- Chapter 67 -

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PUZZLE PIECES,———

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PUZZLE PIECES,
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It's as if they didn't exist. My group of friends.

Though I couldn't quite tell if they were just blurring into the already hazed background, that spanned past the immediate directness of the shadow of my nose that I could see between both eyes.

I couldn't quite snap out of an irritated daze that Regulus left me in, on top of a spacey happiness that Sirius left me with.

It all mixed together inside of me, churning like curdled milk topped with hot cider.

I didn't feel entirely real, but I knew I was thinking. I had walked into the hall. Not entirely sure how I got from A to B. Or what I had thought about during the space of those few minutes.

I just felt my body acting on autopilot, lugging my legs over to the Slytherin table in the grand hall and ...

I couldn't stand to watch anyone filter into the room, as I sat with my head lulling down, glancing at my chipped nail varnish. Chipping them even more as I fiddled.

The sound of the other students felt muffled, as if I were under water. Trapped in my own whooshing brain, that didn't retain or process any of the information it begun screaming at me.

Sirius wants me to be his girlfriend. I'm gonna say yes. Obviously. But what if he is warning me and it isn't just insecurity, what if this is it?  I'm walking myself into a trap. This is the moment and the guy my heart breaks for? He's almost told me that's going to happen. Why am I going to say yes? What will I do then, when he disappoints me and - he's leaving soon. He'll graduate by July and what does that mean for us and-

Regulus can see Thestrals - what does that mean? I mean, I know what it means. He's seen someone die. Should I really be thinking about something as dumb as being a girlfriend? I'm sure Regulus didn't see them last time. Which means he's recently seen someone die. Unless he did? But he looked at them as if he'd never seen them before. He behaved like he had never seen them before. He can't have until now? Surely? -

I wonder if Sirius can see thestrals? Maybe more people can see them than I thought. I'm so self obsessed! Maybe i'm not in the minority? Surely there's more students that pay attention to them and the issue here is, I just have never paid attention to them...paying attention to the thestrals.

Oh god, I really don't pay attention to Regulus.

I really don't pay attention.

Where are my friends? Are they even my friends? Sirius is right, Ramona must have known what she was getting me into and that it was dangerous. I knew it was dangerous and I was blindly trusting her.

I'm so naive.

Is saying yes naive?

Is it naive to think any of them care?

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