I'm Going to Give Him a Ring
Chapter 4 lets go baby!! I hope you enjoy! Also this whole story is being transferred from Wattpad so it may be a little glitchy I'm trying to adjust it.
TW Warnings:
-Cursing
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Is my head still attached to my body? Holy fuck. I think my head is about to burst into a million pieces and scatter around.. Wait, where the fuck am I? Why is it so cold? As I try to open my eyes the light from around me practically blinds me causing me to shut my eyes closed instantly. Why is it so bright? I put my hands over my face and apply pressure onto my eyes. That always helps when I have a headache. God, my neck and back hurt too. Once I finally can open my eyes I see that I'm in my living room? On my couch? When did I fall asleep here? When I turn to face whatever I was laying on I see a big chest with a pillow covering his face. Oh. James. I think? I look at him for a second recognizing his tattoos. Yep, it's him. Maybe he brought me here? The last thing I remember we were on the balcony. God, my head hurts to fucking much to be awake so I drop myself back onto his chest.
Oh no. When I lay my head on him I'm hit with the memories from last night.
"Does he hate me?" God Regulus! You're so pathetic when you're drunk! Why the fuck would I ask that? Especially when the 'he' in question is his best friend. I need to remember that I just met James. He is nothing to me. Just some guy who I've had sex with. He just so happens to be James Potter, the boy who stole my brother 5 years ago and his best friend. When I was younger I thought that I would hate James, but I don't. I completely see why Sirius traded me for him. It's too early for all of these emotions.
This time when I woke up, I woke up alone and to the smell of.. eggs? I slowly pull my body up and open my eyes. Looking back into my kitchen I see James plating 6 servings of eggs, Pandora and Lily talking at the counter. Pandora only being in her favorite hoodie, that was mine, and shockingly her glasses which she wore once in a blue moon. Lily was in nothing but a cardigan long enough to cover her underwear but short enough on the top to reveal the front of her bra. Evan and Barty were nowhere to be found, probably still sleeping seeing as they usually sleep late.
"Oh well good morning sleeping beauty!" Pandora shouts over to me.
"Oh god he's risen!" Lily carries it on, laughing. I flip the 2 girls off and groan out.
"Oh shhhh!! So loud!" I exclaim rubbing my temples.
"Oh no, we've awoken the beast!" James finally adds in. I grab one of the throw pillows and put the throw in 'throw pillow' when I chuck it at them. It doesn't make it very far, because 1, I'm exhausted and 2, I've never really been good at throwing things.
"Well that was just sad." James spits out holding back a laugh while he makes his way to the pillow on the ground. He picks it up, walks over to me, looks down into my eyes.
"James fucking Potter, I swear to god if you hi.." SMACK! Wooow! He hit me in the face with the pillow. So I reach forward grabbing the one at my feet, hitting his side with it. I can't reach his face because I'm sitting on a couch and he's stood at 6'1ft. We break out into a full on pillow fight. I eventually pull him down by the collar of his shirt, which he must've put on before I woke up. He falls onto the couch. At this point we've given up on the pillows and are full on wrestling each other on the couch. God it feels like we're back in school or something! Eventually he gets hold of my wrists and pins them next to my head to stop me from attacking him. We just look at each other for a minute. The tension in the air is crazy. God in that moment it really was like I was a school boy with the way my stomach flipped.
"Okay lovebirds if you start making out with us in this room I'll have to evict you." I hear Pandora tell us jokingly. James gets up, releasing my hand and walking to the kitchen abandoning me there laying on the couch. God, what was that? Was that what people would call 'a moment'? How do I have another?
"Hey James can you go get the cup that's in my room? It's the first door on the right." Regulus, asked with a soapy sponge and a pan from earlier in his hands. The worst part of any meal is always the clean up!
