Pen Pals🖋

Chapter 8

Sirius was in the kitchen making waffles when he heard whispering outside. The little window above the sink was cracked open just a bit so he peaked out and saw James on the phone.

"I think Sirius misses you."

What?

"I promise i am not the one missing you!" James rubbed his forehead like he was annoyed but the lopsided grin on his face said otherwise.

James threw his head back laughing at something the person on the other line said. "Oh shut up Reggie."

Oh.. makes sense. Sirius thought.

"Yeah? Well i met someone too," James fiddled with the cuff of his sleeve. "Her name's Lily."

Whipped.

"Yes like the flower."  James deadpanned.

"Why? what do you-"

Sirius was going to listen forever if he had to.

"Oh! Well i don't know why i can't meet people with normal names! Lily the flower, Regulus the constellation."

"Star in the Leo constellation.." James nodded, as if he cared. "That's the same fucking thing Reg-" He sighed.

"Yes it is!" James argued. "Shut up it literally is the same thing!"

Sirius quietly laughed to himself, not too loud so James would hear him though.

"You are really annoying sometimes, you know that?" James groaned. "Regulus- Reg- Reggie.. REGULUS!"

Sirius jumped at the sudden raise of James' voice and then clapped his hand over his mouth to try to hide his cackling.

"Regulus for the last time we are in Wales for the summer because i thought Moony was dead."

James paused for a second, most likely listening to Regulus on the other end. "Moony is Remus, Reg-"

"I don't know! Ask your brother, he's the one who started calling him that!" James sat down on the short brick wall going around the garden.

"In love? Sirius? Definitely. Completely utterly whipped." James snorts as Regulus says something back.

"Am not!" Sirius grumbles out the window finally.

James falls off the brick, dropping his phone. "Holy hell mate! How long have you been there?"

"A while.. i think? I didn't count?"

James slowly stands up, cracking his back and grabbing his phone. "Well let's just say i broke my ass." He says into the phone before walking around to the door and coming inside.

"Here." James pushes his phone at Sirius.

"Yup?" Sirius says into the speaker after a minute.

"Hey big brother," Regulus' soft, sort of proper voice shoots right back.

"What do you want?" Sirius sighs, "Do you want or need something?" he added before quickly asking if everything's alright at home.

"Fine, Fine.. i'm actually staying at Andromeda's as of the moment."

"Why." Sirius didn't even ask, anyone else could have taken it as a question but the Black brothers knew it was more of a demand.

"Burger was nagging and Onion was just.. well- like a actual onion?"

Sirius laughed at the nicknames that him and his brother gave their parents at a young age. "Everything's alright though?"

"Yeah, genuinely..? Yes. It was all over for a bit but now? Now's sort of different. I like it at Andy's." The Black sister's always called Andromeda, Dromeda. But the Black brothers on the other hand have taken a liking in the nickname Andy.

"Do you see Cissy? Bella? Do you get to see them a lot?" The older Black questioned.

"Nah, they come around here and there but not like all the time."

"Do you want to come here? You would see James, and the best human being on this planet.. ME! You'd meet Lily and Remus too,"

"I don't know if i should.."

"Hold that thought," Sirius turned to the taller, scratched up boy. "Would you mind if my baby brother came here?"

Remus just yawned and shrugged. Lily came in the kitchen behind him, "That means he doesn't mind."

"Okay Reggie, pack some shit and find your way to Wales! I'm giving the phone back to James now because my waffles have been done for like ten minutes, byyyyeeee."

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James heard a big bang, like something was falling.. like seven things were falling? What's new?

"Siri? Remus?"

"Get off me you big lug!" a voice snarled, sounding an awful lot like Lily Evans.

"Lily? Lily! Where- What happened.." James spoke the last part softly as he turned into the living room and saw Sirius on top of Remus, who was on top of Lily.

"Uhm?"

"Jamesy.." Sirius groaned clutching at his head, "I don't even remember what happened. All i remember is me falling, other things falling, Remus falling, and now Lily is at the bottom."

"James, get these maniacs off of me!" Lily struggled getting out of the pile. "I hit my head, broke a rib, fractured a lung, and maybe.. just mayybe, had a heart attack." She said, trying to shove the two boys off her.

"How did i get here?" Remus rubbed his hand over his face, "Fuck-"

"What?" Sirius asked.

"Bloody nose, move it."

Sirius rolled off of the pile, laying next to a dazed red head.

"Hey carrot top."

"The top of carrots are green, y'know? Because of the leafs." Lily turned her head to the side to look at Sirius.

He looked up at James before speaking, "I always said i would never hit a woman.."

Lily threw her head back laughing.

"Then i met Lily Jane Evans."

Lily immediately stopped laughing and whipped her head towards Sirius, "How'd you know my middle name?"

"I was guessing.." Sirius whispered, amazed that he got it correct.

"I hate you." Lily got up and flopped down onto the Lazy-boy.

"Love you too Evans!" Sirius shot her a finger gun before rolling over on his stomach and closing his eyes.

James looked at Lily, back to Sirius, then back to the shrugging girl. "Padfoot? You okay Pads?"

"Mmphm!"

"..What?"

"Sleep. Tired. Goodnight." The long hair boy snapped.

"Alrighty then," James nodded -more to himself-

"What'd i miss? Siri-" Remus walked back into the room, holding a cloth to his nose.

"Sleep?"

"Sleep."

Note: I know i make a lot of these but idc, this one's short anyway- I don't know if we ever learned Lily's middle name but i could have sworn i saw it was Jane somewhere so we're gonna roll with Jane👍🏻