Chapter 3
The rest of the band surrounded Regulus and Barty who had sunk to the floor. Regulus still gripping onto his shirt sobbing into his neck.
“Star? We need you to breathe.” Pandora said with her calming voice.
She loosened one of Regulus’ hands and placed it on her chest.
“Copy my breathing ok?” She breathed slowly.
Evan grabbed water and Dorcas shut and locked the door.
Regulus eventually calmed down, he was still shaking against Barty who started to stroke his back and was whispering quiet reassurances in his ear. This was a prime example of their friendship, these two young men were brothers, despite their hard childhood they somehow found a bond and has kept with it and has stuck with each other.
“Do you want to walk us through what happened or would you rather not talk?” Asked Barry after a moment. Regulus shifted against him and sighed taking a deep, shaky breath.
“Whilst we were performing Mamas Boy just after the recording of younger me was playing,” he said quietly “ I saw Sirius in the crowd.”
It felt like the entires room oxygen had been sucked out of the room. Pandora, Evan, Dorcas and Barty all exchanged glances of worry towards each other. Of course the friends knew about his and Sirius’s story, so the glances of worry turned into anger, not towards Regulus but to the other Black.
“He was here? I’d like to speak to that fucking lad,” Barty said, immediately cracking his knuckles and goes to walk out of the dressing room, but Evans hand stops him.
“I..I dont know what to do. I’m angry but I’m scared and I’m happy and I’m sad. I feel so many things and I hate that he can make me feel this way!” Regulus rambled, expressing with his shaking hands.
“I missed him, I miss him? Fucks sake, I hate feeling like his.” He dug the palms of his hands into his eyes. Dorcas walks towards him and asks if she can touch him, after a brief nod, she strokes his back, calming him down.
“However you feel, what you want to do, its up to you, and you know we will be here for you every step of the way,” Dorcas’s voice spoke through the blurriness of his head. The other band members all nodded and spoke in agreement.
“We love you star, we wont let you get hurt again,” Pandora said.
“And if you want us to beat him or anyone up, you know ruin their lives, make them wish they never did anything to you, er, gut them?” Barty rambled, getting a light elbow from Evan.
“You get what Barty’s trying to say, we will help you and protect you, we wont let you live in constant fear again.” Evan said.
Regulus looked up from his hands revealing a blotchy face, he gave a weak smile at his friends, his family. “I love you guys,” he said quietly, and slowly stood up with the help of Dorcas who gave him a hug. Then the rest of the band all huddled in to give him a big group hug, smiling. Regulus rolled his eyes with a smile as all his friends hugged him and showed him love, saying loving nothings in the circle.
And later that night, when they arrived at their hotel, when they moved all the mattresses into one room creating a large bed where they all cuddled, no one would know, except the Valkyries