"Sure!" I bounce off my chair. I'm about to see Regulus' room! I wonder what it's like? Does he have a lot of decorations? Once I step into the room it's like I've stepped foot into Regulus' mind. The room itself isn't very big but he's filled it to the brim with decorations. For such a cluttered room decoration wise it's still extremely neat and clean looking. The walls are a dark forest green, and they are covered with posters, polaroids, paintings, records. There's star fairy lights hung on the ceiling. He has many hanging plants over the foot of his bed. His bed goes from wall to wall because of the narrow room, it's neatly covered with dark green and black bedding. There's shelves all around the room with an assortment of books, plants, candles, and any other little decorations. On his desk a computer is organized inside of a shelf with many black leather bound books, but they don't look like all the rest of the books. No, these were sketchbooks. On the top of the desk was a glass mason jar with brushes in it. They seemed to be very high quality too. The room in some way reminds me of Sirius' old room back home in Brighton after he'd ran away from the Black house. He wanted to have it all decorated seeing as he'd never been allowed to decorate a room of his own. In the corner of the room was an easel, walking further into it revealed that on the canvas was an unfinished piece. It seems to be the silhouette of a man looking out onto the moon from a balcony. I don't know how but I could feel the loneliness. There are stars in the sky. The detail of the painting was incredible! There are even actual constellations like Orion's belt and Canis major. I personally don't know much about the constellations but Sirius does seeing as he's named after a star in the Ca... Oh. This wasn't just some man. It was Regulus. This wasn't just some night sky. It was Sirius'.
Sometimes when you've learnt something from over analyzing a situation it's better to keep that knowledge to yourself. I grab the cup and bring it out to Reg, to be cleaned.
"You took a long time in there James! Next time Reggie goes in there he's not going to find any missing undergarments?" Pandora let out with a little laugh. Reggie. I can tell from the look on his face that if anyone else would've called him that there would have been a protest, but it wasn't someone else it was Pandora.
"Potter, you wouldn't be going through my things without supervision would you?" Regulus retorts now standing in front of me leaning against the counter in between us.
"No, Black I would never." I challenge leaning even closer to him now causing him to have to tilt his head up to make eye contact. I don't know if I'm crazy but I could've sworn that for a second there was a glimpse of heat and desire behind his glare. That idea was quickly stifled when he backed away and went back to cleaning.
I like to think, myself, a strong man, but if Reg keeps looking like that, and getting that close to me, and talking like that, I'll break, because in the end I'm weak against him. I need to get out of this apartment before I do something that I will regret when facing Sirius. He never told me not to sleep with his brother again, but it was still to be inferred I think.
"Uh hey I've got to go, me and Si.." I stop myself, considering maybe this isn't what Regulus wants to hear right now seeing as he jerked around to look at me when I started to say his name. ".. my roommate are going mattress shopping."
"Why are you going mattress shopping with Sirius? Why doesn't he take Remus who he'll share it with?" Lily queries. Ah, well the name's been said now so it's too late. There's just a moment of silence. Regulus and Pandora don't want to say anything, because this is too sirius to add a funny joke. HAH god obviously it's not because that was hilarious! Sirius and serious! .. James shut the fuck up.
"He wants to surprise Remus with this life changing mattress. Remember Lily?" I stare into her soul hoping that she'll remember.
"Why do you look like a deer in headlig... ohhh yeah! That mattress!" Thank god she got it. I say my goodbyes and take my leave to go buy a 'mattress' or more commonly known as an engagement ring.
James is a shit liar. He's clearly not helping Sirius to buy a mattress. He's probably getting something important. Like a suit or damn a bar! What would be so important that he had to hide it from me though? It's not like I care. I don't know Remus. I'm not going to tell him. Hell, I don't even know Sirius. At least not anymore. It's most likely some important event in Sirius' life if he didn't want to tell me. Doesn't want me getting all pathetic again like last night. Pathetic and sad isn't hot and fuckable. God this'll bug me all day. Not because I care but because I don't like not knowing something.
Me and Pandora just introduced Lily to our favorite coffee shop The Three Broomsticks. It's such a cool place! The owners are a lovely pagan couple named Marelen and Dorcas. They've decorated the place beautifully!! While there I tell Lily about everything that happened, how I know Sirius, how me and James seemed to be developing a 'thing'. I gave her a less sobbing emotional recap than I did Pandora, but I have a feeling she pieced in the part where I was crying in her cab.
"Hey I'm going to give Evan a ring to see if they can pick up some stuff for dinner, because for as long as they're crashing at our place they'll help out." A ring! Of course! It wasn't a mattress, it's a ring! Sirius is going to propose to Remus! Shit. He's proposing. My brother is going to get married and I still won't be in his life. Then he really won't need me. He'll have his brother James and his husband. If he doesn't need me then I don't need him.
Wow. That really puts things in perspective. My brother who's barely a year older than me is getting married and I haven't even been in a relationship. Maybe I am destined for loneliness. What do lonely people even do?
"Panda. We should get a cat." I mean isn't that what lonely people do? Get cats? It's better to start my cat supply sooner than later.
