Boggart
It was lunchtime, the kids all squashed themselves onto the rotten woody benches in the woods after they collected their food.
Regulus sat in silence with his friends, mindlessly watching the teenagers and trying to pay no attention to James’ absence, even though he was supposed to be watching their group of kids as well. Incompetent, Regulus thought with a huff.
A few moments latter, two connective clatters of plastic boards hitting wood sounded in his ears.
“What the fuck do you two want?” Barty groaned, and Regulus could already tell who was sat there.
Picking his eye line from the table, he let his eyes flick upwards. He was faced with a bright grin from James Potter and Sirius scowling at Barty.
“Hi brother dearest.” Sirius spoke as he angled his sight away from Barty, looking towards his brother.
“What do you want?” Regulus spoke through a sigh.
“What do you assume we want something?” James whined, a playful smirk cornering on his lips.
Nodding along, Sirius took a bite out of his slice of pizza and spoke with his mouth full, making Regulus grimace. “Yeah! Can I not hang…” He chewed his food. “-oft wiv ‘m brover?”
“Chew your fucking food.” Dorcas gagged.
“You’re giving me puppy eyes.” Regulus pointed out James and Sirius’ big eyes, staring at blinking at him. “So you clearly want something.”
Sirius groaned. “Don’t be such a-“ He flailed his arms around in the air, clearing trying to think of what to say.
“Cant think of an insult, Black?”
“You lot are such, boggarts.” He hissed with a triumphant face.
“What the fuck is a boggart?” Pandora laughed, stabbing a piece of tomato with her fork and shoving it into her smirking mouth.
Dropping his head to the table, Sirius made a muffled noise that sounded a lot like ‘fuck you.’ Regulus watched as James looked at him with an amused look, both boys trying to bite back their laughter.
“There there.” James patted Sirius on the back with a snort.
James stood up, Regulus assumed he was just heading back to his table until he walked behind Regulus and whispered something in his ear, inaudible to the rest of the group. “I’ll tell you later.”
His voice was raspy, Regulus could feel his hot breath against his ear and sucked in a hopefully silent breath as James moved his lips away from his ear.
He looked over at Dorcas for a split second, before dragging Sirius away.
What did Regulus say about James? Oh yeah, he’s weird.
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It was silent, the only sound filling the room was the sound of paper flipping every time Regulus flicked the page.
Regulus was trying to focus on his book, but he took very few words in. His mind was sorely focused of what James said to him earlier that day, and how it felt when he whispered into his ear.
He could just ask James, he was sitting on the bed only a couple of feet away from him. But he chose to be stubborn, he didn’t want to talk but he was so curious.
Two minutes later, he turned to his side to see if James was asleep or not, it didn’t seem like it. He was lay on his side, his phone hung lazily in his hand but his gaze elsewhere, at Regulus more specifically. He locked eyes with James, quirking an eyebrow as the other boy jumped his gaze away and coughed.
“Why are you looking at me?” Regulus fought away the strange feeling he got from that.
“‘M not.” James grumbled.
Nodding slowly, Regulus pushed the thoughts he was having to the back of his head. “What were you going to tell me earlier?”
“Oh yeah!” James’ face lit up. “Is Dorcas single?”
Regulus swore he felt his heart drop to the cold wooden floor beneath his feet. “Oh-“ Regulus stuttered out. “I…” He prayed the shock and pain he was feeling didn’t reflect on his face.
It clearly did. “Not for me!” James clarified with a laugh. “God I can imagine how that sounded, it’s for my friend Marlene.”
“Oh.” Regulus said again, releasing a breath that he didn’t even know he was holding. “Yes, she is.”
“Why did you care so much?” James smirked.
“No I didn’t.” He retorted.
He definitely did.
“Okay baby Black.” The brunette replied smugly, receiving a pillow thrown directly at his face by the boy next to him. “Hey!” He laughed as he chucked it back.
Regulus caught it with a triumphant smile, rolling his eyes and picking back his book back up and finally focusing on the words, ignoring the curious gaze he could feel burning into the back of his head.