In The Bag
The setting of the room is calm and cosy, with a dark brown leather sofa with a punch of colourful pillows in the middle of the shot. In front of the sofa is a simple glass coffee table. The background is a light coloured wall with a branch of a plant sticking to the picture at the corner and some abstract paintings. The picture is empty until Sirius Black comes into a view with a stylish black leather bag in hand. They sat down on the sofa with familiarity and bent their other knee to rest their foot on the cushion.
“Shall we start?” they ask with a smile towards the camera and put the bag down on the table. The picture fades into white.
Inside Sirius Black’s Mulberry Islington Bucket | In The Bag
”So,” Sirius starts with their bag in their hands. ”My bag is from Mulberry, she’s an Islington Bucket. Yes bucket you heard right,” Sirius looks straight to the camera and raises their other eyebrow playfully, “And she is an absolute beauty.”
Sirius opens the bag and looks inside before looking back up. “I actually didn’t check what I have left in here beforehand, so this is as much of a surprise to me as it is to you guys.” They dig around in the purse and get the first items out.
“So first the basics; my phone, it’s the iPhone xs, xr or whatever,” she waves the phone around in the air and turns the screen to face themselves. “I know my phone case is the nastiest thing out there, please don’t bully me for it,” Sirius says with a grin and taps their nail to the worn out see through case.
“James, my best mate, makes fun of me for still having this old model, but if it works it works. Don’t see a reason to get a new one, you know?” they put the phone next to them on the sofa and move on. “Then I have this card holder.”
Sirius shows the wallet around. It is a small thing with red dots on it. “I don’t actually have that many cards that I carry around. Just my credit card and licence, even though I don’t drive that often,” Sirius casts a knowing look, but doesn’t say anything. “Then my keys, which on the other hand has many different keys in it.”
They shake the keys around, making them jiggle. “Our apartment, James’ apartment, my parents in law’s apartment even though they live in the UK and we don’t at the moment.”
Sirius’ lips turn into a sweet smile, “Other keys, and this old keychain I actually bought the last day of school, when me and James visited the village next to our boarding school.”
Sirius lets out a laugh and runs their thumb over the small keychain. “Good times,” and with a last look they toss the keys to the sofa too. They rummage around in the bag some more and pull out some loose change, before smiling sheepishly to the camera.
“Okay, look. I know I shouldn’t just have cash laying around in my bag. But honestly, every time I pay with cash I just get so anxious thinking I’m holding up the line while trying to handle the change. So I just end up ditching the cash there to get out of the way.”
They look at the coins and bills in their hand for a second before putting them to the side on the table. “So there was the boring stuff, let’s move on.”
Sirius looks inside the bag and comes to a stop. “Um- I,” they let out a laugh and pull a pacifier out of the bag. “So, this is what I mean when I said I didn’t check the bag before filming.”
They put the pacifier on the table and let out another laugh. “So, I spent time with my godson yesterday and somewhere through the day I saved his pacifier from getting tossed to the ground.”
Sirius runs their hand through their hair and bite their lip. “So there’s that. I can’t believe I didn’t see it while I was looking for the cash.”
They shake their head, but move on from it. “Next we have q-tips and some cotton pads,” they show the many q-tips and makeup pads to the camera and struggle their shoulders. “You never know when you need one, so I make sure to carry them around.”
“Then we have some other useful things.”
They get a little bag out and zip it open.
“Chapstick for dry lips, lip oil for some shine and looks,” they wink their eye and put the lip products to the side. They pull out band aids and hand lotion next from the small bag. Sirius lets out a little laugh before biting back a smile. “So,” they start, “My fiancé, Remus, has the driest hands in the world, so I carry this around for him and also for myself,” Sirius leans in closer like they are telling a secret. “But mainly for him.”
“The band aids, because I got blisters so easily and because-,” they laugh again and cover their mouth with their hand quickly. “Oh I’m such an awful person.”
They let out a breath and look back to the camera, “Remus also has a bad habit of picking their cuticles. So sometimes I cover his poor fingers with these.”
With an amused shake of their head they put the band aids back to the small bag, “I’m sorry for exposing you, baby,” Sirius says while looking for their next item from the bag before looking back up. ”You know it’s only out of pure love.”
“Okay!” Sirius says and claps their hands together. “Next one is an interesting one and some people are going to think I’m weird-,” then they stop and tilt their head to the side. “Well that probably already happened with the pacifier, but,” they pull out a small travel size toothbrush and toothpaste. “Toothpaste and toothbrush, because I sometimes get an urge to brush my teeth during the day. And before I do so, I simply can’t go on with my life,” Sirius stares at the toothbrush and toothpaste in their hand and shakes their head. Like they can’t understand the logic behind it either. “Maybe I should talk about this with my therapist,” another pause. “Well anyways,” they show them closer to the camera before putting them back to the bag.
Next Sirius pulls out many different tampons and pads. “Before anyone gets too confused,” they cast the camera a lot saying look. “I have a lot of friends who might need these, so I like to carry them around. And you know, just in case. You never know when these might come in handy,” Sirius laughs and smiles at the camera. “Once I stopped a bleeding nose with a tampon. Very convenient. Did I get weird looks? Yes, but if it works, it works.”