"Uh. What brought you to this conclusion?" Well there's no way I'm telling Pandora that this cat is my start to loneliness, because then she'll say no.
"I don't know, I just think it'd be nice."
"Okay sure. Want to go to the shelter now, then?"
"Yep." By this point I'm already at the door and my coffee mug is already been put up onto the wash rack.
"Well as much as I would love to join you 2 and your cat adventures, I have work at 2." Lily chimes in.
"They have set hours for cabs?"
"Oh no! I'm also a waiter, college and rent isn't cheap!"
"That makes sense." Pandora responds. They do an awkward goodbye where Lily went in for a kiss and Pandora went in for a hug, then they switched. They landed on a goodbye hug instead.
"Bye Lily! It's been great fun having you, let's do this again" I say with a friendly wave, because Regulus Black doesn't 'do' hugs.
"It's been nice to be had! Bye.. Reg!" She mocks sticking out her tongue and walking out.
"So? What's happening there?" I question Pandora, turning my eyes to Lily in the distance.
She flashes a small smile before replying, "Ya, I like her. I like her a lot."
"Where'd you two get off to last night?" Her cheeks turn a shade of light pink which always compliments her darker complexion so well! I love it when she blushes it makes her appear like a Greek goddess. Me and Panda have always had an oversharing problem when it comes to each other so she's telling me about EVERYTHING from last night with Lily. By the time she's done we've made it to the shelter.
"Uh hey we want a cat."
Helping Sirius look at rings is a lot more challenging than I expected. Who knew there were so many? Is it not just some metal with a fancy stone? The lady at the store proved to me that, no, it is so much more than that. Every other ring he looked at was 'the one'. To me only one ring really stuck out and that was a small silver ring, the diamond was cut in the shape of a star and there were a few very small diamonds surrounding the band.
"Oh James look at this ring!" Sirius called out pointing down to a very.. interesting looking ring. It was the biggest diamond I'd ever seen and the band was thick and covered in little diamonds. I'm pretty sure if you shown a light onto it just right it would glow so bright it'd burn a hole into a piece of paper.
"Isn't it so gaudy! God I wonder who'd ever wear such a ring." He joked. Making me laugh until this couple came up from behind us and the woman pointed at it and squealed.
"Aghh this one. This is the one!" Me and Sirius looked at eachother with the biggest shit eating grins on our faces.
"I guess that's who!" I snort out quietly so only he can hear me. Causing both of us to break out into laughter.
3 jewelry stores, hundreds of rings, and 2 doughnuts later we were ready to give up, because we had bleed Diagon Alley dry of shops we found a hidden tucked away shop. It wasn't like the other stores with the bright hospital lights. This one had warmer lights, and the rings weren't all diamonds, some of them were blue, some red.
"James. This one. This is the ring." Sirius said seriously. His tone was different then the times before and I'd understood why when I looked down at the ring. This was the most Remus ring I have ever seen in my life. It wasn't a diamond, it was a smallish topaz, the band was silver, with the most gorgeous detailings that looked like vines. Sirius talked to the sales clerk behind the display to have her pull it out so he could see it up close.
"Uh ma'am could I please uh give it a test run?" He asked kind of awkwardly.
"Yes, just don't leave the store or damage the ring." With that Sirius got down on one knee and I now knew what he meant by test run.
"Jaime! Love of my life! Will you marry me?" He beamed. Making a show of asking me.
"Oh Siri I thought you'd never ask! Yes! Yes! A million times Yes!" I squealed, equaling his overdramatics.
"Okay bitch we get it." He laughed while I helped him up.
"Oh you bastard you started it!" I responded laughing just as much. We've always fake bullied each other. I don't understand how some people don't do that. I mean come on you've gotta keep that fun banter going. Sirius put in an order of the ring in a slightly bigger size and we left walking back down the street.
"Oh my god, Dude you're getting married!" I shouted lightly punching his shoulder. God my best friend is getting married. He's the same age as me and I haven't been in a relationship in years. The closest thing I've got is some weird vibes with his baby brother!
"He still has to say yes! Don't get too excited just yet."
"You're crazy if you think he'd reacted any differently than I did a few minutes ago in there."
"Well seeing as Remus is less of a teenage girl I doubt he'll squeal like that."
"Hey don't hate on the squeal!" Me and Sirius are probably the best at making each other laugh. When I notice a small pub.
"Hey lets go get some drinks to celebrate your soon engagement!"