𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐚 || 𝘳.𝘢.𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬

106. hangovers & coffee

"You'll never believe the week I've had." Mary gossips as the girls sit on the carpet behind the coffee table, facing the sofa and a few feet adjacent to Regulus who's sat on the armchair. "Guess who I shagged on Monday?"

"Girl or boy?"

"Boy." Mary says with a small eye roll. "Sort of wish it was you."

"Maybe one day Mary, but in the mean time, she's mine." Regulus snickers from where he's sat and they turn to him, amazed as to how he heard. "I've said it like three times now, you girls are so loud."

Maria rolls her eyes at her boyfriend before turning back to Mary, "ummm, I can't think. Do I know him?"

"Yes."

"Sirius? Remus? Peter?" Maria asks and Mary rolls her eyes.

"No." Mary purses her lips before squealing and giving in. "Okay, it was Gideon Prewett."

"No way!"

"Yes way!" Mary says and Maria sighs, taking in the information.

"Was it good? What happened?"

"Well. We were in Diagon Alley. He was so sweet to me when we ran into each other so we went and got coffee." Mary explains to her. "But then he invited me to see what he's working on—since him and his brother build stuff for Hogwarts so of course I said yes! One thing lead to another and. . .we had sex on his desk.

"On his desk?!" Maria gasps, covering her mouth. "I don't think I've even done that." She looks at Regulus who shakes his head. "Nope. We haven't."

"It was amazing." Mary sighs dreamily, her hand in her chin as she's propped on her elbow on the coffee table. "He was so good at everything."

"Can we stop talking about how good it was when Mary shagged a ginger and talk about something fun?" Sirius groans and Lily looks rather offended.

"Sirius, sex with gingers is probably the best thing you could ever experience." James scoffs, squeezing Lily's knee where his hand now rests.

"You weren't even involved in this conversation." Mary rolls her eyes at Sirius who gasps slightly at her excluding him.

"Moving on." Dorcas says, tapping the side of the gin glass she holds. "When's the next order meeting? I hate these secret society rules and shit."

"Uhhh—the fourth. I think." Remus hesitated before nodding surely. "Yeah. And it's Maria's first one."

"Better be good news then." James sighs, slouching further into his seat. "With Regulus' help Moody's been getting better at catching those bastards."

Sirius, who had somehow exited the room without anyone noticing, strolls back in with two bottles of wine in his hands and a large grin on his face.

"I swear you're all trying to rub it in!" Lily groans as they begin pouring wine and James smiles sympathetically at his wife as he hands her a glass of orange juice making the red head sigh exasperatedly and take it.

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Maria wakes the next morning with a a banging headache and she frowns at her surroundings, shaking the person beside her and hearing a groan. Mary McDonald sits up, her curly hair sticking up at all angles as she looks around, seeing Regulus Black beside Maria who's next to her on the floor of James and Lily's living room and Remus and Peter snoring on the sofa, Peter's head resting on Remus' shoulder. Sirius Black is hanging over the armchair, sitting sideways with his back on one of the arms, his head hanging over one side whilst his legs are dangling over the other.