Heart Emoji?
(Sirius and Remus)
Sirius: Hey! I’m outside!
Remus: Alright, I’ll be right out!
Sirius: 😁
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Sirius was really nervous, he was tapping on his steering wheel in silence waiting for Remus to come outside. He can’t even remember the last time he’s liked someone this much, or if he ever has, so he didn’t want to blow it.
Sirius glanced over to the door to see Remus walking down the steps. Remus guided himself over to the car and waved at him. Sirius thought he looked so gorgeous. He was wearing a cute beige sweater with baggy jeans and brown converses.
“Hey!” Sirius said unlocking the door for him.
“Hi!” Remus sat down and looked over to see Sirius already staring at him, wide eyed. He chuckled a little and spoke, “So, were we going?”
“Oh, yeah! Sorry! I made reservations at this place called, Classico Italiano.”
“Nice! I’ve never been there before.”
“Yeah, neither have I. I hope we like it.” Sirius responded, putting the car into drive.
The ride there was pretty silent, other than small side talk here and there. Once they got there, Sirius gave his car to valet parking and walked into the restaurant with Remus. He pulled out Remus’ chair, and then sat down himself.
“I hate first dates.” Sirius said smiling.
Remus laughed, “I mean yeah, they’re pretty awkward!”
“You know, it’s alright. We’ll live!” Sirius took a sip of water and continued, “So, what do you do for work?”
“I’m a dentist actually.” Remus responded.
“What? That’s so cool! I would have never guessed!” Sirius said.
“What do you do?” Remus asked.
“Oh, I’m a-“ Sirius responded, not even thinking twice about the question.
“I’m kidding! I’m kidding! I know what you do!” Remus laughed like it was the funniest thing that’s ever happened to him.
“Oh, yeah. I didn’t register it.” Sirius’ cheeks grew red and he laughed a little, looking embarrassed. “How did you even meet my brother? Or more importantly, why do you even like him?”
Remus smiled, “Yeah, he’s a bit of a handful!”
“Tell me about it.” Sirius rolled his eyes.
“I meet him about a year ago. Funny story actually, I meet him in a book store, he bumped into me and then cursed at him like it was my fault. But, you know that’s typical Regulus! I said I was sorry, and I offered to buy him a drink at the cafe inside the book store. He glared at me for a few minutes, then accepted.” Sirius laughed hysterically at the accurate picture Remus was painting of his brother.
“I was actually kinda surprised he accepted. I honestly thought he was going to kill me. So I bought him a tea, and the entire time he was just being so-“
“Rude? Annoying? Jerky? Bitchy? Death starey?” Sirius interrupted.
“No, actually. He was being very nice! I don’t know what made him go from cursing me out to being my best friend but I’m glad it happened. I’d like to think it had something to do with my ‘kill em’ with kindness’ approach.” Remus smiled proudly.
Sirius laughed and put his head in his hands. The way Remus described his brother was spot on. “Yeah, you must be a good one then. He doesn’t usually like people.”
The waiter then came over to take their drink order. They both just ended up putting their food order in now too because they were starving.
“I’m sorry if this is rude, I have absolutely no filter. But I’m extremely curious. How did you get those scars on your face?” Sirius asked.
“I was attacked by a wolf when I was 4 years old.” Remus said straight faced.
“What?” Sirius responded shocked.
“Ha, I’m kidding! You should’ve seen your face!” Remus hit the table and laughed loudly. “No but really, I just got into a car accident when I was younger.”
“Oh, god. I’m sorry!”
“Eh, not your fault!” Remus smiled and shrugged.
Sirius felt uncomfortable for bringing up trauma like that, at what was supposed to be a nice dinner. Remus didn’t seem to be bothered by it, it was just innocent curiosity, but still Sirius felt bad.
It’s almost like Remus could read Sirius’ mind, “Don’t beat yourself up about it. I actually get asked that question more times than not!” Remus took a sip of his soda and continued, “most of the time I just make up stupid stories to get a good laugh.”
“Like what?” Sirius asked intrigued.
“Hm, let me think. Well, one time a little kid asked me why I had scars on my face and I told him that one day I was camping in the woods and this evil wizard came out from the bushes and put a spell on me. The spell caused the permanent scars.”
“What did the kid say?” Sirius asked wide eyed.
“Nothing, he just ran away crying to his mom. I kinda felt bad but at the same time it was too funny.”
After this they both started breaking out into laugher until the whole restaurant was staring at them.
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(Regulus and James)
James: HEY REGGIE!
Regulus: I said I’m doing stuff
Regulus: leave me alone
James: it’s been hourssssss tho
Regulus: okay and??
James: andddddd I expect you to talk to me now
Regulus: Yeah…hard pass. I’d rather submerge myself in a pool of cockroaches🥰
James: Aren’t you the sweetest☺️
Regulus: What can I say🙂
James: I’m bored and I wanna talk to someone
Regulus: talk to Sirius
Regulus: goodbye
James: NOOO
James: I can’t😞 he’s on a date with Remus
Regulus: Ew
James: HEY
James: Don’t bash their cuteness
James: They’re couple goals
Regulus: never say that again
James: Okay, only because you asked so nicely 🤭🫦
Regulus:🙄
James: How do you feel about parties?
Regulus: Hate them
James: Great!
James: These people Sirius and I know are throwing a party Saturday
James: It’s for the “music industry” I guess. Like the artists but you can bring other people too
James: You should come
Regulus: Um I don’t know.
James: Well it will definitely be fun
James: Sirius is probably inviting Remus as we speak, and Remus will probably drag you along
Regulus: Yeah we’ll see about that.
James: See you there❤️
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A heart? Huh? And, a red heart at that. What did he mean? Regulus thought. Why is he sending me a heart?
Regulus looked at the text again, and started to type something, then deleted it quickly. He started typing something else, hovered over the send button, but then deleted it again.
Regulus wanted to say something back to James. Maybe a snarky comment? Something sarcastic? An okay? An emoji? Literally anything! But he didn’t know what to send. He went back to the text and started typing something.
The text message read: James, I was
Backspace, backspace, backspace.
I liked when you texted me earlier.
Regulus cringed and stopped, quickly deleting that message.
What does the heart mean?
No. He deleted that too. He has to think of something else to say.
I think about you. A lot.
Regulus looked at it and deleted it. He threw his phone on his bed and sighed. He walked over to his record player and put a vinyl on the spinning table, dropping the needle. Once it started playing, he went back to contemplating what to send James.
Wanna meet up?
Maybe we could get frozen yogurt again? I’d like that.
Do you think about me too?
I hate myself, but I hate you more.
I actually don’t hate you at all.
I’m so boreddddd
I want you to text me again.
Bitch
Fuckkkkkkk
I hateeeeee everythingggg
What did the heart mean, James?
When you texted me earlier, what did you mean when you said you would love if I hit you?
Why would you want me to hit you?
I miss your muscles so much.
Fuck they’re so hot.
You’re so hot.
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I want your hands wrapped around my
Can you and your muscles shove me against a wall?
Jamesssss
Jamie
I touch myself when I think about you.
James
James
Just shove me on a bed and
J Potter
JP
Potter
I have wet dreams about you every night.
Regulus deleted that last message quicker than the speed of light, and tossed his phone on his bed. He decided to just not respond at all, and shut his phone off for the rest of tonight….or maybe for forever.