From Eden - Regulus Black (Complete)

Chapter Twenty-Seven

I'D REALLY LIKE SOME COMMENTS, GUYS, I'M GETTING SO MANY READS AND ALL, BUT I SORT OF WANT SOME FEEDBACK HERE. IT MAKES ME SO INSECURE WHEN I RECIEVE NOTHING, I NEVER KNOW WHAT TO GET BETTER...

TEA

Anne Potter had gone through a traumatizing event of destroying part of an evil man's soul to being simply nervous about attending tea with someone she already considered a friend for a while, which Euphemia thought to be very funny as she insisted to help her get dressed for it.

"It's just tea," Anne insisted.

"I know, it's just tea," said Euphemia, but something in her voice made Anne's eyes narrow.

"I'm not lying!" she said.

"You're not lying," the woman repeated.

Anne threw herself on the bed, exasperated with her grandmother's malicious looks when she had been caught reading Regulus' letter on the music room, trying to be inconspicuous, which made her even more suspicious under Euphemia's eyes.

"Darling, I know I'm probably not the one that you want to hear this from, but you're allowed to have fun," Euphemia said, pulling a light-blue dress. "You're trying to minimize the results of a war, which is not something someone your age should be doing. Go out with a boy, snog a little –"

"Mia!" she yelped, scandalized as she threw herself up to sit down on the bed again, wide eyes staring at her grandmother.

"What? It's the truth," Mia said. "I said so to your father and to your uncle. And I'll repeat it to you: just be safe and know actions have consequences. If you're ready to deal with them, then you're ready to cross past the snogging point. So, as long as you don't come home sick or pregnant, I'm not anything other than supportive."

"Mia, I swear it's nothing like that between Regulus and I," Anne said. "We're friends and nothing more."

Euphemia shook her head.

"I've seen the way he looked at you in the platform, even if you are just friends, I doubt that'll be the case for long," she answered. "Now, our conversation was had and you know you can come to me for anything; potions and I can even teach you the charms. Just keep it a secret from your dad, otherwise I think he'll never let you out of his sight in your life."

Anne sighed, raising her eyebrows in agreement. It had been hard enough to make any friends at all with James following her around all the time in school; if he knew anything about how she had been thinking of trying to deal with boys as boys, not as dangerous weapons, he might never let her be more than six feet away from him.

"It's just tea," Anne said once more.

"Don't be naïve, Anne, he invited you to his home when his parents are out of town," Mia said.

"He said I could bring James if I wanted to," she augmented.

Mia raised her eyebrows and allow the grin to come to her lips as she asked, "Then why aren't you?"

"Because I don't want Regulus to think I don't trust him enough to be alone with him! He's Sirius' brother, he certainly would take it personally even if he says he wouldn't. I don't want to hurt him," she said.

And it was true. But it wasn't all the truth – if Anne was completely honest, she liked spending time with Regulus and she was smart enough to know he would be someone else when watched, when they were alone, however, he was much softer and his facial expressions were open. She didn't need to bring James just to make it more difficult than needed to read his expressions.