#back to normal

Finally, her long and painful stay had come to an end. Not only would she be gone for at least another year, but i could also get my home office back. I really needed to play some video games lol "is that a new chair?" She would ask while I was putting away the sofa bed. "Cos, didn't you have a different one?" I could feel her judging me already. I knew no matter what I said, she would swing back to my weight gain. "Yea, the uhh... other one was well loved, got a lot of use out of it but... its got pretty old" the look she gave me up and down. My belly acting as an eye magnet as she struggled to look back up at me. "It was a smaller chair wasn't it?" She said as she tor her eyes away from my big gut. "I didn't outgrow the chair, mother, it just began to fall apart is all" I tried to tell her calmly. "Yea... I'm not surprised it fell apart... try not to break that one, it looks expensive" as she turned and left the room... she paused and turned to double-check she didn't leave anything behind. Her eyes scanned the room and again, magnetised to my fat belly. "I think you need to go back to working in office. Working from home isn't doing you any good," as she turned and left.

At the front door and heading back to the airport, she hugged my girlfriend and wished her well as I plod down the stairs with my chonky steps. I went for a hug, and she tried to do the sideways hug again, but I forced a frontal hug on her, thrusting my gut into her. It was the shortest hug ever lol she really doesn't like fat things it seems. And she was gone. My girlfriend had some laundry to do and she told me to go upstairs and play some game. I'm cranky when I don't get to play much. She takes good care of me 😊

@jegulus-microfic January 17, Word count 592

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They had won. Sirius had told him through the mirror. McGonagall had allowed the brothers a few days away from the castle to centre themselves before the onslaught of people asking them about the trial hit. 

“They’re all going to come after you, Pads,” James laughed. “They’ll take one look at Regulus and run the other way.” He loved his fiancé, he really did, but he’d be the first to admit that Regulus could be very intimidating when he wanted to be. 

“And that is why I plan to stick to Regulus like glue,” Sirius said, before toppling out of view. 

“I will make you regret it,” Regulus hissed, sitting down and centring himself in the mirror, a tired smile forming on his mouth at the sight of James. “Hi,” 

“Hi,” James beamed back. No matter how many times he looked at Regulus’s face, he was always stunned by how beautiful he was. He would never grow tired of simply looking at Regulus. 

“He’s driving me mad already. I’m half tempted to frame him for something and get them to throw him in Azkaban without parents,” he drawled, his eyes flashing wickedly when Sirius made a disgruntled noise beside him. 

“Please don’t do that, Regulus, or else I’m going to have to break him out, and I really don’t fancy a life on the run if you don’t mind,” Remus sighed, nudging James with his toe until he moved to let Remus sit beside him. Regulus rolled his eyes. 

“Well, seeing as it's you, I suppose I can just curse him instead. Does that sound agreeable?”

“Perfectly,” Remus nodded with a completely straight face. 

“You utter wankers!” Sirius grumbled. “I’m telling Effie,” he got up and stomped out of the room. 

“So how are you holding up?” James asked as Sirius clattered down the stairs. 

“Pretty well, actually. It was a lot, overwhelming, but it’s over, and we’re finally free of them. We’re going to Diagon Alley tomorrow to sort out all the legal stuff at Gringotts, but we should be back tomorrow evening if Sirius can drag himself away from Effie, that is.”

As if on cue, Sirius came waltzing back into the room with Effie right behind him. 

“Boys,” Effie said, her eyebrow raising in warning. “I’d better not hear you threatening to curse Sirius again,”

“To be fair, Effie, it was that or Regulus was going to find a way to get him thrown in Azkaban,” Remus said dryly before leaping to his feet and running out of the dorm room before Effie could scold him. 

“Honestly, what am I going to do with you lot. Regulus, darling, let's not attempt to get Sirius arrested, please.”

“Who said anything about attempt? If I want it to happen, it’ll happen,” Regulus scoffed. 

“Regulus,” Effie warned. 

“Sorry, Effie.” Effie bent down and kissed the top of Regulus’s head and blew a kiss to James. “Be nice to each other,” Effie told them before leaving them to it. 

“Tattle tale,” Regulus hissed at Sirius and Sirius stuck his tongue out at him. Regulus’s wand appeared out of nowhere, and while James would love to watch Regulus stick Sirius’s mouth to the roof of his tongue, he decided to come away from the mirror so he could claim plausible deniability when Regulus murdered Sirius. He felt much better after chatting with them. The fact that Regulus was threatening Sirius at all meant he was back to his old self, and James couldn’t wait to see him tomorrow if everything went well at Gringotts. 

Our group went down to the little city I grew up in; its not even really a city, its a cluster of farms within the same district. We visited my grandparents on their cattle ranch, my childhood friends and their rodeo horses across the road, and my place of work outside of college.

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