It had been one month. One long and painful month with that damn leaf in my mouth. Which meant it was time for the next phase.
Regulus and I had decided to meet at exactly midnight in the astronomy tower and I was already five minutes late.
I started Sprinting down the dark and quiet halls, while trying to soften my footsteps so nobody heard me.
It only took me four minutes to reach the top of the astronomy tower's steps where I saw regulus waiting for me by the metal railing.
It was getting colder at night as fall was coming to an end, cold enough in fact that you could see my breath so clearly that it looked like I was smoking a cigarette.
"I'm so sorry I'm late again" I said out of breath from running up the stairs.
"It took me a while to find the ingredients under my bed" I chuckled slightly, lifting the bag I was holding up.
While regulus was turning around to look at me I could help but notice how amazing his hair looked in the moonlight.
The dim light made his normally black colored hair look lighter and more of a chocolate brown.
Not to mention the moons beams making a sort of halo around him.
"It's alright, as long as you came I'm happy" regulus smiled.
He is so god damn cute.
Giggling, I put the bag down and walked over to him.
I went up onto the tips of my toes while reaching my hand up.
As I was reaching up I could see regulus make a weird, almost nervous face.
I put my hand in his hair and I-
"Ow, what was that for!" Regulus winced.
In my hand was a single strand of reguluses hair.
"Oh don't be a baby reg, it was one hair" I laughed before putting the hair into one of the crystal phials in my bag.
"You know you wouldn't be saying that if I pulled your hair" regulus mumbled while rubbing the top of his head.
Rolling my eyes at his comment I walked over to an area on the terrace with a strong beam of moonlight shining onto it.
I placed the phial on the ground in the moonlight and took out a phial for me.
"Pulling out one strand of hair doesn't hurt that mu-" I began saying before a sharp pain cut me off.
"Ow" I winced, rubbing my head.
Looking over I saw regulus with a stupid shit eating grin plastered across his face.
"Did you just pull out my hair you twat" I grumbled, shooting him a glare.
"Yeah, hurts doesn't it" regulus beamed.
"You are ridiculous" I said reaching for the hair in his hand but as soon as my hand got close regulus closed it.
"Reg, give me the hair" I sighed.
"No" regulus smiled.
"Regulus, seriously. Give it to me," I exclaimed before grabbing at his shut hand. I tried prying at his hand for almost two minutes But no mater how hard I tried, his hand wouldn't open.
I started groaning after many failed attempts.
"You are infuriating," I sighed before pulling out another strand of hair from my head and putting it into a phial.
"That may be true but we both know you love it" regulus said with a cocky grin.
"Fuck you," I said, rolling my eyes and sitting on the ground.
"Wow, what do you think I am, a common whore? At least take me out to dinner first," regulus laughed while sitting down next to me.
Shocked by his words I shoved him a little while laughing. "Jesus, who are you and what have you done with regulus"
"Hey, I'm just happy. Unless you would prefer me being all moody around you again" regulus laughed before suddenly making a blank expression.
"Do you like this more" he said deadpan.
"Oh yes, I definitely prefer the emotionless guy who barely acknowledged me. But no, I definitely prefer happy Reggie over moody Reggie," I laughed but he kept him expression the same.
"You know what, I might stay like this. You seem to like it more" he said emotionless.
"No no, go back, smile" i said reaching my hands up to his face and moving his mouth into a smile.
Regulus started to actually smile and put his hands on mine.
The moment his hands touched mine my stomach filled with hundreds of butterflies. In that moment all I wanted to do was lean in and kiss him.
"Fine, I'll smile, but only for you" he smiled before removing his hands. Once he did I quickly removed mine from his face.
"So, what do we do now" regulus said pointing to the phials.
"Oh right, the next thing we need to do is spit the leaf into the phial," I answered, picking up the phial.
"Oh okay, easy enough" he said spitting it into the phial.
I didn't want him to see me spit so I turned away from him and spit the leaf into it. Then I put it back on the floor in front of us.
Regulus must have noticed me do that because he started looking at me with a puzzled expression.
"So what's next" he asked instead of questioning me about turning away.
"Oh well, we are going to add three drops of morning dew, and the the head of a hawk moth" i said pulling the ingredients out of my bag.
We both did so and shook the phials a bit to mix it up.
"Alright, now all me have to do is store them in a dark quite place and wait for an electrical storm" I said putting everything away.
"Right, and when there is an electrical storm we should meet in the forest, just in case we become loud and wake people up" regulus suggested.
"Perfect, and don't forget to do the incantation every sunrise and sunset" I reminded, handing him his phial.
"Of course, but get some sleep, you have a game tomorrow" regulus commented.
I sighed "how could I forget, wish me luck".
"I will"
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"I'm fucked" I mumbled, peaking my head out of the changing rooms to see the massive crowd ready to see us play ravenclaw.