Sirius puts them to the coffee table and struggles, “Then just some hair ties and a brush in this mini bag.”
They set the bag aside and pull out a bag of gum. “Just some gum, but then I have this,” they say and show a white box. They open the box to reveal different jewellery from rings to earrings.
“With my job I sometimes have to take my earrings or other jewellery off. For example for shoots where I’m not supposed to have any personal items on,” Sirius waves their hand around in the air. An engagement ring can be easily seen on their left ring finger. They don’t point it out, but it’s easy to catch. “Usually I would do that before leaving for the shoot, but sometimes I forgot. So instead of tossing my earrings, or whatever, to the bag I put them here. So that I don’t lose them.”
Sirius carefully closes the box and sets it on the coffee table. Then they smile and with a gentle sigh pull out a small stack of photos.
“Okay, this one is really cheesy I’d say,” Sirius says and looks at the photos in their hands. “I have, well, quite a lot of polaroid pictures of the people I love.” They get closer to the camera and first show a picture of a man sitting alongside with an older, much smaller woman, who’s in turn standing next to him. They’re both smiling widely and the woman’s arms are tightly wrapped around the man’s shoulders. Next picture has a much younger woman with vivid ginger hair, holding a baby whose face Sirius is covering with their hand.
The camera focuses back to Sirius’ face as they smile widely and look down to the photos. “There’s many important people in my life who I miss dearly. Especially when I’m away from them, which is quite often,” sad smile spreads on their lips as they look at one particular photo. “So I like to look at these pictures. Even though I feel like they make me miss them even more,” Sirius lets out a wet laugh and wipes the corner of their eye. “But this way I always keep my loved ones with me.”
Sirius sniffles quickly as they spend another second or so looking at the photos. “Okay let’s move on before I cry.”
They carefully put the photos back in the bag and smirk to the camera. “I’m gonna hide them here,” they say, but then let out a hum as they look for something from the bag.
“Next one is a very important one,” they say and pull out different kinds of snacks. There’s everything from fruit snacks to peanuts to some colourful gummy bears.
“Because apparently I get grumpy when I’m hungry,” Sirius says while smiling sweetly to the camera. The smile itself almost makes believe otherwise. “I don’t know why such lies are spread around about me,” they point a finger to the camera. “Someone should now be feeling extremely bad for these rumours.”
Sirius opens the bag of fruit snacks and pops one in to their mouth. “These are my favourite,” they say after chewing and show the package to the camera. “Remus buys these for me.”
Sirius rolls their eyes, but a faint smile plays on their lips. “He doesn’t want me to throw tantrums just because I haven’t eaten. Truth is he just wants to eat these himself.”
“Not hard to guess who spreads these lies, is it?” Sirius scoffs, but eats another fruit snack before putting them to the side. “But thank you, I guess,” Sirius says and tries to sound annoyed, but fails miserably.
“Then some small things that aren’t mine, but have made their way to my bag,” first they show a rainbow coloured worm keychain.
“Before any of you get scared, it’s an ADHD toy and it’s not mine!” Sirius says defensively while trying to cast a very serious look to the camera. “I do use it, though.”
Someone behind the camera lets out a quiet laugh and Sirius glances to the side.
“It’s my dear best friend James’ but he once forgot it at our place. So now he’s not getting it back.”
Sirius wiggles with it before looking back to the camera. “It’s fun and oddly calming, okay?”
Sirius puts the toy on the table and looks at all the other things that are already on it.
“This thing fits surprisingly much things,” Sirius says with a hum. “Moving on,” they place a small item on their hand and the camera zooms into their palm to show a black guitar pick.
“Before anyone wonders, no I don’t play guitar,” Sirius clears out. “It’s my fiancés. This was actually the guitar pick he used on his very first sold out show.”
Sirius’ gaze is locked to a spot on the floor as they tell the story. They occasionally swipe their thumb over the guitar pick.
“I was obviously there and after the show I kind of stole this,” they say with a small chuckle. “Remus wondered for like a week where he had but this and like-… hmm, maybe a month or so later I confessed that I took it.”
They bit their lip and put the guitar pick back to their bag. The same way they had done with the photos. Sirius shake their head and exhales.
“This video is going to be something like: Sirius Black being sappy for ten minutes straight, if I don’t calm down soon.”
“No regrets, really,” they say with a lazy struggle. Next they pull out two pairs of earphones. The other ones are bluetooth ones in a case and the other ones are regular earphones with the wire on knots.
“Two pairs of earphones,” Sirius says the same time they try to open the knots with not much of luck. “I usually use these bluetooth ones, but when I try to be cool and edgy like those pinterest girls I pull out these wired ones.”
They still haven’t looked up to the camera. Still desperately trying to solve the earphones with furrowed brows.
“Which, as you can see, is not that often.”
Then they give up and drop both earphones to the table.
“And besides some trash at the bottom of my bag that’s it.”
With a gentle smile they look to the camera and put their bag next to them on the sofa.
“Thank you so much Vogue for this opportunity. It was very fun and…” they look at the different things on the coffee table, “Interesting. I was and still am Sirius Black. Hope you enjoyed finding out what’s in my bag as much as I did,” they let out a laugh. “Take care!”
With a wave of their hand the video comes to an end.