Paint It... Potter?

It Had to be.

He awoke in his brother's bed teh next morning. The sheets were warm and were so delicately draped iver him that he knows Sirius must have done it. His brother however had seemed to left. It was a Saturday so he didn't much care about rushing to breakfast.he found himself burrowing deeper into the pillows.

"Shit!" He heard a yell and a loud thump followed by curses. "Fucking pads." He heard, it was James. He turned to look at him "take care of your bloody clothes." James yelled throwing a jumper at his head.

"What the fuck." Regulus muttered throwing teh jumper off of him as he sat up.

"Oh, sorry" James said eyebrows drawn together slightly. "Thought you were padfoot." He scratched the back if his neck. He looked everywhere but Regulus.

"Yeah, well you seem to have a habit of that." Regulus said challenging him with an arched eyebrow.

"Yeah, sorry about that" James said sorry entirely too much, it was sweet sickeningly sweet. "I was just excited."

"So excited you had to fuckjbg jump across the hall onto me?" Regulus said laughing a bit. And oh, oh James could listen to that all day. His laugh, merlin his laugh was beautiful. How such a beautiful sound could come out of the mouth that could say such horrid thing was beyond James. But he didn't love it any less.

"Yeah, I asked Lilly." James said with a stupid grin "and she actually said yes this time." Regulus felt sick.

"Great." He said. It was a lie.

"Yeah, she's bloody amazing." James said looking somewhere far-off. There was something in the tone. Regulus couldn't quite believe it. It was almost as if James was trying to convince himself. But that was just foolish hoping, surely. It had to be, it had to be.

James finally seemed to remember what he was doing, snapping out of his trance. He reached the trunk at the foot of his bed. He pulled out a fresh shirt slipping the one off from the night before.

And fuck . Regulus was so very conflicted. Because God he was fit. He had toned arms and rippeling back muscles, his ahoulder blades. Reguluscoudl sink his teeth in. It was a fucking crime to keep that hidden. A fucking crime.

But, Regulus remembered that belonged to lily, and they had a date. A date that hapkend to be today. This was hogsmead weeked.

"I'm not going." Regulus told Barty who had been trying for a solid 20 minutes to convince Regulus.

"Oh come on Reg," he said "Just pull you big boy panties up and come to the bloody village." Regulus glared at him.

"J

"He kissed me"

"He what." Evan said suddenly joining in the conversation.

"Well I kissed him really" Regulus cut in. Barty stood, mouth gaping.

"When the hell did this happen." Evan asked jumping to his feet to stand infront of Regulus.

"Newe years. We were drunk." Regulus explained. "I told him I forgot, but fuck how could I ever forget that."

"Wait, wait, wait," barty spoke suddenly stepping forward. "You're telling me you kissed him."

"Yes" Regulus confirmed.

"You kissed him and you didn't think to bloody tell us." Barty exclaimed tapping his chest and extending his other arm to Evan.

"There wasn't time." Regulus told him. And there really hadn't been. Regulus had either been studying for NEWTS or dealing with the after effects of the winter holiday.

"Oh sure, and on top of that you've been running off Merlin knows where." Barty continued not quite yelling but spitting out the words.

"I was with my fucking brother" Regulus hissed back at Barty Evan just stood watching the two.

"Oh, and you have AK much room to fucking talk, where have you been going ?" That tripped him up. He suddenly faltered his face slipping. "Yeah, I've noticed where the hell do you two sneak off to?"

"We've been revising." Barty offered, a bulshut excuse. Regulus knew he had reached a sore spot by the look on his face "What'd you find some poor new girl to shag?" The knife twisted deeper.

"Shut up." Barty said. It was eerie, quiet. Honestly fuckjng terrifying.

"Because that's it isn't it." Regulus said

"Just because you can't fuck James doesn't mean that I have to deny myself-"

"So it is true!" Regulus cut him off.bartys face suddenly dropped from his original cocky expression.

"Its-" he began sighing "its just complicated.

"It all is a bit." He said sitting back on his bed. Barty sat next to him. "Smoke?" Regulus asked. Barty wordlessly handed Regulus one and then pulled out one for himself.

"I don't want to go." Barty sighed "it's just- I know he's there with her. And that bad enough, if I had to see it I'd-"

"Damn it Reg!" Evan yelled. "There are people out there would fucking kill to be together. Now you have the opertunity to and you aren't bloodu doing anything!" And Evan did yell. And he was angry. Both Regulus and Barty stood in shocked silence. They had known Evan for five years and he had never risen his voice.

"Well east am I supposed to do?" Regulus asked hopelessly. It was pitiful.

"You're going to get dressed." Rvan told him "and your goingot look fucking hot." And you're going to throw a fuck you in potters face for taking her on a date instead of you."

"I dont-" Reg began "I know it's weird but I don't hate her. It's just, I don't know." Regulus flopped back on his bed .

"Jealous." Barty offered taking a drag off of his cigarette. "You're jealous."