"No you're not, you are one of the best keepers gryffindor has ever had" Sirius reassured me.
"I'm not so sure about that, you saw me the other day. I couldn't block for shit" I stammered while pacing back and forth.
"Maybe you need some fresh air, step out and take a minute, that usually helps me" Remus suggested.
"Great idea" I mumbled before practically sprinting out of the tent.
Whenever I got nervous for something I always felt like I had this energy running through me. Usually it made me jumpy and anxious. And Usually I would pace around for a bit and I would feel less energetic and anxious but today, that wasn't working.
Right outside of the tent there was a tree, I decided walking in Circles around the tree might help. I did about twenty rotations before I heard someone snickering.
I looked up to see regulus walking over to me.
"You look like a headless chicken running around that tree" he smiled.
"I might as well be, I am so nervous. What if I mess up again!" I stammered.
Regulus walked up to me and put his hands on my shoulders. " do you know what cortisol is" he asked me.
"Yeah, it's a stress hormone" I answered.
"Right, and do you know what serotonin and oxytocin are" regulus asked.
"Happy hormones right?" I asked.
Regulus smiled. "That's correct , right now the only reason you are nervous is because your cortisol levels are high. What you need is to raise your serotonin and oxytocin levels"
"How the fuck do I do that in less than five minutes" I groaned.
"Well there are a couple of ways but I know one that works like a charm in a time crunch" he said, and when he said this his face became softer, his eyes shut a bit and his jaw a little slack.
"I'll do anything," I groaned desperately. The game would be starting in five minutes and I needed to calm down before then.
"Okay" regulus mumbled before leaning in and kissing me.
And no it wasn't a little peck. It was an actual kiss.
At first it was so light I almost couldn't tell he was kissing me but seconds later I could feel his lips pressing firmly against mine.
Soon I was kissing him back. His hands had moved from my shoulders to my back pulling me in. I in turn put one hand on his shoulder and ran one through his hair.
Had I ever kissed someone before. No, so it was a bit strange at first. But after a few seconds it was very nice. He had very soft lips and he held onto me so gently.
Regulus started moving me backwards until my back hit the tree.
This moment was something I had been hoping for for months and it was so much better than I expected.
I don't know how long we went on for but what felt like mere seconds was interrupted by someone calling my name from inside the tent.
I quickly pulled away and looked at regulus who's eyelids were fluttering open and who's mouth had light pink chapstick smeared across it.
"I uh, I have to go" I stuttered while wiping around my moth to make sure my chapstick wasn't smeared.
" alright, good luck. I uh, hope that helped" regulus called to me as headed to the tent.
"Definitely" I chuckled before running into the tent.
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"Do you feel better" sirius asked me as we walked onto the pitch.
"Oh yeah, I might try doing that more often" I giggled.
Sirius pulled a questioning look but decided to not ask questions. Seems to be a common trait in their family.
I got on my broom and got into position.
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It was about thirty minutes into the game and gryffindor was up 70 to nothing.
I wasn't nervous at all and I had saved every shot so far.
At some point while the quaffle was on the other side of the field I turned my eyes over to the slytherin section. I was looking for regulus and saw him sitting with his friends. Evan Rosier, Barty Crouch, and Caius Avery. He seemed to be enjoying himself, laughing with his friends.
Evan seemed to point something out on reguluses face and started laughing. Regulus quickly wiped his sleeve over his mouth and laughed with his friend.
I had to cut my observation short when I saw a chaser coming towards me.
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"Y/n you were amazing, they didn't make a single point the entire game" James jumped around with joy.
"Whatever you did really helped" Sirius observed.
"Yeah I agree" I chuckled as I walked out of the tent.
"We need to celebrate. How about a big party" Sirius suggested.
"Absolutely" James shouted.
"Yeah, I'll join in a bit but I have something I need to do first. I'll see you in a bit" I said quickly before running to the stairs in the stands.
I ran up the steps and walked over to the slytherin section which was completely empty except for one person.
"You did amazing!" Regulus yelled as I ran up to him.
"Thank you" I said as I jumped up into a hug and wrapped my legs around him.
"I couldn't have done it without your help these past few weeks" I said into his chest.
"I'm glad I helped, if ever you need help you can come to me" he told me.
We stayed like that for a minute before I let go and stood in front of him.
"Oh by the way, I wanted to ask you something." Regulus said suddenly quite shyly.
"Next weekend we are able to go to hogsmead and none of my friends are going so.....do you want to hang out with me. At hogsmead I mean." Regulus asked.
"Of course, I have some Christmas shopping to do and I would love the company" I beamed.
As soon as I said this regulus perked up and smiled.
"Great, it's a da- day to hang out" he fumbled.
"Yeah"
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