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The station was just as Regulus had remembered it to be last year when they had to send Sirius away to Hogwarts without him. How he felt when he got back home without his brother in tow. The cold, depressing house feels even lonelier than before. But the sadness was now replaced with hope and excitement as now he was standing in the same place his brother stood, with his bag to be sent away to one of the most exquisite places to ever exist in the world.
As the sound of crying children and happiness filled the air, Regulus felt a familiar cold lifeless hand on his shoulder. He looked up at his mother with the usual stone-cold stare he has come to recognize.She slowly bent down to whisper into his ear, and as she talked her cold breath sent shivers down his spine. " you will not disappoint us like you brother did you hear me regulus" she stated. He quickly shook his head yes.
When Sirius was sorted into Gryffindor, it almost killed their mother and father. They have long disowned him from the family and now it was up to him to be the next air to the Black name. But in Sirius' mind and some hope in his own that he will also be in Gryffindor but that hope is slowly being brought down by his parents.
Sirius has run off to find his friends that he has made last year. Over the summer and on Christmas break regulus and Sirius haven't talked as much as they normally did which broke regulus's heart but now they get to go to school together and they might get to be in the same house too but that's only a possibility.
The train whistle went off stating that they are about to leave, a moment later he felt his mother push his shoulder singling him to move and get on. He wasn't that tall compared to other people but he was average so it wasn't surprising to him when he spotted a bright auburn haired girl rushing past some other people to get onto the train.
She was pretty, he had to admit but looked kind of weird. Her face was kind of blotchy with red spots. She must have been crying to leave, probably a second year for how she looks.
He quickly followed others onto the train still unable to find his brother so he must be inside the train. He quickly went to the back of the train not wanting to talk to anyone but before he found an empty one he was stopped by the sound of his brother's loud laughter, which he hadn't heard in years coming from one of the train cars.
He slowly pushed past a couple of other kids that made their way opposite of him. When he found the car he hesitated for a moment, did his brother want him to find him, or did he not want him to follow him? Nevertheless, that didn't matter anyways because before he could leave the car's doors opened to reveal a slightly rounded-faced kid about his height looking the utmost curiosity at Regulus.
He didn't say anything, no one did until he heard Sirius's loud dramatic voice speak up over the silence. "REGGIE YOU MADE IT" I slightly flinched at the unexpected noise but quickly fixed myself and smiled slightly at my brother's over-eagerness in seeing me.
The boy that was originally in front of me moved back to I would guess his seat. I find my brother fairly quickly with an extremely wide smile on his face.
Beside him sits a fairly tall and jangle boy with a scratch poking out from under his light brown colored shirt. He had yet to page knowledge of anything happening in front of him. He had his nose stuck in a book which I extremely admire.
And beside him, the boy I was faced with not just a second ago was a bit chubby and had rather bright blond hair but not too bright it was darkened by some other strands of hair from his head. He looked content, I have no idea how these two found their way into his brother's life but they sure are strange.
In Front of the three boys was one boy. He had slightly darkened skin that was extremely glowy, dark extremely curly, and too messy for his liking, hair that stuck up in every direction, and finally, his dark piercing eyes that made it feel like they were slowly piercing into his soul every second they looked at him.
He quickly averted his eyes away from the strange boy and back to his brother that was now in front of him with his arms open to hug him. He looked at his brother for a second before raising one of his eyebrows in confusion.
Sirius got the message and put down his arms not before pulling his brother into the car with one swift move. The quick motion put him off balance and he tumbled a little before he felt a pair of large hands on his side keeping him steady that made him tense up immediately and sent shock waves through his body and from how quickly they came they did the same as they disappeared.
He looked behind him to see the messy-haired boy looking at him. " Easy their baby black, don't want you to fall and get hurt," he said with a kind voice but the nickname caught him off guard.
" Don't call me that" he snapped back. Who was this guy calling him these weird names he had no right to? He looked at his brother who was now back in his seat and looked at Regulus with anticipation like he was some animal at a zoo exhibit.
The only empty swat was by the messy-haired boy that Regulus already didn't like so he didn't have a choice. He sat down with his trunk by his feet.
As always his brother wanted to fill the silence." ok guys this is Reggie"," Regulus" he quickly corrected him. " my baby brother and Reggie this is " Sirius went on not listening to regulus's correction.
" Remus Lupin" he pointed to the tall boy with the boy that finally looked up at him and gave him a rather warm smile that calmed some of the nervous nerves that he didn't know he had and then quickly went back to his book.
" and this is Peter Pettigrew" he pointed at the slightly chubby kid that gave him a smile with too much enthusiasm that kind of scared him a little, " And last but not least James Potter".
Regulus quickly looked for the boy beside him, but to his surprise, that's James potter. The boy Sirius couldn't stop talking about. That can't be, how come he looks so much more annoying, than he imagined and that smile why is it so perfect and white?
And at that thought regulus put his head down not wanting to talk to anyone. Unable to face anyone, Sirius and James quickly went into a conversation with Peter as Regulus didn't hear Remus's voice at all.
When the trolley came around regulus was in the middle of reading one of his books, when the trolley stopped in front of their door it opened and all of the smells of sweets and other things filled his noise that instantly made him nauseous, as everyone got up to get the treats regulus tried to make sure he couldn't smell any.
The one person that seemed to notice that Regulus hadn't gotten up to get something was Potter because Sirius was dynamic discussing with Remus that he should try something else besides chocolate frogs.
And Peter was in his little world as he watched the two bitch about.James looked at him with a curious expression on his face. This scares him, why was he looking at me like that, do I look funny or something? Regulus raises his eyebrow trying to look cool and all put together but on the inside, he's screaming.
James' eyes are filled with an unfamiliar look that Regulus can't quite put together.
After the trolley had left, Regulus quickly picked up his feet to go to the toilet. He fingered if when was going to go he was going to grab his robes to change into. Before he can leave the cart James speaks up and makes Regulus stiffen.
" Are you ok Reggie?" he says. Why does he keep calling me that, I'm starting to not like his potter? "I told you not to call me that," he says, just wanting this conversation to end. That's when Sirius looks up at him with an annoyed look.
" dont be rude to my friend's reg''." sorry Sirius, I'm just going to go to the restroom real quick I'll be right back, so please excuse me" and with that, he went to the restroom.
Regulus was walking back to the cart a while later, not wanting to deal with any more of Potter's questions so he took his time. But before he was able to get back to his cart to deal with his brother and his friends he was stopped by a couple of his family members Bellatrix, and her sister, a narcissist.
He wasn't too fond of them; he always thought they were over dramatic but right now he had no choice but to talk to them." Regulus, my favorite black brother, how are you doing? "Bellatrix said, showing off her not so well looking teeth.
Without trying to gag he put on a fake grin." Bellatrix, narcissist, I'm doing pleasantly fine, how are you two doing " to be honest he didn't 100% care about what they said he just wanted this conversion to be over like most other conversions before.
"We're doing exceptionally fine thank you Regulus but we wanted to talk to you about something rather important, so please follow us". And that's what he did, he followed them like a little lost dog as they pushed past students like they were nothing important to them.
Once they stopped in front of one of the train carts he almost bumped into them. They opened the door and let regulus in front of them.