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The red flashing lights in the club were giving James a headache, or maybe it was the whiskey. He didn't know, as he swayed his hips to the music.
The show had been a succusses, 77,000 people. The biggest venue they had ever played.
He looked around trying to find Sirius but his eyes laned on his rival band leader.
Regulus black.
He struts over to him with his cocky smile on.
"Regulus what a nice surprise!"
"Potter" regulus says in a cold voice.
James eyes skim over the man standing in front of him.
"Can I buy you a drink? James says, looking surprised by himself.
Regulus nods slowey, following James to the bar.
James orders them both a beer, and regulus raises an eyebrow.
"Very classy potter" Regulus says as he takes a sip of his beer.
All James does is smirk.
They go to a booth and sit there for a while.
For supposed enemies they could sit in each other's company for some time.
After some time, James heard his name being called, he looked up and saw Remus weaving his way through the sweaty dancers.
Regulus frowned. "You better go" he said.
James smirked. "Enjoy the beer baby black."
Regulus huffed out an annoyed sigh and glared at him.
James took that as his sign to leave.
"Till next time!" he shouted as he moved across the dance floor.
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He slammed his hand down on snooze for the third time this morning.
He was wiped out from the night before, but his phone kept going off.
Suddenly he hears a knock on his door, and groans as he rolls out of bed.
He throws on a shirt and opens the front door, greeted with the sight of Remus lupin with some impressive bedhead.
Remus takes no time to push past James and throw himself down on his coach.
As James closes the door and looks at Remus, he sees the worry in Remus eyes mixed with humor.
"James, have you checked your phone today" Remus sighed when James looked confused.
James yanked out his phone unlocking it and the reeling back at how many DMS he had.
"I... what?" he sputtered out.
Remus unlocked his phone and started swiping aggressively and then turned his phone around to show James.
James gasped, it was a photo of him and Regulus their heads bowed together talking.
"What!?Nothing happened I swear!" James said as he went to go find the post.
'A lot of people don't seem to think that" Remus said.
James was appalled when he opened Instagram, he had gained 100k new followers in just a night and had thousands of comments asking about the photos.
He went to go check Regulus account and sure enough they had swarmed him there to, he had gained even more followers than James had!
"You should talk to him." Remus said.
James looked up at him looking shocked that he would even suggest a thing.
"No, I could never, he hates my guts anyway." James says with a frown.
Remus gave James a look." That doesn't sound like the James that was yapping about regulus when he was drunk."
James rolls his eyes. "So even if I like him there's no way he likes me back." James says.
"You should see the way he looks at you" Remus says, as he gets up.
The way he looks at me with haterade James thinks.
"I'm going to go now but text him, talk to him, sort something out and don't let the rumors get to you!' Remus says as he leaves.
Once James is alone, he hits the message part of regulus profile and sends him a text.
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An hour later and James is sitting in a coffee shop down by the beach waiting for regulus.
He hasn't bought coffee yet because he's not sure ifs its rude not to wait for regulus.
The door chimes and James looks over expecting to see another person's grandma expect this time its regulus. He's wearing his bands tour hoddie and sweatpants and he still somehow looks just as good as last night.
He watches regulus look around and when he does spot him his eyes widen a bit like he was expecting to see him.
"Potter.' regulus says as he pulls up a chair.
"Regulus' James says with a slight frown. He has a proposal he just doesn't know how to word it.
Regulus seems to know that he has something to say because he says, "Oh just spit it out potter."
"We should fake date" James says with a stutter in his voice.
This is not what regulus thought he was going to say.
"I-... what why" he says not sounding mad but not sounding that happy either.
"It will be good for both the bands; people love some drama. And just look at how many followers that we each got over night." James says quickly, hoping that regulus will say yes.
To James surprise he does say yes.
"I... yes I'll do it" regulus says and James eyes widen in shock.
After being shocked about the fact that regulus didn't immediately shut the idea down much less say yes to it for a good 5 minutes, they start to hatch out the details.
They figured they should announce it at one of their concerts, sense the word would spread more quickly that way, James had a concert tonight so they deiced that would be the best time.
When they were all done, James handed regulus a ticket to the concert and said "Hope to see you their baby black"
And the only thing that regulus could do was roll his eyes.
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Sweat was dripping down his face as Sirius struck the last note on his guitar signaling that the concert was over.
James was usually the very first one to go in, but tonight was different.
Once everyone had gone inside the dressing rooms James grabbed the microphone and said,
"A very special thank you to Mary MacDonald for making this outfit for me and another thank to regulus black because he'll be the one taking it off me tonight."
The crowd exploded in cheers.