Serendipity

Chapter 19 (Hazel)

"I can't believe I just said that!"  Hazel groaned to herself as she hid in the bathroom of the train car.  She leaned against the door as she rubbed her head, feeling the effects of the serum Taehyung had given to her fade away.  

    "I didn't even know that Ember was my favorite Gryffindor?  And what if Jungkook thinks that I like him or something now?  Damn it Taehyung."  Hazel cursed to herself.  She suddenly felt the door shake as someone knocked on it.

     "Hazel?  Are you in there?  Are you okay?  You can come out now.  I won't ask you any weird questions or anything."  promised Jungkook as he stood outside the door.  Hazel took a deep breath as she tried to pretend that all of the event in the past thirty minutes had not just happened before she opened the door.

    "I'm okay...thanks for sticking with me.  We can head back now, I think the serum has worn off."  admitted Hazel as she walked out of the bathroom and closed the door behind her.   

    "Okay, if you're sure."  Jungkook replied a little hesitantly.  He didn't want to put her in a position again where she was going to get uncomfortable.  Although he couldn't really get out of his head that she had called him her favorite Slytherin...and she had many friends in Slytherin other than himself.   

   Jungkook followed behind Hazel as they walked back to their original train car where they had been sitting with Yoongi, Hoseok, Namjoon, a 3rd year Ravenclaw girl named Maria Johnson, and two 1st year Slytherin girls named Elizabeth Trent and Karson Moore.   Hazel went and sat back in her seat across from Namjoon and Maria.  Jungkook walked to go sit next to her, but Yoongi snagged his arm to stop him for a moment.

   "What the hell happened?"  hissed Yoongi.  

"Uh, well in our hunt for Taehyung we ended up running into Fang and Newmun in one of train cars and well...Fang kinda took advantage of the serum which caused Halls to run off...but not the serum is kinda out of her system so she said she's fine now.  What about you, hyung?"  whispered Jungkook as Yoongi had gotten truth serum-ed.  

    "Pfft, it was hilarious.  Yoongi just admitted that he has a actually has a little crush on...mhhhh!"  laughed Hoseok as Yoongi slapped a hand over his mouth to keep him from speaking.

    "If you say anything I will jinx you into next week."  Hissed Yoongi.  Jungkook stood there with wide eyes.  Yoongi actually liked someone?  He did not see that coming.  He began to wonder who it was.  Maybe it was that 4th year Slytherin girl that he was partners with in Potions that Jungkook had seen him talk to?  She was kinda pretty...he guessed. 

   Hoseok removed Yoongi's hand from his mouth.  

"Did Hazel admit that she had a crush on someone too?"  urgently whispered Hoseok.  He always liked to know all of the gossip around the school, even though he didn't actually like to be in the drama, he liked to hear about it.

    "Not exactly, she did admit who her favorite members of each house were though...but I don't think she would want me to spread that information..."  trailed Jungkook as he glanced over across the car at Hazel who was now chatting with Namjoon while throwing nervous glances his way.

    "Ooooo that's juicy....oh come on you gotta tell us, at least who one of her favorites is.  Please!"  whisper begged Hoseok.  Jungkook was still hesitant. Which one could he possibly say that would cause the least issues or be the least surprising...

   "Well Namjoon-hyung is her favorite Ravenclaw...but that is all I'm going to say."  he rushed before walking away from the two Slytherin boys and over twoards Hazel.

   "Tch, not even surprising.  I was hoping he'd tell us who her favorite Slytherin was...bet you were hoping it was you, huh, Yoongi?"  teased Hoseok smugly.  Yoongi rolled his eyes.

   "Whatever.  It doesn't matter to me who her favorites are right now."  scoffed Yoongi before looking out the window, past Hoseok.   Hoseok dropped it, but he could see it on Yoongi's face that he was thinking.  

   "Don't think too much about it."  Hoseok interrupted him.  "She's only known most of us for a few months.  You have plently of time to be better friends with her if you want to or whoever you want."  

    "I'm not worried about that...I am a little concerned about her going over to the Jeon's to stay during break...I don't want his parents trying to pressure her into anything she doesn't want to do...their views can be a little...prejudice."  cautioned Yoongi lowly as he looked over at Jungkook and Hazel who were now both listening to what Namjoon was saying.  

    "Yeah I heard that she was going over there.  It's been a while since I've talked with the Jeon's, but I think they have toned down a bit since the fall of You-Know-Who...but that might just be more a public thing.  I have no idea what they are like at home.  Although, I don't think Jungkook would willingly put Hazel in harms way."  mentioned Hoseok.  Yoongi nodded.

   "That's true...but he might now know he is putting her in harms way.  All he knows is how he's been raised.  He might not realize the differences in how he was raised in the magic pure-blood community and how Hazel was raised in hers."  Yoongi added dryly.  He had seen first hand what could happen when bringing home someone who was not raised in the pure-blood "lifestyle".  He had brought invited a Hufflepuff boy he had became friends with over to his own house when he was a second year...the boy left his house after two days and never spoke to Yoongi again.  Yoongi hadn't tried to have any one who wasn't running in the same social circles as his own family over again after that.  He was worried that the same might happen now with Jungkook and Hazel and that Hazel might not talk to any of them again if she saw how they lived.  

  "I don't think Hazel is like that.  She's pretty open minded and adaptable.  Her mother's side of the family also runs in some of the same circles as ours, so she probably had at least some idea of how things are."  Hoseok said as if reading Yoongi's mind.  

    "Hmm, maybe.  I hope so.  It would be a shame to scare her off so soon."  sighed Yoongi.  It wasn't uncommon for people to try and be friends with Slytherin's from other houses...but it was uncommon for them to stay friends for long if they didn't run in similar familiar circles.  

    "I guess we'll find out after Christmas break."