THE SCARS ON MY BODY ● JEGULUS |MARAUDERS|

✰THREE✰

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✰He touched me

and it felt as if

the stars

were dancing

across my skin✰

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James watched Regulus draw from beside him on the bed with a look of admiration on his face. It was very late at night, 1am maybe? Sirius, James and Regulus had decided that Reg would sleep in James' room on a mattress on the floor for the rest of summer since there was no possible way that he would be able to sleep in the same room as Sirius when he snored so incredibly loud.

Neither boy could sleep so this resulted in them staying up late together. Regulus didn't seem too happy about this arrangement, which weirdly upseted James, and he took out his sketchpad, completely ignoring the older boy's presence.

"Y'know, we have to cast a silencing charm on Sirius' bed every night at Hogwarts, noisy bastard." This comment made Regulus snort. "Poor Remus, having to sleep with him."

"What?"

"Ahh, I sense I've made a mistake..." Padfoot was going to kill him.

"My brother is sleeping with Lupin?" Reg had his eyebrows raised in a shocked expression.

"Yes, they're dating." He replied dryly, giving in.

"So that's who he was writing to earlier on?" James nodded cautiously, worried for Regulus reaction. The room was silent for a while before James grew impatient.

"That's ok...right?" After a short few minutes, Reg shrugged his shoulders and went back to his drawings. Barely an hour had passed before James spoke again.

"Reggie?" He whined, pouting slightly.

"What?" Regulus snapped, glaring up at him.

"I'm bored!" Reg rolled his eyes and looked back down at his drawing which just caused James to become more irritated. "Why do you hate me so much?"

"There are many reasons." He didn't look up this time, James hated that. He wanted to see Regulus' eyes. Yes, it was a bit weird, very weird actually, but it was true. He loved looking at his eyes. It was calming, he felt safe and warm. It was peculiar, he had never felt this way before. This might have been because he had never looked so carefully at someone's eyes before, or maybe it was just because it was...well...Regulus.

"Give me one." He crossed his arms, childishly.

"One what?"

"Reason why you hate me!" Reg put down his work and looked up at James, his eyebrows furrowed.

"Arrogant, obsessed with a girl who hates him, troublemaker, stuck up, annoying, terrible at Quidditch-" He listed, counting with his fingers.

"Ok, you can shut up now. And that was way more that one." Reggie gave a triumphant grin, showing off his teeth slightly. Shit, he was cute when he did that.

"Yourhairisamess." Regulus said at the same time that a yawn escaped his lips.

"Hm?" He was snapped out of his daydreaming, realizing that he had been staring at Regulus' face for far too long.

"Your hair is a mess." He repeated, slower this time, and much easier to understand. James reached his hand up to fix his hair, looking in the mirror from across the room, but as soon as he was done, Reg messed it up again with his fingers. Regulus flinched away after a few seconds. "S-Sorry, I shouldn't have- I...er...I'm going to sleep." He stood up abruptly and practically dived under his covers.

"Oh, um...right, 'course. G'night." Reg hummed in response and James turned off the lights. He fell backwards onto his bed, staring up at the ceiling. Wow...Regulus Black touched him...well, he touched his hair. Same thing, right? No, not really, but it was still amazing either way.

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✰He touched me

and it felt as if

the stars

were  dancing

across my skin✰

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