A student at mahoutokoro, you’ve finally returned home for the summer, like you do every year, the summer before 7th year. You’re excited to reunite with your best friends. Draco, Theo, and Blaise, best friends since you were 3, neighbors. They call you “menace.” Pansy too. Even though you don’t see each other in the school year, you write to each other at least once a month. Your families have all turned into one big family at a result, Theo and Blaise have always been brothers to you.
Group projects. The bane of your existence. Your class on artifact management for your Museum Studies minor. That is until you find him in your group. Tall, blonde, sharp, witty, dry. Kei Tsukishima. And you have no problem letting him know how you feel and flirting with him. Especially since he’s stuck with you the entire semester.
A group chat with Karasuno’s boys volleyball team. Chaotic, messy, silly, roasting, teenage boys. As Takeda’s assistant, you’ve somehow been put into a group chat with the boys volleyball team. They start talking and figuring out who you are as you try to get their sizes for new sweatsuits… which doesn’t work so well.. because they keep getting distracted.
After 3 years abroad at Mahoutokoro because of your dad’s business, you’re back to hogwarts for your final year. Reuniting with your best friends Draco, Blaise, and Theo. The transfer was only finalized a few days ago so you’re surprising them when you get there. You have to navigate your new life, figuring out where you fit back in their life, if you do at all. All while finding out that Draco, who you’ve had a crush on since you were 12, is talking to and likes another girl: Astoria.
It’s the day before you leave for college. Your best friend, Tsukishima Kei, and you are sitting on your curb for the last time. The curb you’ve sat on for the last 13 years together living in the same neighborhood. The first time you’ll be apart in your lives. Across the country, across 3 time zones. Not seeing him anymore for 9 hours a day, 5 days a week. No watching him play volleyball. No him kicking you in your sleep as you share a bed. Your final goodbye.
You met him by accident—one random match that somehow turned into something you both kept coming back to. You have no idea it’s your enemy, the boy who relentlessly teases you in school. Tsukishima Kei.
In a timeline where the Battle of Hogwarts was lost, the Golden Trio stalled their fight, determined to find a better way to win against the Dark Lord. Muggleborns have been forced to cower underground in secret. Literally. And Draco Malfoy has been ordered to kill you.
After 3 years abroad at Mahoutokoro because of your dad’s business, you’re back to hogwarts for your final year. Reuniting with your best friends Draco, Blaise, and Theo. The transfer was only finalized a few days ago so you’re surprising them when you get there. You have to navigate your new life, figuring out where you fit back in their life, if you do at all. All while finding out that Draco, who you’ve had a crush on since you were 12, is talking to and likes another girl: Astoria.
You don’t mean to do it—you just need somewhere to sit on your first day, senior year already feeling too loud in this new school. Doesn’t help you showed up on the third day and the empty desk by the window looks safe enough. It isn’t. The room shifts when he walks in late, like everyone’s holding their breath, and you realize too late you’ve taken his seat. Jackson.
You’ve known Tsukishima forever—childhood neighbors turned inseparable, now living doors apart in your senior year college apartment. To everyone else, he’s cold, detached, impossible to read. With you, he’s steady in quiet ways: letting you fall asleep in his bed after long nights, making your favorite tea before you even ask, fingers slow and gentle as he rubs your back or hair when another date crashes and burns. He kneels to slip your heels on before formal events, always your default date, always there. You complain about wanting a guy who does all that—completely missing that he already does. He used to talk about an ex, someone nothing like you, but stopped when you never understood. He effortlessly calls you pretty but he could never like you, how, when he was in love with someone like her? Now he just exhales softly, watching you stay oblivious, and chooses to stay anyway.
Your boyfriend, Kei Tsukishima, tells you he’s coming over to your house tonight because he wants to have a serious conversation about the future of you guys and where you’re headed. You’re super excited because you think he’s going to ask you if you wanted to live with him or propose. I mean, it made sense after 2 years of dating and now that you’ve graduated university. So you dress up pretty and cook and set the table romantically. Little do you know.. that’s not how the conversation was going.. and he was told to publicly break up with you for his volleyball career. For his public image with the team he’s been playing with for a year. They made it clear that he has to be single in the eye of the public and has to make sure that nobody can know we’re together.
