𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 - regulus black

chapter ten

The brunette could hear students coming out of the DADA classroom, little by little. She would look up from time to time in order to not miss Regulus. However, after some seconds she could feel a presence by her side. She hadn't realized Regulus had spotted her before she could and had walked up to her. Adena's head rose up until they were face to face. More like his head was hung down a bit and her neck was angled up towards his face so they would be somehow facing each other. She noticed only now that he was actually tall, standing a good four or five inches above her.

He wasn't looking at her as he started speaking, "So, you got out of your hideout... how are you feeling?"

"Better... And I wanted to thank you, you know for..." she had a hard time finding her words. She couldn't talk about what happened yet, it was like her throat became suddenly tight.

He looked at her when sensing her hesitation. "No need to thank me, I did what everyone would have done." He then started walking, with the Ravenclaw following behind.

"Hm. Okay I just wanted to say it. And thank you for the letter," she said with a smile.

Regulus widened his eyes slightly at this. "The letter? What do you mean?" he then said, feigning innocence.

"Come on, don't act like it wasn't you," she said, her grin turning amused, "I could easily guess it was you in fact."

"Nonsense, how could you even..."

He was cut off by Adena, which made him furrow his brows, "You're the only strange guy out there."

"What? There are plenty of strange guys here," he replied with a scoff, pretending to be offended.

Just as he said that the pair walked past Severus Snape, one of Regulus' Slytherin housemates, and he was eying them suspiciously behind his locks of greasy black hair, as if he had heard them. They both tensed up before continuing to walk.

"Told ya," murmured the raven-haired male, to which Adena let out a sigh. They continued wandering around the hallways for a while, which were becoming emptier and emptier. Then, Adena suddenly stopped as she noticed this corridor was completely devoid of human souls except for themselves. He turned around, eyeing her with an arched eyebrow.

"You're missing classes."

He shrugged nonchalantly then said, with not the single care in his voice, "I felt like you were in need of a presence, so I stayed. Herbology also happens to be one of my least favorite subjects."

"But you can't miss classes, what if you miss out something important, and you have to keep up a good image since you're a prefe- "

"Winsten, calm down. It's not that important. I didn't know you were actually a nerd. And by the way, you're in no position to tell me to not miss classes as you've been doing the same for a week," he said with a small sigh.

She looked down, knowing he was right, and she really hated being wrong.

"Okay, sorry."

She walked up to him again. They strolled around for another while when suddenly some rambling sounds could be heard. The young girl stopped in her tracks, looking down at her feet.

"Are you hungry?"

"Yeah, kinda, I've only eaten some scones brought back from my roommates these days."

"Come," he said as he started walking again, turning at a corner.

She started running to catch up with him but that move made her dizzy and she stopped again, cursing under her breath. She had moved up against the wall for support. Regulus who had noticed something wrong, turned around and walked up to her.