Chapter 1
It was overly loud.
Regulus was already half deafened from the sounds coming from his older brothers common room. Sirius had decided instead of letting his brother "Rot in his room" he was going to drag him(literally) to a party.
"You're going to tear my sleeve off."
"I wouldn't tear your sleeve off if you would walk with me instead of trying to resist going."
Regulus only groaned, rolling his eyes as the music only got louder, a few students stood outside the common rooms wide open doors. Some with drinks in their hands, some covering their ears from the noise echoing through the hallway. He eventually pulled his arm from his brothers grasp, standing outside the loud room. His brother fled, running to James and Remus standing in the doorway.
The music drowned his voice as he spoke to himself, sitting in the corner of the room fiddling with his nails. He glanced up as he could hear footsteps approaching, noticing it was James he sat up straighter, watching as the half drunk boy carefully walked over with two shot glasses, filled to the top with only Merlin knows. Some spilt and dripped down James hands as he sat beside Regulus, he had to yell for the other to hear.
"You look bored!"
Regulus sighed and raised his eyebrows for a moment.
"I don't want to be here, Sirius forced me."
James nodded and held out the shot glass to him, quickly downing his own.
Regulus hummed in response and took the glass from his hand, their fingers brushing for a mere moment. He playfully lifted the glass like a gesture to a toast, as he did the drink was plucked from his hands.
Looking up, he noticed his brother taking the shot and downing it. grimacing at the taste, Remus at his side with a solo cup in his hands.
James laughed as Regulus flicked off his brother, Sirius following to do the same thing, he kneeled down to talk to James.
"Prongs, why are you harassing my brother?"
"He looked bored."
Regulus sighed and stood, leaning against the wall as his brother's friend spoke. They all perked their head up at the music's volume quieting, hearing a girl somewhere in the room yelling.
"Spin the bottle! seven minutes of heaven!! If you're playing, come sit in a circle!"
James quickly stood up, flashing a grin at the three and rushing away, Sirius at his heels. Remus shrugged at Regulus, nodding in a sense of a goodbye as he walked passed him, going to join the others.
Regulus scoffed as the majority of the room flooded to the center, he puched past people, and couches, and tables to the door. sighing once he got some fresh air, compared to the alcohol that wafted through the room on everyone's breath.
He fled to his room, opening his window once he got there, sighing and breathing in the cold nights air. He changed into a sweater and sweatpants, laying in his bed and pulling the blankets over him, closing his eyes and listening to the owls outside, the sound lulling him to sleep.
Yet there was a certain grin that flashed through his dreams.