needed work to earn a piece from his bag. "I'll give you a butterbeer every time you pass my little tests,"

Jun shook his head. "I haven't serenaded her. At least not yet; haven't to anyone really. And I don't think my 'dying whale' noises count as serenading you," Only counts if he's actually singing to you, Bolton. Give it some time. "But she'd probably give me snogs if I did? Actually, I doubt it," Jun thought Lex would most likely tell him to stop. Not because of his voice; she actually liked it when he sang. But because of something else? Shrug. "Have you serenaded Dels?" With that bad voice of yours.

Louis chuckled and rolled his eyes at Jun’s jest. No point in arguing with the Ravenclaw now. “Oh? I feel like I’m going to spend the rest of this term in a half-drunken state thanks to you,” said Lou, shaking his head with an amused smile. It seemed Jun would owe him a butterbeer for every little thing, possibly even breathing. At this rate, the Gryffindor kitten lion was bound to end up a drunken fool that skateboarded to classes in a clown suit or something. Bad decisions usually accompanied butterbeer.

“I guess you won’t find out until you try it,” said Louis with a shrug, though he couldn’t picture Jun serenading Alexa. What kind of relationship did those two have, anyway? They didn’t strike him as a very… affectionate couple. Maybe they expressed their love through teasing and punching? Shrug. Whatever floats their boat.

”Have you serenaded Dels?”
SNORT.
OHMYGOSH. “Why would I do that?!” It was normal if Jun or Paloma serenaded their significant others, being the artistic types, but Lou? Yeah, no. Singing wasn’t his thing. “Nah. And for her sake, we’ll keep it that way,” he said with a grin, shaking his head again.

Grin.

Jun knew it was bound to happen. "Well, that's only because you can't handle yourself yet. If you don't do foolish things when you're young, you'll have nothing to laugh about on your deathbed," There was that Ravenclaw logic again. These had already made some funny memories because of butterbeer. The skateboarding. The singing. And disapproval from their girlfriends. Oops. At least they have to know everything their boyfriends were up to. But Lou, being the sap that he was, he'd probably rat them both out to them.

"Because you're a sap and you look like the type to do so," Honestly, Lou. Even if his voice was terrible, he should at least try and serenade the girl. Lex had told Jun she would distract him from singing to her. And he was pretty sure she would too. The boy got distracted easily anyway. "How about I serenade you for her? And cook yous guys something so she can see how 'sweet' you are. Even though I did the work," And Jun will be expecting payment from all this, Mr. Prefect.

AHEM.

Ooohohoho. Look who had turned wise and all-knowing all of a sudden! “Wow, Kim. I didn’t know you were capable of real advice.” Lou patted his friend on the back, actually genuinely proud of him for saying something that wasn’t along the lines of feeding him to the Giant Squid. Maybe, deep down, Jun Kim actually had his best interests in mind. Even if his priorities were on seeing his mate break his skull.

Again, Kim was cracking him up.
“I look like the type to serenade? Seriously?” Lou knew he came off as the ‘gentlemanly’ kinda guy, but serenades was taking it a bit far. He could perhaps play an instrument for his girlfriend, sure, but singing - nope. No. Not gonna happen. And this was more for her hearing health than to save him from inevitable embarrassment. Look how considerate he was.

Oh?
Louis raised one eyebrow as Jun suggested the idea of serenading Delilah and even cooking for the both of them, just for him. The Gryffindor was genuinely moved, however, he knew Kim well enough by now to know this wouldn’t come cheap. “And what’s this going to cost me?” A leg? Half an arm?

Well, he was a Ravenclaw after all. Had to have some of their traits in him anyway. "I'm capable of a lot more if you don't stop patronizing me," Watch it, Prefect. Jun would blast that little badge right off of you in no time. Detention might come afterwards but whatever. But for some reason, Lou sounded serious about it. He gave the prefect a weird look but accepted it, a little bit.

Jun nodded, pinching Lou's cheeks as if he were a little boy. "You just have that full on sap face going on. And be honest, you know perfectly well that you are one. Tell, were you actually nervous asking Dels out?" The answer to that was: yes. Lou was probably all fidgety when doing it. Jun? He ripped it off like a band aid. And that was it. And the next question made Jun laugh. "Nothing drastic. Just a trip to the forbidden forest," Simplish. If neither of them got caught.

"Do, da, do, da, do, da, dooo." AJ hummed out loud as she walked down the corridor. She had her magic stick in her hand and was flipping it in between her fingers as she walked. She was loving Hogwarts and her Gryffindor house. Life was good. She had yet been able to explore the castle so once the first year had some free time she decided to do just that.

