- October 8, 2005 -

"You got them?”

Minho shook the hand that was stuffed in his hoodie pocket, the many glow-in-the-dark stars inside clacking together. Kibum opened the door to their study closet and started to light the candles as Minho followed him inside. He sat down on the floor, dumping out the stars and arranging them by size until Kibum sat beside him.

“Okay, so what’d I miss last night.”

Kibum stretched out, reaching for his copy of Celestial Readings and Histories, and grabbed his folded notes from within the pages. When he unfolded it, Minho saw a rough sketch of what the sky looked like, as well as a few notes. Kibum grabbed a handful of Minho’s assorted stars and started tacking them on the wall. “Can you go get your sticky parchments?”

“My post-it notes?”

Kibum’s face colored slightly. “Yeah.” Minho slipped behind him, rummaging through his stash of Muggle supplies to find the neon pink post-it notes. “Cassiopeia is up here,” he said, tapping the constellation he just finished applying to the wall. Minho scrawled out Cassiopeia and stuck it on the wall.

“Andromeda?” Minho asked when Kibum finished another, and he nodded with a hum. 

It took them an hour at least, and even then Kibum said that it wasn’t complete. “It’s just all I can remember. Don’t forget your favorite one,” he said, pointing to the one that kind of looked like a tie. 

“Boötes! How could I forget!” He grinned as stuck the post-it note to it.

“I still don’t understand why you like that one so much.”

Minho just shrugged, scanning the star chart. “Huh, neither of our zodiacs are there.”

“Eh, it’s not a big deal. Hey, you should make your notes so we can get started on studying for tomorrow’s Defense test.”

“True.” Minho grabbed a spare roll of parchment and started to sketch out the chart for himself.