“hi” you heard someone say from beside you, you looked to your left and saw sirius walking next to you, he put his arms around your shoulders, “i noticed you were looking over at me during breakfast, and i thought you wanted to get to know me,” he gave you a devious smile, “i look at loads of people, that doesn’t mean i want to get to know them,” you fake smiled at him and ripped his arm from your shoulder and walked off to where lily and marlene were sitting.

“looks like you and sirius were having a great time over there,” lily smiled and madeleine laughed with her, “yeah, and how’s your stalker relationship with a certain james potter,” her face immediately fell, “please don’t remind me, he’s such a cock that won’t leave me alone,” she rolled her eyes, “oh look who’s here,” marlene looked over at the entrance of the great hall, you and lily followed her gaze, “oh no,” lily said under her breath, “evans!” james yelled at her, “nonononononono” she said as she slightly slid under the table, “evans you know i can see you,” he said

“stalker,” marlene whispered.

“shut up mckinnon” he punched her in the arm lightly, “anyway, i came here to tell you that we’re throwing a party at the gryffindor common room,” he slipped a paper with something written on it, “be there by 11,” he continued and left you to go sit with remus, sirius and peter at the other end of the table.

“what do you think this is?” marlene asked, “the gryffindor common room password, mars”

“so do we want to go,” lily said as she sat back down, “well we are going,” you pointed at yourself and marlene, “i just didn’t know you wanted to go to a party with james in it,”

“well, it will probably be a big party so we won’t bump into each other,”

“right,” you and marlene looked at each other and chuckled slightly. you turned your head around and noticed that regulus black was looking over at you, you smiled lightly, and he turned away trying to hide his face.

lily and marlene looked at you and then each other, cheeky smiles plastered in their faces, “what?” you asked, “nothing, y/n don’t listen to her,”

“right, we’ll i’m going, i’ve got class, see you at dinner?” you asked the girls as you took your books and book bag from next to you, “see you then y/n,” lily said.

you walked towards the entrance of the great hall, and you were quickly joined by regulus black, “hey,” he said, “right, what’s up with you and your brother today, it’s like we haven’t been attending the same school for five years now,”

“nothings up with me, i just noticed you were looking at me, so i came here to chat,”

“first off, you were looking at me, second off your brother said the exact same thing to me earlier,” you rolled your eyes at him, “you’re acting rather rude today,” he said jokingly.

“shut up, reg” there was a moment of silence while you were walking towards your class, “right so the reason i came here was to ask you if you’re going to james’ party today, it seems fun,”

“well mars decided that we’re going to go, but i don’t know yet. what about you?”

“i might go for a little while,” you nodded, “well i have to go to potions, see you later regs,”

“yeah, see you later,” he smiled at you and waved goodbye as you walked towards your class.

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“what seems to be the problem, reg?” marlene asked, “why do you think there’s a problem?” he asked, not bothering to look up from his notebook,

“well i don’t know, maybe because you’ve been staring at y/n far much more than any normal person would,” she teased him, “oh shut up, you don’t know anything,”

“i know enough. and from my knowledge i have gathered that you like y/n,” she teased, “well your knowledge is wrong, i only think of them as a friend,”

“right, and i suppose friends make your pupils widen, and your heart to start racing?” marlene nudged him slightly, “fuck off mars, i’ve never had any interest in them whatsoever, you just want drama to feast on,”

marlene shrugged and walked off to the doors of the library,

what if she knows something i don’t?

he shook the thought out of his head, if you liked him you would surely say something, right?

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“we meet again,” sirius says cockily as you sit in the only empty seat that just so happened to be next to his, “fuck off sirius,” he rolled his eyes, “anyway i’ve noticed that you’re getting quite comfortable with my brother,”

“and what does that have to do with you?”

“well he’s my brother, i have to protect him,”

“protect him? from what exactly?”

“well, you”

“sorry, didn’t realise i was such a big threat to regulus who can’t defend himself from my evil spells and my tentacles that will choke him to death. surely, he needs his knight in shining armour to save him from such a creature like me,” he rolled his eyes at your response.

“stop being so witty, it’s not that-“ before he could continue, slughorn greeted the class.

“it’s not that what? continue what you were going to say,” he sighed loudly and shrugged you off.

you were stirring the ingredients of the potion you were making when you noticed a small piece of paper next to your book. you opened it with one hand while the other stayed stirring,

are you coming to the party today?

x sirius

you looked over at him, he was cutting up some leaves to add to the potion, although he tried tucking it behind his ears his hair never failed to fall on his face, you smiled to yourself, he turned to put the leaves in the cauldron but instead he caught you staring at him, “are you staring at me?” he asked in whispery tone, a cocky smile started forming on his face,

“no,” you whispered back and went back to stirring the potion, completely ignoring his taunts, “admit it, y/n, you were staring at me,” he whispered

“i wasn’t,”

“lying isn’t nice,”

“well i’m not lying so it’s fine,”

“well are you coming to the party or what?”

