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"I'm sorry, you tried to do what?" Barty shouts at me after James filled him in on the events of yesterday. We promised each other complete honesty so we kind of had to fill them in. Unfortunately. 

"Fuck off, okay? I was trying to do the right thing." I say to him but he's still not letting up. I think he may be genuinely pissed, which worries me. Barty is a chill person. He normally doesn't get pissed at us for doing stupid shit because he's always doing stupid shit. 

"Do me a favour? Next time you think about doing the right thing, don't. Merlin, Regulus. How dumb can you be?"

"You're actually mad at me for this?" I ask him. Evan is sitting on the couch behind Barty, but he hasn't said anything yet. 

Barty looked so mad, but the moment I asked that, his eyes soften. 

"No, Reg. I'm not mad at you. I'm worried about your stupid decision making but not mad." 

Evan gets up and gently put his hand on Barty's shoulder, forcing him to sit down before coming over to me and kneeling down in front of me. You know Evan is about to have a very serious conversation when he kneels in front of you with that strange look on his face. 

It scares me. 

"Reg, we love you and we would support you in anything.. even your stupid decisions.. but you can not go home. I know.. fuck, Reg. You know we understand the want to go home, okay? Out of everyone, you know we get it. If you went home, no matter what she's telling you... she won't be any different than she was before you left." 

He notices my eyes starting to water, even though I'm forcing myself to not cry right now. 

Evan rests his hand on my knee and smiles at me softly. "You do not need her to be your family, Reg. You aren't alone, because you have a family. Us. Me and Barty, Pandora, James, Sirius, Remus, and probably Peter too.. I don't think you two have a lot in common though." 

I laugh and nod my head. Peter hardly ever talks to me, and I think he's scared of me. 

"And Lily," I add. Both Evan and Barty's face does the same thing. Confusion written all over their faces. 

It's hilarious. 

"What? Lily Evans? The same girl that James was in love with for.. well almost his entire life?" 

"It's complicated, but we've talked a few times and we're friends? I guess. It's... she's nice and she.. she's not after James."

"Oh, our lovely, trusting Regulus." Barty says jokingly. 

"Regulus is anything but fucking trusting. I don't know where this new side of him came from... oh." Evan says, giving Barty a knowing look. 

"They're changing him." Barty says to Evan, "Making him trusting." 

"You two are ridiculous," I say to them but the dramatic gits just put their hand over their hearts and gasp. "If you don't stop, I'm leaving you two and going up stairs to James." 

"Wow, Reg. We see how it is." Evan says with a smirk. 

"As if either of you wouldn't leave me here in a moment if the other offered any kind of affection," I say to them and they both smirk at each other.

"Well, we're not exactly in a position to pass up any kind of affection. Especially since we're kind of a secret." 

Now it's my turn to laugh. "Really? You guys think everyone here is blind? No. They have their own theories about you two."