Getting over one's first love was always a task people people deemed hard. Ophelia Greengrass, however, finds it to be even harder as she has to get over her first love whilst being engaged to his little brother.
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venus' wish to attend a hufflepuff party was granted thanks to james potter. the badgers had hosted a party on the 27th to commemorate the birthday of the most mischievous boy alive. ophelia had invited regulus to come with her and out of sheer panic, she said that venus and evan would also be accompanying them. it wasn't that hard to convince the couple to come with them to the party anyways.
it is what lead to the four snakes walking towards the hufflepuff common room. venus looked like an excited puppy, evan was the bored boyfriend, regulus looked at venus weirdly and ophelia looked like she's been through this a million times, which was true.
"what's the craziest thing that has happened during a hufflepuff party?" venus asked as they approached the room. it was times like these that you wouldn't believe she was raised to discriminate people.
ophelia shrugged before thinking back, "there was one time, sirius got so drunk he ran around the common room naked. it took us 30 minutes to calm him down and wear clothes."
evan scrunched his nose as his blonde friend hit the barrels. "why am i not surprised that more than half of the school has seen reg's brother naked?"
the greengrass girl was about to let out a laugh when the door swung open revealing a very intoxicated james potter. his cheeks were flushed and he kept slurring his words as he welcomed the quartet.
then appeared a distressed remus lupin. "james, i swear to merlin!" he shouted as james ran away, making his best friend chase after him.
"padfoot, how many drinks did you shove down his throat?" ophelia asked as she hit the said boy who appeared right after remus left. she looked into his eyes and the color of his cheeks with a gasp, "are you— are you sober?!"
"alright now, love, i am capable of not drinking during a party!" she looks unconvinced as he chuckles and places his arm around her, leading her around the room.
the three slytherins tried not to be offended that ophelia just forgot about them the moment sirius black entered the scene. venus dragged evan towards the alcohol table leaving regulus to just stand awkwardly near the entrance door.
he decided to follow ophelia using his eyes, finding nothing better to do, and frowned when sirius' arm was just around her shoulder as they talked to different people. here is something regulus never understood, ophelia hates parties and much more socializing, but here she was, under his brother's arm and talking to different people.
"keep staring, you might burn a hole through your brother's head," evan said as he held a red cup and leaned against the doorframe like regulus. the black boy looked around the room and found venus trying different drinks and laughed. "you do have to admit though, ophelia has changed."
regulus scoffed. "she's still as confusing as she was. she spends hours talking to me about things she has never told anyone and vise versa. but then the moment he comes into the picture, she is this giddy school girl who changes herself for him!"
"look, you love her, right? she's your first love so what you feel for her, is stronger than anything you have ever felt before. that's how she is with sirius! he was her first love and she was his! that's the difference between your love for her and her love for sirius, hers was requited— making it much harder to get over him. but, like i said, was."
the other boy sighed, knowing his best friend was right but was still frustrated. he grabbed evan's cup and chugged the alcohol. when his eyes scanned for ophelia once again, his eyebrows furrowed as he couldn't find them.
evan coughed as he pointed towards the steps towards the dormitory, regulus turned his head to see sirius and ophelia were entering the room.
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"how insufferable has my brother been?" sirius asked as he and ophelia walked away from her slytheirn friends. she was about to turn around and say goodbye to them but sirius had asked her a question.
a smile, the brightest one sirius has seen her wear, formed. "art has been very nice. he's very patient and i think i can love him the way a wife does—"
"do you really think i would want to hear that?" sirius cuts her off. "you're my ex-girlfriend who is engaged to my brother, why would i want to know if you can love him or not?"
ophelia remained quiet as sirius brought them towards some of his friends. they were talking about quidditch but she had tuned out their conversation. she has been so used to talking to regulus, who leta her say anything, that she was shocked by sirius' nature.
she knew he didn't do anything wrong, no human would want to hear that their first love is moving on, but she was just genuinely shocked. regulus would never do that, she thought, feeling guilty for comparing the two brothers. he would want to hear what i had to say, even if it hurt him.
sirius noticed her absent-mindness and bid goodbye to his friends before turning to her. "hey, i have something important to tell you. it's kinda private, can we go to the dorms? i asked permission from sam to use theirs."
"sure," she said, shrugging as he lead her towards the dorms.
when they entered the room, ophelia didn't expect him to kiss her. for a second, just a second, she found herself kissing him back. but when the second ended, she pushed him and the hurt face of regulus — that formed in her mind — away.
"what the hell, sirius!?" ophelia shouted as she touched her lips, wondering how regulus would ever forgive her. "what was that?!"
"no, what the hell, lia! i love you and you love me, so why are you pushing me away!"
"huh, i don't know... maybe it's because i'm marrying someone else?! someone i genuinely care about and hurt because of your actions!" she knew that it was sirius that insinuated the kiss, but she hurt regulus by kissing him back.
"you don't even love him!" sirius shouted, this was the first time he and ophelia had ever fought, even including their time together. "say it, ophelia. tell me you love him and i will leave you alone. merlin, 'll stop loving you, even."
she looked at him and no words came out of her mouth. it stunned her because she was good at lying; she spoke dishonesty as though it were her first language. yet here she was, unable to say she loved regulus black.
sirius didn't wait another minute as he ruffled his hair and unbuttoned the top part of his dress shirt, making ophelia confused as he walked out of the room.
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it had been a while since regulus and evan spotted the ex-couple walk inside the dorm rooms, even venus had joined them near the door to wait for their friend. but regulus heart couldn't stop itself from breaking as they saw sirius walk out of the dormitory, his hair messy and his dress shirt unbuttoned.
when the older black spotted the trio looking athim, he fixed his hair and winked at them.
soon ophelia exited the room with a guilty look on her face, confirming what regulus thought was the truth. she approached them with her head on the ground but when she was in front of them, she looked directly into regulus' eyes.
he couldn't even look at her as he turned his eyesight elsewhere. "i can't believe you." he finally spoke as he pushed past her and left the hufflepuff common room.
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im like 99% sure no one likes sirius in this fic IM SO SORRY i swear i love padfoot HAHSHASAH
also im so sorry this is really short. when i edited it, there wasnt much mistakes but i dont think i explained some stuff well enough so uh yeah im sorry for that?