Her mind kept going back to her potions lesson and how she didn't know any spell work, and frankly that was just lame. It sucked that she had to get up and fill the water from the sink instead of using her very own magic stick like everybody else. There was so much that she needed to learn, and it was all overwhelming to her when all she wanted to do was eat the cool magical food and explore the even cooler magical castle.

What was the spell anyway? Agua something or other. "Agua." No there was more to it, there was definitely something more to it. "Aguamental." she snickered. That definitely wasn't it. She started to say all kinds of random words together quickly while still twirling her magic stick round and round. "Agua...Aguamama...Aguame...Aguamaximum." Before she knew what happened, and what she had said that caused it, water starting shooting out of her magic stick. It wasn't just any water stream either. It was making a HUGE puddle.

O______O

How do you make this stop? Her puddle was turning into a lake. She flailed her magic stick around which did absolutely nothing for her. After what felt like centuries the water stopped and it was just her, her magic stick, and Lake Ontario.

Angel had to get up to the Gryffindor Tower because she wanted to do a bit of studying before the next lesson, she was walking alone when suddenly her feet was getting wet, was there a leak somewhere in this old tower.

"EWWW!" Angel looked down at her shoes and realised that they were soaked this was not good, not good at all and Angel had a feeling a Professor should now about this, especially if there was a leak somewhere.

O__________________o

Angel had been staring at the water for a few moment, but when she looked up she realised that her sister was causing the mess. "Sis, what you been up to?" Angel had a good mind to take her wand off her but well she had promised her sister she'd try to be more supportive but when she did something like this it was hard to be.

Louis smiled and raised both hands in peace offering. “Alright, alright, no need to get offended,” he said, though there was a hint of teasing in his voice. It was simply too easy to get Jun on the defensive, and Lou secretly got a kick out of hearing his Ravenclaw friend’s threats.

Now it was Jun who patronized the lion, and Louis laughed lightly, batting Jun’s hand away as he pinched his cheek. GEEZ, if Jun seriously thought he was THAT much of a ‘sap’ just by looking at his face, then he’d better never mention the new nickname Vinnie had just given him. ‘Little Cherub’. Was he gonna have to grow out some facial hair and arm muscles to get people to finally see him as the fearsome lion he was supposed to be? Such a transformation would take too long, though.

“Well…” Louis’s expression turned a little thoughtful as he remembered his first date with Delilah. “I suppose.” Though now that he thought about it, it was pretty amazing he hadn’t been a bigger nervous wreck. Probably because he and Delilah had already kinda done couple-y things before they officially started dating. “That doesn’t make me a sap, though! It’s normal to be nervous.”

A trip to the forbidden forest?
“So you want me to go feed myself to the giant spiders in exchange for food and a song?” That didn’t sound like the greatest business deal. “…You’d have to come along, though.”

Lou was asking for a kick to the head. But he was a friend and a prefect so Jun wouldn't do it regardless. He would only punch Lou playfully, until he made him really annoyed. But that might take a while since the boy liked him enough to just tease about being a sap. Only because it was true.

Jun laughed. "Well, not everyone gets nervous, prefect. Not once they've dealt with those things," Performing kind of made you get rid of nerves and all that. Him and Lex had gone on those cadny dates, and rumors were spreading already. Even now, some people didn't know since Lex didn't like Ravenclaws and that article didn't help. No big deal. They've been dating for a while now. "You're always gonna be a sap to me,"

"I'll come with, obviously. And no, we're not feeding you to the creatures in there," No use in that. Jun would like to keep his prefect connections. Though he'd still have his girlfriend for that. Still, he wanted to keep Bolton around. "We'll just go wandering around; trying not to get eaten by anything in there,"

Louis smiled and raised an eyebrow at his friend. “We’re not all talented performers, Kim,” he pointed out. That must’ve been nice, though. Not getting nervous or uneasy about anything, having confidence to the point of arrogance. Well maybe that was a bit much, but still. “You flatter me so.” He rolled his eyes, though still smiling with amusement, when Jun declared he would always be a sap to him.

So Jun was serious about this.
He wanted to go into the Forbidden Forest. Huh. Louis had only been at Hogwarts for a little over one term now, but that had been enough time to hear stories about the place. And though he knew it was obviously a bad idea that could bring upon some deadly consequences, like a typical Gryffindor he was far too curious now to back down. Part of him had always wanted to venture into the forest, and it certainly would be easier if he had an accomplice.

“Alright, then…” Louis offered his hand for a handshake. “You’ve got yourself a deal, Kim.”