"Oh. My. Goodness. Reggie, come here quickly! You have to see this!"
"Just a second, James"
"No no no. You gotta see this like right now!"
"I'm coming." Jesus. What could be that important at 8 a.m. in the morning? It's not like it was even a good morning.
Regulus walked into the kitchen where James was sitting with a cup of hot coffee, and a newspaper infront of him.
He didn't turn his head from the something he found so important, even when Regulus walked next to him and placed his hand on the back of James' chair, so close to his back they could feel the warmness of each other.
The sound of James finger hitting the newspaper on the table made Regulus come back from his thoughts.
James was pointing at a huge commercial of... ice cream.
Regulus raised an eyebrow to James, who was very clearly very excited and very happy about his finding.
"...yes?"
James looked at Regulus with a dramatic expression, then lifted the newspaper in front of Regulus' face so he could read it better.
"Read."
"Ice cream."
"No, belove it", James could barely contain his excitement but tried to be quiet as Regulus read what James had told him to.
"...so?" James asked after Regulus had read the commercial at least three times trying to understand what was so special about it.
"Magnum newness, ice cream, something prices, something something tasty , something..."
"No, the names, Regulus, the names!"
"Starchaser, and... sunlover."
"Yes! Don't you get it? That's us right in the paper, in the ice creams! We have our own ice creams, Reg!"
Regulus blinked.
"We have to get the ice creams, please Reggie", James begged.
"Ice cream is not my thing."
"Pleeeaaase can we go to the grocery?"
"No."
"But-"
"No."
"Ple-"
"No."
James looked at Regulus with the saddest puppy eyes he could make, and saw Regulus' face soften slowly.
Regulus put the newspaper on the table and sighed.
"Fine. You pay."
***
The muggle grocery shop was filled with people trying desperately to find the stuff they were coming for in the crowd.
Babies were crying.
Regulus also wanted to.
James seemed to be even more excited as they got into the shop, but also nervous about finding the ice creams.
"What if they're all gone?"
"Might be."
"What if someone takes the last ones in front of our eyes?"
"Might take."
"What if they haven't even gotten here yet?"
"Might-"
Regulus' sentence was interrupted when James suddenly grabbed his sleeve and began to ran towards the ice cream section. There were huge signs of the new ice creams in the walls.
"Quick, Reggie! We have to get them!"
"I'm shorter than you, James!"
James didn't answer. He turned to left so quickly that Regulus just about managed to stay on his legs and not fall on a little kid who was staring at them with horrified eyes and a teddy bear crunched into their chest.
"James!" Regulus shouted, even though he knew James wouldn't answer in that rush.
When James finally stopped, he didn't let go of Regulus' arm but squeezed it even harder.
"They're here! Look! The ice creams!"
"Those ice creams cost more than our house."
"Don't be dramatic, Reggie dear. New items always cost more, the prize will go down in few months."
"And we can't buy them then?"
"Absolutely not."
"That's what I thought", Regulus sighed as James dipped his hand into the freezer full of different kinds of Magnum ice cream.
***
"Alright, this one's for you, and this one's mine."
"Chocolate, caramel and popcorn flavour", Regulus read out loud. "Doesn't sound so bad."
James was already filling his mouth with the white ice cream while reading from the wrapper.
"'I 'u 'o 'at 'e'e 'u'i'u 'i 'e 'a'ia?"
"I have no idea what you just said, James. Close your mouth and eat it before talking, that's disgusting."
James gulped loudly - twice - before clarifying what he said.
"Did you know that there's pumpkin juice in the ice cream?"
Regulus tried to not laugh seeing big pieces of melted ice cream running down James' neck.
"I did not actually."
James nodded and continued to read the ingredients in the yellow wrapper.
"Wait", Regulus took the yellow wrapper from James' hand and studied it next to his purple one.
"Shouldn't we be eating the other ones? Like, you should be eating this Starchaser one, because, like, I was named after a star, and you were chasing me our whole school years. I should have the Sunlover because you're like the sun, and I-"
"Yes?"
"What?"
"You were saying? I'm the Sun, and you...", James nodded along, smiling widely.
"Sunlover?" He helped, but Regulus just continued to stare at him, the ice cream melting in his hand.
"Well, you know it."
"What if I don't?"
"But you do."
"You haven't said it", James raised his eyebrow. "You almost said it!"
"And you interrupted me!"
"Well do you want to continue?"
"No."
"You do", James laughed and pushed Regulus gently with his elbow.
Regulus shook his head facing the ground to hide the smile curving on his lips.
"You do!" James took Regulus in a hug from the side and bit his ice cream.
Regulus couldn't hide his smile anymore as he started laugihing at James. He shook his head while laughing in the other direction letting James hug him.
"Alright alright, I get it!" Regulus turned to look at James, who had stopped lauging, but not smiling, to stare at Regulus with his eyes shining from happiness.
"So it's true?" James asked.
"What is?"
"That you-"
"Yes."
James' smile widened at least to his ears while he was trying to contain his excitement, once again.
"I do. Love you, I mean", James' touch made Regulus shiver. "I have loved you since I first visited you with Sirius and I was scared at first, but you made me feel like I was home. And I was. I am. I loved you when you told me your biggest secrets in the pillow fort you and Sirius made when you were 12, and Sirius wouldn't let me in but you sneaked me there at night. I loved you even when I hated you after that quidditch match when Gryffindor won and you made fun of us for months after."
"I-"
"I loved you even more when this morning I woke up feeling shitty as Sirius didn't even tell me they were going for a weekend trip without us, but you made it worth waking up."
James was staring so deep into Regulus' eyes, he thought he'd die from happiness right then and there.
"So", Regulus got out of James' arms to give him his ice cream and take the white one instead. "That's why I think we should swap the ice creams."
James smiled a little and looked down at the barely eaten Starchaser.
"And it tasted like shit."
James burst out laughing and nodded.
"I remembered you prefer biscuits."
"With tea."
"Earl grey."
"With no sugar."
"Or milk."
Regulus nodded smiling.
"Oh, the ice cream is melting! You gotta eat it fast!"
"I think you should too... woops", Regulus laughed as James noticed the melted ice cream stream on his neck.
"I can take care of that."
"Bet."