𝕴 𝖉𝖔𝖓'𝖙 𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊 𝖞𝖔𝖚 ~ Regulus black x reader

13

I was nervous, not only was I probably the only one going to this ball alone, I hate. social interactions, with a passion. I tried to calm myself by painting my nails, I painted them a perfect matte black. my hair was pulled into a twisting updo, small white flowers adorned the arranged knots. 

I checked myself, dress, shoes, nails, hair, what was I missing? I patted myself down awkwardly, ah! necklace! I grabbed it from my jewelry box, sweeping my hair to the side to put it on.

it was always one of my favourites. I paced back and forth once again, soothing myself with the sound of my heels, before just doing it. I opened the door and walked into the crowded common room, everyone gasped and whispered as I walked down. I glared at them all attempting to hide my blush as I caught a certain raven-haired boy starring at me from across that room. I shook my head and clutched my firewhiskey filled flask tighter, my plans for the evening consisted of two things. drown my sorrows in alcohol and dance till the fucking sun comes up. 

I took a deep breath and began to walk down the many twisting stairs being careful the entire time not to twist my ankle, I need to stand to be able to join the fucking pit. I eventually made it down and met Sirius -who was wearing a black and white suit with no tie or bow, the top couple buttons of his shirt undone- at the entrance to the transformed great hall.

 the long tables had disappeared and were replaced with small round tables scattered around the hall, there was a large stage and dance floor, and off to the side of the room was a long table adorned with food and drinks. 

"no luck with your guy huh?" 

"no, how bout you?" I shook my head and held up my flask, smirking, 

"ready to get absolutely shit faced then?" He grinned,

"this is why we're best friends, don't tell James though because he'll murder me that I let you do this"  I just rolled my eyes,

"obviously. how often do you think I do this" he just laughed and held out his arm for me to take, I did so and we walked in laughing, 

I spent the whole night by Sirius's side, laughing dancing and drinking, most of the time we were seen right at the center of the mosh pit, dancing, clearly drunk. by the end of the night, we had finished the contents of the flask twice over. we had to run outside and sneak more in around 10. Both Sirius and I were huge muggle music fans -another similarity we shared- so anytime the Beatles or Elton john same on we were in a mad dash to get onto the floor. I don't think there was any other way I would've wanted to spend my night.

well, I can think of one way, every time his grey eyes met mine, I couldn't help but stare. he looked stunning in that suit, it fit him perfectly. so did the blond slut hanging off his arm. she followed him everywhere, hanging onto his arm and every word he said, treating him like some kind of god. I couldn't stop myself from thinking, that should be me. every time, it was followed by a long swig of the burning alcohol down my throat. 

it was currently 1 am, everyone had left except for myself, Sirius, James and Remus peter was passed out in his chair. I was laughing absolutely shitfaced, Sirius was in a chair next to me doing the same. he stopped laughing abruptly and sat, his eyes wide. I followed his gaze across the room and landed on the one and only Remus Lupin. the sandy-haired boy stood across the room cup in his hand his jacket unbuttoned, laughing at something James had said. I gasped as I connected the dots and said much louder than I should've 

"Remus is your bloke!" he stood up, almost falling over his feet, his hand covered my mouth,

"SHHHHHH shut up! shut up!" I licked his hand and cringed at the salty taste. he quickly pulled his hand away and wiped it on his pants, staring at it in disgust. 

"Okay, yes, Remus is the guy I like, buttttttt" he slurred "he's straight" I wasn't thinking straight as I spoke again,

"and your nottt?" he waved his hands about grandly,

"obviously" I jumped as James spun me around quickly,

"Jamesssss!" I slurred and fell into his arms "thanks for catching meeeee, I'm really drunk you know" he rolled his eyes,

"I can tell" next thing I knew, he had thrown me over his shoulder, my abdomen ached as it hit his shoulder but I didn't feel it.

"waiiitttttt noooooooooo, Jamessssssss, I wanna stayyyyyyy" 

"no, you need to sleep" I crossed my arms and pouted the entire way back to the dorms. only these weren't my dorms, nor were they dorms at all actually. I tried to think but the fog in my mind prevented me from doing so. 

"where are weeeeee?" James just shook his head and laughed,

"we're in the room of requirement" 

"ohhhhh... wheres that again?" he rolled his eyes at my childish behaviour knowing I would regret this in the morning. I was thrown onto a bed and groaned,

"Jamesssss, I don't wanna stay here!"

"no. you need to sleep, your an absolute idiot" he cackled with laughter as I tried to count my fingers, "I'll stay with you" he was still laughing as he climbed into the bed next to me. 

"you knowwww, I missed you a lot in the summer" he hummed in response, trying to hold back his laughter "you and Remus and Sirius and- and, what's that fat boys name again?" he burst out laughing and I joined him, not even remembering what I had said much less what I was doing, I loved this, the rush of the alcohol, felling free, not having to worry about my life or what I was doing or when, how I looked or what people thought of me.

"and, you know, I broke up with regulus because he didn't like you guysss" James stopped laughing and stared at me in shock,

"r-really?" I nodded my head much more than I needed to. 

"you didn't have to do that Y/n/n, we were all arseholes to you last year"

"yeahhhh, but I was an arse to you toooo" he laughed sadly,

"true" he continued to speak but I didn't hear a word, I was passed out in his arms, asleep like the dead.

 I could only think about how this was the calm before the storm.