truth or dare.
The two brothers walked into the crowded common room. Heads turned to look at them, as the whispering started . “what the fuck? don’t they hate eachother?” “watch out, any minute now they’ll start hexing eachother”
Sirius whispered to Regulus,
“It’s okay they’re always like this. Try not to get too worked up about this”
The black brothers were known for HATING eachother, since Sirius ran away from home, whereas Regulus stayed. Ever since then, they have been in a war with eachother.
That is, until today, where they were suddenly walking into parties together. And it doesn’t help that Regulus brought his slytherin best friends, Barty Crouch Jr, Evan Rosier and Dorcas Meadowes.
But what people don’t know, is that Sirius and Regulus actually live together now. Over the summer break, they helped Regulus sneak out of Grimmauld Place, and move in with Sirius and the Potters. Regulus has never been happier. Of course, his parents were furious and tried multiple times to get him back, but he simply refused. The whole summer was spent talking and spending time with Sirius, and sadly, his friends. He didn’t mind them, except one. James fucking Potter.
Regulus Black would’ve normally grabbed a drink and sat in a corner with his friends, but he was feeling different today. So, he grabbed a drink anyways and walked towards a group of gryffindors playing a game. “Hey. mind if i join?” he asked, finding it quite funny how their eyes looked like they were going to pop out of their heads. “yeah sure.” a blonde girl said, and he took a seat.
The night carried on like this, Regulus going around talking to people he never would’ve before, and they all had the same look of shock in their faces. Although he had spoken to basically everyone in the room, he had avoided one person in particular. And he could feel that persons eyes drilling into his head. James fucking Potter.
“all right! everyone gather round. time for a game of truth or dare!” Sirius shouted from across the room. Regulus found Barty and Evan and pulled them towards the small group of people playing the game. “alright i’ll spin the bottle and ask whoever it lands on” peter spun the bottle around and……….. “MOOONYYY! woop” he laughed . everyone knew that sirius and remus were in love with eachother, and weren’t hiding their so called “secret relationship” very well.
Sirius would constantly talk about Remus to Regulus, about how much he loves his hair or his face or anything really.
“truth or dare moonbeam?” peter asked
“dare” remus replied confidently
“i dare you to kiss a random person in this room” peter laughed and the whole circle of people started cheering. at the same time, sirius almost got whiplash from how quickly he turned to look at peter .
regulus laughed, he knew this would annoy his brother, who was madly in love with lupin. “uhm okay then.” remus looked around, and his eyes settled on one person. he quickly rushed over and kisses sirius. everyone started cheering while sirius sat there looked starstruck. James, who was sat next to Sirius, patted him on the back before exploding into laughter.
“alright alright my turn” remus spin the bottle until it landed on Regulus. regulus groaned, this will be fun.
“reggie! truth or dare?” lupin asked
“dare. remrem” regulus replied, lupin was one of few people that he let call him reggie.
“okay then. i dare you to sit in barty's lap for the rest of the game.” at this, regulus turned jokingly to barty .
“budge up then crouch” he took a seat in his lap, and they both started laughing. barty was his best friend, so it wasn’t that big of a deal. Regulus turned to look at evan, who had murder in his eyes. it was obvious evan liked barty but would never admit it. regulus leaned down to barty’s ear, and started whispering “looks like someone’s jealous” and he nodded to where evan was sitting. evans glare had doubled once he saw them so close together. “oh yeah? looks like he’s not the only one. “ barty lowered down to regulus’ ear, quickly pointing towards James. If he thought evan was bad, then James was unreal. He basically had smoke coming out of his ears, and was clenching his jaw so hard it was about to break.
The game carried on for another hour, where dorcas and marlene had to spend 7 minutes in the closet, barty had to drink 2 shots of vinegar , and peter had to steal something from filches office. Evan and James both looked relieved when Regulus got off Barty’s lap.
For a few more minutes, Regulus went around socialising with people. He was in the middle of a conversation with Frank when Sirius came up to him. “hey. i’m really glad that you’re here, and that you’re actually talking to people. I’m proud of you reg” he said “Yeah well why not? New year new me i guess” They laughed together and Sirius ran off to get Remus’ attention.
Suddenly, Regulus felt someone grab his arm. He turned to see James dragging him towards a corner.
JAMES POV!!
“what the fuck james? let go of me” he pulled his arm out of james’ grip.
“not until you tell me why you’re not talking to me. like at all.” james glared back.
The whole night, Reg has been talking to every single person in this room except james , and he hated it. he thought they were friends now that regulus had moved into his house. Unexpectedly, regulus swapped them around so that it was now him in front. . He put his hands on the wall infront of him, cornering James. “you should take it as a compliment that i’m talking to everyone here but you.”
he then walked away, leaving james flustered and extremely confused. oh shit. did he just find that.. hot? omg he just called his best friend’s brother hot. He groaned and held his hands in his head.
He looked up to see Regulus and Barty dancing and laughing together , his confusion quickly turned into anger . Crouch? Out of all the people here, he was dancing with Crouch? It turns out James wasn’t the only one disapproving. Evan Rosier, one of Regulus’ friends, was also glaring at the pair. Suddenly, James had an idea.
A great fucking idea.