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Reg was avoiding him. James didn't know what he had done to make him do so but he knew that he hadn't seen Reg for a few weeks even though they were at the same place every night of the tour. Somehow the universe was interfering and causing him to not be able to see Reg. He always went to the back of the building where he’d first met Reg and every night since up until two weeks ago.
He was worried about Reg as well what if he wasn’t avoiding James, what if something had happened to him that was stopping him from seeing James? He didn't know if he should bring his concern to someone and if he did who he would talk to.
The Coolest ‘Boy Band’ Eveeeerrrrr!!!!!
Moons: Prongs, where are you?? The show is starting soon!
Pads: he's probably out looking for his boyfriend
Prongsie: no I’m not
Pads: where are you then?
Prongsie: out in the smoking area
Moons: out in the smoking area he says
I didn’t know our Prongsie started
smoking
Prongsie: I haven’t…
Pads: what are you doing there then?
Moons: looking for his boyfriend
Pads: definitely my love
Prongsie: I’m just worried about him
I've not seen him in weeks
what if somethings happened
to him??
Moons: im sure he's just on a break or holiday
Prongsie: what if I've done something
to upset him???
Pads: I doubt that Prongs
Wormy: ….
Prongsie: what does that mean??
Wormy??? what do you
know???
Wormy: well i spoke to him the other day
and you've not not upset him
Prongsie: Wormy!? what?
I’m coming to you guys now
and I have questions
for you Wormy
Pads: look at what you’ve done now Wormy 🙄
Wormy: sorry guys didn’t realise this would be the
reaction
As James ran down the hall to meet with the others he ran past a couple he vaguely recognised from school he thought they might have been a year or two below him and might have been Slytherin but he wasn’t 100% sure.
“I’m here! Sorry I’m late” he panted out as he reached the rest of the band.
“You’re not late I just made you think that you were so that you’d be on time,” Remus said
“Moons why would you do that to me?” James complained as he started to follow the group
“So that you wouldn't actually be late, obviously,” Remus said over his shoulder as he led the rest of the group back down the hallway James had just run down
“Where are we going anyway?” James asked
“Well we are nearly halfway through the tour and have only seen the girls perform a handful of times and have never seen the other band opening for us perform” Remus said.
“Huh I guess we haven’t I don’t even know who they are,” Sirius replied as he jumped on Remus, who preceded to carry him the rest of the way to the stage.
“Speak for yourselves I saw them and I know exactly who they are!” Peter said to the rest of the group.
“Well are you going to share with the class Wormy?” Sirius asked
“No, no I don’t think I will you’ll just have to find out for yourselves,” Peter replied
James watched his closest friends bicker and fight as they headed to the main stage and realised that as much as he saw his friends on tour he missed just hanging out with them. It’d been so long since they spent time together not doing anything. He worried that he’d lose their friendship and all he’d have left is a working relationship with them.
“Do you guys want to go out after this show?” he nervously asked.
“Yeah, yeah that sounds good Prongsie,” Sirius replied softly. Like he knew exactly what James was thinking.
As they got closer to the stage they could hear the crowd screaming and cheering, and a familiar voice singing. It was clear to James that whoever the opener was, was popular and possibly more famous than the Marauders were. He didn’t want to think about it but he wondered if people left after the band performed before the Marauders performed.
They reached the wings of the stage and noticed that it was dark and their playlist was once again playing.
“Where is the other band that opens for us?” Remus asked one of the stagehands.
“You just missed them sorry man,” they replied before wandering off to start the setup for the girls.
“I swear the universe is trying to stop me from watching them perform, this is like the fourth time this has happened to me,” Remus complained to the rest of the group.
“Oh well next time Moons,” Peter told him.
Remus grumbled a reply before walking away to talk to Marlene about the drums they had on stage. James swears he’s never met someone more territorial over an instrument than Malrene and Remus.
James hadn't realised how much not seeing Reg was affecting him but the longer that he went without speaking the less he was excited about performing. He still loved performing but it felt like something was missing now that he knew for definite that Reg wasn’t in the crowd watching the show.
He would spend every concert scanning the crowd in hopes of spotting Reg in the crowd but he never did. This show was no different he spent all his time looking just trying to catch a glimpse of him but it didn't happen.
“Have we got any Swifties in the audience tonight?” He asked into the microphone and received a deafening level of noise as an answer. “Good well tonight the rest of the boys have graciously allowed me to sing one of her new vault tracks,” he was interrupted by screaming from the audience, “on my own, so sing along if you know the lyrics.”
“You went to a party
I heard from everybody
You part the crowd like the Red Sea
Don't even get me started
Did you get anxious though
On the way home?
I guess I'll never, ever know
Now that we don't talk …”
As he sang the song with the crowd he felt like the song was reflecting what was actually happening in his real life at the moment.
“I call my mom, she said that it was for the best
Remind myself, the morе I gave, you'd want me less
I cannot bе your friend, so I pay the price of what I lost
And what it cost, now that we don't talk…”
He felt ashamed that he was allowing someone he barely knew to affect him so much, it hadn't even been that long since they had met eachother. He didn't even really know anything about Reg, and he barely even knew his name. Reg was clearly a nickname so James couldn’t even find him on social media, he’d tried before and didn't find anything under the name Reg.
“And the only way back to my dignity
Was to turn into a shrouded mystery
Just like I had been when you were chasing me
Guess this is how it has to be now that we don't talk”
He turned away from the crowd and spoke to Sirius “let's go get that drink”
The club was dark and noisy and James knew that he was definitely on his way to being drunk if he wasn't already there. He was out on the dancefloor dancing with some random guy who he thought was kinda cute, he lost Remus and Sirius hours ago when they had slunk off to spend time together alone and he’d seen Peter leaving with a pretty lady earlier. He knew he was on his own but he didn’t care, for the first time in weeks, he was having fun and not thinking about Reg. Not one bit and he definitely wasn’t seeing him moving across the dance floor towards James.
“Move!” Not Reg barked at the guy dancing on James before pushing James behind him and away from the other guy.
“Man what the fuck?!” The guy James had just been dancing with asked.
“He’s mine and I told you to move,” not Reg told him. James wasn’t sure if this was actually happening or if he was so drunk that he had started to hallucinate.
“My bad I didn’t know he was taken,” the other guy said holding his hands up in defence.
“Well he is so” not Reg said before shooing the other guy and turning back to James.
James wanted to say so many things but didn’t want to ruin the moment and find out that Reg wasn’t actually there. He turned to face Reg opened his mouth closed it and then opened it again before shaking his head. As he went to turn around again he was stopped by Reg grabbing his jaw and turning him so that they were looking at eachother.
“I know baby I’m sorry I’m going to do better from now on I promise,” not Reg said to him before rising up onto his toes and kissing along James' jaw and across to his mouth.
They stood in the middle of the dance floor for what felt like hours making out, at some point, they moved to a corner of the room and Reg had James pressed up into the corner and was sucking and marking his neck with bruises.
“Reg” he hummed out not making any attempt to move out of the hold he was in.
“Reggie, call me Reggie baby” Reg told him speaking into James' neck, making no attempt to move his mouth away.
“Reggie can we go somewhere else it's too much in here,” he asked
“Of course, c’mon let's go.” Reggie told him before grabbing his hand and pulling him across the club and out.
Marauders Updates
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Is James Potter @prongsieboy heartbroken?? Last night he sang @taylorswift13 new vault track ‘Now That We Don’t Talk’ and some fans reported that he looked as if he had been crying earlier.