Chapter III
"As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend"
Proverbs 27:17
The next morning, after a long night of tossing and turning, Wolfbane woke to the sound of a soft voice singing. He didn't recognise the song, at first, but as he began to come to his senses, Wolfbane instantly knew the song that the voice was singing.
"Masquerade
Paper faces on parade
Masquerade
Hide your face so the world may never find you"
Wolfbane turned around to look at the person who's back was facing him and was singing. The boy had really pale skin and slightly silver hair, and was wearing a white button up with black trousers. The boy was thin and lithe, and sort of tall. Out of habit, Wolfbane started to sing along.
"Masquerade
Every face a different shade
Masquerade
Look around there's another mask behind you"
The boy turned around swiftly and looked at Wolfbane with wide eyes, his pale skin betraying the blush that had started to spread across his high cheek bones.
"I-I'm so sorry. I d-didn't mean to disturb your sleep." The boy said.
At this point, Wolfbane had started to get a small blush as well. He hadn't meant to cause this much fluster from the silver haired boy, he had just recognized the song and started to sing along.
Wolfbane grabbed his prescription glasses from the bedside table and put them on his slender nose.
"It's completely fine!" Wolfbane reassured the taller boy, brushing his fingers through his messy blonde hair. "What's your name?"
The silver haired boy looked startled, as if he didn't expect someone to care enough to actually ask for his name.
"Maxentius E-Everest Antell." The boy, Maxentius, managed to stutter out.
"My name's Wolfbane Foxglove Shadow." Wolfbane said, slowly standing up from his bed and walking over to Maxentius to give him a hand shake.
Maxentius slowly accepted Wolfbane's hand and gave it an awkward shake. Wolfbane gave Maxentius a small smile and went to get dressed. Maxentius continued to get ready and went downstairs to the Common Room before Wolfbane had even picked out a clean shirt and trousers.
He changed quickly, cursing at the buttons on his shirt when he couldn't button them up fast enough. He put on his trousers, socks and shoes, then grabbed his blue and bronze tie. Wolfbane wrapped the tie around his neck and started tying it as he walked calmly down the stairs.
When Wolfbane got to the bottom of the staircase, he was attacked by a blur of cerulean blue.
"Good Morning, Best friend! How did you sleep?" Mordecai asked, hugging Wolfbane around his middle.
Wolfbane worked up a quick lie so that he wouldn't worry the small first year into anemia.
"I slept wonderfully. How about you, Mordecai?" Wolfbane said, putting on a fake smile.
"I slept so good! The bed was so soft, and I really like the people in my dormitory. They're so cool! Not as cool as you, though." Mordecai said quickly.
At this statement, Wolfbane actually smiled. He decided that this small first year was his honorary little brother, no matter what happened. Wolfbane would protect him.
"Let's go get some breakfast! I'm starving!" Mordecai said, pushing the circular glasses up onto the bridge of his nose as they started to slip from all of his bouncing.
The cerulean haired boy grabbed Wolfbane's hand and started dragging him out of the Ravenclaw Common Room.
As Wolfbane walked down the corridor with Mordecai, he fell into some wistful thinking. The red-haired boy had flirted with him. Well, at least Wolfbane had thought that he had. He didn't really have experience with stuff like that, so Wolfbane didn't really know. He was really hoping that what he saw was not flirting, and if it was, he sincerely hoped that it wasn't directed at him.
"You're just going to get hurt." His ever so helpful mind decided to chime in.
"But what if that boy really truly did like you?" His heart chimed back
"No." HIs mind said with exasperation. "He's going to hurt you, and it won't be my fault if you don't listen to me."
Wolfbane sighed, and slumped his shoulders, almost as if he was trying to become invisible. He then felt a tug on his arm. He looked down and saw Mordecai looking up at him with a distressed expression.
"What's wrong?" Mordecai asked, his cerulean blue hair covering half of his little face.
"Nothing, Bud. Everything's alright." Said Wolfbane with a fake smile.
The older boy reached down and brushed the hair out of Mordecai's face. The smaller boy blushed just a little bit and straightened his posture, making his stature at least four inches taller, but still only coming up to Wolfbane's shoulder.
Technically, Wolfbane wasn't lying to Mordecai. He was getting worked up over nothing, and he needed to stop before the problem escalated. He really wished that Belladonna was here.
Wolfbane started walking faster, causing little Mordecai to run in order to keep up with him.
"Why are we running?" Mordecai said in a rushed tone.
"Because I-I want to get to breakfast." Wolfbane said, lying through his teeth.
He wasn't going to eat anything. He wasn't even hungry. He just really wanted to see his sister.
