Reaching the entrance to the castle, the only thing standing between the warm insides and them was the door, Aleks turned to him one more time, with the most stupid sentence up to date, leaving his mouth. “You might want to leave the chestnut outside, though—wouldn’t want its larvae crawling out in the dormitory…”
First taken aback, having larvae in the dorm would have been disgusting, Aiden quickly called Aleks bluff. What kid had not played with chestnuts? Never in his life had he seen any bugs spawning from the nut. Where would they even come from? That was coming from a boy that once-upon-a-time, had lived with a man that would have chosen to live a life in absolute filth. If his ex-wife hadn’t kicked some sense into him.
Aiden couldn’t speak for his living conditions now a days, but he didn’t have any higher hopes that his dad had somehow gotten his shit back together. Did he ever have his shit together? From their years living in the same house, he remembered cupboards of half-eaten bags of various snacks, nuts included. Laying around for weeks, months, and probably would have laid there for years if his mother hadn’t done gods work by cleaning out his messes. The attempts helped for a week at most, before his dad had left his dirt all over the place. Despite that, without any larvae problem. If that was true, no bag of nuts would be safe to buy from the store. Unless there were some magical variety of chestnuts that he should be looking out for. This chestnut, however, looked normal.
The Slytherin eyes, wide and shocked, shot to Aleks, then eventually narrowed into an incredulous glare. “Cut the crap, Aleks. That’s just bullshit. You don't think I've had chestnuts before?” Lightly bumping his shoulder again the others while passing him through the door, he followed up with an eye-roll. His friend might have seriously believed that old wives’ tale to be true, but Aiden did not. Even considering it for a second to be true made him shiver. No, he refused to believe it and entertain stupid superstitions like that.
