tw - main character death, not graphic
remus and sirius have known each other for YEARS. years meaning their parents were and are neighbors in the small suburb of germany, texas. not the nice, lovely neighbors that would give each other presents every holiday. no. they were the kind who would purposefully ignore each other if they saw each other in public, give the other family a big talking to at church every sunday, and give each other glares across the driveways and yards. the lupin family always being the bigger people when the black family would be, the only word being, bitches.
the pair of boys would hang out at a, what the small town thought was, haunted house. there would be wails of pain and cries of what sounded like a young child crying their lungs out. turns out, the black family was atrociously abusive towards their kids. regulus, sirius' little brother, would sometimes follow the two older boys to the "haunted" house and cry and wail while sirius and remus would take care of his cuts and bruises from their parents.
as the boys grew older, they would find more and more places to hide throughout their small little town. more places to become more free. free in multiple ways; from their hovering, overbearing parents, from their boring lives, and from life. their way of getting away was taking remus' old ford '47 down highway 21 for hours. the windows down, screaming at the top of their lungs to any song that they knew that would come on the radio.
eventually, both boys grew old enough to go to college. the closest college for them was tyler junior college in tyler, texas. it was far enough from home where they could take weekend trips home to lull regulus' abuse from the boys' parents, and enough to feel far enough from home that their parents didn't feel the need to check on them all the time. when the time came, the boys loaded remus' ford and sirius's small toyota camry that he bought his junior year of high school, even though he totally got rides from remus every morning. in college, they had to have different dorms, but they both somehow got single rooms. they would just hang out in remus's room all the time, laying in his small college twin-sized bed and point out the constellations in the popcorn ceiling. they both knew their end would come soon yet.
once both boys got their degrees, they decided to grab regulus, who was now a legal adult, and move out to the city. this would provide some comfortability to all three of the boys, being able to be openly themselves. their end would come soon, as the three were living in a two room apartment and remus and sirius had eloped at the local courthouse. they were content, but unfortunately, a massive tornado took out their city. all of the residents who were in the apartment building had passed away in the tornado. all their hard work of being alive. gone in a second.
