You belong with me
“I'm in my room it’s a typical thursday night
I’m listening to the kind of music, she doesn’t like
It's indeed on a Thursday that it happened
10PM at the Potter’s house.
Monty's voice covers the lyrics “You belong with me” by Taylor Swift.
and she’ll never know your story like, i doooooo”
- James !
“The best part of the song hasn't hit yet.”
James uncovered one ear out of his headphone.
He was about to answer when his dad called again :
- James come downstairs !
- yeah why ?
James press pause, about to stand up.
- It’s serious, her mom mention
- What is… ? Sirius, he says it to himself. A silly smile takes over his face.
“The mediocre joke was too easy to make to resist it.”
Not thinking twice about what could possibly be a serious matter ?
not today a lovely day like this. He was in a fantastic mood all day.
No class, no trouble, no worry.
on the stairs he take a wild guess :
- Did my grades came in the mail ? Come on it’s not so bad, he tries to argue with his charming “it’s not worth fighting” type of intonation.
The scene progressively appeared before him, the ceiling was keeping him from seeing much from up stairs. But not for long, James is a clumsy guy, he will skip one or two steps if he don’t conscientiously watch where his foots goes. But James is also curious so he looked up, the first floors reveal his parents and a third one. He looked down then look up again,” Merlin ! It's Sirius.” James tripped over a couple of stairs in confusion. finding his balance again with the familiar handrail.
His best friend is here.
“What in the world ?”
- Sirius ??? why are you soaking wet
His best friend so slowly turns to meet James' eyes, not a word comes out of him.
Regardless, James can tell in one glimpse of him that Sirius black is about to lose it. James' heart shrink. Sirius's eyes are full of so many things and a watery filter covers it all, his eye lashes are glued together by earlier tears. He looks away when he wip the stream of tears that run down his cheek when James says his name again.
Sirius hand are shaking, but Sirius has never been ashamed of feeling deeply,
has never been afraid of laughing loudly. But this side of him, James don’t know…
- what happened ?
a swallowed sob cut through the silence of unanswered questions.
Effie Potter takes the wheel :
- Monty I think Sirius is going to need a warm blanket and a good soup, what do you think ?
Let's go to the living room. Monty follow his wife commands and disappear upstairs
- I can start a fire mom ?
- let me take care of it honey. And just like that she is already at work.
The boys are left alone. Sirius isn’t moving, still, he is looking back. James pass him by to quietly to shut the front door, it stop the cold night from coming in. The noise snapped Sirius back in his body. He takes in his surrendering and starts breathing heavily. To this shift, james can take the initiative of reaching out to touch Sirius shoulder :
- hey ?
- James…I left them there
The rest of Sirius’s sentence is lost in James' chest. Sirius skin is so cold.
It doesn’t matter because james knows who “them” is and james knows what “left” means
they will figure out the rest...
By they he means : mom; dad; sirius and him.
“ …to my house in the middle of the night
i'm the one who makes you laugh when you know you’re about to cryyyy”