“i won’t if you’re going to be there,”

“that’s a tragedy, but i know marlene will drag you with her anyway,” he smiled as he put his stuff back into the bag,

you were almost going to say that she won’t drag you with her, but what he said was true.

“well i’ll see you around,” he said as you parted ways

“you won’t,”

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remus and peter were sitting somewhere near the black lake, remus was smoking a cigarette while peter was next to him trying to smoke one himself, but he miserably failed as it kept falling out of his hand, or he kept coughing up the smoke and putting it out.

regulus walked up towards the two of them, sighing loudly and dropping his bag and sitting next to it, “light one for me?” he asked, remus pulled out a cigarette from his pack and lit it up,

“can i have one too?” peter asked

“peter, you’ve already put out the five i gave you, my packet’s almost done and i bought it yesterday,”

“so that’s a no?”

“what do you think?”

he sulked down a little and regulus felt bad for him, “here we can share mine, this way it won’t go to waste if you can’t handle it,” regulus smiled and handed him the cigarette, peter smiled widely and took it from his hand and placed it between his pointer and middle fingers carefully before taking a puff.

“right, so what did you come here for?” remus asked

“well, marlene said something about y/n-“ before he couldn’t finish remus cut him off, “and you want help with your feelings about them?”

“well, yes- how did you know?”

“it’s quite obvious, plus your brother asked the same thing earlier today,”

“sirius likes y/n?” he asked, and took the cigarette from peter, who was having a coughing fit, “i’m not sure, he didn’t really specify what he was feeling towards them, but he did say they were flirting in potions class. but you know, sirius thinks everyone is flirting with him, so i don’t really know,”

regulus nodded and watched as remus put out his cigarette, “so what do you want help with?”

“i just wanted to ask if they’ve ever talked about me in more of a friendly way,”

“reg, you know y/n never talks, they’re very secretive about everything. even with lily and marlene,”

“yes i know, but marlene hinted that they like me,”

“what did she say?”

“well at first she said that i like y/n, which is absurd because i obviously don’t,”

“and that’s why you’re here, asking if i know anything about them liking you,”

“i just want to know, because it might make things awkward between us, you know?”

“right..”

“actually nevermind, uhm are you coming to the party tonight?” regulus asked, trying to change the subject to make things less awkward, “that’s actually not up to me, because even if i decline james and sirius will force me to come down from the dorm,” regulus smiled slightly, “so you let them drag you around?” he asked, remus rolled his eyes, “shut up, besides arent you supposed to be in class right now? i’m a prefect you know, i can take five points from slytherin,”

“i don’t-“

“leave before i take ten points from slytherin,” he said, and regulus got up and left but not before muttering a few curse words at remus.

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james was filling up his drink when he realised that you, marlene and lily had finally come, “there you guys are! i thought you’d never come,” he practically screamed so you could hear, “why don’t you go over and get yourself a drink?”

“maybe later,” you yelled back so that he could hear, “did you get the drugs?” he asked and you pulled out a couple bags of powder, “here you go, sixteen bags of drugs and pills, now pay up,”

“where did you even get it from? you’re the only dealer in the entire school” he screamed over the music as he gave you the money, “telling you wouldn’t be fun,”

you counted the money, and gave him back the extra galleons, “right, maths was never my strong suit,”

“i can tell,”

“maybe you should stop taking the drugs and pills from madame pomfreys, she might notice one day,” he whispered into your ear, you smirked, “but i don’t get them from her office, james. i already told you, telling you wouldn’t be fun,then i won’t make any money,”

“is regulus here?” you asked james before he left.

“i don’t think so, i haven’t seen him around,”

“oh, okay,”

you got away from marlene and lily and had a few drinks of firewhiskey, “our lovely drug dealer,” sirius said from behind, you rolled your eyes and turned around to face him, “what do you want?” you asked, “nothing. what do you want?”

you stared at him, something about him seemed different, maybe it was the drinks that you had, or the pills, it didn’t matter what it was because right now he looks pretty, or maybe prettier.

“y/n? are you staring again?”

“what? no,”

“yes you were, first it was potions class and now this?”

“fuck off, not everything is about you, you know?”

he took a puff from the cigarette he was holding, and then downed a shot of whatever they had, “yeah, but the tragedy that you have to face, my dearest y/n, is that everything is about me, whether you like it or not,” he gave you that smirk you wish you could wipe off his stupid face, his stupid smile and stupid face.