Pilot
Regulus was sitting alone on the bed with guitar in his hands and an open notebook at page with half written lyrics.
He tried to play on the guitar and sing.
His phone beeped twice before he looked, it was his friends, they asked him if he was going out with them today, he glanced at the door and the window.
He brushed his hair off his face and put the phone down, he would rather not cause any more damage to what he already ruined.
He scribbled into his notebook the rushed end of the lyrics and reread it whole.
He takes one of the pillows from behind him and puts it in front of him, settling to it his phone and presses the recording button.
His breath hitched and the first cord was played wrong but he didn't stop recording, he tried again and started to sing.
Regulus' voice has started to tremble but he didn't stop singing. No, he's not going to give up. Not this time.
He pleaded quietly for his voice to stop acting up, for his hands to not tremble, for his breathing to be even. For him to be better.
"You called me again, drunk in your benz drivin home under the influence"
"You scared me to death but I'm wastin my breath cause you only listen to your fuckin friends"
"I don't relate to you"
Regulus rewatches the video he recorded more times than is probably healthy before he presses the button to upload it.
There was nothing that could tell others it was him. No trace back to anyone from the Black family.
The morning was dull and grey, he waited outside of his house for the twins' car and sat next to Pandora in the backseat.
"Do you have the homework?" Evan asks from the driver's seat.
"What homework?" Pandora panics.
"Stop stressing, this is our last year in this fucked up school." Barty tells him with a smile.
Regulus rolls his eyes "The last year is the most important year. This is the year we all should work hard on our schoolwork."
"Yeah so you have the homework?"
"No, I don't"
It was in school that Regulus found out his video got viral on multiple social medias he didn't even post it on.
He glanced at Pandora who was secretly on her phone and smiled, raising her eyebrows playfully just as his phone beeped.
The teacher started to scribble on the whiteboard and he quickly took the phone from his pocket.
Pandora sent him screenshots of comments under his video and Regulus' hands trembled, the tears visible in his eyes.
The teacher looked at him worried "Mrs. Black, are you alright? Would you like to go outside for a bit? It's almost the end of the class so you're not going to miss anything."
He rushed to the toilets where he slowly fell on the floor with the phone in a tight grip.
His breathing was fast but not as fast as his heart.
Woah he's so talented does anyone know if there are more songs on Spotify?
So freaking talented I got goosebumps, someone get him under a label!
Whoever this is needs to publish more
future og fan here
I NEED MORE?????
Cmon singing boy show us more of your songs
Barty was the first one to run to him on the toilets and hug him. Laughing and sitting close to Regulus as he started to read more comments he himself saw.
After him was Evan who told them to get out of the toilets somewhere else and so they sat into one of the more lonely corridors. It was then that Evan hugged him and giggled.
"Look at our famous singer."
Pandora came just that minute "Don't forget about us once you have a penthouse."
"Don't they already have a penthouse?"
"Oh yeah shit they just never go there."
Regulus' inside is swirling, his hands still trembling "But how- I mean I don't sound- I don't look-"
"What do you mean by that?" Barty looked at him without stern eyes.
"Yeah, what do you mean by that. Reg, first of all your voice isn't feminine at all."
"And second of all you wore- Barty's t shirt?"
"I think so?"
"And the most important thing is that you are a boy, Reg, you are not pretending to be anything else in that video. Actually, those people just felt your vibe, they saw you through your song and that's why they just know." Evan said.
Regulus sighs "I guess so, I guess I just- they liked it, you know? They liked it and they just. I think this is just too much on me, I thought I would get maybe 8 likes max and one comment from you."
"Yeah." Pandora smiles and leans on him "But I'm so glad."
"Yeah, can I be your manager?" Barty looks at Regulus with mischief.
"Why are you the manager?"
"Cause?"
"Cause of what?"
"Your mum"
Pandora with a smile raises her "I'm okay with being an assistant!"