Chapter 5
“You shouldn't be this hard on yourself it won't do you any good you know that” Pandora sighed opening an unreasonably large textbook.
“Panda, I've got three weeks and I look like a mess” Regulus replied, they sat in one of the many campus cafes trying and mostly failing miserably to get some schoolwork done.
“You and I both know that you look good, you always look good on the ice, stop doing that,” Pandora says sighing
“Doing what?” regulus looks as if he's genuinely curious, they have had this conversion before he is sure, regulus is always like this before major competitions and Pandora is always the one to talk to kind of sense into him.
“Belittling yourself into a pile of self-loathing, stop it. It will just make you feel worse and you know that”
Regulus knows she has a point, he has a general tendency to be rather self-deprecating when he wants to be. Pandora closes the book she was pretending to be remotely interested in and looks up at him
“Let's go to that party tonight?” she proposes, regulus looks confused again
“There’s a party tonight?” he asks
“We’re in a sports uni, there's a party every night Reggie” she concludes and with that phrase begins to pack up her bag.
“I don't know if parties are my type of speed,” Regulus says whilst putting his own belongings away, he knows a party would help him relax after all a few drinks can't hurt, but he also knows how hungover he gets because of a very certain issue the Blacks seem to have with drinking; they can't stop once they start. So Regulus will say he is tired, or it isn't up to his speed, or it's not his type of scene. Anything that will get him out of going to a party tonight and drinking himself silly. But he has known Pandora long enough to know that when she gets an idea into her magical brain it is very hard to change her mind.
“Reg, please, you need it. God knows I need it after writing that stupid fucking midterm last week. We haven't been to a party in ages, and look, if you don't like it you can leave?”
Pandora says standing now, she looks as sincere as she can be, so it takes Regulus only a few seconds of thinking it over before he caves.
“Fine, we’ll go” he sighs, pandora practically preens with excitement, the two walk out of the cafe with their bags dangling from their shoulders
“Who’s throwing the party again?” regulus asks
“Just some of the hockey lot” Pandora answers
shit
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Marauders
Prongs:
Boys just picked up kegs with Frankie boy
Prongs:
Will be home ASAP
Wormtail:
Food is all good
Padfoot:
Cheers Pete
Padfoot:
You’re a star
Wormtail:
Aren’t I just
Wormtail:
Moony what's the eta on all the other drinks?
Moony:
Refills will come around 12
Moony:
All the others should be with you soon Pete
Prongs:
Gonna be a banging night boys!!!!
Prongs:
Bare people are showing!!!
Prongs:
Oh and pads, moony
for the love of Christ do not shag
in my bathroom again or I'll get violent
Padfoot:
THAT WAS ONE TIME!
Prongs:
YOU SLEPT ON MY BATHROOM FLOOR
Padfoot:
DID NOT
Moony:
Children hush
Padfoot:
MOONY
James could hear Sirius jokingly threaten Remus as he walked in through the door followed by Frank, the house looked ready for a great party, they walked through the hallway into the kitchen where they located the couple.
The decision to throw a party was made last minute, purely based on Sirius's need to get as he called it ‘drunk so silly I see shapes’ so who was James to deny a man the favor of getting pissed.
Both James and Frank knew how taxing this would be on their gameplay, James just chose to ignore that factor, he could sacrifice a few more nights to alcohol as soon as they won at the end of the season. And next week, of course, he needed that win next week more than he needed to breathe at this moment.
James had it all planned out if he was being honest, first, he would get drunk with his mates, next go to practice, next beat Slytherin, and then make it to finals.
“Can’t believe you lads are throwing a party after what the girls did two nights ago” Frank said
“The girl's party was weak compared to this, I can assure you Frankie that more than half the school will be here tonight” Sirius stated proudly
“Ya and don’t act as if you’re not helping us throw this, the entire population of puck bunnies are solely coming to see the hockey players tonight and you know that as well as I do” James laughs a bit as he says this
“Getting it on with Evans then?” Frank asks
“Getting it on with Alice then?” James replies
Frank nods in a gesture that can only be described as ‘well played’ and declares that he's going to start bringing the kegs up.
“Want me to call the rest of the team up? Get them here earlier?” Sirius asks James
James nods, albeit a bit dismissively as he is too focused on his phone, his finger hovering over the Instagram app, before ultimately deciding against whatever he was going to do and stuffing the phone into the back pocket of his jeans.
“I’m gonna go chill on the couch before people start arriving”
James declares and leaves the kitchen to go into the living room.