Chapter 8
Yena closed her eyes and hummed to herself, taking in the warmth of the sun, a calm smile spreading over her face. She felt calmer like this, taking in the world’s natural energy and the presence of Chaewon, though this time was different considering Yuri and her friend’s sat with the couple.
Chaewon and Yena weren't the most sociable people, yet here they were sitting with what Yena would describe as over half of Enozi’s student population, granted in all reality it was only Yuri and three other people, nevertheless, for Yena it might as well have been a hundred people.
With the couple sat Yuri, obviously, along with Hitomi, Wonyoung, and Yujin. Thankfully Yena was familiar with the wolf and her witchy companion, so the only person Yena truly didn’t know was Hitomi.
“And then Yena grabbed Jennie’s arm and threw her to the ground! It was like she was a superhero!” Yujin was going on for the umpteenth time about the fight before lunch, wildly explaining it to Hitomi who was soaking in every word of gossip.
Chaewon sat cooley, sipping from her blood bottle, her arm tightly around Yena’s waist as her ever constant anchor and reminder that everything was ok and that they were safe.
Yuri silently took in the display in front of her, her friends excitedly chattering amongst themselves and of course the image of Chaewon and Yena, easing the itch in the back of her mind that has grown the past two days, though some of Jennie’s words still clouded her thoughts.
“You’re thinking too loud again.” Yuri’s breath hitched, the warm feeling of Chaewon’s breath against her ear seeping into her. “Relax, okay?” Chaewon offered Yuri a warm smile, “Jennie is always bitchy towards new students”
That didn’t make Yuri feel much better, quite frankly she was tired of Enozi and everything it had to offer, well almost everything. Though it was technically still her first day Yuri didn’t think she could ever grow tired of Yena and Chaewon, something about them seems different, warm, almost as if she’s known them for months or years.
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The rest of Yuri’s day was unceremoniously dull, dinner time at Enozi school for the supernatural had approached quicker than expected, then again Yuri’s day had been anything but slow. Walking with Hitomi down the stairs to the dining hall Yuri thought aloud to herself, “Do you think Yena and Chaewon would join us again?”.
Hitomi chuckled “Yuri, I’m saying this as not only your roommate but as someone who’s been a student at Enozi for several years; You could ask Yena and Chaewon to carry you around to all your classes and I’m pretty sure they would do it for you” a pink blush suddenly bloomed across Yuri’s face.
“Now I wouldn’t go that far, maybe only to a few classes before those two snuck off to suck face somewhere” claimed a voice Yuri had never heard. She looked to her right to see a strange girl walking next to her with Nako walking next to her, this must be Minju. The stranger sent Yuri a quick wink and a flash of her red eyes to confirm her suspicion, yup definitely Minju.
“Oh please Min, just because you walked in on them one time doesn’t mean they're hormone-filled teenagers that can’t keep their hands off each other” Nako added jokingly.
Minju deadpanned “It was twice, and that’s exactly what it means.”
“Come to think about it, today is the first day I’ve actually seen them attend all their classes without sneaking off to do god knows what in the woods” Hitomi quickly tacked onto Minju’s prior declaration.
Yuri blushed once again thinking of her first glimpse of the couple in the woods and that night when Chaewon had pulled Yena impossibly close to her eyeing her as if she were the vampire’s last meal, “Can-we-just-not-talk-about-this,” the witch quickly mumbled out, words mashing together.
The other girls took note of Yuri’s clearly flustered look and decided it was best to skip through the rest of the subject.
Hitomi, Nako, Minju, and Yuri made it to the dining hall quickly after that, “Hey mind if Nako and I sit with you tonight? Hyewon normally makes us sit with her so she can keep an eye on us but she’s busy with council stuff tonight” Minju asked the witches as they headed to their usual table.
Waiting for the witches to join them sat Wonyoung and Yujin, the pup perking up as soon as she heard her friends, “Over here! Guys, we’re over here!” Yujin shouted, standing up and waving her arms frantically to gain the attention of her friends, subsequently gathering the entire student body's attention. Wonyoung quickly grabbed her friend’s shirt and pulled the wolf back down to lightly scold her for not using her inside voice.
The witches and their vampire additions gathered around the table in their usual seats as their meals magically appeared in front of them. Yujin, unsurprisingly, was the first to speak up.
“Oh by the way Yena told me to tell Yuri that her and Chaewon won’t be here for dinner, they have a council meeting to deal with Jennie’s outburst today,” the wolf said offhandedly before chomping down on what Yuri could only assume to be some sort of meat.
“Oh yeah that’s probably why Hyewon was called, Honestly I thought they found out it was Minju and I who switched out all the eye of newt for orbeez in the potions lab”
Wonyoung and Hitomi’s forks clattered to the floor, “That was YOU?!” the two witches yelled in unison, their quick change in emotions causing the lights to flicker throughout the dining hall. “Do you know how difficult it is to scrub failed healing potions out of your hair? Well let me tell you, it’s not very easy!” Wonyoung shouted, “Your stupid prank caused half the school’s cauldrons to explode!”
Nako and Minju looked at each other before sharing a fist bump, “And we would do it all over again” Nako’s smirk faltered, “I mean, we would if it wasn’t for the new security enchantment Eunbi and Chaeyeon put into place.”
Yuri spent the rest of her dinner watching in amusement as the two vampires proceeded to retell most of the more elaborate pranks they had pulled, along with watching Hitomi, Wonyoung, and Yujin’s shocked reactions. Maybe, Yuri could get used to Enozi for reasons other than her fixation with a certain couple.