Little Black Lies •| Regulus Black |•

• T H E A B U S E O F K R E A C H E R •

A day had passed and no sign of Regulus. I started to get worried as Sunday morning rolled around. The morning of my seventeenth birthday.

"I'm sure he's okay, Green bean" Mia reassured me as I was curled up onto the beaten up sofa. She had an arm around me, rubbing my arm up and down as I bit at my nails anxiously staring into the fireplace.

Although I had only been here a day I had already earned a pet name from Euphemia, Green bean. The single day I had spent here I had felt more love and been cared for than my entire previous seventeen years with my father.

The fire in front of us roared with green smoke and I shot up from the couch, clutching onto my cup of chamomile tea which Mia had insisted I drink to calm my nerves.

Out stepped Regulus and the Black family house-elf, Kreacher. I set my mug onto the table, flinging the blanket back onto the sofa that had been wrapped around my shoulders, and ran straight into his arms.

"Where the fuck were you!" I scolded him as I held onto him tightly.

"There was an issue with Kreacher, I needed his help bringing your things but he ran into a few complications meaning I had to stay back another day." He breathed into my ear as he grasped onto me tightly.

A pounding of footsteps erupted down the stairs and soon the once vacant living room was full of people.

"Filthy mudblood's" Kreacher muttered as he looked down the line of house-guests.

"I have told you about saying shit like that" Regulus seethed as he reprimanded the elf, pointing a finger to the elf as he crouched down.

"Go on back home, little guy" Sirius stepped forward, patting the head of the elf.

"Traitor" The elf muttered as he snapped his finger, making my trunk appear and then snapped again, disappearing into existence.

"Good to see he's the same grumpy little elf from all those years ago" Sirius chuckled back to the group. 

"Hello, brother" Regulus itched the back of his neck, clearly nervous as it was the first he had seen his brother properly in two years.

"Come here you little git!" Sirius stepped towards him, throwing an arm around Regulus' neck and forced his head downwards and rubbing his fist aggressively into his head.

"Sirius, fuck off, you're embarrassing me in front of everyone" Regulus grunted, desperate to get out of his brothers grasp which he succeeded eventually.

We all laughed at the pair of brothers as they wrestled around the living room as if they were ten years old again. Eventually James and Remus had pulled them apart and they dusted themselves off.

Mia started to introduce Regulus to the large group of guests that were staying in their house. As she went down the line Regulus' face hardened as his eyes lay on Peter. Unusual. That is until I noticed the blue-eyed blonde boy staring right at me.

Classic, jealous Regulus.

"Those marks are fuckin' ugly, mate" Sirius grabbed onto his brothers wrist to take a look.

"I guess it is a bit soon to have matching tattoos with my girlfriend" Regulus jokes which made me giggle.

"Girlfriend, ay. Took you long enough to make a move" Sirius gave him a punch to the arm which caused Regulus to grab his arm in pain.

"The boy is a lot more scrawnier than you are, give him a break" Remus scoffed at the black haired boy.

"Hey! I'm not scrawny, Sirius is just bigger" Regulus argued as he held onto his arm trying to soothe the pain.