The fucking boyfriend and Reg 2/2
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Regulus sat in the passenger seat of Jace's car.
It was the first time he had ever been in his car, and it was so dirty.
There was trash nearly everywhere. His driving skills were terrible too, like Jace would often forget to turn on his turning lights (a/n lol idk what they're called tbh), amd Regulus knew he shouldn't judge seeing as he himself never learned to drive. He really usually only travelled with James or occasionally with Lily, who were both amazing and smooth drivers, even Sirius with his motorbike and reckless self drove better than how ever the fuck Jace was driving.
And to make matters worse, Jace boasted all throughout the ride about how people always praised him for his driving.
By end of the ride Regulus decided that he really pitied those people and needed to find an asylum for them, asap.
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As soon as they entered Jace's apartment, the first thing Jace did was ask for Regulus to put his phone on silent, Regulus seriously didn't want to do that but, compromises reasoned his brain so he turned his phone on, 14:15 it read. Regulus put it on silent mode and restored its position in his pocket.
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Surprisingly Jace's taste in movies wasn't bad.
They started off with Little Women (2019). But like always, Jace talked too much, about how he had met the actors, HE CALLED TIMOTHEE CHALAMET TIMOTHY HUTTON FOR FUCKS SAKE.
But Regulus knew that everyone has different personalities and he was honestly glad that Jace was even willingly spending time with him.
They watched many, many movies, losing track of time.
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Regulus woke up with a start.
Fuck
How long had it been
He opened his mobile, 18:47 read the screen.
As soon as he read the time, his phone died
Regulus was freaking out.
He quickly pulled out the stack of sticky notes (a/n idk that's what they are called here) and took out his pen as he quickly scribbled on a note.
ℐ 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝒶 ℊ𝓇ℯ𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒾𝓂ℯ 𝓉ℴ𝓃𝒾ℊ𝒽𝓉, 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃𝓀𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝒻ℴ𝓇 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝒾𝓃ℊ 𝓂ℯ. ℒℴℴ𝓀 𝒻ℴ𝓇𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝓉ℴ𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹𝓈 𝒹ℴ𝒾𝓃ℊ 𝒾𝓉 𝒶ℊ𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝓈ℴℴ𝓃.
~ℛℯℊ𝓊𝓁𝓊𝓈 ♡︎
He stuck it on Jace's phone and calling an uber, he hastily exited the apartment.
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He stopped in front of the door of his and James' apartment, bracing himself.
He could only hope that his brother or practically anyone besides James wasn't at home, preferably not even James.
He unlocked the door, took off his shoes and finally looked up.
James seemed to be studying. Wait. James? Studying? At this time of the night? Damn.
James looked up, their eyes locked and Regulus resisted the urge to flinch as he saw the hardness in James' eyes.
James looked into his eyes, searching for…… god knows what.
In a second or two, he broke eye contact and continued working.
Regulus had never minded silence, but with James, he certainly hated it. Specifically this type of silence, so he decided to break it.
"Why are you studying right now?"
Finally voicing the one question that had been itching in the back of his head.
"I have a maths exam on Monday" he replied, not looking up.
Oh.
Oh fuck.
Regulus usually helped him with those.
Maths wasn't James' strong subject.
Well, there's always tomorrow.
"Why not study tomorrow"
James' head snapped up and his eyes met Regulus'
He looked hurt.
"I'm busy tomorrow"
Well that's that then.
"I'm gonna go shower, and ummm charge my phone."
James merely hummed in agreement.
What was even up with him today?
Regulus hoped against hope he hadn't done anything wrong.
"Hey Starshine?"
"Yea?" Asked Regulus
"What day it is today"
Regulus laughed. The day was ending and James didn't even know the day.
"You humor me Sunshine, you went an entire day without even knowing the day, damn. It's Saturday"
James was still looking at his with a peculiar expression, as though waiting for him to realize something.
Surely there weren't any birthdays today
There probably weren't.
James huffed out a breath.
"Okay thankyou Starshine"
"Anytime"
And with that Regulus made his way to his bedroom door.