Tsukishima Kei as your situationship you just have sex with. You met Kei at a party neither of you wanted to be at 4 months ago. You were only at that party because you’re close with Tanaka, a boy on the volleyball team. One thing led to another and you ended up drunkenly sleeping with Kei. The next day he made it clear that he didn’t want anything more than sex and I was fine with that because I knew he could never give me what I wanted romantically which is a sweet, calm, patient guy who loved romance and found the value in compliments and flowers and dates. And you knew you wanted that and wouldn’t sacrifice on that. But goddamn if he didn’t know exactly how to treat you in bed and manhandle you and worship you. So since then, you guys have regularly had sex multiple times a week.
When you transfer into Hogwarts in your 7th year, chaos ensues. The first muggleborn to be sorted into slytherin in almost a decade. An outcast, challenging the views of all the pureblood prats you’re surrounded by. Specifically Draco, Theo, and Blaise who were brought up with deatheater mindsets, lied to about muggleborns, and have been so set in their ways they genuinely don’t know how to react. You’re smart, powerful, and witty. Something nobody expected you to be. You’re effortlessly and naturally stunning even in a hoodie and jeans.
You never meant to get roped into this life. After all you don’t party and you stopped being an athlete long ago. So what business did you have with the men’s hockey team? You had a meeting with an interviewer so you had to pass in front of the athletic center when a white jeep pulls up to the curb and a girl rushes up to you. She tells you to do her a favor and to give a box to one of the players inside. When you do.. your life changes. Suddenly you’re intertwining into the hockey team and the captain’s life. Helping them with press and going to parties and even the locker room. How did you end up here? No clue.
A recent MBA graduate, you join the American Natural History museum at 23, as part of the financial team. (getting donors, budgeting, investments) And you meet Tsukishima Kei, a lab tech/paleontology exhibit curator who’s been given the task of giving you the tour and who you’ll have to work with. He’s 30. You find him interesting, sarcastic, funny and unrealistically attractive, and you have no issue letting him know since he’s not your boss.
You’ve known Tsukishima Kei since you were kids—family friends, weekends together, a long line of shared memories that never really broke even when you went to different schools. Now you’ve transferred to his. Tsukishima Kei already has a whole life here: friends, routines, a reputation for being blunt, distant, untouchable. You expected to have to find your place carefully. To ease in. To be introduced slowly, if at all. But Kei doesn’t do that. From day one, he just… lets you in.
You’ve been best friends with Kei since you were children. Inseparable. Always in sync. 2 peas in a pod. Close enough to cuddle and sleep in each others beds and kisses were normal and expected. Naturally you fell in love with him. But in senior year of college he was given the chance to play profession volleyball in Chicago. 12 hours away from New Jersey. So you swallowed your feelings and encouraged him to go for it. That he couldn’t give up this opportunity. It’s been 2 months since graduation and since he moved to Chicago. You’ve struggled with the change because you’ve never been so far from him for this long and he’s the only place that’s ever felt like home. Like you don’t fit anywhere without him. He’s been so busy but still makes the time to call and text you everyday.
You knew Tsukishima Kei before she did—that’s the part that keeps you up at night. Back when you were just classmates, trading sarcastic comments and late-night study sessions, you thought there was something there. Not obvious, not spoken, but real enough to make your chest tighten when he looked at you a second too long. Then your friend met him. And suddenly, everything shifted.
Your uncle, Ittetsu Takeda, asks for a simple favor: get the Rutgers boys volleyball team’s suit sizes. So you make a group chat, expecting quick numbers and maybe a little chaos. What you don’t expect is how easily you slip into their rhythm—witty replies, sharp comebacks, and just enough attention to keep things interesting.
After your boyfriend broke up with you, you add Kei - your old situationship you used to hookup with - back on Instagram. Immediately you get a text. “welcome back baby”
It’s the day before you leave for college. Your best friend, Tsukishima Kei, and you are sitting on your curb for the last time. The curb you’ve sat on for the last 13 years together living in the same neighborhood. The first time you’ll be apart in your lives. Across the country, across 3 time zones. Not seeing him anymore for 9 hours a day, 5 days a week. No watching him play volleyball. No him kicking you in your sleep as you share a bed. Your final goodbye.