If it's not supposed to be, why does it feel right?

Part 18.

The next day, Regulus, James and Sirius drive to the park which was a few bus stops away. Regulus was meeting up with Pandora and Barty, and Sirius and James would meet Remus and Peter, and afterwards Sirius would go with his boyfriend, Regulus did notice that full moon was coming up once again.

When they arrived at the park, Barty and Pandora were sitting on a blanket, preparing a Picknick. Regulus walked in their direction, Barty looked up and pointed at him. Pandora turned around, and her face light up. She hurried to come his way. When she stood before Regulus she hugged him tightly. She kissed him on the forehead and said, "Happy birthday, Reggie! How was your birthday?", Regulus smiled, "it was good. It's good to see you.", she grinned widely.

Sirius and James watched the whole scene, James felt very wired. Kind of-.. jealous? But Sirius pulled him by the sleeve and into the direction he spotted a bench on which they could wait for the other two Mauraders.

Regulus, Pandora and Barty had a lovely Picknick, they talked about their holidays so far, and Regulus birthday. They also had presents for Regulus, Pandora had given him a T-Shirt from his favourite muggle band, and a few records. And Barty had bought him museum tickets, he did know how much Regulus liked art, but if Regulus would get the idea to invite him he would probably jump out of a window. Pandora agreed, "yeah, I'm also not that huge fan of museums.", Regulus nodded, he could figure out later who he would go to that museum to with.

Later James and Regulus drove home again, they had said goodbye to their friends and relatives and now sat in the bus together. "So how was your day?", James asked, "oh it was good, how was yours?", he replied, "it was fine.", Regulus thought and then asked, "I got museum tickets, but Barty and Pandora somehow despise museums, and Sirius Isn't here, so if you want to come-", Regulus started, "I haven't been in a museum in ages so, yeah sure.", James said, Regulus smiled, "okay, good.", James looked down at his hands.

"Wait is this a date?", James mumbled more to himself, but Regulus heard, "if you want it to be.. then yes.", he grinned and the older boy blushed, which made Regulus grin even more.

The next day James and Regulus went to the museum, it was quiet interesting, even to James. And Regulus got much new inspiration for paintings. James had been paying more attention to Regulus than to the art, but the few things he did pay attention to, looked cool.

"So, what did you think of the art?", Regulus asked later, when they stood outside the building, "oh, yeah. It looked.. very beautiful.", James looked for a reply, "you haven't looked at a single picture. I saw your eyes, James.", James blushed a bit. He looked up at Regulus and wanted to say something but in the corner of his eye he saw a mistletoe hanging above them, "who puts up mistletoes in summer?", James asked and pointed above them, Regulus looked up and saw the mistletoe. When he looked back at James, the older boy had a grin on his face.

"You know the rule. Two people under a mistletoe-", Regulus held up his hand and James went silent, "just shut up.", he said and took James face in his hands. James smirked, he wanted to say something but before he could, Regulus kissed him. "I said shut up.", he whispered against James' lips. James stomach went crazy. The kiss wasn't long but felt incredible. Everything around them felt so far away and the only things they actually saw, were each other.

When they separated, Regulus decided to tease James a bit, "if I knew that'd shut you up, I would've done that ages ago.", James smirked, "oh, feel free to do it whenever I talk to much.", that answer actually did surprise Regulus.

James and Regulus went home and when they sat at the table with James' parents, they could barely look at each other without, having total butterflies. "So how was the museum?", Mrs. Potter asked, "it was great. Such great art. It gave you such wonderful feelings.", Regulus said and smiled at James.

The two of them spend every day of Sirius' absence together, they went on dates and got less uncomfortable with each other. On their third date they held hands, and Regulus felt the happiest ever.

When Sirius came back, the two of them spend less time alone but still spend as much time together as possible.

When they came back to Hogwarts they always looked for an empty hallway to talk, kiss, make out or just plan their next date. And on weekends they went to Hogsmeade together.

They both felt very happy with each other. But Regulus often spend his nights overthinking what they are. They were not officially a couple. But they were going on dates. But Regulus didn't even know if James was at the same point of their relationship as he was. So he just shut up about it and went along with all of it, not that he didn't enjoy it all, it was just always that overthinking that made him feel insecure, so he ended up waiting for James to make the first move, because he was just way to afraid to do it.