He opened the door and looked around, it was relatively clean just a book on his side table, and random pages – probably study notes – were strewn over his desk, a few books lying open.
He'd get to cleaning that later.
Regulus locked the bedroom door and stepped out of his clothes and went into his bathroom.
He turned the shower on, occasionally putting his hand in the stream of water to check the temperature.
Once he was satisfied he stepped into the stream of hot water, letting the warmth engulf him.
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Regulus stepped out of the shower and towel dried himself. Quickly pulling over a hoodie and some sweatpants he went over to the big calendar which had been gifted to him by Sirius.
He had put all the dates and important things on it.
He checked the date and looked over at it.
He froze as soon as he saw the first thing on the Saturday box.
1.Lunch with James at 3 pm
Fucking hell.
No wonder James asked the day from him.
They have lunch together every Saturday and Tuesday.
How the fuck did he forget.
He rushed out of his bedroom door. James was still sitting on the floor doing maths, his hair more ruffled than usual, he had no doubt been pulling at it.
Regulus really needed to apologize.
"James I a-"
"Its okay, Starshine"
"James i really am sorry"
"I knew you'd be once you got out of the shower and checked your calendar"
"We can do it tomorrow if you want"
James scoffed,"I have a game tomorrow, Regulus"
James hardly ever called him by his name, it was usually Starshine, Reg, or Reggie, never Regulus.
"I really am sorry James"
"Look i honestly don't mind, you should have at least told me where you were going" snapped James
Regulus knew he shouldn't be mad, and had no right to be angry right now. But Regulus was always better at expressing anger than sadness.
"I didn't know i had to tell you everything"
James stood up gathering everything.
"Look i don't give a fuck if you go around fucking every single person in Europe, but you know what i do give a fuck about, you. I sat there at the restaurant, waiting for an entire fucking hour, i called you and god knows where the fuck your phone was, or you just didn't feel the need to answer." James took in a deep breath,"And i thought that you know what maybe he was busy so i sat there for another fucking half hour, like the idiot i am. And still you weren't showing, during this i called you ten more times, no answer. I was so fucking worried, i had no idea where the fuck you were, then i called Barty and he didn't know either, who then called Evan who told him that you were out with your boyfriend"
"I had told you too"
"Well I'm sorry, Regulus, but you told me at what time? Eleven fucking am, by that time it was five p-" he emphasized the 'p' " -m, so, i so fucking sorry for caring and being worried about my friend when i haven't heard from them for what? 6 hours? Seven hours. And then i asked Evan to call you, cz i thought maybe you didn't want to talk to me or some shit. And guess what, no fucking answer, and then you arrive at nearly half past seven and then tell me that i had forgotten what day it was, but you, Starshine, i think forgot that you had people who get worried as you were doing Morgana knows what with Merlin knows who. So i fucking request this from you that next time you have a date, with your boyfriend, tell us, please" he practically sneered while saying the last word.
Regulus would've thought that James was actually mad, if he didn't know him as he did.
James' hands were shaking, and his eyes were shining.
"Sunsh-"
"Dinner's on the stove" and with that James exited the living room, banging the door of his room closed.
Fuck.
He had really not meant to fall asleep.
What was worse was that he hadn't even once thought about what would be going on at home.
He knew that James had a hard time every single time any of his friends were remotely in danger, but mostly if it was Sirius or Regulus.
Sirius had told him that this had come from the years of James trying and trying to shield Sirius and save him and even though he eventually succeeded, James never got over the pain of it.
This was one of the reasons that James never had more than a few drinks at parties, he was the one person that Regulus had never seen drunk.
Not in the five years he had known him, never.
But James was always there to offer rides, and practically anything. He was the person everyone went to with their problem and Regulus had wondered more than once whether James had anyone to go to for his problems.
He always seemed so calm and collected in front of everyone Regulus wondered what actually went through his mind.
Right now he better tell his friends that he was home safe.
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End of ch2 final part.