Back in Hogwarts
Today Regulus had to go back to school. His old elf Krecher had brought him to the train. Of course his parents hadn’t cared to say goodbye to him. But regulus was glad that they didn’t.
So now he stood in the crowd at the platform, trying to find pandora.
He was barely able to move between all those people. It made him feel anxious. He hated crowds. He felt like he couldn’t breathe.
Regulus tried to seem calm, he was good at that. As he walk to get his way trough all the people he spotted some familiar faces. There was barty, he was in his hilarious little friend group too.
Regulus decided not to go to barty and search for Pandora again instead.
Finally regulus spotted her in the crowd and he hurried to make his way trough to people to get to her.
Regulus tapped on her shoulder and she turned around. “Hello, Regulus,” she said softly,” it’s good to see you.”
“Hey, yeah it’s nice to see you too,” he said trying his best for his voice to sound normal. If he acted weird Pandora would immediately notice that something was off.She was really good at those kind of things.
As regulus thought he noticed that he was tugging on his sleeve. He had formed that habit after he got the mark. He was scared that otherwise you would be able to see it. But for Pandora it would just be a hint that something was wrong.
She couldn’t know, she just couldn’t.
“Did anything special happen during the holidays?” She asked. It was a causal question but she wasn’t looking at regulus and that gave him a bad feeling.
“No. Nothing really special,” regulus answered. He was trying for this to just sound like a normal answer but Pandora always knew when he was lying.
He looked away but now he was able to feel her looking at him.
She attempted to say something but they were interrupted by the loud noises that the train made. They had to get in now.
“Let’s go find the others,” regulus suggested. “Yeah, we should do that,” she mumbled and started walking trough all the parents that were here to say goodbye to their children.
Regulus was very, fucking worried. What was he going to do if she figured out?
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The train ride was annoying.
They had found their friends and spent the rest of the ride with them. He hadn’t been talking much and he could feel Pandora looking at him every now and then.
It made him even more uncomfortable.
When they finally reached Hogwarts he couldn’t be happier. He really hadn’t enjoyed the last few hours.
As he was walking to the castle he took a look at the people around him. They were joking and chatting with each other. They were all having a good time.
Then a group of four students got in regulus sight. One of the four people was his brother, Sirius. There was Sirius’ boyfriend, his name was Remus. And there was peter. He was very popular actually. Regulus had seen him at every party that his so called friends had made him go to.
And the last boy was James. His perfect, wonderful James. He was laughing at something Sirius had said and he looked so handsome with this big smile on his face. Regulus really hopped that he could meet him tonight. Although he was scared that James was gonna find out, he just wanted to hug him really bad.